I actually like the premise of this movie: A bunch of time displaced girls from different eras with tragic backstories team up to travel through time and try and prevent the wars and disasters that affected their lives. LOTS of potential there.
Here is the thing with American girl doll books. They were BRUTALLY honest about history, and WE LOVED THEM. Not only were these stories amazing but it was a great way to learn REAL things that happened back then. Sadly if these books were released today you know they would be banned. Little girls now are missing out big time since the original American Girl dolls were discontinued.
I could swear the books were challenged (not banned, but did catch heat for being "too real") in the 1990s. I know Goosebumps was, even if the horror was cheesy camp.
They’re writing new books now with great adult talent behind the series. Britt Bennett has created a new historical character in the Harlem Renaissance called Claudine.
@@NessaHthe same as learning the horror in factory farms. If it’s horrible, it just doesn’t exist and you don’t have to think about it if no one mentions it.
"Nobody said hi to me :(" Addy was my favorite American Girl! There is one passage where she is talking about how her family is moving into a nicer place and she is excited about having "Two whole rooms! And the apartment had a stove so Mama could cook their meals" that I still remember 20 years later because I was happy for her! but at the same time she had to go through so much and she was so bright and kind and loved reading and even with all of her trauma she was still able to excel in school.
Don't forget Felicity and the psychological turmoil of her best friend being a loyalist during the American revolution, and that time she had to steal a horse that was being abused by the town drunk!
I just said that they forgot Felicity. Sarah Sherman could have easily been her (or if Cecily Strong stayed on the show, she probably could have been her too). Was Felicity retired from the American Girl doll collection? Did the writers just forget she existed? Or did they not have enough female cast members to include her? EDIT: Other American Girl dolls they forgot include Cecile Rey, a wealthy, New Orleans black girl (Punkie Johnson could have played her); Julie Albright, a hippie chick from 1974 with divorced parents and feminist ideals (that's probably not dark enough, unless you say that her ideals back then mean nothing now or something), Kaya, a Nez Perce American Indian who was a slave girl; Rebecca Rubin, a Russian-Jewish immigrant from 1914 who wants to be a movie star back during the early days of American cinema; and the most recent one, Kakani Akina, a half-Japanese Hawaiian girl with blond hair (definitely some accusations of cultural appropriation and people not knowing or caring about mixed-race people).
@@canaisyoung3601 There were a bunch of dolls they didn't include in this sketch, like Nanea, who I'm pretty sure got bombed(?), I think they just didn't want to have too many characters in the sketch.
@@lulusobel8643 Yeah, that makes sense. But Felicity was part of the OG American Girl Dolls from the 1990s and nostalgia just made me flip my crap over who's missing. At least they got Samantha, Addy, Kirsten, and Molly right, especially Samantha and Addy and, to a lesser extent, Molly (Molly McIntyre wasn't that chubby, but I'm letting that slide, since Molly Kearney and the costume people got the look down).
I noticed that right off, and it's weird that they included Kit who came after her. Maybe because the Merrimans had enslaved people in their house and her father's store?
As a former die-hard American Girl fan, I now want an American Girl movie where they all meet each other. And I can't believe they didn't mention Samantha's best friend being an orphan child laborer raising her younger sisters or Kit almost getting run over by a train while escaping from prison.
Or kits family being on the brink of bankruptcy during the great depression and taking in strangers to live at her house that ended up stealing from them and framing her friends for the crime
The profile of the chonky little foot is so scarily accurate to AG dolls - just a wonderfully hilarious contrast to the (also distorted) Barbie high heel. God is in the details 😂
Tbh the addy American girl doll book was the first book that made me cry. I was in the fourth grade when I read it. The pain she had to endure as a slave, and being separated from her family, I can’t imagine the pain of losing your family forever.
And the craziest part is that something like eating worms can be considered pretty tame in comparison so some of the things I’ve read slaves having to endure. Castration, limb removal/amputations, having their skin turned to leather, sxual abuse, and torture just for the amusement of the slve masters were all outcomes. I could list even more but I want this comment to educate at least one person to the horrors endured. It’s bound to get taken down if I list more
You know who really loved those dolls? The mothers! I became more excited about my daughter's Felicity's clothing, four poster bed and the fold out screen backdrop to her home - and I know it was the same with all the mothers of her friends with their dolls! 🤣
Honestly, that's why I love American Girl dolls because they dealt with personal issues. Josefina is my favorite. I'm glad that her aunt Tia Dolores ended up becoming her stepmother in the end.
I really don’t want to come across as rude, but I thought you’d wanna know (if you didn’t already) that, in Spanish, “tia” means aunt. So just aunt Dolores or tia Dolores would be just fine!
