At one point, Trump forgets the name of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and calls him "Señor Guacamole,” his wife "Taquito,” and his kids "Chips” and "Salsa.”

He offers the world's most meandering and nonsensical answer to a question about the Iraqi city of Mosul. There's even a subtle jab at Trump's strange comment that he would date daughter Ivanka if she weren't his daughter.

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The sketch had some fun with the audience laughter that was clearly heard when Trump said that nobody respects women more than he does. It zooms out to outer space to show the whole planet laughing at the comment.

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And, yes, there were jabs at Clinton, too. When asked about her emails, she offers the most transparent pivot ever to avoid answering the question. There is a jab at her instantly exploiting Trump's "nasty woman” comment for political gain. And she assures us that she would be a "stone-cold B” as president.

But the butt of most of the jokes — and the toughest jokes — was again Trump, whose over-the-top rhetoric and style were just made for these sketches. Trump will see this tougher treatment as bias against him and part of what he has deemed the vast media conspiracy against him. But he's just eminently more lampoon-able. It's the persona he has crafted for himself.

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This is the final debate sketch we'll see, given that there aren't any more debates. Perhaps none of them were classic SNL, but they certainly captured the strangeness of the 2016 debates. And when we look back at this campaign, they'll be a part of it.