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Spooky Song

Saturday Night Live2019Season 45Episode 4
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The setup

A group of ghosts sing about their untimely deaths, but one spirit is a little embarrassed to share his.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

On Halloween night, a nervous young woman and her boyfriend Tyler (Heidi Gardner and Kyle Mooney) sneak into a graveyard to make out, only for four ghosts to rise from their graves and announce a song about how each of them died. A ship captain (Kenan Thompson) recalls a shark, a debutante (Aidy Bryant) a fatal brush with a candle and a gold miner (Mikey Day) a cigar that turned out to be dynamite. The fourth ghost (Chance the Rapper) tries to skip his verse and then offers a uselessly vague one, until the others insist the song requires every death to be told. His full confession escalates from a childhood habit with a nine-volt battery to a stormy night on a roof with a metal pole and a lightning strike, horrifying the couple and the other ghosts before everyone joins the closing chorus.

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

We gotta hook up in a graveyard.

My death was a real you-had-to-be-there situation.

Is he allowed to be vague like that?

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

ScriptEnglish · 43 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:02

    Girlfriend

    Baby, this is too spooky. Let's just go back to the party.

  2. 00:06

    Tyler

    Oh, come on. It's Halloween. We've got to hook up in a graveyard.

  3. 00:10

    Girlfriend

    Do we, though? Tyler, what's happening?

  4. 00:16

    Tyler

    I don't know.

  5. 00:20

    On Halloween, your breath is taken For tonight the dead awaken Listen well, our living friends And hear how we all met our ends

  6. 00:33

    Girlfriend

    Oh, my God, Tyler, they're going to sing about how they died.

  7. 00:36

    Tyler

    I know, I'm scared.

  8. 00:39

    Captain

    I was a captain at my ship's wheel, a heart of gold and nerves of steel. I fell overboard one night so dark, and I swam just fine, but so did the shark.

  9. 00:56

    Debutante

    I was a debutante, the belle of the ball. Men would chase me from spring to fall. I never met a flame that I couldn't handle until my gown met a candle

  10. 01:12

    Reluctant Ghost

    We can skip me happy Halloween

  11. 01:22

    Yeah, I was wondering the same

  12. 01:25

    Captain

    That was it.

  13. 01:27

    Reluctant Ghost

    Yes, get me

  14. 01:29

    Miner

    Okay, I'll go there.

  15. 01:31

    Nobody has ever skipped before

  16. 01:33

    Reluctant Ghost

    I'm sorry

  17. 01:36

    Miner

    I WAS A MINER DIGGIN' FOR GOLD THEN ONE DAY I HIT THE MOTHER LODE I GRABBED A CIGAR GAVE IT A LIGHT TURNED OUT MY STOGIE WAS DYNAMITE HE HE HE

  18. 01:50

    Reluctant Ghost

    WOW EVERYONE DID GREAT AND I THINK WE'RE DONE HERE RIGHT

  19. 01:56

    Captain

    NO UH UH IT'S THE DIDDY OF THE DAMNED ALL FOUR OF US HAVE A TALE TO of our deaths before we can go back to our graves. That's how it works, so come on.

  20. 02:08

    Reluctant Ghost

    Yeah, here's the thing. My death was a real you-had-to-be-there situation. Needs a lot of context. I don't want to waste anybody's time.

  21. 02:18

    Sing now.

  22. 02:21

    Reluctant Ghost

    Oh, my God. Fine. I'll go. Ready? One dark night with the moon so red What killed me happened and now I'm dead Happy Halloween!

  23. 02:34

    Girlfriend

    But, like, how did you die?

  24. 02:39

    Reluctant Ghost

    Ha-ha! Ghosts never tells.

  25. 02:42

    Captain

    No, they do, though. That's what this whole song is about.

  26. 02:45

    Tyler

    Is he allowed to be vague like that?

  27. 02:48

    Captain

    He is not.

  28. 02:51

    Reluctant Ghost

    It's gonna sound way worse than it actually is. You guys know what a 9-volt battery is, right? It's important for the song. I said on a 9-volt, it gave my hiney a quick little jolt. I liked how it felt, so I did it a lot. But I built up a tolerance to lower watts. And then I realized there's no higher volt than the one that comes from a lightning bolt.

  29. 03:19

    Reluctant Ghost

    So one stormy night, I went to my roof, and I put a metal pole in my ass. Yo, why y'all...

  30. 03:28

    Reluctant Ghost

    I can't do this right now. Y'all are looking at me like I'm some sort of freak or something.

  31. 03:32

    Debutante

    No one is judging you.

  32. 03:35

    Reluctant Ghost

    Yes, you are. Look at that owl.

  33. 03:40

    Captain

    Oh, forget about the owl. Just finish the song.

  34. 03:43

    Reluctant Ghost

    Okay. Got. All right, everybody remember where we left off?

  35. 03:47

    Miner

    Yes. You're on the roof with a pole in your ass. Well, done the same thing myself.

  36. 03:55

    Reluctant Ghost

    Really?

  37. 03:56

    Miner

    No, man! It's weird as hell! Just go!

  38. 03:59

    Reluctant Ghost

    Whatever. Like Benjamin Franklin with his key and kite, that lightning hit my pole that night. I squealed with delight, but I quickly stopped when my insides fried and my colon popped and my ass burnt off and my thing caught on fire and my face caught on fire and I went in my pants. Happy Halloween!

  39. 04:22

    What the hell is wrong with you, man?

  40. 04:33

    Reluctant Ghost

    Nothing. I was a kid, man. Kids do weird stuff.

  41. 04:37

    Debutante

    You died in your 20s.

  42. 04:39

    Reluctant Ghost

    Whatever! Let's just finish the song.

  43. 04:45

    Listen to the dead, the voices of the past And live every day like it's your last Happy Halloween

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