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What are You Dressing Up as for Halloween?
Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 7:30 AM on November 1, 2008
So tonight's the night, my friends: Halloween. You've been planning for weeks or you're going to toss some half-assed costume together from stuff in the back of your closet, but either way, you're dressing up as something. What is it? And is it… sexy? Me, I'm going as Zombie Jimmy Stewart. Not gadgety, I know, but I'm hoping it'll go over well. So, what about you? Are you doing something really ambitious? Let's hear about it! Pictures and video are greatly encouraged! And if you need ideas, hit the jump for the classic web video Girl's Costume Warehouse.

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infmom
Posted 9:07 AM 1/11/08
I'm wearing a black turtleneck shirt and black jeans and a sign taped to my shirt saying "This IS my costume."
infmom
jedinight37
Posted 9:06 AM 1/11/08
I am going as a "fake bboy"
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good times in San Francisco!
jedinight37
tande04
Posted 9:06 AM 1/11/08
I was thinking about just printing out some stock quotes and putting them on a board around my neck and going as a stock ticker.
Ooooh scary!!!
tande04
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the
Posted 9:03 AM 1/11/08
@Lite: It's working already! lol
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the Souls of Insane Cannibalistic Orphans' Machead
Lite
Posted 9:02 AM 1/11/08
@Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning an...: Kaiser, Angry, Aaaangry, Angry, nope. Yip yip yip yip yip.
Lite
rndmideas
Posted 9:00 AM 1/11/08
I'm going as Indiana Jones (prior to the brutal raping he received)
rndmideas
rndmideas
Posted 9:00 AM 1/11/08
@tek_nic: I was going to do that! last year I was Bruce Wayne and the year before that I was Clark Kent.
rndmideas
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the
Posted 9:00 AM 1/11/08
@munineye: Hope you're not in NY. A spray-painted Nerf gun may get you shot.
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the Souls of Insane Cannibalistic Orphans' Machead
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 8:59 AM 1/11/08
@nocturnus: Just make sure she remembers to stop being you once you get back home otherwise you might end up with a little surprise...
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the
Posted 8:59 AM 1/11/08
@Jrsy is Stupendous Man!: Needs a blonde mullet, burly physique, a Charger and a large knife.
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the Souls of Insane Cannibalistic Orphans' Machead
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 8:58 AM 1/11/08
@ret3: Yeah but just think later one you can 'bite' her with your poisonous snake..
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the
Posted 8:58 AM 1/11/08
@Lite: You should come with me. That would sure be a good catalyst for my costume.
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the Souls of Insane Cannibalistic Orphans' Machead
Turak
Posted 8:57 AM 1/11/08
I'm going as a Vulcan Starfleet officer. Too bad I couldn't get the girl in my college computer science class who was dressed up as 7 of 9 to go trick or treating with me.
Turak
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 8:56 AM 1/11/08
I'm going dress up as Adam Frucci.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 8:56 AM 1/11/08
@cygnusx8: How is today different than any other day? ;)
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 8:55 AM 1/11/08
@bpapa9013: Go as Brock Sampson!
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
bnsqueak
Posted 8:55 AM 1/11/08
A Blue Meanie from the Yellow Submarine movie.
bnsqueak
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 8:54 AM 1/11/08
@vandiemen007: I bet those kids ended up with a little Gouldens spicy brown mustard in their pants..
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Chromeo
Posted 8:53 AM 1/11/08
Soon as I learn how to post pics here, I'll let ya know...
Chromeo
Lite
Posted 8:52 AM 1/11/08
@Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning an...: I'm going the other direction. I'm dressing up as a Yip Yip alien from Sesame Street w/ the fiance.
Lite
Lite
Posted 8:51 AM 1/11/08
I'll be dressing up as a homocidal maniac.