Y’know I’ve never understood the characterisation of Sid, he’s just an imaginative kid. My husband & I are both artists and we see Sid v differently to y’all…cos we did head swaps and body mods on our toys…it was super fun and meant we could carry on playing with otherwise knackered toys…! Yeah, it is rather horrifying if you know the toys can feel but Sid doesn’t know that til the end and is clearly upset when he finds that out…but really he was just exploring his creativity! (Yeah, it s a bit shitty when he does it to Sally's dolls but otherwise…!)❤️🏴❤️
American Girl was groundbreaking for their dedication to historical accuracy of material culture (including the material culture of people who weren’t rich), how they introduce kids to some of the horrors of history in an age-appropriate way, and how they focused on a more racially and culturally diverse set of characters than any doll series before it. As a kid, I knew I was holding something special when my Addy’s drinking gourd was made of real gourd, when my friend’s Kaya had real abalone in her hair, or when my sister’s Josefina’s accessories were made of real leather. Real cotton, wool, wood, feathers. Working metal whistles. Work dresses, not just ballgowns. AG captured the everyday reality of regular preteen girls, instead of telling the same story of an older rich teen who never had to do menial work. And it did so in a tactile, immersive way. Ofc the irony is that the products were unaffordable for most girls, and there were some historical inaccuracies, but overall I appreciate the scholarly foundation of the series. There’s a cool article on the academic committee behind Addy that had to decide how to introduce rich preteen girls to slavery and racism, what type of slave to make Addy, how much trauma to give her, how dark to make her skin, how textured to make her hair, etc.
I had a huge chunk of the series and probably every Samantha book, but Samantha herself would only be mine if I paid for her myself. By the time I was finally able to have that money to spare, Samantha had been discontinued. 🥲😅
I remember there being an intense discussion with the girls in my class (either second or third grade) where everyone loved Molly as a character, but no one wanted her doll because she had glasses.
As someone who wears glasses, I don’t get the hate for glasses. I can understand not wanting to have to wear them because it can be a little frustrating, but appearance wise, I love them! I find my glasses so cute and I love girls who wear glasses.
@@Thathestiadevotee It's one of those weird fashion trends that goes in and out every few years. The sad part is when people forget some of us actually need them to see!
This is an SNL script I can get behind. I grew up playing with American Girl dolls and they’re under-appreciated even by the people who get so mad that Barbie dolls don’t support healthy beauty stereotypes or any of that.
I don't know when was the last time you looked at Barbie dolls, but they are very different these days. I was in that I owe looking for a gift for someone, and noticed that Barbies now come in all colors and shapes
@thinagarrett I was really amazed. There were several different shades and tones, curvy bodies, thin bodies, a little bit of everything. I remember visiting a neighbor to play with her grandchildren. She had a collection of Barbies from the 50s, and it was always cool to see redheads and brunettes since I was not blonde myself. When I was young enough to play with them, blonde was the only option out there. Strange that we went from the 50s where all hair colors existed, to blond and then on to different races, hair colors Etc
True but it low-key kinda doenst make sense because it was Kit and she was alive during the great depression. Would have made more sense if it was Addy or Samantha.
Ana de Armas is scarily accurate for how I picture a live-action version of Josephina being. Josephine was my favorite AG doll growing up so I wouldn't complain if she played her.
OMG, dying. I worked for American Girl when they were still Pleasant Company and there was no internet. Famous people would call and order dolls and accessories for their daughters. We had to go to doll training school to learn all those horrific stories. 😅 Nailed it.
My favorite thing Pleasant Rowland did was pay for the the pipe organ in the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s concert hall. (There were other big donors, but her donation was the largest.)
You can tell the girl playing Molly doesn’t actually wear glasses because she purposely touched the lenses. You don’t do that unless you want to be robbed of the blessing of seeing clearly!
Sometimes I do question my family's decision to introduce me to the American Girl books when I was 5. Also, not knowing her exact birth date was the least traumatic part of Addy's story. She was forced to eat bugs as a punishment, saw people being brutally beaten, watched her father and brother be sold off, had to leave behind her grandparents and baby sister to escape to freedom, traveled at night through unfamiliar territory in constant fear of being tracked down by her enslavers, and almost got caught by a group of Confederate soldier, all in book one.
Are you serious? That was Addy's back story????what the fu*! Unbelievable. Horrified. I'm horrified. If we are going to include horrific trauma, then Samantha needs to be in a work house, Felicity's mother and herself are witches accused, and Kirsten is kidnapped and raped and sold.
@@hillakatz5855 They were children's books for maybe like ages 10+? Historical fiction is usually a little bit more intense. I don't remember the details ever being graphic though. So some people just enjoyed the books with these backstories, others just enjoyed the dolls and the movies (which were usually more lighthearted).
Just realizing why they disposed of those two. I didn’t realize tuberculosis is contagious. also, you could’ve just taken them to the modern world and then gone to the drugstore
@@KingdomofEvania100 Fun fact: the treatment for TB can require months of serious pills. Some strains are so bad you can be placed in involuntary quarantine. It's not a 'drugstore' disease.
I would watch this movie! Addy definitely deserves more love! I remember reading her first book almost in one sitting. Also, Kirsten could use some love too!
The Addy books were hands down the best because of this. The other girls had difficult lives, but not escaped slave dreaming of reuniting with family difficult.
Yes I loved their tragic backstories! As a child I was so dramatic and one of my favorite games was to pretend to be an orphaned maid and then to die of scarlet fever. Looking back I’m like girl…. why 💀 And how did they know I played soccer 😭
We would have gotten along well as kids. I used to play orphanage where we had to escape an abusive orphanage. Now I'm thinking this might have been related to reading all the American Girl Doll books.....
Oh oh oh I had a favorite of pretending I was a recent immigrant from Ellis Island and was working to get enough pennies to eat and have a place to sleep. I was 11 when I came up with this game, so I don't know if that's better or worse. But I loved educational historical fiction, starting with the OG AG!
@Jennifer Gersch that's why she lived with her grandmother. I don't recall the books spending too much time on the sad details of her parents' deaths.
