Barbie‘s narrator, Helen Mirren, returns for Jimmy Kimmel’s Oscars promo, with the Academy Award-winner kicking off the nearly five-minute video declaring that since the dawn of time, men have been getting lost. Kimmel, or dumb-dumb as Mirren calls him, stops by Weird Barbie’s looking for directions and earns a few more nicknames, including Midlife Crisis Ken and Lost Everything in the Divorce Ken, from Kate McKinnon. McKinnon whips out a map to OscarLand, and off the twosome go on an adventure.
They pass through various Oscar nominee lands and come upon Oppenheimer‘s Matt Damon. After insulting that “poor, incredibly hideous, disgusting, ugly man,” they make it to Hollywood and Kimmel confesses he’s not sure he can handle this year’s hosting gig. America Ferrera pops up and delivers a twist on her iconic Barbie speech, trading out the difficulty of being a woman with the difficulty of hosting the Oscars.
Kimmel replies, “I think what you’re saying is that hosting the Oscars is even harder than being a woman.”
Ferrera and McKinnon let him know he got that totally wrong, and Ryan Gosling pops up from the backseat of the Weird Barbie car, gleefully announcing he’s got In-N-Out, and explaining it’s a cool social media trend to get it before the Oscars. And here’s where the skit nails it. After being told the trend is to eat there after you win, Gosling says, “Good thing Greta’s got Best Director in the bag!”
Ferrera whispers the truth in his ear and he screams, which causes everyone to scream. Ferrera and McKinnon quickly stop, but Kimmel and Gosling can’t control themselves. Helen Mirren returns to wrap up the promo, noting, “Some girls grow into women, but not all boys grow into men. Some remain hopelessly stuck in a loop of infantile foolishness. One of them will host the Oscars live Sunday, March 10th at a new time: 7 Eastern 4 Pacific on ABC.”
