An American Airlines flight from Miami to Chicago was diverted Monday afternoon to Jacksonville International Airport because of a maintenance issue caused by a spilled soft drink.

This sketch by Downey, Davis and me aired the Saturday after the Three Mile Island meltdown. The idea was simple. Billy Murray spills a Pepsi on the control board of a nuclear reactor, shorting out the board and causing a meltdown in the reactor’s core. They send Garrett Morris as a female maintenance worker to go into the core and mop up the floor. Danny as Carter comes in a little later to inspect the core — after all, he’s a nuclear engineer — wearing yellow boots as a precaution.

That week’s host, Richard Benjamin, as the reactor’s spokesman, assures the media throng that everything is fine. Then Rodney Dangerfield (played by Rodney Dangerfield) breaks the news to Laraine Newman’s Rosalynn Carter that her husband has grown very big. How big? “He’s big, I’m tellin’ ya. Let me put it this way. He’s so big he could have an affair with the Lincoln Tunnel.”

We cut to a very contentious press conference where Dick Benjamin is asked, “Is it true that the president is over a hundred feet tall?” “No!” says Benjamin adamantly. “Is it true that the president is over 90 feet tall?” “No comment!” Then, through a large window (a green screen), the Amazing Colossal President appears. Carter announces that he’s okay and introduces the equally colossal maintenance worker, Miss Violet Crawford, and when he announces their intention to marry, Rosalynn faints.