Happy Halloween 2024!

 Happy Halloween! Go out and get some candy! If you can't trick-or-treat for it, maybe it's on clearance in a store?

I don't remember if they did a Pokémon episode where they trick-or-treated. But they have Ghost types, and a lot of those have truly horrible stories involving them. For example, that one in the front is called a Phantump, and according to old tales, Phantumps are stumps possessed by the spirits of children who died while lost in the forest. Yeah. I copied that word-for-word from the game's pokedex. Yikes.

Forget Halloween, I want this super cool wolf knocker on my door all year 'round. It looks so awesome!

Alien skeletons. Did they fail at their mission? Ancient Alien Theorists say.... yes!

Another art thing that's supposed to be for Halloween but looks cool anyway. It might look odd if you own different types of cats. Everybody would always ask where this one was, why do you have a picture of a random cat on your wall?

Hilarious "display" at the Kohl's checkout. Is that the new employee, or the "old" employee?

Adorable chibi Beetlejuice and Lydia Deetz pins, had to get a picture of those. 

Sorry that I post this picture ON Halloween, when clearly you need to see this well in advance. Spooky season is over after today.

Amazing merchandising. It's like one of those dancing plush things, but this one is Wednesday Addams and she does the dance from the episode as the music plays. The bit was that her character seems so anti-social, yet when it came time to dance, she crushed it. 

Sure, why not. Wednesday cereal, too. I thought it was unusual that the back of the box was printed sideways. Wouldn't you spill the cereal? I mean, if you forgot to close it properly.

For the record, I'm on team Yes Candy Corn. To be fair, you can over-do it. If you have too much, it's not as good. But those first few you eat are magical.

Hahahaha! This gives a whole new meaning to their catchphrase slogan "Gimme a break"! Bones, get it? Ouch!

It was not really a Halloween movie exactly, but I did go to the theatre and watch the new Bettlejuice Bettlejuice. It was pretty good, maybe a few too many characters added making it more complicated than it needed to be. But the worst part for me personally (and only me, probably) was that the "big music number" used a song that I recalled Weird Al spoofed. So the entire song, my brain was "playing" the Weird Al version. It was massively distracting. And that scene draaaaaaaagged out for a long time. Nobody else should have that problem, right?

Cute! Little Halloween "buddy" plushies! The vampire gets a blood bag and the zombie gets a brain to eat. It's easy to forget the more classic zombies eat brains, as most of the modern shows make the zombies not that picky about which parts of people they'd eat.

The funny part of this costume duo is the "one dollar" bid. Be prepared to be hated-on the whole night. It's a cheesy tactic on The Price is Right, I mean, it's a valid working strategy, but it always seems jerky when it's done. Note that this costume is technically not licensed from the show. 

A little Target shopping cart costume for your pet! Awww! It's always fun to watch the people walking around the pets in the store despite the signs against it. I don't know how common it is in your area, but around here, you can always catch somebody walking around a dog inside the Target.

Do you think if your kid wore this costume into the Target store, they would get hassled by other customers? Excuse me, what aisle is the dog food in?

These were a little small to be considered "real" eyeballs, but very convincing otherwise. Gross. But like, a fun gross.

The eyeball wreath was neat, but extra cool on the rack, as the stack of them made a sort of eyeball tunnel.

Why did I think this mushroom eye thing was extra cool? Because it looks like a hat on a cute big-eye creature? That's a unique character.

Montage of Halloween decorations. I'm looking at the "rabbit" skeleton over there, with the bone rabbit ears. Ha. I don't think skeletons work that way. But how else are you supposed to tell it's a rabbit? Wait... did dinosaurs have rabbit ears we don't know about?!

Technically not a Halloween picture, but it had snakes, so I thought I'd include it here. And it is candy, too. It's a silly ridiculous amount of gummy snake!

Do the anime fans know about this? Just kidding. It looks like this would be a big hassle to set up around your house. Do you even have eight windows?

A friend of mine sent me a video of this dinosaur guy driving a small boat. It was a funny little video and I laughed again when I saw the costume for it in the store.

Did they change the character design of the new character Carmella Creeper? Didn't I get the cereal last year and she was some kind of DJ? Looks like they all got matching pets, I guess? I feel silly paying this much attention to it.

Awwwww snap. Be the house that gives away full-sized candy bars. You know that's some level of epic recognition that kids will remember for a lifetime. How much is that kind of fame worth? Every time for the rest of their lives when they pass your house they will excitedly say "That's the house that gave away full-sized candy bars on Halloween!"

Uncle Owen! Aunt Beru! Oh no! Yeah I cringed at the burnt blackened skeletons. Yikes that might be a bit too much, you think?

The 2nd-hand Lego store Andy's Brick Shop with a custom Halloween decoration. That's a nun, I think. I haven't seen the movie though. 

There's the guy! Art the Clown from the movie series Terrifier. I have a friend who is a huge fan, but I have not yet seen any of those movies. From what I've heard, they might be a little "too much" for me, but I might risk it...

I made the mistake of spinning this giant wheel in the front of the Spirit Halloween Store. It was super "spin-y" and took like, a solid six minutes to stop. Did you ever stare at something for six minutes? It feels like three hours. But in a test of wills, I had to see where it stopped. How prophetic that it landed on "loose a turn" which was exactly like I felt what happened!

Sorry I don't have a funny caption for this, since I haven't seen the movies. This is probably a girl-version of the main clown, and not a different character, right?

I almost didn't post this picture since it's outrageously inappropriate, if you know what the deal is. But it's all in good fun, sometimes I think I should lighten up a bit. So... Good luck actually "fitting" into this costume. I have a feeling you might be disappointing someone. Or... not? If this costume fits you.

Not quite sure which specific "costume" this roses-horns headband would go on, but it looked cool.

I laughed when I saw the cat head. There was a video I saw where a guy wearing this exact head entered a room full of real cats, and the cats FREAKED OUT when they saw it! They jumped up the walls, and frantically scrambled away. I feel bad that I laughed at the video, those poor cats, but it was funny.

Is it so strange that this type of merchandise exists now? Back when the movie came out, you would have never seen the actual Beetlejuice sign for sale. It's got blinking lights and everything!

Monsters, Inc. is a favorite movie of mine. Seeing this costume for Boo was cool. Normally the merchandise is the monsters, but this is a much easier costume, for a real person to wear.

Amazing costumes from the Inside Out movies. It would also be super fun to act overly disgusted or overly joyful the entire night, too. Perfect.

This movie Killer Clowns from Outer Space is a great example of the "art" of movies. It's both incredibly awful and incredibly awesome at the same time. The plot makes no sense, yet is pretty tight. Since the clowns "look cool" they've slowly creeped their way into the holiday merchandising blitz, and seem to be all over the place now.

Your next challenge: to collect candy down the street. The bags will be weighed at the end. The players with the most candy will move on, the rest will be eliminated.

It's a costume of a Squishmallow, in a costume. That's what they call "hat-on-a-hat!" Haha. Nah, this is cute.

Is that supposed to be a Broccoli Frankenstein? Scary! Just kidding, I don't have any problem with broccoli. But some kids do. Remember when President Bush said something like "I'm the President now, if I don't want to eat broccoli, I'm not going to!"

This might win: Most gross thing I've seen this year. Yikes.

They Monster Mashed the boxes! Literally!

I feel really uncomfortable with them using the term "colored" on the Wicked Witch's box. "Colored Sprinkles"? Does that seem wrong somehow? Am I being too sensitive again? I'm not even going to talk about Wednesday Gushers. That also sounds so wrong. Happy Halloween everybody!