Spirit Halloween jabs back at Saturday Night Live
Spirit Halloween has some jokes of its own for SNL
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You know what they say: hell hath no fury like a Spirit Halloween scorned. Now that it’s October and the iconic Halloween costume-and-decoration chain is popping back up around the country, Saturday Night Live kicked off its 50th season with some pretty rote jokes about the brand. Spirit Halloween carries “Wigs that give you a rash, single-use fog machines, and costumes of famous characters tweaked just enough to avoid a lawsuit” and creates “six-week jobs for some of America’s hardest hit perverts,” the pre-taped sketch proclaimed, to the prompting a snarky response from the actual store.
As noted in The A.V. Club’s recap of the SNL season premiere (which reviewer Jesse Hassenger gave a C grade), the sketch is “not exactly packed with revelations.” In fact, you can find more or less the same jabs in our coverage of Spirit Halloween: The Movie (which reviewer Jordan Hoffman gave a C- grade), or, like, from passersby on the sidewalk outside of any Spirit Halloween in the country on any given day. But perhaps the fact that these obvious jokes are repeated so often is why the SNL sketch was Spirit Halloween’s final straw.