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The 30 Most Unsettling German Halloween Costumes

By Robotman October 22, 2007 873,187 views
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At first glance this just looks like a fish on end, until you see the face hole in the middle, at which point you realize it’s probably the stupidest costume, ever.

Although, watching two of these guys get into a fight would make excellent television.

After misinterpreting several scenes in the Wizard of Oz (1939) Hitler ordered his scientists to begin designing flying monkeys of his own, to match up against what he perceived to be a new Allied super weapon. This costume celebrates that moment, the darkest chapter of the war.

Well, here’s a slap in the balls. Thanks, Germany. You really managed to capture the majesty and grandeur of the subject.

Another symbol of American greatness, reduced to rubble in the hands of German costumiers. This might actually be more insulting than the Statue of Liberty thing.

If this costume doesn’t have a concealed gap in the crotch so that it can be worn while having sex, we will eat our hats.

Judging by the lack of visible air holes, and the very visible erection, this poor guy might be making the embarrassingly public discovery that he’s into auto-erotic asphyxiation.

Costume designers face a choice when designing the head of an animal costume. They can design the entire face, and provide concealed holes for the wearer to see and breathe. Or, they can make no face at all, and just have the wearer’s face stick out, with antlers or bunny ears added to complete the disguise.

Or, they can try and do both and end up with a terrifying creation that depicts an enormous bunny trying to swallow a severed human head.

You’ll always remember where you were the day you saw the worst turkey costume ever made.

Yes, those are full-sized adult costumes, designed to look like small children. And no, we don’t have any idea why. Oh sure, we could probably come up with an explanation. But, we wouldn’t be happy writing it, and you wouldn’t be happy reading it. Let’s just leave it be.

In the "making fun of costumes" racket, picking on superhero costumes is considered dirty pool. We inevitably compare them to the real movie costume they’re based on, which are usually worth thousands of dollars and are supported by legions of makeup artists and CGI wizards.

That said, here stands the worst Batman costumes ever. Though, it was a nice, subtle touch that the adult wore a pair of smart, Bruce Wayne shoes with the costume, as if he had to get his gear on short notice and forgot to change them.

Wait, it gets worse!
Read the third and final page of Halloween costume atrocities!

Actually the guy in the red/blue costume with his face painted black is a dutch "Black Pete" from our national holiday, Sinterklaas (and yes it is the origin of Santa Clause). Only our elves are black and kidnap you.

11/6/2009 6:05:16 AM
Pandaman

This article is plain weird and a little bit biased.
Okay it is really biased.
American or Japanese costumes are thousand times worse.
And I really believe that "Robin Hood" is more than likely Little John.
And to all the people who scream racism, when they see those ethnic costume:
You know what? Germany is actually really casual about such things.
Because people know it is a freaking joke.

10/29/2009 6:25:40 AM
justarandomguy

germany is awesome. my favorite offensive american costume is definately the illegal alien costume they were selling at target. it was an alien mask with or without a cheech moustache in an orange jumpsuit holding a green card. its too bad were so loving to illegals that they pulled it from shelves.

10/27/2009 11:02:01 AM
StiffZombie

Germany's a cool place.

10/27/2009 12:38:21 AM
karkakeahi

Oh come on people, if you google even for a few minutes you can find much worse junk than this for every other country, including your beloved US. Change that to "especially your beloved US".

I'd say more than three quarters of these are completely ridiculous, not only is the text about Germany complete bullshit, but also does it go so far as to continually blame Germany for pretty much all racial and anti-semitic junk that pops up anywhere.

I've been reading Cracked for a long time now, there's some truly great stuff here. And nobody minds the occasional jokes about and against pretty much anybody, but an entire article dedicated to how stupid Germans must be? What's that all about?

10/26/2009 11:26:00 PM
Kiliankoe

Oh yeah only all British People call it the Union Jack, so let's make a big deal about it.

10/26/2009 10:39:50 AM
davemaster

That costume called "America Boy" isn't of the Union Jack, it's the Union Flag. It's only called the Union Jack when it's flown from a ship, a fact that very few realise. My year 9 history teacher soon learned to call it the Union Flag after a year of my correcting him ^_^

Nice article - the latter few costumes were... disturbing...

10/25/2009 5:15:06 PM
Azrael_Alaric

The racial costumes made me laugh so f*****g hard. I think the "holy f**k" in the middle is when I lost it

10/8/2009 3:19:21 PM
wickedmonkey

How do you walk through doors, when wearing that fish costume?

9/16/2009 2:37:48 PM
strangedaze

I wonder if those are costumes for Halloween or for german Karneval, because for Karneval they should be just ridiculous (which would match all those furry-suits) and for Halloween the costumes usually try to be more scary.
Some of them wouldn´t fit either way, cause there is no excuse for bad taste like that...

8/19/2009 4:18:21 AM
notMe

I just want a picture of the dreidle saying something like "I represent the cruel deaths of millions!"

8/6/2009 9:14:42 AM
Pynchon

Dreidel.

8/5/2009 6:20:59 PM
Luigifan

The black guy was face-palm inducing. And the Jewish Top (how are they called in English?) features the wrong letters.

7/22/2009 5:03:55 AM
jimmyled

that guy with the curly hair and glasses isn't supposed to be Davin Hasselhoff, that's a German "comedian" named Atze Schröder.

5/9/2009 11:15:23 AM
coreysMonster

concerning all the dudes in blackface - Americans find this offensive, but should note that no one over there minds, not even black people, because they know it's all in good fun.

like the things posted below about Sinterklaas - no one takes offense, because it's a tradition that was never meant in a racist way.

but of course, for Americans, it probably brings back memories of a time when black people where forced to sit on the back of the bus and entertainers played black people with brown paint on their face.

anyway, a little understanding please...

4/14/2009 12:18:06 PM
Johnny_Caspar

Dude, I would actually wear the dreidel costume, it's cute.
Ah Germany, how I wish to move there.

3/31/2009 5:53:24 PM
RammsteinFoSho

Dreidl costume in Germany? You would think that would be outlawed by now. They've outlawed everything else Nazi-esqe. Rightfully so.

3/5/2009 1:27:24 PM
dizzypdx

i like the last one

2/19/2009 8:38:35 PM
katie6661

oh wow, I've just been censored myself. I guess it then must make sense... the word was n e g r o. or egronay, anayway, I'm just trying to get a point across. Or is someone getting paid for recognizing all 'profanity' and spending the day changing letters to a*******s?

1/18/2009 1:59:33 PM
lizzelotje

... the utterly insulting black dude (yes the one that deserved the comment 'holy f**k' is a Dutch invention. If you are willing to be shocked right after thanksgiving, there's loads of these buggers on the streets for Sinterklaas. They are called Zwarte Piet, which could translate to "Black Pete". The dutch also used to have a kind of candy that was named negerzoen, which translates into 'n***o kiss'. Though being a rather unoffensive creamfilled chocolate on a wafer, the term negerzoen was banned from the dutch vocabulary recently. The name of the chocolate is censored to just 'kiss'. Zwarte Piet is, however, still going strong every frigging year. And yes, he is the servant of a very white man. If you feel like it, look up sinterklaas any time

1/18/2009 1:41:34 PM
lizzelotje
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