SNL Writers Aren’t Ruling Out a ‘Washington’s Dream 3’

Recurring sketches may largely be a thing of Saturday Night Live’s past, but when you have a hit like Nate Bargatze’s “Washington’s Dream,” you’d be foolish not to return to the well.

That’s just what the two writers behind last year’s original sketch did this past weekend, and they say they’re open to doing it again.  

In a new joint interview with Indiewire, SNL writing partners Streeter Seidell and cast member Mikey Day told the outlet they’d be game for a “Washington’s Dream 3.“

“As long as we’re adding to the idea and it’s not just fully beat-for-beat the same thing, I’d of course be open to it,” Seidell explained. 

As Day pointed out, given that the sketches have followed Washington pre-Presidency, there’s still plenty of ground left to cover. “Who knows, maybe there could be future installments when [Washington] becomes president?,” Day teased. “There’s a lot of time to shape the nation.”

While “Washington’s Dream 2” followed the same format as the first—Bargatze as General George Washington laying out his vision for America’s nonsensical quirks of language—the writers added a few new twists to the sequel. One was the addition of Washington ordering one of his men, played by James Austin Johnson, to abandon ship after questioning what a hot dog is made of. 

Seidell and Day went on to reveal that both sketches initially had a lot of additional material, including a riff about hot dogs and buns being sold in conflicting quantities and the following line about suitcases:

Soldier: “And you put suits in a suitcase?
Washington: “No. That’s the one thing you would never put in there.”

“There were probably two or three extra beats in it at one point and it was feeling a little long,” Seidell explained of the most recent sketch. “We wanted to keep it as punchy as we could.”

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