Sometimes SNL sketches are just too close for comfort—and this sketch, starring James Franco, is one such event.

On Saturday, December, 9, Franco took over hosting duties on the late-night comedy show. The episode of SNL was fine; Franco delivered a few laughs, and an ultra-fit Jonah Hill stole the show. But really, it would have been a far better episode had they kept in this deleted scene that just surfaced on the internet. In the sketch, which was reportedly cut for time, Franco and crew put on a pitch-perfect spoof of every single Hallmark Christmas movie ever made.

“It’s quantity over quality, people, and we are just blasting your ass with these,” Cecily Strong says in a voiceover for the channel’s famous “Countdown to Christmas.” Strong then promos a few films that would definitely make the lineup on the real Hallmark Channel, including Yes, Santa and Prince Santa.

The aforementioned Yes, Santa is about a young woman named Lydia who leaves her gig (presumably in media or advertising—this is a Hallmark movie, after all) in the city to take over her grandmother’s Christmas tree farm. There, she falls in love with her high school boyfriend again, who is (SPOILER ALERT) young Santa, played by “Canadian hot” actor Chris Bearstick (played by James Franco).

As for Prince Santa, you can probably guess what that’s about: an ice skater with amnesia who accidentally marries a prince who’s also Santa. Yup, sounds about right.

As Entertainment Weekly pointed out, if you thought these titles and plots seemed familiar, it’s because they are. In fact, they closely resemble the real Hallmark movies A Christmas Prince, With Love, Christmas, and Switched for Christmas.

Just watch the video, below, and see if you can spot the difference between the spoof and the real thing.

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