The controversial move by a Toronto public school to ban balls from its playground even has Americans shaking their heads — and wagging their tongues.

On the latest episode of Saturday Night Live, cast member Seth Meyers dropped Earl Beatty Public School into his Weekend Update, a roundup of wacky news items from around the world.

“A school in Canada has banned all game balls including soccer balls and baseballs because the principal thinks they’re causing too many injuries,” Meyers says.

“The safety-minded principal also asked that the custodian install a hinge in the see-saw,” he says, pausing for effect as the studio audience chuckled.

Pundit and radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh also weighed in on Friday, saying the ball ban would turn schoolchildren into “wusses.”

“This is how you wimpify kids. This is how you turn 'em into a bunch of wusses. Can you believe this?” he asks, according to a transcript of the show posted on his website.

“Softballs, baseballs, footballs, soccer balls, banned, tennis balls. Because the children were scared,” Limbaugh says.

The principal at the east-end public school sent a letter home last Monday, stating students could no longer bring hard balls onto school property, citing a number of “serious incidents” in which students, parents and teachers were hit or nearly hit by flying balls.

One parent suffered a concussion after being struck by a soccer ball, the letter said.

More than a hundred students have signed a petition demanding permission to bring their balls back, and a Toronto District School Board spokesperson told the Star the ban was temporary and the school is monitoring the situation.

It’s not the first time this year Toronto’s been parodied by Saturday Night Live. Last March, Meyers joked on-air about the million-dollar drug raid on Pizza Gigi, a pizza parlour allegedly selling drugs through its delivery service.