"At this point, you can set your watch to it: at the end of a given year, your social media feed will suddenly be flooded by people sharing their Spotify Wrapped data. (As well as a few people seizing the moment to criticize Spotify's ubiquity.) Last year, Saturday Night Live used the occasion to have some fun at Spotify's expense; this year, they did. so again, suggesting that the real beneficiary of Spotify Wrapped might be comedy writers."
"Spotify's decision to expand the boundaries of Wrapped this year, including estimating people's ages based on their listening habits, gave SNL even more to work with this year. For this week's episode, the premise was simple: what if Uber Eats did a Wrapped of its own? And if you think, "Wait, I don't want to know how much money I spend on food delivery every year" - exactly."
"The premise itself is solid, but some of the sketch's best moments come from the highly specific details here, from Ben Marshall's character having a secret handshake with the plumber who's constantly repairing his toilet to the way James Austin Johnson channels, of all things, the Pillsbury Doughboy, to horrific effect. Johnson's delivery of the line, "My top food was churros and my Uber Eats age is dead?" is also terrific."
Year-end social feeds fill with Spotify Wrapped shares and occasional criticism of Spotify's ubiquity. Spotify expanded Wrapped this year to include features such as estimating listeners' ages from listening habits. Saturday Night Live parodied the expansion by imagining an Uber Eats Wrapped that catalogues users' delivery spending and habits. The sketch's humor relied on highly specific, absurd details, including a secret handshake with a recurrent plumber and James Austin Johnson channeling the Pillsbury Doughboy. A standout line was, "My top food was churros and my Uber Eats age is dead?" A recurring podcast Easter egg appeared, linking sketches across episodes.
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