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Googie Rene's Partially Damaged Halloween Costume Discount Basement

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The setup

Kenan Thompson's bargain-basement pitchman sells Halloween costumes that are cheap for very good reasons.

Community rating

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

In a commercial parody, discount-store owner Googie Rene and his weary seasonal employee Linda show off a basement full of damaged Halloween costumes: a ghost sheet with no back, a Dracula cape with a mystery odor, a Greek goddess gown covered in tire tracks and a Marilyn Monroe dress stained by Linda's son. Googie's answer to every flaw is a shrug, a two-dollar price and, finally, something big enough to hold in front of the stain.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 6

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Ghosts don't turn around. They just approach.

At Googie Rene's, nothing is more than two dollars in a stank basket.

He's not a baby. He's five.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Kenan Thompson played Googie Rene in three SNL commercial parodies: a slightly stained wedding dress basement (2008), this Halloween costume basement (2010) and a slightly damaged prom wear barn (2011).

ScriptEnglish · 35 turns

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

  1. 00:01

    Googie Rene

    Hey, how you doing? It's me, Googie Renee. Halloween is coming real quick. What you gonna be, a Navi-Davi from the avatars? Shia, if you want a great Halloween costume, but you don't wanna pay supermarket prices, then you need to get to Googie Renee's partially damaged Halloween costume discount bar. Here's my seasonal employee, Linda. What do you have in your hands?

  2. 00:26

    Linda

    I think it's a ghost costume, but the whole back's ripped out.

  3. 00:29

    Googie Rene

    So? Ghosts don't turn around. They just approach. She out.

  4. 00:35

    Linda

    But what about when it's time to leave the party, Googie?

  5. 00:38

    Googie Rene

    I don't know. I cannot plan your life. Maybe get naked underneath and tell people it's a hospital gown. She out.

  6. 00:45

    Dracula

    Hello. I'm interested in this Dracula cape.

  7. 00:48

    Googie Rene

    Well, you should be. It's interesting.

  8. 00:49

    Dracula

    But it kind of has a weird odor. What is it?

  9. 00:52

    Googie Rene

    I don't know. Let me smell it.

  10. 00:54

    Linda

    I know what it is.

  11. 00:56

    Googie Rene

    Oh. Oh. That smells like she out.

  12. 01:00

    Dracula

    Is there anything you can do about it?

  13. 01:02

    Googie Rene

    No, I'm not touching it anymore Two dollars

  14. 01:05

    Googie Rene

    At Googie Renee's, nothing is more than two dollars In a stank basket

  15. 01:12

    Linda

    Sweet Googie, something smells over here

  16. 01:17

    Googie Rene

    It's the stank basket, Linda, get it out of here

  17. 01:21

    Greek Goddess

    Googie I love this Greek goddess outfit But it has tire tracks all over it

  18. 01:27

    Googie Rene

    That's because the last owner got run over by a smart car

  19. 01:31

    Greek Goddess

    Oh, what? A smart car.

  20. 01:33

    Googie Rene

    Well, if it's so smart, why did it hit a person? She, uh... Tire track out. Fool around with some bleach. I don't know. Soak it in kaboom.

  21. 01:44

    Greek Goddess

    Thanks. I'll take it.

  22. 01:47

    Googie Rene

    See? She could not resist the savings. Fuh!

  23. 01:53

    Marilyn Monroe

    I love this Marilyn Monroe dress, but I'm concerned about the mustard stain.

  24. 01:57

    Googie Rene

    Well, that's not a mustard stain. That's a baby barf.

  25. 02:02

    Linda

    He's not a baby. He's five.

  26. 02:03

    Googie Rene

    Ah. Well, he acts like a baby. You need to stop bringing him to work. Does this look like a place for a toddler?

  27. 02:10

    Marilyn Monroe

    So, uh, so what do I do about the stain?

  28. 02:12

    Googie Rene

    I don't know. Maybe just hold this gladiator shield in front of it.

  29. 02:16

    Marilyn Monroe

    Marilyn Monroe didn't have a shield.

  30. 02:18

    Googie Rene

    Well, if she had one, maybe she wouldn't have gotten shot. She up!

  31. 02:23

    Googie Rene

    At Googie Renee's, if we can't figure out how to get rid of the stain on your costume, we will give you things to put in front of it.

  32. 02:30

    Googie Rene

    Like this wolf man would in Us Weekly. or Yoda with a pot of chili or Queen Elizabeth with a baby pool. Now, that costume had an enormous thing.

  33. 02:46

    Queen Elizabeth

    Thanks, Googie. I feel special.

  34. 02:48

    Googie Rene

    We all do. Son of a beer! This is about savings.

  35. 02:55

    Speaker 1

    Googie Renee's partially damaged Halloween costume discount basement under the Hunan Fort on Route 22 in Henderson, Nevada.

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