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Haunted Elevator

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The setup

A couple boards a haunted elevator whose most persistent attraction is the baffling David S. Pumpkins and his dancing skeletons.

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10.0 / 10

The premise

Here’s the bit.

A couple visits an amusement attraction promising a hundred floors of frights. Their elevator operator, Mark, introduces familiar scares, including a ghostly bride, a gruesome waiter and a long-haired horror-film girl. Repeated appearances by David S. Pumpkins and his two dancing skeletons leave the riders puzzled. Mark defends the attraction while the couple tries to understand its inexplicable star, who occupies most of the ride. At the last stop, the skeletons distract the passengers long enough for Pumpkins to appear behind them and deliver a real surprise.

The funny people

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Highly quotable.

Any questions?

Yes! Several!

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Hanks introduced Pumpkins’s distinctive voice for the live broadcast. The dance track uses vocal samples recorded by Bobby Moynihan and Mikey Day.

ScriptEnglish · 57 turns

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

  1. 00:00

    Welcome to 100 Floors of Frights. Enter at your own risk.

  2. 00:07

    Elevator Passenger (Female)

    Do things jump out at you on this ride?

  3. 00:10

    Elevator Passenger (Male)

    Yeah, babe, it's the scariest ride of Friday nights.

  4. 00:12

    Mark

    Good evening. I'm your elevator operator, Mark. Now, please hold on as this ride goes bump in the night.

  5. 00:21

    Elevator Passenger (Female)

    Oh, don't make fun of me if I scream, okay?

  6. 00:23

    Elevator Passenger (Male)

    It's 100 Floors of Frights, babe. I'll probably be screaming, too.

  7. 00:26

    Mark

    And now, hold on for dear death.

  8. 00:30

    Oh!

  9. 00:33

    Mark

    Winifred Rogers got cold feet and hung herself in the honeymoon suite!

  10. 00:40

    Oh! Oh, my God.

  11. 00:42

    Elevator Passenger (Female)

    You totally jumped.

  12. 00:43

    Elevator Passenger (Male)

    So did you.

  13. 00:45

    Mark

    Floor 20, home of our five-star restaurant.

  14. 00:50

    Scary Waiter

    Today is special. Your head!

  15. 00:56

    Elevator Passenger (Female)

    that was my head

  16. 00:57

    Elevator Passenger (Male)

    is that why they take your picture when you enter the park

  17. 01:01

    Mark

    i'm not telling 49th floor

  18. 01:04

    here we go here we go here we go

  19. 01:06

    David S. Pumpkins

    how's it hanging i'm david pumpkins and i'm gonna scare the hell out of you

  20. 01:24

    Ay-ay-lu-lu-lu-lu. Ay-ay-lu-lu-lu. Ay-ay-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu.

  21. 01:33

    David S. Pumpkins

    Any questions?

  22. 01:37

    Mark

    Scared speechless?

  23. 01:39

    Elevator Passenger (Male)

    Oh, no, no. I'm just trying to wrap my head around David Pumpkins. I mean, are we supposed to know who that is?

  24. 01:46

    Elevator Passenger (Female)

    Yeah, it was just a guy in a Pumpkin suit with two B-boy skeletons. I don't get how that's scary.

  25. 01:52

    Mark

    Well, you don't get frights. You fear them. 26th floor.

  26. 01:57

    Girl from The Ring

    Can I sleep in your bed tonight?

  27. 02:00

    Aah!

  28. 02:01

    Elevator Passenger (Female)

    Yeah, see, I get why she's scary.

  29. 02:04

    Elevator Passenger (Male)

    Yeah, yeah, creepy girl from the ring. But David Pumpkins? I mean, is he from something?

  30. 02:09

    Elevator Passenger (Female)

    Yeah, like, is he from a local commercial or...?

  31. 02:11

    Mark

    Well, the scariest thing to the mind is the unknown.

  32. 02:19

    David S. Pumpkins

    I'm David Pumpkins!

  33. 02:21

    Elevator Passenger (Male)

    I know, but, like, who are you?

  34. 02:24

    David S. Pumpkins

    I'm David Pumpkins, man!

  35. 02:26

    Elevator Passenger (Female)

    Okay, yeah, yeah, and David Pumpkins is...

  36. 02:29

    David S. Pumpkins

    His own thing!

  37. 02:30

    Elevator Passenger (Male)

    And the skeletons are...

  38. 02:33

    Speaker 1

    Part of it!

  39. 02:34

    Elevator Passenger (Female)

    Why are you a part of this ride?

  40. 02:37

    David S. Pumpkins

    To do this!

  41. 02:53

    David S. Pumpkins

    What's my name?

  42. 02:55

    Speaker 1

    David S. Pumpkins.

  43. 02:58

    David S. Pumpkins

    Any questions?

  44. 03:00

    Elevator Passenger (Male)

    Yes, several. I mean, what, he has a middle initial now? I am so in the weeds with David Pumpkins.

  45. 03:06

    Elevator Passenger (Female)

    Babe, don't let David Pumpkins ruin your night, please.

  46. 03:08

    Mark

    David S. Pumpkins, Floor 99!

  47. 03:14

    Chainsaw Murderer

    I'm crazy for David Pumpkins!

  48. 03:30

    Elevator Passenger (Female)

    how much david pumpkins is in this

  49. 03:33

    Mark

    um 73 out of 100 floors

  50. 03:36

    Elevator Passenger (Male)

    why did you go all in on david pumpkin

  51. 03:39

    Mark

    hey look it's 100 floors of france they're not all gonna be winners floor 100

  52. 03:49

    Elevator Passenger (Male)

    Okay, so now it's just the skeletons.

  53. 03:52

    Mark

    Go ahead.

  54. 03:53

    Speaker 1

    -♪ Ready or not, here we dance!

  55. 03:56

    -♪ Oh! -♪ Ay, Papi!

  56. 04:08

    Speaker 1

    Happy Halloween!

  57. 04:11

    David S. Pumpkins

    Any questions?

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