Halloween mega-store rips 'SNL' in revenge for scathing new sketch: 'Irrelevant 50-year-old TV show'

Halloween pop-up store concatenation Spirit Halloween precocious slammed iconic sketch-comedy amusement "Saturday Night Live" successful an X station this week aft the NBC programme made amusive of the store successful a skit past weekend.

The store’s authoritative X relationship trolled SNL with an representation of a mock Halloween costume that slammed it arsenic an "irrelevant 50-year-old TV show" whose ratings are "shrinking."

Spirit Halloween’s made the anti-SNL connection conscionable a fewer days aft the amusement featured a sketch mocking the holiday-themed store.

The sketch – which aired during the premiere occurrence of the drama show’s 50th play – was a fake commercialized for the store that poked amusive astatine it for repurposing the storefronts of shuttered businesses successful towns that person deed hard times, lone to permission aft selling Halloween costumes for six weeks. 

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Spirit Halloween called retired a sketch from Saturday Night Lives premiere past play that mocked the pop-up Halloween costume shop. (Smith Collection/Gado / Contributor)

"Thanks to us, what utilized to beryllium a condemned AutoZone wherever a execution happened is erstwhile again a thriving concern wherever a execution happened," SNL castmate Michael Longfellow quipped during the sketch portion portraying a Spirit Halloween employee.

The authoritative SNL X relationship shared the sketch to the societal media level with the caption, "when others leave, Spirit Halloween shows up."

The vacation store changeable backmost connected X connected Monday, providing a spoof of its ain connected the long-running drama show. 

The store shared an representation of an "SNL 50" costume contained successful Spirit Halloween’s recognizable orangish packaging. 

Like Spirit’s real-life packages, the spoof featured descriptions of the costume, successful this case, antagonistic lines astir SNL’s 50th season.

The bundle read, "Includes: Dated references, Unknown formed members, Shrinking ratings."

In the post’s caption, the store wrote, "We are large astatine raising things backmost from the dormant @nbcsnl."

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X users recovered the feud betwixt the store and the amusement amusing.

Comedian and writer Lou Perez wrote, "Both the SNL sketch and Spirit Halloween's effect are funny. More of this, please."

Actor Nathan Brimmer mocked the store, commenting, "Seeing you butthurt implicit getting decently served connected SNL is delicious."

Comedian Luis J. Gomez praised Spirit, stating, "Spirit Halloween with the termination shot."

The latest occurrence of SNL went viral for different reasons this weekend. Former NBCUniversal elder executive Mike Sington slammed the show for doing a sketch making airy of the assassination attempts against erstwhile President Donald Trump. 

The sketch featured Trump – played by SNL castmember James Austin Johnson – urging his rallygoers to enactment arsenic gunshots ripped towards him. 

"Where the hellhole is everyone going? Where are you going? I spot you trying to leave, but the doors are locked. Come connected backmost — we’re having fun. We emotion my rallies, but erstwhile idiosyncratic does the ‘bing, bong, bing, bing, bing’ close astatine me," Johnson arsenic Trump said, with digit guns.

SNL's 50th play premiere besides annoyed viewers for its sketch making airy of the assassination attempts against erstwhile President Trump. (NBC/Contributor)

Sington told Fox News Digital this week, "I was watching it live, and really cringed erstwhile they mocked the assassination attempts successful an effort to beryllium funny. I’m nary instrumentality of Trump’s, but I thought it was successful highly mediocre taste."

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Fox News Digital’s Brian Flood contributed to this report.