‘SNL’ Brings Back ‘Scared Straight’ Sketch With Eddie Murphy and Will Ferrell: ‘Expecto Fellatio'

Murphy and Ferrell, along with Jason Sudeikis and Kenan Thompson, revived the iconic sketch on SNL50.

February 18, 2025

Saturday Night Live got scared straight again for its 50th anniversary special.

For Sunday night’s SNL50: The Anniversary Special, Jason Sudeikis brought back his Officer Sikorsky character for a chaotic and star-studded “Scared Straight” sketch.

Per the SNL Archives fan site, the recurring sketch first began in 2008 with special guest Shia LaBeouf.

During the sketch, Officer Sikorsky attempts to "scare straight" three juvenile offenders, played by SNL Season 50 cast members Marcello Hernández, Mikey Day, and Michael Longfellow.

However, the intervention quickly goes off the rails when Kenan Thompson and Eddie Murphy arrive as ex-cons McIntosh and “All the Way” Ray May, the latter of whom mixes threats with bizarre pop culture tangents, weaving his life story through Harry Potter and The Nutty Professor’s plot lines.

"Well, guess what? When I was a boy, I watched both my parents die in these streets!" Murphy says as Ray, per NBC.

"And the family that adopted him made him sleep under the staircase," adds Thompson as McIntosh.

"Until one day, I got a letter from an owl telling me I had to report to some kind of school for wizards," Murphy says.

Further into his interrogation, Murphy warns, “‘Cause in prison there’ll be a dude entering your Chamber of Secrets, and he’ll be slipping right into your Asskaban … Then a dude I would describe as Sirius Black is gonna wave his wand in your face and say, ‘Expecto fellatio!’”

The duo become more unhinged as the kids catch on to the movie references, with Murphy later busting out into his “Hercules! Hercules” chant from The Nutty Professor.

Then, Big Red (Will Ferrell) crashes the scene, boasting about prison life—from improv groups to nonstop sex. Then he blatantly admits that his backstory is actually Elf with a reworked criminal twist.

“You’re gonna get elf’d in your butt, G,” says Ferrell.

“And forget about your North Pole. What you gonna need to be worrying about is your South pole,” Murphy adds. “And there won’t be no Santa coming to town. It’ll be Santos coming in your brown!”

Other noteworthy moments from SNL’s celebratory weekend included Ferrell and Ana Gasteyer as Marty and Bobbi Culp, performing Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” a performance from Lil Wayne, Ryan Reynolds making an appearance to jokingly allude to his wife Blake Lively’s legal dispute with Justin Baldoni, plus Aubrey Plaza honoring her late husband with a tie-dye shirt.