It’s gonna be interesting to see how that gets handled in the upcoming season. Some have talked about a time jump to account for the fact that all the kids are in their twenties now but still playing 15 as of the last season. But that’s hard because it ended on a cliffhanger so presumably picks up right after, otherwis…

It was really awkward with those later seasons of Malcolm in the Middle with Dewey’s five o’clock shadow.

I kinda hate that idea.  Azula needs to stay evil 

They wanted to do it in Season 3 but found there wasn’t space for it. So it’s covered in comics.

I seem to recall hearing something about giving Azula a redemption arc in a 4th season, as well.

I thought the fourth season (looking for Zuko’s mother) was cancelled for the movie

I don’t even know what age they’re supposed to be in-universe on that show.
They can only keep giving them coffee and cigarettes for so much longer.

“While fans of the new show might be disappointed at this early finale announcement”

Definitely makes sense to end it after 3 seasons. Don't want to risk a Stranger Things scenario where the kids all start growing up too fast to be... well, kids. 

A number of years ago one of the former cast members (possibly Bill Hader) was doing his Lorne impersonation on a talk show and he used this line (paraphrasing), “It will get a laugh but will it get the right laugh?”

Can we get this bitch a donut?

I’m reminded as well of Lindsay Lohan’s “Hermione has boobs now” sketch.

That’s ageism. Lorne getting cranky got nothing to do with this type of sketches. As SNL been doing this to hot guests for ages. The most blatant one was in the 90s at the height of Sharon Stone stardom. In one of the sketch she shed her clothes down to her underwear at the gawking of the comedians and comedienne.…

I was also hoping that they would replace the real dog with a puppet one and have the two of them start making out, like Alec Baldwin did years ago in the Greenhilly sketch. Now THAT was writing.

Ha, it’s interesting watching criticism swing back around the other way because people have been griping for decades about the show’s overreliance on recurring characters/bits. And, indeed, for every “Wayne’s World” and “Celebrity Jeopardy” there is a “Target Lady” and “Makin’ Copies.” But I see your point--everything…

A current trend I absolutely loathe is doing a commercial or film parody or what have you and then, via voiceover, explicitly and repeatedly explaining what they’re parodying and why. E.g., “Lesbian Period Drama”:

To me, the show was always funnier when the cast and writers created great characters and then put them in sketches. The list is exhausting but includes Coneheads, Wayne’s World, Church Lady, cheerleaders, Farley’s guy who lived in the van, Sprockets, the alien abduction sketches, What’s Up With That ... I dunno ...…

It’s also incredibly likely that someone like Sydney Sweeney has a manager and PR staff who is curating her image and very specifically wanted sketch content that emphasized the image of her they are pushing and selling. She could have come into the week with a list of goals and branding ideas they wanted to reinforce…

Look, give credit where credit’s due. This week, they went with the first two things they thought of.

The host can also be a contributor. They often have to run with the hosts ideas for sketches and also write jokes that will, hopefully, work for the host. I don’t think that was the problem this week but there is a reason some of the worst SNL shows are when non-actors host(like politician or men famous for being…