Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice: Michael Keaton’s character from the Tim Burton franchise was essentially summoned from across the TV talk show landscape on Halloween with hosts on NBC’s Today show, the syndicate Live with Kelly and Mark And The Kelly Clarkson Show all dressed up as the ghost with the most.
On Thursday TodayAl Roker dressed as Beetlejuice and Dylan Dreyer dressed as Lydia Deetz from Winona Ryder. And further Live with Kelly and Mark later Thursday morning, Kelly Ripa took on Deetz with Mark Consuelos in the Beetlejuice ensemble.
Kelly Clarkson also wore a Beetlejuice costume on her daytime talk show of the same name. She started the show with a spooky Kellyoke from “Banana Boat (Day-O).”
While Beetlejuice made a number of appearances on Thursday, Consuelos and Ripa changed costumes several times this year. Only murders in the building-inspired “Alone Halloween in the Building” Halloween show. This is the last Halloween party Live‘s current studio before the show moves to a new Soho space in the spring.
Today‘VHS Rewind’ celebration was centered around the hosts browsing the aisles in a Blockbuster-esque video store. The NBC morning show personalities then transformed into memorable characters from beloved films.
Next to the Beetle juice duo of Dreyer and Roker, Savannah Guthrie dressed as Legally blonde‘s Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon), with Luke Wilson joining her in a surprise appearance reprising his role as love interest Emmett. Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager dressed as Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet) from Titanicwhile Craig Melvin took on another character at the center of a highly anticipated sequel that debuted this fall, Beverly Hills cop‘Alex Foley (Eddie Murphy). Meanwhile, Carson Daly and Sheinelle Jones dressed up as Austin Powers (Mike Myers) and Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyoncé), respectively, from Austin Powers in Goldmember. Willie Geist took over Anchorman‘s Ron Burgundy ( Will Ferrell ), Peter Alexander cleaned up as Mrs. Doubtfire (Robin Williams) and Laura Jarrett pumped up the crowd as Gabrielle Union’s Isis came out Just apply it.
On Live with Kelly and Markthe hosts kicked things off with a Only murders in the building-inspired Cold Open, where they introduced the “Only Halloween in the Building” theme of this year’s special. After an opening scene reminiscent of the first episode of season four, Ripa and Consuelos were shown dressed as Mabel (Selena Gomez) and Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), with producer Michael Gelman as Martin Short’s Oliver, as they recorded a podcast recordings.
The trio then walked through the building comically ignoring obvious clues of a killer on the loose (including a smoking gun and red herring) and came across them. Only murders cast member Da’Vine Joy Randolph.
Ripa and Consuelos then took the stage as Lydia and Beetlejuice, dancing to the opening track of the Netflix hit The perfect couplewith the hosts and audience members even attempting the show’s viral dance at the end of the special.
The hosts made a number of costume changes during Thursday’s special, using an elevator on stage to switch ensembles.
Other costumes included Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce (a popular choice last year) at the US Open, Lady Deadpool and Deadpool with guest Joey Fatone as Wolverine from Deadpool and Wolverine and Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn and Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker Joker: Folie à Deux.
As usual, the special also featured pre-recorded segments in the form of fake trailers and advertisements. There was a preview for one Inside out-inspired menopausee film with Ripa as ‘lost Joy’, hoping she wouldn’t suffer the same fate as Metabolism, which ‘disappeared months ago’, and Consuelos as anger. Ripa and Consuelos also brought together viral Olympic sensations Raygun, the Australian breakdancer, and Anthony Ammirati, the French pole vaulter who toppled the bar with his penis, in a fake Hallmark holiday movie, A Gold Medal Christmaswhere the two athletes fall in love. Ripa and Consuelos also forged the Chimpanzee crazy Max series. And the show was a tribute to the former director in charge of the production Art Moore, who retired in Septemberwith an advertisement for one Only fan-inspired Art fans only ‘adult premium content channel’, starring Moore and with a closing card that reads ‘We are fans of Art. Forever.”
ABCs Good morning America have been persecuted pattern of recent years of the fact that the hosts don’t dress up for Halloween.
And The view this year skipped the Halloween celebration in light of the upcoming election, but the show did open with a dream sequence featuring some of Donald Trump’s most terrifying rhetoric and featured pop culture and political inspired children’s costumes, including kids dressed as Trump, his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris and convicted fraudster turned heel Dancing with the stars participant Anna Delvey.