Saturday Night Live's season 50 premiere featured a fake ad for the store that sells Halloween costumes and decor throughout October.

The sketch was a fake commercial for Spirit Halloween starring Heidi Gardner, Chloe Fineman and Michael Longfellow as employees touting the chain as a homey company that revitaliz

"Since 1983, Spirit Halloween has been helping our struggling communities by setting up shop in every vacant building in the country for six weeks and then bouncing," the show joked Spirit Halloween had a scary good response to Saturday Night Live's parody of the chain.

Jean Smart hosted the episode, which featured appearances by Maya Rudolph, Jim Gaffigan, Dana Carvey and Andy Samberg.

Saturday Night Live has been slammed as “irrelevant” after a sketch on the premiere of their 50th season failed to amuse the subject of the gag. SNL returned on 28 September with a show hosted by Jean Smart and featured an already infamous sketch about singer Chappell Roan and the viral pygmy hippopotamus,

Saturday Night Live” should be very scared. Spirit Halloween went after the NBC sketch comedy series for its Season 50 premiere skit that took a dig at the pop-up costume store. “We are great at raising things back from the dead,

Spirit Halloween is hitting back at Saturday Night Live, who aired a sketch poking fun at the costume store. The Season 50 premiere of the NBC late-night sketch show featured a sketch that made light of the retail store that sells Halloween costumes throughout October.

The Halloween retailer called out the NBC sketch comedy show's "dated references," "unknown cast members," and "shrinking ratings."