Bad costars Ariana Grande And Bowen Yang proved that besties do better during the Saturday, October 12 episode Saturday evening live.

Grande, 31, returned to host Saturday’s episode — her second time hosting the variety show after 2016 — where she showed off her enduring bond with Yang, 33. (Grande and Yang met while filming the upcoming movie musical, of course Bad, starring Galinda/Glinda and fellow Shiz University student Pfannee, respectively.)

To kick off her monologue, Grande sang a meta-narrative about her intentions not to turn the episode into a musical. (The pop star ended up singing several times SNLincluding a parody cover of Sabrina Timmerman‘s viral hit “Espresso.”)

‘And I’m not going to talk about it Bad / “Cause tonight I don’t give a…,” Grande sang before spotting Yang standing in the corner of the stage, wearing a replica of her pink Bad ball gown; tiara, wand and all. “Bowen? Didn’t anyone tell you? We cut the Bad sketches.”

Yang jokingly seemed oblivious to the script changes.

“Oh, um, that’s okay, I didn’t want to do it anyway,” he joked.

Grande revealed that this was “amazing” as his wand was actually a hidden “bottle”.

“So, if you can keep that piano away from me / ‘Cause that’s the last thing I’m gonna do,” she continued to sing. “Is modulation the key!”

Grande and Yang then reunited in additional sketches, including one about a family game night. Grande and cast member Andreas Dismukes the parents played Michael Longfellowwho brought his new friend (Yang) home for the first time. While playing a “competitive” round of charades, Grande and Yang got into an argument.

“Haha to your face, Diane,” Yang joked to Grande, who responded that the dig “wasn’t necessary.”

“Do you have a small penis or something?” she replied. “You have to compensate for something, don’t you, poor, sick loser?”

The pair’s animosity continued to grow as they traded verbal barbs – and more.

“I have no problem. I have love and a family. What do you have? Grande said. “A toad show?”

However, Yang’s character had had enough of the disses about his size and stature.

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“How about I beat you up right here and now?” he joked before Longfellow asked what was going on. “What does it look like? I’m about to fight your mother.’

Grande, meanwhile, pointed out that fights in “this house” must follow the “rules of the street” as she smashed a wine bottle over Yang’s head.

In retaliation, Yang pretended to throw Grande (actually a life-size doll as the actress hid behind a couch) over his shoulders and shook her, shouting, “This is what she deserves.”

He eventually apologized for “getting a little carried away” and Grande clapped.

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“Well, well, well, you did it. Finally one of my son’s friends stood up to me,” Grande said as the background music swelled. “I need my son to have a man like you who will protect him because my son is so weak and I have no respect for him whatsoever.”

Yang then said Grande’s character was “incredible” and they shared a passionate kiss.

“Well, to be honest, they had some crazy tension,” Jane Wicklinewho plays Grande’s daughter, jokingly added before the scene cut to black.

Saturday evening live airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 PM ET. Bad part onemeanwhile, debuts in theaters on November 22.