Yes.
YES.
YAAAAAAASSSS.
I've just thought of the perfect Halloween costume.
MONKEEMEN! I mean, look at them, it's perfect.
The reason I'm so excited? If you couldn't guess, it's the fact that I can wear my glasses for a costume and IT WILL LOOK 100% ACCURATE. My whole life I've dealt with the classic glasses-wearer dilemma: how to effectively pull off a costume when you don't wear contacts and your vision is too bad to forego the specs. Over the years I've tried to brainstorm appropriate costumes for myself: Woody Allen (Alex almost agreed to be Annie Hall if I would go as Alvy Singer), Jemaine from Flight of the Conchords (that one actually turned out pretty well), Mike Nesmith and his groovy 60's sunglasses.
But of all the Monkees-themed costumes, this one is the best.
(Worth mentioning that this episode, "Monkee Chow Mein", contains a lot of tasteless stereotyping of Chinese culture, which was apparently normal in the 1960s but super cringe today.)
Anyway, there's a good chance this could end up like last year, when I was so excited to be the cover of Rumours with Alex that I put a reminder on my calendar 10 months in advance...but by the time Halloween rolled around we ran out of time and defaulted to Star Trek costumes.
But you guys, I really think I could pull this one off.