Ryan Gosling goes to a dark place in SNL's parody of cheery HGTV real estate shows

Ryan Gosling in SNL's Fliplets sketch
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"If you love the Property Brothers, just wait 'til you meet Pete, Zeke, and Tristan. It's The Fliplets!" So starts Saturday Night Live's parody of HGTV ("You're watching HGTV, 'cuz your house sucks!") and its equally cheery and unrealistic real estate shows.

The skit features SNL's Mikey Day as Pete the real estate agent, Alex Moffat as Zeke the contractor, and episode host Ryan Gosling as Tristan, the only triplet who lived with their dad after their parents divorced.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.