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Backstage at the Olympics in Sochi, Bob Costas (Beck Bennett) has an increasingly hard time laughing off his colleagues' jokes about his pinkeye.
Host Jim Parsons talks about how rewarding it's been for him to have done Broadway plays in his career, and to perform samples of his work-in-progress: a musical based on The Big Bang Theory.
In response to the huge response to Heroes Reborn, NBC announces its reboots of the network's other middlingly successful shows, including The Single Guy, My Name Is Earl, and Riptide.
A pair of Oscars superfans (Parsons and Kyle Mooney) stake out their seats in the bleachers next to the red carpet and discuss who and what they hope to see.
As Paula Patton and Katy Perry (Sasheer Zamata and Kate McKinnon) discuss their recent breakups while getting pedicures, we cut over to Robin Thicke and John Mayer (Taran Killam and Parsons), licking their wounds, among other things, at a succession of increasingly seedy locations filled with "fun-loving" women.
A substitute teacher (Parsons) has a hard time competing with the disruptions of a strangely confident student named Shallon (Nasim Pedrad).
A real estate broker (Cecily Strong) has a hard time maintaining her chipper facade as she shows apartments to a couple of creeps (Parsons and John Milhiser), who pepper her with disturbing questions and keep adding more and more of their equally off-putting friends to the tour.
Beck performs.
Angela Merkel (McKinnon) discusses the infamous photo of her and Benjamin Netanyahu that made it look as though she had a Hitler moustache; Drunk Uncle (Bobby Moynihan) visits and makes it known to new anchor Colin Jost that he will have to work to earn Drunk Uncle's affection.
A consumer is dismayed to learn that his local Bentley dealership does not accept Bitcoins.
At the first tribal council of his 28th season of Survivor, a crabby Jeff Probst (Killam) has a hard time hiding the fact that the show no longer holds the same appeal for him that it used to.
Beck performs.
Two mismatched weirdos (Parsons and McKinnon) contemplate going home together at a bar's last call.
People wave goodbye, hug.