Spirit Halloween Fires Back At ‘SNL’ After Sketch Poking Fun At The Halloween Stores: “Irrelevant 50-Year-Old TV Show”

Spirit Halloween is certainly not in the spirit of Saturday Night Live ‘s comedy — and publicly booed a sketch making fun of them that aired during the show’s Sept. 29 season premiere.

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Featuring Chloe Fineman , Heidi Gardner , Michael Longfellow , and Mikey Day , the sketch targeted the iconic Halloween store chain, teasing that they help “struggling communities  by setting up shop in every vacant building in the country for six weeks and then bouncing,” per Entertainment Weekly .

The sketch also jokes that Spirit Halloween stores “provid[e] vulnerable communities” with “wigs that give you a rash, single-use fog machines, and costumes of famous characters tweaked just enough to avoid a lawsuit,” in addition to “creating six-week jobs for some of America’s hardest hit perverts.”

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Spirit Halloween took to X on Monday (Sept. 30) to retweet the show’s clip of the sketch, sharing a picture of what appears to be an “irrelevant 50-year-old TV show” costume.

The costume description doubled down on the scary sass, teasing that it “includes: dated references, unknown cast members, and shrinking ratings.”

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“We are great at raising things back from the dead @nbcsnl,” the store’s official account captioned the post.

The Season 50 premiere also caught flak from Chappell Roan fans for poking fun at the “parasocial” relationships that fans have with female celebrities. Bowen Yang , who starred in the sketch as the popular pygmy hippopotamus Moo Deng, shot down claims that he was “mock[ing]” Roan.

“If my personal stance and the piece aren’t absolutely clear in terms of supporting her then there it is I guess,” he penned on his Instagram story. “Everything she has ever asked for has been reasonable and even then we can connect it to another story about boundaries or whatever.”

Saturday Night Live airs Saturdays on NBC at 11:30 p.m./10:30 c.

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