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Bring It on Down to Wrappinville

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The setup

Two dancing holiday mascots muscle in on a charity gift-wrap stand, and the turf war gets settled in song.

Community rating

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

In this cold open, a vendor (Aidy Bryant) is wrapping presents at a holiday market to pay for an ice rink at her senior center when two dancing mascots from Wrappinville, a giant gift bag (Jimmy Fallon) and a roll of wrapping paper (Justin Timberlake), set up beside her and pitch their own services through wrapping-themed takes on hit songs such as Ludacris's "Rollout" and Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know." She tries to win shoppers back with pop tunes of her own, and the standoff nearly turns into a rap war set to Michael Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" before everyone calls a truce, trades jokes about sacking decks and finishes with a Run-DMC-style number. A screaming audience member during the live broadcast drew ad-libs from Bryant and Timberlake.

The funny people

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Highly quotable.

All proceeds go to putting an ice skating rink in our senior center.

Shut up, Mom.

I'm saying that I had a deck that needed sacking.

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The sixth Dancing Mascot sketch, following Omeletville (2003), Homelessville (2006), Plasticville (2009), Liquorville (2011) and Veganville (2013), according to SNL Archives. When an audience member kept screaming during the live performance, Aidy Bryant ad-libbed "holy moly" and Justin Timberlake ad-libbed "Shut up, Mom."

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