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SNL perfectly explains why we're not ready for robotic flight attendants


You might've missed Saturday Night Live this week because you were watching the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight or loudly complaining about the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight or you'd already passed out facedown in your Kentucky Derby hat. In any case, if you didn't see the show, then you missed what was one of their funniest sketches of the entire season (YES, I KNOW), one that managed to skewer everything from sexist airline pilots to Virgin Atlantic to adopting technology that should've stayed in the Beta stage.

Kate McKinnon and Scarlett Johansson play Virgin's first fully automated flight attendants, who respond to passengers' requests in a way that makes Siri seem like the Employee of the Month by comparison. "I'm having trouble hearing you," McKinnon tells one first class customer. "Can you speak clearly, and into my face?" before Johansson asks another woman if she wants her new blanket in her hand or "in her leg."

If a bionic flight crew was available for purchase, you just know that Richard Branson would have them whirring under those soft purple cabin lights before you could say "Speak into my face." I, for one, welcome our new automated overlords — especially the ones that deliver 38 boxes of animal crackers.