https://www.hulu.com/watch/1011616
In ninth grade, I failed math with a 64, or one point away from passing. (So they tell me — again, terrible at math.) I pleaded with my teacher to do me a solid and look over the exam that looked like a B+ to me even though I got a C-, to no avail; I had to go to summer school. I could have blamed myself for being lazy, but of course I faulted my teacher… for not being Emma Stone.
In one of the weirder SNL sketches of the season, Pete Davidson plays a stressed-out student who falls asleep while studying and ends up being taught “everything” he “needs” to “know” about math from his talking posters. There’s a snowboarding bro, badass video game soldier, standup comedian, and a Maxim model played by Stone holding a hot dog. She doesn’t have helpful advice so much as she likes talking, in a high-pitched squeak, about hot dogs. As in, “The big, nasty hot dog.” And, “So, if I eat this entire fat, gross hot dog, and mustard plops all over my shirt, what does X equal?” And, “Picture me eating every single one of those 50 gross, sticky hot dogs.”
Did Davidson learn anything about math? Nope, but he learned a lot about himself. Namely, that he could go for a hot dog right about now. If only my ninth grade teacher had put everything in hot dog terms.