{"id":239972,"date":"2026-01-18T19:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239972\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:01:08","slug":"finn-wolfhard-and-his-stranger-things-costars-spoof-shows-secret-episode-and-satc-in-hilarious-snl-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239972\/","title":{"rendered":"Finn Wolfhard and his \u201cStranger Things \u201dcostars spoof show’s secret episode and \u201cSATC\u201d in hilarious \u201cSNL \u201dparody"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still hung up on Conformity Gate? Saturday Night Live<\/a> has just the solution.<\/p>\n

With Finn Wolfhard<\/a> making his hosting debut fresh off the series finale of Stranger Things<\/a>, the show couldn’t help but poke fun at the Netflix series and its divisive ending.<\/p>\n

“Remember that mysterious ninth episode the internet was convinced existed?” a narrator asks during a pre-recorded Jan. 17 sketch. “It didn’t \u2014 but it does now!”<\/p>\n

SNL then surprised the studio audience by reuniting Wolfhard with his costars Gaten Matarazzo<\/a> and Caleb McLaughlin<\/a> as their characters arrived in Iceland to check out those waterfalls<\/a> and determine the truth behind Eleven’s fate.<\/p>\n

“Everything we thought happened was an illusion that was planted by Vecna,” Wolfhard as Mike yells, parroting fan theories that have taken the internet by storm<\/a>. “He’s still out there!”<\/p>\n

Unconvinced, McLaughlin’s Lucas asks his friend to provide one good reason why they should believe him.<\/p>\n

“You want one reason?” Mike asks. “How about\u2026 Eleven.”<\/p>\n

Cue the dramatic music as the trio slowly turn to see that character. Only instead of Millie Bobby Brown, it’s Kenan Thompson wearing a hospital gown and holding an Eggo, with Eleven’s signature nosebleed and all.<\/p>\n

\"Stranger<\/p>\n

Stranger Things Promo – SNL<\/p>\n

Kenan Thompson as Eleven in the ‘SNL’ parody of the alleged ‘Stranger Things’ secret episode<\/p>\n

And don’t worry, there’s plenty more Stranger Things where that came from. The sketch also provided a glimpse at a bunch of potential spinoffs for the popular series with the promise, “Everyone is getting a show.”<\/p>\n

One possibility follows Steve Harrington (played by Andrew Dismukes) as he leaves Hawkins to become a high school teacher in inner-city Los Angeles. A snippet of the series, hilariously titled Strangerous Minds, sees one student taunt Steve, telling him that he won’t last a day in the new school. But it doesn’t shake him.<\/p>\n

“You think I don’t know what it’s like to be a teenager?” Dismukes’ Steve asks the student. “I was 17 for 10 years!”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Nancy headlines The Wheeler Report, in which her investigative journalism career takes her deep into high-profile ’90s crimes such as\u2026 the O.J. Simpson car chase.<\/p>\n

But most most tempting entry in the spoof is a Sex and the City\u2013inspired spinoff in which Mike heads to New York to pursue his dream of becoming a writer. Mike in Manhattan finds Finn typing at a computer, doing his best Carrie Bradshaw impression as he reflects on the New York City dating scene.<\/p>\n

“And just like that, I was in a new Upside Down\u2026 New York,” he writes. “And it doesn’t take a hive mind to realize that after you’ve dated an Eleven, even 10s fall short.”<\/p>\n

Mike is then joined by none other than Dustin and Lucas (Matarazzo and McLaughlin again) for a brunchy gab sesh, during which it is quickly revealed that their post\u2013Stranger Things lives are looking pretty grim, especially their sex lives.<\/p>\n

\"Stranger<\/p>\n

Stranger Things Promo – SNL<\/p>\n

Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, and Caleb McLaughlin in an ‘SNL’ spoof mashing up ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘Sex and the City’<\/p>\n

“As you know, I recently dated that weird nerdy girl who helped us save the world,” Dustin begins, referencing his season 3 love interest, Suzie. “And then I never talked to her again. And ever since, my series of bad dates has been a NeverEnding Story. I’m a disaster!”<\/p>\n

Adds Lucas, “Max and I started off hot and heavy, but a couple years in she just lies there like she’s back in that coma.”<\/p>\n

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The trio are shocked out of their depressing catch-up when Mike’s nose begins to bleed \u2014 a lot like El’s did when she used her powers. But he quickly reassures his friends there’s nothing supernatural about it.<\/p>\n

“This is from cocaine,” he says this with a laugh. “New York in the ’90s, right?”<\/p>\n

SNL also put Matarazzo and McLaughlin to good use for Wolfhard’s monologue,<\/a> in which he lamented the struggles of starring in a show\u00a0for 10 years, having his first kiss on camera, and going through puberty in the public eye.<\/p>\n

“I’m not a kid anymore,” he told the crowd, prompting his costars to pop up beside him on stage and declare, “And neither are we!\u201d<\/p>\n

They finished the monologue with a toast to being “child stars who are now ready to do adult films,” a joke that earned a perfect side-eye from McLaughlin.<\/p>\n

Watch the full Stranger Things spinoffs parody above.<\/p>\n

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