A family gathers around a dining table set for a Thanksgiving meal in an indoor setting decorated with natural light and autumnal motifs. 3:48
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When Thanksgiving gets loud, play Adele

The table is set and the relatives are here. For a moment, this Thanksgiving dinner is going fine. more

This Saturday Night Live family, with host Matthew McConaughey among them, starts out all smiles. One guest is still in her coat, beaming.

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The relatives gather for Thanksgiving dinner in good spirits, at least to start.

Then somebody brings up politics. Every topic after that is the wrong topic, and every relative at the table has an opinion on it.

One relative asks the new boyfriend why his friends keep antagonizing the police. His girlfriend wants to know why anyone would ask him that. Just trying to get to know him, comes the reply, except the relative gets his name wrong. Of all the lines in the sketch, that one has the most fans.

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Every question at this dinner seems to start a new fight.

It keeps getting worse. Voices rise, and one relative is about to call another a name when the youngest person at the table, a little girl, has had enough. She puts on Adele's "Hello."

In an instant the arguing stops and the whole family is singing. Each of them is suddenly made over as Adele, McConaughey too, and every one of them pulls off the look.

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The table is set and the relatives are here.

Plenty of families know this dinner by heart, and at least one has taken the cure home. One viewer's history teacher told his class that when Thanksgiving talk gets heated at his house, he and his wife start singing "Hello."