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10/17/2006: My Best Halloween Costume Ever.

It’s raining. I stayed home from work today, “sick,” and aside from catching up on zzzz, did some mindless web browsing that somehow landed me on Amazon. After lamenting the end of Amazon’s long partnership with Toys ‘R’ Us, I found myself checking my Amazon account information, which makes little sense since I haven’t ordered anything from there in months. Interestingly enough, they’ve got this section that lets you review every order you’ve ever placed with them, and I found myself trying to connect the dots of my itemized orders from as far back as early 2000. Lots of fun. I found all of these Christmas presents purchased for nieces and nephews, not to mention several attempts on my behalf to rape the system and cash in on Amazon’s clearance sales. Twenty Emperor Palpatine figures, scored for 99 cents each! A dozen Furby Babies…5 bucks each!

There were also remnants of obsessions (mostly) past. I don’t know what intentions I had for Charmander earrings, nor do I remember ever receiving them, but there they were, all pewter and now forever “out of stock.” Give it a shot if you’ve spent the better part of the Internet age ordering from Amazon; this section is a nice trip down Remembering Things Street.

Tonight’s Halloween Countdown entry details the story of my greatest Halloween costume. It’s a tale I’ve mentioned in small bits during previous articles, but this is the whole disjointed shebang.

That article seems very conducive to a blog survey about your best Halloween costume, but I think we’ve done that like sixty times already. So just use the comments space to talk about your past Halloween costume stories in general. Best, worst, mild, whatever.


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Discussion Thread: 90 comments

Woohoo number 1! Ironically I have nothing to say. I hate Karma.

Ghosted by Cotter @ 10/17/2006 11:39 PM EDT

My best halloween costume was homemade (obviously). I took an old TV box, wrapped it in christmas wrapping paper, and stuck a smaller box lid with a bow on it atop my head. The larger box I adorned with a tag that said “From: God To: Women”, and this I wore over my torso with the aid of some really nifty homemade suspenders. Top it all off with a Hawaiian shirt and I was, (dum dum DUM) God’s gift to women. I thought for sure I’d win the Halloween costume at work.

I lost to a guy who bought a $30 generic pirate costume from Halloween USA. Keep in mind this was pre-Pirates of the Carribean. Where’s the justice?

Ghosted by Cid @ 10/17/2006 11:41 PM EDT

My WORST halloween costume was when I was in first grade (?). I had a serious hardon for the Beetlejuice franchise for some reason, and strangely enough we could not find a Beetlejuice costume in any department store/Seventh Heaven we ventured in. So, fed up with my constant whining, my dear sweet parents bought a black and white striped “prisoners outfit” and tossed away the plastic ankle ball. Then, because they were cheap bastards with no attention to detail, they purchased me a black afro wig to go with the ensemble. After hearing me bitch that Beetlejuice’s hair was “yellow” not “black”, we settled on spraying the afro wig with yellow temporary hair coloring. The result: I looked like a gender confused clown who just happened to cross over to the wrong side of the law. Did I care? Hell no. I was Beetlejuice, dammit!

Ghosted by Cid @ 10/17/2006 11:47 PM EDT

I think every kid of the 80s and early 90s is contractually obligated to have a plastic-bag and half-mask costume. Mine was Oscar the Grouch.

My best Halloween costume ever was/is some army surplus gear, helmet, gloves etc. So I’m a soldier. Add a flesh-coloured alien mask and I’m a soldier from Roswell.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/Ronald_MacK/halloween02.jpg

My greatest costume as a kid was as the Headless Man. Wearing a skullcap with nailpolish for blood, I had one of my father’s shirts buttons with the collar around the top of my head. One of the shirt’s arms was stuffed with newspaper, and under the arm was a mask with a balloon in it, IE my head. I used my non-sleeved arm to help carry things and such by sticking it through a button hole in the front. I won a costume contest with it.

I think the year after that I went as Charlie Chaplin. I didn’t win anything. :(

Man, I should go scan my old Halloween pictures. My folks took one of me every year.

Ghosted by Ronald MacKinnon @ 10/17/2006 11:54 PM EDT

I, too, miss the days when Toys ‘R’ Us had like 6-8 solid aisles of action figures and castles/caves to house those action figures. Those things were great for the imagination.

