Couples Costume Idea Parodies
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About
Couples Costume Idea Parodies refers to jokes in which people post pictures of a humorous duo in sarcastic suggestion that two people in a romantic relationship could dress up as the pair for Halloween.
Origin
The tradition of a couple dressing up in matching costumes for Halloween has long been a staple of the holiday. Suggestions for couples' costumes have long appeared online; a page of couples' costumes merchandise appeared on Candy Apple Costumes[1] in 2006 (example shown below).
Parodies of the ideas began appearing with regularity on Twitter in the Halloween season of 2014. For example, on September 28th, 2014, Twitter user @BBW_BFF[2] posted a picture of a monster eating a person captioned "couples costume idea" (shown below).
Spread
Parodies began appearing regularly online each Halloween season over the course of the following two years. However, while jokes appeared during those years, in the 2017 Halloween season, the jokes spiked in popularity. A major trend during the season involved making "couples costume idea" jokes with stills from popular Vine videos. One of the most popular tweets, posted by @abbynotabigail_,[3] referenced a popular "So No Head" Vine[4] and gained over 25,000 retweets (shown below). Twitter Moments[5] and Daily Dot[6] covered the spread of Vine-related jokes.
Meanwhile, Twitter users used other humorous duos in the tweets, similar to the Name a More Iconic Duo tweet series (examples shown below).
Halloween 2018
The trend grew popular again the following year. Again, many of the most popular examples of the meme referenced popular memes from the previous year. For example, tweets by @grvmpybean and @thelittlegracs posted jokes about Moth Lamps, gaining over 23,000 and 18,000 retweets, respectively.
Other popular tweets include a tweet by @rickyftw that featured the costumes in Kanye West and Lil Pump's "I Love It" Video. User @AriWRees posted an Is This a Pigeon? parody (shown below, right). The 2018 wave of jokes was covered by Popbuzz.[7]
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Candy Apple Costumes – Couples Costumes
[3] Twitter – @abbynotabigail_
[4] YouTube – So No Head
[5] Twitter Moments – Halloween couple's costume ideas
[6] Daily Dot – This Halloween, try an obscure Vine couples costume
[7] Popbuzz – The ‘couples costume’ meme has taken over Twitter and it’s so savage
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