Season 48, Episode 10: Aubrey Plaza/Sam Smith
Sketches:
- "Cold Open": Fox Sports discusses the NFL, featuring George Santos.
- "Miss Universe": Beauty queens screech their responses to questions.
- "The Black Lotus": The White Lotus is reimagined as taking place on a black-owned resort.
- "Taboo": A new couple is slowly revealed to be increasingly demented through a game of Taboo.
- "Morning Announcements": Two nuns greet their school with some morning announcements for the day.
- "M3GAN 2.0": A hypothetical sequel to M3GAN, but now "even more gay".
- "Avatar": Two human spies infiltrate the world of Pandora.
- "HIV Commercial": A shoot for a commercial about HIV medication set at a gay club.
- "Film Noir": A private eye tries to investigate a woman with five old, dead husbands.
Sam Smith performs the songs "Unholy" and "Gloria". Weekend Update guests include George Santos and Leslie Knope and April Ludgate.
Tropes:
- "Basic Instinct" Legs-Crossing Parody: One of the eyecatches
◊ has Plaza in a very short white minidress with her legs crossed, imitating Basic Instinct. - Black Widow: "Film Noir" is about a Femme Fatale who's had five old, dead husbands.
- Blatant Lies: George Santos's shtick in the Cold Open, where he snatches a job at Fox Sports by making up a ridiculously record-shattering NFL career.
- Fag Hag: The gay men at the club in "M3GAN 2.0" let Allison Williams hang out with them even if she's straight because she got her ass eaten on Girls.
- LGBT Fanbase: Invoked. "M3GAN 2.0" spoofs the gay men who adored M3GAN, with various tweets from gay men showing up in the trailer.
- Moral Guardians: The staff of the Black Lotus scoffs at Chloe Fineman's character's request for a psychic and insist that their hotel is "Jesus's house".
- N-Word Privileges: In "M3GAN 2.0", M3GAN 1.0 calls the gay club attendees "little homos", which hushes them in shock. But when M3GAN 2.0 (the version made specifically to appeal to gay men) calls them "little homos", they start cheering. "You can say it!"
- Pandering to the Base: Invoked. "M3GAN 2.0" is described as "even more gay" to appeal to the LGBT Fanbase of M3GAN.
- Pokémon Speak: In "Miss Universe", Miss France communicates almost exclusively by screeching out her country's name. Guest judge Tony Hawk joins in as well.
- Private Eye Monologue: Parodied in "Film Noir", where classic detective Jack Rawley keeps monologuing even as he lays dying.
- Sassy Black Woman: The joke on "The Black Lotus" is that the black staff members wouldn't take the shenanigans the same way the white ones on The White Lotus do, and instead go for snarky putdowns and side comments ("He gon kill her.").
- Spicy Latina: Exaggerated on "The Black Lotus", where Aubrey Plaza's staff member is a brash, Spanish-tirading firecracker.
- Sweeps Week Lesbian Kiss: Not in the episode proper, but in one of the promo spots Plaza and Fineman begin making out apropos of nothing.