Hard to say what my best Halloween costume was, because I don’t really like to count ones that just involved a store-bought mask. One of the weirdest ones was my Junior year of high school. I had a plastic rabbit mask from the local 5&10, torn up santa pants, and a blood soaked wife beater. It was pretty frightening, and if I hadn’t been with my gf at the time I probably wouldn’t have gotten any candy. Or been arrested or something, I dunno.

Hey has anyone heard the new Manson cover of “This is Halloween?” I know it sounds sketchy, but it’s actually really good. Plus it’ll be a mini-pump for NMBC 3D this upcoming weekend. Click my name and it should dl in a zip. :D

Ghosted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 10/17/2006 11:56 PM EDT

Awwwwwww, Maaaaaatt. That was a very sweet article.

I never had any cool costumes, because my mother never wanted to drop any money on anything fancy. This kind of ruined Halloween itself for me, and I stopped dressing up for Halloween by the age of ten. I still love the season, but the 31st does nothing for me.

Ghosted by Denise @ 10/17/2006 11:57 PM EDT

Viva la Ralph! My plastic half-bag, half-mask costume was Swamp Thing. Yes, I actually WANTED to be Swamp Thing. Not even Swamp Thing wants to be Swamp Thing. …I was a weird kid.

Ghosted by Cid @ 10/18/2006 12:02 AM EDT

When I was 5 or 6 and my sister was 2ish, my mom made us costumes of Belle from Beauty and the Beast (it came out that year, I think). They were the same thing, in different sizes, meant to be her golden dress. It was pretty awesome. Mine had pink roses, and hers had purple, because something had to be different.

Sis refused to take hers off for ages, until it basically fell apart. As soon as she was big enough for it, she did the same to mine. She did that with lots of clothes.

Ghosted by Mara @ 10/18/2006 12:02 AM EDT

Matt!! My best bud in 2nd or 3rd grade wore that exact costume. Except he actually got the Alf Mask. Man that was a sweet costume. I remember by the end of the night, he was soaked though – sucka was hot as an oven! Sometimes Oklahoma fall is warm, and it was a lil toasty that year.

Ghosted by Terror Claws Cole @ 10/18/2006 12:05 AM EDT

My best and worst Halloween costume are one and the same. I made myself a Princess Leia slave bikini last year (you can see a picture of it by clicking my name). Unfortunately, I am not a very gifted craftsman, and the thing promptly fell apart within an hour of putting it on. Pretty much every single strap snapped, and even things that were double glued/knotted/bonded by cosmic forces managed to break.
Quite a disapointment after the hours I’d spent on it. And I ended up having to throw together another costume, Rogue in X-Men: Evolution attire.

Ghosted by Gadget @ 10/18/2006 12:08 AM EDT

I think I’ve exhausted my Halloween costume stories in a recent post. Last year I sewed something that the pattern called “Josephine,” apparently Josephine Bonaparte, because that’s what you do when you get old.

And Denise is right, there is no other word to describe this article than “sweet.” Y’old softie.

Ghosted by Katherine @ 10/18/2006 12:09 AM EDT

Mara, my kid sister did that to her dress-up clothes when she was little, too. She had an orange, white, and purple dress-up dress that came from my sister’s best friend she used to LIVE in.

We never had plastic costumes. My mother was and is an excellent seamstress, so we always had imaginative, or at least well-made, Halloween get-ups. When we were butterflies, we had thick cardboard, hand-painted wings, and floral “pixie” skirt. When we were brides, we wore a simple white skirt with one of Mom’s real Victorian blouses and a hand-made veil. Little Red Riding Hood got to borrow Mom’s gorgeous red hand-knit cape (I hope she still has that…). Pirates wore their own flowing white or yellow shirts, tight jeans or 80s stirrups, boots borrowed from Mom, a “sword” made of cardboard covered in aluminum, and Grandma’s chunky jewelry. I loved my navy blue cordory vest from my cowgirl costume so much, I still have it to this day.

Matt, mine and my little brother’s elementary schools both had short Halloween “parades.” Ours made slightly more sense, since the school’s on one of Cape May’s main streets and would attract tourists in town for the cool weather along with parents. My brother’s was less-well attended; his school was on a highway just off the bridge between West Cape May and North Cape May, more-or-less in the middle of nowhere.

