Did Saturday Night Live steal from Studio C?

Parallel thinking · 60% similar · 2025 → 2025

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Beauty and MrBeast

Saturday Night Live , compared with Studio C

Parallel thinking#34

Disney's Beauty and the Beast replayed with YouTuber MrBeast as the Beast, using his over-the-top challenge-video format.

Their versionSaturday Night Live

Aired Nov. 8, 2025, with the same title and mashup premise, but it goes in a different direction. (paraphrase)

SNL — "Beauty and Mr. Beast" (Nikki Glaser episode), 2025▶ watch ↗

The originalStudio C

Released Nov. 3, 2025: MrBeast stages a game show in the castle and must win Belle's love to free 100 trapped servants, tracked by falling rose petals. (paraphrase)

Studio C — "Beauty and MrBeast", 2025find on YouTube ↗

Why they're similar60%

Same title and same mashup five days apart, but SNL reportedly takes it somewhere else; both riffed on the same pop-culture moment.

  • Premise 38/40
  • Structure 14/30
  • Punchline 8/30
  • Premise38/40Identical title and mashup: Beauty and the Beast with MrBeast as the Beast.
  • Structure14/30SNL reportedly goes a different direction; its beats are not described on record.
  • Punchline8/30Studio C's rose-petal game-show payoff is on record; SNL's payoff is not, beyond being different.
Beat by beat
Saturday Night LiveStudio C

Setup

Beauty and the Beast retold with MrBeast as the Beast.

=same

Setup

Beauty and the Beast retold with MrBeast as the Beast.

Turn

Goes in a different direction; specifics not on record.

?no record

Turn

MrBeast stages a castle game show to win Belle and free 100 servants.

Punchline

Not on record.

?no record

Punchline

Progress tracked by falling rose petals, challenge-video style.

Scores and beats are our editorial reading of the public record, not a ruling.

Context

When and where

BYUtv's Studio C released 'Beauty and MrBeast' on YouTube on Monday, November 3, 2025. SNL aired its sketch of the same name five days later, on November 8 (Nikki Glaser episode).

What followed

Fans accused SNL of copying after the sketches aired five days apart under identical titles; neither NBC nor BYUtv commented. The two shows had also aired similar takes on the same Lexus holiday ad in 2020.

Every case links to public reporting. These are accusations and the record around them, not rulings. Bit descriptions are paraphrases, never transcripts.

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