This week’s Saturday Night Live included a cake battle sketch that may leave Star Wars fans disturbed.
The battle was supposed to be based around the idea of “cartoon confections.” Each of the contestants baked a cake inspired by a cartoon character. Leslie Jones’ character baked a disappointing cake resembling Olaf from Frozen. Host Don Cheadle’s character baked a Cookie Monster cake so terrible it became possessed. Heidi Gardner’s character baked a nice-looking SpongeBob Squarepants cake that was completely overlooked by the judges.
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Then the sketch comes to Kyle Mooney’s character. He chose Yoda as his inspiration, which the judges allow despite Yoda not being a cartoon character. Mooney reveals a cake with Yoda in a suggestive pose. When asked what Yoda is holding, he doesn’t go with the Jedi lightsaber as you might expect, but instead says it’s Yoda’s “famous penis.”
You can watch the full sketch above.
Cheadle ended his first hosting gig on SNL with a subtle dig at President Donald Trump.
Cheadle isn’t a part of Star Wars, but he is a member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Cheadle plays James “Rhodey” Rhodes, aka the armored hero War Machine. Rhodey was one of the Avengers who survived the end of Avengers: Infinity War, though his role in the film was reduced from what was first planned. Those original plans would have seen Rhodey in two different versions of the War Machine armor.
“Originally, Rhodey was going to have two different armors in this movie. And then this ultimately got narrowed down to one armor, so the best elements in both armors were combined into one,” said concept illustrator Phil Saunders in The Art of Avengers: Infinity War. “We really wanted to give him a much more advanced look than what he had had in the previous movie to keep up a little bit with the leap from the Mark 47 to Mark 50 for Iron Man.
“So I went with a much more sophisticated stealth geometry and breakup of the form language. I also gave him a far more extensive package of weaponry than he had ever previously had.”
Cheadle has stated that Rhodey is happy to have the Avengers – at least what’s left of them – fighting on the same side again.
“I think at the end of the day that division was not something that was really fomented by the characters in the movie,” Cheadle said in March 2018. “There were outside pressures that created that division. And they ultimately want to be back together. So, I think that Tony who has yet to make an appearance so I imagine that he’s understanding of it.”
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Avengers: Endgame opens April 26th.
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