The main writer was Mikey Day!

Apparently Tom Hanks wanted to pass the skit on to the next weeks host. But changed his mind. Now it's legendary and he's glad he went through with it.

Awesome comment my friend 😁

Yeah, there's no way they met "no" resistance.... I mean.... they had to meet _some_ resistance....even if it was just a little. Lorne isn't known for being very lenient on what goes on air...

Lost all respect for Tom Hanks after his insolent displays at Ricky Gervais's appearances at the Golden Globes. And now we learn the real deals behind the Globes, you can tell that Hanks is one of those people who take it way too seriously and are impeding efforts at reform.

‘Tis Tradition

Yes. Spread the culture beyond, the taku circle.

It's Pumpkin time, baby!

yes

Indeed

Facts! I only found out about this 3 or 4 years ago from twitter when someone I follow asked "so what WAS David S. Pumpkins all about?" ???... a couple google hits later and here I was!

@@NYFMA The funniest part is that's the entire punchline! That people DON'T know who he is or what he's "all about."

David *S.* Pumpkins!

I found out about him from DlJadow, a video game reviewer

People are finding out the truth about all of these disgusting secrets in Hollywood and you would lose your mind if you knew how many of these so-called celebrities are pedophiles and worse if there is such a thing😡😡😡

WOOOO THEY BROUGHT HIM BACK!!!! NEW SKETCH!! THEY RETURNED!!!!!!!

Time again.

@@TedsNerdWorld bingo

Hell yeah!

I thought I was David ASS Pumpkins! What with the ass slapping.

I'm still at the first step and I fell like I'm missing out.

like flappy birds

You learn to like it after the 300th time

I, like the skit, went all in on David Pumpkins

Bruh you have 346 likes

There is no arguing with that logic

ANY QUESTIONS???

@@vich8810 “YES. SEVERAL!”

@@kerryegan3091 "Don't let David Pumpkins ruin your night"

So funny, I loved that.

Ahahahahahahahaha!

Lol i think of this line a couple times a week and laugh

I love every one of Kenan Thompson's lines in the skit. His character is trying so hard to stay in character and maintain the mystique of the haunted elevator ride. Like when they ask if they're supposed to know David Pumpkins from something: "Well... the scariest thing to the mind... is the unknown!" Until he finally snaps at the end.

I find myself saying, "YES! SEVERAL!" (at least in my head) anytime anyone asks if there are questions now.

mine is "any questions?" "several!"

That’s David “S” Pumpkins to you, Sir!

@@lisettegarcia Any Questions?

Which goes to show that you're not famous until you have some kind of breakout character or performance (or, in the case of the celebrities who host who aren't movie or TV stars [i.e., the pop musicians or the politicians], have some semblance of comedic talent or acting chops) when you host Saturday Night Live.

to be fair.... it's his best performance

And to think he originally tried to talk SNL into skipping the sketch and having the host of the following week do it because he didn't want too.

Hows it the worst

It’s not the worst, it’s amazing But others are better Like John Mulaney’s Sound of Music Sketch

@@colemoore5007 bro shwetty balls is the greatest sketch of all time

@@yakamarezlife oh absolutely, no contest

Like the operator says, "they cant all be winners"

That's a brilliant idea; now I'm gonna make it my ringtone, too!

Same though

Okay now go back to sleep.

😂😂😂😂the skeletons have some dance moves though.😂Ay Papí

YES

This defines my existance

every dang year 🎃❤️

Any questions?

😂😂😂

^^^On point!

David S. Pumpkins pops up in my brain algorithm too

Yes, and we have no regrets. Happy Halloween! :)

Any questions?

Omg we're back agaaaain

Yes!

David S. Pumpkins

we call that Tactical Terror.

@@BillPenny Terrorism is okay if it’s just for Halloween

@@CharlieApples Spooky Time Terrorism

Someone liked this comment.... Gotta wait another year

I saw someone dressed as him for comic con.

Saw three people doing a group costume as David S Pumpkins and the b-boy skeletons at disney's oogie boogie bash last night. It was awesome XD

I just bought my costume last week to wear to greet Trick or Treaters. Can't wait.

On my first watch I was like, "why is this funny".. and now here I am a few days later watching it again and amused. David S. Pumpkins is like the Stockholm syndrome of skits... before too long I'll start dressing like a B-boy skeleton, then later shopping for pumpkin ties... please send help. 💀🎃💀

Honestly he was my favorite lol. I sat in the Peacock bar just watching him creep up on unsuspecting guests to do his little skit 😂

I wish I'd catch him. I see Dr Oddfellow everywhere and have caught Megan & Death Eaters a couple times.

@@hollyb7981What if David Pumpkins and the skeletons have a dance-off with Megan??

