Spirit Halloween Brutally Mocks 'SNL' For Making Fun Of Its Business Model
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING Spirit Halloween isn’t laughing at the way it was portrayed on the season premiere of “Saturday Night Live.” Instead, the seasonal retailer decided to get even in a hilariously petty manner. “Since 1983, Spirit Halloween has been helping our struggling communities by setting up shop in every vacant building in the country for six weeks,” says Heidi Gardner, posing as a store employee. But Chloe Fineman really sells it when she extols the “virtues” of the store’s business model. Spirit Halloween got its revenge for the skit on Monday by riffing on a popular meme format and sharing a photo of a mock “SNL” costume, that was, in the words of the skit, “tweaked just enough to avoid a lawsuit.” The so-called “Irrelevant 50-Year-Old TV Show” costume comes with “dated references,” “unknown cast members” and, of course, “shrinking ratings.” “We are great at raising things back from the dead,” the post read.
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