Saturday Night time Reside has churned out a number of extraneous merchandise through the years — from T-shirts, to board video games, to the Marvel comedian e book by which Spider-Man groups up with John Belushi to cease a magical Samurai from killing Lorne Michaels and destroying 30 Rock. (The much less mentioned concerning the online game by which Wayne Campbell makes use of the ability of rock and roll to defeat donut mutant abominations, the higher.)
With the present celebrating its fiftieth season, we’re getting much more SNL-branded crap this yr, together with socks, ornaments and, in fact, life-sized cardboard cutouts of the A Night time on the Roxbury guys — good for placing up in your house to keep off any potential romantic companions.
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Now, it seems that we’re additionally getting a Saturday Night time Reside-themed kids’s e book, which is sweet information for fogeys who’re sick and bored with how Goodnight Moon doesn’t comprise a single character performed by Peter Davidson.
Particularly, it’s a part of the Little Golden E book collection, and can apparently characteristic acquainted SNL characters like Gilda Radner’s Roseanne Roseannadanna, “What Up with That?” host Diondre Cole and the Spartan Cheerleaders performed by Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri. Oh, they usually’re all rendered as Funko Pops, as a result of synergy.
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“Reside from bedtime… it’s Saturday Night time Reside in its first ever Little Golden E book!” reads the writer’s description. “From Coneheads to cowbells, Saturday Night time Reside has saved us laughing for 50 years. Now a few of their funniest characters and skits come to life on this Little Golden E book.”
What’s the story going to be? Who the hell is aware of. The e book is meant for kids from ages two to 5, however do children that age even know what SNL is? Over on the SNL subreddit, fan reactions ranged from “barf” to “it is a bizarre timeline” to “what the fuck is even taking place?”
However that is hardly the primary baffling Little Golden E book primarily based on an grownup property. As we’ve talked about earlier than, there was a Funko Pop Seinfeld e book, which, weirdly, featured an illustration of the scene the place Jerry is gassed by his intercourse felony dentist. There have additionally been Little Golden Books that includes characters from The Workplace, The Golden Women and Pals.
Along with the SNL launch, within the close to future Little Golden Books will seemingly be rolling out tales primarily based on Stranger Issues, The X-Information and Gilmore Women. It’s unclear whether or not or not kids shall be psyched that their dad and mom can solely be bothered to learn to them if it entails pop-culture franchises for adults with which they’ve a pre-existing relationship.
However none of those books are fairly as unusual because the Little Golden Books biography collection. In any case, what little one wouldn’t wish to spend their bedtime studying about John McCain or King Charles III.
At the least he’s not depicted as a buyable hunk of plastic, I assume.
