American Girl Doll Movie Trailer - SNL

A movie trailer introduces a live-action story for American Girl dolls as they travel to the modern world.
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[@matthewjarek3026]

I actually like the premise of this movie: A bunch of time displaced girls from different eras with tragic backstories team up to travel through time and try and prevent the wars and disasters that affected their lives. LOTS of potential there.

[@dno5134]

Oooh I like

[@strawberrylime33]

Something original, I like it!!😊

[@zzzcocopepe]

And they're all dying of cholera

[@nicolegonzales5283]

I would watch this.

[@marshmallow7640]

I would pay money for that😊

[@LynzeeFord]

MAJOR PROPS, to the costume department on this one! Especially Samantha & Addy!

[@TheSuperNats]

It’s so perfect I couldn’t believe it!

[@magicknight13]

Yes oh my goodness!! My jaw literally dropped!

[@dionnaarmstrong8038]

I know right?!?!

[@TeaPourSixFour]

@lynzee Al-Hakeem Double props to the costume department

[@chingizzhylkybayev8575]

Who's Addy?

[@erinpowers7217]

Those under-nourished girls were the foundation of my entire childhood

[@canaisyoung3601]

Mine too. I remember reading the ones about Molly McIntyre first and I'm old enough to remember when Addy first came out.

[@janetclaireSays]

You know who really loved those dolls? The mothers! I became more excited about my daughter's Felicity's clothing, four poster bed and the fold out screen backdrop to her home - and I know it was the same with all the mothers of her friends with their dolls! 🤣

[@gabrielmaroto18]

That’s OK!

[@avengerwidow9]

they were my entire personality from ages 8-12

[@Audreylin29]

Me too!

[@Valentina-ng4hh]

Here is the thing with American girl doll books. They were BRUTALLY honest about history, and WE LOVED THEM. Not only were these stories amazing but it was a great way to learn REAL things that happened back then. Sadly if these books were released today you know they would be banned. Little girls now are missing out big time since the original American Girl dolls were discontinued.

[@canaisyoung3601]

I could swear the books were challenged (not banned, but did catch heat for being "too real") in the 1990s. I know Goosebumps was, even if the horror was cheesy camp.

[@JaiCatLady]

@@canaisyoung3601 goosebumps was banned??? GOOSEBUMPS?? Why??

[@hannahg5441]

They’re writing new books now with great adult talent behind the series. Britt Bennett has created a new historical character in the Harlem Renaissance called Claudine.

[@NessaH]

@@canaisyoung3601that’s so pathetic. What do people have against learning history?

[@planetoii]

@@NessaHthe same as learning the horror in factory farms. If it’s horrible, it just doesn’t exist and you don’t have to think about it if no one mentions it.

[@OvSpP]

American girl dolls carry more trauma than a toy left in Sid’s room.

[@madnessarcade7447]

Y’all joke about it but there actually is an American girl doll movie They are called An American girl they are cute kids movies

[@clarissamoll666]

@@madnessarcade7447 ªºk

[@canaisyoung3601]

Least the toys in Sid's room can fight back.

[@jom678]

Sad but so true Can you image them as housewives 😱🤦

[@disavowalf3351]

Y’know I’ve never understood the characterisation of Sid, he’s just an imaginative kid. My husband & I are both artists and we see Sid v differently to y’all…cos we did head swaps and body mods on our toys…it was super fun and meant we could carry on playing with otherwise knackered toys…! Yeah, it is rather horrifying if you know the toys can feel but Sid doesn’t know that til the end and is clearly upset when he finds that out…but really he was just exploring his creativity! (Yeah, it s a bit shitty when he does it to Sally's dolls but otherwise…!)❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️

[@AmaraEmme]

American Girl was groundbreaking for their dedication to historical accuracy of material culture (including the material culture of people who weren’t rich), how they introduce kids to some of the horrors of history in an age-appropriate way, and how they focused on a more racially and culturally diverse set of characters than any doll series before it. As a kid, I knew I was holding something special when my Addy’s drinking gourd was made of real gourd, when my friend’s Kaya had real abalone in her hair, or when my sister’s Josefina’s accessories were made of real leather. Real cotton, wool, wood, feathers. Working metal whistles. Work dresses, not just ballgowns. AG captured the everyday reality of regular preteen girls, instead of telling the same story of an older rich teen who never had to do menial work. And it did so in a tactile, immersive way. Ofc the irony is that the products were unaffordable for most girls, and there were some historical inaccuracies, but overall I appreciate the scholarly foundation of the series. There’s a cool article on the academic committee behind Addy that had to decide how to introduce rich preteen girls to slavery and racism, what type of slave to make Addy, how much trauma to give her, how dark to make her skin, how textured to make her hair, etc.

