One of the many nuggets of behind-the-scenes trivia they drop is that they originally wanted to work in the names for the two dancing skeletons.
They are actually called Tommy Lee Bones and Oprah, but ultimately the lines were cut from the sketch.
In anticipation of the David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special airing tonight, Vulture put together an oral history of how the character came to be, going through the initial idea from the writers and then all the way to the live sketch.
Saturday Night Live writers Bobby Moynihan, Mikey Day, and Streeter Seidell all wrote “Haunted Elevator” (though it’s more commonly known as “David Pumpkins” at this point) together, and they went through the process of creating the character step-by-step with Vulture.