Spirit Halloween Levels ‘SNL,’ Posts Devastating New Costume After Being Mocked on the Show

“Saturday Night Live” played with forces outside of its control during the premiere of the show’s 50th season, summoning a Halloween superstore to disastrous effect.
The comedy show poked fun at Spirit Halloween on Saturday, mocking the store’s ephemeral existence and typical business practices.
As pointed out by the “SNL” skit, the Halloween superstores typically pop up before the spooky holiday in abandoned buildings and seemingly vanish into thin air once all the trick-or-treating is done.

“We don’t see a dead-end town,” an actor says in the skit. “We don’t see an abandoned Kmart. We see a spirit. …