‘The View’ Makes Shock Decision About Their Annual Halloween Episode

The View won’t have to worry about ill-advised costumes creating the wrong viral attention this year, because the show is scrapping its annual Halloween episode. That’s right, nothing even close to a child dressed as the Will Smith Oscars slap will cross our screens in 2024. Better luck next year!

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The show is skipping its costumed festivities this year because of the upcoming presidential election, executive producer Brian Teta revealed on the Behind The Table podcast, per Entertainment Weekly .

“I’m going to announce something today that’s going to upset a portion of the audience, but I think it’s going to make you happy,” he said while speaking to co-host Joy Behar . “This year, because it’s only a few days before the election and we need to be live, the hosts are not going to dress up for Halloween.”

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Teta said that the costumes have become “iconic,” and promised to try and bring back the Halloween episode next year while noting, “The problem is, those shows are a huge undertaking, we have to do them on tape. Part of what our show has become and what it is right now, we can’t be on tape three days before the election.”

Behar — who has previously dressed as Pinocchio Trump and Cruella de Vil — said that the show had done a costumed Halloween episode “every single year for 28 years” while admitting “it’s always annoying” for the co-hosts. Still, she said she enjoyed seeing the late Barbara Walters as Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and even an alien.

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The co-host agreed with Teta that the election is “too important,” and that the Halloween special should be cut as a result.

“I don’t mean to be grandiose, but we do have some influence on people’s thinking,” she said. “We need to use every single minute on this show to inform the public about how dangerous [Trump] is.”

Teta, referring to her past costume, then joked, “It’s hard for you to do that while dressed like Pinocchio.”

The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.

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