Episode 164: Jesse Jackson/Andrae Crouch & Wintley Phipps (October 20, 1984)

Fresh off his historic 83-84 presidential run, Jesse Jackson drops by the show to host a rather oddball outing that is still not without it's many charms. The biggest problem and through-line for the episode though is that the cast and writing staff is Oops! All White People! so they definitely try to have their fun with that, including more blackface and a piece that may have once been part of a larger call-in segment of the show. Not all of it works! Elsewhere, we get a minor classic in The Question Is Moot, Jesse's amusing fascination with cheesy 60s pop tunes, the first appearance of Willie and Frankie and two different gospel performers! Who gets the car? I get the car!