Last weekend saw the return of Saturday Night Live, which included a number of fresh performers and one segment that some viewers might have recognised.

After keen comedy analysts pointed out some startling parallels between an SNL joke about the Charmin bears and an animated short he produced earlier this summer dubbed "Toilet Paper Bears," YouTube creator Joel Haver has now responded. Haver saw any similarities between his bear family and those of SNL as "quite worrisome," but he did concede that the concepts might simply be the result of "parallel thinking" or a "crazy coincidence."

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As the young Charmin bear who wants to leave the family business of butt-wiping in order to follow his true passion—dancing—Miles Teller dressed up in blue fur for the SNL segment. Punkie Johnson played his peacekeeping sister, Kenan Thompson played his disapproving father, Heidi Gardner was his perplexed mother, and Bowen Yang once again stole the show as a fellow dancing bear who somehow confused the family's kitchen for their restroom. "Please accept my apologies."

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In July, Haver released a film about blue bears that love toilet paper and a creative son who wants to leave the family business. The setup is essentially the same, but SNL's delivery compared to Haver's was more in accordance with a variety show that has been running for close to 50 years. "When it comes to these stealing accusations, I always err on the side of coincidence," Haver said in his video response. "I think parallel thinking does happen more often than not."

He continued, "When it comes to the Charmin bears thing, there's a lot of coincidences that would have to line up to make it truly a coincidence, but I don't think it was malicious. It was either a subconscious borrowing from somebody on their writers' staff who saw my video, or it was a wild coincidence." Sources close to the NBC show tell EW that the sketch writer was ignorant of Haver's "Toilet Paper Bears" video.

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