The Charmin bear who wants to perform
Saturday Night Live , compared with Joel Haver
The son of the Charmin toilet-paper bears wants to quit the family business to perform, against his glasses-wearing dad's wishes.
Live action, with Miles Teller as a young bear who wants to dance; his father is won over by the end. (paraphrase)
SNL — "Charmin Bears" (Miles Teller episode), 2022▶ watch ↗
“seems like a 1-ply kind of thought”
YouTube — "Toilet Paper Bears", 2022quote source ↗▶ watch ↗
The same oddly specific Charmin-bear premise and family conflict, but SNL ends warmly where Haver's short ends dark and unresolved.
- Premise 37/40
- Structure 21/30
- Punchline 10/30
- Premise37/40Both make the Charmin bear son want to quit the toilet-paper business to perform, against his father.
- Structure21/30Same father-son conflict, but SNL resolves it with the dad won over; Haver's has no tidy resolution.
- Punchline10/30Endings differ: SNL's dad comes round, Haver's is darker and unresolved; little dialogue on record.
Setup
The Charmin bear son wants to perform rather than join the family business.
Setup
The toilet-paper bear son wants to perform rather than join the family business.
Turn
His father opposes it; the son wants to dance.
Turn
His father disapproves; the son wants to go into theater.
Punchline
The father is won over by the end.
Punchline
A darker ending with no tidy resolution.
Scores and beats are our editorial reading of the public record, not a ruling.
Context
When and where
Joel Haver posted his animated short on his YouTube channel (nearly 1.7 million subscribers) in July 2022. SNL's live-action 'Charmin Bears' aired in the season 48 premiere in early October 2022, about three months later.
What followed
Haver posted a video titled "SNL stole my video" that called the overlap "pretty alarming," but he decided it was probably subconscious or a coincidence and not malicious. A source close to SNL told People it was parallel thinking.
Receipts
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Joel Haver by The Jaggernaut, CC BY 3.0