Bad Bunny stars in SNL's 'Inventing Spanish' sketch

Saturday Night Live opened Season 51 with a sketch called "Inventing Spanish," featuring host Bad Bunny and Marcello Hernández as two Iberians who unveil a new language to men struggling to grasp why Spanish nouns have genders. The sketch leans on playful examples: "Morning is a girl," says Bad Bunny's character, "La mañana." Hernández adds, "Yes, the morning is a girl because the morning is like, 'Heeey!'" Night is also a girl, the ocean is a boy — "the ocean is a boy because it's fun, but sometimes, for no reason, it kill you" — and other items follow similar, whimsical logic, with dress a boy and the Bible a girl.

Benicio del Toro appears as Hernández's cousin and introduces more rules: "We will do also 'formal' and 'informal,' like, 'you' or 'you,'" and asks, "What if the letter 'r' lasted a long time?" A Barcelona emissary played by Mikey Day protests, and the sketch quickly shows why some of these inventions are problematic.

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