It wouldn’t be a good debate if Saturday evening live didn’t eat it.

Days after Senator JD Vance and Governor Tim Walz shared the stage for their vice presidential showdown, SNL brought back his election cycle impersonators to poke fun at their performances. The twist? As Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris watches in horror, Walz (Jim Gaffigan) and Vance (Bowen Yang) come dangerously close to forming a bromance.

The spark comes after the duo deliver their opening statements and Yang’s Vance expertly dodges a series of questions – leading to an unexpected compliment from Gaffigan’s Walz.

“Wow, this guy is good,” as Walz notes in the parody. “He has an answer for everything!”

Caught off guard, Yang’s Vance responds warmly, “Thanks. That’s quite nice.’

As fake Vance and fake Walz smile at each other, moderator Norah O’Donnell (Heidi Gardner) looks uncomfortable. “I’m not sure why you two have a connection,” she says, “but let’s move on.”

Later, the VP nominees double down on their bond when the sketch moves on to mocking Walz’s memorable debate flub, in which he clumsily addressed his claim that he was in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

“So I guess what happened is I went to Epcot,” Gaffigan’s Walz explains. “You can travel all over the world, and I had a few in the German section, and I thought I was going to China. Anyway, I’m an idiot.”

He then points to Vance and says, “But I’m sure this guy has some things he’d like to back away from as well.”

“He’s right about that,” Yang’s Vance replies seriously. Then they synchronously add, “That’s an area where we have a lot of common ground.”

Locking eyes, SNL‘s Vance and Walz slowly raise their hands to touch each other across the split screen.

Meanwhile, Rudolph’s Kamala is understandably saddened to see this play at home while sitting with her husband, Doug Emhoff (Andy Samberg). After a dramatic wine spit, she complains, “Why are they friends!? Why are they shaking!?”

But in the end — after an interruption from Dana Carvey who plays a befuddled, piercing, ice cream-obsessed President Joe Biden — Harris celebrates a victory. As the debate comes to a close, Walz asks Vance to admit that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, to which he refuses to give a straight answer.

“Honey, we did it,” says Samberg as Emhoff. ‘We heard the noise. What do the pollsters say?’

“This is a huge victory,” Rudolph replies. “It made no difference!”

Watch SNL spoof the debate in the clip above.