SNL Delivers 'Washington's Dream' Part 2 That Fans Hailed as 'Best Skit of the Year'
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Saturday Night Live delighted fans by delivering the second installment of Washington's dream sketch, which was hailed as the show's “Skit of the Year” last year.
Nate Bargatze reprises his role as George Washington with fellow Revolutionary War soldiers Kenan Thompson, Mikey Day, Bowen Young and James Austin Johnson sharing more of his hopes and dreams for the country.
The sketch mocks the peculiarities of the American-English language. When his men question whether they will win the war, Bargatz's Washington tells them: “We will live through the war ahead as we fight to control our own destiny, to build our own nation…and to do our own thing with the English language. “
“I dream that one day our great nation will have a word for the number 12,” he continued. “We'll call it a dozen.”
“And for what other number shall we have a word?” Yang asks.
“None,” Bargatz replies, completely deadpan. “Only 12 will have their own words because we are free people, and we will be free to spell some words two different ways.”
Day then asks: “Any word, sir?”
“Donuts,” Bargatz replied. He added: “We will have two names for animals, one when they are alive and another when they are food. Cows will be beef, pigs will be pork.”
Yang asks: “Chicken, sir?”
“It stays,” Bargatze said. “Chicken is chicken.”
Fans welcomed the second installment of the skit on social media. “I honestly didn't think they could pull it off again but very happy to be proven wrong,” said one at X.
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“I needed it this morning. Very clever and true,” someone else said.
It follows last year's hilarious farce in which Washington outlined his dream for a country with its own “system of weights and measures”.
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The scene was a takedown of American measurements and other specialties, with lines such as: “We are a free people! And we will be free to measure liquids in liters and milliliters… but not all liquids, only soda, wine and alcohol. For milk and paint we gallons.” , will use pints and quarts, God willing.”
When one of his soldiers (Din) is asked how many liters are in a gallon, he simply replies: “No one knows.”
Last night's SNL poked fun at the vice presidential debate between JD Vance (Bowen Young) and Tim Walz (Jim Gaffigan).
Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph) and Doug Emhoff (Andy Samberg) watch as the couple look into each other's eyes and find “common ground”, prompting Rudolph to spit wine and exclaim: “Why are they shaking?”
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