FAVORITE SKETCHES: “Haunted Elevator,” with Tom Hanks as the spooky-yet-goofy David S. Pumpkins; “Calculator Christmas Gift,” where Fred Armisen and John Malkovich have their odd holiday wish list fulfilled; “Tennis Talk with Time-Traveling Scott Joplin,” which is somehow exactly what it sounds like.

There’s too much lore, too many feelings, too much to celebrate and far too much to complain about. Yet like “SNL” itself, tasked weekly with delivering more than it can accomplish in 90 minutes,