Watch Bad Bunny & Benicio del Toro’s “Inventing Spanish” SNL Sketch

Ever marvel why Spanish nouns all have genders? 

Saturday Night Live tried to clarify in its “Inventing Spanish” sketch, starring Season 51 premiere Host Bad Bunny. In the sketch, the Grammy-winning Puerto Rican famous person and Marcello Hernández play two Iberians who reveal their new language to males who battle to understand the idea. Which phrases are boys, and that are women?

“Morning is a girl,” says Bad Bunny’s character. “La mañana.” 

“Yes, the morning is a girl because the morning is like, ‘Heeey!'” provides his assistant, performed by Hernández. 

The evening? Also a woman, “because night is like, ‘Goodniiiight!'” 

The ocean, nevertheless, is a boy. 

“The ocean is a boy because it’s fun, but sometimes, for no reason, it kill you,” says Hernández. 

Dress is a boy, the Bible is a woman, and it is all fairly self-explanatory. 

While Bad Bunny stated in his October 4, 2025 monologue that viewers have time to be taught Spanish earlier than his Super Bowl LX halftime present, he instructed Apple Music folks needn’t fear about figuring out the language. Promising “a party,” he stated you “only need to worry about dancing.”

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Benicio del Toro popped up in Bad Bunny’s “Spanish” sketch

One Battle After Another Academy Award nominee Benicio del Toro arrives as Hernández’ cousin. He has a number of extra guidelines so as to add. 

“We will do also ‘formal’ and ‘informal,’ like, ‘you’ or ‘you,'” the Puerto Rican actor says. “What if the letter ‘r’ lasted a long time?” 

The future Spanish-speaking areas are puzzled by the adjustments. But when Mikey Day’s Barcelona (“Barthelona”) emissary protests, all of them discover out why that is a extremely dangerous concept. 

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Nate Bargatze skewered American customs in “Washington’s Dream”

“Inventing Spanish” is a transparent follow-up to Nate Bargatze’s viral “Washington’s Dream” from 2023, which starred the comic as George Washington. The first president shared his views of what America might be with a few of his fellow revolutionaries, baffling them with ideas we barely suppose twice about in 2026. 

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Former forged member and head author Seth Meyers has known as “Washington’s Dream” a “perfect sketch,” praising writers Day and Streeter Seidell for creating one thing that made him so “extremely jealous.” It obtained a sequel when Bargatze returned to host in Season 50, and even a spin-off when Bargatze hosted the 2025 Emmy Awards.

Day, Yang, and James Austin Johnson joined the comic for a sketch concerning the invention of tv, dreaming that at some point there can be a present the place folks would have totally different brains at work and at house, and a channel known as History that’s really about aliens. 

Luckily almost every thing is not sensible in any respect, so we envision a way forward for countless alternatives for brand spanking new variations of the sketch for years to return. 

Watch “Inventing Spanish” from Season 51, Episode 1 above, and stream each season of Saturday Night Live on Peacock anytime.