‘Bun in the oven’ & other appliance-themed Halloween costumes

October 9th, 2012

Appliance Talk

Although Australia doesn’t really celebrate Halloween, the average Aussie is always looking for an excuse to drink alcohol – so why not throw a Halloween party? Not only will you get to drink large amounts of your favourite beverage in a socially-sanctioned environment, but you’ll get to obscure your identity with a zany costume.

But what to wear? If you find yourself on the verge of cutting two holes in a sheet, throwing it over your head and calling it ‘done’, here are some appliance-themed costumes that offer the dual advantage of impressing your guests while looking hilarious in a mug shot:

Want to be an Iron Man  but don’t have the motivation to run laps of Bondi Beach while bench-pressing an anvil? Simply procure an iron costume instead. Instant chick magnet!

Here Iron Man is in action, demonstrating his chick-attracting properties. Guaranteed to im-PRESS!

Perfect for the recently impregnated, this costume is not only in poor taste, its sack-like properties will hide the shape of your body so you can chow down on as many party pies as you want without feeling judged.

Also available in the ‘his and hers’ two-piece edition.

Of course, if you’re short of the twenty-or-so bucks it would cost to buy a pre-made Bun-in-Oven costume, you can always make your own out of a cardboard box. The price is right!

For a stylish stainless steel ‘oven‘, cover box in foil. (Don’t ask me what kind of horrible intestine-like thing she’s got ‘baking’ in there! Although perhaps it explains her pained grimace…)

If you’ve recently bought a new microwave from Australia’s most awesome appliance company, and are not sure what to do with your old one, constructing a microwave helmet is the obvious solution.

A microwave on your head at a party won’t so much break the ice as it will defrost the ice, leaving you boiling hot on the outside yet frozen to the core. Help!

Alternatively, you could position your microwave costume around the groin region of your body and wear it to your next truck rally.

Moving right along, here is a fridge transformer costume. Watch with amazement as this ‘fridge’ transforms into a person with polystyrene rectangles strapped to their limbs! Incredible.

Fridge costume: children’s edition.

Or perhaps a giant toaster is more to your child’s taste? They won’t be able to use any of their limbs, but hey, it’s good for a gag if anyone calls for a TOAST.

Ooh, is he single? Looks like he’d be the BREAD-winner!

…I got muffin.

Part Halloween costume, part feminist comment on the still-insidiously-pervasive patriarchal oppression that manifests in the form of all the unpaid and unacknowledged housework that women around the world continue to do while also being expected to simultaneously maintain successful careers, raise children and look desirable at all times, this outfit is perfect for anyone who doesn’t enjoy sitting down.

And here we have a washer/dryer combo! Really puts a new SPIN on your average Halloween costume, doesn’t it? In this photo, these people are rating the quality of my jokes.

Yet another example of cruelty to children an awesome kid’s costume.

“Where the hell are our Batman outfits?!”

“Hello, I’m a dryer!” If this is a sentence you enjoy saying, the ‘human clothes dryer‘ costume is for you.

And finally, here we have a kid’s Halloween costume in the shape of a Dyson vacuum cleaner. I wrote a bunch of puns for this one, but they all sucked.