Lite
subryu
Posted 8:50 AM 1/11/08
I am going as the Zune guy. I'll need to look in the back of my closet for an extra 150 Lbs, no shame, a Sharpie, and misplaced passion.
subryu
nocturnus
Posted 8:49 AM 1/11/08
My girlfriend and I are going as each other.
nocturnus
silence04
Posted 8:49 AM 1/11/08
@PrizePig:
your going to be jesus on easter?
silence04
munineye
Posted 8:48 AM 1/11/08
I'm already in my MIB agent suit, complete with spray-painted Nerf gun. Couldn't find a cheap neuralyzer in time, guess I'll have to make do with playing Palin speeches.
munineye
vandiemen007
Posted 8:48 AM 1/11/08
@Jrsy is Stupendous Man!: I wouldn't try that in Utah! [www.ksl.com]
vandiemen007
Mr.SithNinja
Posted 8:47 AM 1/11/08
I am going to dress up as "a gamer playing Dead Space with headphones on so he can't hear the door bell." It's gonna be AWESOME!
Mr.SithNinja
hadees
Posted 8:46 AM 1/11/08
I'm going as a Dharma Workman from the swan lab, I have the jumpsuit with the patch i bought off ebay. I even had my name with Workman embroidered on it. I also got a hatch key replica off ebay. In addition, and why I really love this costume, I made a bunch of Dharma Brand Beer labels which i printed out on label paper and cut up. So all night long I'll buy beers and cover them with my Dharma labels thus making my beers part of my costume!
hadees
lpranal
Posted 8:46 AM 1/11/08
Possibly Frank West from dead rising. Namely, because I vaguely resemble him anyways, have the same coat, camera, pants, shirt, and already have a baseball bat. I'm going to throw some blood on my shirt and be done with it.
lpranal
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the
Posted 8:44 AM 1/11/08
@Eruanno: So basically, you'll be ripping off of my costume.
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the Souls of Insane Cannibalistic Orphans' Machead
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the
Posted 8:43 AM 1/11/08
@tek_nic: The hardest part of that costume is carrying a perpetual grab-bag of Stark Snarkisms.
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the Souls of Insane Cannibalistic Orphans' Machead
Carbonfly
Posted 8:43 AM 1/11/08
Steve Jobs! I know. I'm so original, but it's a cheap costume in this tough economic time. Plus I have no money after buying a new Macbook Pro. haha!
Carbonfly
Eruanno
Posted 8:42 AM 1/11/08
I will be dressing up as myself ignoring all the children wanting candy outside my house.
Or, on the rare occasion that I get out of my couch, I will be a slightly angrier version of myself barking at the children outside my house begging for candy.
Eruanno
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the
Posted 8:41 AM 1/11/08
@bpapa9013: If you can, find someone with a deep voice to be Dr. Girlfriend.
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the Souls of Insane Cannibalistic Orphans' Machead
Technodragon
Posted 8:41 AM 1/11/08
V from V for Vendetta.
Technodragon
leozuck
Posted 8:41 AM 1/11/08
ninja turtle
leozuck
tek_nic
Posted 8:41 AM 1/11/08
Im going as Tony Stark. It's a great excuse to walk around all night with a scotch on the rocks.
I have purchased an arc reactor too. Really, it is a battery powered led light pod that I have modified to look the part.
I'll have a wrench on me, a glass of scotch, an arc reactor, and maybe battle damage by the end of the night.
tek_nic
PrizePig
Posted 8:40 AM 1/11/08
I'll be zombie Jesus.
PrizePig
bdk185
Posted 8:40 AM 1/11/08
im going as a nudist on strike! basically just street clothes with a sign around my neck that says nudist on strike. I love to see the reactions!!
bdk185
ret3
Posted 8:40 AM 1/11/08
Me: Marc Anthony
M'lady: Cleopatra
I had suggested Beast and Storm, but she wouldn't go for it...
ret3
cygnusx8
Posted 8:38 AM 1/11/08
I'm going to be Zohan. Anytime I can wear Miriah Carey tshirt, daisy dukes and flip-flops and get away with it, I'm there.
cygnusx8
bpapa9013
Posted 8:38 AM 1/11/08
I know it is already kinda played out but, I am going as The Monarch from The Venture Bros. And yes, I have a "Dr. Mrs. the former Girlfriend", but her voice isn't deep enough...
bpapa9013
Novenus
Posted 8:38 AM 1/11/08
Captain Harlock. Pictures will come.
Novenus
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the
Posted 8:36 AM 1/11/08
@Vibhorsir: You can always put on tanning cream and go as an AIG executive.