Addy and Kirsten were tied with having the most tragic backstory. And while Molly's wasn't as sad, she gets a friend from England whose parents died in the blitz and is still traumatized by it!
Emily's parents don't die in the book. In Emily's book it explains a little more about it. They sent her to America to have a new life with a new family. Her mother sends her letters from England
@@lemonaidyyeah but in the movie Emily is actually more traumatized because in the film her mother actually died when their apartment was bombed while her dad is serving in the RAF. Guess they wanted to make her story sadder
I moved to America three months after my mom died, and the first book I remember reading in the school library was one of Josefina’s. That was early on a depiction of a motherless daughter that I could relate to🩷
I got the Kirsten doll when I was 6. My mom started to read the included book to me and when she came to the part where the friend died of cholera, she became so distraught that she refused to keep reading. I still don't know the ending to this day.
That reminds me of the mother of Phoebe from Friends, who always cut off stories and videos before they reached any sad event, so she never learned about Bambi's mother dying, what happened to Lou Gehrig, etc, etc.
First, that sketch where Mikey Day is accused of being a creep because he was found in an American Girl doll store during a fire. Then the Travis Kelce sketch that was similar, but executed differently. Now this.
Nah, there's at least 1 woman in the writers' room who grew up with these dolls. Between this & the sketch in the Travis Kielce episode, there's at least 1 diehard AG fan on payroll
And Samantha is one of the sweetest kids ever. I'm not a huge fan of the doll, largely because there was a period where she was the one who got all new stuff, all the time, at the expense of characters like Josefina and Kirsten, but the character is pretty cool. Her bff, Nellie, is still better, but...
@@sarmajere2866 oh yeah I remember that period. Also bummed they left felicity out. Didn’t they clean her hair with lemon for the Christmas party? That would have been funny. I’m 39. I can’t believe I remember that 😂
lolol this is the most accurate thing I have ever seen- I read all of the books when I was a kid and was obsessed with the dolls and I was also a girl who played soccer I have never felt more seen!!!!
I can’t tell you how bad I want to re-play that American girl doll that has the online game that you jump from rock to rock in the waterfall😂 that was IT
I was OBSESSED with American girl as a little boy. My favorite was Kit because I for some underknowable reason was hyperfixated on the Great Depression. Looking back I was a really weird kid.😊
This was funny, but why does everyone act like Samantha was spoiled and bitchy? She was so selfless when it came to her best friend Nellie (helped her and her sisters escape an abusive orphanage, taught them to read, gave away her mother's (?) doll as a keepsake of their friendship) and spoke up against big issues of the day like child labor.
@@canaisyoung3601 She was privileged, but I don't ever remember thinking Samantha was spoiled. Besides, she's 9 when the books start out. It's not like you come out of the womb aware of how your life differs from somebody else's or start out with perfect mannerisms. The fact that she even became Nellie's friend shows how little Samantha valued the privileges of her upbringing when compared to the value of kindness and friendship, despite their differences in social standing. Had Samantha been spoiled, I don't think she would have bothered to become Nellie's friend once finding out that she was a servant.
@@canaisyoung3601 Actually Samantha was pretty tomboyish and non traditonal in so many ways she was deemed a weirdo to the other rich spoiled girls in the books because she did a lot of non lady like things. She is a pretty cool character for a lot of reasons.
Their back stories always had a dark essence to them. My mother got me every race and ethnicity when I was younger to help teach me about culture, clothes, food and traditions, etc. Each doll came with a book or a booklet explaining who they were and a little about their life.Some dolls had long, drawn out stories. So I’m waiting for American girl to give the green light to a movie like this lol. Doubt it will happen tho.
There were a couple American Girl movies that came out when I was a kid. I remember seeing ads for one about Felicity and one or two others. But I never saw them, so I can't vouch for the quality.
@@oliviastratton2169 I remember that vaguely too. Can’t imagine how they’d do in the box office if they made them today. But if it was a good budget, they could be good!
I feel like all of us millennial women can bond over our collective love for these books & these poor, stressed-out, traumatized girls LOL. My personal favorites were Addy's books & Samantha's. Loved Addy's stories because of her strength & indomitable will, loved Samantha's books because of the ornate Victorian settings & compelling tales of Victorian society. Always DESPERATELY wanted the Samantha doll & all her lacy, frilly accessories but never did. :( Ah well. The books were amazing though. And they helped me LOVE reading! I literally speed read through one after another of American Girl books, I accumulated a stack of 'em.
I actually like the premise of this movie: A bunch of time displaced girls from different eras with tragic backstories team up to travel through time and try and prevent the wars and disasters that affected their lives. LOTS of potential there.
Oooh I like
Something original, I like it!!😊
And they're all dying of cholera
I would watch this.
I would pay money for that😊
Here is the thing with American girl doll books. They were BRUTALLY honest about history, and WE LOVED THEM. Not only were these stories amazing but it was a great way to learn REAL things that happened back then. Sadly if these books were released today you know they would be banned. Little girls now are missing out big time since the original American Girl dolls were discontinued.
I could swear the books were challenged (not banned, but did catch heat for being "too real") in the 1990s. I know Goosebumps was, even if the horror was cheesy camp.
@@canaisyoung3601 goosebumps was banned??? GOOSEBUMPS?? Why??
They’re writing new books now with great adult talent behind the series. Britt Bennett has created a new historical character in the Harlem Renaissance called Claudine.
