‘SNL’: Watch Menendez Brothers Halloween Sketch Cut for Time

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Marcello Hernandez and Michael Longfellow play "two guys dressed as doctors" who are repeatedly mistaken for the convicted murderers

Saturday Night Live referenced the current cultural fascination with the Menendez brothers in a cut-for-time skit intended to air during Weekend Update. In the sketch, Marcello Hernandez and Michael Longfellow play two guys dress for Halloween as doctors in scrubs who keep being mistaken for Erik and Lyle Menendez.

“We thought people would see two doctors and start banging pots and pans together for us, like during the pandemic,” Longfellow told Colin Jost.

“Instead, people keep yelling things like, ‘You’re innocent!’ and ‘You’re so hot!'” Hernandez added.

“And also, ‘Kiss each other again!'” Longfellow added, noting that it’s “in the show.” He affirmed, “Turns out, people like the Menendez brothers way more than doctors.”

The pair then showcased a series of other bad Halloween costumes, including children dressed as Jost and Michael Che who are “secret Trump voters.”

Erik and Lyle Menendez were convicted in 1996 of killing their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez, and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The brothers have recently been at the forefront of media attention thanks to Ryan Murphy’s controversial Netflix series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

Last month, however, Eric slammed Murphy’s depiction. In his statement shared by his wife Tammi Menendez on social media Thursday, Erik wrote, “I believed we had moved beyond the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, creating a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant in the show. I can only believe they were done so on purpose. It is with a heavy heart that I say, I believe Ryan Murphy cannot be this naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives so as to do this without bad intent.”