No costumes, though The view didn’t ignore Halloween this year, the show opens with a pre-recorded dream sketch in which each of the hosts, bored to tears during a morning staff meeting while producer Brian Teta goes on and on about his podcast, falls asleep and has a Trump-inspired nightmare.
Watch the video below.
For Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin, a shared nightmare had them running through the streets of Manhattan during a Purge-like event as Trump’s voice spoke of the benefits of “one real, rough, bad day.” Finally, the cohosts come up with the concept of an escape plan.
Next up was Ana Navarro, who was on a cruise ship reading Ricky Martin’s memoir when she was suddenly forced to choose between sharks and electrocution, one of Trump’s stranger fantasy scenarios. “I’m not even on the show today,” Navarro complains. “What bitch dreams of me?”
Joy Behar And Sunny Hostin desperately searching for their pets – Behar’s dog Bernie, Hostin’s chickens – while Trump warns: ‘They’re eating the dogs! They eat the pets.”
“What did that convicted felon do to my dog?” Behar demands, while Hostin, pausing in her panic, says, “I have a legal note: No animals were harmed or eaten during this segment, or anywhere else in America.”
When they wake up again during the morning meeting with Teta still yapping, the cohosts are joined by a latecomer Whoopi Goldbergall disguised as Trump’s favorite boogeyman Hannibal Lecter. “What’s the problem?” she says. “I just invite people over for dinner.”
With all that out of the way, the show resumed live, with the non-costumed hosts delving into today’s Hot Topic No. 1: Donald Trump‘s ‘garbage man’ stunt.
The view announced earlier this month that it would break its 28-year tradition of having its hosts make up in elaborate Halloween costumes, opting instead to go live — the costume episodes had to be recorded in advance — to share the news of the day not to be missed so close to the presidential elections.
Later in today’s episode, the show did a short Boo Are You Wearing? segment featuring children dressed in costumes reflecting the year’s Hot Topics. Several nodded to the Paris Olympics, one dressed as pommel horse Guy Stephen Nedoroscik, another as Snoop Dogg and a third as bad breaker Raygun. There was the inevitable mini-Kamala and mini-Trump, several Vance-inspired Single Cat Ladies and, best of all, a pint-sized Anna Delveyall dressed up Dancing with the stars complete with blinding electronic ankle monitor.
Watch the opening clip below: