Watch “Saturday Night Live”'s cut Menendez brothers controversial Halloween costumes sketch: 'Kiss each other again!'
"Again?"
The Menendez brothers are having a moment. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is up for debate, but we can almost all agree that it is, at least, a hot thing.
Ryan Murphy's Menendez limited series, Monsters, as well as a new documentary on the siblings (both from Netflix) have recast the pair in a different light. A sexy one. On this week's Saturday Night Live, a sketch cut for time addresses that Menendez appeal.
During Weekend Update, Michael Longfellow and Marcello Hernandez are "Two Guys Dressed as Doctors for Halloween," though they keep getting mistaken for Erik and Lyle Menendez, the brothers convicted in 1996 of killing their parents.
"We thought people would see two doctors and start banging pots and pans together for us, like during the pandemic," Longfellow says.
"Instead," Hernandez continues, "people keep yelling things like, 'You're innocent!' and 'You're so hot!'"
"And also, 'Kiss each other again!'" Longfellow adds.
"Again?" Weekend Update cohost Colin Jost asks, with Longfellow noting that it's something that happens in the limited series. And boy, does it.
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Monsters has not been without its controversies, however. Erik Menendez criticized Murphy's portrayal of him and his brother, and particularly the show's depiction of sexual abuse, writing in a statement, "I believe Ryan Murphy cannot be this naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives so as to do this without bad intent.... Murphy shapes his horrible narrative through vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander."
Still, renewed attention on the Menendez brothers and new evidence in their case has strengthened calls for their release, including from reality superstar and prison-reform advocate Kim Kardashian. And according to Hernandez, Murphy's show and TikTok, where the brothers' '80s luxe aesthetic has taken hold, have made the Menendez brothers "sex symbols." Also not hurting, star Cooper Koch's full frontal nude scene, which did not require a prosthetic penis, he revealed to Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live.
Since realizing that people are far more into the Menendez brothers than they are doctors, Longfellow and Hernandez say they've been just going with it, despite the fact that Longfellow is not Hispanic...and that they both might be descended from Nazis? But that's neither here nor there. Let's hope.
Check out the sketch below.
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