Comments on: Tommy Tater Adult Costume

Tommy Tater Adult Costume

The Whelk — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:23:13 -0800

FASHION SWAT 09! The Goons from Something Awful review and comment on this year's best costumes. (Halloween Fashion Swat '08, '06, '05) previousish Science Fair SWAT :

By: ErikaB

ErikaB — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:34:34 -0800

Clearly you were putting together a post on this, while I was busy weeping with laughter at bits like,

The only people who would wear a costume like this are the sort of cocky assholes who should have died in a drunk driving accident in the 11th grade, but somehow survived when they flipped their parents' Lexus. They killed a family of four, and it should have driven them to suicide, but they are untouchable. It's not that they're evil, it's that they don't actually ever reflect on anything.

By: ErikaB

ErikaB — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:36:45 -0800

DAMN YOU by the way. I didn't realize there were more of these. I'm supposed to be working but,

Just a big foam cushion for you when you fall down like a fat little chug pig. Go on chug pig, roll around next to the keg, groaning from the liquor sicks and slowly filling your top hat compartment with vomit.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:05:07 -0800

These guys are actually funny. For the first time in my life I find myself wishing for a podcast.

By: fuq

fuq — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:54:07 -0800

It's like they dressed up as funny for halloween - and then forgot to take their costume off and they've now been wearing it for five years.

By: Flashman

Flashman — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:59:03 -0800

Fantastic. The funniest thing I've read in ages. This isn't even a funny bit, but I still love it: "When you kill a guy like this, you don't even get the whole "oh God, I've killed a man" thing, you just sit down, light up a cigarette and wait for the cops."

By: autoclavicle

autoclavicle — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:26:50 -0800

Holy crap. And to think that I saw a Burger King costume at Target and thought that was the worst of bad Halloween costumes.

By: FatherDagon

FatherDagon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:43:18 -0800

I like how this one from '06 starts off as a sassy berating of a terrible pizza costume, and ends up as a fairly accurate look into the mind of self-made businessmen who were looking to exploit an exploding housing market. And then sassily berating those businessmen.

By: mccarty.tim

mccarty.tim — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:07:53 -0800

Normally, I think SA is a bit immature, and the kind of thing I would have giggled at in late middle school. However, something about Halloween, the most regression-friendly holiday on Earth, makes them perfect for this subject. Great post!

By: everichon

everichon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:11:01 -0800

That was much funnier than I thought it would be, and also made me less crabby. God damn you.

By: ErikaB

ErikaB — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:18:56 -0800

Still not working - still reading the SWAT articles - starting to feel a bit light-headed from the hilarity.

Zack: I don't know what sort of grandma you have, but every grandma I have met has to fight against cosmic forces not to be racist, and usually fails anyway. Not mean racist, just like, "Oh those colored boys on TV are so funny." Dr. Thorpe: Yeah, and they're also baffled by the syntax surrounding the word "gay." As in, "I think the new housekeeper is a gay," or "I think the new neighbors are gays." They just have no control over that word. Zack: It's slippery in their hands. They have trouble gripping it. That and jar lids. They need to have one of those magnetic jar openers except it helps them understand how to use the word gay.

By: Evilspork

Evilspork — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:31:18 -0800

Metafilter: Normally, I think they're a bit immature, and the kind of thing I would have giggled at in late middle school.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:33:41 -0800

Halloween, the most regression-friendly holiday on Earth But Mom! All my friends are going as other Gauss-Markov assumptions! Why why WHY can't I go as homoskedasticity?

By: Sticherbeast

Sticherbeast — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:36:55 -0800

It's so horrible it makes me want to buy fifty of them and then get groups of people to stand in darkened alleyways downtown. Like you walk past the alley and you see five of these guys standing around a burning oil drum. You'll keep walking, but you'll never forget what you saw.

By: FatherDagon

FatherDagon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:56:30 -0800

There's all sorts of SWAT articles over on the right, on the 'More from this section' link. From the Ganguro Madness SWAT: Dr. Thorpe: Wow, divorced of its disturbing racial implications, blackface is really quite a compelling fashion idea. They look like glazed hams dipped in big buckets of trinkets. ... Zack: I bet when these girls wake up in the morning their sheets look like a colorized version of the Shroud of Turin.

By: secondhand

secondhand — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:33:01 -0800

That was fuh-hunnnn-eyyy!!! Thank-you. From one of the reviews of the linked to tina tater costume: "Let me start of by saying this was bought as a couple costume with my husband being Tommy Tater. At the begining I was worried due to us reading a review stating it was a costume that was very hot and stuffy. Honestly we wore it was great we loved it and so did everyone else. We won the most original costumes award. This is a great costume to have. The best part being we looked great !!!!!!!!!" Why did I have to read that, now all my prayers MUST be focused on NEVER winding up at a party where "most original" = mass-produced nut sacks. Unless.... the judges were being ironic, and everyone was in on it except the nut sacks. I would like that party.

By: Morrigan

Morrigan — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:19:44 -0800

*Finally,* the solution to that puzzling AskMeFi "taters" reference.

By: RakDaddy

RakDaddy — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:35:28 -0800

For the Li'l Soldier Toddler (!) costume:

Zackula: Enjoy this costume while it lasts. Pretty soon they'll only be selling drone costumes for your kids.

Brilliant.

By: rifflesby

rifflesby — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:43:46 -0800

"Pig was lookin' at me funny so I jumped through its asshole."

By: davejay

davejay — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:25:43 -0800

I, um, wore this one for halloween once. turns away

By: Grimgrin

Grimgrin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:24:33 -0800

Fashion Swat has never, will never and can never top Yellowjacket Greenapple PI. That is all.

By: rifflesby

rifflesby — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:41:14 -0800

Oh, now, you can't link Yellowjacket Greenapple, PI without including the followup links.

By: scalefree

scalefree — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:57:47 -0800

One of the other "costume don't" lists I saw in the past few days had an aging Hooters waitress costume with fake boobs that dangled down. At the party I was at, somebody actually showed up as this & spent much of the night wandering around fondling himself. Very disturbing.

By: wires

wires — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:19:11 -0800

If you really want to waste time at work, check out Thorpe's "Perhaps some Animes are in order," wherein he treks to an anime convention and looks uncomfortable the whole time. Same exact sense of humor with a smidge more compassion. Perhaps Some Animes Are in Order?