@@canaisyoung3601that’s so pathetic. What do people have against learning history?
@@NessaHthe same as learning the horror in factory farms. If it’s horrible, it just doesn’t exist and you don’t have to think about it if no one mentions it.
MAJOR PROPS, to the costume department on this one! Especially Samantha & Addy!
It’s so perfect I couldn’t believe it!
Yes oh my goodness!! My jaw literally dropped!
I know right?!?!
@lynzee Al-Hakeem Double props to the costume department
Who's Addy?
"Nobody said hi to me :(" Addy was my favorite American Girl! There is one passage where she is talking about how her family is moving into a nicer place and she is excited about having "Two whole rooms! And the apartment had a stove so Mama could cook their meals" that I still remember 20 years later because I was happy for her! but at the same time she had to go through so much and she was so bright and kind and loved reading and even with all of her trauma she was still able to excel in school.
I know I love addy and I’m trying to complete her collection
Addy was my favorite too! I have her doll at my grandmama’s house.
I lo❤ve Addy. My daughter and I just finished reading Meet Addy.
Danzy Senna talks about Addy in her fantastic book "Colored Television"
Don't forget Felicity and the psychological turmoil of her best friend being a loyalist during the American revolution, and that time she had to steal a horse that was being abused by the town drunk!
I just said that they forgot Felicity. Sarah Sherman could have easily been her (or if Cecily Strong stayed on the show, she probably could have been her too). Was Felicity retired from the American Girl doll collection? Did the writers just forget she existed? Or did they not have enough female cast members to include her?
EDIT: Other American Girl dolls they forgot include Cecile Rey, a wealthy, New Orleans black girl (Punkie Johnson could have played her); Julie Albright, a hippie chick from 1974 with divorced parents and feminist ideals (that's probably not dark enough, unless you say that her ideals back then mean nothing now or something), Kaya, a Nez Perce American Indian who was a slave girl; Rebecca Rubin, a Russian-Jewish immigrant from 1914 who wants to be a movie star back during the early days of American cinema; and the most recent one, Kakani Akina, a half-Japanese Hawaiian girl with blond hair (definitely some accusations of cultural appropriation and people not knowing or caring about mixed-race people).
@@canaisyoung3601 There were a bunch of dolls they didn't include in this sketch, like Nanea, who I'm pretty sure got bombed(?), I think they just didn't want to have too many characters in the sketch.
@@lulusobel8643 Yeah, that makes sense. But Felicity was part of the OG American Girl Dolls from the 1990s and nostalgia just made me flip my crap over who's missing.
At least they got Samantha, Addy, Kirsten, and Molly right, especially Samantha and Addy and, to a lesser extent, Molly (Molly McIntyre wasn't that chubby, but I'm letting that slide, since Molly Kearney and the costume people got the look down).
I noticed that right off, and it's weird that they included Kit who came after her.
Maybe because the Merrimans had enslaved people in their house and her father's store?
Hey y'all. Stop it. I support you being an adult and doing whatever you want to do. But stop it. Like stop it yall.
As a former die-hard American Girl fan, I now want an American Girl movie where they all meet each other.
And I can't believe they didn't mention Samantha's best friend being an orphan child laborer raising her younger sisters or Kit almost getting run over by a train while escaping from prison.
"That's okay." 🙂
Nellie! my favorite
They are coming with one so be prepared
me too I think they should’ve included that Samantha had to teach Nellie to read
Or kits family being on the brink of bankruptcy during the great depression and taking in strangers to live at her house that ended up stealing from them and framing her friends for the crime
The profile of the chonky little foot is so scarily accurate to AG dolls - just a wonderfully hilarious contrast to the (also distorted) Barbie high heel. God is in the details 😂
True
They do have oddly triangular feet, don't they?
You can tell a true fan wrote this!!
That's basically how my thick ass wide ass feet look irl :(
Oh so that's why her feet look that way. They creeped me out.
Tbh the addy American girl doll book was the first book that made me cry. I was in the fourth grade when I read it. The pain she had to endure as a slave, and being separated from her family, I can’t imagine the pain of losing your family forever.
I watched the theatrical adaptation of the first book... the worm scene made me want to vomit. That was some real stuff.
@@rfrolicarts ik how she described it in the book was nasty af too so I bet a live action version of that is even worse
The part where they made her eat worms was so disturbing and stuck with me forever.
And the craziest part is that something like eating worms can be considered pretty tame in comparison so some of the things I’ve read slaves having to endure. Castration, limb removal/amputations, having their skin turned to leather, sxual abuse, and torture just for the amusement of the slve masters were all outcomes. I could list even more but I want this comment to educate at least one person to the horrors endured. It’s bound to get taken down if I list more
@@leahvwaller what was it?
Those under-nourished girls were the foundation of my entire childhood
Mine too. I remember reading the ones about Molly McIntyre first and I'm old enough to remember when Addy first came out.
You know who really loved those dolls? The mothers! I became more excited about my daughter's Felicity's clothing, four poster bed and the fold out screen backdrop to her home - and I know it was the same with all the mothers of her friends with their dolls! 🤣
That’s OK!
they were my entire personality from ages 8-12
Me too!
Honestly, that's why I love American Girl dolls because they dealt with personal issues. Josefina is my favorite. I'm glad that her aunt Tia Dolores ended up becoming her stepmother in the end.
