Here are the five things I learned from watching the very first episode of "Saturday Night Live," which NBC aired this weekend as a tribute to the show's host, George Carlin.
1. John Belushi played a character who lived in Mattituck in a semi-funny skit about a TV show called "Victims of Shark Bites" (isn't that show on NBC's fall schedule for this September?)
2. During a filmed segment called "Show Us Your Guns," the camera briefly panned to a gas station where a gallon cost... 67 cents! And I remember being really annoyed back then that gas could get so high.
3. The very first Bee segment, "Bee Hospital," may have been historic, but it wasn't all that funny.
4. Too many of these people are no longer with us: Carlin, Belushi, Gilda Radner, guest singer Billy Preston, writer Michael O'Donoghue, guest Andy Kaufman.
5. Announcer Don Pardo, however may be 112, but he's still with us. And he really did call the show's ensemble The Not For Ready Primetime Players.