# Offensive and relevant Halloween costume ideas? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 23, 2009, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865 "2009-10-23T15:02:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr\_Happy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Mr\_Happy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Happy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/1 "2009-10-23T15:02:34Z")
I need a costume for Halloween and my main criteria are ‘offensive/pushing the envelope’ and ‘relevant’, in that order. Previous costumes have been “Maddie McCann’s Father” (business suit splattered in blood) for a ‘Good vs Evil’ party, and “Christ Benoit” (his wrestling costume splattered in blood) for a ‘Criminals’ party’ (google it) Anyone have any bright ideas for this upcoming Halloween? ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/2 "2009-10-23T15:09:01Z")
Have you seen the [Ted Williams?](http://www.unathleticmag.com/2009/10/19/ted-williams-just-became-the-best-halloween-costume-of-the-year/) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/3 "2009-10-23T15:23:25Z")
I’m going to put on some zombie-style makeup, put on a fake beard and wrap a white sheet around myself –I’ll be Great Zombie Jesus! ---
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/4 "2009-10-23T15:46:54Z")
I thought the Target “illegal alien” costume was hilarious. (alien “gray” mask, holding a giant green card). Apparently people were offended and they pulled it. But it would be easy enough to make on your own. I can think of lots of ways to pull it off, even better. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/5 "2009-10-23T15:49:00Z")
You could go as Zombie Michael Jackson…meh, nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/6 "2009-10-23T17:09:03Z")
OctoMom or Jon Gosselin could be put together pretty easily with a string of baby dolls. Roman Polanski would take some thought but probably is doable. You could do Glenn Beck with some tear streaks and foam around your lips. Depending on who you want to offend, you could do up that New Yorker cover and go as Barack Obama in Muslim garb. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/7 "2009-10-23T19:23:58Z")
Balloon Boy: [http://www.microflight.com/Balloon-Boy-Halloween-Costume-Kit#](http://www.microflight.com/Balloon-Boy-Halloween-Costume-Kit#) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/8 "2009-10-23T19:28:14Z")
How about Zombie Billy Mays selling the _Inside the Brain Pan Brain Scrambler_? “Scrambles the Brain without breaking the Skull! But wait…if you act before Dawn, we’ll send you the Finger Clipper – Makes Delicious Lady Fingers with no fuss! Only $19.95! Operators are Shembling by!” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/9 "2009-10-24T00:22:22Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > How about Zombie Billy Mays selling the _Inside the Brain Pan Brain Scrambler_? Thank you! My fiance has been wracking his brains for a good costume. He’s all over the Billy Mays idea. One week without shaving, his hair all slicked back, and a blue shirt with “Oxy-Clean” on one shoulder and the As Seen On TV logo on the other will do it. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/10 "2009-10-24T00:33:09Z")
A terrorist with a scimitar and a severed head. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/11 "2009-10-24T00:54:23Z")
I’ve done middle eastern dress running around with handfuls of flour. Shortly after 911 when the powdered anthrax scare was in peoples minds. I did a Mormon missionary with my BF as a last minute costume. Both put on dress suits made some name tags and wore bicycle helmets. You could do Micheal Jackson with a young boy prop. Could put on a suit and make a microphone that says Fox on it and just run around saying the most ridiculous shit. Ted Kennedy soaking wet with a bottle in one hand. ---
**Author:** ![Pulp\_Friction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@Pulp\_Friction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pulp_Friction)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/12 "2009-10-24T01:49:59Z")
I simply tie a potato to my belt buckle. I’m a dictator. ---
**Author:** ![yams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/848f3c/32.png) [@yams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yams)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/13 "2009-10-24T04:16:48Z")
Death panelist. love yams!! ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/14 "2009-10-24T04:53:23Z")
When I was maybe 9 (first gulf war) my parents thought it would be hilarious to dress me up as an “AY-RAB” for Halloween. I was only 9, I didn’t get the “joke”. I did have fun running around wearing a shumagg and ogal (no idea if these are the correct terms; apologies to all more wordly dopers, just getting these from a basic image search of [arab men’s dress](http://www.traderscity.com/abcg/pic1.htm) It was only maybe ten years ago that I reflected and thought, WTF?! That was highly inappropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Yarster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7c8e57/32.png) [@Yarster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yarster)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/15 "2009-10-24T06:19:13Z")
Don’t forget David Carradine - extra long phone cord wrapped around your neck and the other end around a dildo sticking out of your pants. Perhaps tie it in with Billy Mays as the “David Carradine Home Autoerotic Asphyxiation Kit” I’m a guy, and a few years ago, I went as “Playboy’s Sexiest Women of the Taliban” - I made a very short burqa out of a cheap set of black bedding I found at a Big Lots and used some fish-net stockings that let my matted down leg hair show quite nicely. I then had a friend take some pictures of me, and photoshopped myself on to a fake Playboy cover which advertised articles such as “Girls Gone Wild - Kabul” and “Wet Burqa Contests”. I won the costume contest I went to with that outfit. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/16 "2009-10-24T16:58:15Z")
I was thinking of dressing up as a Death Panelist 😛 Basically dress up as an accountant with an executioner’s mask and carry around a stack of Actuary Tables 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/17 "2009-10-24T17:30:41Z")
Blackface minstrel. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/18 "2009-10-24T20:58:58Z")
For my office halloween party, I’m going as R2D2. ('Cuz I’m kind of short and run around the place fixing things when people are panicking.) The pushing-the-envelope part? My costume isn’t modelled on the “Kenny Baker” Artoo. (ie; the third leg is there, just sorta dangling. I rule.) My wife will be C-3P0. She doesn’t know _Star Wars_ at all, and has strict instructions to explain that she is “The gay robot from _Star Wars._” So far, she’s stuck to that, without a trace of irony. I love her. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/19 "2009-10-24T22:07:02Z")
Scary costume idea: The head of Bill O’Reilly, a giant TV body, and many-tentacled feet. Run for your lives! It’s…it’s… FOX NEWS!!! Or you could go as the Grapist. Bring bail money. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865/20 "2009-10-25T20:45:12Z")
One of my coworkers went as Sarah Palin. She had a cute business suit with a Giant Neiman Marcus tag hanging from it. A pageant banner with something across it (Governer or Prom Queen I don’t remember, I think she may have been Homecoming Queen at Wasilla High), a large toy assault rifle, a great wig and glasses. It was hilarious, even we Sarah supporters loved it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-and-relevant-halloween-costume-ideas/514865.md?page=2)