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Spirit Halloween Dings ‘SNL’ With ‘Irrelevant 50-Year-Old TV Show’ Costume After Season Premiere Sketch
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Spirit Halloween Dings ‘SNL’ With ‘Irrelevant 50-Year-Old TV Show’ Costume After Season Premiere Sketch

Spirit Halloween returns Saturday evening live, who aired a skit making fun of the costume shop.

The Season 50 premiere of the NBC late-night sketch show featured a sketch that made light of the store selling Halloween costumes in October.

“We’re great at bringing things back from the dead,” read the message shared by the store on X, the digital microblogging platform formerly known as Twitter.

The message included a photo of a costume in honor of S.N.L., which they called an “irrelevant 50-year-old TV show.” The costume’s packaging stated that it also contained “dated references, unknown cast members, and declining ratings.”

Spirit Halloween Trolls 'SNL'

Spirit Halloween Trolls ‘SNL’

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SNLs The Season 50 premiere, with guest host Jean Smart, featured a fake ad for Spirit Halloween, the costume shop that pops up in vacant stores throughout the month of October.

“Times may be good on Wall Street, but on Main Street, communities are struggling.” SNLs says Heidi Gardner in a voice-over. “Closed stores, shuttered businesses, empty parking lots… When hard times come, it’s easy to feel like no one cares.”

The fake ad continued: “But help is on the way, because when others leave, we show up.”

Spirit Halloween sets up shop in a vacant K-mart and breathes new life into the building, welcoming customers “for six weeks and then it bounces.”

SNLs Chloe Fineman then says, “We’re providing vulnerable communities here with the things they need most: wigs that give you rashes, single-use fog machines, and costumes of famous characters modified just enough to avoid a lawsuit.”

The NBC show also parodied the Spirit Halloween employees and their short-term activities.

View the full SNL Spirit Halloween video below.