Saturday Night Live: Viral Dune Popcorn Bucket Roasted in Hilarious Song

Saturday Night Live shared a hilarious take on Dune: Part Two‘s viral popcorn bucket in a new song! Dune: Part Two will be making its way through theaters later this Spring, and to help celebrate the release of the film it’s getting a special edition popcorn bucket with AMC Theaters. These specialty popcorn buckets are commonplace with AMC as they usually offer different kinds in partnerships with big franchises, but the Dune: Part Two bucket in particular has taken off with fans thanks to its wild imagery. This imagery, in fact, was targeted by Saturday Night Live in a hilarious parody song. 

The Saturday Night Live song, led by Marcello Hernandez, saw a young teenager excited by the fact that his parents wouldn’t be home and it was going to give him the opportunity to be alone. This wasn’t so he’d have time for a date (which seemed to be set up as played by guest host Ayo Edebiri), but instead he wanted to have some relations with the Dune: Part Two popcorn bucket. It led to a whole song whether others also planned to do the same thing to the bucket itself. 

Who is in the Saturday Night Live cast?

Cast members for Saturday Night Live season 49 include almost the entire cast from season 48 of SNL. Returning stars include Michael Che, Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, James Austin Johnson, Punkie Johnson, Colin Jost, Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman, Kenan Thompson, and Bowen Yang. Featured players that are part of the cast include returning stars Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow, and Devon Walker, plus the show’s only fully new cast member for the year, newcomer Chloe Troast. The comedy troupe Please Don’t Destroy, made up of Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy, are also a recurring part of the series. 

New Saturday Night Live Hosts

With the SAG-AFTRA Strike still without a resolution, Saturday Night Live is unable to tap actors to host new episodes since previously they would only appear on the series to promote some new work (prohibited by the rules of the SAG-AFTRA strike). As a result comedians and musicians have been the only hosts confirmed for Saturday Night Live season 49 with Pete Davidson, Bad Bunny, and Nate Bargatze taking the spotlight for the first three episodes.

Saturday Night Live Season 49 is ongoing now with new episodes airing on both NBC and Peacock, starting Saturdays at 11:30 PM ET. All 48  seasons of Saturday Night Live are also now streaming on Peacock.