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Weekend Discussion Thread: Costumes!Well, Halloween is around the corner so let’s talk costumes! First, the experts:
So, are you wearing a MST3K-themed costume this year? (Somebody on Twitter noted today that if you dress in a Gizmonic jumpsuit, people think you’re a race car driver.) Have you ever created/worn one? What was the response? What character from an MST3K movie would you like to dress up as? Have at it, while I look around and see if I can’t find the picture of me in the awesome “not Sinbad” costume my wife made for me to wear at the 1994 convention (I’m pretty drunk in the picture, as I recall…). 44 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Costumes!”Commenting at Satellite News
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Here’s me and the missus at one of the Gateway conventions as Puma Man and the Pizza Dominatrix:
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii301/eegah/gateway.jpg
All I plan to do this year is wear my Puma Man t-shirt from Catch of the Day Tee. Lazy, I know.
Me and my friend Matt did The Master and Torgo one year-I really wish I still had the robe with the big red hands on it and all, but my other friend who sewed it for me wanted to keep it to finish the hemming work and, well, I guess she never finished it, as I never saw it again. Anyhoo, no one other than Matt, myself, and the seamstress knew who the hell we were suppposed to be. My dream MST costume is Sebastian Cabot floating. Extremely funny, but impossible…
If I did wear a MST-themed costume, I think it would be one of the wives from Manos, complete with clearly visible girdle or granny panties and old lady bra under the skimpy dress. I can’t think of anything more guaranteed to scare the neighborhood kids.
I have a Castleton t-shirt. No mullet, though.
I don’t know who the two young men were but about four or five years back I spotted two guys at the Wizard World Chicago comic book convention dressed as Dr. Clayton Forrester and TV’s Frank. Their costumes were PERFECT! I do have a picture of them but since I don’t know who they are I’m kind of reluctant to publish it. Privacy and all.
But the guy in the Forrester costume even did an impersonation of Trace’s ‘grumpy’ expression when dealing with Frank. They were great.
The correct spelling is “custumes”
Isn’t it ovious…Torgo, of course.
While I personally have never done an MST3K-themed costume (or custume as the case may be), my dad once dressed up as Brain Guy. Not having access to clown make-up, he used shaving cream instead (which had the advantage of being far easier to remove).
In college, I dressed as Mike’s interpretation of Morrissey. I carried around a Tupperware container the whole night too.
My wife and I only did something like that twice, for both MST3K conventions put on by the cast and crew in Minnesota. At the first “Conventio-Con” I went as The Master (Manos) and she went as one of the alien women from a Gamera movie. At the second convention we had a team costume, I was Jack Palance’s character Xenos and she was Queen Lara from the movie “Outlaw (of Gor)”.
Dammit, Sampo…where is this drunken picture of you not being Sinbad?! You can’t just tease us like that!!!
During the heights of my teenage MST3k dementia my parents actually gave me a green jumpsuit for Christmas one year. ‘Mike Nelson’ has been a quick go-to outfit for many a last minute costume party.
I have always wanted to dress as Observer, with my wife as Pearl and our friend JD as Bobo (in their Castle Forrester uniforms). For a couples costume I would like to do Nuveena & her mate from Design for Dreaming, and for a solo costume- Puma Man. That last one would be pretty easy. MST movie characters are great for Goodwill/Salvation Army-sourced costumes since many of the original film-makers got the original costumes from the same places!
I found it!!
https://www.mst3kinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/notsinbad.jpg
You want to scare kids? Go to a Halloween party as
Biff Cheesesteak driving his golf cart down the
street. Oh, don’t forget to scream like a girl and
admonish all the children to “Move, move, move!”
out of your way.
@14
Noah Antweiler (A.K.A. The Spoony One) would take offense at your categorizing Reb Brown as “screaming like a girl”.
More to the point, how many have actually used a car air-filter to go as early Geordi LaForge from Star Trek:TNG?
(Y”know, kids, reading opens up a whole wide world of wonder and enchantment…)
YAY! Now I am fulfilled.
Me and my college roomies had a TV Show themed party and I went as Joel. Had a jumpsuit and got the printable iron on transfers for the Giz. Inc. logo. Was quite the hit I must say! :)
My senior year of high school I was Dr. Forrester. Even got a nice hair-chopping in order to spike my hair better. Put in a swab of white acrylic for the streak and bam. The problem is that when it’s 2008 and the people around you are between the ages of 14-19, very few know what you are…oh well.
With my physique, I’d have little choice but to go as The Beast of Yucca Flats…
In college I followed their recommendation for the “missing child” costume, making and enormous milk carton out of posterboard, with an ingredients list that included 100% of your daily recommended dose of Ben Murphy. Dressed all in black, I wore it everywhere I went all day.
Despite printing “HAVE YOU SEEN ME” quite legibly above my face, no seemed to get it. “So, like…you’re supposed to be milk?”. When I dusted it off and wore it to work 6 years later though, I found I didn’t need to explain it to anyone! Go fig.
Unfortunately no, I am going to be costumeless this year. IF I WAS going to go in a costume I’d love to be Dr. Clayton Forrester himself…except… Does anybody know where a guy can get a bright green labcoat?
Or does anyone know where to get a jumpsuit the correct color of red?
I would need a “custume designer”.
