A Helping Hand

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When a lonely elderly woman befriends her helpful young neighbor, she repays his kindness with increasingly violent acts of revenge against his bullies - and that's just the beginning.
Christmas
Dark Comedy
Suburban Home
Elderly
Revenge
Pretape
Physical Comedy
Neighbors

Kindness, pass it on.
Teddy's no rat.

In this pre-taped holiday sketch, an elderly woman (Melissa McCarthy) struggles to shovel snow off her front yard when her young neighbor boy Teddy sees her through the window and kindly helps her. When she witnesses a bully (Marcello Hernandez) knock over Teddy's snowman, she takes matters into her own hands. Instead of rebuilding the snowman, she ties up, blindfolds, and strips the bully, leaving him on Teddy's lawn with a bullseye painted on his stomach alongside a dozen snowballs for Teddy to throw. The escalation continues as McCarthy offers increasingly inappropriate "help" - giving Teddy a gun after he gets pelted with snowballs, and offering to get him hookers when he's rejected by a female classmate. The sketch culminates in a dark twist ending where Teddy helps the woman get away with the murder of her own mother, reinforcing the message: "Kindness, pass it on." A darkly comedic play on saccharine holiday-themed ads, the sketch subverts wholesome neighbor-helping-neighbor tropes with increasingly violent and absurd acts of "kindness."

Part of Melissa McCarthy's sixth time hosting SNL. Pre-taped/Filmed sketch. Widely praised as one of the standout moments of Season 51. Duration: 4:14. YouTube: 1,814,155 views, 41,440 likes as of December 7, 2025.
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