Yes I like the end of her story a very happy ending
I really don’t want to come across as rude, but I thought you’d wanna know (if you didn’t already) that, in Spanish, “tia” means aunt. So just aunt Dolores or tia Dolores would be just fine!
I dont see anyone suriviving the end of the movie. Cough 😊
American girl dolls carry more trauma than a toy left in Sid’s room.
Y’all joke about it but there actually is an American girl doll movie
They are called An American girl they are cute kids movies
@@madnessarcade7447 ªºk
Least the toys in Sid's room can fight back.
Sad but so true
Can you image them as housewives 😱🤦
Y’know I’ve never understood the characterisation of Sid, he’s just an imaginative kid. My husband & I are both artists and we see Sid v differently to y’all…cos we did head swaps and body mods on our toys…it was super fun and meant we could carry on playing with otherwise knackered toys…! Yeah, it is rather horrifying if you know the toys can feel but Sid doesn’t know that til the end and is clearly upset when he finds that out…but really he was just exploring his creativity! (Yeah, it s a bit shitty when he does it to Sally's dolls but otherwise…!)❤️🏴❤️
As an adult American Girl Doll collector, I am so happy they pronounced Josefina's name correctly.
Lol the arguments at recess
I used to spell it like josephina, but it's josefina
How else could it be pronounced?
@@maggyf3932 Joe-sah-fina
American Girl was groundbreaking for their dedication to historical accuracy of material culture (including the material culture of people who weren’t rich), how they introduce kids to some of the horrors of history in an age-appropriate way, and how they focused on a more racially and culturally diverse set of characters than any doll series before it. As a kid, I knew I was holding something special when my Addy’s drinking gourd was made of real gourd, when my friend’s Kaya had real abalone in her hair, or when my sister’s Josefina’s accessories were made of real leather. Real cotton, wool, wood, feathers. Working metal whistles. Work dresses, not just ballgowns. AG captured the everyday reality of regular preteen girls, instead of telling the same story of an older rich teen who never had to do menial work. And it did so in a tactile, immersive way.
Ofc the irony is that the products were unaffordable for most girls, and there were some historical inaccuracies, but overall I appreciate the scholarly foundation of the series. There’s a cool article on the academic committee behind Addy that had to decide how to introduce rich preteen girls to slavery and racism, what type of slave to make Addy, how much trauma to give her, how dark to make her skin, how textured to make her hair, etc.
Smantha's accessories were like $20 in 1988!!! EACH. My mom found a rando 18" doll truck I used instead of the legit one
Unfortunately unaffordable, but appreciate the effort.
I had a huge chunk of the series and probably every Samantha book, but Samantha herself would only be mine if I paid for her myself. By the time I was finally able to have that money to spare, Samantha had been discontinued. 🥲😅
do you happen to have the link to the article? that sounds really interesting
I wanted a doll SO BAD, but never got one. Read the books to shreds though.
I remember there being an intense discussion with the girls in my class (either second or third grade) where everyone loved Molly as a character, but no one wanted her doll because she had glasses.
😂❤😂
@@alliwantsapepsi Molly had great official outfits and I thought her book storylines were some of the best.
Must be a little kid thing, before everyone had glasses. She’s so adorable with them!
As someone who wears glasses, I don’t get the hate for glasses. I can understand not wanting to have to wear them because it can be a little frustrating, but appearance wise, I love them! I find my glasses so cute and I love girls who wear glasses.
@@Thathestiadevotee It's one of those weird fashion trends that goes in and out every few years. The sad part is when people forget some of us actually need them to see!
This is an SNL script I can get behind. I grew up playing with American Girl dolls and they’re under-appreciated even by the people who get so mad that Barbie dolls don’t support healthy beauty stereotypes or any of that.
I don't know when was the last time you looked at Barbie dolls, but they are very different these days. I was in that I owe looking for a gift for someone, and noticed that Barbies now come in all colors and shapes
Barbie uses colour to attract their customers. American girl dolls are not as flashy.
@@centigradz2centigradz289 or fleshy, when you think about it. I'm sure all dolls have the same body mold, just the way the original Barbies did
@@LindaC616 I’ll be honest, it’s been a good couple of years.
@thinagarrett I was really amazed. There were several different shades and tones, curvy bodies, thin bodies, a little bit of everything. I remember visiting a neighbor to play with her grandchildren. She had a collection of Barbies from the 50s, and it was always cool to see redheads and brunettes since I was not blonde myself. When I was young enough to play with them, blonde was the only option out there. Strange that we went from the 50s where all hair colors existed, to blond and then on to different races, hair colors Etc
YES! The best sketch comedy is served up risky, *_inventive_* , with big fat dollops of uncomfortable truth. This one was art.
It shouldn’t be funny but the girl saying “Look what I can do” and then coughing up that blood cracks me up! 🤣
I was dying almost as much as she was
@@TheRealColt45😅
True but it low-key kinda doenst make sense because it was Kit and she was alive during the great depression. Would have made more sense if it was Addy or Samantha.
That’s OK!
@@rosestrife1498 it was Kristen that was coughing. She’s the mid 1800s
Ana de Armas is scarily accurate for how I picture a live-action version of Josephina being. Josephine was my favorite AG doll growing up so I wouldn't complain if she played her.
she totally looks like a doll
Ego as Addy was perfect. And I remember reading those books over & over. Great time to have grown up.
