The Best Episodes of Saturday Night Live Season 18
Every episode of Saturday Night Live Season 18 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Saturday Night Live Season 18!
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
Season 18 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Saturday Night Live" season 18 is "Nicolas Cage/Bobby Brown", rated 6.4/10 from 89 user votes. It was directed by Dave Wilson and written by N/A. "Nicolas Cage/Bobby Brown" aired on 9/28/1992 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Tim Robbins/Sinead O'Connor".
6.4/10 89 votes#1 - Nicolas Cage/Bobby Brown
Season 18 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1992
Sketches include ""Husbands and Wives,"" ""Tiny Elvis,"" ""Nightline,"" ""Baby Names,"" and ""The Queen Shenequa Show"".
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
6.6/10 97 votes#2 - Tim Robbins/Sinead O'Connor
Season 18 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1992
Live from New York, it's...Dana Carvey Sketches include: Perot '92, Caracci's Pizza, The Founding Fathers, Sunday Morning Videos, That's Not Yogurt, The Tori Spelling Show, Larry King Live, Cooking With Dennis Miller, Sweet Jimmy: The World's Nicest Pimp, Daily Affirmation With Stuart Smalley, and Bob Roberts Book Burning Sinead O'Connor performs: ""Success Has Made A Failure of Our Home"" and an a cappella version of the song ""War"" that ends with the infamous destruction of Pope John Paul II's photograph and Sinead's words ""Fight the real enemy!"" The reruns on NBC and syndication (if they do air) either end the performance of the second song before the picture is ripped (which is the version that played on Comedy Central) or replace it with a dress rehearsal where Sinead O'Connor holds up a picture of a starving child, then walks off the stage (which played on NBC).
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/10 90 votes
#3 - Joe Pesci/Spin Doctors
Season 18 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1992
Sketches include ""Debate '92,"" ""Pinky Ringery,"" ""Single White Person,"" ""Bullies on the Steps,"" and ""Zoriada annoys Joe Pesci."" Spin Doctors perform ""Jimmy Olson's Blues.""
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 112 votes#4 - Christopher Walken/Arrested Development
Season 18 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1992
Sketches include ""Jiffy Express,"" ""Ed Closser, Trivial Psychic,"" ""Sinead O'Connor's Goodtime Happy Jamboree,"" ""The Continental,"" ""An Apology From Sinead O'Connor,"" ""It's Pat,"" ""Deep Thoughts By Jack Handey,"" ""Perot gets rid of running mate Stockdale"", and ""The Boulevard of Broken Balls"".
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
6.6/10 83 votes#5 - Catherine O'Hara/10,000 Maniacs
Season 18 Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1992
""Perot's Press Conference and the Republican Dirty Tricks"", ""Ass Don't Smell Commercial: The Name Says It All"", ""The Richmeister's Halloween Encounter with Death"", ""Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"", ""Weekend Update with Kevin Nealon"", ""Daily Affirmations with Stewart Smalley"", ""New York's Strangest and Most Bizarre People: Shorty, The Guy Who Can't Cross The Street"".
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
7.1/10 90 votes#6 - Michael Keaton/Morrissey
Season 18 Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/1992
""George Bush Loses The Election to Clinton"", ""Hibernol Commercial: It Knocks Your Cold Out, While You're Out Cold"", ""Training the New, Socially Impaired Elevator Guy"", ""The First (Oscar-like) Annual Gutenberg Awards, Honoring the Best Books of the Year"", ""The Horny Guy Who Had To Date The Prudish/Formerly Slutty Girl"".
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
5.5/10 75 votes#7 - Sinbad/Sade
Season 18 Episode 7 - Aired 11/21/1992
Sketches include ""George Bush and Bill Clinton,"" ""Homosexuals at War,"" ""At Home with Monica,"" ""Blacula,"" ""Gilligan's Bioshpere,"" ""Superman's Funeral,"" and ""The Proud Pattersons.""
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
6.0/10 84 votes#8 - Tom Arnold/Neil Young
Season 18 Episode 8 - Aired 12/5/1992
""Wayne's World presents: Top Ten Things we love about Clinton"", ""Sex and Peer Pressure at Valley High, a PBS Afterschool Special"", ""Clinton's exercising at a fast food joint"", ""Bill Swerski's Super Fans at 'Fatty Foods' Hospital"", ""Lincoln High G.E.D Ten Year Reunion"".
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
6.3/10 81 votes#9 - Glenn Close/The Black Crowes
Season 18 Episode 9 - Aired 12/12/1992
Sketches include ""The Queen of England,"" ""Coffee Talk with Linda Richman,"" ""Michael Eisner,"" ""What's the Best Way?,"" and ""Drumming on Your Stomach.""