Ghosted by starwenn @ 10/18/2006 12:18 AM EDT

My mom was an awesome seamstress, too, and my siblings and I always had kickass costumes. We still have most of them, too. I think my favorite was when my sister and I went as Rainbow Brite and Twink… Ah, here we go, my sister has it in her Flikr account.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessimuhka/56802677/in/set-1287429/

I’m Twink. =x

Ghosted by Ariel @ 10/18/2006 12:28 AM EDT

FYI, to those of you who have Music Choice channels (I think only those with digital cable get them), the ‘Sounds of the Seasons” channel is now playing Halloween music for 24 hours a day until November first, when they then switch over to Christmas music (YES!).

Of course, I think pretty much anyone will agree that Halloween music has nothing on Christmas songs, but it’s still neat to flip on the TV at 2 AM and hear the likes of “Monster Mash” and the theme from “Halloween”.

Ghosted by Brian @ 10/18/2006 12:36 AM EDT

My parents hated Halloween, so they had the philosophy that, if you didn’t have it lying around the house, you didn’t need to be dressing up. My worst costume was the year I went as the Pink Panther (first grade, I think) and it basically consisted of a pink sweatsuit and a tail made from a black sock pinned to my butt. I looked like a chunky Pink Panther with a rotting tail. It was embarrassing, to say the least. And I had to sit in school all day looking like that. I faked sick to go home early.

My babysitter and her teenaged daughter were always really excited about dressing me up, though, so one year I got to be a black cat (leotard, tights and an ear/tail/bowtie set with drawn-on whiskers and pink nose), another year a jazz dancer (a different black leotard, tights, dance shoes and a really cool, cheap sparkly bowler hat), and a hobo (old flannel shirt, baggy, torn up and patched jeans, old too-big-for-me shoes and a bandana with dirt make-up all over my face). The hobo is probably my least favorite of those, but I was so little at the time I didn’t know what I was. My dad took a picture of me holding a glowstick in that costume and won $500 in a photography contest! I wish I would have know this was going to be the topic, I would have scanned that picture. :

Ghosted by broomstickjockey @ 10/18/2006 12:52 AM EDT

Hmm… I remember winning a few school Halloween contests way back when. I’m sure the certificates are still in the bin of all my crazy old school stuff in the garage amongst some glitter and macaroni art. I don’t think it was so much that my costumes were amazing… I was typically little fairy princesses and stuff… as much as it was that I was just an ungodly adorable little girl.

If I remember correctly, my first Halloween costume was the She-Ra mask and plastic smock.

Ghosted by Mystie @ 10/18/2006 1:04 AM EDT

Oh! She-Ra was the first costume I ever remember wearing! Again, blue leotard, white tights, red bath towel, red cowboy boots. Yeah, my parents and their bad creativity.

Ghosted by broomstickjockey @ 10/18/2006 1:10 AM EDT

My best costume was when I went as a horror movie. I was about eleven. I painted my face in zombie make-up and took a cardboard box cut a hole in it and stuck it over my head. I also had old TV rabbit ears and channel knobs attached to it. I got a lot of compliments for that one. The only drawback was, that I had limited vision, and I kept getting the antennas stuck in people’s porch displays when I went trick-or-treating. Nothing really topped that one until I went as Joan of Arc when I was like twenty. I made my own armor out of cardboard.

Ghosted by Donata05 @ 10/18/2006 1:14 AM EDT

I remember once my dad used dark and light green paint and a cardboard pizza box to fashion me a radical turtle shell for a Raphel costume.

I’ve watched the first three seasons of Alf on DVD in the last couple months, and wow, that show was actually damn enjoyable, or at least addicting. It kind of makes you want your own punchline quibbing, food eating, lazy alien.

Ghosted by Review the World @ 10/18/2006 1:38 AM EDT

It wasn’t mine (I never was a big fan of dressing up for haloween) but right after the Anthrax attacks on the USA happened, someone came to our company’s haloween party dressed up as an envelope. He would blow handfuls of powdered sugar on people.