[@captaincrunch784]

Smantha's accessories were like $20 in 1988!!! EACH. My mom found a rando 18" doll truck I used instead of the legit one

[@firecracker3911]

Unfortunately unaffordable, but appreciate the effort.

[@wishuponadream91]

I had a huge chunk of the series and probably every Samantha book, but Samantha herself would only be mine if I paid for her myself. By the time I was finally able to have that money to spare, Samantha had been discontinued. 🥲😅

[@nothingtoseehere7554]

do you happen to have the link to the article? that sounds really interesting

[@JP2GiannaT]

I wanted a doll SO BAD, but never got one. Read the books to shreds though.

[@daydreamcomedianne]

Don't forget Felicity and the psychological turmoil of her best friend being a loyalist during the American revolution, and that time she had to steal a horse that was being abused by the town drunk!

[@canaisyoung3601]

I just said that they forgot Felicity. Sarah Sherman could have easily been her (or if Cecily Strong stayed on the show, she probably could have been her too). Was Felicity retired from the American Girl doll collection? Did the writers just forget she existed? Or did they not have enough female cast members to include her? EDIT: Other American Girl dolls they forgot include Cecile Rey, a wealthy, New Orleans black girl (Punkie Johnson could have played her); Julie Albright, a hippie chick from 1974 with divorced parents and feminist ideals (that's probably not dark enough, unless you say that her ideals back then mean nothing now or something), Kaya, a Nez Perce American Indian who was a slave girl; Rebecca Rubin, a Russian-Jewish immigrant from 1914 who wants to be a movie star back during the early days of American cinema; and the most recent one, Kakani Akina, a half-Japanese Hawaiian girl with blond hair (definitely some accusations of cultural appropriation and people not knowing or caring about mixed-race people).

[@lulusobel8643]

@@canaisyoung3601 There were a bunch of dolls they didn't include in this sketch, like Nanea, who I'm pretty sure got bombed(?), I think they just didn't want to have too many characters in the sketch.

[@canaisyoung3601]

​@@lulusobel8643 Yeah, that makes sense. But Felicity was part of the OG American Girl Dolls from the 1990s and nostalgia just made me flip my crap over who's missing. At least they got Samantha, Addy, Kirsten, and Molly right, especially Samantha and Addy and, to a lesser extent, Molly (Molly McIntyre wasn't that chubby, but I'm letting that slide, since Molly Kearney and the costume people got the look down).

[@ebmosier1]

I noticed that right off, and it's weird that they included Kit who came after her. Maybe because the Merrimans had enslaved people in their house and her father's store?

[@thebritons]

Hey y'all. Stop it. I support you being an adult and doing whatever you want to do. But stop it. Like stop it yall.

[@abhayjoijode]

"Nobody said hi to me :(" Addy was my favorite American Girl! There is one passage where she is talking about how her family is moving into a nicer place and she is excited about having "Two whole rooms! And the apartment had a stove so Mama could cook their meals" that I still remember 20 years later because I was happy for her! but at the same time she had to go through so much and she was so bright and kind and loved reading and even with all of her trauma she was still able to excel in school.

[@PreppyweppyPenguino]

I know I love addy and I’m trying to complete her collection

[@CalamityCannon]

The profile of the chonky little foot is so scarily accurate to AG dolls - just a wonderfully hilarious contrast to the (also distorted) Barbie high heel. God is in the details 😂

[@sarahpaty6108]

True

[@mariskelley8831]

They do have oddly triangular feet, don't they?

[@CreativeC13]

You can tell a true fan wrote this!!

[@Ahsatan-vw3ok]

That's basically how my thick ass wide ass feet look irl :(

[@TheSouthIsHot]

Oh so that's why her feet look that way. They creeped me out.

[@hawkfirequeen5766]

As a former die-hard American Girl fan, I now want an American Girl movie where they all meet each other. And I can't believe they didn't mention Samantha's best friend being an orphan child laborer raising her younger sisters or Kit almost getting run over by a train while escaping from prison.

