SNL Reviews: Sabrina Carpenter (10/18/25)

Cold Open: Kel Squad

Domingo and crew surprise a man on his birthday.

• *groan* Not Domingo again. At least they’re getting him out of the way early.

• How many times is Andrew’s character going to get cucked by Domingo? You’d think he would have broken up with his girlfriend by now.

• This feels even emptier than the previous installments due to the lack of Ego and Heidi. I miss those two…

• As bad as this was, it’s not even the worst thing Marcello does tonight…

Monologue

Sabrina talks about her new album’s cover, and interacts with the audience.

• The album cover joke was really dumb.

• I’m guessing some of these audience members are actually writers, but SNL Archives doesn’t list any of them, so I don’t know.

• Kenan playing his one-millionth sassy black guy role. Can somebody start a petition or something to get this guy off the show for good?

• Well, that was certainly a monologue. It started, it ended, and I yawned.

Sketch: Snack Homiez

A podcast about snacks turns political when Trump gets involved.

• This sketch immediately starts with Chloe in drag speaking in an irritating voice. I’m really going to hate this, aren’t I?

• As if that weren’t enough, everyone else in this is also in drag speaking with irritating voices! 

• Jesus, what the fuck is this doing on so early? The only joke is these idiots speaking in dumb millennial slang. And it never fucking stops.

• It feels like they were trying to copy the “Banger Boys” sketch from last season, except that sketch was funny and it had actual boys in it. This one is just embarrassing.

• After THREE FUCKING MINUTES of nothing but this zoomer shit, Trump is brought on as a guest, presumably as a way to “make up” for his absence from the cold open.

• Why would Trump even be on this podcast anyway? Who cares, right? At least it gives the writers an opportunity to make jokes about him being fat!

• JAJ is trying his damndest to save this, but the sketch unfortunately fell apart long before he showed up.

• This is the third episode in a row where they stuck a Godawful sketch right after the monologue. What is going on in the writer’s room this season???

Film: Plans

The horrifying story of a couple who forgot about their big plans.

• Nice to see Ben Marshall with his first lead role! 

• This is a pretty well shot and edited trailer (I love the distorted effect on Sarah’s voice in that flashback), but I’m not really laughing so far.

• Okay, this is picking up a little bit with Mikey’s character who is obsessed with internet videos.

• I seriously thought Mikey was asking Ben to look at pictures of his dong the first time I saw this, but no, he was talking about his dog.

• Nice creepy shot of Sarah’s head unnaturally poking out of the clothes. 

• So, what exactly happened at the end? Sabrina suddenly has a creepy face and looks excited to have her cousins over, even though she was previously shown to be dreading their arrival? I don’t get it.

Sketch: ShopTV

A designer shows off her new luxury neck pillow.

• Again with this sketch? Jeez, as if we needed more evidence that Mikey is way past expiration date on this show.

• I did get a laugh from the Jesus trick or treat bag.

• Ha ha, the neck pillow looks like a vagina!! Aren’t you just dying of laughter right now????

• What else is there to say about this that I haven’t said about the other ones already? I am officially over Mikey Day and his juvenile sketches now. And that really hurts me to say, because he was once my favorite cast member.

Sketch: Girlboss Seminar

A woman offers a seminar about female empowerment.

• Just from the title, I can tell I’m gonna hate this. My feelings are then confirmed when Sabrina and others show up in severely gay outfits.

• The woman sitting next to Chloe reminds me of Devon Walker in drag. This only makes me miss Devon more.

• The live airing had an atrocious technical glitch where Sabrina’s microphone went out for a little bit. This has thankfully been fixed in the online upload.

• Boy, this is just comedy cancer so far. I’m getting that sinking feeling again this is another Jimmy Fowlie “masterpiece”.

• Not even the Sabrina dummy getting thrown out the window was enough to make me laugh.

• It should also go without saying that I’m not a fan of Sarah explaining and reacting to everything.

• Now we’re making fun of people who suffer from concussions, because that sure is a hoot and a holler, right?

