A cut-for-time Halloween-themed “Weekend Update” sketch on Saturday Night Live was crawling with popular culture references, spoofing every thing from the Menendez brothers (the topic of Ryan Murphy’s much-discussed Monsters anthology on Netflix) to The Golden Bachelorette.
Within the sketch, co-host Colin Jost introduces Michael Longfellow and Marcello Hernández dressed as two docs. However as a substitute of being perceived as such by partygoers and passersby, the 2 are mistaken for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who’ve lengthy been imprisoned for the 1989 capturing of their dad and mom and might be taking a look at an early release as a result of renewed conversations across the siblings’ decades-long abuse by the hands of their father.
“We thought individuals would see two docs and begin banging pots and pans collectively for us, like through the pandemic,” Longfellow mentioned, with Hernández including, “As a substitute, individuals maintain yelling issues like, ‘You’re harmless’ and ‘You’re so scorching.’”
Seems, the duo joked, the Menendez brothers have increased social cachet than docs and have grow to be “intercourse symbols” on account of the Netflix sequence — itself slammed by the Menendez household — and TikTok.
“We’ve been straight-up telling girls we are the Menendez brothers,” Hernández mentioned.
Finally, the skit turned to different Halloween costuming mishaps, like a John Travolta outfit from Saturday Evening Fever being mistaken for “Man on his solution to a Diddy white occasion,” E.T. being mistaken for “Kamala’s border coverage” or the Crypt Keeper being mistaken for The Golden Bachelorette.
One last joke took purpose at Jost and co-host Michael Che, that includes two youngsters dressed of their “Weekend Replace” fits. Too unhealthy it’s truly a dressing up for “two secret Trump voters.”
