Halloween: Choose Your Own Adventure 

want to hear something spooky? my wife literally just told me "you're in charge of figuring out what the heck we're doing for Halloween" seconds before this video appeared in my subscription. we are both at a loss as to what adults are supposed to do.

This year my husband and I bought our first house (yay!) and it's in a cute suburban neighborhood with a lot of kids (double yay!), so we've opted to stay in for the first time this Halloween so we can enjoy all the trick-or-treaters coming to our house!! We're planning to dress up, watch The Nightmare Before Christmas, and play Clue, all with welcome interruptions from all our new little neighbors!! I'm so excited!!!

I am going to be the "a" in the bearenstain bear logo

You say I can't eat all the candy in the world. I say "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED"!!!

MAIA!!

Fantastic video!

i'm dressed as a dragon/dinosaur just for niece :3

IMO it's about actually borrowing from the culture and not the stereotypes. If I saw someone dressed up as a Catrina from the Día de los muertos that’d be awesome, but if they just run around with a thick moustache, poncho and hat it's a completely different story. Why are people even having a discussion about this? Why’d you rather dress up as a stereotype when literally most cultures have some sort of cool yet creepy myth/creature/costume? You want to dress up as a Geisha? Buy a white kimono instead and pair the white face-paint with blue lipstick, boom, you’re a yuki-onna, you went from entertainer/prostitute to cool snow spirit; or just skip the makeup and get a featureless mask, now you’re a noppera-bou, a face stealing demon. Both qualify as spooky + no kokoros got hurt in the process, you just changed “”culture appropriation” to “culture appreciation” with a bit of lipstick/mask. If you care enough about your costume to defend and argue about it, you should care enough to do your research to make it awesome, right?

That sexy frog is definitely one of the classic scary costumes! I can’t tell you how many times I see someone choose that as their halloween costume

Thank you for addressing the issue of hurtful costumes ❤

You can basically sum up the last category of adult costumes as "Don't be a douchebag." seriously though, I've never understood why this is so hard for the people who claim to be the adults in the country (conservatives) to understand. Great vid. Love the channel. DFTBA

I'm planning to dress as Mantis from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. Here's hoping I go to a party this year!

It sucks when you are at college when halloween is going on.

I didn't even need this. But I was surprised about how much I wanted this.

I'm a huge star wars fan, and I love your costume!

Rachel is always amazing but I think deadpan Rachel is my favorite Rachel.

The Netherlands; Biking drunk without a helmet is common-place. At least then you're not biking with your phone, lol. Yup, we're dangerous over here. Norway; The fucking kids can go out on their own, they don't need no fucking supervision :P

Nice!

You mentioned that we shouldn't dress as a character from another race or culture. I totally get not doing anything like blackface, but what about just dressing as a character you love (ie from an anime where the characters are mostly asian, at least in the eyes of the creators) but not altering anything about yourself? Is that still bad? 'Cause I really wanted to dress as Dee from Rat Queens one day. =/

what about going to haunted houses and stuff? how is that not an option listed?

Thank you for making this video! I loved the 'choose your own adventure' style. I'm sorry so many people can't understand the idea of not being a dick. Thank you for talking about cultural appropriation, knowing how the internet would react. Happy Halloween!!

The camera switch feels forced every single time :( is there no beret option? besides that great content

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Whatever, just wear what you want as long as it’s in the right context. Dress as a mariachi band member if you fucking want. Be Pocahontas, do whatever. Just don’t be a bad person day to day.

People where I live don't go around getting candy. If you try to find some people to give it to them, they won't take it. Everyone, please watch my little nature videos. There is no talking in them. Shhh!

I wish I could stomach candy. I can't do sweets anymore.

I have a black Kimono I sewed a few years ago from a historically accurate pattern and an easy-tie Obi I bought from Japan. I've made a white Nine-tailed fox mask and I am going to have a darned good time this Halloween. No one is going to care I am white. No Japanese descendants are going to be emotionally scarred because I created my own character. I just love Japanese lore and traditions and I think Kimonos are beautiful. I don't believe I should be barred from wearing an item of clothing because of my skin color. White people wear Japanese stuff all the time for Cosplay and are celebrated nerd culture, how is this any different? Are there offensive costumes out there? Of course! But I think people should just use common sense and not live in fear of offended people. Have a sense of humor people! Its Halloween!

I don't completely agree with the culture costume thing. First of all, there's a big difference between dressing as a character who happens to be from a culture or dressing as a stereotype. If you think the character is problematic, complain to the people who created the character, not to those wearing the costume. However, there are plenty of characters, and most human characters have a clear race/culture assigned to them, and it's ridiculous to say that you may only wear costumes of characters that happen to have the same race/culture as you. In fact, since minorities are often underrepresented in pop culture, this argument would actually cause people from minorities to have less options available to them, which definitely doesn't fit the progressive ideal that I subscribe to. Furthermore, wearing traditional costumes that are actually properly representative of a culture when worn respectfully should also be celebrated for their spread of multi-culturalism. The only type of costume that's truly offensive is when you're dressing as a stereotype, especially if it's a stereotype that has negative associations linked to it.

why is this comment section overflowing with people defending cultural appropriation? blackface isn't funny, right? so why would we negatively characterize another culture for our own good time- "sexy native princess" "sexy geisha" "indian goddess" just as some catholic people wouldn't want a person dressing as jesus with disrespect, we shouldn't be trying to wear feather headdresses with a miniskirt and claiming it as a costume. there are 10 MILLION other things to be dressed as.

Okay, I'm doing special 'scary' drag queen stuff for halloween but it doesn't fit in and it's not offensive.

what was even the point of this video?

This whole video could have been a ten second PSA about cultural appropriation. The only negative "story" ending was when you culturally appropriated a costume. I wanna know how to find a work/life balance, how to be a good wedding guest, how to repair a dent in drywall not be told again about not dressing up as another culture, gosh dangit!

Love how "go to a party" is just an option like you can go to the adult store and buy a group of friends with the time/money/energy/space to organize a party. Still had time to take a jab at grown people who might want to actually express their sexuality though. Good job.

Only thing i can thing during this episode is #Murica Halloween is BS and cultrual apropiation is BS (hey halloween is celtic, so don't do it unless you're celtic) And i'm i the only one that still misses mike & emma?

TLDR : don't dress up like a gangster, it hurts their feelings.