When I was a wee’un, I know I was a Pound Puppy once or twice (yeah, lame) and Threepio too. And of course, a sheet wearing ghost. I was Jason one year, and I’ve been a grim reaper. One year I wore pantyhose over my head and carried a big plastic knife. I was also RotJ-era Luke Skywalker once.
I think my best costume was Mulder from the X-Files, I had the suit and long overcoat, along with cell phone and flashlight. I even made an ID and badge that were pretty cool. My friends and I snuck into one of those corn mazes after it had closed, so the flashlight was useful.
One of my friends in grade school had a really cool Edward Scissorhands costume. Then another year, he was Peter Pan, which meant green tights, which meant mockery.
This year, I want to be Dr Mario, and throw water balloons at people. heh
Chestnuts roasted by marioshoku @ 08/20/2004 2:38 AM
Back in 2001, I had sort of a living dead thing going on. Thing was, I wasn’t wearing a costume – I had mono, so my skin was pale and yellow, and I had severely dark rings under my eyes. I didn’t have to do a dang thing! That was my BEST costume ever!
Chestnuts roasted by Sara @ 08/20/2004 3:34 AM
The best costume I ever had was when I went as a cheese and lettuc sandwich. I was sandwiched between two pieces of foam that my mom made look like pieces of bread, and then she added yellow fabric for the cheese and green fabric for the lettuce whose ends she sewed in a way to get the ruffle of lettuce. Seemed to get a good response. I even wore it to a bar on Hallowe’en 10 years after I first wore it, it seemed to get good response from the ladies. Some retard thought I was a toilet seat however.
Chestnuts roasted by machinesquad @ 08/20/2004 8:55 AM
The water balloon Dr. Mario idea sounds pretty killer.
Another one I forgot — for several years, my neighbor across the street and I would dress up as "hobos," wearing his father’s gasoline-soaked, oil-stained clothes. (he was a mechanic) This was usually for any of the school/scouts/other parties that required costumes we neglected to buy. Our parents decided to make us "hobos."
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/20/2004 10:40 AM
Superman, Ernie (with giant paper mache head), Gumby, Mario, Bart Simpson (with another giant paper mache head), Spider-Man, Captain America & Link were among my best.
I’d say the Cap’n comes in at #1. I made a shield out of a 99-cent drink tray & an old Rambo poster that somebody was going to throw out. Really, now!
Chestnuts roasted by Mike Fireball @ 08/20/2004 11:39 AM
One time when I was 17, I dressed up as a 5 year old trick-or-treating as a skeleton, I took a skeleton costume that was the size of a 5 year old and pinned it ontop of the cloths I was wearing that day and then I put on the tiny skeleton mask. My idea was that if anyone complained that I was too old, my costume would make up for it, and sure enough this woman said to me "you’re too old, go home" and I said "but i’m dressed as a 5 year old trick or treating." to which she replied "that isn’t funny" and slammed the door in my face.
Chestnuts roasted by s0fa @ 08/20/2004 12:35 PM
My best costume ever was Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop two years ago. Wore the right clothes, had my hair in the right style and dyed green, everything.
Chestnuts roasted by Behonkiss @ 08/20/2004 12:45 PM
this year, i was a mexican pot head.
i wore a sombrereo and taped a plastic planting pot on top.
oh yeah.
Chestnuts roasted by ralph @ 08/20/2004 1:31 PM
i was a pretty bad sailor moon in second grade. then i was that stupid peace bear beanie baby. last year, i ended up being a gas station attendant, in an oversized mechanic’s shirt from warped ’96 with the name tag "lyle." good times. this year, i’m going as rico suave. rrrrico.
The earliest costume I remember was the racoon from "Getalong Gang". That was shit.
Then the awesomeness of Mumm-Ra waited for me a few years later…however, upon wearing my cheap-o costume (the ones in the box), I became very depressed. I never remember one episode of "Thundercats" wear Mumm-Ra was wearing a costume with himself on his chest.
Then the costume that every boy once wore…a black ninja outfit. COMPLETE with ninja stars…little did I know that when you’re this high, there’s no where left to go but dooowwnnn…
So came the final year I dressed up for Hallooween as a kid. No costume, no mask. Just a cheap suit from Alexander’s. What was I you ask? Well, if memory serves me right, I believe I told MANY people that I was…a rich old man. That’s right. Rich…old..man.
Mind you, no gray hair. Nor did I wear glasses or a cane. Nope. Just me, in 5th grade, with a suit on.
Yep…
Chestnuts roasted by Nando D'mando @ 08/20/2004 3:07 PM
I once was a Ninja Turtle, but the next year the Turtles concert video was my favorite thing so my mom glued a glittery star to the bandana.
Last year, I went to a Halloween party as a doctor; didn’t win the costume contest because there were some better costumes (like this kick-ass Spongebob- I think he won first place).
Umm…I was Monica Lewinsky the year that all that crap went down.
Apparently every girl and her mom decided to be Monica Lewinsky…I was the only one with a *ahem* laminated name tag…everyone else just wrote it out by hand last minute.
My best costume: I was a goldfish in kindergarten. My mom can sew like a mofo and it was the most elaborate representation of a fish I’ve ever seen on a 5-year old. I even had this sparkling home-made crown cuz I was a MAGICAL goldfish.
Chestnuts roasted by SovietRocket @ 08/20/2004 3:14 PM
Snowman, Big Bird, Butterfly, Wizard, Witch, Micheal Jackson, Karate Lion (oh yes you heard correctly), Disco Diva. My favorite though was when i dressed up as Miss Scarlet from Clue. I carried a candlestick all day and when i was at school people would ask me where i killed Mr. Body. "The Hall of course." It was classic
Chestnuts roasted by Ally @ 08/20/2004 5:05 PM
A bee ("You know, from nature?"), the Terminator, the Cryptkeeper, a headless man, a ninja victim, a mad doctor, and Ozzy.
