Tragedy strikes the American Girl Store on 'SNL,' but everyone is fixated on this one dude

This grown man and his doll are not doing well.
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Tragedy strikes the American Girl Store on 'SNL,' but everyone is fixated on this one dude
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Saturday Night Live checked in with shoppers after an underground gas main exploded at a Phoenix American Girl Store, and boy were they shaken up.

Reporter Ben Hartley (Kenan Thompson) spoke with customers Debbie Pritchard, a mother shopping with her daughter (played by Lady Bird’s Saoirse Ronan,) and Thomas Dean (Mikey Day) a grown-ass man who was just, you know, shopping for a doll. Alone.

They recounted the horrific experience of the explosion, explaining what brought each of them to the store to begin with.

Though Dean claimed he was “buying a gift” his weird doll obsession wound up overshadowing the explosion, and it wasn’t long before Hartley uncovered the real story: Grown Man Frequents American Girl Store Alone with Beloved Doll.

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Nicole is a Senior Editor at Mashable. She primarily covers entertainment and digital culture trends, and in her free time she can be found watching TV, sending voice notes, or going viral on Twitter for admiring knitwear. You can follow her on Twitter @nicolemichele5.


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