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‘SNL’ Halloween Costume Sketch Takes On Menendez Brothers, Diddy, ‘The Golden Bachelorette’ & More
A cut-for-time Halloween-themed 'Weekend Update' sketch on 'Saturday Night Live' was crawling with pop culture references.
A cut-for-time Halloween-themed “ Weekend Update ” sketch on Saturday Night Live was crawling with pop culture references, spoofing everything from the Menendez brothers (the subject of Ryan Murphy’s much-discussed Monsters anthology on Netflix) to The Golden Bachelorette. But instead of being perceived as such by partygoers and passersby, the two are mistaken for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who have long been imprisoned for the 1989 shooting of their parents and could be looking at an early release due to renewed conversations around the siblings’ decades-long abuse at the hands of their father. Eventually, the skit turned to other Halloween costuming mishaps, like a John Travolta outfit from Saturday Night Fever being mistaken for “Guy on his way to a Diddy white party,” E.T.
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