It’s Halloween season, which means it’s the perfect time for Tom Hanks return to Saturday Night Live as David S. Pumpkins. On Saturday night’s new episode, rapper Jack Harlow appeared as a host and musical guest, though he wasn’t the only celebrity to drop by. One particular sketch featured the return of David S. Pumpkins in all his glory, something many Hanks fans always love to see given the character’s multiple past appearances. Hanks even brought along Bobby Moynihan to reprise his role as a skeleton sidekick alongside Mikey Day.
You can watch the clip below, via SNL on Youtube.
In the sketch, Harlow is joined by Andrew Dismukes and Ego Nwodim as a group that takes a ride through a haunted prison attraction with Kenan Thompson as their guide. They get to see the sights of several horror icons in action, such as Michael Myers and Annabelle, but they are not the star of the attraction. That would happen to be David S. Pumpkins, who shows up with his skeleton friends hoping to give the riders some fright. The problem is that the character doesn’t startle the trio in the same way that the horror movie killers do.
Saturday Night Live with more from Tom Hanks
Hanks also appeared in another segment in the SNL episode. In the sketch, Harlow plays a man who attends an AA meeting, but doesn’t want to talk about his drinking. Instead, he pitches his idea for a Pixar movie about talking luggage going back home, and the others in the group come aboard. After pitching their own ideas for the proposed film, a special appearance by Hanks was used to close the skit.
“I think the last question is, who’s going to play the main case? Our Everyman, our Woody?” asks Bowen Yang, prompting Hanks to walk in moments later to applause from the studio audience.
Hanks explains that he attended the AA meeting to research a role, and also that he is an alcoholic. That’s when he’s asked by Jack Harlow what the tagline would be if the… Toy Story voice actor would play a talking briefcase in a Pixar movie, and after thinking about it, Hanks paraphrases Woody.
“I think it would be something like, ‘That really kicks my ass!'” Hanks says in a Woody-esque voice.
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