Every year for Mother's Day, "Saturday Night Live" sweetly tips its hat to the mothers of its cast members ... and all the moms in the audience, too.
Perhaps they throw parents a bone to compensate for making fun of them the rest of the year.
There are too many laugh-out-loud parenting sketches to count, but here are ten of our favorites.
"I am your mother" (2013)
This sketch shows the filming of a pizza roll commercial. Andy Samberg and Zac Efron play kid actors who come home and extol the virtues of said pizza rolls.
"It's way better than what she usually makes," Efron says, to which his "mom" Fred Armisen is supposed to playfully reply, "Hey ... I am your mother!"
The only problem is that Armisen is incapable of delivering the line with anything other than super aggressive intensity. Each take is better than the last.
"Mom Jeans" (2003)
The "Mom Jeans" sketch put mom jeans on the map in real life. (And we're so glad it did because we're never going back to low rise!)
Featuring Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch and Maya Rudolf, the sketch shows the women strutting through their day wearing jeans with "a 9-inch zipper and casual front pleats" that are blessedly "cut generously."
These jeans say, "I'm not a woman anymore. I'm a mom!"
"Protective mom 2" (2023)
Pedro Pascal playing an overprotective Latinx mom made such an impression that he reprised the role ... and this time musical guest Bad Bunny joins him as Tia Rosa.
When Marcello Hernández brings his new girlfriend (Chloe Troast) home to meet the family, chaos ensues. Pascal throws away the store-bought cookies Troast gives her and jokes in Spanish at her expense.
But there's one thing everyone can agree on — Hernández needs to eat more food.
"Can you pick me up?" (2024)
Have your kids ever called you to pick them up early from a sleepover without embarrassing them?
This sketch is a montage of "pick me up calls" to "mom" Maya Rudolf and "dad" Kenan Thompson. While Rudolf shows up with a bevy of fanciful excuses for the host parents (like an unexpected 2 a.m. funeral), Thompson tells it like it is: "Your daughter's mean and your house smells weird."
"Christmas Robe" (2020)
In this sketch, "kids" Kyle Mooney and Chloe Fineman and their "dad" Beck Bennett list all the extravagant gifts they received for Christmas while "mom" Kirstin Wiig got ... a bathrobe and an empty Christmas stocking.
As her family's gifts pile up, Wiig, who says she was up until 4 a.m. Christmas Eve, burns her arm while trying to make breakfast.
She says, "It hurt pretty bad but I didn't even scream 'cause I keep the pain inside of me."
"Pete Davidson on Living With His Mom" (2019)
The best part of this sketch is Pete Davidson playing Pete Davidson.
He tells the Weekend Update audience that he bought a house with his mother and now, along with his sister, they live there together. His mom, Amy Davidson, appears on the segment wearing a sweatshirt with her face and Pete's face on it.
"It's weird living with my mom and sister because sometimes I'll see a strange dude in the house and I don't know if he's some dirtbag preying on my sister or the saint who's going to take my mom off my hands," he says.
"Best Christmas Ever" (2018)
In another holiday sketch, Matt Damon and Cecily Strong play parents who sit down to relax at the end of a long Christmas Day.
As they reminisce about how "wonderful" the day was, a series of images of screaming children and overstimulated parents flood the screen. From hard-to-build presents to disagreeable family, the day had as many lows as it did highs.
The last screen shows exactly what every parent knows about Christmas: "Even when it's the worst, it's the best."
"Home videos" (2024)
Trouble brews when "mom" Dakota Johnston and "dad" Mikey Day pop a taped episode of a Maury Povich-type show in the VCR for their son Andrew Dismukes.
The episode just so happens to feature guests Johnston and Day in their younger years, and it reveals an upsetting series of family secrets.
"The Perfect Mother" (2019)
In the same vein as "Best Christmas Ever," this sketch shows toddler mom Heidi Gardner and her mother, Emma Thompson, trading compliments about their mothering skills while flashbacks show how flawed they really are.
Thompson forgot to wear pants and read her daughter's diary while Gardner screamed at her husband and certainly did not "cherish every moment."
As the women hug, Thompson says, "You have poop in your hair."
"Mother monologue" (2024)
No one but the incomparable Maya Rudolf, mom of four, could have delivered this "Vogue" style dance song with such flair.
"Look, you're not just a mom," explains Bowen Yang. "You're 'Mother.'"
"This is Maya's house now," says Kenan Thompson to introduce the song. "I give to you Mother of the House of Rockefeller."
Wearing an intergalactic irridescent bodysuit, Rudolf stomps her way through the halls of 30 Rock and like the cast, we are "gagged."