I do believe he was asked to leave.

Ghosted by Chiablo @ 10/18/2006 1:38 AM EDT

figured this would be the best place to ask this question. Why was there never The Last Starfighter 2? I researched this before asking such a question only to be horrified to find insead of a well deserved sequal they made an off broadway musical. No shit. I kind of feel like an elephant who had his leg cut off only to find out they made it into a waste basket. Matt or anyone else, could you help me out?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Starfighter_%28the_musical%29

Ghosted by billy @ 10/18/2006 1:48 AM EDT

The story brought a tear to my eye.

Ghosted by Somethin' Funny @ 10/18/2006 2:02 AM EDT

Even though I’ve always loved Halloween, I didn’t really dress up a whole lot. I did the homemade black cat, witch, and stuff, but I never really got to go “all out” for a costume when I was little.

I do remember getting my mom to make me a pirate chick outfit once in 9th or 10th grade, though. A friend of mine – her parents got dibs on the rec hall at their housing development, and she had a Halloween party. I loved my costume – red with white polka dotted skirt, black satin sash with fringe, a white “puffy” off the shoulder shirt, black fishnets and heels. I topped it off with big gold hoop earrings and a little more makeup than usual.

I went with another friend of mine, and we had our doubts that any of the guys that we wanted to show up, would — but lo and behold, they did. Lots of flirting, dancing, and spin the bottle were played. One guy was fascinated by my legs and couldn’t stop feeling them, had my first french kiss, and danced with the guy I had the biggest crush on, at the time. *sigh* Sad… I got more action back then, than I get now. :?

Ghosted by Ryane @ 10/18/2006 2:07 AM EDT

“Somethin Funny”: Ditto.

That’s a cool story and I’m surprised it took until now, your fourth or fifth Halloween marathon on this site, for you to type it up. If I had to choose between reviewing a stale piece of candy and writing up a tale such as that, well, there’d be no contest….

This year, find another copy of the mask (shouldn’t be hard, you’re Matt), get the woman to resew the body suit, cover it in talcum and go as Ralph’s ghost. His memory must be honored. “No problem! Ha!”

Ghosted by Mars @ 10/18/2006 2:11 AM EDT

i was dracula every year i can remember, but this year.. dr bong

Ghosted by drbong @ 10/18/2006 2:23 AM EDT

My best halloween costumer had have in the 1st or 2nd grade when i went as Mario (complete with tail and ears). I had the overals, hat, painted on mustache, everything. My little borther even went as Luigi. It was infact quite possibly the best costume ever. The only annoying part was that the tail made sitting kind of difficult.

Ghosted by y2kdread @ 10/18/2006 2:36 AM EDT

Nice to see Ralph get his due after hearing so much about him. All of the old articles featured at the bottom are especially good too.
I’ve mentioned all my costumes in old threads…Goodwill prom dress + Karo syrup = Carrie was a favorite. I have to find something for the office party (we’re doing it the Friday before :/) that strikes that perfect balance of dressed up enough to be in costume but not so much that it looks like you’re trying too hard, which is difficult if not impossible.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 10/18/2006 2:41 AM EDT

My plastic half-bag, half-mask I had in elementary school was Robocop. Also, for some reason I could almost swear that I had a Snow White one too, but that doesnt make any sense. Last year’s Scorpion to my roommate’s Sub Zero was pretty cool too. This year I think I’m going with Ernest P. Worrell, so when kids come to trick or treat, they can have no idea who I am supposed to be.

Ghosted by Tommy @ 10/18/2006 2:55 AM EDT

I agree, this was a really cute article.

Sadly when I was a little kid I always wore dimestore affairs. I was some weird stuff though, like the green M&M.

Ghosted by lala @ 10/18/2006 5:02 AM EDT

Great article. Definitely brought back memories of what it was like to be a kid as anything else on this site… very poignant. And I mean that. Hopefully I spelled it right as well.

Ghosted by mike f. @ 10/18/2006 7:48 AM EDT

Think I’ve only ever once dressed up for Halloween. Pathetic as it was, I went in a Scream mask like everyone else that year. Nearly suffocated in it, too. But! But! It wasn’t just the mask, no. I’d managed to get hold of a cape, a big rubber axe, annoying black claws, and two tubes of fake blood, one of which I still have to this day. So that was both my best and worst attempt.

