Mad, I Say! MAD!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

As I said, I wasn’t planning on a costume this year, but suddenly I’m hanging out with my friend Jess, and you can never count on anything with her—you don’t know what you’re doing with Jess until after the fact. So I wound up invited to a Halloween part, and I suddenly needed a costume.

So! I took an idea I’d been toying with for a completely different reason, and turned it on myself. I found some tremendously ugly green fabric and tore apart one of Dad’s old lab coats to use as a pattern. A little hair and some awful makeup later, and guess who I was!




That’s right, dudes! It’s Pearl Forrester, co-Mad in Season 7 and Head Mad in 8-10 of Mystery Science Theater 3000!

They try to survive the wrath of Pearl
Just an evil gal who wants to rule the world
From her castle below she sets her sights above
Just to torture all her captives on the Satellite of Lo-ove!


Pearl dreams of world domination. She’s so cute. (I think her jacket is better made than mine. My green is a little more reminiscent of her son Clayton’s lab coat, but whatever.)


“I’ll send up cheezy movies
The worst I can find (la la la!)
He’ll have to sit and watch them all
And I’ll monitor his mind!”

You don’t get much more evil than that.

Yeah, so I got to drive around all of yesterday evening wearing this! It was brilliant—I even carried around a purse which I had thrown a few things into, in preparation for chasing Mike across the universe in my rocketship, of course.

Granted, nobody knew who I was (evening's most common question: "So what's the F stand for?"), but who cares. It was fun!

The party itself turned out to be something of a half-assed murder mystery* at the overbooked Castle of Chaos (I’ll bet their full-assed murder mysteries are hella fun, actually) followed by a great party dinner at Jess’s parents’ house. Jess and her family have mastered the foreign-to-me art of partymaking, and they had awesome decorations and great food. Also, they thought my costume was pretty lame until I told them I had made the shirt. I didn’t mention that the hair and makeup took some work, too, because I never wear makeup or even contacts, and I hoped they appreciated how I was going goddamn blind for their party.

I’m definitely keeping this shirt around. You never know when you’ll need to whip out a costume, and Pearl is a good evil one to whip out when I need it.


*A bit of a coincidence, considering my other Halloween plans.**

**No, no actual murder is planned.

Comments

[sunshine-shaman.livejournal.com]

Haha! Righteous! The shirt looks good. You should just wear it around for kicks. I love the pose with the dvds. Good stuff. I have to get my act together and come up with my halloween costume....

[zimwifepgk.livejournal.com]

I even carried around a purse which I had thrown a few things into

For writing that, you have earned another Awesome Point even on top of the fact that you dressed as Pearl Forrester. X'D

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Well, sure! I actually explained that when I was carrying it around. "Of COURSE I have a purse! It goes next to the Cheez-Its and the Chicken-In-A-Biskit in my rocket!"

[zimwifepgk.livejournal.com]

The whole Chicken-in-a-Biskit thing is pretty much my brother's favorite thing in the whole series. Somehow, an evil madwoman getting upset about 'her favorite snack cracker' is the funniest idea ever.

I love it when people quote/do/reference things that I remember really well and still quote/do/reference, myself. XD It makes me squee.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

"... Bobo's ... messing ... with MY. FAVORITE. SNACK. CRACKER."

I dunno, Touch The Llama is still the winner for me. And Crow's evil double Timmy. But Pearl's fury was pretty awesome, too.

[gondolinchick01.livejournal.com]

ROCK. Great job on the whole endeavor. I guess the green does look a little more like Dr. Forrester Jr, but it still looks absolutely awesome.

[bean-bunny.livejournal.com]

That is awesome.

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

You know, to really pull it off, you need a TVs Frank to chum around with, and a Clayton to ignore.

That's right! I'm goin' Old School in this response!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Old school is awesome! But I'd have had to wear her old school OUTFIT at that point, with the pink crocheted whatsit and the glasses. This costume demands Bobo and Brain Guy to kick around.

Ooh, unless I had DEAD SOULTAKING TV's Frank from Season 10! That'd be a terrific Halloween costume--"Oh, it's a generic Grim Reaper--HOSHIT! It's TV's Frank!"

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Totally Unknown Mad Scientists Unite!

I'm going as Dr Dave Davenport from Narbonic. Nobody's going to have any idea. But they are going to be terrified of my laugh (http://westrider.livejournal.com/144610.html) ;)

[tiryn.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I'm sewing my costume too. I'll post photos of my epic nerddom when it's done. :D

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! I plan on being a vampire. Because I like to dress like one anyways, and it's only so often that I can get away with it and not come across as a major goth-geek, which I am not.