I love how Pongo is just terrifying but ultimately just innocent and a good boy. Also, the sheer look of trauma and horror on the poor boy's face after hearing Grandma's sins...
@@DatCartoonistGuy okay but real quick is there an actual scene you're referring to or are you just joking? Cause I looked and I can't find anyplace his expression changes lol
"Pongo (c) is a sentient, featureless mound incapable of feeling or emoting, any perception of emotion is purely a projection of the user and is not the liability of the Pongo (c) Corporation, use at your own risk." (3:39)
One of my favorite things about this is that it’s a Sarah sketch where Sarah isn’t the weird thing that’s happening, she’s reacting to it instead. Of course she’s great at the weird stuff but she really shines in this sketch without being the weird one.
She is such a great foil in a straight woman routine. I'd watch her in a movie if it was just her being normal reacting to an increasingly insane world.
Now I'm imagining Pongo at the grandma's funeral. He's not supposed to have emotions, but she was nice and told funny stories about killing her third husband. And now she's gone. Pongo, still staring, still smiling, feels a single tear trickle down his face.
@@billzsigray1504I like their writing. The bit about killing the 3rd husband snuck up on me in a cute way and they were p effective and not too long on the whole bit, unlike snl usually is, and the choice to focus on the grandma was wise. Additionally, I read this right after the thing ended which was when I paused to read the disclaimer about Pongo and emotional projection so I found refocusing on pongo’s mental state to be extra humourous My Biggest thing tho is why use that insult in the comment section of an actually good snl sketch, just kinda makes you material feel a lot more mushy
Ah, just like the "Tiny Horse" sketches (the original one and the one that, for some reason, is a better dystopian sci-fi space military adventure than whatever is currently out in that genre).
I kinda want a Pongo now, and I think you can hear the audience echo the same sentiment. Like "we know we're supposed to laugh at how creepy this is, but where can I buy one".
Love the twist ending. Was expecting it to go super dark and Pongo like shove her in the hole or something but great way to reverse expectations with a callback.
The entire family has been converted by the sinister inhuman pull of Pongo. The one holdout, the mother, with enough will to put up a fight, was still, in the end, helpless to resist Pongo's senseless, brain-melting stare and succumbed, with just a single touch of his smooth paw. The world beyond the suburban gate is next, and the universe beyond. I think the ending was pretty fucking dark.
At 1:07 when you see the very faint red veins around the outside edges of Pongo's eyes... that's when you know. Okay, it's SNL you know from the start, but when you see those tiny blood vessels, that's when you know for sure.
The people at snl have succeeded with pongo now I want there to be plushes cups plushes plates posters shirts and jackets of pongo I loved this joke and pongo is the perfect character I hope he gets a 2nd snl skit
The more Sarah dials back the funny, and tries to act like a real (or crazy) person, the funnier she is. Some of the funniest sketches include an actor/actress acting as serious and real as they can. People like Woody Harrelson and Adam Driver do this really well.
Pity the poor artist doing roto work on the shot at 1:44, yelling “but you had a model made, why couldn’t she be stroking that?!” at the heavens for multiple hours.
3:39 The Warning label at the end thou 🤣🤣 _"Pongo is a sentient, featureless mound incapable of feeling or emoting. Any perception of emotion is purely a projection of the user (...)"_
I saw a robot dog decades ago. It did some pretty impressive dog like moves. Then I realized, after watching him for a few minutes, that it was the same stuff over and over and that was all that he did.
I love that Sarah is being given the freedom to realize her "comedy/horror" ideas. She's becoming the new maven of snl digital shorts! Surely no one reads the comments or looks for ideas here... But I'd love to start seeing some of the scenarios she set up evolve and come back. I just rewatched Meatballs and thought it'd be hilarious to make a sequel where meatballs have become a global pandemic or a required sex Ed film in schools.. Etc. Just an idea that you're probably already working on... Anyhow! Love Sarah and glad she's found folks at snl that indulge/produce her wild ideas!
@batgurrl Look. People are allowed to not like things are not be impressed by second rate skits. Or differ with your opinion. To suggest otherwise makes you juevenile.
@@mikedemirdjian9976 so true but unfortunately, except for cold opens, many, many sketches are second rate for years. Even Starting with Season 1, Episode 1, which i watched as a teen, in an hour and a half there were always a couple of second rate sketches. Especially the SNL muppets. Painful to watch
I can't wait to see Sarah Sherman get all the success in the world. She is such a joy to watch!! INSTANT hit from her first sketch! It was the meatball one, right? I think... 😂
Sarah was fantastic in this! In the sketches she stars in, she usually plays a very absurd character surrounded by normal people, here, it's reversed, and she is the (relatively) normal one surrounded by people acting absurdly. It's a great flip that works well for her!
@@davideber3367if it makes you feel better the results look better than Black Panther 😭 Actually for what it is it looks great man. Great job. Was she just holding nothing or was something there? Kinda looks like nothing.
When Pongo gazes into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into Pongo
The spider walk sound effects...
Pongo running like a spider was WAY funnier than it should’ve been.
That was my favorite part. Especially the eerie sound that played😂
The fact that his legs moved so fast made it funny
How funny should it have been?
I'm not sure I love that...
that thing is creepy as hell
I love it when SNL sketches start as wholesome and then turn sinister outta nowhere lol
Hell yeah!! I love that too.
That's why the Totino's Pizza Roll commercial is my favorite lol
@@TheCongrayes I came to comment about Totino lol
One of my favorites is the "It's like pizza." Skit. This kind of reminded me of it with how absurd it was.
Lol 😂
I love how Pongo is just terrifying but ultimately just innocent and a good boy.
Also, the sheer look of trauma and horror on the poor boy's face after hearing Grandma's sins...
Any perception of emotion is purely a projection of the user and is not a liability of the Pongo© Corporation.
@@paulmag91 ...no, I saw Pongo's face. That was a traumatized boi, and I want therapy for the baby.
Pongo has no gender, Pongo just IS.
@vietumy7024 Pongo does not need the y chromosome to be a good boi. They just is good boi.
@@DatCartoonistGuy okay but real quick is there an actual scene you're referring to or are you just joking? Cause I looked and I can't find anyplace his expression changes lol
The “Like a Spider!” line delivery KILLED me 😂😂😂
Best part!🤣
Who hates that part 😂
1:20
It gives out that creepy "Almost Pizza" scorpion scurry vibe!
It's delivered so whimsically but the visual is kinda horrifying- 😂
“ we got him 36 hours ago!” Had me dying 😂
That’s my favorite too!😂😂
You can’t have Kate play an old lady without her threatening to murder someone. 😂
No-ponG!
Suspiciously accurate.
You can't have Kate without her threatening to murder someone.
Really your doing that here of all places, I can’t get rid of you people
@@kylebrumbalow1370 starting to think it might be a false flag operation
"Pongo (c) is a sentient, featureless mound incapable of feeling or emoting, any perception of emotion is purely a projection of the user and is not the liability of the Pongo (c) Corporation, use at your own risk." (3:39)
...sentient means able to feel things tho
But his tail wags, that means he must be able to feel something.
@@thepinkestpigglet7529 maybe it just reacts to its surrounding/environment. (like an AI), not like an emotional being :D
That word is cognizant @@DramaticCrossroad
Sarah was awesome in this. The paw pay- off was timed so well.
Kate McKinnon killed her part but the rest weren’t funny. I hate when they center cast when they have a super talented guest.
She did the most lmaoo 😂😂
She’s just the best.
I guess that's why they had to centre the cast this week@@jakestroll6518
I was about to type the same thing in different words 😂
One of my favorite things about this is that it’s a Sarah sketch where Sarah isn’t the weird thing that’s happening, she’s reacting to it instead.
Of course she’s great at the weird stuff but she really shines in this sketch without being the weird one.
Sarah has one of the wackiest energy irl and its always funny when she plays the normal mom with a bad wig.
She was great in this!
She is such a great foil in a straight woman routine. I'd watch her in a movie if it was just her being normal reacting to an increasingly insane world.
Love that Kate got to bust out her old lady for this sketch.
Yeah, I agree. She definitely nails every old lady she plays.
@@ramirezproductions0826No pun intended. 😉
That could mean a few different things. And all quite amusing.
@@rubert134 You know when you reply to someone who replied to a comment, you have to click reply on the reply, not the comment right?
@@tastytizzler1383 Cool story bro.
Now I'm imagining Pongo at the grandma's funeral. He's not supposed to have emotions, but she was nice and told funny stories about killing her third husband. And now she's gone. Pongo, still staring, still smiling, feels a single tear trickle down his face.
you’re nearly a bad enough writer to work at SNL
Awww poor Pongo 🥺😂
@@billzsigray1504I like their writing. The bit about killing the 3rd husband snuck up on me in a cute way and they were p effective and not too long on the whole bit, unlike snl usually is, and the choice to focus on the grandma was wise. Additionally, I read this right after the thing ended which was when I paused to read the disclaimer about Pongo and emotional projection so I found refocusing on pongo’s mental state to be extra humourous My Biggest thing tho is why use that insult in the comment section of an actually good snl sketch, just kinda makes you material feel a lot more mushy
This is definitely the work of Sarah Sherman
This feels more like Heather Anne Campbell to me.
RIGHT 😂
so far it's the only sarah sherman skit i've actually liked her in. but mostly i liked pongo.
@@dietotaku you didn't like her as Fran Drescher?
I loved the meatball sketch with her and Chris Redd. Right amount of silly and random
This skit is amazing, and Sarah’s acting is so great in this.
The slow building horror from the “he… can’t die?” To “this is insane!” Was so great!
You just know the graphics department had not slept for three days straight to model and animate that claymation in time for the show.
Ah, just like the "Tiny Horse" sketches (the original one and the one that, for some reason, is a better dystopian sci-fi space military adventure than whatever is currently out in that genre).
It’s CG
@@space__idklmaostill didn’t sleep for three days lol
They took the model from the tbh/autism creature lol
Animate?
The way Mom went off on the family and said the father "was too cheap to buy a dog!" 😂😂😂
Pet ownership be pricy!
@geoffoldread7684 lol it do be though! 🤣
I kinda want a Pongo now, and I think you can hear the audience echo the same sentiment. Like "we know we're supposed to laugh at how creepy this is, but where can I buy one".
If some toy company is smart, they will license and make one... ;-P
i have 3 real dogs and am very disappointed that they don't make squeaky noises when they give me their paw
My dog's name is Pongo and he's not silent lol
I want one too. If Sarah is smart Pongo will be in time for next Xmas. Changing my dogs name to Pongo. Lol
Yeah I'm with the audience as I want a Pongo for myself too
2:39 was a cool camera angle transition 👍🤩
The right balances of weird ,and cute. Easily my favorite sketch of the night 😂.
Agreed!
I am your 666th like.
The sketch's tone reminds me very much of a Bill Hader sketch that was cut for time, The Alan. Although, that one just gets darker.
The Sarah Sherman sketch is without fail the most deranged of the week every week, and I'm always looking forward to it!
Love the twist ending. Was expecting it to go super dark and Pongo like shove her in the hole or something but great way to reverse expectations with a callback.
The entire family has been converted by the sinister inhuman pull of Pongo. The one holdout, the mother, with enough will to put up a fight, was still, in the end, helpless to resist Pongo's senseless, brain-melting stare and succumbed, with just a single touch of his smooth paw. The world beyond the suburban gate is next, and the universe beyond. I think the ending was pretty fucking dark.
you could tell that's the direction they were going when she held her hand out like that
@@terracottapiesounds pretty kinky actually
I figured she'd succeed and bury him but then she'd snap when, somehow, Pongo is standing there in the house waiting for her, completely unharmed.
Kate is a legend, Chloe is so talented, and Sarah is iconic in her concepts and wackiness. I love these actresses featuring their work on SNL!
The pongo looks like that yippie meme but instead it's orange
Pongo is just the right amount of creepy I need in a pet. And no holes and always moist are the features people really want.
Absolute gold. One of the best SNL shorts in a long time. And hats off to Sarah for being her usual brilliant self.
Tf you talking about
This is absolute goo to you?
At 1:07 when you see the very faint red veins around the outside edges of Pongo's eyes... that's when you know. Okay, it's SNL you know from the start, but when you see those tiny blood vessels, that's when you know for sure.
Him running like a spider was both creepy and hilarious at the same time.
At 3:05 she sounds like Joan Cusak who played Debbie in Addams Family Values
Yay!!! You too?… my ears weren’t deceiving me 👍
1:37 Schrödinger's Pongo
The people at snl have succeeded with pongo now I want there to be plushes cups plushes plates posters shirts and jackets of pongo I loved this joke and pongo is the perfect character I hope he gets a 2nd snl skit
PONGO better than an Easter chick.
props to the CG team who had to place Pongo out of thin air
The guy’s name is @super_fresh
Yes.
"Pongo is neither alive or dead! He just is!"
*PONGO IS.*
*PONGO IS.*
This has Happy Fun Ball written all over it and I love it.
I instantly thought of that the second I saw Pongo
Do not taunt Pongo
Sara Sherman sketches always stand out!
yeah, just usually in a bad way
@@dietotakuchoke on your body pillow
I love how the sketch started off so lighthearted and it took such a dark turn with the mom. Definitely a favorite!
I sense an instant holiday classic movie coming along soon. Bring on the Pongo
1:02 Absolutely LOST it the first time Pongo stuck his paw out
Sherman is freakin hilarious lol great actor too.
The more Sarah dials back the funny, and tries to act like a real (or crazy) person, the funnier she is. Some of the funniest sketches include an actor/actress acting as serious and real as they can. People like Woody Harrelson and Adam Driver do this really well.
very this. i seriously dislike her extremely oddball skits but this was actually relatable and funny
This is one of the best skits. That crazy Pongo is makin' me laugh & creepin' me tfo at the same time.
2:58 - *WE GOT HIM 36 HRS AGO!*
Me: December 26th, 9pm.
*Law and Order Sound
Pity the poor artist doing roto work on the shot at 1:44, yelling “but you had a model made, why couldn’t she be stroking that?!” at the heavens for multiple hours.
I can't stop laughing!! The randomness of this sketch is the best.
I love that they didn’t make Pongo secretly some malevolent gremlin. He’s perfectly harmless, but just… really creepy.
Appreciate the cinematography angles in this skit, all so well considered
I want a Pongo now it's so weirdly cute I can't explain I just love it XD ❤
same! he's just a little guy
Pongo looks like something out of a mascot horror game
3:39 The Warning label at the end thou 🤣🤣 _"Pongo is a sentient, featureless mound incapable of feeling or emoting. Any perception of emotion is purely a projection of the user (...)"_
I LOL'd at multiple points. SNL's advertisement parodies always get me. (Lexus December to Remember, Colon Blow, etc)
Target and Macy’s narrated by Cecily.
Sarah's breakdown at the end gave me huge Joan Cusack "Debbie" from "Addams Family Values" vibes.
I saw a robot dog decades ago. It did some pretty impressive dog like moves. Then I realized, after watching him for a few minutes, that it was the same stuff over and over and that was all that he did.
I love that Sarah is being given the freedom to realize her "comedy/horror" ideas. She's becoming the new maven of snl digital shorts!
Surely no one reads the comments or looks for ideas here... But I'd love to start seeing some of the scenarios she set up evolve and come back. I just rewatched Meatballs and thought it'd be hilarious to make a sequel where meatballs have become a global pandemic or a required sex Ed film in schools.. Etc. Just an idea that you're probably already working on...
Anyhow! Love Sarah and glad she's found folks at snl that indulge/produce her wild ideas!
I didn't care for the meatballs one, but your suggestions do sound pretty funny.
Sarah and Kate are so good at horror ❤ 😂
Ok, the ending with the random paw was hilarious.
Legend says, if you keep your Happy Fun Ball in a warm place for three months, you can hatch your own baby Pongo!
Sarah Sherman makes me laugh all the time, and that's what I like about her! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love pongo and his little squeaks oh my gosh
Pongo is hilarious- he just sits there - comic genius
Really genius?..
@@dogdaddave okay hater, whatever you say
And runs through your house silently.
@batgurrl Look. People are allowed to not like things are not be impressed by second rate skits.
Or differ with your opinion. To suggest otherwise makes you juevenile.
