# Looking for an (SNL?) robot-AI based sketch

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-snl-robot-ai-based-sketch/1025478>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** talk-variety-show\
**Created:** [December 6, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-snl-robot-ai-based-sketch/1025478 "2025-12-06T23:10:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-snl-robot-ai-based-sketch/1025478/1 "2025-12-06T23:10:55Z")

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A group of around 8 to 12 characters supposed to be children sitting around. They discuss personal robot (or somehow artifical companions) somehow one of the group (which is an AI companion) decides that they are no longer needed and melts. Then one by one during the sketch supposedly “real” “children” melt, leaving only one behind. Who melts.

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**Author:** ![emulsified](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emulsified/32/2915_2.png) [@emulsified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emulsified)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-snl-robot-ai-based-sketch/1025478/2 "2025-12-06T23:22:07Z")

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It sounds like this one kind of, but they aren’t kids…

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/NDkCiQ-z5O0/maxresdefault.jpg "Grow-a-Guy - SNL") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDkCiQ-z5O0)

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-snl-robot-ai-based-sketch/1025478/3 "2025-12-06T23:34:07Z")

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Mine was very definitely not that one, but the premise and sfx are similar enough that mine must have been a prequel or sequel to that.

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-snl-robot-ai-based-sketch/1025478/4 "2025-12-06T23:45:51Z")

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I can’t find any hint of another version so I suppose I could be severely misremembering it.