Worst sketches of Season 46

 Season 46 of SNL will go down in my books as one of the worst seasons ever. Out of all the episodes, none of them were good. The closest we got was the Bill Burr episode, but even that had problems, such as the worst cold opening ever. Like my Worst Sketches in the Trump Era list, I’m going to be rating these sketches using The Rating of Suckitude. The higher the number, the more the sketch sucked.

1. A Rona Family Christmas (from Timothee Chalamet/Bruce Springsteen, 12/12/20)

Summary: This one is about living coronavirus spores telling bad jokes while preparing for the holidays.

• One of the most unfunny things I’ve ever seen on television. This is full of such hacky jokes as a TV show called “Dancing With The SARS”. I groaned so loud when I watched this live. Asian Terry Sweeney also plays a character named “Oral”, because of course he does.

Suckitude: 2/10

2. Universal Studios Tram Tour (from Dan Levy/Phoebe Bridgers, 2/6/21)

Summary: Corporate synergy up the ass!

• Season 46 continues the recent trend of bad shilling for fellow corporations. This is one of the most pathetic examples, and it’s full of bad greenscreening, blatant research failure (they get the year that the first live-action Flintstones movie came out wrong), and overall, it’s just a commercial for Universal Studios.

Suckitude: 4/10

3. Mario Memories (from Dave Chappelle/Foo Fighters, 11/7/20)

Summary: Gamers talk about their favorite memories playing Mario games.

• The Dave Chappelle episode has so much wrong with it that I am going to be doing a separate review for it in the future. But I wanted to give you a preview of the horrors it contains by bringing up one particular sketch that thoroughly broke me when I saw it. Not only is this Mario Memories shit just another example of bad corporate synergy (Universal has a Mario film coming out soon), but it’s another example of Season 46’s juvenile obsession with testicle jokes. The sketch with the guy jizzing on the pizza in Season 45 was bad enough, but this takes the cake. And the worst part is that this isn’t even the only Mario-related sketch on this list….

Suckitude: 8/10

4. Pelotaunt (from Regina King/Nathaniel Rateliff, 2/13/21)

Summary: A commercial for an exercise bike that insults you.

• Remember all of those Peloton sketches I got sick of in Season 45? Well, here’s another one. It actually has a good concept, but, as is usual with SNL these days, they think that having a good idea prevents them from doing anything creative with it. This sketch could have worked if they had made the bike’s insults funny and biting. Instead, it’s all lame playground bully shit.

Suckitude: 4/10

5. Now That’s What I Call Theme Songs Sung By The Stars Of The Show (from John Krasinski/Machine Gun Kelly, 1/30/21)

Summary: Characters from shows I’ve never seen sing their theme songs.

• One of SNL’s trademarks has been its celebrity impressions, and I usually love it when they do sketches showing them off, like the famous Star Wars Screen Tests sketch from 1997. Unfortunately, most of the impressions on this show nowadays are extremely bad, such as in this sketch. Maybe I’d like it better if had ever seen any of these shows, but the problem they have these days is that they don’t try to make their parodies accessible to people who haven’t seen them. The worst part is when they bring back that horrfying and unfunny Baby Yoda impression. Do they realize that nobody gives a shit about The Mandalorian anymore?!?

Suckitude: 7/10

6. The Grinch (from Kristen Wiig/Dua Lipa, 12/19/20)

Summary: A family has an awkward morning with The Grinch.

• Yet ANOTHER example of Universal synergy, as this is obviously supposed to be based on the 2000 film. Pete Davidson’s honestly pretty good Jim Carrey impression is wasted on this sketch, which I immediately predicted was going to be about sex when it started.

Suckitude: 9/10

And the worst sketch of Season 46 is….

7. Wario Trial (from Elon Musk/Miley Cyrus, 5/8/21)

Summary: Wario (Elon Musk) is on trial for allegedly killing Mario with a shell.

• To say that this sketch is an abomination is an understatement. It is an insult to the Mario games, and an insult to my sanity. And I’m not alone in thinking so. EVERYBODY in the world panned this sketch, and most of the YouTube comments are extremely negative. Let’s go over the ways this sketch sucks…

• For starters, Musk looks downright uncomfortable in this sketch. I would be too if I had to deliver some of these jokes.

• The jury is made up of Toads, and by that, I mean they took the first image of Toad they could find on Google and copypasted it.

• The worst thing of all is when Princess Peach shows up, and she starts speaking in a horribly stereotypical Italian accent. If there was any doubt these people have never played the games, this is the proof. Peach has never spoken with an Italian accent in any of her appearances. 

• And the ultimate insult comes at the end when they show a blurred picture of Luigi’s penis, once again, continuing Season 46’s juvenile obsession with penis jokes. I was so disgusted at this part that I seriously contemplated throwing the remote at the TV. Why didn’t Nintendo sue them for this?

Suckitude: 8,000/10