However, there was another time years earlier, extraordinarily similar to Matt’s.. It was a generic ‘fancy dress’ deal, since we don’t really celebrate Halloween here. Rather innovatively, I grabbed a hat and a big ball of cotton wool and called myself a ‘train-driving hare’. Got to parade on stage and all. Only I screwed up and went back on stage after everyone else had climbed down, causing me lifelong embarassment, deep mental scarring and a fear of combining cotton wool with stages that lasts to this day.

The intermission pictures were great. Wish I had a collapsable cup.

Ghosted by onslaught86 @ 10/18/2006 8:00 AM EDT

I loved old school TRU, mostly because of the toys, but also because I shared the same name as it’s spokes person. I was in my local TRU a few weeks ago and I noticed they were rearranging the store. It look like they were going back to the old school aisle. I was excited.

My favorite costume would have to be…I think beetlejuice. My dad loved halloween and he always went all out getting us costumed upped.

Ghosted by Geoffinsanity @ 10/18/2006 8:22 AM EDT

Most of my costumes in elementary were super duper last minute. I was usually a ghost in a flowered sheet, or a hobo, or a “punk rocker”. When I was in sixth grade, my last year of trick-or-treating, me and my friends got to go out alone. We called our costume “weirdos”. Mostly we just made our hair all crazy and sprayed it with the colored hair spray. Then we wore bright obnoxious clothes and heavy make-up. Not the coolest costume ever, but we thought we were so mature around all the littler kids.

Ghosted by kb @ 10/18/2006 8:56 AM EDT

Matt, this was the best, most heartfelt entry, ever. Take a bow Matt.

WARNING: SHAMELESS PLUG! Please visit my myspace profile and hear some creepy tunes!

Ghosted by Jerry @ 10/18/2006 9:00 AM EDT

My fav costume was being a bat. Homemade costume, my mom is a great seamstress. Added cat ears for that “Fruit bat look”. It was so neat i wore it two years in a row. I won a prize – a Scrabble game and a 25 dollar gift certificate for being a vampiress one year. Sure its a typical costume but my hairdresser did my hair/makeup/nails and my mother let me borrow her black velvet cape so I was dressed to impress.

My plastic costume? Moosel from the Wuzzles. I LOVED the wuzzles and demanded to be a wuzzle instead of wearing the bunny costume my mum made. I suck. The costume sucked. The mask sucked. but I was Moosel. why the hell anyone would wanna be a moose/fish is beyond me.

Ghosted by kittycatgirl2k @ 10/18/2006 9:05 AM EDT

No pic of Ralph? Are you freakin’ serious? C’mon!

Ghosted by Nizzler @ 10/18/2006 9:57 AM EDT

Thanks again for clearing up another mystery of my youth. Trips to Toys R Us were very rare when I was a kid. Being the oldest of four kids, I have the feeling that Mom would rather have had fully reenacted Civil War battles in our living room than take us out in public, especially to a toy store. I had to settle for the action figure aisle at K-Mart….
The few times that I got to Toys R Us, though, I remember the overwhelming sense of awe, the sights, the smells, the endless rows upon rows of toys. They had blue wire bins to hold all the toys because they wouldn’t fit on the shelves that extended from the floor to the ceiling (or at least it seemed to someone under 4 ft tall). And welcoming you to this glorious place were cartoon characters in the form of giraffes making it seem as though you had stepped into a saturday morning cartoon.
It was my nirvana.
After my largely toy free teen years, I went back to Toys R Us. Now I had my own money and countless hours to spend in what I remembered to be an inexhaustable toy experience.
Unfortunately, the sense of magic was gone. Like you said, between the electronic junk, the educational toys, and the little tiny shelves (none of which went above my head), the magic was not there.
I was convinced that I had embellished my childhood memories and that my adult brain could no longer equate Toys R Us to nirvana. Had I made it all up? Was I now too “mature” to enjoy it?
Thankfully, the answer is no. You have corroberated my memories that Toys R Us used to be way cooler!

