# Couple Halloween costumes: your opinions, please
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-halloween-costumes-your-opinions-please/469097
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 22, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-halloween-costumes-your-opinions-please/469097 "2008-10-22T18:42:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@RedRosesForMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedRosesForMe)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-halloween-costumes-your-opinions-please/469097/1 "2008-10-22T18:42:29Z")
Yes, it’s last minute. But, I need some costume ideas, preferably ones that work for a couple. I originally wanted to be a creepy porcelain doll. I have the face for it (see [here](http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j8/seaworthy82/hair/cutie.jpg)), it would be cheap and easy.
For a couples’ costume, I was thinking maybe a creepy marionette, with my bf as puppeteer. My friend thinks that’s a little weird though.
My sister just suggested the Jew and Arab from the Clash’s Rock the Casbah video, which would be funny because my boyfriend is Jewish. And I happen to love the song. I could carry a boombox playing Rock the Casbah so the explanations would be kept to a minimum (except for the under 25 crowd, but oh well).
Any other suggestions? Cheap and easy please!
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-halloween-costumes-your-opinions-please/469097/2 "2008-10-22T19:10:02Z")
I LIKE the marionette/puppeteer idea. Weird? Isn’t that the point?
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-halloween-costumes-your-opinions-please/469097/3 "2008-10-22T20:15:35Z")
I think the “Rock the Casbah” thing is too out-there to be useful. Plus you gotta carry a boom box? Naaah…
If you think the marionette thing is weird (I like it, tho), why not [Punch & Judy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_and_Judy)?
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-halloween-costumes-your-opinions-please/469097/4 "2008-10-22T20:20:20Z")
Cheap and easy?
Guy: Medical scrubs. Little Dr. Headband thingee and penlight optional but at least bring a few band-aids.
Girl: Shirt & skirt (non-descript) with white lab coat. Glasses, plastic stethoscope and clipboard a plus.
Ta-Da! You’re done.
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### Author:  [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-halloween-costumes-your-opinions-please/469097/5 "2008-10-22T20:27:57Z")
Uma Thurman and John Travolta from Pulp Fiction: suit and slicked back hair on his part, would merely require black wig for you unless you don’t own a white shirt and black pants
Jem and Rio: you could get an outfit at Forever 21 for about $20 and go crazy with the Wet and Wild makeup for a night.
The Dresden Dolls
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### Author:  [@Sebastienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sebastienne)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-halloween-costumes-your-opinions-please/469097/6 "2008-10-22T20:35:28Z")
I love the marionette idea. Bonus points if you’re obviously dressed like a puppet (complete with lines drawn on your face as if you had an open-and-shut jaw, all skin not on your face covered, etc) while he’s dressed normally-- but you’re the one holding his strings.
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-halloween-costumes-your-opinions-please/469097/7 "2008-10-22T20:36:41Z")
My son had to come up with something quick so he glued cotton in various spots on a blue t-shirt, and carried a squirt gun.
Partly cloudy with a chance of showers.
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### Author:  [@Yarster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yarster)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-halloween-costumes-your-opinions-please/469097/8 "2008-10-22T22:08:45Z")
I’m always a big fan of the sort of “anti-costume”, making fun of whatever is popular or being something no one wants to see in real life. Often this requires a sign to explain it, but a simple sign that makes people laugh. I’ve won several costume contests with these ideas. I should also add that I’m a guy if that matters. Past ideas have included:
- Cheap black bedsheet from thrift store cut and pinned to look like a short burqa with fishnet stockings and fake Playboy magazine with yourself pictured on the cover “Playboy’s sexiest women of the Taliban”
- Dirty clothes, carrying baby doll, gross hair, and/or carrying a fake bomb with sign on back “Guy you least want to be sitting next to on the airplane”
This year, I’m going as “Anti-Green Man” - An evil supervillan who wants to promote global warming. I’ll be in black with a vest made of plastic six pack holders with stuffed animals caught in them, cheap cape, wrestler mask, and two pins I made myself. One has Al Gore and a Toyota Prius with the legend “You can’t spell ‘Pretentious’ without ‘Prius’”. The other a hippie getting kicked in the face with a boot and the legend “Hey jerk, here’s my Carbon Footprint”. On my back will be the green recycling symbol with a red circle and line through it and the words ‘Anti-Green Man’
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### Author:  [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2011, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-halloween-costumes-your-opinions-please/469097/10 "2011-08-24T10:56:26Z")
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