"but I just did to her what I did to that mouse" *UNDERSTANDING INTENSIFIES* "OH GOD I KILLED THAT MOUSE"

*9th grade english intensifies*

Lenny's more concerned for killing a mouse than a person.

I had my son read a lot of Steinbeck for his homeschooling. At one point he said "Geez, would it kill him to write a story with a happy ending?"

"Nobel Prize?" "Yeah, it's a prize given in Sweden -- never MIND!" I love Bobby.

"I've been repeating that stuff.. People must think I'm an idiot" 😂

ok not to nitpick but where was curley's glove

He didn’t really hide much from him though. He straight up told him the mice was dead and that the people in weed thought he assulted that girl. He even told him that he keeps doing bad things

I feel like Chris Farley if he was alive would have been Lennie in this skit

My English teacher junior year had a rule that you had to read the last chapter of the book in class. So we all get there, expecting a nice happy ending, and then we read through the chapter. Even some of the boys started to cry. It was just a classroom of crying teenagers (myself included) and us barraging the teacher with the question, “Why did we have to read this?!” I cried a lot when I read that.

The book has such a sad ending, it's a classic sure. But fair warning if you haven't read most of the classic books then you're in for alot of crying.

um excuse me but curley already knew that lenny had killed his wife and therefore he wouldn't have made the mistake of not knowing who had killed his wife

I'm currently a sophomore in high school and we JUST finished reading the book and watching the movie. This skit made me really happy for some reason xD

Definitely Franco's pitch for a sketch

He's a great host. Seems like a natural fit with the cast.

"He's got a gun" *Procceds to run after him instead of shooting him instantly*

Can we all get together and raise some money to buy a Saturday Night Live a second teleprompter... Please?

Every 8th grader having Vietnam flashbacks

Quote of the Year: “Enjoy your pancakes!!” ~Lennie Small 👏👏

"You gotta tell me these things!"

The part that sold it for me was "OH MY GOD, I KILLED THAT MOUSE! " I'm deaaaad

Enjoy your pancakes

“It’s a prize given in Sweden-never mind...” LMAO 😂😂😂

Last year I actually had an assignment to right and alternate ending for this book. I wish I had seen this

it just deflates 97% of the humor when their eyes are glued to cue cards - SNL fail

Here's a connection: James Franco starred in this sketch in 2008. 8 years later he would play Jake Epping in the TV-series adaptation of Stephen King's 11/22/63. In the book, Jake Epping as a English teacher has his drama class star in "Of Mice and Men".

Haven't read this in a while, but in the actual story he doesn't really lie to Lenny that much. The ranch he's gonna raise the rabbits on is a real ambition, George's faith that they will actually make that happen, fluctuates. Pretty sure Lenny knows he killed that mouse and those people.

It’s funny because James Franco played George in an actual movie version of “Of Mice and Men”.

OoFF sophomore flashbacks

James Franco fits George perfectly.

3:27 that page before “The End” is like the opening scene

Ahh, poetic justice. Now that's how the real movie should've ended.

Thumbs up if you've actually read Of Mice And Men.

2013: 2014: 2015: 2016: 2017: 2018: 2019: Let's recommend this!

"You really got us into a real jam Lenny. Is it strawberry jam. I love strawberry jam." 🤣

Which I'm now realizing is probably a gun 😂😅😅

You know a skit is top shelf when the actors read every sing line of the script off the prompter, and can't even try to hide that fact, lol

When we were learning and reading Of Mice and Men, my junior year of highschool English, our teacher let us watch and talk about this sketch right after it cameout, for half a period and we were clowning for the rest of the class and talked about a play about, I was the most baked I've ever been that day, haha it was chill, shout-out to Mrs. Plummer

I finally found an SNL sketch that actually made me laugh. ENJOY YOUR PANCAKES!

I saw James Franco on broadway in mice and men strangest shit I’ve ever payed for

Bobby is so on point with the lenny interpretation

I love how George is finally taller than Lennie.

i'm realizing the one playing lenny appeared on a heartland holiday parody as well. he played scott i believe

"AND I GET TO ATTEND THE RABBITS"

Related is how much I hate adults that pointlessly lie to children. Keep 'em good and ignorant so they'll have no idea how pregnancy happens, right? That could never end in disaster.

