Spirit slams 'SNL' for Halloween season premiere skit: 'Irrelevant 50-year-old TV show' with 'shrinking ratings'

“Saturday Night Live” should be very scary.

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're great at restoring things from the dead,” the store wrote Monday on X (previously on Twitter) alongside a photo of a fake “SNL” outfit.

The outfit was labeled “Irrelevant 50-Year-Old TV Show.” The packaging says it includes “date references, unknown cast members and shrinking ratings.”

“SNL” has yet to respond to the Spirit Halloween clapback

During the season 50 premiere on Saturday (September 28), the show aired a commercial spoof of Spirit Halloween that parodied the seasonal retailer.

“Times may be good on Wall Street, but on Main Street, communities are struggling,” Heidi Garner says in a voiceover at the beginning of the sketch. “Closed stores, closed businesses, empty parking lots. When hard times hit, it's easy to feel like no one cares.”

“But help is on the way,” added Garner, 41, of the business's success as a fake ghost Halloween employee (played by Garner, Fineman and Michael Longfellow).

“We're here providing vulnerable communities with the things they need most: wigs that give you a rash, single-use fog machines and famous characters' costumes tweaked enough to avoid lawsuits,” explains Fineman, 36.

Garner jokes that the store is “creating six weeks worth of jobs for America's worst-hit perverts.”

After Fineman declares Spirit Halloween is “helping make dreams come true,” he is approached by a little girl asking for a Taylor Swift costume.

Feynman gives the girl a “blonde singing lady” outfit. The girl points out that the dress isn't Swift, to which Feynman replies, “And neither are you.”

At the end of the faux ad, Feinman, Garner and Longfellow, 30, said, “Spirit Halloween — when you need us, we'll be here. for six weeks. Because we left on November 1st. And all this garbage will be in a dumpster.”

The Season 50 premiere was hosted by Gene Smart with musical guest Jelly Roll.

The episode featured skits from “House of the Dragon,” “The Real Housewives,” Chappelle Rowan, Charli XCX, and more.

Cast member Bowen Young even spoke out after receiving backlash from the show for a joke he made about Rowan during a “Weekend Update” segment. He appeared this month as the baby hippo Moo Deng, who went viral and referenced Rowan's appeal to set boundaries with fans at the time.

“For the past 10 weeks, I've been going nonstop,” Young said while dressed in a hippo costume. “The response has been overwhelming, but it's gotten to the point where I have to set some boundaries.”

“Reminder, women owe you nothing. When I'm in my enclosure, jumping on stuff, biting my trainer's knee, I'm at work, that's the project,” he said, referring to Rowan's eerily similar Instagram post in August. “Don't scream my name or expect a photo because I'm your parasocial bestie or because you admire my talent.”

Viewers felt that “SNL” was using Roan's mental health struggles for material Yang later denied mocking the artist. “Everything he's asked for has been reasonable and yet we can tie it to another story on the border or whatever. Needs hose…” she wrote in an Instagram Story on Sunday.

Rowan is set to perform as the musical guest on the variety show on November 2.

The show also poked fun at the upcoming presidential election, with Maya Rudolph returning as Vice President Kamala Harris. James Austin Johnson played Donald Trump, Bowen Young played JD Vance, Dana Carvey played Joe Biden, and Jim Gaffigan played Governor Tim Walz.