- Happy Halloween!
(Upbeat banjo music)
- Halloween's been one of my favorite holidays
for a really long time.
- My grandmother made this dalmatian costume for me.
- I remember being crazy into the Ninja Turtles.
- I was a nerd.
- I'm a headless dude holding his head.
- When I was about four or five,
I was really obsessed with dogs.
I would call my dog my brother sometimes.
- When you're in high school you kinda get pressured
to dress a little bit more provocative.
Halloween is a time to like, have fun.
- My sister has a bone disease, and this was the last
Halloween for a couple years because she was in a body cast.
- Sort of bittersweet to look back at this picture,
and see this fragment of my past.
- I'm not what you would call a crafty gay.
- All right, there's one.
- The crutch-clothes hanger combo.
- I have to compress my afro.
- I wouldn't be surprised if my mom had never seen
the Ninja Turtles, and just like looked it up on ...
I don't even know what you'd look things up on back then.
- I'm just now imagining what it was like for my grandma
to sit here and cut out all of these.
- The costume all comes down to the quality
of the trenchcoat.
- The hat's looking okay.
- Proper floppiness.
- This is like a dad sweater, for sure.
- Oh, okay, so the lenses came out with it.
- This is really tricky. Oh it's in!
- Does it look like a shell?
- Oh there's still so much space to cover!
- That feels right.
- Okay, these are like, indestructible.
- The next Halloween they just took this outfit
and turned it into a cow outfit.
- Is that even remotely in the right place?
(Bleep)
- I think that's right?
- Can you facepaint a beard?
- This does not look like a nose.
- I don't know why I have a dot on my nose.
- (Laughs)
- (Laughs) I look like a mouse.
- (Laughs) My blonde is just oozing out of this wig.
- (Laughs)
- Papapaws.
- I feel like I'm in my mom's dress pants,
and my dad's work shirt.
- I'm even wearing white shoes like I was then.
- My hands hanging down here kinda screw up
the whole effect.
- I would rock this again.
- It's cool 'cause it just makes me wanna call up my friend.
- I'm remembering like, living in that house
and going trick or treating with my cousin.
But they all have their own kids now.
- I'm super thankful for all of the little things
that my grandma did for me.
- Halloween is a fun time to remember your childhood.
- It's just so sad what's happening over there.
- Oh yeah. Mm hmm.
You don't know the half of it.