Yet chappelle was hitting 95% winners

@@ericlofstrand many people say he is the best comedian for a reason, it’s hurt to match up to him. especially considering how many shows SNL’s put on and lot sketches, much bigger amount to fail in.

@@ericlofstrand As far as I know Chapelle’s Show wasn’t live or produced in just a week

@@agentstache135 true

@@ericlofstrand Chappelle's show wasn't produced in a week, plus taping the show makes it much easier to produce quality sketches because he wasn't constrained by a single set. He also had a 22-minute show, which usually included a musical guest and a few minutes of talking to the audience. He basically did about fifteen minutes of sketches each episode. If you take just the first 30 minutes of an SNL show, consider that it's all written and rehearsed in five days and with serious limitations on location, it's actually pretty impressive. Not as good as Chappelle, but he is the best of all-time for a reason.

Tbf i don't think anyone except the mentally unstable would understand this character

@@timobeugelink2527 I'm mentally unstable and still don't get it, but I do LOVE IT!

Yeah my English teacher played this and said Tom hanks didn't understand why it was funny. He then produced this hilarious gem

@@styxscorpion4541 it's kind of difficult to describe how it's funny, like it relies on a lot of very contemporary contextual understanding of subversion i think... idk.

@@robzs8388 yeah you can’t really just describe it to people they have to SEE it… the fist time I saw it i showed EVERYONE

found it 2 years ago. new tradition unlocked!

There are so many layers to this, I've been back every day ..... LOL

I first saw it new I was a senior in HS and I've never missed a Halloween night to play it

My favorite line of the skit!

That's the best line in this skit.

I never realized it's "hellavator." This is the gift that keeps on giving. 😀

They missed a good joke which they were probably too chicken to do, but have Mark add to that line, "You know, like SNL sketches."

They may not all be winners, but I wish so many of them weren’t complete losers either. “Humor” these days has gone so far downhill, most of it is just crude or outright inappropriate.

So true

To be fair, the frustration of not knowing why or how this specific spectacle is being presented to them builds into a pitch of genuine horror and anxiety, which is then POPPED by David S Pumpkins' unexpected apparition in the elevator while their minds are spinning their wheels trying to understand what's going on. So, the Unknown did cause Fear, just not in the way we've grown accustomed to expect - which reinforces the truth of the statement, I would think.

Lol wat. No not even 🤣 saying David pumpkins is actually scary is the equivalent of people saying you need a "high IQ" to understand Rick & Morty. Unless they state that he massacred people he's just a dude in a pumpkin suit lol

The real scary part is how David can get between floors so quickly. It’s probably the same way he got in the elevator. I’m thinking either he can teleport, or he and the skeletons stow away on the outside of the elevator car and then assume their positions before the doors open. If the latter is the case, there’s probably a hatch leading into the elevator car that David can go through to appear behind the tourists.

@@kidricoflynn5813 9

here for my yearly dose! See you next year!

That's David _S._ Pumpkins!

you not alone i did that to

Exactly. Funnier every time I watch it. I thought it was completely "meh," the 1st time through.

Same here lmao

same here! and i will be watching it again!

Ditto. It's really the actors that sell the whole thing. :) "PART OF IT."

That's why he's is one (if not the) greatest actors of all time. I never get tired of seeing him on TV.

that's just who Tom Hanks is its what he's always done

Thanks to T.Hanks.

Its said he really didnt get the skit and asked them not to do it but ended up going along with it anyhoo

He's a puke!! I can't believe how stupid people are, glad I don't have to deal with it.

YES!!!!! I'm so glad this is my new tradition! lol

I miss Beck, he was a fucking comedic genius

"I'm so in the weeds with David Pumpkins!" is an underrated line.

One of the best lines because it’s probably what everyone was thinking when watching this lol

Agreed.

😘

Tara Codling any questions?

That's so true, it's scary!

its almost time

T and T 👏👏

Me too and it was never available on youtube

A cowbell begs to differ

for reallll. I haven't laughed this hard in so long!

For me, it's this one or "Farewell, Mr. Bunting."

@@scottmasin741 Both classics! Prefer this one by just a little bit.

You don't "get frights". You fear them

@@christisking1316 why are you lying? Greece doesn't consider pedophilia a disorder. It is definitely still a crime in Greece.

@@Narokkurai I will post an Article below that is Contrary to what you have just stated... All the "current" fact checks, surround what has been alleged about Hanks!? Celebrities have come out on what Really Happens in "Hellywierd", with SRA & the Like! Maybe you do not want to Believe this, but Child Sacrifice has been going on for Centuries, even Abortion itself is Murder & the Shedding of Innocent Blood in God's eyes. medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-furor-greece-pedophilia-disability.html

@@christisking1316 Okay you two, this is some kind of KZfaq based performance art, right?

