David Pumpkins (Tom Hanks)

This list of SNL characters ranked is weighted toward older characters for a simple reason: Saturday Night Live has moved away from repeat characters.

David S. Pumpkins feels like a demarcation point where SNL started moving away from catchphrase-driven, hooky, cartoonish repeat offenders and instead started making fun of character-based humor, which can be, at its worst, quite hack.

Tom Hanks’ David S. Pumpkins is a deliberately one-note, poorly fleshed-out parade of Halloween hackery with the ultimate low-effort catch phrase: “Any questions?”

Mikey Day and Bobby Moynihan are crucial to the character’s deliberate lack of success, given how enthusiastically their poorly fleshed out, skeleton B-boys hare “part of it.”