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After Oct. 1's Saturday Night Live episode, fans began noticing similarities betwixt the episode's "Charmin Bears" skit and an animated video by YouTuber Joel Haver. Watch his effect here.
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Joel Haver is mounting the grounds consecutive connected that Saturday Night Live sketch.
After Oct. 1's season 48 premiere hosted by Miles Teller, eagle-eyed drama fans noticed some similarities betwixt the episode's "Charmin Bears" sketch and a July animated video posted to YouTube by Haver called "Toilet Paper Bears." In some clips, a begetter carnivore disapproves of his lad going to assemblage and not getting into the household concern (a.k.a. wiping their ain butts), alternatively wanting to dance. Additionally, some parent bears broadside with their husbands successful the sketches. SNL's sketch starred Teller arsenic the acrophobic son, Kenan Thompson as his begetter and Heidi Gardner arsenic his mother.
After receiving comments from acrophobic fans, Haver addressed the claims in a response video posted Oct. 3 that has already racked up implicit a cardinal views. After calling the 2 videos "very similar," the YouTuber went connected to accidental that helium understands wherever akin lines of reasoning tin occur.
Because there's so overmuch contented online, Haver said it's "inevitable you're gonna bash thing that's already been done."
"I don't deliberation it was malicious," the filmmaker explained. "It was either a subconscious borrowing from idiosyncratic connected their writers' unit who saw my video, oregon it was a chaotic coincidence."
A root adjacent to the amusement confirmed to E! News that it was "parallel thinking" from the writers' room.
But Haver isn't upset astir the similarities, instead noting that their deliveries were antithetic (Haver said he enjoyed his much adust take, while SNL's was "louder than life"). The filmmaker past utilized his video to crook attraction to smaller creators whose enactment helium admires, explaining that if helium had a smaller audience, helium would beryllium much bothered astir the similarities betwixt the sketches. Haver presently has implicit 1.5 cardinal subscribers connected YouTube.
"In the lawsuit that SNL did bargain from me, I'm fortunate to beryllium successful a presumption to person my worldly seen by capable radical that that would adjacent happen," Haver said. "Whether oregon not a writer did subconsciously get it, I privation them nary sick will. Please, Lorne Michaels, I beg of you, don't punish anyone."
Saturday Night Live airs Saturdays astatine 11:30 p.m. ET connected NBC.
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