'Saturday Night Live' ruined Baby Yoda

It had to happen eventually.
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Marcus Gilmer
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'Saturday Night Live' ruined Baby Yoda
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Sigh. You knew it had to happen. Someone took one of the greatest things about this decade and ruined it.

To be fair, Kyle Mooney is usually pretty damn good with his characters on Saturday Night Live. But the show's attempt to make Baby Yoda into a swaggering, trash-talking, "sliding-into-my-DMs" bragging Hollywood star winds up feeling a bit obvious as the punchline.

Not helping is the make-up which makes Mooney into a good Yoda but not the BABY Yoda we've come to love, the cute little creature with the giant eyes, taste for blue frogs, and squeaky exclamations of glee.

Besides, what has Baby Groot done to anyone other than dance its way into our hearts?

Topics SNL Star Wars

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Marcus Gilmer

Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.


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