[@bridgerhibbert2993]

"That's okay." 🙂

[@therapypony]

Nellie! my favorite

[@Nora-gu3gc]

They are coming with one so be prepared

[@jellycat9104]

me too I think they should’ve included that Samantha had to teach Nellie to read

[@explodingmangos3416]

Or kits family being on the brink of bankruptcy during the great depression and taking in strangers to live at her house that ended up stealing from them and framing her friends for the crime

[@markojones334]

It shouldn’t be funny but the girl saying “Look what I can do” and then coughing up that blood cracks me up! 🤣

[@TheRealColt45]

I was dying almost as much as she was

[@LindaC616]

​@@TheRealColt45😅

[@rosestrife1498]

True but it low-key kinda doenst make sense because it was Kit and she was alive during the great depression. Would have made more sense if it was Addy or Samantha.

[@gabrielmaroto18]

That’s OK!

[@samanthasaunders9495]

@@rosestrife1498 it was Kristen that was coughing. She’s the mid 1800s

[@amyecorbin]

As an adult American Girl Doll collector, I am so happy they pronounced Josefina's name correctly.

[@KindredKaye]

Lol the arguments at recess

[@kivrinsagchannel791]

I used to spell it like josephina, but it's josefina

[@thinagarrett]

This is an SNL script I can get behind. I grew up playing with American Girl dolls and they’re under-appreciated even by the people who get so mad that Barbie dolls don’t support healthy beauty stereotypes or any of that.

[@LindaC616]

I don't know when was the last time you looked at Barbie dolls, but they are very different these days. I was in that I owe looking for a gift for someone, and noticed that Barbies now come in all colors and shapes

[@centigradz2centigradz289]

Barbie uses colour to attract their customers. American girl dolls are not as flashy.

[@LindaC616]

@@centigradz2centigradz289 or fleshy, when you think about it. I'm sure all dolls have the same body mold, just the way the original Barbies did

[@thinagarrett]

@@LindaC616 I’ll be honest, it’s been a good couple of years.

[@LindaC616]

@thinagarrett I was really amazed. There were several different shades and tones, curvy bodies, thin bodies, a little bit of everything. I remember visiting a neighbor to play with her grandchildren. She had a collection of Barbies from the 50s, and it was always cool to see redheads and brunettes since I was not blonde myself. When I was young enough to play with them, blonde was the only option out there. Strange that we went from the 50s where all hair colors existed, to blond and then on to different races, hair colors Etc

[@christinemerritt974]

“From the girls who play soccer magazine” could not have been more historically accurate.

[@kirstenpaff8946]

Sometimes I do question my family's decision to introduce me to the American Girl books when I was 5. Also, not knowing her exact birth date was the least traumatic part of Addy's story. She was forced to eat bugs as a punishment, saw people being brutally beaten, watched her father and brother be sold off, had to leave behind her grandparents and baby sister to escape to freedom, traveled at night through unfamiliar territory in constant fear of being tracked down by her enslavers, and almost got caught by a group of Confederate soldier, all in book one.

[@benzaiten933]

nothing builds character like traumatizing little girls?

[@hillakatz5855]

holy shit these were...kids books???

[@JP-ve7or]

Sounds like a book that would get banned in Florida today.

[@amyball3342]

Are you serious? That was Addy's back story????what the fu*! Unbelievable. Horrified. I'm horrified. If we are going to include horrific trauma, then Samantha needs to be in a work house, Felicity's mother and herself are witches accused, and Kirsten is kidnapped and raped and sold.

[@kellygreengables3936]

​@@hillakatz5855 They were children's books for maybe like ages 10+? Historical fiction is usually a little bit more intense. I don't remember the details ever being graphic though. So some people just enjoyed the books with these backstories, others just enjoyed the dolls and the movies (which were usually more lighthearted).

[@Cappuccino_327]

Tbh the addy American girl doll book was the first book that made me cry. I was in the fourth grade when I read it. The pain she had to endure as a slave, and being separated from her family, I can’t imagine the pain of losing your family forever.

[@rfrolicarts]

I watched the theatrical adaptation of the first book... the worm scene made me want to vomit. That was some real stuff.

[@Cappuccino_327]

@@rfrolicarts ik how she described it in the book was nasty af too so I bet a live action version of that is even worse

[@patriciasalem3606]

OMG, dying. I worked for American Girl when they were still Pleasant Company and there was no internet. Famous people would call and order dolls and accessories for their daughters. We had to go to doll training school to learn all those horrific stories. 😅 Nailed it.

[@Lilliana3]

Did you happen to meet Pleasant Rowland while working for American girl?

[@LindaC616]

😅😅

[@katie-allen]

Wait this is iconic tell us more

[@luannnelson2825]

My favorite thing Pleasant Rowland did was pay for the the pipe organ in the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s concert hall. (There were other big donors, but her donation was the largest.)