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the Souls of Insane Cannibalistic Orphans' Machead
Z4N5H1N
Posted 8:35 AM 1/11/08
I'm going as Greg LeMond.
Z4N5H1N
Vibhorsir
Posted 8:34 AM 1/11/08
A former Lehman brothers employee
Vibhorsir
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 8:33 AM 1/11/08
"Excuse me, do you have any Grey Poupon?"
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the
Posted 8:33 AM 1/11/08
Mine is more of an artsy piece. I will be wearing the clothes I always wear, but I'll just be extra angry. I will be anger for halloween.
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the Souls of Insane Cannibalistic Orphans' Machead
Thunderdome
Posted 9:34 AM 1/11/08
I'm going as Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men. My gf owns a hair salon, so I've just received the gayest haircut of my life for the part....and I've had some seriously gay haircuts in my time.
Thunderdome
mcjake
Posted 9:23 AM 1/11/08
I'm going as Master Shake. Should be fun driving around in.
mcjake
KStrike155
Posted 9:23 AM 1/11/08
Some friends and I are going as the news team from Anchorman.
KStrike155
erichg14
Posted 9:22 AM 1/11/08
My wife and I are gonna be Lois and Peter Griffin. I just hope she doesn't keep trying to do the Lois voice. She's been practicing a lot, and this might end badly.
erichg14
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Posted 9:19 AM 1/11/08
@Lite: Which is easy, cuz they look like everyone else.
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Posted 9:18 AM 1/11/08
I'm going/went as "Guy who got beat up".

I'm just pissed I couldn't find any of that teeth blackout wax.
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
hazlo1
Posted 9:18 AM 1/11/08
Michael Vick... no dogs though
hazlo1
USMarty
Posted 9:13 AM 1/11/08
I'm going as the joker....but that's not my costume. My costume is the concept of "the most popular costume this year"...which happens to be that so....
USMarty
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the
Posted 9:58 AM 1/11/08
@Lindsay 'Can you say yes Mistress' Joy's Dominatrix Avatar: Anger subsiding. I guess naked lady on white horse is my costume's kryptonite.
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the Souls of Insane Cannibalistic Orphans' Machead
Lindsay 'Can you say yes Mistress' Joy's Dominatrix Avatar
Posted 9:56 AM 1/11/08
@Kaiser The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and...:
I am gonna be Lady Godiva!
Lindsay 'Can you say yes Mistress' Joy's Dominatrix Avatar
purple-pillows
Posted 9:54 AM 1/11/08
@nocturnus: i think this means you get to decide when to leave or not...
purple-pillows
purple-pillows
Posted 9:53 AM 1/11/08
@bdk185: did you take this idea from your local paper?
purple-pillows
ealexand
Posted 9:50 AM 1/11/08
@rndmideas: haha, at least he didn''t get it as bad as the storm trooper
ealexand
ealexand
Posted 9:49 AM 1/11/08
Crutchie from Newsies.
cough, cough, buy me last pape sir?
ealexand
Jrsy is Stupendous Man!
Posted 9:48 AM 1/11/08
@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: *later on*
Jrsy is Stupendous Man!
JackTheTripper
Posted 9:45 AM 1/11/08
The Shoveler.
JackTheTripper
some_stupid_nut
Posted 9:35 AM 1/11/08
I'm going as a Barack Obama volunteer! I'ma have a clipboard in hand and hand out stickers and lit to my drunken fellow college students!
some_stupid_nut
FarrellKeenan
Posted 9:05 AM 1/11/08
THE rule for a good movie character halloween costume: has to be 3-6 months before the movie comes out, or 10+ years after. Last year Indy (if well done) was a great costume. Now, sadly, the movie came out. Last year Joker was a great costume, this year every douchebag with access to makeup and a green shirt is going to be a shitty joker and even if you do it well you'll be lost in the green and purple riptide of douchebaggery. Authenticity is key, costume store costumes are crap. This year I've already got an appropriate trenchcoat and fedora, so I spent a few hours on the mask and now have a killer Rorschach getup.