My dream costume would be Alucard from Hellsing, but first I’d need to grow about a foot, lose ~80 pounds, grow my hair out, and shell out at least a grand for the trenchcoat, hat, gloves, boots, guns, etc.
Chestnuts roasted by hamburger man @ 08/20/2004 6:09 PM
KodaK’s memory of dressing as Arthur Dent reminded me of when I made a Zaphod Beeblebrox costume. My mom created a stuffed third arm and I attached the fake severed hand we got her for Mother’s Day one year. Then I made a second head out of paper mache that was even less convincing than that plastic head they used in the TV series.
Paper mache seemed to be a staple of my Halloween costumes. I remember when I was absolutely obessed with Darkman and made a paper mache bandage mask and wore a coat and fedora. Problem was everybody thought I was supposed to be a mummy. "I’m DARKMAN!" I had to yell at the principal during the grade school parade.
Then there was the year I wore a shirt and slacks and printed up a bunch of audit forms and went as a government bureaucrat. Amazingly, nobody pulled a gun on me when I told them they were being audited. When I ran out of forms, I claimed I was selling encyclopedias.
And in the tradition of using cardboard boxes to make costumes, I went one year as a Betamax VCR. I took a box, painted it black and taped on a Sony Betamax logo. Then I cut the tape slot in front and attached my candy bag to the inside so people would have to stuff the candy through the tape slot.
Chestnuts roasted by Alex @ 08/20/2004 8:34 PM
lets see…ive been a dinosaur a gargoyle and my personal favourite a werewolf( possibly of london i dont remember)
Chestnuts roasted by sexynigelthepharoahwizard @ 08/20/2004 9:10 PM
I have not been in the Halloween groove for a while now but I have a couple costume ideas this year. My favorite costumes are:
my Jekyll/Hyde (or Two-Face) -esque costume in which one half of my face was me while the other had a gnarly hairdo and face makeup and stuff. My mom even cut an old coat in half along with one a long white butcher’s apron and sewed the halves together. I carried around a knife made of cardboard and tinfoil and put fake blood on the apron.
my pervert costume. I believe this is my most recent, making it a few years old now. I had some old swim trunks that were a little too short and a t-shirt that was a little too big, so I put on the trunks, hiked them up so they weren’t visible under the shirt, and wore a pair of old jeans around my ankles. I only went to a couple of houses with my family before going back home, but my mom was in stiches.
I’ve been Daffy Duck (one of those aforementioned mask with character on smock ensembles), the Devil, a tax collector, and…. I can’t remember anymore. Sad, I really should do something this year.
Chestnuts roasted by Some guy named John @ 08/20/2004 9:32 PM
And to those of you who are gonna pass out…… candy this year, dress up. Back in my Cali days, one house we went to twice because the young lady there wore a very nice Genie/Harem outfit. Spiffyness personified. Ah, youth.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 08/21/2004 4:43 PM
The Mask, Complete with skullcap and pin-striped suit.
Not to mention it was during my lsd days so I was pretty *into* the part.
Cactus Jack, or The Hurricane. Both of them were pretty neat.
Chestnuts roasted by Rawr @ 08/21/2004 7:42 PM
Over the years, I’ve been Oscar the Grouch (one of those cheapo plastic mask and smock deals), an elephant, a police officer, a football player, a baseball player, a Transformer (another one of those cheap kind), Batman (consisting of a cheap plastic mask, Batman T-shirt, and a Dracula cape), a Ninja Turtle (Leonardo), a Ghostbuster (this costume was made from a blue and white jumpsuit left over from a robot costume I had never worn, looked nothing like a real Ghostbuster suit, but it was still better than most I’ve had), a ninja, and in the last two Halloweens I did, a raptor from Jurassic Park.
Chestnuts roasted by Andrew Morse @ 08/21/2004 11:47 PM
hmm… a black cat, a detective, phantom of the opera, a Starfleet officer, once from the original series, and once from the other series… Boba Fett… i actually made a mask out of cardboard that attached to a bicyce helmet, but all i wore beneath was a green shirtand khakis… an alien (employing silver paint). i think my favorite was the ‘alternative spice’ kids me and a bunch of my friends did… Sugar Spice, Spicy Spice, Old Spice, Boy Spice, and me (though also a boy), Homicidal Spice. yes, it was lame, but we were sixth graders.
uhm… i’ve gone gothic the last few years, and this year i had an insane-doctor type outfit from a cosplay i’d done with a bloody labcoat… i wore it on the bus and to college, and the people in my women in art class thought i was a bloody tampon (i somewhat resembled an art piecewe’d studied).
this year me and my best friend are going as Jay and Silent Bob (i’m gonna be Bob). we have the right looks for it.
Chestnuts roasted by sobriquette @ 08/22/2004 6:13 AM
I’ve been Punisher, Freddy Krueger, and a ninja.
The Punisher costume was probably the best one, had a black sweater with the skull painted on, slicked my hair back, and carried around a big toy gun.
Chestnuts roasted by Paul @ 08/22/2004 1:56 PM
An elephant, a rainbow, a construction worker, a vampire, the grim reaper, the Invisible Man, a sheriff, and some monster thing.
The best of all these is a tie between the invisible man, in which I was completely covered, and the monster thing, in which I painted myself green and black along with torn up clothes and partially orange-colored hair.
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but I have a couple costume ideas this year. My favorite costumes are:
BTW, my worst costume was Pee-Wee Herman. YIKES.