Saturday Night Live Season 28 Episode 2

Will Ferrell on Chris Parnell's first-time out as Bush: "I thought he was fantastic. I was pleasantly surprised. I think Chris is kind of a surprising choice, but once I saw it, great choice."

Lorne Michaels on picking the new George W. Bush: "The natural person to go was Darrell [Hammond], but the problem we had was that he's everyone else in that adminstration, he's Rumsfeld and Cheney, Ashcroft and Tom Ridge. And we just realized that we were just getting ourselves into a problem. He's also Gore, and I don't know who's going to run in '04, but the idea that he could possibly be debating himself was problematic. Parnell was then the logical choice, and he was told on Wednesday after a table read. He does a brilliant Tom Brokaw, and when we did the debate two years ago he did Jim Leher. He's very good with the written word and very often the Bush pieces can be dry because they're about whatever is happening that week."

Sarah Michelle Gellar did an interview with MTV during the week of production where she said she wished to become a member of the 5-timers club.

Chris Parnell is featured heavily throughout this episode, possibly in an attempt to show that he could do things other than impersonate George W. Bush.

NBC never reran this episode.

Darrell Hammond plays Saddam Hussein for the first and only time; Horatio Sanz plays him for the remainder of the season.

This episode was originally supposed to be hosted by Senator John McCain but due to scheduling conflicts he didn't host until next week.