Ghosted by Mowntandew @ 10/18/2006 10:03 AM EDT

my best costume, though not really my favorite, would be from seventh grade (circa 1996) when i went as a baked potato. i wore a gray sweatsuit, then wrapped myself in aluminum foil. i had a piece of cardboard on my front that had cotton stuffing and little pieces of green paper on it(sour cream and chives) and a sign on my back that said “idaho baked”….sweet jesus, i was an odd child.

i still dress up every year, but now my costumes usually consist of a homemade super short poofy skirt and some kind of funky t-shirt, like a teen witch who worked at a video store or a kinda-of-skanky pirate. i think this year i’m going to be the tooth fairy…which basically means a short pink skirt, a t-shirt with a picture of a tooth on it, some wings and a tooth wand…

Ghosted by erin @ 10/18/2006 10:08 AM EDT

My best costume as a kid would have to be the Queen Of Hearts in 7th grade. It was this big foofy dress from Spencer’s, with gaudy heart print fabric and puff sleeves. I wanted to wear it after Halloween, but I had no use for it. :)

Now, my best costume as an adult…well, it’s a toss up. In 2002, my then-boyfriend and I were a deviant Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Naughty Wolf. He worked at a porn store at the time, so it was his idea. I put Jack Daniels and condoms in my basket, and led him around downtown on a leash while whacking him with a mini-riding crop. We got SO many reactions from the crowd. Some Japanese tourists actually took video of us.

If you click on my username, you can see my second-best costume ever: Girl Scout on a really bad trail hike!

Ghosted by Raptorgirl @ 10/18/2006 10:33 AM EDT

I think my first smock-type costume was a smurf, and not like Smurfette, just the generic smurf. My mom was never fond of those as they tended to rip too easily and the masks were uncomfortable.

I can’t think of a single year, between the ages of one and twenty-two where I didn’t get dressed up and go trick-or-treating (or beer-or-treating when I was in college). I don’t seem to recall a single really great costume though. My mom wasn’t real big on sewing, and after the age of twelve she really didn’t have much to say about our costume choices. I dressed up as a nun a bunch of times, as I bought the really good nun suit with the full habit, figuring it was something I’d get a lot of use out of. I dunno, there was maybe the year I was Pat Bennetar that was pretty cool — spiked out black wig, long black shirt with a red V-belt, short shorts over black leggings and black Adidas sambas. And Screw Me Dead Red lipstick and tons of eye make-up.

Ghosted by LemurCat @ 10/18/2006 11:53 AM EDT

Great story. The boyscout stuff really hit home for me–that was my boyscout experience in a nutshell. It was fun until they made me do stuff, and then I dropped out.

My favorite costume as a kid was my Karate Kid costume. My crafty mom made me the black and white head band, and also sewed me some kind of flimsy white dojo outfit. I felt like I could totally kick any other first grader’s butt.

My favorite “adult” costume is my King Hippo one. Lazily thrown together(in my younger, more ambitious days, I would have shaved my head or at least bought a skull cap), but it was a lot of fun. The shorts were really loose in the waist, so as to easily fall down when somebody punches me in the stomach.

http://www.johnqcasual.com/jeff-kinghippo.jpg

Ghosted by Jeff @ 10/18/2006 12:15 PM EDT

Though my Donatello get-up in Halloween of 1990 was pretty amazing my best costume by far was my Pepsi can ensemble for Halloween of 91′. This was no thrown together tin-foil piece of shite either but a insanely well constructed vision of artistic greatness—we used a professional photographic enlarger to detail the graphics on the corrugated cardboard/posterboard frame (thanks Dad!).

This was also the year of the legendary “Halloween Blizzard” (if you are from the Twin Cities you know of what I speak). The day started normal enough but by 6PM it was 28 degrees out with 2 ft drifts of snow everywhere! No crap!

Needless to say we had to put a giant plastic baggie over my costume to keep the Pepsi graphics from running. The most exhilirating part of the evening was when I slipped and rolled down a giant hill on someone’s front lawn—just like Chief Wiggum in that Duff suit!

By the end of the night the crew I was with gave up the “Trick or Treat!” phrase in favor of “Merry Christmas!”. We thought we were so damn funny for that.