She’s the only one i remember
I'm obsessed with the costume design! They did an incredible job.
OMG, dying. I worked for American Girl when they were still Pleasant Company and there was no internet. Famous people would call and order dolls and accessories for their daughters. We had to go to doll training school to learn all those horrific stories. 😅 Nailed it.
Did you happen to meet Pleasant Rowland while working for American girl?
😅😅
Wait this is iconic tell us more
My favorite thing Pleasant Rowland did was pay for the the pipe organ in the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s concert hall. (There were other big donors, but her donation was the largest.)
Sounds like a fun job!
This was pretty epic. The feet in that opening shot. The writers and director nailed it, and no actor took over what they knew to be a perfect sketch.
“From the girls who play soccer magazine” could not have been more historically accurate.
You can tell the girl playing Molly doesn’t actually wear glasses because she purposely touched the lenses. You don’t do that unless you want to be robbed of the blessing of seeing clearly!
Sometimes I do question my family's decision to introduce me to the American Girl books when I was 5.
Also, not knowing her exact birth date was the least traumatic part of Addy's story. She was forced to eat bugs as a punishment, saw people being brutally beaten, watched her father and brother be sold off, had to leave behind her grandparents and baby sister to escape to freedom, traveled at night through unfamiliar territory in constant fear of being tracked down by her enslavers, and almost got caught by a group of Confederate soldier, all in book one.
nothing builds character like traumatizing little girls?
holy shit these were...kids books???
Sounds like a book that would get banned in Florida today.
Are you serious?
That was Addy's back story????what the fu*! Unbelievable. Horrified. I'm horrified. If we are going to include horrific trauma, then Samantha needs to be in a work house, Felicity's mother and herself are witches accused, and Kirsten is kidnapped and raped and sold.
@@hillakatz5855 They were children's books for maybe like ages 10+? Historical fiction is usually a little bit more intense. I don't remember the details ever being graphic though. So some people just enjoyed the books with these backstories, others just enjoyed the dolls and the movies (which were usually more lighthearted).
This is hilarious, except for the fact that it’s tuberculosis that makes you cough blood.Cholera makes you shit yourself to death.
It doesn’t say cause of death. She wanted to end Cholera, but died of TB.
John Green dat you???
Just realizing why they disposed of those two. I didn’t realize tuberculosis is contagious.
also, you could’ve just taken them to the modern world and then gone to the drugstore
@@KingdomofEvania100 Fun fact: the treatment for TB can require months of serious pills. Some strains are so bad you can be placed in involuntary quarantine. It's not a 'drugstore' disease.
You tell 'em, nerd! Saves me the trouble.
Okay but that samantha outfit is perfect
EXACTLY like the cover!
The nostalgia I felt seeing it...tears.
Even Molly is spot on!!
And they got the right actress to play her.
Yup. It drives me crazy that the current Samantha doll does not have this outfit.
I would watch this movie! Addy definitely deserves more love! I remember reading her first book almost in one sitting. Also, Kirsten could use some love too!
Addy is literally the strongest American Girl smh
I got an Addy doll as a gift as an ADULT and cried happy tears.
Kirsten, whose best friend died of cholera and was jettisoned off of the boat, never to be mentioned again. "I'm okayyy!!"
Ego had really been killing it this season.
wrong, per usual.
She is quite possibly the least funny cast member of SNL. Ever.
Well, I know someone who isn't racist....
@@rn6710 hate much?
😈🖤
I was waiting for Kit to pipe in: "My dad got laid off!" at 0:51 haha
Okay, but those first couple Addy books were traumatizing, they nailed this!
I still think about the last book where her brother comes back but is missing an arm and is fucked up with PTSD.
The Addy books were hands down the best because of this. The other girls had difficult lives, but not escaped slave dreaming of reuniting with family difficult.
ADDY NEEDS A MOVIE
@@MelissaBlue
I don't think more trauma= better storytelling
This sketch was fact checked by Thomas Dean, a man who bought an American Girl doll, but it wasn’t for him it was for a friend. It was a gift.
Beginning to think the writer on this shows kid is going through an American girl phase😂.
Also, some of them are old enough to remember them back when it was just the dolls, the books, and the historically accurate clothes and accessories.
Both of them were good sketches though
Seeing as they have done several American Girl Doll related skits, I assume one of the writers went though that phase.
@@canaisyoung3601 Wait, there's more now?
That's exactly what I thought! Several sketches in the past few years
Honestly if this was a real movie I would see this in a heartbeat.
Yes I loved their tragic backstories! As a child I was so dramatic and one of my favorite games was to pretend to be an orphaned maid and then to die of scarlet fever. Looking back I’m like girl…. why 💀
And how did they know I played soccer 😭
You must have been a really funny kid. You made me laugh lol!
We would have gotten along well as kids. I used to play orphanage where we had to escape an abusive orphanage. Now I'm thinking this might have been related to reading all the American Girl Doll books.....
I don't remember Samantha being an orphan.
Oh oh oh I had a favorite of pretending I was a recent immigrant from Ellis Island and was working to get enough pennies to eat and have a place to sleep. I was 11 when I came up with this game, so I don't know if that's better or worse. But I loved educational historical fiction, starting with the OG AG!
@Jennifer Gersch that's why she lived with her grandmother. I don't recall the books spending too much time on the sad details of her parents' deaths.