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
6.4/10 83 votes#10 - Danny DeVito/Bon Jovi
Season 18 Episode 10 - Aired 1/9/1993
""The Super Fans Formally Express Their Anger Via Letter: Ditka is fired"", ""BBC1 Presents Simon! - Special Guest: A Foul-Mouthed, Middle-Aged Italian American"", ""The Fourth Amy Fisher Story on Fox: Aaron and Tori Spelling's Amy Fisher, 10516 with Danny DeVito as Joey Buttafuoco"", ""Gap Girls: Buy it large. Just belt it and cinch it!"", ""Black Entertainment Television Presents: Amy Fisher, One Messed Up Bitch"", ""The Privacy-Obsessed Hitman Whose Wife Knew Everything About His Business"", ""Books on Tape: Madonna's Sex Book. Text by Charlton Heston. Photo Interpretation by Al Goldstein"".
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
6.6/10 99 votes#11 - Harvey Keitel/Madonna
Season 18 Episode 11 - Aired 1/16/1993
Sketches include, ""It's Pat"", ""Subway Transit Authority"", ""The Bathroom Attendant"", ""In or Out The Cab"", ""Deep Thoughts"", ""Unforzen Caveman Lawyer,"", and ""The Insane Deer Hunter"".
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
6.0/10 102 votes#12 - Luke Perry/Mick Jagger
Season 18 Episode 12 - Aired 2/6/1993
Sketches include ""Clintons Meet Wrestlers,"" ""Prince Charles is a Tampon,"" ""Dumb Yard Boy,"" ""Magic Fish Meeting,"" ""SNL Halftime Special,"" ""High School Liar's Club,"" ""Sassy,"" ""Queen Shenequa,"" and ""Country Boy Leaves Home"".
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 106 votes#13 - Alec Baldwin/Paul McCartney
Season 18 Episode 13 - Aired 2/13/1993
Sketches include ""Dateline NBC,"" ""The Mimic,"" ""The Chris Farley Show,"" ""Soap Opera Digest,"" ""Gap Girls,"" ""Naked Woman Theater,"" ""Daily Affirmation With Stuart Smalley,"" ""The Bodyguard,"" and ""French Class"".
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
7.6/10 105 votes#14 - Bill Murray/Sting
Season 18 Episode 14 - Aired 2/20/1993
Sketches include: ""Bill Clinton,"" ""Hibernol,"" ""The Whipmaster,"" ""Frequent Flyer,"" ""I'm Chillin',"" ""Tommy Two-Tap,"" ""Coffee Talk With Linda Richman,"" and ""Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"".
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/10 77 votes#15 - John Goodman/Mary J. Blige
Season 18 Episode 15 - Aired 3/13/1993
Sketches include: "College Students", "Coffee Talk With Linda Richman", "Turkish Department Store Worker", "Let's Talk and Talk and Talk and Talk and Talk and Talk About Movies".
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 80 votes#16 - Miranda Richardson/Soul Asylum
Season 18 Episode 16 - Aired 3/20/1993
Live from New York, it's... Julia Sweeney Sketches include "Pat's Crying Game," "Green & Fazio" (two parts), "The Rain People," "World War II Hospital," "Eager & Jones," "Russell Simmmons Def Magic Show Jam," "MTV Spring Break," "Dieter's Dream" (film), and "Jack McManus' Bar." Soul Asylum performs "Somebody To Shove" and "Black Gold."
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 84 votes#17 - Jason Alexander/Peter Gabriel
Season 18 Episode 17 - Aired 4/10/1993
Complete Sketches: ""Clinton's Indecent Proposal to Yeltsin's wife"", ""Jason Alexander's Peter Pan"", ""Meeting of the Woody Allen Fan Club"", ""Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"", ""Descending-Size Employee Lounges for Privacy-Obssessed People"", ""Can't you tell black or white people apart?"", ""Gyros: You like the juice?"".
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
6.2/10 78 votes#18 - Kirstie Alley/Lenny Kravitz
Season 18 Episode 18 - Aired 4/24/1993
""Rodney King Song: Fire Bad by Recurring SNL Characters for Unity"", ""Quinko's Mmmph Board Game Commercial"", ""SNL Cheers wannabes come to cheer Kirstie up"", ""Hotel staff loves the Bellissima wife at La Cantoria"", ""The Montel Williams Show"", ""Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"", ""Kirstie Alley meets Zoraida, the NBC page"", ""The all natural makeover"", ""Schiller's Reel presents: Security Camera Spectacular!""
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 136 votes#19 - Christina Applegate/Midnight Oil
Season 18 Episode 19 - Aired 5/15/1993
Sketches include ""Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker"", ""Focus on Beauty"", ""The Backwards Romance"", ""Nerf Crotchbat"", ""Worrisome Audition Warnings"", and ""Coffee Talk""
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A
6.2/10 78 votes#20 - Kevin Kline/Willie Nelson & Paul Simon
Season 18 Episode 20 - Aired 5/22/1993
Sketches include: ""Mmmph?"", ""Italian Flatulence"", ""Don Lapre: Financial Freedom with a 900 Number"", ""Hub's Gyros"", and ""Criminal Encounter"".
Director: Dave Wilson
Writer: N/A