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Saturday Night Live delighted fans with part two of the Washington’s Dream sketch, which was hailed last year as the “best sketch in years.”

Nate Bargatze reprized his role as George Washington to share more of his hopes and dreams for the country with his Revolutionary War soldiers, Kenan Thompson, Mikey Day, Bowen Yang and James Austin Johnson.

The sketch mocks the peculiarities of the American English language. As his men wonder if they will win the battle, Bargatze’s Washington tells them, “We will survive the coming battle because we are fighting to control our own destiny, to create our own nation… and to do our own thing to do with the English language. ”

“I dream that one day our great nation will have a word for the number 12,” he continues. “We’ll call it a dozen.”

“And what other numbers do we have a word for?” Yang asks.

“None,” Bargatze replies, completely deadpan. “Only 12 will have a word of our own because we are free men, and we will be free to spell some words in two different ways.”

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Day then asks, “What words, sir?”

“Donut,” Bargatze replies. He adds: “We will also have two names for animals, one for when they are alive and another for when they become food. Cows will be beef, pigs will be pork.”

Yang asks, “Chickens, sir?”

“It stays,” says Bargatze. “Chickens are chicken.”

Fans welcomed the second episode of the sketch on social media. “I honestly didn’t think they could do this again, but I’m so glad I was proven wrong,” said someone on X.

Another, focused on how the latest Joker: Folie à Deux film has been widely reviewed as a flop, said: “This is how you make a sequel to Todd Phillips.”

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‘I needed this this morning. Very clever and so true,” said another.

It follows last year’s hilarious sketch in which Washington outlined his dream for a country with its own ‘system of weights and measures’.

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The scene was a takedown of American sizes and other oddities, including lines like, “We are free men! And we will be free to measure liquids in liters and milliliters… but not all liquids, just soft drinks, wine and alcohol. For milk and paint we will use gallons, pints and quarts, God willing.”

When asked by one of his soldiers (Day) how many liters are in a gallon, he simply replies, “No one knows.”

Last night’s SNL also made fun of the vice presidential debate between JD Vance (Bowen Yang) and Tim Walz (Jim Gaffigan).

Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph) and Doug Emhoff (Andy Samberg) watched as the pair stared into each other’s eyes and found “common ground,” prompting Rudolph to spit out wine and exclaim, “Why are they shaking?”