Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
It's not surprising that NBC found a way to capitalize on the unexpected popularity of Tom Hanks' breakout Saturday Night Live character, David S. Pumpkins. The network has a long, not necessarily proud history of taking amusing SNL sketches and stretching them them out into full-fledged movies. We should probably count ourselves lucky "Haunted Elevator" only spawned a half-hour animated special and not a feature-length project. Even so, it's difficult to understand why anyone at the network thought The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special was something worth greenlighting.
Where the original sketch presented Pumpkins and his skeleton entourage as overzealous performers in a really lousy Tower of Terror-ripoff, this special re-imagines the trio as enchanted do-gooders tasked with saving Halloween through the power of... whatever it is they do. The goal seemed to be to combine the timeless charm of the Rankin/Bass Christmas specials with a dash of The Cat in the Hat and a spooky, self-aware flourish. On paper, that actually sounds like a pretty swell combination. But in order to pull it off, you really need a character with a bit more meat on the bones.
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