The season finale to the “Murphy Brown” reboot no one asked for features two guest stars: MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell and NBC News’ chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell.

Between the two guests, the best that the show’s writers could come up with was a joke about O’Donnell being a skinflint and reference to the time the once-popular sitcom went to war with former Vice President Dan Quayle, who once stated that, no, single motherhood is not desirable. Because nothing screams winner quite like a 71-year-old star of a revived sitcom taking a victory lap over an incident that took place 26 years ago.