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Parent Teacher Conference
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
A teacher and Principal Humboldt call in Michael's father over drawings that seem to show the boy attacking the principal. Once Marcus Seymour arrives, the principal falls for him on sight, swooning at his Spanish, angling to learn whether he is single and insisting that each grisly picture is really a compliment. While the exasperated teacher keeps pointing out the bats, beheadings and rockets, she tries to arrange more private meetings, until father and son leave and the teacher makes a confession of his own.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 4
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Marcus. Have you ever let anyone call you that before?
I think he's holding a ruler to measure me for a wedding dress.
Robert, this is a workplace.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Alison Gates
Writer
Allie Levitan
Writer
Kent Sublette
Writer
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Parent Teacher Conference finished as the second most-viewed Season 51 sketch on SNL's YouTube channel, with about 9.3 million views by late May 2026, and was described by Late Nighter as Ashley Padilla's first breakout role.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:02
Michael
Oh, this isn't fair. You really had to go and call my dad?
- 00:07
Robert
He needs to see these, Michael. Principal Humboldt and I are very concerned about your drawings.
- 00:12
Nancy Humboldt
These are disturbing and mostly threatening to me.
- 00:16
Michael
It's not a big deal.
- 00:18
Nancy Humboldt
Not a big deal? This could lead to serious consequences, suspension, maybe even expulsion.
- 00:24
Nancy Humboldt
Come in.
- 00:27
Marcus Seymour
Hello?
- 00:29
Nancy Humboldt
Hi.
- 00:53
Nancy Humboldt
gosh I haven't laughed that hard in a long time
- 00:59
Robert
right well thanks for coming in please have a seat
- 01:04
Marcus Seymour
thank you is everything okay
- 01:06
Nancy Humboldt
oh everything is fine mr. Seymour
- 01:10
Marcus Seymour
truly please you can call me mark
- 01:13
Nancy Humboldt
okay Marcus have you ever let anyone call you that before
- 01:21
Marcus Seymour
yes
- 01:23
Robert
yeah so your son did some drawings
- 01:29
Nancy Humboldt
oh yes um the drawings yes you know they're they're they're fine i um this is me and it looks like he's um putting a necklace on me or something right
- 01:43
Robert
no i don't think so i think it's pretty clearly that he's trying to chop your
- 01:48
Marcus Seymour
Oh, no, that's terrible.
- 01:51
Oh.
- 01:56
Nancy Humboldt
Oh, my gosh. I just... I love your language. Oh, that gave me chills. What is that?
- 02:08
Marcus Seymour
It's Spanish.
- 02:11
Nancy Humboldt
It's beautiful.
- 02:12
Marcus Seymour
Okay, is that the only drawing that Michael did?
- 02:17
Nancy Humboldt
uh i think so yeah
- 02:19
Robert
actually no there's definitely more okay like uh this one right here
- 02:23
Nancy Humboldt
okay yeah um this one this one is interesting me again lucky girl and the school saw some sort of imminent beating with a bat but correct me if i'm wrong i think he's holding a ruler to measure me for or a wedding dress. Because I'm single. Nobody ever had the balls.
- 02:49
Michael
No, it's a bat.
- 02:51
Nancy Humboldt
I love it. Before we continue, is there a Mrs. Seymour?
- 02:58
Marcus Seymour
No, she left us.
- 03:01
Nancy Humboldt
Bitch?
- 03:04
Marcus Seymour
No, like, she died.
- 03:14
Nancy Humboldt
Then the bitch is I.
- 03:15
Robert
Okay, let's, uh, let's get back to the drawings, please. Look, to me, this drawing, this picture, it seems like he's trying to express himself.
- 03:27
Nancy Humboldt
I couldn't agree more. Hell, some of these are just downright beautiful. I mean, okay. I didn't even see this one. Look at me. Flying around, big old rocket out of my butt. And am I wearing some little leash? Okay, everyone write down your sizes. I'm making shirts.
- 03:46
Marcus Seymour
Okay. Well, I'm a medium, so...
- 03:48
Robert
We're not doing that! We need to show these to a therapist.
- 03:52
Nancy Humboldt
I agree.
- 03:54
Robert
Okay. All right.
- 03:55
Nancy Humboldt
Well, how about this, okay? What about... if you ever have any concerns, you just call me? Or just come over? And listen, I'm not one of those, what are we? Girls are the worst.
- 04:12
Michael
Oh, my God. Can we go home?
- 04:16
Marcus Seymour
That's a great idea. Uh, thank you both. Come on.
- 04:21
Nancy Humboldt
Okay. Talk to you soon.
- 04:23
I said, we'll get inside.
- 04:25
Robert
Well, um, for what it's worth, I am in love with you.
- 04:30
Nancy Humboldt
Robert, this is a workplace.
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