Ghosted by Chris D. @ 10/18/2006 12:16 PM EDT

I had this fascination for a vampire mask when i was in sixth grade. We had already played the shit out of “Nightmare”, and i remember ALWAYS being Elizabeth Bathory. When “Atmosphere” came out, and Elizabeth Bathory ended up being the most inhuman and goddamned COOL looking one, I was even more fascinated with my initial decision to pick a girl in a game.

The mask was this very demonic-looking vampire thing. With a huge gaping maw of teeth, little awful red eyes, barely a nose, and huge ears. And it was bald. I would have vivid fantasies of a full latex body suit that made all of me have similar deathly, slimy skin, and little useless arm-wings. How I would jump out of trees and scare the SHIT out of my friends. I would look up into the moon and bask in it.

Anyhow, I settled on some shitty skull mask. I wore a jester’s cap (bought from Great Escape, baby), and an old grim-reaper cloak, and I was “The Jester of Hell”. Way lamer than a monstrous demonic vampire get-up that would make me more inhuman than that girl in that R.L. Stine book, but I got hosed down with shaving cream and windex all night anyway.

Ghosted by michael @ 10/18/2006 12:23 PM EDT

If it wasn’t for Pizza Kruger, I had a idea for a quick costume that consisted of a Reaper costume, the second Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Disk thing (The one with the arcane symbols on it), a creepy mask, and a few dozen Ace of Spades playing cards. But Freddy wouldn’t be denied this year.

But someone can use the Duel Reaper idea if they’re stuck.

ALF RULES! AND SO DOES RALPH!

Ghosted by kingklash @ 10/18/2006 12:53 PM EDT

michael, I LOVED “Atmosphere: The Harbingers!” I was always Gevaudin, the Werewolf because I’m pretty much obsessed with werewolves. I finally found one on eBay for $20 and I try to trick my friends into playing it with me all the time. Have you played the new one that came out, like, three years ago??

Ghosted by broomstickjockey @ 10/18/2006 1:00 PM EDT

My favorite semi-homemade costume was when I went as the Riddler from Batman Forever. My parents bought the hat, staff, and spraypainted my hair orange. We then took some green sweatpants and shirt and put question marks all over them using black duct tape.

Worst was Freddy Krugger. We got some fake skin and blood that kept falling off. We then took old workout gloves and made knives using cardboard. We had an old fedora and I wored a red sweater with blue sweatpants. I looked more like someone with a really bad sunburn then Freddy.

Other then those, we usually just bought my costumes. I’ve been Dracula, Jason, a California Raison, and some cartoon bear( plastic mask and smock) from the Getalong Gang I believe. I don’t even remember watching that show.

Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 10/18/2006 1:02 PM EDT

BEST costume = a Beetlejuice costume my mom made that I wore for, like, 3 consecutive Halloweens…

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r222/EtHM777/beetlejuice.jpg

Worst costume…a self made Papa Shango/dead voodoo guy made from old sweat pants and tore up rags. I at least had a cool staff with a rubber skull on it!

Ghosted by EtHM @ 10/18/2006 1:40 PM EDT

My wife and I love dressing up at Halloween. The most original idea we’ve been was a Mom and Fetus (umbilically attached), it got a lot of reaction.

Ghosted by Fox @ 10/18/2006 2:07 PM EDT

My best Halloween costume was the big-assed Ghostbusters outfit I made back when I was a sophomore in high school. The proton pack I wore lit up and everything. I had two friends come with me, one made a slightly less-impressive proton pack, and the third guy wore a slime blower (which looked good but nobody knew what it was). We garnered much the same reaction from people that night that you got as Ralph, Matt, except it was from grown-ups, which kind of surprised me.

Ghosted by Timmy @ 10/18/2006 2:09 PM EDT

I don’t think it was my best costume, but my favorite was always the grim reaper. The last year I went trick-or-treating I had a growth spurt, so I was a tall lanky and boney guy. It fit the costume well. I never actually got a scythe to carry though.

The worst one was my Frankensteins Monster costume, it was actually a cool costume, but I looked nothing like Frankie. I looked like a zombie that hadn’t been dead very long. I remember being disappointed because I had originally wanted to go as Herman Munster.

Ghosted by Deuce @ 10/18/2006 2:19 PM EDT

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