Saturday Night Live debuted a new advertisement sketch this week, featuring host Nikki Glaser promoting life-sized American Girl Dolls.
The premise is simple: as women grow older, their American Girl Dolls remain the same. Thus, the proposed solution is the same dolls, just taller. It’s a clever concept, if not for the twist that the men in the sketch have very different ideas about what to do with a six-foot Molly or Samantha that don’t exactly involve tea parties or historical reenactments.
If the idea of what a man would do with an adult-sized American Girl Doll immediately raises red flags, you can see where the sketch is heading. That’s what makes it both 1) funny and 2) a little alarming in how accurately it captures the likelihood that some men would outfit their American Girl XL in a crop top.
