@potatoship said:

Item: Saturday Night Live: Season 50 - SNL50: The Anniversary Special

Language: en-US

Type of Problem: Incorrect_content

Extra Details: This is not episode 13 of season 50. That will not air until 3/1.

NBC website shows otherwise: https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/episodes

This is part of the SNL50 series that Peacock has been airing so this needs to be changed to episode 0 to properly show up as a special and not part of the official season.

It can't be moved to the specials or changed to be episode 0 because this was added to the NBC website as S50E13 so it's correct as it is now; NBC considers it to be a regular episode of season 50.

NBC seems to be inconsistent with indexing specials:

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/episodes/season-40: E0

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/episodes/season-41: E2, E22 (aired between E6 and E7)

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/episodes/season-49: E100, E200

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/episodes/season-50: E13

Peacock only includes the major specials, and maybe uses the episode number for technical/chronological reasons:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250324082119/https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/saturday-night-live/8885992813767211112/seasons/50

IMDb skips over E13 entirely:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072562/episodes/?season=50

Many sources seem to consider it a special:

https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/361/saturday-night-live/episodes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_season_50

https://snl.fandom.com/wiki/Season_50#Episodes

There is absolutely no doubt that SNL50: The Anniversary Special is a regular episode since that's how it's listed on the NBC website.

What any other website or database considers SNL50: The Anniversary Special to be is irrelevant since NBC says it's S50E13 and the episodes that followed continue from the numbering set by the special.

Here's a quote from the TV Bible about what is and isn't a special episode for regular TV entries:

Special episodes are any episodes that did not originally air as part of a regular, usually numbered season. Sometimes a network will call an episode a "special" episode—as an example, "in this special holiday themed episode"—but still assign it a season and episode number; in those cases, it should not be added to the special season here but, instead, to the season assigned to it by the network.

It’s not that clear-cut. The SNL 40th Anniversary Special is now listed as S40E22 on Peacock but as S40E0 on NBC, even though it aired mid-season in place of S40E14, much like SNL50: The Anniversary Special.

Both specials also aired on Sundays and not Saturdays.

@dsc4 said:

It’s not that clear-cut.

It absolutely is. NBC says it's S50E13, so it's S50E13.

The SNL 40th Anniversary Special is now listed as S40E22 on Peacock but as S40E0 on NBC, even though it aired mid-season in place of S40E14, much like SNL50: The Anniversary Special.

It doesn't matter how it's listed on Peacock. The show airs on NBC so only the NBC website matters.

Both specials also aired on Sundays and not Saturdays.

And?

The naming convention for specials on the NBC website is inconsistent for past seasons. By the end of the season, it doesn't seem inconceivable that it could appear as S50E21 or S50E0.

Peacock is NBC's streaming service, so it seems relevant.

In the show’s history, only two numbered episodes have aired on a day other than Saturday, both being exceptional cases.

@dsc4 said:

The naming convention for specials on the NBC website is inconsistent for past seasons. By the end of the season, it doesn't seem inconceivable that it could appear as S50E21 or S50E0.

Despite all of these replies, you still seem to believe that it’s not an episode of Season 50 when you have been explained and shown multiple times now that NBC considers it a regular numbered episode since it was given a regular episode number and subsequent episodes have followed the numbering established by the special, indicating that it's not a special.

The episode belongs in Season 50 and nowhere else. It is S50E13 on the NBC website so it's S50E13 on the database as well. There is literally nothing on the NBC website that indicates that the episode is anything other than S50E13.

And if the episode number does change once the season ends (it won't), the episode is still staying as S50E13 because that's how it was released and subsequent episodes have followed the numbering established by the special, indicating that it's not a special.

Peacock is NBC's streaming service, so it seems relevant.

Once again, Peacock is irrelevant because the show airs on NBC. The episode listing should follow the NBC website and nothing else.

In the show’s history, only two numbered episodes have aired on a day other than Saturday, both being exceptional cases.

Your point being? What day an episode airs has nothing to do with whether or not it's a special, that's determined by the episode number it's given on the network's website. An episode could air any day of the week and if the NBC website gives a regular episode number, it's considered a regular episode and not a special.