[@ariadnefrolich7243]

Sounds like a fun job!

[@robynmoroz7692]

Okay, but those first couple Addy books were traumatizing, they nailed this!

[@blumoon187]

I still think about the last book where her brother comes back but is missing an arm and is fucked up with PTSD.

[@MelissaBlue]

The Addy books were hands down the best because of this. The other girls had difficult lives, but not escaped slave dreaming of reuniting with family difficult.

[@tinmanlover1994]

ADDY NEEDS A MOVIE

[@Bernz718]

Ego had really been killing it this season.

[@rn6710]

wrong, per usual.

[@jackhorner5163]

She is quite possibly the least funny cast member of SNL. Ever.

[@sakuraba86]

Well, I know someone who isn't racist....

[@KVWilson21]

@@rn6710 hate much?

[@Mustangblack187]

😈🖤

[@jenaminton7009]

Honestly, that's why I love American Girl dolls because they dealt with personal issues. Josefina is my favorite. I'm glad that her aunt Tia Dolores ended up becoming her stepmother in the end.

[@tinmanlover1994]

Yes I like the end of her story a very happy ending

[@tweetthang96]

I really don’t want to come across as rude, but I thought you’d wanna know (if you didn’t already) that, in Spanish, “tia” means aunt. So just aunt Dolores or tia Dolores would be just fine!

[@ericathorn1298]

I dont see anyone suriviving the end of the movie. Cough 😊

[@shahartley]

Ego as Addy was perfect. And I remember reading those books over & over. Great time to have grown up.

[@shaunev3474]

She’s the only one i remember

[@jaimelubin6497]

I remember there being an intense discussion with the girls in my class (either second or third grade) where everyone loved Molly as a character, but no one wanted her doll because she had glasses.

[@sarahschroeder4739]

😂❤😂

[@jaimelubin6497]

@@alliwantsapepsi Molly had great official outfits and I thought her book storylines were some of the best.

[@TheMewtata]

Must be a little kid thing, before everyone had glasses. She’s so adorable with them!

[@emilyfothergill2515]

Okay but that samantha outfit is perfect

[@jennifergersch9126]

EXACTLY like the cover!

[@jessbrown24]

The nostalgia I felt seeing it...tears.

[@emilyfothergill2515]

Even Molly is spot on!!

[@canaisyoung3601]

And they got the right actress to play her.

[@KateMich12]

Yup. It drives me crazy that the current Samantha doll does not have this outfit.

[@inkstainsandantiques6265]

Ana de Armas is scarily accurate for how I picture a live-action version of Josephina being. Josephine was my favorite AG doll growing up so I wouldn't complain if she played her.

[@nicholasgarrick8855]

Beginning to think the writer on this shows kid is going through an American girl phase😂.

[@canaisyoung3601]

Also, some of them are old enough to remember them back when it was just the dolls, the books, and the historically accurate clothes and accessories.

[@LindaC616]

Both of them were good sketches though

[@henrytawnn8694]

Seeing as they have done several American Girl Doll related skits, I assume one of the writers went though that phase.

[@laurahamilton8868]

@@canaisyoung3601 Wait, there's more now?

[@sarahvangorden7551]

That's exactly what I thought! Several sketches in the past few years

[@KayleeFarnes]

I'm obsessed with the costume design! They did an incredible job.

[@katie-allen]

Yes I loved their tragic backstories! As a child I was so dramatic and one of my favorite games was to pretend to be an orphaned maid and then to die of scarlet fever. Looking back I’m like girl…. why 💀 And how did they know I played soccer 😭

[@marylyn3081]

You must have been a really funny kid. You made me laugh lol!

[@ginntastic]

We would have gotten along well as kids. I used to play orphanage where we had to escape an abusive orphanage. Now I'm thinking this might have been related to reading all the American Girl Doll books.....

[@jennifergersch9126]

I don't remember Samantha being an orphan.

[@MelissaBlue]

Oh oh oh I had a favorite of pretending I was a recent immigrant from Ellis Island and was working to get enough pennies to eat and have a place to sleep. I was 11 when I came up with this game, so I don't know if that's better or worse. But I loved educational historical fiction, starting with the OG AG!

[@MelissaBlue]

​@Jennifer Gersch that's why she lived with her grandmother. I don't recall the books spending too much time on the sad details of her parents' deaths.

[@ellierose6]

This was pretty epic. The feet in that opening shot. The writers and director nailed it, and no actor took over what they knew to be a perfect sketch.

