Canteen Boy

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Canteen Boy is a recurring Saturday Night Live character played by Adam Sandler. Canteen Boy is a naive, childlike assistant scoutmaster with an acute attention to detail. He is always seen with a full scout's uniform and a canteen around his neck. Canteen Boy is routinely mocked by other characters in the sketch, who are well aware that their jokes will be lost on the character. His revenge toward these bullies often ties in to his skills as an outsdoorsman. Canteen Boy is a master at snake-calling, and he enjoys the television show "Seaquest."

Although the word 'boy' in the character's name suggests he's a child, it has been made clear that Canteen Boy is actually 27 years old. Nevertheless, an episode where host Alec Baldwin played Mr. Armstrong, a scoutmaster who made overt sexual advances toward Canteen Boy, stirred up much controversy due to its implications of pedophilia. The infamous sketch became the subject of Baldwin's monologue the next time he hosted on December 10, 1994.

Another recurring character on Saturday Night Live which had pedophilic connotations was frequent host Buck Henry's Uncle Roy, but that didn't get as much criticism for content as the infamous "Canteen Boy and the Scoutmaster" sketch did.