SNL fans fume over disgusting sex joke as…
Stranger jokes.
“Saturday Night Live” fans rushed to social media over the weekend to slam the sketch comedy over a stunning joke about two “Stranger Things” characters having sex.
The bit, titled “Mike in Manhattan,” featured “SNL” host Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler) alongside his former “Stranger Things” co-stars Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair) and Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson).
Wolfhard was joined by his former “Stranger Things” co-stars Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair) and Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson). Saturday Night Live/Youtube
“Saturday Night Live” spoofed “intimacy and the City” with a sketch centered on Finn Wolfhard’s “Stranger Things” character, Mike Wheeler, called “Mike in Manhattan.” Saturday Night Live/Youtube
It gave fans a look at what the characters have been up to 10 years after the occasions of the Netflix hit’s fifth and closing season.
“And just like that, I was in a new Upside Down, New York, and it doesn’t take a hive mind to know that after you’ve dated an Eleven, even 10s fall short,” Wolfhard read outloud while sitting in a restaurant writing, very like Sarah Jessica Parker’s iconic Carrie Bradshaw in “intimacy and the City.”
McLaughlin and Matarazzo then show up and, with Cosmopolitan cocktails in hand, sit down at the desk to focus on their sex lives.
Wolfhard’s Mike Wheeler sitting in a NYC restaurant writing like Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw in “intimacy and the City.” Saturday Night Live/Youtube
“SNL” and “Stranger Things” fans have been less than impressed with the “disgusting” and “weird” joke about Lucas and Max’s sex life. Netflix
“Well, Max and I started off hot and heavy, right?” McLaughlin, as his “Stranger Things” character Lucas, shared. “Then, a couple of years in, she just lies there like she’s back in that coma.”
In “Stranger Things,” McLaughlin’s Lucas dated Sadie Sink’s Max Mayfield. Max ends up in a coma after confronting the villain Vecna at the end of Season 4 and stays in the coma for a lot of the show’s fifth season.
“SNL” and “Stranger Things” fans have been less than impressed with the “disgusting” and “weird” joke about Lucas and Max’s sex life.
Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall in a promo for “intimacy and the City.” Freelance/HBO
“What kind of game was going on on SNL? These jokes were so flat and disgusting,” one individual tweeted. “Caleb jokes about Max and Lucas’ sex life, saying she’s in a coma. Dude, what the f–k?”
“They made a joke about Lucas having sex with unconscious Max on SNL,” added another. “What has this show come to?”
“Sorry, but that coma ‘joke’ was f–king weird to me,” commented a third, while a fourth shared, “That Max coma joke. SNL, you’re weird for that one!”
But that wasn’t the only “SNL” joke that left viewers up in arms on Saturday night time, because the sketch went on to clarify that Will Byers (performed by Noah Schnapp) couldn’t be a part of Mike, Lucas and Dustin because “his coming-out scene is still going on.”
Jeremy Culhane as Noah Schnapp’s Will Byers during a spoof of Will’s controversial coming-out scene. Saturday Night Live/Youtube
Fans took to social media to categorical their disappointment with the “SNL” joke poking enjoyable at Will’s coming-out scene. Saturday Night Live/Youtube
The sketch then cut to the controversial scene in query, which got here during the penultimate episode of the Netflix show’s closing season and noticed Will, during a monologue lasting roughly 5 minutes, come out to his household and pals.
“Guys, I’m gai-ning the courage to tell you the truth, and the truth is I’m gai-zing at all of your faces, and you should know that I like D…and D – Dungeons and Dragons, just like you guys,” Will, performed in the “SNL” bit by solid member Jeremy Culhane, said.
Fans once again rushed to social media to categorical their disappointment with the joke.
Wolfhard, Schnapp, Sink, McLaughlin, Millie Bobby Brown, and Matarazzo attend the Season 5 premiere of “Stranger Things” on Nov. 6, 2025. Getty Images for Netflix
“Just saw the latest episode of SNL, they made fun of Will’s coming out scene,” one individual tweeted. “Well it’s not funny at all, not respectful at all. Especially the other three boys were present without Noah. I think they should apologize to both Noah Schnapp and Will Byers.”
“F–k SNL I’m so sick of queer ppl being the butt of everyone’s f–king joke,” fumed another. “Will Byers u deserved better, and sorry Noah that u had to go through hours of torture filming that coming out scene for everyone to treat it like a joke.”
“SNL making fun of will byers being gay and inappropriateising max mayfield all in one night,” commented a third. “Me if i ordered a homophobicburger with a side of misogynyfries.”
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Other faux “sequels, prequels, requels and spinoffs” that “SNL” showcased during Saturday night time’s episode included Joe Keery’s Steve Harrington as an inner-city instructor in “Strangerous Minds,” Natalia Dyer’s Nancy Wheeler in “The Wheeler Report,” and Joe Chrest’s Ted Wheeler in “Stranger Things: Oops! All Mike’s Dad.”
The sketch concluded with a dig at Conformity Gate, a viral and since-disproven conspiracy concerning a secret closing episode of “Stranger Things” that some fans believed can be launched on Jan. 7.
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