• Kenan suddenly materializes out of nowhere so he can do his tired reacting routine. This does lead to the only funny part of this sketch, however, when a Jeremy dummy fails to go out the window all the way, so Kenan has to push it out.

Film: Grind

A song about “grinding” at the prom.

• Incidentally, this film is Bowen’s only appearance in the episode, as he was at some lefty protest that night.

• Oh man, this has everything I hate about modern SNL pretapes. The lighting sucks, the choreography sucks, and the lyrics are trying way too hard to be edgy.

• Where the hell has Dan Bulla been this season? We could use more of his Midnight Matinee stuff again. Instead, we’re stuck with bland shit like this and that Hunting Wives “parody” from last week.

Musical Performance: “Manchild”

Weekend Update (featuring The Movie Guy and Tommy Brennan)

• Great, more hacky George Santos jokes…

• Enough with the jokes about Colin being racist!

• Aw shit, not the Movie Guy again. Why do they keep bringing this one-note stereotype back?

• This is exactly the same format as the first two times he appeared, but somehow even worse.

• The whole part about “‘Tewie Griffis” (Stewie Griffin) is some of the hackiest shit this character has ever spewed out.

• Marcello hasn’t been doing too bad this season so far, but with the return of both Domingo and The Movie Guy in the same episode, he’s quickly regressed into his worst habits.

• Again with the K-Pop Demon Hunters shilling? This time, it’s mentioned as part of a lame Spirit Halloween joke that’s been told a million times before (including on THIS VERY SHOW).

• The Prince Andrew joke is pretty good. 

• Ah, now we get to know Tommy Brennan a little better. He’s our second newbie to get a commentary after Kam Patterson did in the premiere.

• I love his thick Minnesotan accent. He should do a project with Mister Metokur or something, just to see who’s more intelligible.

• Nice to hear that he’s a fellow Catholic! Seems like Lorne loves hiring Catholics (Tina Fey has admitted as much).

• I like his euphemism for masturbation: “Tommy Time”

• While not the funniest commentary, this was a nice and charming way to introduce us to Tommy’s style of humor.

• There’s one more commentary which was was cut after dress, but I’ll be getting to that one later…

SNL Reviews: Amy Poehler/Role Model (10/11/25)

Cold Open: Pam Bondi Hearing

Bondi is unresponsive during a Congressional hearing.

• Huge applause for Amy as Pam Bondi, a rare instance of the host in the cold open.

• The dialogue here is just atrocious. No different from any of the other political sketches we’ve gotten for the past decade or so.

• Andrew’s Cajun “accent” is straight out of that Maine Justice sketch, except not funny.

• Our first of MANY references to the Epstein files we’ll be getting for the next few months.

• That line about Amy Klobuchar having a Pokémon’s name was hacky as fuck.

• Speaking of hacky, now we have Tina Fey as Kristi Noem.

• I have no idea who Noem is or what she sounds like, but Tina is not trying at all. It’s literally just the voice she used for Sarah Palin, which, now that I think about it, is ground zero for all of this cameo bullshit we keep getting on SNL these days.

• Speaking of hacky yet again, there’s a line where Noem says she laughed at the ending of Old Yeller. Because she’s eeeeeeevil!!!!! Or something!

• Jesus, even without Trump there, this cold open is unbelievably boring and shitty.  

Monologue

Amy chats about various topics, including the show’s 50th anniversary, her new podcast, and the current state of the world.

• Wow, a joke about drug use at SNL. So edgy and original!

• Nice of Amy to point out how tonight’s episode is airing on the 50th anniversary of SNL’s premiere. Unfortunately, this is then followed by another drug joke.

• Uh-oh, she’s bringing out the new cast members. Gee, I wonder what’s gonna happen?

• What a shock! She asks them to leave! I sure love it when SNL makes “jokes” about how useless its new hires are!

• No offense to Amy, but this monologue made her come off as extremely unlikable and smug. 

Sketch: The Rudemans

A lady introduces her boyfriend to her standoffish family.