FarrellKeenan
MichaelBrazell
Posted 10:24 AM 1/11/08
I like coming up with ideas for costumes, but not executing them. Two of my ideas this here were, 1) going as the cast from Jaws (with some friends) and only quoting lines from the movie. 2) dressing up like an archipelago of islands.
MichaelBrazell
CoH
Posted 10:21 AM 1/11/08
@Carbonfly: Don't forget the manila envelope!
CoH
beekerstudios
Posted 10:16 AM 1/11/08
@Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning an...: You are in serious need of an even longer handle, because you are the only inventive person in the world to have done that.... lame....
beekerstudios
P3nnst8r
Posted 10:11 AM 1/11/08
Pirate!
Yar.
P3nnst8r
phlavor
Posted 10:06 AM 1/11/08
Me? Nothin. But my son is dressed as Stalin.
phlavor
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the
Posted 10:04 AM 1/11/08
@Lindsay 'Can you say yes Mistress' Joy's Dominatrix Avatar: Yeah, works just as well without the horse.....maybe even better :O
Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and the Souls of Insane Cannibalistic Orphans' Machead
Lindsay 'Can you say yes Mistress' Joy's Dominatrix Avatar
Posted 10:03 AM 1/11/08
@Kaiser The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning and...:
No just naked. I mean, I do that a lot anyways. Kinda like my dominatix gear, I simply have it. :-D
Anyways, why can some people see my new avatar and others cant?
Wonky wonky!
Lindsay 'Can you say yes Mistress' Joy's Dominatrix Avatar
Sixxtwo
Posted 10:02 AM 1/11/08
I Just want to wear a shirt w/ big black letters that says 'NOT THE JOKER!', but I am going as Mario instead.
Sixxtwo
Jrsy is Stupendous Man!
Posted 11:07 AM 1/11/08
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: Damn dude! Way to take your art to the next level. And here I thought you might be all high-tech by strapping on a couple of webcams and go as a Peeping Tom who watches himself!
Jrsy is Stupendous Man!
thefutureisnow
Posted 11:02 AM 1/11/08
for me, that day was yesterday, and I didn't dress up.
thefutureisnow
FiveLiters
Posted 10:38 AM 1/11/08
@hadees: Don't blame us when the smoke monster comes after ya!
FiveLiters
Selcouth14: Add 28 for the answer
Posted 10:28 AM 1/11/08
@beekerstudios: Look at that, you have an opinion! Guess what? I have one too: no one cares. Clever huh?
Selcouth14: Add 28 for the answer
Selcouth14: Add 28 for the answer
Posted 10:26 AM 1/11/08
@Lindsay 'Can you say yes Mistress' Joy's Dominatrix Avatar: New avatars tend to take a week or so to appear as the thumbnail. If people click on your pic in your profile then the new one comes up...I went through the same thing when I last changed mine.
Also, it's not a costume if you wear it nightly...
Also also: Going as Shaun from Shaun of the Dead. Spent a good couple hours making a Cricket bat that can withstand some punishment!
Selcouth14: Add 28 for the answer
MichaelBrazell
Posted 10:24 AM 1/11/08
@nocturnus: Does that mean that we'll be making out later?
Zing.
MichaelBrazell
Collins1
Posted 11:27 AM 1/11/08
I was going to be John McCain but my pipe and slippers didn't arrive in time so I'm going to a party as Obama.
Collins1
badhatharry
Posted 11:23 AM 1/11/08
A tranny.
Sexual. Not Smission.
badhatharry
lorensingley
Posted 11:44 AM 1/11/08
I am dressed as Caeser, but instead of a laurel that SHOULD HAVE been shipped with my costume because it was in the #$%#$%* picture, I am u sing branches from a tree that are growing outside of the Radioshack where I am working at this very moment. Classy.
lorensingley
Wolfess
Posted 1:14 PM 1/11/08
I'm attending an tv-parody themed party and I'm going to be a Mrs. J.G. Wentworth. ;) Gonna have a sign that says 'It's YOUR money, use it when YOU need it!!!' Someone else declared they would be Billy Mays, I better bring ear plugs!