[@LeDivaHeartsAll]

One of the best memories from my childhood! - a girl who played soccer 😂

[@simplyparticular]

Someone at SNL is processing their AG trauma and I’m here for it.

[@dannizinn6477]

They must have done their research. Samantha's bitchy orphan comment is a running joke in the adult collector community.

[@samfilmkid]

This actually seems like something Greta Gerwig would direct.

[@FilmSureelist97]

Right?? Haha

[@technicolordreamer]

I would watch this movie! Addy definitely deserves more love! I remember reading her first book almost in one sitting. Also, Kirsten could use some love too!

[@newvision4l314]

Addy is literally the strongest American Girl smh

[@freeree838]

I got an Addy doll as a gift as an ADULT and cried happy tears.

[@5fingerjack]

Kirsten, whose best friend died of cholera and was jettisoned off of the boat, never to be mentioned again. "I'm okayyy!!"

[@pnwolivia]

This was amazing , I LOVED my american girl doll and learning about her bummer historical background

[@daydreamcomedianne]

Addy and Kirsten were tied with having the most tragic backstory. And while Molly's wasn't as sad, she gets a friend from England whose parents died in the blitz and is still traumatized by it!

[@lemonaidy]

Emily's parents don't die in the book. In Emily's book it explains a little more about it. They sent her to America to have a new life with a new family. Her mother sends her letters from England

[@laurarichter1780]

To be fair mollys dad isn’t a prisoner of war he’s a doctor serving overseas.

[@sarmajere2866]

And Samantha is one of the sweetest kids ever. I'm not a huge fan of the doll, largely because there was a period where she was the one who got all new stuff, all the time, at the expense of characters like Josefina and Kirsten, but the character is pretty cool. Her bff, Nellie, is still better, but...

[@laurarichter1780]

@@sarmajere2866 oh yeah I remember that period. Also bummed they left felicity out. Didn’t they clean her hair with lemon for the Christmas party? That would have been funny. I’m 39. I can’t believe I remember that 😂

[@sarmajere2866]

@@laurarichter1780 Ooh yes I think SO, now that you mention. Ha I'm the same age so we were probably getting the catalogs around the same time. Crazy!

[@jennifergersch9126]

That sounds familiar.

[@lsmc8909]

To be fair….

[@dacronic1646]

The coughed up blood was freaking hilarious.

[@TheRealColt45]

I was dying. No wait, she was.

[@shanecasey8365]

what it really though?

[@ComradeStiv]

YES! The best sketch comedy is served up risky, *_inventive_* , with big fat dollops of uncomfortable truth. This one was art.

[@MaddysinLeigh]

The soccer thing got me! My sister was obsessed with American girls and played soccer so it fits.

[@aubrey04]

i used to love american girl dolls (never got any but i definitely wanted them) and played soccer for a major of my life so i second that

[@rebecca8866]

Honestly if this was a real movie I would see this in a heartbeat.

[@Ay-B]

SNL is on a vendetta against American Girl. 😂

[@canaisyoung3601]

First, that sketch where Mikey Day is accused of being a creep because he was found in an American Girl doll store during a fire. Then the Travis Kelce sketch that was similar, but executed differently. Now this.

[@ImAlsoMerobiba]

That's OK!

[@marisgoldenhour6212]

@@ImAlsoMerobiba 😆😆

[@mariskelley8831]

Nah, there's at least 1 woman in the writers' room who grew up with these dolls. Between this & the sketch in the Travis Kielce episode, there's at least 1 diehard AG fan on payroll

[@Sentinel82]

More like on a vendetta against anything to the right of Stalin. 😂

[@leonardvole9760]

My 2nd grade teacher read the Addy book during black history month and it was legit one of the more formable stories we read that year.

[@Paineinyourblank]

(Blank stare) "That's ok" What I say to myself at least once every day to get through it.

[@wille5080]

This sketch was fact checked by Thomas Dean, a man who bought an American Girl doll, but it wasn’t for him it was for a friend. It was a gift.

[@BP.COOPER]

Conan O’Brien did his own remote improv version of this years ago, it’s hysterical. totally worth watching its here on YT

[@LindaC616]

That is a pretty good one

[@thejenr8tr922]

Here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3vTkoSNjMyUeZo

[@jennifergersch9126]

He turns it into "Halloween 2."