• Ashley with a lead role right off the bat!

• I like the subtle joke of Andrew saying that he’s had to do this “hundreds of times”.

• Oh dear, I am not liking the turn this has suddenly taken with Ashley’s rude family, complete with a bootleg Debbie Downer theme song.

• Not to be nitpicky here, but am I supposed to believe that Amy and Bowen gave birth to a fully white child? This is just more of shoving Bowen in there whether or not it makes sense.

• Now Mikey suddenly exists in the sketch because they’re trying to justify his 10th fucking year on the show.

• This sketch is like what would happen if someone made an entire family of David Spades. The only difference is that Spade was funny when given the right material, whereas this is just embarrassing. 

• The dialogue in this is horrible, by the way. It seems to have been taken from a Joss Whedon script that was thrown out.

• Ugh, now we have Sarah doing a hacky pratfall. Leave that shit in the nineties where it belongs!

Fake Ad: Non-Non-Alcoholic Beer

The non-alcoholic beverage that still gives a buzz.

• An ad about non-alcoholic beer? I liked it better the first time…*David Spade voice* when it was called “CouplaBeers”. *Spade voice off* 

• Now, let’s be fair and give this the benefit of the doubt. I’m sure it’ll be good in its own right.

• Andrew’s performance is pretty good, but I can’t help but feel this is kind of bland.

• Kam Patterson is wasted with a single line of stereotypical “black” dialogue.

• Okay ending with Andrew speeding off after getting pulled over for a breathalyzer test.

Sketch: Miss Lycus The Fast Psychic

A TV psychic rushes through her show.

• The look of Amy’s character is already worrying me, as is the fact that this sketch is credited to Jimmy Fowler and Ceara O’Sullivan.

• Amy’s performance here is great as usual, but I’m not caring for the repetitive formula.

• I love the dopey grin on Ben Marshall as his wife (played by Ashley) brings him out to prove that he is in fact still alive.

• Nice bit with the fast-scrolling list of names of people who are not actually dead, complete with sped-up music.

• Pretty funny line about how Veronica’s mother is Hillary Duff, but not that Hillary Duff.

• You know, I’m actually not finding this sketch too bad.

• I saw someone in the comments claim that this character is supposed to be based on a real psychic named Sylvia Brown. After searching her up, I can safely confirm that this is indeed who she is supposed to be.

• Marcello has a great bit at the end as a guy who supposedly drowned, but is actually alive and soaking wet. Nice work by the makeup team there.

• Overall, surprisingly not bad for a Jimmy Fowlie sketch.

Film: The Hunting Wives

The second season of the “lesbian Republican drama” is anything but.

• Yay, another parody of a Netflix show that I’ve never seen! I know the reason they keep doing this is so they can get some easy clicks, but that doesn’t make it fun for someone like me who has no idea what’s going on.

• The first thing Amy does in this sketch is flash her breasts at Chloe. Ummmm…okay. 

• The critic reviews are dumb and cliche. I was about to say that the one comparing it to The L Word was actually kind of funny, but then they revealed that it was written by “A.I. Scott”, because these people have A.I. on their minds constantly.

• Aubrey Plaza makes an appearance as some lady who gets guns pointed at her when she reveals she’s a lesbian. Get it, because all Republican women are homophobes!

• Well, that was a waste of my time. 

Sketch: Work Birth

A woman goes into labor while at the office.

• Kind of fitting how Amy’s playing a pregnant woman here given how her tenure as a cast member ended.

• You can see some kind of camera equipment on the side of the screen as Amy takes a seat.

• Not sure about the turn this has taken with Amy sitting in a kiddie pool waiting to give birth, but she is committed as always.

• The voice Ben is using here sounds like an impression of Bowen’s “macho” voice.

• Mikey just took his shirt off for some reason…things are getting way too chaotic for my tastes.

• There was no need for Kenan to be in this sketch just so he can do his tired reacting shtick.