My 2nd grade teacher read the Addy book during black history month and it was legit one of the more formable stories we read that year.
One of the best memories from my childhood! - a girl who played soccer 😂
This helped me work through the fact that there are now historical American Girls from the 1990s.
This was amazing , I LOVED my american girl doll and learning about her bummer historical background
Addy and Kirsten were tied with having the most tragic backstory. And while Molly's wasn't as sad, she gets a friend from England whose parents died in the blitz and is still traumatized by it!
Emily's parents don't die in the book. In Emily's book it explains a little more about it. They sent her to America to have a new life with a new family. Her mother sends her letters from England
@@lemonaidyyeah but in the movie Emily is actually more traumatized because in the film her mother actually died when their apartment was bombed while her dad is serving in the RAF. Guess they wanted to make her story sadder
I always ❤ when they do American girl doll sketches. As someone who worked at the 5th ave store its funny to see how they have fun with the dolls
This actually seems like something Greta Gerwig would direct.
Right?? Haha
2:00 says cholera, shows consumption (TB) 😆😆
(Blank stare) "That's ok" What I say to myself at least once every day to get through it.
I moved to America three months after my mom died, and the first book I remember reading in the school library was one of Josefina’s. That was early on a depiction of a motherless daughter that I could relate to🩷
The soccer thing got me! My sister was obsessed with American girls and played soccer so it fits.
i used to love american girl dolls (never got any but i definitely wanted them) and played soccer for a major of my life so i second that
"And tragically, I wear glasses. ".....🤣🤣🤣
The coughed up blood was freaking hilarious.
I was dying. No wait, she was.
what it really though?
As a lady that grew up OBSESSED with these dolls, I appreciate this lol. I miss the old American Girl. the books were everything to me!
Conan O’Brien did his own remote improv version of this years ago, it’s hysterical. totally worth watching its here on YT
That is a pretty good one
Here's the link: ruclips.net/video/uJpaQWWgaC8/видео.html
He turns it into "Halloween 2."
@@thejenr8tr922 Watched it! Thank You
Thanks for the tip. That Conan sketch was hilarious 😅
I got the Kirsten doll when I was 6. My mom started to read the included book to me and when she came to the part where the friend died of cholera, she became so distraught that she refused to keep reading. I still don't know the ending to this day.
You can find out by actually finding the book. Or reading about it online.
That reminds me of the mother of Phoebe from Friends, who always cut off stories and videos before they reached any sad event, so she never learned about Bambi's mother dying, what happened to Lou Gehrig, etc, etc.
If you're okay with spoilers now, I can tell you.
Do you just want the ending of the first story, or all of them?
@@faithlesshound5621 wh Joey, reading little women and Rachel spoiled the ending. He put the book in the fridge.
'Beth is very sick...'🤣
She finally gets her trunk.
"Look what I can do"
*coughs up blood*
Classic Sarah
*Dies*💀
"That's okay!"
I thought that was Kit for some reason lmao
I loved American Girl dolls and books when I was kid. This was nostalgic and hilarious
This also doubles as an Oregon Trail movie trailer
i remember these books better than most that i read when i was 10 because of how deeply they affected me.. core memories still
Have A24 produce this, Ari Aster direct this and it would be my favourite movie
Oh gawd...
This is rather brilliant!
The way Heidi said “My friend Martha died of cholera.” 😂
Someone at SNL is processing their AG trauma and I’m here for it.
They must have done their research. Samantha's bitchy orphan comment is a running joke in the adult collector community.
That ending... SUCH Oregon Trail vibes. 😆 The rest will die of dysentery halfway there.
When you find out an important part of your childhood was actually dark as shit 😂
The part about not wanting to attend the sleep over was hilarious but also a universal fear lol. Genius
SNL is on a vendetta against American Girl. 😂
First, that sketch where Mikey Day is accused of being a creep because he was found in an American Girl doll store during a fire. Then the Travis Kelce sketch that was similar, but executed differently. Now this.
That's OK!
@@ImAlsoMerobiba 😆😆
Nah, there's at least 1 woman in the writers' room who grew up with these dolls. Between this & the sketch in the Travis Kielce episode, there's at least 1 diehard AG fan on payroll
More like on a vendetta against anything to the right of Stalin. 😂
Heidi’s dead eyed “That’s ok!” whenever I remember something tragic….
Addy and Molly were my favorite back in the 90s
Pretty sure that if they made this movie, it'd do well. It's hilarious and a throwback for many people.
To be fair mollys dad isn’t a prisoner of war he’s a doctor serving overseas.
And Samantha is one of the sweetest kids ever. I'm not a huge fan of the doll, largely because there was a period where she was the one who got all new stuff, all the time, at the expense of characters like Josefina and Kirsten, but the character is pretty cool. Her bff, Nellie, is still better, but...
@@sarmajere2866 oh yeah I remember that period. Also bummed they left felicity out. Didn’t they clean her hair with lemon for the Christmas party? That would have been funny. I’m 39. I can’t believe I remember that 😂
@@laurarichter1780 Ooh yes I think SO, now that you mention. Ha I'm the same age so we were probably getting the catalogs around the same time. Crazy!
That sounds familiar.
To be fair….
This would actually be a brilliant movie.
There’s at least one writer on this who’s a big fan of AG.
My niece is obsessed with these dolls - I got her Josefina for Chanukah and she takes her everywhere.