FEEL GOOD NOVEL OF THE CENTURY!

Pretty ironic that James Franco ended up doing a live theater version of Of Mice and Men, a few years after 🤣

“Have you not read of mice and men?” “Maybe. Literally 20 years ago” “You should have a basic grasp of John Steinbeck to do a wrestling podcast”

“Enjoy your pancakes!” *inception horn*

Our teacher showed this to us in class

How dare you do this to one of the best novels in history

The most absurd thing is that Steinbeck would ever write a happy ending.

“Enjoy your pancakes!!” Best line ever

George said Vibe Check

This would be funnier if they'd actually gotten any of the details from the book right, instead of what is apparently a drunken mishmash recollection.

There needs to be an alternate ending to Old Yeller.

Strange how the page before the end in this video is a page from almost the very start of the book....Still a better ending than the orginal

Couldn't laugh it's sad

kudos to SNL for not assuming their audience wouldn't know this.

I’ve been watching a lot of these new episodes, I can’t get over how noticeable it is that they’re looking at cue cards.

Fun fact: I read this in my 10th grade class and we were tasked with writing one final chapter that concludes the events of the book. So I decided to turn the story into a survival horror story. We learn that the real reason that George killed Lennie was because Curly paid him handsomely. But the task wasn't over, for as we learn... George was paid to kill everyone. Soon, more bodies fall. First Carlson. Then Whit. Then Candy's new dog. Not believing the rumors, the boss confronts Curly...only to be doubled up on with George, and soon his own suffering was over. Crooks dies next, but not before putting up a fight that superficially injures George. Candy sacrifices himself by blowing himself and Curly up. Finally, with no where else to turn and facing imminent death from George, Slim is able to read from the Necronomicon. Out of nowhere, hundreds of spirits of dead rabbits congregate to George and swirl around him, tearing his flesh and ending his life. The day is won...but for how long? My teacher was less than impressed. I was given a C+.

Just finished this book in English this would’ve been so much better 😂

That page they showed from the book at the end is from the beginning of the book, and they presented it like it was the last page XD

I did my senior presentation on this story!! Such a good book.

It was nice to hear James Franco say "nobel prize" again.

Funny how George is taller than Lennie , and even funnier Curley is taller than both of them

The way he draws out "beeees" cracks me up for some reason.

This makes me feel better now, I cried when I watched the movie

Curly: “Lenny got the gun!”

2:46 nobel prize otto, nobel prize

nobody is talking about lennie saying "I WAS ABOUT TO DO THAT AGAIN!?"

People I need this book.

Flashbacks to English lit, analysing and evaluating the underlying message in Steinbecks novel.... and then going bounty hunting.

The audience was DEAD on that one.

My fiction teacher would love this

I remembered when my teacher showed us this in my junior year in high school good times

"Nobel prize Otto, Nobel prize"

Why is James Franco in every western?

I love you Bobby! You are a comic genius!

Holy crap I just checked out this book today for school. This will help a lot in the next couple of weeks thank you!

OHHH NO SPOILERS

Best part is at 4:04

I fucken love that ending!

I love the book. I loved this sketch.

I didn't even watch this...the book was enough...but please tell me a killer rabbit jumped out at the end...

Funny cause Franco actually played this role in real life

I saw James Franco on Broadway in of mice and men. He was fantastic as was Chris O’ Dowd.

I liaghed the whole time LENNI IS MY FAVORITE

If only Chris Farley was here for that Lenny role... damn lost gold there

The only time I laughed was when Lenny said "OH I KNOW."

I love this 😂

My google has been listening reading the book in virtual school and this appeared in my suggestions

Actually The weapon that George used to kill lennie was a Luger

that's not a luger has anyone else noticed that. yeah I know they probably just didn't have that prop whatever

Thanks for the TLDR. I’m using this for my Essay.

Great skit!!!!!!

We read this book in my class so I understand this video 😂

They made us read this in 7th grade. I wonder why ... Seriously I wonder why .. .

Ahaha this is such a good sketch

I miss Bobby and drunk uncle