SNL Sketch Imagines Multiple Stranger Things Spinoffs

Nbc reports that, weeks after the series finale, Saturday Night Live's "Stranger Things Promo" sketch imagined several comedic spinoffs of Stranger Things. The sketch, which starred host Finn Wolfhard alongside his actual Stranger Things castmates Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin, opens with an announcer (James Austin Johnson) saying, "So Stranger Things is back!

With sequels, prequels, requels, and spinoffs." Among the mock series: Steve Harrington heads a show called Strangerous Minds as an inner-city teacher, with Steve (Andrew Dismukes) saying, "Think I don't know what it's like to be a teenager?" and, "I was 17 for ten years!" The Wheeler Report sends Nancy (Chloe Fineman) reporting '90s stories from the backseat of a police car; Mike in Manhattan imagines Mike Wheeler as a Carrie Bradshaw‑type narrator, "And just like that, I was in a new Upside Down: New York," adding, "And it doesn't take a hive mind to realize when you've dated an Eleven, even 10s fall short." The sketch also teases Dustin and Lucas with a show called Cosmos and a side series, Stranger Things: Oops!

All Mike's Dad, featuring Ted Wheeler (Mikey Day) oblivious as monsters roam outside. The sketch was written by Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell and aired as part of Season 51, Episode 10; the episode and the sketch are available to stream on Peacock.

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