During last year’s press run for Wicked, Ariana Grande supplied multiple viral moments — including a now-famous lie-detector clip for Vanity Fair that questioned the 1969 moon landing. While promoting the sequel Wicked: For Good, Grande found herself answering similar probes again, this time with co-star Bowen Yang playfully resurrecting the lunar line of questioning.

Hooked up to the polygraph, Grande quipped that the machine might be picking up anxiety rather than facts. She pushed back against the skeptics with a blunt defense of the moon landing, punctuating her stance with the kind of exasperated humor that made the earlier clip memorable.

Yang reminded her that her previous response had been labeled “inconclusive,” then prodded with an updated angle — whether public figures like Gayle King and Katy Perry had “gone to the moon.” Grande corrected the premise: she noted those recent civilian flights reached suborbital altitudes rather than landing on the lunar surface, and dismissed the idea that she’d sing aboard such a trip.

When the interrogation returned to more symbolic matters — specifically whether a flag had been planted on the moon — Grande pivoted to urgent earthly concerns, voicing frustration about climate and human conflict and insisting our attention should stay focused at home for now.

The back-and-forth, equal parts comic riff and sincere aside, showcased how Grande handled the test more confidently the second time around. The session also allowed for a playful rewind to a notorious SNL moment: Grande asked Yang whether he enjoyed kissing her during a 2024 sketch, and the two traded teasing recalls about that onstage smooch.

Yang returned the favor by comparing that kiss to another he shared with Sydney Sweeney, describing the latter as quicker and more constrained by choreography — an exchange that kept the conversation light and self-aware.

The lie-detector segment lands just ahead of Wicked: For Good’s wide release on Nov. 21. The film, a follow-up to the 2024 adaptation, includes new material from composer Stephen Schwartz: Grande’s Glinda will sing “The Girl in the Bubble,” while Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba performs “No Place Like Home.” Recently the cast reunited for a televised special, Wicked: One Wonderful Night, celebrating the sequel’s debut.

Watch Grande and Yang’s full lie-detector exchange below.

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