Saturday Night Live is currently on summer hiatus, but NBC recently shared a video of a weird, charming sketch that was intended to air last fall but ended up being cut for time. If George Saunders wrote sketch comedy, he’d probably end up producing something like this. In it, a perfectly conventional bourgeois couple, played by Taran Killam and Vanessa Bayer, come home after date night to discover that his parents have sent them a gift called an Alan (Bill Hader), which is purported to be “the future of casual entertainment.”

The rest of the sketch, in which Killam and Bayer try to figure out exactly what the Alan does, is a poignant meditation on technology and humanity—with Hader dancing to a funky beat in the background.