Love it or hate it, the ‘SNL’ version of the ‘Stranger Things’ secret ending probably isn’t far off from what it’d actually be like.<\/b>
\nWeeks after the Stranger Things finale and the furor over a true finale that must secretly exist, both were the subject of a Saturday Night Live sketch.
With Finn Wolfhard hosting for the post-holidays return, the comedy show took time to poke fun at the Netflix show, with Wolfhard and co-stars Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin also popping in throughout the sketch and reprising their roles. With \u201calmost all the main kids back,\u201d the trio find themselves in Iceland where Mike thinks Eleven wound up after defeating Vecna. Sure enough, they find her, and the reveal of who plays her is pretty funny.
Before that, the sketch takes jabs at Netflix\u2019s efforts to franchise out Stranger Things\u2014\u201dThis is our Star Wars\u201d feels both dead on and maybe a bit too charitable a read\u2014with a number of \u201csequels, prequels, requels, and spinoffs.\u201d Some concepts poke fun at the show\u2019s long life and characters, others on 90s life or popular tropes and TV. (Mike, Lucas, and Dustin in a Sex & the City-alike is maybe the funniest gag spinoff here.) As for why Will\u2019s not in any of these? He\u2019s still coming out to the cast, so it\u2019ll be a while before he catches up with old friends.
Stranger Things has been the subject of a few SNL sketches in the past, with one poking fun at the lack of Lucas\u2019 parents in season one and another \u201cpreviewing\u201d the then-upcoming third season. During his opening monologue, Wolfhard also took the time to fire off a couple jokes about the show\u2019s end, some at his own expense like his first kiss and having \u201c400 million [getting to] watch me go through puberty.\u201d McLaughlin and Matarazzo also popped in for that, with all of them celebrating being all grown up.<\/p>\n