The spirit of Halloween won't let it happen Saturday night live have the last word.
The seasonal Christmas store took to its official X account (formerly Twitter) to respond to the sketch comedy show after Saturday's season 50 premiere featured a sketch poking fun at the store that sells Halloween costumes and decorations for everything October.
“We're great at bringing things back from the dead,” read the post, which also included a photo of a costume honoring the SNLis the cornerstone of the fiftieth season. The costume tag read: “50-year-old irrelevant TV show” that includes “dated references, unknown cast members and declining ratings.”
Spirit Halloween, which is known to appear in empty stores during the spooky month, was responding to the NBC show's false advertising for the holiday store.
“Times may be good on Wall Street, but communities on Main Street are struggling,” SNL says cast member Heidi Gardner in a serious-toned voiceover. “Shops closed, commercial activities closed, car parks empty. When hard times come, it's easy to feel like no one cares.”
“But help is coming, because when others leave, we come,” he adds.
Rather than seeing a “dead-end town” or an “abandoned Kmart,” SNL Chloe Fineman says, “We see a spirit, a Halloween spirit.”
Gardner continues the false advertising: “Since 1983, Spirit Halloween has helped our struggling communities by setting up shop in every vacant building in the country for six weeks and then rebounding.”
Fineman says Spirit Halloween is also “providing vulnerable communities with the things they need most,” such as “prickly wigs, disposable fog machines, and celebrity costumes modified just enough to avoid a lawsuit ”.
SNL he also mocked the store's employees and its short-term business model. “We're not just investing in empty buildings, but in people,” Gardner says. “Creating six-week jobs for some of the hardest hit perverts in America.”
But since “Nov. 1, we'll be gone and all this garbage will end up in a dumpster,” concludes cast member Michael Longfellow.
Jean Smart hosted the season 50 premiere of the NBC sketch comedy show with musical guest Jelly Roll.