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Lonely Christmas
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A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Framed as a tearjerking holiday commercial, the sketch follows Julie, a teenager in a cozy family apartment, who spots her elderly neighbor Barbara alone in a window across the way and invites her to Christmas dinner by holding up handwritten notepad signs. The warm exchange sours as Barbara's signs ask who else will be there, dismiss her own family over their politics and introduce Rutger, the unsettling grown son she says she cannot leave alone and keeps on his medicine. Julie's attempts to back out politely go nowhere, Barbara flashes her while deciding what to wear, and the spot finally reveals itself as an ad for the neighborhood app Nextdoor, urging viewers to get to know their neighbors before loving them.
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Highly quotable.
Cherish them. My family are all dead.
They voted for a woman president. Disgraceful.
This holiday season, know thy neighbor before you love them.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
SNL Archives lists the broadcast soundtrack as Slow Moving Millie's cover of The Smiths' "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want", the version previously used in a John Lewis Christmas advert; the official YouTube upload carries a different song. The sketch aired in the episode that marked Kate McKinnon's return to Saturday Night Live for season 47.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:08
Dad
Dinner in ten minutes, Julie.
- 00:10
Julie
Okay, Dad.
- 00:12
Oh,
- 00:25
Speaker 1
hey how you doing how have you been since you last hit this?
- 00:41
Julie
Mom, can I have a friend over for Christmas dinner?
- 00:44
Speaker 2
Of course, sweetie. The more, the merrier.
- 00:53
Speaker 1
It's off.
- 00:54
Speaker 1
We've waited here all year.
- 01:04
Speaker 1
Ain't you here?
- 01:06
Speaker 1
It's
- 01:41
Speaker 1
off. Cause
- 02:08
Speaker 1
we do this all the time.
- 02:09
Julie
Oh, my God.
- 02:33
Julie
Mom it might be I'm two friends, actually.
- 02:53
Speaker 1
We've gone too long without the suns And bounced off festive trees
- 03:03
Speaker 1
Christmas time you'll always find
- 03:06
Julie
Rutger Ziff
- 03:09
Julie
She's making Rutgers zipper.
- 03:12
Oh, dude.
- 03:15
Speaker 1
to give and believe we've not seen too much of peace and love since you last took your leave
- 03:29
Speaker 1
Good goodwill's got in the habit of trying to disappear the
- 04:00
Julie
mom don't get the door
- 04:01
Speaker 3
the next door this holiday season know thy neighbor before you love them
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