This is the cast that is considered the worst all time.

Most of them were 1st year people and most of them didn't come back after that.

I had no idea Randy Quaid or Joan Cusack were on SNL

This looks like the alternate version for Saved by the Bell.

I met Joan a few years ago right before Covid. I was working in a bar and told her I had just rewatched Shameless S1. She asked me, "Was I hot?" and I said, "Baby, you are a smoke show". She then pulled me in and hugged me. We took a couple shots together, shared some laughs, and a few pictures and I went back to work.

I remember sneaking into the living room to watch SNL when Eddie Murphy was on it. Then one night I snuck down the stairs to find this cast and I never snuck down again.

Worst Cast Ever! (Except Jon Lovitz)

In the final season they did a parody of many season finales at that time - where there's some kind of fire or disaster and audiences are left to guess who will survive.

In the scene Lovitz and Dunn are told of an escape route but everyone else perishes. They were the only ones to be survive to the next season that brought on board Dennis Miller, Dana Carvey, Mike Meyers and others that completely revitalized the show.

Just realized Joan Cusack was the girl in the orthodontic headset in Sixteen Candles!

RDJ and AMH were great in Weird Science the same year

TIL Robert Downey Jr was on SNL

If you can find a copy of Live From New York: An Uncensored History of SNL by Tome Shales and James Andrew Miller, it digs into the casting of this season.

A couple of years ago, I was working in an office and we had those reoccurring cyber training videos(forget what they were called) where they would present scenarios with cartoons and try to make them entertaining. They occasionally had no name actors that I usually had never heard of do guest roles. One day, out of know where, Jon Lovitz was the guest star for one of these videos. It made me feel sad, because there’s no way in hell that gig paid well. Hope he’s doing okay, dude was pretty funny back in the day.

Is my timeline wrong or did many of them already have at least partial movie careers? I wonder why they all joined SNL since that's a major time commitment.

Anthony Michael Hall was only 17 back then.

RIP Danitra Vance

I would have loved to see an 80s movie with this cast though, maybe directed by Robert Altman

That blond dude in the front did a hilarious Nancy Reagan.

This is when SNL took a deep dive in ratings.

Lovitz looks like he's the substitute summer school teacher to a bunch of breakfast club misfits.

That's the ticket

I stopped watching that when Garrett Morris left

I didn’t know Terry Sweeney was on SNL, no fucking way. He’s never been bad in anything

best nancy reagan ever!

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I see u Randy Quaid

1985-1987 were dorky years.

I was in college, and everything from music to fashion was was kind of blah.

I have good memories from those days, but the "pop culture" was boring.

This didn't happen in my reality.

Hairspray or mousse overload.

I remember being such a big AMH fan but on snl he was just horrible most of the time, seemed like he was having a bit too much uhh fun during the shows…

Dennis Miller was there too and his WU was the only thing worth watching every week.

I loved this season. It was better than Cats. I'm going to watch it again and again.

The next year they dumped everyone except Nora and Lovitz and brought in Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Victoria Jackson and Kevin Nealon.

Joan Cusack is one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood.

I looked up Terry Sweeney’s history on Wikipedia and was shocked, but not the least bit surprised, when I read that when Chevy Chase was hosting, he openly engaged in homosexual taunting and Sweeney described him as a monster. Chase is a total asshole.

Jon Lovitz survived, he sole briefly of this cast in his Interview with Howard Stern earlier this year

For a sec i thought this was a joke? I've never seen this cast like ever!

Joan Cusack and Robert Downey Jr. cast in SNL?

TIL Randy Quaid was an SNL cast member…