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Saturday Night Live referenced the current cultural fascination with the Menendez brothers in a short skit scheduled to air during this time Weekend update. In the sketch, Marcello Hernandez and Michael Longfellow play two men who dress up as doctors in scrubs for Halloween and are repeatedly mistaken for Erik and Lyle Menendez.

“We thought people were going to see two doctors and start banging pots and pans together for us like they did during the pandemic,” Longfellow told Colin Jost.

“Instead people keep shouting things like ‘You’re innocent!’ and ‘You’re so hot!'” Hernandez added.

“And also, ‘Kiss again!'” Longfellow added, noting that it was “on the show.” He confirmed, “It turns out that people like the Menendez brothers a lot more than they like doctors.”

The two then presented a number of other bad Halloween costumes, including children dressed as Jost and Michael Che who are “secret Trump voters.”

Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 1996 for the murder of their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez. The brothers have recently been the center of media attention thanks to Ryan Murphy’s controversial Netflix series Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez.

However, last month Eric criticized Murphy’s portrayal. In his statement, shared on social media by his wife Tammi Menendez on Thursday, Erik wrote: “I believe we have moved beyond the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle and have created a caricature of Lyle based on terrible and obvious lies , which are prevalent in the series.” I can only believe they did that on purpose. It is with a heavy heart that I say: I believe that Ryan Murphy cannot be so naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives as to do this without malicious intent.”

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Murphy responded by saying, “I know he hasn’t seen the show.” He also appreciates the fact that the Menendez case is currently being reevaluated, as Los Angeles District Attorney Javier Gascon announced earlier this month .

“We are not ready at this point to say that we believe or do not believe this information,” Gascón said during a news conference. “But we are here to tell you that we have a moral and ethical obligation to consider what is presented to us and make a decision.”