As a first-time ‚Saturday Night Live‘ host, Jenna Ortega joined forces with fellow ‚Wednesday‘ actor Fred Armisen for a hilarious ‚Parent Trap‘ sketch.<\/b>
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Jenna Ortega and Fred Armisen are, like, twins!
One episode of playing Addams family members on Wednesday wasn\u2019t enough for Jenna Ortega and Fred Armisen. When the breakout star hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time on March 11, her TV uncle not only supported her from the audience, he also joined her in a sketch as another onscreen relative. This time, Armisen \u2014 a longtime SNL vet \u2014 stood in as Ortega\u2019s twin sister as they worked on a \u201cremake\u201d of The Parent Trap.
The hilarious SNL sketch features Ortega as the star of a new Parent Trap by Bowen Yang\u2019s director character. Like Hayley Mills and Lindsay Lohan before her, Ortega\u2019s character is meant to play both twins. She\u2019s ready to go, but her body double is out sick, so they get one of the \u201ccrew guys\u201d to read with her. Armisen comes in as the guy in question, Ray, whose recollection of the script is so-so at best. And the changes he makes? Well, they\u2019re not so in line with the movie\u2019s family-friendly vibe.
\u201cYou are so annoying,\u201d Ortega tells him as they film a scene in the cabin where the \u201ctwins\u201d are battling over whether to turn the lights out for the night or not. Going \u201coff the cuff,\u201d he retorts, \u201cAnd I\u2019m starting to think you\u2019re a real b*tch!\u201d From there, Ray\u2019s additions only get more inappropriate, like when he says he\u2019d let Lisa Rinna \u201cwreck\u201d him and later gets the wrong idea when Ortega says \u201cwhole picture.\u201d
Armisen was only in one episode of Wednesday Season 1 as Uncle Fester, so it was nice to see him share another scene with Ortega. On Twitter, a fan joked that the sketch showed Uncle Fester and his niece \u201cin a parallel universe.\u201d For other viewers, the SNL sketch helped them finally place the man who played Wednesday\u2019s hairless uncle. \u201cTHATS [sic] who Uncle Fester was,\u201d one tweeted with a face-palm GIF. Another called it \u201ca bit of a shocker\u201d as they \u201cactually didn\u2019t recognize him\u201d on the Netflix show.
Fans also appreciated seeing some of the updates SNL made to The Parent Trap. The sketch\u2019s version was inspired by the 1998 version starring Lohan, but there were very clear traces of 2023. For example, the twins\u2019 cabin wall decor features Olivia Rodrigo, Lizzo, BTS, Harry Styles, Lil Nas X, and more. On top of that, the photo of their parents reveals Leslie Mann and Ed Helms, not Natasha Richardson and Dennis Quaid.
Beyond SNL, it remains to be seen when Ortega and Armisen will work together again. Wednesday Season 2 has been confirmed, but so far the cast hasn\u2019t been announced. Here\u2019s hoping Uncle Fester returns for his niece\u2019s next creepy, kooky adventure.<\/p>\n