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Finn Wolfhard hosted the latest episode of Saturday Night Live, but not all the sketches prepared made it to air.
SNL shared a Cut for Time sketch on YouTube, in which the Stranger Things star channeled the Duffer Brothers with his characterization as he leads a writers’ room for Euphoria Season 3.
The room includes two writers from Sex Education (Marcello Hernández and Jane Wickline), a writer from Industry (Chloe Fineman), and a writer from Reba and Happy’s Place, played by James Austin Johnson.
“It’s like Reba, but it’s in a bar,” Johnson’s Chester Barnhill says of the NBC comedy series, which stars Reba McEntire.
Chester’s larger-than-life personality overshadows the rest of the writers with his wild ideas for Euphoria Season 3 storylines.
When Wolfhard’s character asks the writers for ideas to make a bigger moment after Rue overdoses on heroin and reaches for the Narcan before she blacks out, Chester made suggestions more in tune with the family comedy he writes for.
“What if instead of an alcoholic, Rue’s a chocoholic?” Chester asks. “Imagine this, Rue wakes up — by the way, what’s Rue short for? Kangaroo?”
Chester continues his pitch, “Rue wakes up, and she is covered in chocolate, wrappers all over the place. And then the chesty one comes in [holds up a photo of Sydney Sweeney] and she goes, ‘Has anyone seen my Christmas candy?’ Then Rue turns to her, and she goes, ‘Can we not?'”
The writers ask Chester if he’s ever seen Euphoria, to which he describes it as “Peanuts, but they’re teens.”
Another storyline involves a sex scene, which made Chester spit out his coffee onto a fellow writer played by Fineman.
“I’m sorry, but y’all can’t put that on TV,” he said, asking, “Who wants to see a scene of someone getting their butt ate?”
Chester then notes that “the astudio audience loves a funny fat,” and is corrected that Euphoria has no studio audience. The writer is asked not to make any more suggestions until he understands the show’s vibe.
However, Chester can’t help himself and pitches an idea where “the gang from Euphoria High wins a trip to Hawaii, and then Zendaya finds an idol, and the volcano starts rumbling, and they’re like, ‘Uh-oh, we may have to sacrifice a virgin.'”
“And then the chesty one looks to the camera, and she goes, ‘Marked safe from the volcano,'” Chester suggests.
The writers don’t want to work with Chester, who is then asked to leave. However, Wolfhard’s character stops him, further develops the Hawaii idea, and “fixes” the HBO drama.
Watch the full sketch below.
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