So you've gotten the Facebook invitation. Your friends are graciously opening their apartment for a Halloween party. Let's hear a collective yes.
Thankfully, you won't have to scavenge for a party on the 31st, nor will you have to shove yourself into a crowded bar and wait forty-five minutes for a damn drink.
You'll get to go to a very pleasant Halloween party in your friend's apartment, all you'll have to do to get a drink is open the refrigerator. Also, you'll actually be able to hear your friends talk. Hallelujah.
Now, the big question looms overhead. What will you dress up as? This is a tricky decision, because you're only going to wear this costume for one night. Therefore, spending more than $50 is a no-go (unless Halloween is huge to you... then you might spend more than $50).
Read on for 9 ideas about what you should dress up as this Halloween.
1. The Pope
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Repeat after us. The Pope is dope!
Everyone knows the Pope stormed through America and swirled up a frenzy. He's the man. He said Catholicism's in line with the Big Bang Theory, he cares about women's rights, and he owned a Harley Davison for God's, or we mean Pope's ... sake.
He also referred to the internet as "a gift from God," a statement with which we totally agree.
If you dress as the Pope, you'll spend your Halloween passing down the gift of prayer, blessing people, and being the star of the party. Someone might even make a pizza with your face on it, which would be truly amazing.
2. A Character from Harry Potter
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Representatives from tried and true classic costume are sure to have numbers at every Halloween party.
You really can't go wrong with a character from a book with which so many millennials feel such an intense connection.
The question, though, is which character should you be? Dressing as Harry might be the move, though it might be cliché or played out. Dressing like a more obscure character, like Cho Chang, Luna Lovegood or Tonks might confuse all your muggle friends.
If your goal is to get recognized, the move is probably to dress like Ron or Hermione. If you don't care what anyone thinks, then dress like Sirius, dress like McGonagall, dress like whoever's your favorite character.
3. Sexy Pizza Rat
We are in NYC after all, the place where the luckiest, most famous rat in the world found that slice of pizza three times its size and dragged it down the subway steps.
We're aware that "sexy pizza rat" is sort of an oxymoron, but let us tell you. The costume does exist, and in fact it's in mass production.
We can hardly even talk about this without breaking into a grin, but some people are taking this costume very seriously. We're not really sure how you'll be received at your Halloween party if you wear this costume. We think it depends on your personality.
4. Hurricane Joaquin
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How does one dress like a hurricane?
We have some ideas. You could carry around a bucket and pour water on people's heads. You could carry a battery powered fan and blow wind in people's faces. You could make a lot of empty threats.
If you don't want to be the person at the party everyone hates, though, you could just carry around 40s (the malt liquor kind) and hand them out to your friends.
It'll probably be the first time anyone's ever been excited to see a hurricane, at least
5. Kim Davis
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Since Kim Davis has about one more month of fame left, you might as well milk this one for all it's worth.
How could you dress as Kim Davis? Her notorious half-ponytail is essential. Snag yourself some framed glasses and a cardigan. Maybe even bring around some cardboard bars and mime that you're locked in jail.
The best scenario would be if someone at your party is dressed as the Pope. Then the two of you can hole up in the corner while the dude in the Pope costume explains to you in your Kim Davis costume why restricting other people of rights is wrong.
Like that wasn't already the most obvious thing anyone could have thought of.
,6. A Character from Game of Thrones
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What other night of the year could you carry around a fake sword, a fake suit of armor made from valyrian steel, and protect the seven kingdoms from the winter that's surely coming.
If we had to make a recommendation about which character you should pick, we'd obviously choose John Snow. Is he dead? Is he alive?
Unfortunately, HBO is torturing us and making us wait to find out. Still, you will look very badass if this is the costume of your choice.
You'll definitely have a divide in the party between people who've read the books, those who just watch the show, and people who know nothing about Game of Thrones at all. If your goal is to instantly bond with other Game of Thrones aficionados, this costume is the move for sure.
7. Sexy animal
We would be remiss if we didn't shout out to all the girls who will take this opportunity to wear a leotard and a pair of animal ears.
You'll see them at every party: the girls without pants and some sort of headwear indication of what they're supposed to be. On one hand, it's a power move. It's like saying, "who needs pants? I certainly don't."
On the other hand, some might see it as a shoddy excuse to just not wear pants.
We're not shaming pleas for attention. Attention his the most human thing anyone could possibly want. Still, though, we do advocate for wearing pants.
8. Amy Schumer
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How does one dress like a queen? Would you carry Jake Gyllenhaal's ice cream cake, a Peabody Award, an Emmy, and a Critic's Choice Award?
Would you spend your whole night telling hilarious jokes, stingers, and not taking sh*t from anyone?What we're really saying is, how could you dress as the most perfect person who ever lived?
Our idea is basically to wear a pair of stiletto heels and a tight pencil skirt. Smear your eyeliner. Basically look exactly how Amy looked on the ferry ride back from Staten Island at the beginning of Trainwreck.
Or you could dress up like Abbie or Ilana from Broad City if your goal is perfection. Just saying.
9. Something scary
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Be a traditional Halloween enthusiast, go ahead. Dress as the grim reaper. Be a headless horsewoman. Or a headless football player. Or a headless anything.
If you show up to any Halloween party with costume dried blood on your face, even if you've just drawn the blood with lipstick, you get tons of points for being the person who remembered that the whole point of Halloween is fright.
Check out What to Do in NYC If You Absolutely Hate Halloween.