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If Halloween is the season of nostalgia, then the toy aisle is its graveyard filled with echoes of late-night specials and spooky reruns. #HEISTOWEEN
well, that certainly occurred! this was television in 1976! and now we have Severance. #heistoween
This was so much fun! Thanks to everyone who joined in with us!
I don't know about y'all but I'm planning to heist (hehe) the Pop Heist audience (Brett said I could) for THE DEAN MARTIN CHRISTMAS SHOW in December, so look out for that! Happy Halloween!
#Heistoween
After an hour of insanity, Paul closes with a jolt of chilling sincerity, saying "Thank you for making me feel wanted" and "In case I don't see you for a while..." Then, "Disco Baby" kicks in. And Paul kisses Margaret Hamilton on the damn mouth. Perfect. God bless us, everyone! #Heistoween
"Thank you for making me feel wanted" feels like a remarkably sincere little note at the end from Paul. #Heistoween
paul lynde ending this whole thing by saying "thank you for making me feel wanted" is an unexpected and very real knife in the heart #heistoween
It's Pinky, Paul, and the Laganja Estranja dancers, straight from Tex-ASS! #ILikeThatFunkyStuff #Heistoween
anyone watching along will now understand why i sometimes shout "disco, baby!" ... one simply cannot unhear this #heistoween
How in the world was KISS not just doing Halloween TV stuff literally every year? It's the best pairing. #Heistoween
"Oh, I love a good religious group!" is the only correct response when you hear the names of the guys in KISS all together. #Heistoween
this whole thing is giving The Night Man Cometh, tbh #heistoween
imagining KISS's manager during negotiations for this special putting his foot down at "ONLY IF THEY DO A BALLAD!" #heistoween
Get your lighters out, it's "Beth" time! #Heistoween
florence henderson giving exactly what we'd expect her to: a pop-jazz standard packaged in disco sung with un-erasable classical vocal training #heistoween
Florence Henderson did THE LOVE BOAT, THE MUPPET SHOW, and THE PAUL LYNDE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL in the same year. It's what we call the '70s Guest Star Triple Crown. #Heistoween
Next Halloween, I swear, I will live-skeet this whilst wearing a sequin Halloween tuxedo. #Heistoween
If @brettwhite.bsky.social doesn't already own Paul Lynde's tuxedo from the Hollywood Disco scene, I'm sure he will eventually. #Heistoween
HOLLYWOOD DISCO TIME
God, what I wouldn't give to have one of those neon bats. #Heistoween
i got stern feedback in my college musical theatre workshop that i was not able to convey passion for a woman onstage. now i know what they saw. #heistoween
We never got THE TIM CONWAY HALLOWEEN SPECIAL because the whole thing would've just been Tim cracking people up and never finishing a sketch. #Heistoween
I once heard Paul Stanley say "Some people are Hams. I'm the whole pig," and I feel like he must have learned that joke from Paul Lynde. #Heistoween
You know what's more extreme than KISS? Watching Paul Lynde trying to seduce Florence Henderson! #Heistoween
ah, the casually racist part. this sketch truly is our generation's die entführung aus dem serail #heistoween
