‘SNL’ Plagiarizes “Settl” Sketch? Ryan Gosling’s Episode Brings Controversy

A photo posted by Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) on Dec 7, 2015 at 3:24pm PST

There's no use in settling – for someone's idea and then calling it your own. It's being reported that Saturday Night Live allegedly plagiarized a sketch called "Settl" this past weekend during the show's episode with host Ryan Gosling.

The sketch came as a commercial parody and centers on a mobile dating app named Settl, which is much like Tinder but only for users who honestly couldn't care less about hobbies and interests and just want to make certain that whoever they're with has a steady income and some security. And while it appeared to be well-received, the problem is that developer Matt Condon and designer Ben Zweig had the same idea at this year's Comedy Hack Day.

Best part – there's video of it:

And because who doesn't want to compare the two, here's Saturday Night Live's sketch:

After the episode aired, Zweig posted on Medium, noting that there was a possible chance that the writers thought it up on their own. Afterwards, however, he knocks it down entirely, stating that upon the idea surfacing in the SNL writers' room, a quick Google search would have caused the staff to see that it had already been done by someone else. And thus, they could have moved on. But of course, they didn't.

He proceeds:

"Hell, one Reddit user who was searching for your very recent SNL sketch inadvertently found our months-old project instead..."

Similarly, Condon took to Twitter to call out the NBC series for stealing the duo's sketch.

tfw @nbcsnl steals your jokes https://t.co/ZbVyrTm32s VS https://t.co/DpaYWnbdW8

— Matt Condon (@mattgcondon) December 7, 2015

So, folks, is this a case of lazy writing or a sincere mistake?