On the new season premiere of Saturday Night Live a school PTA meeting about COVID-19 policies was shown going comically off the rails.
Pete Davidson played Dog The Bounty Hunter who took the lectern to ask after the whereabouts of Brian Laundrie, the missing fiance of homicide victim Gabby Petito.
The sketch also took aim at parents raging against critical race theory, with Heidi Gardner playing a blonde mother who quivered with fury as she demanded to know: 'What is it and why am I mad about it?'
Chaos: On the new season premiere of Saturday Night Live a school PTA meeting about COVID-19 policies was shown going comically off the rails
In the sketch the meeting took place at what used to be called Robert E. Lee Middle School but has now been rechristened Robert E. Lee Was Bad.
Dog The Bounty Hunter arrived at the lectern and declared: 'As you know I've joined the hunt for Brian Laundrie. So my question to you is, do you know where he is? 'Cause I can't find this dude anywhere.'
When the administrators told him they had no clue he said: 'I got no leads on this guy. Either he's good or I'm bad.'
Heidi's concerned mother took the floor and said: 'Hi, I’m so mad I’m literally shaking right now. Forget COVID. The real threat is critical race theory being taught in our schools. My question is - what is it and why am I mad about it?'
Cigarette in hand: Pete Davidson played Dog The Bounty Hunter who took the lectern to ask after the whereabouts of Brian Laundrie, the missing fiance of homicide victim Gabby Petito
Not having it: The sketch also took aim at parents raging against critical race theory, with Heidi Gardner playing a blonde mother who quivered with fury
Bringing the meeting to order: In the sketch the meeting took place at what used to be called Robert E. Lee Middle School but has now been rechristened Robert E. Lee Was Bad
'Forget COVID': Heidi's concerned mother took the floor and said: 'Hi, I’m so mad I’m literally shaking right now'
One woman launched into an incoherent rant about Dr. Anthony Fauci that concluded: 'This, all of this, this is about Israel!'
As it turned not not only did she not have a child at the school, she was not a mother at all and nor did she even live in the district.
Punkie Johnson played the harried mother of a teenage boy and declared that 'my son can't play football because they said the vaccine he got wasn't valid.'
When Ego Nwodim, playing one of the administrators running the meeting, asked which jab Chris got Punkie replied: 'Mike's Hard Vaccine.'
Out of towner: One woman launched into an incoherent rant about Dr. Anthony Fauci that concluded: 'This, all of this, this is about Israel!'
Trouble: Punkie Johnson played the harried mother of a teenage boy and shared that 'my son can't play football because they said the vaccine he got wasn't valid'
Fleeced: When Ego Nwodim, playing one of the administrators running the meeting, asked which jab Chris got Punkie replied: 'Mike's Hard Vaccine'
A flustered Punkie was then confronted with a frustrated teenage son who informed her that they had been scammed.
Mikey Day meanwhile arrived as a shifty school father saying he took 'Iverpitekatraz,' 'a hormone given to elephants in captivity to boost sperm production.'
He assures the board that 'my son took it and had no adverse effects,' only for his child to be seen with a full beard.
Meanwhile the host Owen Wilson turned up as a mild-mannered earth science teacher who was concerned about having to separate his students racially.
Spoof: Mikey Day meanwhile arrived as a shifty school father saying he took 'Iverpitekatraz,' 'a hormone given to elephants in captivity to boost sperm production'
Whoops: He assures the board that 'my son took it and had no adverse effects,' only for his child to be seen with a full beard
Whoops: Meanwhile the host Owen Wilson turned up as a mild-mannered earth science teacher who was concerned about having to separate his students
When he was informed that this was not part of the COVID-19 protocols, he produced the memo and realized his mistake.
It turned out he had misread 'separate by six feet' as 'segregate by six feet,' to which Ego exasperatedly remarked that they were risking a lawsuit.
As the sketch wore on Owen returned as the science teacher, who had informed his students that the racial segregation was a 'misunderstanding' only for the children to say 'they actually wanna keep it. Is that okay? No, right?'
Owen Wilson turned on the charm as he delivered a self-deprecating monologue poking fun at his own bad reviews and troublemaking childhood.
Mishap: It turned out he had misread 'separate by six feet' as 'segregate by six feet,' to which Ego exasperatedly remarked that they were risking a lawsuit
Looking good: Owen Wilson turned on the charm as he delivered a self-deprecating monologue poking fun at his own bad reviews and troublemaking childhood
'My dad always said he was the charter member of the 3790 club - three sons, seven high schools, nine colleges, zero degrees,' he recalled.
'Which was actually pretty generous of my dad to put it like that because my brothers only went to one high school and college each.'
Both of Owen's brothers - Luke and Andrew Wilson - were in fact sitting in the audience and he pointed them out, garnering them a round of applause.
He also gamely looked back at some of the nastier notices he has gotten over the course of his career including one bon mot that went: 'Owen Wilson’s onscreen persona has all the ambition of an old golden retriever laying next to a fire.'
Remember when: 'My dad always said he was the charter member of the 3790 club - three sons, seven high schools, nine colleges, zero degrees,' he recalled
Game: 'Which was actually pretty generous of my dad to put it like that because my brothers only went to one high school and college each'
Family support: Both of Owen's brothers - Luke and Andrew Wilson - were in fact sitting in the audience and he pointed them out, garnering them a round of applause
Owen acknowledged that 'I probably have been guilty at times of coasting a little, taking my foot off the pedal but I’ll tell you what, when Daniel Day-Lewis retired and all that pressure landed on my shoulders, everything changed.'
He took the joke further, adding: 'And that’s when I knew I had to do Cars 3 and really that’s what tonight’s about.'
The Wedding Crashers star quipped: 'Is it the worst thing in the world being a golden retriever laying next to a fire? I mean I know everyone comes out here and says: "It’s gonna be a great show!" Is it? I don’t know! I mean I’m betting on it of course. I’ve been betting on a lot of things lately. I’ve got a little bit of a gambling problem.'
He suggested to the crowd that they 'put on your coziest flannel and maybe we just chill out for the next 90 minutes. Close your eyes, get comfy.'
He remembers: He also gamely looked back at some of the nastier notices he has gotten over the course of his career
'Close your eyes, get comfy': He suggested to the crowd that they 'put on your coziest flannel and maybe we just chill out for the next 90 minutes
Owen joked that he was told not to tell the audience to snooze through the program 'But also I’m not gonna stand here and tell people not to dream and in my America most people dream better with their eyes closed! Now come on, who’s with me? We have a great show for you tonight!'
The opening monologue was followed by a spoof of a recent episode of The View where hostesses Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro had to leave the set mid-episode after being diagnosed with COVID-19 - in what were later found to be false positives.
Cecily Strong, Ego Nwodim, Heidi Gardner and Aidy Bryant played the hostesses of a show called The Talking with Owen as the on-set doctor.
As the women tried to get through their topical segments - with Aidy constantly reminding the rest of how 'well-endowed' her husband is - Owen kept popping up.
