The offending sketch in question plays as an uplifting commercial spoof of the store, which is America's largest Halloween retailer.

“When others leave, we show up,” Spirit Halloween community liaison Lauren Ashman, played by Heidi Gardner, says in the “SNL” bit (see video below). “We don’t see a dead-end town.” “We don’t see an abandoned Kmart,” says another employee played by Michael Longfellow in the “SNL” sketch.

Here’s a map of all of the Spirit Halloween stores in 2024 throughout Los Angeles County, Orange County and the Inland Empire.

In the Denver metro area, the ghost of many chain stores still lingers inside what are now Spirit Halloween stores.