[@HariOmRadhaKrishna]

@@thejenr8tr922 Watched it! Thank You

[@jeannefuller4470]

Thanks for the tip. That Conan sketch was hilarious 😅

[@allykins1767]

You can tell the girl playing Molly doesn’t actually wear glasses because she purposely touched the lenses. You don’t do that unless you want to be robbed of the blessing of seeing clearly!

[@pepepecaspicapapas4726]

This also doubles as an Oregon Trail movie trailer

[@WardNightstone]

HOLLYWOOD: JOKES ON YOU SNL! GREENLIT!

[@ericb9252]

"Look what I can do" *coughs up blood* Classic Sarah

[@77Creation]

*Dies*💀

[@calebholmes2019]

"That's okay!"

[@LikeTheProphet]

I thought that was Kit for some reason lmao

[@al_pal_]

I got the Kirsten doll when I was 6. My mom started to read the included book to me and when she came to the part where the friend died of cholera, she became so distraught that she refused to keep reading. I still don't know the ending to this day.

[@canaisyoung3601]

You can find out by actually finding the book. Or reading about it online.

[@faithlesshound5621]

That reminds me of the mother of Phoebe from Friends, who always cut off stories and videos before they reached any sad event, so she never learned about Bambi's mother dying, what happened to Lou Gehrig, etc, etc.

[@videohistory722]

If you're okay with spoilers now, I can tell you. Do you just want the ending of the first story, or all of them?

[@roddo1955]

@@faithlesshound5621 wh Joey, reading little women and Rachel spoiled the ending. He put the book in the fridge. 'Beth is very sick...'🤣

[@quinnellen]

She finally gets her trunk.

[@MarinaAndTheDevil]

Have A24 produce this, Ari Aster direct this and it would be my favourite movie

[@exoticalBecky_Miami]

Oh gawd...

[@pandakeeper]

This is rather brilliant!

[@writerspen010]

This was funny, but why does everyone act like Samantha was spoiled and bitchy? She was so selfless when it came to her best friend Nellie (helped her and her sisters escape an abusive orphanage, taught them to read, gave away her mother's (?) doll as a keepsake of their friendship) and spoke up against big issues of the day like child labor.

[@canaisyoung3601]

But didn't Samantha start out kinda spoiled before realizing the messed-up life her friend Nellie had?

[@writerspen010]

@@canaisyoung3601 She was privileged, but I don't ever remember thinking Samantha was spoiled. Besides, she's 9 when the books start out. It's not like you come out of the womb aware of how your life differs from somebody else's or start out with perfect mannerisms. The fact that she even became Nellie's friend shows how little Samantha valued the privileges of her upbringing when compared to the value of kindness and friendship, despite their differences in social standing. Had Samantha been spoiled, I don't think she would have bothered to become Nellie's friend once finding out that she was a servant.

[@sabrinamoses8415]

I totally agree. Samantha was soo nice. She didn't seem to have any rich friends to begin with also. I loved how she was sooo nice to Nellie.

[@whispersweetnothingsuwu]

@@canaisyoung3601 Actually Samantha was pretty tomboyish and non traditonal in so many ways she was deemed a weirdo to the other rich spoiled girls in the books because she did a lot of non lady like things. She is a pretty cool character for a lot of reasons.

[@CherryFrog321]

​@@canaisyoung3601 she was definitely privileged and a little sheltered. But never a spoiled brat or anything.

[@rosiequartzie2230]

When you find out an important part of your childhood was actually dark as shit 😂

[@alisagumm8547]

Addy and Molly were my favorite back in the 90s

[@Sassyellechica]

I always ❤ when they do American girl doll sketches. As someone who worked at the 5th ave store its funny to see how they have fun with the dolls

[@hiveminds2988]

I would unironically watch the hell out of this. (In case anyone actually wants to make this movie)

[@r.d.whitaker5787]

I absolutely would 👋

[@77Creation]

This for all the people that long for “the good old days”. 😂😂😂

[@Sentinel82]

I think this was a bit before those days. 😂

[@jenniferbates2811]

"And tragically, I wear glasses. ".....🤣🤣🤣

[@tangoangel2782]

THIS SHOULD BE TV SERIES!!!

[@ellenday2155]

This would actually be a brilliant movie.

[@LIZZYRULES]

I never had an American Girl doll because they were so expensive. But I did get the catalog to look at. 😔

[@nancymcmonarch]

Kind of like J. Peterman.

[@tayinnajacksontj6461]

Sameee

[@spazzyshortgirl23]

Those catalogs were fun tho

[@gwenmloveskpopandmore]

You can get one now there’s lots of adult collectors who never had one as a kid

[@gwenmloveskpopandmore]

@@tayinnajacksontj6461 You can get one now there’s lots of adult collectors who never had one as a kid

[@davrosdaleks1]

There’s at least one writer on this who’s a big fan of AG.