• Speaking of tired, the baby turns out to be a fully-grown Bowen doing his usual gay routine. Yawn, another ho-hum sketch.

Musical Performance: “Sally, When The Wine Runs Out”

Weekend Update (featuring Rhonda LaCenzo, The Couple You Can’t Believe Are Together, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Seth Meyers)

• Let’s see, jokes comparing Trump to a fictional character, jokes painting everyone at Fox News as a racist…it’s all so tiresome.

• Ugh, here comes Sarah as a loud, obnoxious character again. I don’t think I need to say any more.

• I forgot all about that Mark Sanchez story. The media sure buried that one quick, huh?

• I hate that I laughed at the edited video of Colin dancing with Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

• Ha ha, Colin Jost is a Nazi! That joke sure hasn’t gotten old yet! 

• Are you kidding me? We’re doing these Jane and Marcello characters again? Weren’t the first two times enough?

• Ah, now time for more cameos, as Tina and Seth Meyers have shown up to join Amy in a Joke-Off.

• So far, I’m not really finding the guests’ jokes better than the one Colin told.

• Nice, a child pregnancy joke from Tina. You see, the joke is that people in Tennessee are all inbred!

• I did kind of laugh at Amy’s final joke about how the baby broke her record for having the “loosest vagina”.

Sketch: Experienced Lawyers

Oddball law firms one-up each other during a commercial.

• Right off the bat, I’m laughing at the look of James and Andrew’s characters.

• Impressive wall-breaking entrance from Amy.

• I’m liking the format of this sketch so far.

• Wow, has Ashley been in every single sketch in this episode? I love it!

• For once, Jane’s awkward delivery actually enhances a scene.

• The “CLONES, ACTIVATE!!!!” scene is hilarious.

• Sarah’s scene representing “Dracu-Law” has shades of her excellent early work on the show.

• Bowen and Kenan kind of bring this to a limp end, but overall, this was definitely a highlight of the episode.

Musical Performance: “Some Protector”

Sketch: Emo Mom

A mom goes through a phase of acting emo.

• I like how much airtime the featured players have been getting in this episode.

• Funny characterization from Amy as a moody goth bitch.

• Thank you, Chloe, for pointing out that Amy just started vaping! 

• “When A Period Becomes A Comma” is a pretty good name for a book.

• Yay, another lifeless performance from Jane Wickline. I get that she’s supposed to be an emo here, but she could not look any less enthusiastic if she tried.

• Oh my God, I just noticed the family portrait on the wall with everyone making the cheesiest smiles possible, and now I can’t stop laughing.

• Great shot at the end of Amy’s infected tattoo.

• I’m surprised at how much I enjoyed that sketch this time around.

Sketch: Theme Song Masterclass

Two television composers share how they came up with famous theme songs.

• Uh-oh, looks like we’re in for a Bowen showcase here…

• Even worse, Amy and Bowen’s characters are named “Lydia Calabasas” and “Leonard Margarita”, respectively. Ugh, enough with the “funny” names.

• Jeez, this “first draft” of the Severance theme song…I find it really hard to believe that this sketch was not written by Jimmy Fowlie or Ceara O’Sullivan.

• Great, now the students are explaining why that was a horrible song. I’ve never seen Severance, but I didn’t need this sketch to explain to me that this song would not fit in with the show.

• Jane: “Why do these all sound like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?” Ummm, no they don’t? What are you talking about, Jane?

• No idea what to think about that running gag of Bowen threatening to assault Jane, except that it isn’t funny at all and is actually kind of disturbing.

• Kenan is now playing a thinly-veiled variant of his Treece Henderson character. Please end this sketch already!!!

• Yippee, another ending where everyone dances. 

• I can’t believe they actually let this on the air. What actually good sketch did they cut in favor of this one?

Note: A dedication for Diane Keaton is show before the goodnights. I don’t know why, considering she never even appeared on the show.

Final thoughts: While not perfect, this was miles better than the season premiere. Most of the cast actually got something to do, and Amy did her usual great job as host. 

