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Googie Rene's Partially Damaged Halloween Costume Discount Basement
The setup
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).
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 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?
- 00:26
Linda
I think it's a ghost costume, but the whole back's ripped out.
- 00:29
Googie Rene
So? Ghosts don't turn around. They just approach. She out.
- 00:35
Linda
But what about when it's time to leave the party, Googie?
- 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.
- 00:45
Dracula
Hello. I'm interested in this Dracula cape.
- 00:48
Googie Rene
Well, you should be. It's interesting.
- 00:49
Dracula
But it kind of has a weird odor. What is it?
- 00:52
Googie Rene
I don't know. Let me smell it.
- 00:54
Linda
I know what it is.
- 00:56
Googie Rene
Oh. Oh. That smells like she out.
- 01:00
Dracula
Is there anything you can do about it?
- 01:02
Googie Rene
No, I'm not touching it anymore Two dollars
- 01:05
Googie Rene
At Googie Renee's, nothing is more than two dollars In a stank basket
- 01:12
Linda
Sweet Googie, something smells over here
- 01:17
Googie Rene
It's the stank basket, Linda, get it out of here
- 01:21
Greek Goddess
Googie I love this Greek goddess outfit But it has tire tracks all over it
- 01:27
Googie Rene
That's because the last owner got run over by a smart car
- 01:31
Greek Goddess
Oh, what? A smart car.
- 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.
- 01:44
Greek Goddess
Thanks. I'll take it.
- 01:47
Googie Rene
See? She could not resist the savings. Fuh!
- 01:53
Marilyn Monroe
I love this Marilyn Monroe dress, but I'm concerned about the mustard stain.
- 01:57
Googie Rene
Well, that's not a mustard stain. That's a baby barf.
- 02:02
Linda
He's not a baby. He's five.
- 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?
- 02:10
Marilyn Monroe
So, uh, so what do I do about the stain?
- 02:12
Googie Rene
I don't know. Maybe just hold this gladiator shield in front of it.
- 02:16
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe didn't have a shield.
- 02:18
Googie Rene
Well, if she had one, maybe she wouldn't have gotten shot. She up!
- 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.
- 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.
- 02:46
Queen Elizabeth
Thanks, Googie. I feel special.
- 02:48
Googie Rene
We all do. Son of a beer! This is about savings.
- 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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