Ryan Gosling Is the Emo Triplet in SNL's 'The Fliplets' Sketch

In Season 43 of Saturday Night Live, Ryan Gosling stars as Tristan, the odd third member of a triplet in the sketch "The Fliplets." Tristan's brothers Pete (Mikey Day) and Zeke (Alex Moffat) are expert house flippers, while Tristan — who went to live with their dad after their parents' divorce — brings a darker emotional thread to the promo.

Gosling's full-throttle performance signaled the kind of commitment he was expected to bring when he returned for his fourth turn as host on March 7. During the sketch Pete quips, "This guy does all the manual labor — which, according to my calculations, makes me the smart one," and Zeke shoots back, "Oh please.

You couldn't drive a nail if it had a steering wheel on it." Tristan, however, steers the conversation into therapy territory: "I don't think they ever fully grieved the death of our family," he offers, then delivers a surreal childhood memory that ends, "I was reborn as the lizard I was destined to become." "The Fliplets" was the first sketch written by Andrew Dismukes to air on SNL.

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