‘The View’ Hosts Halloween Costumes Are to Die For

The View hosts took their costumes to a whole other level this year! 

The annual Halloween episode of the ABC daytime talk show aired this morning, and Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin all channeled characters from their favorite television shows.

In a conversation with PEOPLE, The View‘s senior producer Jamie Hammer said, “Whoopi spawned the entire theme this year.”

“We start putting the Halloween show together right at the beginning of September, and typically, we hold idea meetings with the entire staff where everybody pitches a theme and other segments they think would be fun for the show,” she said.

“Once we have a list, we go to the ladies with the ideas we have, and they pull a theme from there. But when Elisabeth was on, Goldberg loved her so much that she walked off set and said, ‘I want to do Handmaid’s Tale.‘ And from there, we just started building.”

Goldberg dressed as the character June from Handmaid’s Tale, where she donned a red cape that read the powerful words: “My body, my morals, my life, my choice, not yours.”