‘White Lotus’ BFFs Walton Goggins and Sam Rockwell reunite in wild ‘SNL’ sketch to show off their tiny baby feet

After popping up in The White Lotus for one of the most WTF moments of season 3, Sam Rockwell has reunited with his BFF and costar Walton Goggins for another truly bizarre TV moment.

Rockwell’s latest cameo came during this week’s Goggins-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live, when he graced a strange musical sketch in which Jane Wickline wanders the Central Park Zoo hoping to find a baby to fit the small abandoned sneaker she spotted on the ground and picked up.

“I just found this tiny baby shoe / Put a footprint on my heart I can’t undo,” Wickline sings in the sketch. “Can’t throw it away, it’s not trash / A piece of my future, a part of your past.”

Wickline then searches, Cinderella-style, for the baby, seeing if the child-size shoe fits any of the toddlers hanging around the zoo. One foot is “too skinny,” another is “too flat,” and a third is “too long and oh-so-flat.” Wickline then realizes she has no more babies left to test out.

But things get thoroughly weird when the shoe’s owner makes himself known from behind her.

“Actually, the shoe belongs to me,” Goggins’ character sings, showing off his teeny, tiny bare feet while perched on a wall like Humpty Dumpty. “I’m a fully grown-ass man, with tiny baby feet / And I’d really be so grateful if you’d give my shoe back to me.”

Wickline, happy to have finally found the shoe’s owner, replies in song, “I found this tiny baby shoe / And the man it belongs to.”

Goggins adds, “Surely this is fate / And you and I will date!”

Wickline immediately cuts the music, confused. 

“You and I are going to date now, right?” Goggins asks matter-of-factly. “Because you found my shoe.”

“I was looking for a baby,” Wickline explains, to which Goggins argues, “No, you thought you were looking for a baby, but you were looking for me. Ding dong, bing bong. Here I am!”

He even tries to restart the song: “She finally found her man, and they made love on the carousel — ”

But to his chagrin, Wickline insists that they will never be a couple. 

Disappointed, Goggins tells her to take a hike. “You go and leave me be,” he says sadly. “I’d walk away myself, but I’m tired already. I already walked like 45,000 steps today. I’ve only been awake for like 20 minutes.”

That’s when Rockwell steps in, playing a balloon artist ready to deliver the moral of the story.

“Hey, I’m Sam Rockwell. I think we’ve all learned a very valuable lesson today,” he begins. “Cinderella rules aren’t real-life rules.”

But Wickline is not a fan. “Hey man, mind your business,” she replies. “Do you just walk around the park interrupting conversations with nuggets of wisdom?”

“No, what I do is I make balloon animals,” he replies.

“I think we’re all set,” Goggins tells him dismissively. But their best friend status does not extend into the world of SNL because this pisses Rockwell off.

“Excuse me!” he shouts. “I’m talking!”

Then, deciding he doesn’t need to explain himself, Rockwell turns to depart… and reveals his own tiny baby feet as he takes tiny baby steps in the opposite direction.

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Wickline eventually finishes the song, attempting to reveal its true takeaway. “I guess the lesson here is when you find a baby shoe, and the shoe fits like a glove,” she sings, “you can go about your day, but it don’t mean you’re in love.”

Rockwell and Goggins teamed up earlier this year onThe White Lotus, with Rockwell joining the show midseason to deliver a jaw-dropping, sexually charged monologue and ultimately playing a significant part in the evolution of Goggins’ character, Rick, his close buddy.

“Sam is one of my best friends,” Goggins told Entertainment Weekly following Rockwell’s surprise appearance on the series. “I was nervous that Sam was going to do it, and relieved that Sam was going to do it.”

“We know each other’s ticks, and he’s my hero,” he explained. “I don’t want to let him down. But I want to play with him. And two minutes into the first conversation we had, it was like, ‘Ohhhh, okay, now we can go anywhere, now we can do anything.’ It was the best time that I had really working on all of The White Lotus, working with him and those scenes.”

Watch Goggins and Rockwell show off their tiny baby feet in the SNL sketch above.