Best sketches: Miss Lycus The Fast Psychic, Experienced Lawyer, Emo Mom

Worst sketches: Cold Open, The Rudemans, Rhonda LaCenzo commentary, Theme Song Masterclass

Next review: Sabrina Carpenter

SNL Reviews: Bad Bunny/Doja Cat (10/4/25)

My SNL Reviews are back, baby!!! I decided that my mental state has recovered enough for me to want to continue.

So, what are we waiting for? Let’s do the time warp again!!!

Today’s Retro Decimator Quote is...

"My favorite female cast member just continues to get better. I’m really eager to see what she does going forward." (from my Season 47 overview, 2022)

This was in regards to Ego Nwodim's stellar year she had in Season 47. Little did I know that the following season would go on to be her worst one...

Cold Open

Pete Hegseth’s address is interrupted by President Trump

• A text crawl…is it too late for me to retire my reviews again?

• On the plus side, I love how the first person we see is one of the new cast members!

• Sadly, he’s only there to introduce the real focus of this sketch, Pete Hegseth, played by Colin for some reason.

• For the record, this is Colin’s 13th season on the show. This is absolutely unbelievable. When I started watching regularly, he was only in his 5th. He outstayed his welcome long ago, and I don’t know why SNL hasn’t realized that yet.

• I don’t know how accurate Colin’s “impression” of Hegseth is, but knowing him, it’s probably not.

• *sigh* Another one of those routines where Trump interrupts a sketch to talk about himself. Why do they keep going back to this format????

• If you’re wondering whether or not he’s gotten any funnier since my last review…don’t worry, he hasn’t. 

• I don’t see the point in discussing this any further when it’s exactly the same as every other time they’ve done this. Moving on…

We have several new cast members this season, most of whom I have never heard of. The newbies are Jeremy Culhane (who we just saw in the cold open), Kam Patterson, Tommy Brennan, Veronika Slowikowska (what a mouthful), and our old friend Ben Marshall from Please Don't Destroy, who have unfortunately broken up (although Martin Herlihy will still be contributing solo films). 

The intro is also the same as last year, but obviously with the newbies added and Ego Nwodim, Heidi Gardner, Michael Longfellow, Devon Walker, and Emil Wakim removed. 

Monologue

Bad Bunny talks about unimportant stuff before auditioning for characters he’d like to play.

• As I write this, Bad Bunny has just come off of the worst Super Bowl performance known to man, rivaling the already shitty Black Eyed Peas performance from like 15 years ago. With this added knowledge, I’m sure I’m going to hate his performance in this episode even more.

• Those videos of him dancing aren’t funny in the slightest and are only there to make his stans in the audience wet themselves.

• Pointless cameo from Jon Hamm in one of the videos.

• That line at the end where he tells us to learn his language so we can appreciate his Super Bowl performance is so Goddamn smug and arrogant that I can’t believe nobody in the audience booed him.

Sketch: Jeopardy!

A contestant fails to phrase his answers as questions.

• It feels like every year, the first sketch of the season is a game show.

• This is clearly the same set used for the Black Jeopardy sketches.

• It just feels so wrong to see a Jeopardy! sketch without Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek. Andrew is doing a fine job as Ken Jennings (despite not looking a thing like him) but Trebek is dearly missed.

• Why, oh why, is Keenan Thompson STILL on the show???? He’s approaching his 25th fucking season, and he was only funny for about nine of them.

• Nice to see Veronika with a big role right up front.

• Hoo boy, I am not a fan of this one-joke sketch so far. And, again, Bad Bunny is coming off like a smug douchebag.

• This had no reason to be the lead-off sketch. This is something that belongs after Update.

Fake Ad: ChatGPTio

A more “authentic” version of ChatGPT.

• And now we get our obligatory “let’s demonize AI” sketch.

• Seeing Chloe in this role just makes me miss Heidi even more. 

• *sigh* Mikey is also still on the show for some reason, despite wearing out his welcome years ago.

• *double sigh* Another sketch where the only joke is Marcello babbling in a thick Spanish accent. Am I the only one who thinks these kinds of roles are kind of racist?

• Bad Bunny is adding nothing to this.

Sketch: The Donor

A couple asks their friend to be their sperm donor.

• Surprised it’s taken this long for Bowen to show up.

• The reveal of Bad Bunny’s character already sets a bad tone for the rest of this sketch.

• Yep, just as I feared, this guy is the main joke of the sketch. 

• To make things even more cliche, Kenan also appears as a creepy character. I’ve lost count of how many times he’s done that.

Sketch: K-Pop Demon Hunters

SNL tries to piggyback off of the success of an overrated movie.

• Kinda weird how we have two sketches in a row where the leading ladies are Chloe and Sarah.

• Chloe says she’s excited to see the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie. I can’t help but wonder if this is an in-joke directed at Maya Rudolph, as Anderson is her husband.

• Ugh, now we get the main “joke” of this sketch, which is how Bad Bunny’s character is obsessed with K-Pop Demon Hunters, an extremely overrated animated film that came out that summer. I don’t think I need to tell you who wrote this sketch, do I?

• I hope the writers got paid by Sony every time they say the name of the movie in this sketch. I’m not going to count how many times they say it because I don’t want to get AIDS.

• Boy, Bad Bunny’s performance in this sketch is so awful. I don’t know what happened between his first hosting gig and this one, because this is clearly not the same guy!

• Somehow they were able to get Huntrix (the band that was in the movie) to appear in this awful sketch.

• I did kind of chuckle at Sarah randomly saying that she’s on the Epstein list.

• Figures that Bowen would be involved in this sketch in some way. I have no idea who he’s supposed to be playing, but he isn’t funny.

• Dear God, Bowen starts singing….I think I can move on to the next sketch now.

Musical Performance: “AAHH Men!!!!”

Weekend Update (featuring Kam Patterson and Dobby the House Elf) 

• *triple sigh* These cretins are still here, for some reason. When I initially ended my blog last summer, I did it in hopes that SNL was about to make some huge changes to the show. While they certainly did that, apparently Weekend Update was thought to be perfectly fine, even though it is the part of the show that needs the most improvement.

• A really hacky joke where Trump’s plan for peace in Gaza has a drawing of a woman’s breasts on it.

• Ugh, I forgot about that awful part where they dub Chloe as Jennifer Coolidge over a clip of Trump speaking. What’s the point? Oh yeah, we need to keep pushing Chloe as a “star” even though everyone’s sick of her by now. 

• Newbie Kam Patterson has a commentary where the “joke” is that he keeps skirting around the fact that he’s going to say the n-word. Not a good first impression. 

• HUGE applause for some reason when Che says Zohran Mamdani’s name. I take it the audience is filled with Arab Communists?

• Though cheap, my biggest laugh of this entire Update came from Che’s joke about Andrew Cuomo’s new political ad being “*Honka-honka, shhhh!”

• Jesus Christ, another fucking “mascot” commentary. This time, it’s Bowen as Dobby the House Elf, who is here to talk about…ugh, J.K. Rowling’s transphobia. This can not end well.

• I thought nothing could top the hippo commentary from last season’s premiere, but this is definitely worse. 

• There’s a blooper where the strap on his costume comes loose, causing him to ad-lib “Dobby’s come undone!” Sadly, that’s probably the highlight of this travesty of a commentary.

• Seeing crap like this makes me all the more glad that Bowen leaves the show halfway through this season. The amount of time that they gave over to this untalented baby to do whatever the fuck he wanted is honestly ridiculous.

• And that’s how we end Update. Nothing has improved since last season.

Sketch: Inventing Spanish

A look back at how the Iberians invented the Spanish language.

• Once again, it seems like Bad Bunny is barely trying with the delivery here. I know English isn’t his first language and everything, but still, you’d think he’d at least give some effort.

• Marcello is mugging up a storm here. I can’t believe I used to like this guy.

