"Start the primaries with a bang in Florida, right?"

Gatorland received a brief mention on national television this weekend during the Weekend Update segment of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” The bit also involved a shirtless Pete Buttigieg and ended up as a Florida joke.

The longtime Orlando attraction was part of a riff off the news item read by Weekend Update co-anchor Colin Jost: Some people in the Democratic Party want to move the first presidential primary election from Iowa to South Carolina.

“But why move it to another boring state?” Jost asked. “Start the primaries with a bang in Florida, right? Instead of watching a politician eat a corn dog at the Iowa State Fair, imagine Pete Buttigieg smoking meth, shirtless, at Gatorland as he battles for the state’s key demographic, grandmas under 30.”

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