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Saturday Night Live - Season 4, episode 3, October 21, 1978

Frank Zappa was unpopular with the cast and crew through both rehearsals and taping of the episode, possibly in part due to the fact that their lax views on drug and alcohol consumption did not mesh with his anti-drug stance.

This is highlighted in the sketch "Night on Freak Mountain", which also features Paul Shaffer as Don Kirshner. Throughout the episode, he regularly mugs for the camera and frequently notes to the audience that he is reading from cue cards. At the end, the entire cast except Belushi is standing as far as possible from Zappa as they could get and remain on camera.

Zappa and his band perform "Dancin' Fool" from the 1979's Sheik Yerbouti, "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing" from 1981's You Are What You Is, and the instrumental "Rollo", which had been cut from 1973's Apostrophe (') and would remain unreleased until 2006's Imaginary Diseases.

During Zappa's performance of "Rollo", John Belushi, in character as Samurai Futaba, briefly appears on stage with the group.

Singing into a microphone duct taped to the body of an electric guitar, Belushi carries out a call and response bit with Zappa's band.