• Because SNL is trying to justify Kenan staying on for the millionth year in a row, they throw him into this sketch despite it not making sense for a black guy to be there. His Spanish accent is unsurprisingly awful.

• This feels like a thinly veiled rehash of sketches like the Washington ones with Nate Bargatze, or that Godawful one from the Season 47 finale with the angels creating the first man. I am not a fan of any of those, so I imagine I’ll like this one even less.

• Guess we can add Spanish to the list of accents Mikey is terrible at. Given that his character is said to be from Barcelona, it would have been kinda funny if he did an impression of Manuel from Fawlty Towers.

• Random Benicio del Toro cameo. Yeah, why not? Let’s just keep padding the cameo count some more!

Musical Performance: “Gorgeous”

Sketch: Parent-Teacher Conference

A principal is attracted to her student’s hot dad.

• Figures Ashley’s only role is stuck near the end of the show.

• Some chick in the audience has a laugh that sounds almost exactly like Roseanne.

• Unsurprisingly, Ashley is doing a masterful job here.

• Some huge laughs from the disturbing drawings that Marcello’s character has created.

• Even Bad Bunny is doing pretty fine here.

• Andrew slowly seems to be taking over Mikey’s role as SNL’s resident cuck. 

• Finally, a genuinely strong sketch! Too bad it took them until the end of the episode to do it!

Sketch: El Chavo

SNL’s latest attempt to pander to Latin viewers.

• Not content with shitting all over Sabado Gigante, Marcello is now doing the same to El Chavo del Ocho. The first time I saw this episode, I immediately turned off the TV when this sketch started.

• I have seen a grand total of one episode of El Chavo, so there’s probably going to be some in-jokes here that I don’t understand.

• So far, the only joke is that they’re doing an exact recreation of the intro (complete with the same music), except the “funny” part is that they’re doing it this time instead of the original people.

• Andrew looks pretty dead on as Don Ramón.

• The part where Andrew gets slapped by Chloe is so badly staged. Her hand comes nowhere near him and the sound effects are delayed.

• Now they’re throwing in Kenan to try to “improve” this sketch? Good lord, I don’t know how many more bad accents I can take from him.

• Oh, and Spanish Jon Hamm appears at the end for no reason.

• While this definitely didn’t make me feel as dead inside as the Sabado Gigante “parodies”, I’m baffled as to how other people can praise this boring, muggy shoutfest.

Final thoughts: As I feared, nothing has changed from the last season. There’s still too much Trump, too much trashy social media shit, too much Marcello, and still too much Colin Jost and Michael Che. Bad Bunny just coasted through the entire episode giving half-assed performances because he knows his idiotic fans will eat it up anyway.

Best sketches: Parent-Teacher Conference

Worst sketches: Jeopardy, The Donor, K-Pop Demon Hunters, Dobby the Elf commentary

Next review: Amy Poehler/Role Model

Pre-Code Crime Comics Are Magical

I want you to imagine an ancient society that has been lost to time...a magical society that most scholars barely understand...

This was a society where it was normal for people to have names like "Joe the Boob"

Certain individuals were known to have flesh-colored blood

They spoke a strange language of grunts and insults that nobody else would be caught dead using

Foul language did not exist

Some had the ability to camouflage their hands to be the same color as their clothing

While others partook in the consumption of paper

To learn more about this amazing society, follow this link: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=32867

Games That Are Fun vs. Games That Are Not

 Here are some ways to tell if a game was made by people who care about consumers.

First off, we have Sony. Back when the PlayStation first came out, there used to be a lot of really fun and unique looking games.

I've never played any of these games, but I can tell by looking at them that they were made by people who care about gamers having fun. The covers alone make me want to check them out!

Spyro the Dragon was one of my favorites growing up. Despite the obnoxious "tude" on this cover, his design is still iconic to this day. 

Unfortunately, the good times didn't last at Sony. Starting in the late 2000s or so, a lot of their games began to take on a homogenized look.

I don't know about you guys, but if I saw images like these in a video game, I wouldn't want to play them at all.

