The Wicker Breakdown:

1. This week's show started with a parody of Oprah where Chris Kattan and Mark McKinney dressed as Anne Heche and Ellen DeGeneres to discuss their recently uncloseted relationship. During the interview, Anne is quite abusive toward Ellen right in front of Tim Meadows as Oprah which goes completely unacknowledged as Oprah just plowed forward with her lesbian questions. Of course, with this being the opening sketch, it eventually ended with the announcement of, “Live from New York…”
2. John Goodman then officially opened the show with a monolog about how great it was to be hosting the show for the eighth time. He then went on to talk about his recent extensive weight loss which led him to suffer to random bouts of confusion due to the lack of food. Tim Meadows then joined him on stage in an effort to get him back on track which just got John to think that he was an MTV V.J. This confusion continued until eventually Lorne Michaels stepped in and got Goodman back to reading the cue cards.  
3. We then got another repeat of the Caribbean Essence Bath Oil from earlier in the season where Tracy Morgan kept magically appearing in other’s bathtubs as a dread-locked islander whenever anyone would use this bathing product.
4. Celebrity Jeopardy! returned for another installment where this week Alex Trebek had to deal with the antics of Norm MacDonald as Burt Reynold, Darrell Hammond as Phil Donahue and John Goodman as Marlon Brando.
5. Talkin' With Suel also returned with Chris Kattan playing his mumble-mouthed character/talk show host interviewed guests who were just as unintelligible as he was. The guests in question were Bjork and Ronnie Wood.
6. Good Samaritan Eddie Murphy was a PSA-style sketch where Tim Meadows played Eddie Murphy to perform a community service by helping out the transvestite community, making fun of a real incident between Eddie and a transvestite that was making the rounds at the time this episode originally aired.
7. Delicious Dish also returned for another installment where this time the two NPR talk show foodies drone on about food with John Goodman who played a barbecue expert.
8. Once again, Norm MacDonald gave us the news. This week, Tracy Morgan dropped in as Dominican Lou to discuss the Deep Blue chess-playing computer that finally got smart enough to beat one of the top human chess players and how Lou wanted to borrow this computer to beat his friend, Felix at checkers. Will Ferrell also got a segment to talk about Ellen DeGeneres’s character coming out of the closet on her show, acting as if he just didn’t get that the real Ellen was gay as well. Though Will could handle the gay talk when he thought the people involved were fictional when he found out the truth he ended up barking all over the set.
9. Jewel then took to the stage to perform Who Will Save Your Soul?
10. Will Ferrell and Ana Gasteyer then revised their singing couple characters, The Culps in order to perform a medley of songs for the high school prom.
11. Cheri Oteri’s prescription pill-popping character, Collette Reardon then made her show debut where she made a trip to the pharmacy to pick up her latest prescription even though it clearly seems that she should be weaned off a drug or two.
12. Jewel then returned to the stage to perform You Were Meant For Me.
13. We then got another update on Bill Brasky where this time the mythical man’s friends bragged about his amazing feats while watching their kids’ softball game and drinking in the stands.
14. Finally, John Goodman closed the show by thanking the audience and saying his goodnights.

The Wicker Breakdown:

1. This week's show started with a parody of Nightline where Darrell Hammond as Ted Koppel interviewed Mark McKinney as Bill Gate about whether or not we can trust computers following the recent loss by a chess champion to the Microsoft chess-playing computer, Deep Blue. He also interviewed the Unabomber from jail about the advancement of technology and reprimanded the chess player who lost as well, finishing the interview off by revealing he was strapped to a suicide bomb which led to the announcement of, “Live from New York…”
2. Jeff Goldblum then officially opened the show with a monolog about how he was happy to be back hosting once again before going on to promote the second Jurassic Park. Halfway through talking about the film he was interrupted by Jim Breuer who couldn’t be stopped from showing off his deep collection of dinosaur impersonations.
3. This was followed by a repeat of the Big Brawn Feminine Napkins commercial from earlier in the season which was a high powered feminine napkin that parodied the Brawny brand of paper towels.
4. Mary Katherine Gallagher then returned to the show to fall in love with Jeff Goldblum as he portrayed one of her teachers who was moving on to teach at a new school since he was moving to Boston. During the sketch, we learned that both Jeff Goldblum and Mary Katherine Gallagher share many of the same nervous ticks so he doesn’t just flat out reject her which only added to the pain of the inevitable point where he had to push this under-aged girl away. Not to worry, before the scene could get too depressing, the two ended up falling through a table as the attempted to say their goodbyes.
5. Space, The Infinite Frontier was a talk show sketch where Will Ferrell played Harry Caray to discuss space with Jeff Goldblum as a space expert. The conversation eventually led to Harry Caray talking about how he would eat the moon if it was made out of ribs following a bunch of other bizarre space facts.
6. TV Funhouse then returned with another installment of Fun With Real Audio where this time they animated a segment from Sally Jessy Raphael to highlight the audience made up of talk show trash as a verbally abusive man wouldn’t lighten up when talking about his overweight wife.
7. Goth Talk also returned for another installment where Chris Kattan and Molly Shannon hosted they Goth theme public access show where this time the two dark dressed and depressed hosts attempted to interview Jeff Goldblum who was there to promote his new indie Goth album that is so indie that it can only be purchased in Jeff’s garage. We also got to see Jeff’s attempt to make an angst-filled music video that was interrupted by a bunch of jocks.
8. Once again, Norm MacDonald gave us the news. This week, Colin Quinn dropped in as Lenny The Lion in order to discuss the recent increase of weird going ons at the zoo, like animals escaping or attacking guests who jump into their exhibits.
9. En Vogue then took to the stage to perform Don't Let Go. 
10. Kennedy Kapers was a game show sketch where members of the Kennedy family competed to determine who was the biggest disgrace of the Kennedy clan.
11. Larry King's News & Views was another show feature to return with Norm MacDonald as Larry King who continued to ramble on for his wannabe Andy Rooney-style commentary.
12. Take This Job And Shove It! was a sketch where Ana Gasteyer’s angry employee character returned and this time she attempted to tell off her union boss only to get so flustered that, once again, you can only sense her frustration but her ranting was too unfocused to make heads or tails of what she was saying.
13. Vic Ocasek's Rock & Roll Fantasy Camp was a sketch where Jeff Goldblum played a camp counselor of a rock-and-roll camp that only featured washed up, former rock stars.
14. Jerry "Steve" Dave was a sketch where Tim Meadows met with Jeff Goldblum for a job interview only he was so laid back when answering the questions that it didn’t really seem like he was taking the interview serious at all.
15. Larry King's News & Views was a follow-up segment to the Larry King sketch up above.
16. Finally, Jeff Goldblum closed the show by thanking the audience and saying his goodnights.

SNL: SEASON TWENTY-TWO SUMMARY