Season 47 of Saturday Night Live wraps up amid the news that several long-time cast members – Kyle Mooney, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson and possibly Michael Che – are departing.
It’s fitting, then, that the finale should open with one of those members’ most popular recurring sketches: Alien Abduction. Three southern gal pals (McKinnon, Cecily Strong and host Natasha Lyonne) recount their close encounters with extraterrestrials to two government agents (Bryant and Mikey Day). Whereas two of the women’s had beatific experiences with beings of pure light, McKinnon’s hapless Colleen Rafferty once again gets the short end of the stick: yanked into the sky by a giant claw machine while “popping a squat on the median”, she has her pubic hair plucked out by a group of gray-skinned perverts before being ceremonially dumped into the middle of a Mets’ game “ass-up with my dong-hole and my wrong hole out”.
