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You can usually predict what’s going to be the season’s most popular pop culture inspired costume each year at Halloween. Whether it’s Borat or Steve Zisou or those twins from The Royal Tannenbaums. Actually, it’s REALLY easy to predict what’s going to be the season’s most popular pop culture inspired costume each year at Halloween when Wes Anderson has a new movie out. Well, historically. Something tells me there aren’t going to be a ton of Darjeeling costumes this year. Too sad and exotic! No, this year, as we’ve already discussed, we’ll be seeing a lot of Junos (w/ prop belly) and Daniel Plainviews (w/ prop milkshake), and we will be seeing one lady dressed as Kathy Geiss.
But what’s equally easy to predict are which costumes will not be big hits on the Pabst Blue Ribbon Party Circuit. The top 5 characters from the past year that will NOT inspire this year’s Borat costume after the jump.
Speed Racer in IMAX
One imagines that Speed Racer is a perennial favorite. Besides, it’s nice for furries to dress up as humans once a year. But this is going to be a tough holiday for Speed. I predict there will be more people dressed up as Larry Wachoski post-op than as this sad disaster of an adaptation.
Lucy Liu in Cashmere Mafia
On the one hand, this would be a very wearable costume, and when you’re in your 20s living off of a diet of yogurt and ambition it might be fun to pretend that you’re a well-dressed powerful businesswoman trying to juggle the pressures of romance and the big city. On the other hand, how many times do you want to answer “What’s Cashmere Mafia?” in one night?
Anyone from An American Carol
Hipsters, as a group, tend to be a liberal group. But politics aside, if you’re old enough to pull off a Kelsey Grammar as General Patton, then you’re too old to be at the parties we’re talking about.
Meet Dave
Again, an easy, wearable costume, and one that comes with the built in theatrics that hipsters love. Pretending to be a humanoid robot from outerspace could easily fill the “Very niiiiice,” and “wah-wah-wee-wah” performative gaps of Halloween 2008. But let’s face it, a) you’re probably white, and b) Meet Dave sucks.
The Love Guru
OK, this is an actual costume. That you can buy. So the hipsters probably WILL be this for Halloween. Those hipsters, always zigging when you think they’re going to zag.
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I’m going as a blogger.
This reminds me of that Twix commercial, where the dude all “Needs a moment?” after axing that girl to his place, and then he’s all, “I thought we could blog about our ideals”. If you lived here we could go as these two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjMuPukUwTI
Yeah, except my blogging apparel consists of boxers, headphones, and a bleached stained t shirt.
O yah well my Female Blogging Apparel of Champions includes a pair of inside-out panties(so you can wear them 2x!), the Most Clean t-shirt I can find, and headphones with only one functional earbud.
And my sniff test is tiered with 5 different Threat Levels. I win! (I lose)
So, in other words you beat everybody at life?
Yeah and twice on Sunday
What’s the Tannenbaums? Isn’t it, The Royal Tenenbaums?
hey gabe, i’m going to be you for halloween. is that okay?
I’m thinking about just having a weiner glued to my lips.
Your weiner, or a hot dog weiner? I sure hope it’s your weiner because that would probably be the most hilarious costume OF THE CENTURY!
P.S. ZING!
not my weiner, but also not a hot dog weiner. probably aaron’s weiner.
zing!
Let me get this STRAIGHT! You want to glue MY weiner to YOUR lips?!
That’s no zing, that’s just fellatio.
would it be a zing if your weiner isn’t attached to your body? it is halloween.
double zing! you’re gay and you don’t have a weiner.
i may be gay, too, but i have the best costume of the century, so that means i’m, like, kevin barnes gay – not lance bass gay.
Instead of a wiener how about a douche bag.
okay guys, i’m gabe’s biggest fan, but that was funny.
Ahh, i’m pretty sure there will be at least a quadrillion Heath Ledger Jokers swanning around this H-Ween.
Although Juno’s zombie baby would be alright.
I’m thinking about buying the Devendra starter costume at the bottom.
in thumbnail I thought it was devendra. Is there natalie portman starter costume I can buy, with a dog pee stain perhaps
If you had said that Love Guru costume was for dressing up as Devendra, I don’t think many people would have doubted.
Uhhh, Speed Racer was awesome.
I’m L8 on the devendra shit.