[@mrcritical6751]

Why does this feel like a perfect existential horror film? Just a load of girls with messed up backstories living in an abandoned orphanage and slowly dying one by one

[@LittleMissMaddie1998]

I loved American Girl dolls and books when I was kid. This was nostalgic and hilarious

[@kevinminter8114]

“That’s okay!”

[@ammcd2012]

I used to have the cut out Addie paper dolls in the 90s.. She gets better outfits once she gains her freedom 😂

[@cranjismcbasketball2565]

Pretty sure that if they made this movie, it'd do well. It's hilarious and a throwback for many people.

[@bostonreese4807]

Their back stories always had a dark essence to them. My mother got me every race and ethnicity when I was younger to help teach me about culture, clothes, food and traditions, etc. Each doll came with a book or a booklet explaining who they were and a little about their life.Some dolls had long, drawn out stories. So I’m waiting for American girl to give the green light to a movie like this lol. Doubt it will happen tho.

[@oliviastratton2169]

There were a couple American Girl movies that came out when I was a kid. I remember seeing ads for one about Felicity and one or two others. But I never saw them, so I can't vouch for the quality.

[@bostonreese4807]

@@oliviastratton2169 I remember that vaguely too. Can’t imagine how they’d do in the box office if they made them today. But if it was a good budget, they could be good!

[@MeganKoumori]

You did NOT just call Samantha bitchy. Samantha, who... *Defied class and social convention by befriending, educating, and eventually saving the life of a poor immigrant servant girl. *Walked into the most dangerous part of New York City by herself to find out where that friend was. *Gave Nellie her doll because Nellie had never had one *Gave a speech in front of a room full of adults condemning child labor *Guided a small boat through water filled with jagged rocks during a storm to save an injured man I can't even watch the rest of this. Seriously, what the actual fuck, SNL?

[@TaylorKnightCosplay]

Molly’s father wasn’t a POW, he was a military doctor taking care of US soldiers in England.

[@Callmekatielee]

Okay, you didn’t have to call my sisters and I out with that “girls who played soccer magazine” line.

[@melissamcdonald664]

It's Tuberculosis, not Cholera! :)

[@BbGun-lw5vi]

The way Heidi said “My friend Martha died of cholera.” 😂

[@Annie.747]

I can’t tell you how bad I want to re-play that American girl doll that has the online game that you jump from rock to rock in the waterfall😂 that was IT

[@Kjane921]

Kirsten’s family home burned down and reading that story gave me a lifelong fear of fire! But that’s okay!

[@vanyadolly]

I'm glad I only found out about that as an adult, because it's going to haunt me for the rest of my life 😂

[@gothbat676]

They forgot about Kaya, a Native American girl who spent half her book series being a captive slave to an enemy tribe 😭😭

[@canaisyoung3601]

Didn't have enough female cast members. Or maybe they didn't want to offend any Native American viewers. And there were others they missed: Felicity Merriman (American Revolutionary War), Rebecca Rubin (Russian-Jewish girl emigrating to New York City in 1914, so, during WWI), Julie Albright (1970s, filled with the kind of rights protests, social upheaval, and world-ending chaos you thought was exclusive to modern times), and Cecile Rey (trying to be black and wealthy during a time when it was rare; nearly all the same race issues as Addy, only Cecile is higher on the socioeconomic ladder).

[@kellygreengables3936]

They missed a few girls BUT I think that means a) There's room for a part two and b) They didn't want to overwhelm us in one sketch lol

[@roberthinton2702]

They don't have actresses of those ethnicities in the cast

[@KindredKaye]

Not to mention she escaped from the tribe, but left her friend behind, who was blind

[@toronto2112]

This helped me work through the fact that there are now historical American Girls from the 1990s.

[@xXAcidBathXx]

I was OBSESSED with American girl as a little boy. My favorite was Kit because I for some underknowable reason was hyperfixated on the Great Depression. Looking back I was a really weird kid.😊

[@infires2013]

I think its atrocious they're doing an American girl doll skit without zach woods in any shape or form 😭

[@Amir-rb5vi]

Underrated comment

[@ghostcooky]

No cause zach always said he wanted to voice or be an American girl doll!!!

[@rimatan2561]

I can't believe I found this comment I was thinking the same thing 😭😭😭

[@DLTA5]

"That's okay" as they dump Heidi off the wagon. Lol

[@Allaiya.]