@@mikedemirdjian9976 so true but unfortunately, except for cold opens, many, many sketches are second rate for years. Even Starting with Season 1, Episode 1, which i watched as a teen, in an hour and a half there were always a couple of second rate sketches. Especially the SNL muppets. Painful to watch
Absolutely love the twist from ad to horror sketch. Hilarious! 😂
I can't wait to see Sarah Sherman get all the success in the world. She is such a joy to watch!! INSTANT hit from her first sketch! It was the meatball one, right? I think... 😂
What about the stool sample one?? The title was Mail-In Testing Service.
@@dbadagnaICONIC!!!
I would love to have Pongo as a pet. ❤
It's like a weekly dose of Sarah's weirdness and we'r here for it
Sarah was fantastic in this! In the sketches she stars in, she usually plays a very absurd character surrounded by normal people, here, it's reversed, and she is the (relatively) normal one surrounded by people acting absurdly. It's a great flip that works well for her!
Pongo removed my kidneys and I don’t even mind
I woke up in an ice-filled bathtub without my kidneys... and there was Pongo.... ;-P
Oh Pongo giving her the paw is hilarious man. Mom's screaming in fear while the family cheers. Too good
If you mix a chainsaw with Pongo, you got yourself the chainsaw devil dog from Chainsaw Man!
His name is Pochita.
Pongo doesn't make any noise...
Proceeds to squeak! LOL
He's like that robotic seal toy for old people from Master of None.
As someone who’s watched some of Sarah Sherman’s creepy work, this was definitely her behind this skit 😭💀
Pongo is absolutely an SCP
This needs to be canon in the SCP universe
@JustK4Y1512Unreleased toy by Dr. Wondertainment
Man if only I had Pongo, he’s the best thing ever
Sarah Sherman looks amazing in a bathrobe & silk pajamas 👘🙌
Yeeeeaaaaahhh Boyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!
thanks for this USELESS info
Sarah in silk gave me a chubby... ;-P
@@galatasaray984 No problem, person who likes to complain about everything.
@@galatasaray984 I found it very insightful.
Kate McKinnon with the gun got me so hard!!!😭😭😂😂
As soon as Pongos start popping up on online stores, I'm getting one.
😂 Diane, ...why are you digging a Pongo-sized hole?? 😂😂😂
Me: Mom, can we have Pochita?
Mom: we have Pochita at home.
Pochita at home:
either way it listens to your secrets and doesn't die
Whoever wrote this one, keep letting them because these ones are gold!
Existential SNL shorts are always the best! xD
Pongo isn't alive or dead? So it's basically Schrodinger's cat?
1:23 for some reason that gave me some Child’s Play vibes 😂😂
You're not alone in that. My brain was definitely thinkin Chucky the whole time👀
pongo is really cute, i kinda want one lmao. the way he scuttles across the floor like a spider obliterated me 😂
Sara Sherman is a star, just been sooo awesome to watch her performances ever since she joined ^^
Sarah is amazing and is the weirdness that SNL has lacked for so long! ❤️
The family didn't waste any time giving an answer to the mom's ultimatum. 😄
Him running is so hilarious 😂
Just when I think it's not funny anymore, out comes Pongo❤😂
I couldn't stop laughing 😂
1:13 that was terrifying! heheh
I thought it was cute whenever pongo squeaked
I was dying from, "He's got like, no holes!"
Better than most movie trailers
Trailer people love to find a sound effect and just repeat it throughout, so I guess they would choose Pongo's squeak.
Comes with a free Happy Fun Ball!
Ive been watching this from the moment it premiered. I can't stop.
Still watching.
Still watching.
Still watching.
Still watching.
"A thousand times Pongo"😂🤣😂🤣
My first dog was named Pongo... Miss him he was a good boy
I love, that Pongo can’t die he just is, like what the hell does that mean?
It’s the Yippe creature, just orange
Graaahh I love the squeak sound effects whenever someone picks up pongo it’s oddly enough super adorable 🥺
This would actually make such a good horror movie ngl
🎯
Pongo a crackhead .. 😂💀🧡
1:31 that must've been a nightmare to comp in 4 days
The comp only happens in 1 day since the shoot doesn’t happen until Friday
But yes 🫠
@@davideber3367if it makes you feel better the results look better than Black Panther 😭
Actually for what it is it looks great man. Great job. Was she just holding nothing or was something there? Kinda looks like nothing.