Description
Sure, I could've done a David S. Pumpkins-themed art piece or T-shirt the day after it aired, but that just ain't me - I'm the opposite of those guys who quickly and cunningly jump on trends to capitalize on them, which probably makes me a bad businessman, but I can live with that. I waited EIGHT YEARS before finally giving Mr. Pumpkins and co. the Mod Pop Art treatment ... which just so happens to be my official Horror/Halloween-themed artwork for 2024! I remember watching the sketch live on SNL with my wife, and we both instantly fell in love with it. Much like the "More Cowbell" piece, "100 Floors of Frights" was immediately iconic - something I knew even at the time would be beloved and spoken about for years to come - which is very difficult to achieve. I've been a huge Tom Hanks fan since I was very young, so right off the bat, they won me over with that alone. But more than that, this sketch has that rare quality of being super weird but also hyper self-aware and kind of parodying itself in a strange meta way. And as funny as Hanks, Mikey Day, Bobby Moynihan, Leslie Jones, and the rest of the "scary" elevator performers are, what really does it for me are the grounded straight-man reactions of Kate McKinnon and Beck Bennett and their interactions with the ever-quipping Kenan Thompson. Simply magic. It was an instant classic, and is now a several-times-per-year-at-minimum watch for us, and I'm sure many of you as well.
For whatever reason, this piece took me much longer to finish than I ever thought it would, as the layout proved to be extremely challenging, and I ran through about 20 different iterations before finally figuring it out (if I ever really did). I think the problem was I started it off in portrait orientation, as my initial idea was for this to be a vintage-style poster advertising the ride, as if hanging in a theme park. But no matter what I did, the layout was not working. My wife (also my Editor-in-Chief) came to the rescue, as she often does, by suggesting I try it in landscape orientation, as if it was a billboard instead of a poster. BOOM. She knows what's up. Even so, it STILL took several more versions before I finally got it to match the vision in my head, or at least as closely as I could get to it. If you've read this far, thanks for staying with me. Hopefully the love and homage is highly evident in this piece, as this artwork is my little tribute not just to David S. Pumpkins, but to the brilliance of Saturday Night Live, the show I have literally been watching since birth.
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