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SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Presented as a trailer for a teen romance, Stella (Taylor Swift) arrives at a new school and is drawn to Phillip Frank (Bill Hader), a green-skinned loner from the clannish Franks. Seated beside him in science class, she pieces together his neck bolts and fear of fire and gets him to admit he is Frankenstein. Phillip warns that his kisses tend to end in accidental strangulation, an officer in the woods reports a blind man found choked, and the bandaged Lomax cautions her about the family, but Stella pledges herself to Phillip anyway until his embrace starts choking her too.
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Highly quotable.
Because when I kiss people, I tend to accidentally choke them to death.
I do believe I'm going to strangle someone by accident.
You're choking me. Sorry. It's an accident.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Seth Meyers
Writer
Akiva Schaffer
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Taylor Swift was both host and musical guest of this episode. The trailer's "On November 20" card matches the theatrical opening of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which arrived two weeks after the broadcast.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:13
Stella
who's that
- 00:14
Jenny Slate
who him
- 00:16
Stella
no them
- 00:20
Nasim Pedrad
those are the franks they don't hang out with anyone else
- 00:26
Stella
he's cute
- 00:32
Nasim Pedrad
that's philip don't bother
- 00:35
Teacher
stella please sit with philip
- 00:43
Stella
hey
- 00:48
Teacher
okay everyone turn on your buns and burners
- 00:53
Stella
i know what you are your skin is green you have bolts in your neck You freak out or on fire.
- 01:07
Phillip Frank
Say it out loud.
- 01:13
Stella
Frankenstein,
- 01:16
Stella
why won't you kiss me?
- 01:18
Phillip Frank
Because when I kiss people, I tend to accidentally choke them to death.
- 01:22
Stella
I want you to try.
- 01:26
Stella
What's wrong?
- 01:27
Officer
We found an old blind man strangled to death. Looks like it was an accident.
- 01:31
Stella
Strangled? By accident?
- 01:35
Lomax (Firelight)
Hey.
- 01:36
Stella
Hey, Lomax.
- 01:37
Lomax (Firelight)
So you're hanging with Philip Frank now?
- 01:40
Stella
What do you have against the Franks?
- 01:41
Lomax (Firelight)
Just be careful.
- 01:44
Jason Sudeikis
I do believe I'm gonna strangle someone by accident on
- 02:05
Stella
my life now
- 02:07
Stella
You're choking me
- 02:08
Phillip Frank
Sorry It's an accident
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