@@brianbagnall3029 Please Clarify...,Are you asking me or telling me!?. If you're asking me if this snl skit is a performance: "well yeah", But whether it is "art", well that would be subjective. You need to look at the Context, rather than just the concept of the thing....

@@christisking1316 dude it's a SNL skit we come here to laugh not talk about real world shit

But WHY are they a part of this ride?

LOL :-) !!!

@@cdhstarz To do.....THIS! (doo-do-dee-dee-doo, do dee-dee-doo, do dee-dee-doo *slap*)

That was my favorite part!

He needs his own show

Those who know will laugh, but for the most part your boss will wish he never hired you.

@@joliecide lol

Omg I just did this for my presentation today and that’s why I’m watching this again right now. No one got it sadly because I live in England. They were just like ‘why is Tom hanks asking if we have anymore questions about automation test design?’😂

@@joliecide haha I think he already does :)

@@danicapriest4583 That's awesome Danica, I wish I could have seen their faces :)

"S" 😆

2024: "Is that President S. Pumpkins???"

@@JeepnHeel who knows well wait and see

We don't need double-speak, bob loblaw.

There was no double speak. Just confirmation Tom is a freak.

That's david S!!! pumpkins

the S stands for Simon

it's almost like.... he's his own thang.

Yep. Like Jagermeister

I hated it when it first aired. Rewatching it, I'm laughing quite a bit. It's SO STUPID and yet amusing.

I think for me that record would have to go to 'Kung Pow'

LMFAO, seriously!

This along with the James Franco - Za sketch are easily the worst idea/most hysterical sketches of all time

Ikr

i agree

And two days after you posted this, he returned!

any questions?

Grace Laughlin and the skeletons are part of it

Grace Laughlin me in math

Grace Laughlin THIS IS A DESTROY OF ALL SKELETONS>:(

Grace Laughlin and she is a mother to

Then he just shows up right behind you! AAH! Terrifying! He's behind you right NOW!!!

It's absurdism, a bit like the 'Kevin Roberts'-skit with Larry David :)

Hahaha elevated

the0rangekind or space pants with peter dinklage

Haaaaa....I see what you did there.

+Laurent D'Hondt "Can a B get a donut?!"

Add Melissa McCarthy in the Hidden Valley Ranch sketch to this list.

Ryan Gosling in "Papyrus" is pretty phenomenal too.

​@@CougAbides think the pizza one or the basketball coach skit was her best

@@SwordSaint892 Ryan Gosling meeting Santa Claus is an even better example.

adam driver was good in the skit where he played the old oil baron talking to the classroom. he OWNED that shit.

Azziza Joi Robinson lol

Azziza Joi Robinson lol same

Azziza Joi Robinson ay PAPI 😂

Its the scariest thing in the whole video.

Ay, Papi!!!

100 years of SNL, they're not all gonna be winners.

To be honest, I didn't get the metaphor until you pointed it out but it's so true now that I've rewatched it. :)

I don't get it lol

He should've also added, "Like SNL sketches."

Nobody does down-to-earth like Keenan Thompson.

Danielle D the first time I saw it I thought it was dumb but then like a few days later I was thinking about it and I was like man that was pretty damn funny and now I've watched it too many times and died laughing every time

The first time I saw it, three-quarters of the way through, I thought it was pretty dumb. But I stayed with it to the final scene. What a joy!!

The skit takes several ridiculous aspects of theme parks -- low rent characters, low rent music, low rent production value -- and cranks up the absurdity to 1000. Absurdity in the hands of the right people is hilarious. Tom Hanks makes this skit work. All the players help the thing along, but he makes it work. The pacing of the skit is perfect.

Aye, Poppy!

Papi*

It's derived from "Summer Holiday" by MC Miker G and DJ Sven. It's a long story but I'm not kidding

Bobby Moynihan, Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell

@@Snoopingkids omg how did you even know about this?!?

@@mochs62512 the song isn't from that movie. The original is by two Dutch musicians and samples Madonna's "Holiday." www.discogs.com/MCMikerG-Deejay-Sven-Holiday-Rap/master/101949

@@russellmoore638 thanks for the song info.

73 out of 100 floors lol

@@kayrupe125 the most fearful thing to the mind... Is the UNKNOWN

"Look, it's a hundred floors of frights, they're not all gonna be winners."

You dont get frights, you FEEL THEM!

@@kayrupe125 Why did you go all in on David Pumpkins?!

I had to look that up. So weird. David Pumpkins became a thing out of not being a thing. Now he's a legit Halloween figure.

