What was with the Freakier Friday vibe of last weekend’s episode? During Weekend Update, Jost, reporting on the Israel-Palestinian peace deal and the deployment of the National Guard to Chicago, said that President Trump had “Freaky Friday-ed Chicago and Gaza.” And these two sketches also featured parents and children who had essentially switched roles.

In Emo Mom, Poehler’s the groan prone, two-tone-haired, lip-ringed and baggy-clothed mother with body issues. When her children, Chloe Fineman and Jeremy Culhane, present her with a book on perimenopause, When Your Period Becomes a Comma, Poehler explodes, prompting her husband, James Austin Johnson, to say, “Kids, your mom’s changing body is between her and the girl at Claire’s who pierced her areolas.”

Another big laugh comes when Poehler whines “I don’t need this attitude at home. Did it ever occur to you that I’m getting bullied at school?” and Culhane replies, “You’re the superintendent!” Then emo teens are invited in to mosh. These days, dancing in an SNL sketch is a signal that it’s drawing to a close. (See: Theme Songs Masterclass.) One beat more and it does. 

The Rudemans are freakier. Andrew Dismukes and Ashley Padilla play a young couple meeting the latter’s parents (Yang and Poehler), grandmother (Sherman) and brother (Mikey Day). “They can seem a little cold at first,” Padilla warns. Yep, the fam are practitioners of the Gen Z stare and the linguistic tics that come with it: “I mean, what?”, “random  “anyways, yeah” and “so that just happened” pepper the sketch, moving Dismukes to ask Padilla, “Why do they all talk like they’re a cashier at Buffalo Exchange?” Bullseye! The cold snap is broken when Sherman does a face plant with a massive bowl of queso dip. Slapstick violence ensues. At least there’s no dancing.