In case you needed another excuse to watch the hilariously bizarre Saturday Night Live skit "Haunted Elevator" one more time, Tom Hanks is reprising his role in it for Halloween. The actor announced Monday on Twitter that he will, indeed, be dressing up as David S. Pumpkins. Either Hanks planned ahead, or he used his insider connections, because that pumpkin suit he plans to wear tonight has long sold out on Amazon:
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