Spirit Halloween is clapping back at Saturday Night Live for making fun of the costume store during a recent sketch. After the late-night comedy series featured a segment that made light of the Halloween retail store during their Saturday, September 28, season 50 premiere , Spirit Halloween took to social media to throw some subtle shade of their own. “We are great at raising things back from the dead @nbcsnl,” the store’s official X page captioned a photo of a costume titled “Irrelevant 50-Year Old TV Show.
” The package for the costume claimed it included “dated references,” “unknown cast members” and “shrinking ratings.” Social media users quickly took to the comments section to praise Spirit for the joke — and roast SNL in the process. “This was way funnier than their video,” one person wrote, while another said, “Can you take their time slot some day?” A third commenter added: “Wait, SNL is still on?? I thought that ended in the 90’s.
” Hosted by Jean Smart , Saturday’s SNL episode didn’t hold back on making Spirit the butt of the joke. A pre-taped sketch showed SNL’s Heidi Gardner , Chloe Fineman and Michael Longfellow as employees shooting a faux commercial for the retailer. “Times may be good on Wall Street, but on Main Street, communities are struggling,” Gardner says in a voice-over.
“Closed stores, shuttered businesses, empty parking lots. ..
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