For the Clown It Up opening, cast members dress in polka dot outfits, tell jokes, and run into each other. Sketches include a Foreign Legion skit; quickies; volleyball runners; Phyllis as a maternity ward nurse, a clumsy housekeeper, and the teacher of an interpretive dance class; Arte Johnson as an archaeologist; Uncle Al the kiddies' pal; General Bull Wright delivers another monologue; father Dick Martin chastises his lazy son Alan Sues in generation gap runners; Phyllis and the female regulars dress as ballerinas to introduce news of the past, present, and future; civil service workers go on strike; Dan Rowan chats with Lady Godiva; Ruth Buzzi and Joanne Worley appear in the pillory in runners; Henry Gibson reads his latest poem; cocktail party; instead of the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate award, Dan and Dick give out a Whoopee Award to an American citizen who found a way to reduce junk mail; psychic Joanne contacts Ruth's dead husband; Phyllis extols the virtues of fans; and the men dress up to sing of the importance of the truth. Roger Moore, Jacqueline Susanne, and Romy Schneider appear in cameos.
—Maisie Fleckum