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Vincent Price's Halloween Special II
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Presented as a TV Land rerun of a 1960 sponsored special, Vincent Price tries to host a family-friendly Halloween program from his spooky mansion. Judy Garland arrives with a bottle of pills she treats as candy, presidential nominee John F. Kennedy brings his date Candy DeCenzo, and an uninvited Liberace turns every activity into a double meaning. A pumpkin-carving craft, Kennedy’s campaign ideas and a blindfolded science experiment with fake zombie parts all spiral out of control while Price struggles to keep the show on track.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 5
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
My God, man, you’re running for president.
Don’t say swallow!
We do things not because they’re easy, but because they are hard.
I do them because they’re hard and easy.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
This was the sixth and final installment of SNL’s Vincent Price Special series.
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