A friend of mine and I went as Forrester and Frank (I went as Forrester). It took forever to find a long, green jacket to double as a lab coat and finally found one at a thrift shop. My buddy wore a black Japanese coat to simulate Frank’s collarless jacket. We also brought my Crow and Servo puppets. We went to two parties and no one at either party knew who we were. The one party surprised me because there were around 100 people there and I thought for SURE someone would have to know who we were but nothing doing.
@20
With my physique, I’d have to go as Mitchell. Obviously, I’m staying home. You’re welcome.
My wife and I dressed as Dr. Forrester and Dr. Horrible two years ago, for our friend’s Halloween wedding.
It wasn’t the first time I’ve put on MST3K garb though. Several of my friends and I went in costume for the MST3K movie premiere in San Francisco, and the next Halloween, all five of us dressed up as Dr. Forrester, TV’s Frank, Mike, Joel, and a gender-swapped Torgo. (accompanied by my home-made Tom Servo prop, and a severed shop-mannequin head wrapped in ace bandages and hot-glued to a cookie sheet, which made a lovely “Jan in the Pan”)
Needless to say, practically nobody “got” us, and while most folks understood that I was dressed as a “mad scientist” the rest of my friends’ costumes were sadly misinterpreted as “old man,” “Michael Meyers/garage mechanic,” construction worker,” and “hobo.”
#22 Regarding the bright green lab coat… Forget it. Nobody makes lab coats that color, so you’ll either have to make one from scratch, or buy a white coat and dye it.
If you take the latter path, make sure you get a cotton one that *isn’t* chemical resistant. I can’t stress that enough. I had to hunt for ages to find one, and it still took three dye jobs to get something even vaguely close to Dr. Forrester’s vibrant green. (If you look at the photo above, it was supposed to be the same color as my glasses)
The Deep 13 patch was significantly easier. Just 20 minutes with some white ultrasuede and acrylic paint.
I immediately copied the Jiffy Pop costume back in the day…and several times since (I’m a cheap person).
When I was eight, I was Godzilla, which was an elaborate and creative process that ran around about four people:
My grandmother (who made the body of the costume, out of flannel material)
My sister (who applied the facepaint [which actually scared a five-year-old girl in my neighborhood])
My dad (who tried to find a [quote, unquote] official costume)
And my mom (who oversaw the whole project)
The following year, I was Joel. Once again, my grandmother made the whole costume. The jumpsuit was a bright red (read Seasons 1-2) color made of blanket-material. The Gizmonics badge was sewn-on and pretty close to the real thing (only thing different was different “Gizmonics” font), and the belt was a long strip of black fabric with Velcro. Nobody thought I was a racecar driver, though. (One hick family in my neighborhood actually thought I was the devil. We never spoke to them again.)
No MST3K characters this year. I went to my brother’s Halloween party dressed as Lon Chaney’s vampire from the lost silent film ‘London After Midnight’. Had to explain to a lot of people who I was. :vampire:
Why, none other than Tor Johnson himself as a costume. :P
TIME FOR GO TO BED.
@eegah I think I may have met you at that convention. I think we participated in this riffing project where three of us would sit in a dark room and attempt to quip off a clip of a movie nobody had seen before. I remember they made a big deal out of refusing to name the movie’s title.
I got to meat the cast and had my ACEG signed, I still have it somewhere. Great memories.
I went as bottom of movie floor one year. No one got in. I also did Mr B. Everyone thought I was peter pan.
In college I also did the missing child costume. I made it out of foam core board and it just went over my head. I wrote “missing” above the opening where my head was visible. On my shirt, in electric tape, I spelled out, “Have you seen this child?” It was a big hit. I got interviewed for the local paper so I got to help spread the word of MST3K. I reused it a few years later and it was a big hit again, and helped me score a girlfriend. I still have it down in the basement just in case.
Yes. I am going to dress up as…. a Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan!
@Joe Raygor – Hey! Yeah, that was fun. Too bad they had so many issues with the setup.
Doing Arthur Dent from Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy this year.
Although, I’ve been kicking around the idea of doing Zap Rowsdower or Phantom of Krankor at convention in the future.
I would love to dress up as Winky and check out the “gay nightlife” in my town.
I dressed in a Gizmonics jumpsuit in 1994. Nobody knew who I was unless I had my makeshift Tom Servo with me. Plus my jumpsuit was blue, so people thought I was Mike. But I was Joel dammit – Joel!!
I dressed up as Clayton Forrester once, but the coat ended up being a darker green than I wanted it. Maybe I’ll try it again next year.
I wore my “Watch out for Snakes shirt today”, not a costume, but whatever. Love all the vacant looks from folks when they read it.
But I also love the thumbs up and a few people have even stopped me to talk about the show.
Just goes to show…the right people will get it.
I was wearing my gorilla costume earlier (No, really!), and thinking I need to get off my butt and make the Ro-Man helmet I planned to when I first got the gorilla costume. Ah well, there’s always next year.
I’ve always wanted to do Dr. Forrester, ‘cept I can’t find a lab coat. This year, I’m Elvis Costello, which is equally confusing to middle schoolers. So far, I’ve gotten people guessing that I’m a Blues Brother, Bob Dylan, Hipster, Paul McCartney, a Hobo, and a Pedophile. Kids these days.
It wasn’t specifically for Halloween but the ROCKY HORROR cast that I am on did a special “Costume Party Show” where all of the performers got to choose a creative costume to wear instead of the normal one. I wound up playing The Criminologist as Dr. Forrester. I still have the lime green lab coat that I made for the night.