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Kate McKinnon, right, plays Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a spoof of "Forrest Gump" on Saturday Night Live" on March 4, 2017. (NBC)

We thought

"Saturday Night Live"

might work

Attorney General Jeff Sessions

into the mix in its latest episode this week, but tonight's cold open delivered a trifecta of Alabama references.

Kate McKinnon

returned as Sessions, reprising the role she originated a few weeks ago, with the former senator playing a heightened version of another Alabama character: Forrest Gump.

So that's Kate McKinnon as Jeff Sessions as Forrest Gump, if you're keeping score.

The sketch comes on the heels of Sessions' week in the national news after reports that the Attorney General met with the Russian ambassador during the 2016 election, causing him to recuse himself from any investigations related to President Donald Trump and Russia.

It opens by spoofing the 1994 best picture winner, placing Sessions in Gump role by putting him in the khaki suit and sitting him on a bus stop bench as he overshares with strangers within earshot.

"Hello, my name's Jeff -- Jeff Sessions. Would you like a chocolate?" she asks Leslie Jones. "I'm the Attorney General of the whole United States. I got to meet the president and everything."

She even works in a reference to Lt. Dan, with McKinnon showing a photo of her "best good friend" KellyAnne Conway sitting on the Oval Office furniture (obscuring her legs, similar to the effect used on Gary Sinise in "Gump").

It mocks Sessions "ties" to Russia, with Beck Bennett's shirtless impersonation of Vladimir Putin entering the frame,

The Alabama references didn't stop there, as the episode's host Oscar-winner and Montgomery native

Octavia Spencer

entered the sketch as her character Minnie from "The Help."

"My name's Minnie," Spencer says. "You don't know me. I'm from a different movie. And I have a pie that I made especially for you."

Anyone who has seen "The Help" will get that one, as McKinnon takes a big bite and delivers the big line, "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!"

Watch the sketch below: