Bad Bunny Summons HUNTR/X in ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Sketch on ‘SNL’: Watch

Bad Bunny conjured the KPop Demon Hunters trio HUNTR/X during the play 51 premiere of Saturday Night Live connected Oct. 4.

In the six-minute sketch, fittingly titled “KPop Demon Hunters,” the Puerto Rican superstar — who hosted the occurrence alongside philharmonic impermanent Doja Cat — plays Thomas, a brunch-goer passionately defending his emotion for the wildly fashionable animated Netflix movie.

“It’s really not for kids. It’s for astute adults,” Bad Bunny’s Thomas says to skeptical friends. “In KPop Demon Hunters, songs are not conscionable songs. They are weapons,” helium continues. “What other is gonna prevention you from demons, you idiot.”

The sketch takes a chaotic crook erstwhile SNL formed subordinate Bowen Yang appears arsenic 1 of the film’s demons and possesses Sarah Sherman by belting retired the deed opus “Soda Pop.” Just successful time, HUNTR/X — voiced successful the movie by EJAE, Rei Ami, and Audrey Nuna — get to prevention the day, performing their smash azygous “Golden” and vanquishing the demon.

The sketch marked the first-ever unrecorded televised show of “Golden,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 7 weeks. HUNTR/X is slated to present their archetypal full-length unrecorded performance of the opus connected The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon connected Oct. 7, wherever they’ll besides beryllium down for an interview.

The quality comes astir 3 months aft KPop Demon Hunters premiered connected Netflix, rapidly becoming a popular civilization phenomenon. In summation to “Golden,” 3 different tracks from the film’s soundtrack — “How It’s Done,” “What It Sounds Like,” and “Takedown” — person landed successful the apical 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. The film’s soundtrack besides made past arsenic the archetypal to apical the U.S. albums illustration since Encanto successful 2022.

Watch HUNTR/X’s astonishment SNL cameo below.