Wolfess
nintendude
Posted 1:05 PM 1/11/08
I went as an ePirate, a modern day version of a pirate. Complete with [computer] mouse instead of parrot on shoulder, ethernet cable belt with CD belt buckle, HDD on the belt, eye patch, USB flash drive earring, and a gaming headset.
nintendude
kwellman
Posted 2:06 PM 1/11/08
Wife and I went as John McCain and Sara Palin :) It was a blast and we got a lot of great reactions from people :)
kwellman
eebs
Posted 1:55 PM 1/11/08
@hadees: Clever!
eebs
tketch
Posted 1:55 PM 1/11/08
Me: Jim as "three hole punch Jim"
Girlfriend: Pam "as a cat"
Hooray for The Office!!!
tketch
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Posted 3:20 PM 1/11/08
@Jrsy is Stupendous Man!: That is a good idea.
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Ajax
Posted 5:03 PM 1/11/08
A friend of mine dressed up as Wikipedia. He was in all white clothes, and then he had sharpies for people to write little "articles" on him. He had written "Wikipedia... Click to Edit. By the end of the night, he was full of little puns and weird facts. It was brilliant.
Ajax
MrHaroHaro
Posted 4:52 PM 1/11/08
I just saw the most awesome costumes ever. In DUMBO I saw two dudes dressed in the Flight of the Conchords "Robots" like costumes, and it looked pretty awesome. however, when I took my niece trick or treating in Clinton Hill, we saw a kid with a similar FotC type Robot outfit but it had LIGHTS!! Blinking lights across the chest. It was f***in' AWESOME. Very well made. Wish I had a picture but my phone kind of sucks.
I dressed as a younger Steve Jobs. But no one picked up on it. Next time I am making a cardboard Apple II to go with the outfit.
MrHaroHaro
PdotRick
Posted 5:47 PM 1/11/08
I went as the RROD. Off white t-shirt, posterboard cutout hanging around my neck with red and green glow sticks providing the effect. Most guys got the joke, women thought I was an iPod.
PdotRick
kangaroo
Posted 6:11 PM 1/11/08
I was Ghostbuster Venkman.
Bam.
kangaroo
Lioness458
Posted 6:08 PM 1/11/08
I was the internet- I had a really long colored plastic tube (like those things you'd wave around as kids to make a weird noise) wrapped around me, pictures of lolcats and mudkips and penny arcade comics, and had never gonna give you up playing on repeat.
Lioness458
jkbuster
Posted 7:30 PM 1/11/08
4 of us dressed up as Ghostbusters and chased a ghost through lectures.
jkbuster
Collins1
Posted 12:44 AM 2/11/08
@jkbuster: You are a hero.
Collins1
nocturnus
Posted 1:58 AM 2/11/08
@purple-pillows:
Lol, actually, we don't tell each other what to do. We kind of decide together. It's and actual democratic relationship. No joke.
nocturnus
theorieofself
Posted 4:11 AM 2/11/08
Richie & Margot Tenenbaum:
[tfrascone.net]
theorieofself
Mike
Posted 5:32 AM 2/11/08
I dressed up as Steve Jobs
Mike
juandotcom
Posted 6:58 AM 2/11/08
@Carbonfly: I actually saw a guy with the same costume, unfortunately i was the first person that got it right, i guess he should have gone as sarah palin, that's a bit more original
juandotcom
VirreVojj
Posted 12:00 PM 2/11/08
I went as King of All Cosmos from Katamari.
Only two out of 200 actually understood who I was dressed up as, but the 198 jaws dropped when I entered the room. The feeling was awesome, totally worht the 4 hour paint job on the head.
VirreVojj
Wolfess
Posted 8:47 PM 2/11/08
@Lioness458: Haha rick rolling everyone in sight.. I like your style!
Wolfess
Wolfess
Posted 8:51 PM 2/11/08
@KStrike155: Stay classy.
Wolfess
Cyfer911
Posted 2:48 AM 3/11/08
in europe people know about haloween and they like it but most of ppl don't accept it because, its like what globalization is about. Im one of them.. i let halloween stay american-only :P
Cyfer911
AppleSalsa
Posted 3:43 AM 3/11/08
Channel 4 News Team, with three of my friends. Stay classy San Diego.
AppleSalsa
bpapa9013
Posted 2:41 AM 4/11/08
@bpapa9013:
bpapa9013