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Best Halloween Costumes!!!

Ooooooooo I like this one!
Can I go dressed as a schoolmarm this year?

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I always remember a Saturday Night Live skit in which Dan Ackroid portraid a sleazy merchant selling a black plastic bag as an "invisable pedestrian" costume. Great humor on SNL, back then.
 
Alonzo Tubbs said:
I always remember a Saturday Night Live skit in which Dan Ackroid portraid a sleazy merchant selling a black plastic bag as an "invisable pedestrian" costume. Great humor on SNL, back then.
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Another one of Aykroyd's great characters, E. Buzz Miller, came out of the same trip to the South Seas with Tom Davis. E. Buzz Miller was the real name of an expatriate American they met on an island one hundred miles or so from Tahiti, a man who made his living distributing free magazines for tourists at Polynesian hotels. His publications generally had pictures of topless native women on their covers, disregarding the fact that Catholic missionaries had long since persuaded the women of the islands to wear shirts. Danny turned E. Buzz into a late-night cable TV personality who managed to find prurient interest in anything, from anthropology (like the real E. Buzz, he showed pictures of bare-breasted native women) to biology (he showed films of insects mating) to art (he chortled that the Venus de Milo was so spectacularly built nobody cared if her arms were missing. Laraine Newman soon started appearing with him as his bimbo girlfriend, Christy, the possessor of the most vacuous giggle and the tightest leotards on television. It was a testament to E. Buzz Miller's taste that, when gazing upon a print of the Impressionist classic Le dejeuner sur l'herbe, he noted, leering as always, "This broad hasn't got a stitch on!...Bon appetit, boys!"

Later Danny would introduce Irwin Mainway, who he said was E. Buzz Miller's cousin. Mainway was the penultimate small-time businessman with absolutely no scruples. He always appeared with Jane Curtin, who again played the appalled reporter, to respond to her criticisms that his products were hazardous, reprehensible rip-offs of The Public. Mainway invariable took the offensive, seeing nothing whatsoever to apologize about. He was quite proud, for example, of the Mainway line of Halloween products for kids, which included the Johnny Space Commader mask (a plastic bag and a rubber band), an Invisible Pedestrian costume (a set of black clothes), the Johnny Combat Action costume (complete with a real M-1 rifle, very popular in Texas and Detroit) and Johnny Human Torch (a bag of oily rags and a lighter).
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Danny happened to be a major character in sketches that represented something of a triumph for the softer, more cerebral comedy of Tom Schiller and Marilyn Miller. One of the things Schiller had always found funniest was serious art poorly done, so he decided to create his own bad productions, among them "Bad Opera," "Bad Ballet," and "Bad Conceptual Art." Danny introduced them as Leonard Pinth-Garnell, a tuxedoed master of ceremonies who made Alistair Cooke seem positively plebeian. Schiller's "Bad" series included an opera based on the life an Aton van Leewenhoek, the Dutch scientist who refined the earliest microscopes, and a piece of conceptual art consisting mainly of a woman standing on a revolving disk, scratching her feet as if she were a chicken. Though never one of Saturday Night's most popular recurring bits, the Bad series was certainly unusual and always grandly produced.

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