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Miley Cyrus ‘murdered’ Hannah Montana on SNL

That “Video Music Awards” performance did mark the end of days, after all.

Miley Cyrus spoofed her over-the-top antics during this weekend’s episode of “Saturday Night Live,” donning her bear costume and joking about her more wholesome past.

The show opened to a post-apocalyptic New York City in 2045, with two survivors (played by Kenan Thompson and Noel Wells) reflecting on the moment when everything changed.

No, it wasn’t that government shutdown.

ObamaCare, either.

It was Miley’s tongue-showing, Twerk-happy tornado at MTV’s August VMAs show. The skit saw pre-VMAs Miley being visited by her more innocent self (cast member Vanessa Bayer).

“This is so weird,” Miley said of the visit. “I think I’m hallucinating. I must have smoked too much … cigarettes.”

That tongue thing was also addressed.

“Why do you keep doing that with your tongue?” old Miley asked.

“I’m having tiny strokes, yo,” Miley responded.

Innocent Miley tried to give her self-indulgent older self an American Girl – Molly, “the doll you keep singing about.” Molly, as it happens, is also the name of a club drug.

During her monologue, Cyrus poked fun at the twerking dance trend.

“I used to think twerking was cool, but now that white people are doing it, it seems so lame,” she said.

And whatever happened to Hannah Montana, the Disney character she played from 2006 to 2011?

“She was murdered,” Miley said.

Sorry kids.

Later in the show, Cyrus starred in a political-themed skit spoofing her “We Can’t Stop” music video. The video saw John Boehner (Taran Killam) and Michele Bachmann (Cyrus) throwing a bash to mark the government shutdown, a scene full of pinatas and random sleeping partners with President Obama (Jay Pharoah) peering through the window.

One topic avoided during the episode was Cyrus’s simmering feud with singer Sinead O’Connor. The beef escalated after the “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer wrote an open letter to Miley, warning her of being “pimped” by the music business.

“Nothing but harm will come in the long run, from allowing yourself to be exploited, and it is absolutely NOT in ANY way an empowerment of yourself or any other young women, for you to send across the message that you are to be valued (even by you) more for your sexual appeal than your obvious talent,” O’Connor wrote.

Miley disagreed. So she fired back on Twitter, targeting O’Connor’s mental health issues. Further missives poured kerosene on the situation.

In 1992, O’Connor made her own noise on SNL, ripping up a photo of the pope during her monologue.

This night was Miley’s turn. The episode didn’t feature a singular iconic moment such as Sinead’s photo-ripping stunt, but it was nonetheless noteworthy because of its host and musical guest, another flash-point for a 20-year-old living in her moment of notoriety.