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There was also an acupuncture sketch that hearkened back to the very beginnings of Saturday Night Live, Dan Aykroyd as a Julia Child who stayed ebullient even as she couldn’t stop bleeding.
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Later, a Disney Channel parody that was basically The Ring for kids may not have been topical ( The Ring came out in 2002, and even Hollywood isn’t ripping it off anymore), but it was very well executed, with some good gags of Wiig, as water ghost mom, crawling out of the family TV and hunched under the covers. A Mothers Day commercial for 1-800-Flowers that paired her with Kate McKinnon as her passive-aggressive mom (on the flowers: “Maybe you should keep them, because your apartment is so sad”) had just the right touch, enough to make it clear that her mother was driving her crazy without being too cartoonishly nasty about it. Oddly enough, much of it came in the night’s pre-taped pieces. For all her great talent, Wiig had become, by the time she left a year ago, a symbol of everything franchise-heavy and headpoundingly overdone on SNL and tonight’s show was a reminder of both the good and the bad of her reign. Watching the parade of Kristen Wiig’s Greatest Hits that marked her return to SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE as tonight’s host, you could be forgiven for wishing you missed her more.