Believe it or not, this comes from the same developers as the original Spyro games. Gone are all of the colorful, stylized levels and character designs. Now we have contests to see how "realistic" we can make our human characters. 

Doesn't this look fun??? I've always wanted to play a game where some girl is getting operated on!

Everyone loves Ratchet and Clank, right? Well, what if they were REALISTIC??????

Blech!!!! Haven't you always wanted to see the individual hairs in Ratchet's eyebrows? He looks like a rejected Pixar character!

Moving on from Sony, we have Ubisoft. Being a French company, they used to be fun and wacky.

Unfortunately, by 2003, they had only started making games that look like this:

Bland designs, bland washed out colors, and no fun.

Look at how gorgeous these 90s Capcom games were!

BUT NOW LOOK AT WHAT THEY'VE BECOME

Why is it all brown? If you see a game with extremely dark visuals, then it's a sure sign that it's not fun at all!

What Happened To Video Games?

 It seems impossible that I would even have to make such a remark, but it's true. Video games used to be so much fun!

And what would a classic video game be without Engrish?

I'm too young to have experienced the 90s heyday of games, but that doesn't mean I didn't grow up with some awesome fucking games myself!

So, what happened to gaming? Why does it suck so hard now?

Maybe this image will help you understand:

What the fuck happened here? All the color and warmth is gone, replaced with dull, "realistic" blandness. Reminds me of the Special Edition of The Killing Joke that took out all of the wacky psychedelic colors and replaced them with "serious" grays and blues. 

Battle for Bikini Bottom was one of my favorite games as a kid, but then they "remastered" it and added stupid meme shit to it. HEY, 'MEMBER THAT EPISODE WITH HANDSOME SQUIDWARD???? OOOOOOOH, I 'MEMBER!

SNL Cast News

 Just because I’m done reviewing the show doesn’t mean I’m not done talking about it, and just as well, because they just revealed some cast departures for Season 51.

First off, Heidi is out. This wasn’t a surprise, to be honest. I’ve been hearing those rumors all year.

A bigger shock to me is the departure of Michael Longfellow. If you know me, I’ve been complaining forever that they never give him any screentime. But then, I started hearing rumors a few weeks ago that he was being tried out for a potential run as an Update anchor. Wow, that sounds great! I’ve always wanted to see him anchor Update! But nope! Just a few days ago, he suddenly announced that he wouldn’t be coming back. I don’t know if he was fired or if this is a decision he made for himself, but it still sucks.

Devon Walker is also not returning to the show. I was actually expecting this to happen given how little they used him, but it turns out he actually decided to leave on his own. In his Instagram post where he broke the news, he implies that things were a little “toxic” for him backstage. I don’t know what he’s implying, but there might have been some personal reason for him deciding to go.

Lastly, Emil Wakim is also not coming back. This one makes me angry the most. Just when it seemed like things were finally turning around for him after his great performance in the Shane Gillis episode, they quickly went back to underusing him. And this wasn’t a personal decision, either. He implies in his farewell statement that he got a call from somebody telling him he was off the show. If that’s the case, that really sucks. He seemed like a really likable guy.

Of course, none of the people who left were people that I wanted to see gone. As far as I know, Bowen and Chloe are staying. I was hoping Jane Wickline would be going too, but she’s a nepo baby, so that’s not gonna happen.

UPDATE: As soon as I posted this, I saw an article talking about this year’s new cast members. I haven’t heard of any of them, except for one: Ben Marshall, from Please Don’t Destroy, has graduated from the writing staff to a featured player. Unfortunately, this means that the trio has effectively broken up. Martin Herlihy is still a writer, while John Higgins has left entirely.

UPDATE 2: Like clockwork, I’ve already started to see people claim that the show is sexist because only one of the new hires is a woman. I saw one particularly autistic tweet call them a “whole lot of dudes”, as if their gender somehow makes them inferior. But at least they actually hired a new black guy to replace Devon, or else we’d get another one of those Kerry Washington as Michelle Obama situations.