David Simon Pumpkins is a fictional character played by American actor Tom Hanks who first appeared on the October 22, 2016, episode of Saturday Night Live in a sketch written by Mikey Day, Bobby Moynihan, and Streeter Seidell.

[2] The initial idea for the sketch, which did not include the Pumpkins character, involved a "creepy hotel" which resembled Disney's Haunted Mansion, later changed into a Tower of Terror-style ride.

On the 49th floor, the doors open to reveal two dancing skeletons alongside David S. Pumpkins wearing a black and orange pumpkin-themed suit.

[12][13] In the season's finale hosted by Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson, Pumpkins reappears in a prerecorded music video called "Rap Song", using the name David S. Pimpkins and wearing a furry hat and jacket.

[14] Alongside other fictional featured artists,[15] Pimpkins pesters the character played by Kenan Thompson,[16][17] in a pastiche of "overstuffed all-star rap videos" like DJ Khaled's "I'm the One".

These suspicions were confirmed when Hanks and Moynihan reprised their roles alongside Day (still a regular cast member) as Pumpkins and the skeletons in one of the final sketches of the night.

As in the original sketch, the three repeatedly show up in a jump scare–themed attraction hosted by Thompson, now set in a prison populated by famous horror movie characters.

Thompson's operator explains that the ride spent most of its budget on characters like Freddy Krueger and Pennywise the Clown, so Pumpkins was needed to fill the rest of the attraction.

[21] Two weeks prior to the announcement, Hanks posted a picture of the special's script, titled "The David S. Pumpkins Song", on social media.

The siblings ride in Pumpkins' "pumpkinmobile" (a strawberry car) while the mysterious villain named the Raincoat Man is stealing all the Halloween candy.

[9] Hanks's performance as an SNL host, including the Pumpkins sketch, earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 2017.