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Haunted Elevator
The setup
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
Meet the cast. 10
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Any questions?
Yes! Several!
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.

Mikey Day
Writer

Bobby Moynihan
Writer

Streeter Seidell
Writer

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.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
Welcome to 100 Floors of Frights. Enter at your own risk.
- 00:07
Elevator Passenger (Female)
Do things jump out at you on this ride?
- 00:10
Elevator Passenger (Male)
Yeah, babe, it's the scariest ride of Friday nights.
- 00:12
Mark
Good evening. I'm your elevator operator, Mark. Now, please hold on as this ride goes bump in the night.
- 00:21
Elevator Passenger (Female)
Oh, don't make fun of me if I scream, okay?
- 00:23
Elevator Passenger (Male)
It's 100 Floors of Frights, babe. I'll probably be screaming, too.
- 00:26
Mark
And now, hold on for dear death.
- 00:30
Oh!
- 00:33
Mark
Winifred Rogers got cold feet and hung herself in the honeymoon suite!
- 00:40
Oh! Oh, my God.
- 00:42
Elevator Passenger (Female)
You totally jumped.
- 00:43
Elevator Passenger (Male)
So did you.
- 00:45
Mark
Floor 20, home of our five-star restaurant.
- 00:50
Scary Waiter
Today is special. Your head!
- 00:56
Elevator Passenger (Female)
that was my head
- 00:57
Elevator Passenger (Male)
is that why they take your picture when you enter the park
- 01:01
Mark
i'm not telling 49th floor
- 01:04
here we go here we go here we go
- 01:06
David S. Pumpkins
how's it hanging i'm david pumpkins and i'm gonna scare the hell out of you
- 01:24
Ay-ay-lu-lu-lu-lu. Ay-ay-lu-lu-lu. Ay-ay-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu.
- 01:33
David S. Pumpkins
Any questions?
- 01:37
Mark
Scared speechless?
- 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?
- 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.
- 01:52
Mark
Well, you don't get frights. You fear them. 26th floor.
- 01:57
Girl from The Ring
Can I sleep in your bed tonight?
- 02:00
Aah!
- 02:01
Elevator Passenger (Female)
Yeah, see, I get why she's scary.
- 02:04
Elevator Passenger (Male)
Yeah, yeah, creepy girl from the ring. But David Pumpkins? I mean, is he from something?
- 02:09
Elevator Passenger (Female)
Yeah, like, is he from a local commercial or...?
- 02:11
Mark
Well, the scariest thing to the mind is the unknown.
- 02:19
David S. Pumpkins
I'm David Pumpkins!
- 02:21
Elevator Passenger (Male)
I know, but, like, who are you?
- 02:24
David S. Pumpkins
I'm David Pumpkins, man!
- 02:26
Elevator Passenger (Female)
Okay, yeah, yeah, and David Pumpkins is...
- 02:29
David S. Pumpkins
His own thing!
- 02:30
Elevator Passenger (Male)
And the skeletons are...
- 02:33
Speaker 1
Part of it!
- 02:34
Elevator Passenger (Female)
Why are you a part of this ride?
- 02:37
David S. Pumpkins
To do this!
- 02:53
David S. Pumpkins
What's my name?
- 02:55
Speaker 1
David S. Pumpkins.
- 02:58
David S. Pumpkins
Any questions?
- 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.
- 03:06
Elevator Passenger (Female)
Babe, don't let David Pumpkins ruin your night, please.
- 03:08
Mark
David S. Pumpkins, Floor 99!
- 03:14
Chainsaw Murderer
I'm crazy for David Pumpkins!
- 03:30
Elevator Passenger (Female)
how much david pumpkins is in this
- 03:33
Mark
um 73 out of 100 floors
- 03:36
Elevator Passenger (Male)
why did you go all in on david pumpkin
- 03:39
Mark
hey look it's 100 floors of france they're not all gonna be winners floor 100
- 03:49
Elevator Passenger (Male)
Okay, so now it's just the skeletons.
- 03:52
Mark
Go ahead.
- 03:53
Speaker 1
-♪ Ready or not, here we dance!
- 03:56
-♪ Oh! -♪ Ay, Papi!
- 04:08
Speaker 1
Happy Halloween!
- 04:11
David S. Pumpkins
Any questions?
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