American Girls were our childhood. Man it’s sad they don’t make the historical American Girl dolls or books anymore for today’s generation. I had Kristen & my sister had Samantha. I wanted to get Josephine or felicity as well. And all the accessories & animals. They were flippin expensive though.

[@melc-eu3dc]

You know some people would enjoy this movie. The same people who loved Daria.

[@canaisyoung3601]

So...me? And anyone whose 1990s childhood included that cartoon when it first came out (or the dreadful Noggin reruns where there were cuts for content)?

[@henrytawnn8694]

I really liked Daria.

[@Kirsten_is_cursed10]

The same people (bros with podcasts) will probably pretend is has no value because it’s not what they were personally interested in…

[@superfund42]

Correct.

[@carsilk2492]

@@henrytawnn8694 Daria is fucking awesome and Mike Judge is a genius👍

[@lsmc8909]

This is hilarious, except for the fact that it’s tuberculosis that makes you cough blood.Cholera makes you shit yourself to death.

[@Siansonea]

You can tell this was done with love. This is great.

[@nicolegonzales5283]

Heidi’s dead eyed “That’s ok!” whenever I remember something tragic….

[@laurenconrad1799]

Samantha's story was set in the Edwardian era, not Victorian. 😉 Also, love this sketch.

[@ENT683]

I wish they had felicity but I’d totally watch a second episode

[@Nothingatall1984]

Yoooooo!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂 I Had an addy doll growing up!😂😂😂

[@savannaherickson6895]

american girl fandom rise up 🙌🏻

[@InvaderHog]

lolol this is the most accurate thing I have ever seen- I read all of the books when I was a kid and was obsessed with the dolls and I was also a girl who played soccer I have never felt more seen!!!!

[@pembrokelove]

My niece is obsessed with these dolls - I got her Josefina for Chanukah and she takes her everywhere.

[@MelissaBlue]

I remember getting my Kirsten doll for Chanukah back in the 90s. It was the best 8th night present ever!

[@pembrokelove]

@@MelissaBlue my sister (same niece's mom) had Kirsten growing up. The love for AGs runs deep in this family.

[@officialjocelyn9108]

"I don't trust none of y'all." Relatable!

[@wardenm]

That ending... SUCH Oregon Trail vibes. 😆 The rest will die of dysentery halfway there.

[@DrAndyShick]

The other four went on to die of dysentary

[@asifallintonothingne]

I was waiting for Kit to pipe in: "My dad got laid off!" at 0:51 haha

[@heathercurry898]

Never could afford the dolls, but I was crazy into reading the books.

[@ChanelGloe]

As a lady that grew up OBSESSED with these dolls, I appreciate this lol. I miss the old American Girl. the books were everything to me!

[@katemccubbins2729]

I read all the books as a kid and I'm still traumatized by the scene where Addy is forced by her slave master to eat worms

[@RETROGEMS]

I feel like all of us millennial women can bond over our collective love for these books & these poor, stressed-out, traumatized girls LOL. My personal favorites were Addy's books & Samantha's. Loved Addy's stories because of her strength & indomitable will, loved Samantha's books because of the ornate Victorian settings & compelling tales of Victorian society. Always DESPERATELY wanted the Samantha doll & all her lacy, frilly accessories but never did. :( Ah well. The books were amazing though. And they helped me LOVE reading! I literally speed read through one after another of American Girl books, I accumulated a stack of 'em.

[@dreaming_destiny675]

Am I the only one that enjoyed the American Girl Doll movies over the books? Still waiting for the Addy Movie that will never come- 😔

[@gothbat676]

Nah you just have bad taste. The books were way better made than the movies

[@canaisyoung3601]

If they have Ego Nwodim as Addy, then I'm all for it.

[@llllllllllll878]

@@gothbat676 There was a considerate way to express your sentiment, and then there's the way you decided to. Too bad you chose not to be considerate in your choice of words. Meanie.

[@gothbat676]

@llllllllllll878 People that enjoy bad poorly made movies over well written books simply don't know how to read 🤷‍♀️

[@moonpeachxo]

i remember these books better than most that i read when i was 10 because of how deeply they affected me.. core memories still

[@somepinkflowers]

Sorry to bring politics into this but in Florida now Addy’s story would be ripped from library shelves for making Some People Feel Uncomfortable with the history of slavery … 😢😭 Think I’m joking ? I’m not … It’s frightening what is happening in Florida school Libraries … Please pay attention. 😢