Rascals' Halloween Costumes?

[myhomeo]

Fine, I'll recycle an old idea I posted some time ago.

Since Halloween's coming up and the American custom of 'Trick or Treat' wasn't really formalized until after most of the Gang had grown up --If I understand correctly, back then they celebrated by pulling pranks and/or having house parties, costumes optional-- the kids never got a chance to celebrate. So let's give them one.

If the kids from the Gang went out Trick or Treating, what costumes would they wear?

[mtw12055]

The old thread, for those curious.
littlerascals.proboards.com/thread/916/rascals-halloween

Anyhow, some newer ones that spring to mind (yeah, I know, some of these are post-Our Gang ideas, but so is Trick or Treating).

Spanky - Either a used car salesman or a Broadway producer.

Alfalfa - Tarzan

Darla - A queen expecting to be treated like royalty by the boys. Unfortunately, Alfalfa is too busy playing Tarzan to notice her.

Buckwheat & Porky - Thing #1 and Thing #2 (yeah, I know, this is pre-Dr. Seuss, but...)

Jackie Cooper - Perry White

Scotty Beckett - Al Jolson

Farina - A bowl of cereal

Mary Ann Jackson - Peppermint Patty

Wheezer and Petey - Little Timmy and Lassie

Stymie - A barber (He can make your hair look just like his)

Jackie Condon - An elf (He just seems to have that quality)

Dorothy DeBorba - A parrot

Henry "Spike" Lee - Shelton "Spike" Lee (okay, maybe that's a bad idea)

Waldo - A college professor

"Breezy" Brisbane - A streetcar conductor, of course. He doesn't mind getting candy instead of nickels, though.

Butch and Woim - Probably a couple of monsters so that they can scare the other kids into giving up candy to them.

Kennedy the Cop - Wants to go Trick or Treating with the kids but is forced to keep an eye out for Halloween burglars.

Mr. Hood - One of those people who keeps their house lights off on Halloween to make the kids think that no one is home.

Being the goody goods that they were raised to be, Mickey Gubitosi and Janet Burston would probably stay at home and give out nutritious snacks to their not so thrilled friends. Though Joe Cobb's love for bananas makes this an especially good night.

I still say Froggy should be Popeye.

[Buppster]

Trick or Treating has been around since medieval times. The gang wore Halloween costumes at least once...



That was the studios choice. I think that if Harry had the opportunity he might have wanted to return as Michael Myers.

Tommy Bupp = an imp and no need for a costume.

[rascalflats]

Darla apparently wore a royal monarch costume with tiara in one of the segments from the 1980s animated spinoff, if I recall. I remember seeing it on the Internet recently.

I remember reading somewhere that the Halloween episode from said series featured Darla dressed as Alfalfa, whom Darla had a crush on (even though in real life she was actually terrified of him). Buckwheat also dressed as George Washington Carver, implying that Carver inspired Buckwheat's interest in science in the series.

As for my costume picks for the characters, I choose characters based on the characters from "The New Archies" for my picks, even though the comics barely existed when Our Gang was still in production:

Alfalfa: Reggie Mantle, due to his off-camera antics.

Butch: Archie, even though Butch was a bully and Archie was a very kind person.

Darla: Veronica Lodge. She's cute, and has dark hair, though I did learn from movie posters and the 1980s cartoon that Darla was actually a brunette.

Spanky: Moose, since he makes commands, although Spanky is not a bully.

Buckwheat: Eugene, since he was interested in science, and African American. Incidentally, Eugene was "The New Archies" equivalent of Dilton Doiley.

Porky: Jughead, since both he and Porky were obsessed with food.

Trying to determine who would make a perfect Betty is a challenge, though.