Stranger Issues star Finn Wolfhard took internet hosting duties on Saturday Night time Reside following the present’s hiatus, kicking issues off with a sketch about generational clashing and their deeply incompatible definitions of “promoting out.”
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Wolfhard performs an adolescent wanting to hit the highway along with his indie band, a lot to the dismay of his father (James Austin Johnson). Not as a result of Dad is anti-dreams or anti-music, however as a result of he’s a pop star — and his son completely is not going to be slumming it by way of grunge exhibits at East Coast dive bars. As he places it, “What could possibly be extra fulfilling than promoting out arenas for the yr and a half previous 9/11?”
The sketch hinges on the wildly completely different concepts of inventive success between father and son, whereas additionally discovering time to pile on chaos elsewhere. Dad’s boy band mates hold shamelessly hitting on Mother (Ashley Padilla), including one other layer of absurdity to the household dynamic. These members embody Curtis 5000 (Marcello Hernández), Cyber (Jeremy Culhane), and Ok-Canine (Andrew Dismukes), who’s unmistakably simply Kevin Richardson from the Backstreet Boys.
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