With Tom Hanks, it was super easy, barely an inconvenience

The pitch: "Ok, so it is one of those 100 floors of scares haunted houses. But the joke is that 80 of them are dedicated to David Pumpkins. Any questions?"

Or how many celebrities said, *"Hell no,"* too it until Tom Hanks was like, "Hell *YES!"*

There is a whole oral history of it actually, pretty intetesting

Having the same thing for 73 out of 100 floors is *TIGHT*

Isn't he already running and grabbing pussy.

Only if that music is the new anthem.

+rubert134 no. Someone who looks like a pumpkin is already running and grabbing pussy ;-)

There is already an Orange guy running.

well he would be better than trump or hilary

😆😆😆

Now, see, that is the secret to good scares. Get in their head with something that is minorly vexing, and silly. They will not be scared. Then just do that thing (for example, if it is a silly noise you make) record it as your ring tone, leave the phone in a place where the prank target is expecting quiet (sitting outside, for example) and call the phone after about 10 minutes of relative silence. Prank wars with friends taught me some things.

The baby noise 😭

Awww I’m crazy… for David pumpkins

That’s what I remember from the sketch too as soon as it popped into my recommended 😂

@@jaydock1 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jdOphNurncrXiIk.html

The subtitles gave it as "I happy" lol

Same. I'm just as confused as those riders were and I Google David S Pumpkins every now and then hoping there's like more to it even though it's so dumb.

That pretty much sums up my whole relationship with SNL these days.

You're crazy! For David Pumpkins! :dances with a chainsaw:

@@MWDoom there is. There is a cartoon Halloween special.

You just.. don't.. get it do yah?

I know.🤣🤣🤣🤣

I’m absolutely gonna be one of David S. Pumpkins’ skeleton sidekicks this year for my costume. Those who get it are new friends 👍🏻👍🏻

It's the music for me lol

heh?

Lol and those who do not get it, will go, as I went, to look up David s pumpkins, and find this, and their lives will be forever changed for the better.

Yes! Several!

I've seen it about 167 times, and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it.

Haha same here Katie! Have a great Halloween. Stay safe out there! 🎃🎃😷🎃🎃

@@gator9339 Is that a Beetlejuice reference? If so, nice one.

AND hubie Halloween 🎃

Me, I do.

I cling to David as our last moment of collective sanity. I repost him every year in hopes his insane queer energy will reach through the cosmos and wake us up from this nightmare.

It’s just a few hours away and I’m already here lol

@@racheleaton6022 Hi! I just posted this around 40 minutes after you did. Happy Halloween!

holds up

ANY QUESTIONS?

this gets funnier every time i watch it

Yeah, it grows on you.

sha11235 I have to watch this every day to stay alive now.

ANY QUESTIONS?

It still spooks me

911 likes on your comment, it's a conspiracy.

But does it mature like more cowbell?

Indeed. I didn't think much of it the first time I saw it, and now I'm laughing my ass off at it.

And you mature like milk

He's behind you

He probably still doesn't understand it, lol, but he made it legendary

@@zoyadulzura7490 legendarily bad

@@lockandloadlikehell Sounds like someone is in the weeds with David Pumpkins.

I loved it

He's The Man Who Keeps His Promises.

69 likes

Best thing of all was that when he said it, it was ridiculous and stupid, but in the end he was right all along.

Don't let David Pumpkins ruin your night

@Mark of the Mole he literally means he said that when he watched the video it amazes me how stupid people can be

AxeKick80 yessssss I cant wait!im hoping Tom Hanks makes a surprise visit to Snl 2018

That's why i'm here!

All hail our Spooky King!!

Im so ready

AxeKick80 any questions?

lmao Same

•DivaGina• YAS Same

just make it a qr code people scan that leads to this.

Haha. That is perfect.

***** Haha, this is too perfect. The funky music must also be playing in the background.

Did he have a couple of skeletons to be part of it?

I wish I was in your school

He's my favorite teacher too...I don't even go there.

Did you have any questions?

That's badass!

David S. pumpkins is a mastermind of psychological mind games.

Well, he said he was going to at 1:09 and kept his word.

It's that rarest of SNL sketches: one with a punchline.

David S Pumpkins plays the long game.

Yes, that was the whole point of the ride...so many people miss this!!!

Dear god he dances?

Babydoll 😂😂😂😂😂

"Corey"ography

Omg yes!

L.D. Johnson don’t they have something like this that similar at Disney World? Called the Tower of Terror?

Frankly, the punch line is the only thing that made the sketch worthwhile for me.

I know this would be so funny it'll work and I would pay for it.

Very funny

Not to mention the fact that they sculpt your face from a photo to use, "David Pumpkins" was improvising and maybe controlling the elevator, and he somehow got behind the couple without them noticing. The other guy was improvising too. And they both improvised well.