I remember getting my Kirsten doll for Chanukah back in the 90s. It was the best 8th night present ever!
@@MelissaBlue my sister (same niece's mom) had Kirsten growing up. The love for AGs runs deep in this family.
lolol this is the most accurate thing I have ever seen- I read all of the books when I was a kid and was obsessed with the dolls and I was also a girl who played soccer I have never felt more seen!!!!
Okay, you didn’t have to call my sisters and I out with that “girls who played soccer magazine” line.
I can’t tell you how bad I want to re-play that American girl doll that has the online game that you jump from rock to rock in the waterfall😂 that was IT
I was OBSESSED with American girl as a little boy. My favorite was Kit because I for some underknowable reason was hyperfixated on the Great Depression. Looking back I was a really weird kid.😊
THIS SHOULD BE TV SERIES!!!
I used to have the cut out Addie paper dolls in the 90s..
She gets better outfits once she gains her freedom 😂
I would unironically watch the hell out of this. (In case anyone actually wants to make this movie)
I absolutely would 👋
Cholera causing bloody cough and not watery diarrhea, is hilarious
I’m going to need a part 2! I always wanted my own doll to customize as a kid 😅
Part 2 right now.
Part two can include the dolls they didn't include here.
@@canaisyoung3601 Yes, that’s exactly what I was thinking!
“No-one said hi to me” is so wrong and SO funny 😂😂
"That's okay" as they dump Heidi off the wagon. Lol
This reminds me of sobbing reading the Addy book when her brother who she thought was dead came back from war
This was funny, but why does everyone act like Samantha was spoiled and bitchy? She was so selfless when it came to her best friend Nellie (helped her and her sisters escape an abusive orphanage, taught them to read, gave away her mother's (?) doll as a keepsake of their friendship) and spoke up against big issues of the day like child labor.
But didn't Samantha start out kinda spoiled before realizing the messed-up life her friend Nellie had?
@@canaisyoung3601 She was privileged, but I don't ever remember thinking Samantha was spoiled. Besides, she's 9 when the books start out. It's not like you come out of the womb aware of how your life differs from somebody else's or start out with perfect mannerisms. The fact that she even became Nellie's friend shows how little Samantha valued the privileges of her upbringing when compared to the value of kindness and friendship, despite their differences in social standing. Had Samantha been spoiled, I don't think she would have bothered to become Nellie's friend once finding out that she was a servant.
I totally agree. Samantha was soo nice. She didn't seem to have any rich friends to begin with also. I loved how she was sooo nice to Nellie.
@@canaisyoung3601 Actually Samantha was pretty tomboyish and non traditonal in so many ways she was deemed a weirdo to the other rich spoiled girls in the books because she did a lot of non lady like things. She is a pretty cool character for a lot of reasons.
@@canaisyoung3601 she was definitely privileged and a little sheltered. But never a spoiled brat or anything.
"I don't trust none of y'all." Relatable!
Yoooooo!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂 I Had an addy doll growing up!😂😂😂
Their back stories always had a dark essence to them. My mother got me every race and ethnicity when I was younger to help teach me about culture, clothes, food and traditions, etc. Each doll came with a book or a booklet explaining who they were and a little about their life.Some dolls had long, drawn out stories. So I’m waiting for American girl to give the green light to a movie like this lol. Doubt it will happen tho.
There were a couple American Girl movies that came out when I was a kid. I remember seeing ads for one about Felicity and one or two others. But I never saw them, so I can't vouch for the quality.
@@oliviastratton2169 I remember that vaguely too. Can’t imagine how they’d do in the box office if they made them today. But if it was a good budget, they could be good!
Is it bad that I forgot it was an sln skit by the end and got excited about the movie for a second 😂😂
“We loved it!” said Girl Who Plays Soccer Magazine 😂 😂 this is so real!!!
I read all the books as a kid and I'm still traumatized by the scene where Addy is forced by her slave master to eat worms
the runaway slave part got me dying 😭😭😭
HOLLYWOOD: JOKES ON YOU SNL! GREENLIT!
The way they toss the 2nd dead doll of the wagon kills me. Yikes. Perfect sketch.
Never had the dolls, but had the books & still do preserved in a special box at my parent’s house. What a nostalgic skit. ❤️
Actually there have been many live action American Girl movies (some were TV or Direct To Dvd, but Kit's film got to cinemas)
Loved this one! Also Josephina was always my favorite as a little girl 😊
I want this to be an actual dark comedy.
That's okay 🤣🤣🤣
I loved it when they said "that's okay" after someone dies 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It was brutal yet hilarious at the same time 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I always wanted an AG doll but they were too expensive 😞 i loved reading the magazines for them though 😁
I feel like all of us millennial women can bond over our collective love for these books & these poor, stressed-out, traumatized girls LOL. My personal favorites were Addy's books & Samantha's. Loved Addy's stories because of her strength & indomitable will, loved Samantha's books because of the ornate Victorian settings & compelling tales of Victorian society. Always DESPERATELY wanted the Samantha doll & all her lacy, frilly accessories but never did. :( Ah well. The books were amazing though. And they helped me LOVE reading! I literally speed read through one after another of American Girl books, I accumulated a stack of 'em.
0:59 I'm literally choking at the one lady cheering in the background when he says "did all their family members die?"
I wish they had felicity but I’d totally watch a second episode
“That’s okay!” 🤷🏻♀️ 😄