During the "Saturday Night Live" season premiere, the sketch comedy show spoofed the notorious vacant-store-occupier Spirit Halloween and the well-known Halloween retailer clapped back at the NBC show after they shared the clip online.
Saturday Night Live opened its 50th season this weekend with skits re-introducing Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris, poking fun at the popularity of viral hippo Moo Deng and one teasing Spirit Halloween for its propensity to appear in place of recently closed businesses.
The skit comes just in time for the Halloween season, which the retailer is known for. Spirit Halloween opened more than 10 stores around Kentucky this year.
Spirit Halloween on 'SNL'
NBC shared the clip on the show's official X , formerly Twitter, account on Sunday.
"Communities are struggling. Closed stores. Shuttered businesses. Empty parking lots. When hard times hit, it's easy to feel like no one cares. But help is on the way. Because when others leave, we show up," says a voiceover opening the skit. "We don't see a dead-end town, we don't see an abandoned Kmart, we see a Spirit. A Spirit Halloween."
"We're here providing vulnerable communities with the things they need most — wigs that give you a rash, single-use fog machines and costumes of famous characters tweaked just enough to avoid a lawsuit," jokes the spoof, which goes on to say Spirit stores invest not only in empty buildings, but also people, by creating "six-week jobs for some of America's hardest-hit perverts."
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The skit garnered laughs, but Spirit Halloween was apparently not ready to take the jabs lying down.
"We're great at raising things back from the dead @nbcsnl," Spirit posted on X in response to "SNL." Attached to the post is a doctored image of a Spirit Halloween costume package titled "Irrelevant 50-year-old TV show" and sporting an image of the "SNL 50 The Anniversary Season" logo.
Below the title is a list of the "costume" components, which include "dated references," "unknown cast members" and "shrinking ratings." Oh, and one size fits most adults.
This is the list of currently announced Spirit Halloween stores this season in Kentucky and nearby, retrieved from their website.
- Dixie Highway: Next to Burlington, 9070 Dixie Highway
- Hikes Point Center: Former Big Lots, 3938 Taylorsville Road
- Outerloop Jefferson Mall: Next to H&M, 4801 Outer Loop, B-432
- CampLanding: Former Trampoline Place, 10699 US 60
- Next to Golden Hibachi Buffet, 600 US 31-W, 1, Bowling Green, KY 42101
- Next to Appalachian Wireless, 1019 Cumberland Falls Highway Corbin, KY 40701
- Next to Range USA, 7551 Mall Road
- Next to Veterans Medical office, 4000 Fort Campbell Boulevard
- Crossroads Plaza: Former Tuesday mornings, 125 E. Reynolds Road, Suite 145
- Fayette Mall: Next to Old Navy, 3801 Mall Road (costumes and accessories only)
- Former Halloween Havoc, 4653 Frederica Street
- Next to Michaels off US 60, 5187 Hinkleville Road
- Near Ashley Furniture, 830 Eastern Bypass
- Former Dawahares, 4150 S. US 27
- Former Gordmans, 945 E. Lewis and Clark Parkway
- Former Tuesday Morning, 217 N. Green River Road
Find more Spirit Halloween locations and hours
Visit stores.spirithalloween.com to find more locations and check their hours.
This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: 'SNL' makes fun of Spirit Halloween during season premiere. Here's Kentucky 2024 locations
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