It was a little too much for Youtube apparently..
Saturday Night Live’s alternate ending to Home Alone was apparently violent enough for NBC to add an additional flag to this weekend’s episode for “intense violence”—and to age-restrict the video on YouTube.
SNL typically carries a TV-14 rating for “intensely suggestive dialogue” and “strong coarse language,” last Saturday’s broadcast saw the addition of a “V” symbol, noting “intense violence.”
The sketch “Home Alone” imagined Ariana Grande as Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister. Putting a gory spin on the real film’s ending, the McCallister family’s return home devolves into extreme bloodshed when they encounter all of the traps that Kevin had previously set for the Wet Bandits. Among the injuries sustained: Fuller (Bowen Yang) gets both his arms sliced off by a chainsaw, Buzz (Colin Jost) is shredded head-to-toe by a box fan, while others are engulfed in flames. Though it’s all ultimately deemed to be imagined, Old Man Marley (Andrew Dismukes) winds up killing Kevin and his mother (Ashley Padilla) with a swing of his shovel.
