- Finn Wolfhard made his debut on Saturday Night Live on January 17.
- The actor made several jokes about going through puberty on Stranger Things in front of millions of people.
- He was also joined by his Stranger Things co-stars, Caleb McLaughlin and Gaten Matarazzo, during his monologue.
Have you found anything to fill the Stranger Things-sized hole in your heart yet? No??? Same—but thankfully Finn Wolfhard provided fans of the show with even more closure with his appearance on Saturday Night Live on January 17, even surprising the audience with two very special guests during his monologue.
Finn kicked off the show by telling the audience just how much the Netflix hit tracked every major milestone in his life, including all the uncomfortable ones.
“This past year was very bittersweet for me. My show, Stranger Things ended. It started when I was 12, and I gotta tell you, it feels so amazing that 400 million people got to watch me go through puberty. What a dream,” he joked. “Somebody on Reddit actually figured out the exact moment it happened. My voice changed on camera, I had my first kiss on camera, and I can't actually believe I'm admitting this, but the first time I learned what a woman looks like down there was on camera as well,” he added, before the screen cheekily cutting to the inside of a slimy Demogorgon's mouth.
“Stranger Things is over and I'm not a kid anymore,” Finn continued, before Caleb McLaughlin and Gaten Matarazzo (!!!) jumped into the frame to give Finn a hug. “And neither are we,” Caleb chimed in. “We're not child stars, we're former child stars.”
“And anytime you read former child star in a headline, that can only mean good things,” Gaten added.
Before ending the bit, Finn gave a shoutout to his former co-stars and said, “I just wanted to say, even though we are now men, you'll always be my boys.” The trio all took a glass of dark liquor—because YES, they are old enough to all drink now—and made a toast. “To us, child stars who are now ready to do adult films,” Finn hilariously concluded his monologue.
So, how did Finn actually feel about the show coming to a close? Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, he said, “My mind was pretty blank when they called ‘cut’ on my final scene. I didn’t have many thoughts. I knew that I was around a lot of the cast, and we wanted to spend as much time as possible taking as much time for ourselves as possible. Experiencing these feelings together was really important. When I first read the ending, I felt sad. It was a melancholy way of reading, because I thought it was the perfect way to end. But at the same time, I was sad to say goodbye to the show.”
In short, don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened, etc....
