EHT’s Spirit Halloween Claps Back @ ‘SNL’ With Hilarious Costume

On Tuesday, a popular South Jersey-based retailer showed that they can give as good as they get with a funny response to a 'Saturday Night Live' skit.

'SNL's' 50th season opened this weekend on NBC and featured a skit poking fun at the way Spirit Halloween stores pop up each year at Halloween in the place of recently closed businesses around the country.

Spirit Halloween responded with a post on X ( formally Twitter) showing a doctored image of one of their costume packages poking fun at 'Saturday Night Live' as the "Irrelevant 50-year-old TV Show" costume.

The post was captioned, "We're great at raising things back from the dead".

'Saturday Night Live' Takes Shot at Spirit Halloween

Sunday, NBC shared a clip on the show's official X account, starting the war of words with part of the intro to the TV skit...

"Communities are struggling. Closed stores. Shuttered businesses. Empty parking lots. When hard times hit, it's easy to feel like no one cares. But help is on the way. Because when others leave, we show up," says a voiceover opening the skit. "We don't see a dead-end town, we don't see an abandoned Kmart, we see a Spirit. A Spirit Halloween."

"We're here providing vulnerable communities with the things they need most - wigs that give you a rash, single-use fog machines and costumes of famous characters tweaked just enough to avoid a lawsuit," jokes the spoof, which goes on to say Spirit stores invest not only in empty buildings, but also people, by creating "six-week jobs for some of America's hardest-hit perverts."

Spirit Halloween Responds With Jab About 'SNL's' Tired Legacy

The 'SNL' skit, part of the 50th season's premiere episode, brought in some laughs, but Spirit Halloween's response was dead-on funny.

"We're great at raising things back from the dead @nbcsnl," Spirit posted on X in response to "SNL."

Attached to the post is a doctored image of a Spirit Halloween costume package titled "Irrelevant 50-year-old TV show" and sporting a picture of the "SNL 50 The Anniversary Season" logo.

Below the title is a list of the "costume" components, which include "dated references," "unknown cast members" and "shrinking ratings." Oh, and one size fits most adults.

Touché, Spirit Halloween!