The Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live opens with a message from Joe Biden (Mikey Day). The president, looking and sounding especially fragile, recognizes how scary things are, what with “war, shootings, climate change, everything in the Britney book”, and seeks to set America at ease by inviting everyone to watch him hang up Halloween decorations. He precariously scales a tall ladder, shows off a severed arm that his dog commander ripped off a Secret Service agent, and greets the instantly forgettable new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, (Michael Longfellow) and his strange “adult black son”, also named Mike Johnson.
Confused and winded, Biden wishes there was someone to show him the true meaning of Halloween. Who should arrive but the Ghost of Halloween (Christopher Walken), aka Papa Pumpkin.
