Saturday Night time Reside apparently has a brand new enemy and it’s everybody’s favourite seasonal Halloween pop-up store empire Spirit Halloween. After a latest skit joked concerning the firm’s low-quality gadgets and six-week shops, Spirit fired again on-line and referred to as SNL an “irrelevant 50-year-old present.”
Final week, NBC’s long-running comedy sequence Saturday Night time Reside returned for its fiftieth season. Through the milestone premiere, it aired a pre-recorded sketch about Spirit Halloween. The sketch joked about how the corporate takes over failed, deserted shops to help communities… for simply six weeks then it “bounces.” It additionally made enjoyable of the shop’s knock-off costumes and low-quality gadgets.
Right here’s the complete sketch from Saturday in case you missed it:
I believed it was a fairly humorous poke at Spirit Halloween, a retailer chain that I’ve already visited thrice this Halloween season despite the fact that it’s barely October. However Spirit Halloween wasn’t laughing. On September 30, the official Spirit Halloween account on Twitter posted a picture of an “SNL costume” containing some insults concerning the present.
“We’re nice at elevating issues again from the useless” posted Spirit whereas tagging SNL on Twitter and quote-tweeting the sketch. Within the picture, Spirit referred to as SNL an “irrelevant” present and stated it consists of “dated references, unknown solid members, and shrinking rankings.”
It needs to be famous that it’s bizarre to name a present “irrelevant” when you find yourself reacting to one thing it just lately did. In that case, it appears very related, actually. Additionally odd to name out its “dated references” once I can stroll right into a Spirit Halloween in 2024 and nonetheless discover unsold costumes from Marvel and DC films launched a decade in the past.
Perhaps David S. Pumpkins, a earlier SNL character performed by Hanks who famously wore a skeleton-themed swimsuit you could find at Spirit, will assist dealer peace between the 2 growing older giants?
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