‘SNL’ took on TikTok with brutal accuracy

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By Megan Thomas, CNN

TikTok served as a source of hilarious fodder on this weekend’s episode of “Saturday Night Live.”

The show satirized people TikTok-trying-way-too hard on the social media platform and it was was brutally accurate.

The video sketch started with a text from a dad (Alex Moffat) asking his teenager to take out the trash, but they’re lost in their feed. What follows is an only slightly exaggerated four-minute scroll through TikTok.

You can watch here or read a list of all the ways “SNL” reminded us we are very effective at mindlessly scrolling to escape responsibility.

• Kenan Thompson as self-defense “expert” sharing safety tips.
• A helpless cat subjected to a crazy filter.
• Chloe Fineman as a QAnon member finding clues in Blake Lively’s Met Gala gown.
• A cute dog.
• A baby playing harmonica.
• Host and musical guest Billie Eilish in scrubs, playing a twerking nurse.
• Chris Redd playing a guy doing the most to thirst trap, only to be interrupted by his mom.
• People fighting.
• People dancing.
• Kyle Mooney as an overly enthusiastic Spider-Man fan, talking about a new trailer.
• More babies.
• More cats.
• Aidy Bryant as a very sex-positive but spelling-challenged woman, spending some time in the mirror.
• Heidi Gardner sharing the breakfast routine of a mom to eight boys.
• A drunk man.
• A golfer.
• Andrew Dismukes offering an acoustic guitar cover of Flo Rida’s “Low.”
• A random guy.
• A woman with a pink bag and a cute dog in it.
• Bowen Yang playing a guy feeding his feelings.
• More thirst trapping, more twerking.
• Melissa Villasenor playing a young women who will come to regret her oversharing.
• Cameo by Billie Eilish’s brother, Finneas, throwing it back to “Old Town Road.”
• People pushing a truck on the beach.
• A freaky man impersonating Homer Simpson for “The Simpsons” ASMR audience.
• A cute dog in the snow.
• Another self-defense tutorial from Thompson gone way wrong.
• Punkie Johnson playing a woman very fired up about her “Moana” Sketchers.
• Bryant returns for more mirror talk and a makeover reveal.
• Pete Davidson as way wrong twins.
• Kate McKinnon suggesting a scroll break, “maybe sip some water, read any book, talk to a human.”
• Another adorable dog.
• Mickey Day doing his best impression of a White guy in a beanie talking about White-guy struggles.
• More dogs.
• More couples.
• Dad now calling to make sure the trash is being taken out.
• Aristotle Athari getting heckled at a stand-up show.
• Dad posts TikTok video, titled “When your kid won’t take out the trash.”
• Bryant’s character and Mooney’s character get together.
• Dismukes returns with an acoustic Lil Wayne cover.
• Eilish’s patient “pulls through and throws it down.”

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