#6x03 costumes

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Costume Meta 6x03

Ok well that episode was intense!

I find these bottle type episodes interesting to analyse - especially when they feature big time jumps like this one did!

First off let’s look at all the flashback scenes. The wardrobe department did a great job at recreating that mid seventies vibe, from the muted tones and especially the use of pale yellows and browns and creams, the use of knit textures on the teenagers was very on point as was the pointed collars and the  flared trousers - I especially loved the jeans Joannes friend was wearing - with the brown stripes running down them. 

I’m side stepping costumes for a minute to heap some praise on the hair and makeup  department - they don’t get enough love, but all the afros were perfect and I especially loved that they gave Beatrice a Farrah Fawcett hairstyle (as you can see below) - it fits so perfectly with the hairstyles we’ve seen older Beatrice wearing. The interesting thing about Beatrice’s hair is that she is the only one who appears to be chemically straightening it - there are no other characters with straightened hair in the flashback scenes. I’m not an expert in Black hair or the meaning behind the use of certain types of hairstyle, but to me the choice to use this hairstyle on Beatrice is suggestive of her being seen as glamorous and stylish in the neighbourhood - it fits with Beatrices personality as being set in her ways and expectant of a certain standard and order of things. 

Athena & Bobby

Athena’s grey top is a really fabulous choice for this part of the episode - its almost check patterned but it isn’t - it hints at her turmoil over having to go through the process of questioning everything she thinks she knows about her father, as well as her desire to solve this case that has hung over her nearly all her life. the use of both black and white for the lines on the background of grey is indicative that not everything is black and white - and that shades of grey are actually where most peoples morals etc reside. the grrey is also a conservative colour as well as being stable and insightful - again all things we see Athena portraying while she is wearing this top.

Bobby wear a lot of Blue in this episode - the blue top above and then the dark navy one below as well as the blue/grey one at the hospital at the end. focusing on the blue ones for the moment - blue is the colour of trust and loyalty - it provides security and confidence - al things we see Bobby displaying in this episode. the darker blue top below is almost black and so we can add some of the meaning of Black - for this scene - authority  - all of these combined show Bobby being there for Athena, but also pushing her enough to get her to actually get involved in solving the case.

Athenas deep burgundy pyjamas are interesting - generally speaking burgundy is considered an intense and ambitious colour and as a result can be seen as somewhat combative - perfect for this scene, especially as it is tempered with the blue of the dressing gown - representing Athenas loyalty to both her fathers privacy, but also to who she is - which is why she cant resisit getting involved in solving the case!

Now I’ve actually managed to get a better look at Athenas new pendant I’ve reached the conclusion it isn’t a compass at all - I’m not 100% sure, but to me it looks like either a winged horse - which would make it Pegasus, or it could possibly be a dragon, but my money is currently on the winged horse!

Pegasus is heavily connected to Athena in greek mythology. It is said he was sired by Poseidon and Medusa, and that Athena tamed him and gave him to Perseus so he could fly to rescue Andromeda - in the process he beheaded Medusa - the gorgon - whose head Athena used as a gorgenion - a protective amulet - which is the other necklace Athena wears.

Athena's top here is a combination of burgundy, dark navy blue, tan and purple, its also striped and stripe theory plays out for Athena in this top - this scene is the start of her getting to the bottom of Tanya’s disappearance. obviously the blue and burgundy colour meanings continue to play out here, but the tan colour adds the idea of dependability (we can depend that Athena will get to the bottom of things) and friendliness - which is something we see Athena try to extend to Joanne.  The use of purple is also wonderful - purple is a colour that inspires people to divulge their thoughts and it is a colour associated with superiority, again something Athena very much plays into - she gets people to talk - both Joanne and Franklin senior and Athena is superior when it comes to solving cases!

Bobbys grey top - that he wears for the longest in the episode shows him as being the reliable and stable presence for Athena, offering insight and advice when she needs it. Its also the shade of grey known as steel - backing up Bobby being there to support Athena.

Athena in this beautiful pistachio green top (interestingly without the necklace! Like I’ve said 100′s of times before green is the colour of growth, health and renewal. the perfect choice for Athena to be wearing in the aftermath of this case - we can see she is in a better place - that a weight is off her shoulders - one she’s been carrying for a long time. Green reperesents hope for a better future  and  Athena is at a point in her story where she can now move forward into the future in a positive way.

Check theory for the win!! if you haven’t yet read my theory about the use of Check patterns in 911 then you can read it here.

only 3 characters wear check in 6x03 - Joanne and Franklin senior - both as adults - and Joanne and her mother in the one flashback - only after Tanya has gone missing - the implication here is that they both know something and are keeping it hidden - we obviously find out what Joanne knew later on, but we never find out the extent of what the mother knew - however - her life has just been changed irrevocably so the check patterning makes sense. 

Joanne and Franklin senior have both been hiding pieces of the puzzle that could have helped solve Tanya’s murder - they’ve been carrying that guilt and knowledge - and now that her body has been found, those secrets are being uncovered and they are having to reckon with the full impact of what they knew and know - this is why they are wearing the check patterning - and why we see Joanne in stripes after both Franklins have been arrested - because she has the answers she’s been hoping for and can begin the process of moving on.

I know you’re all wondering why Franklin jr wasn’t wearing check at all - well he isn’t experiencing impending or existing trouble - he is the evil in this scenario - as as we see before Bobby tackles him, he isn’t repentant or remorseful for what he has done, so he doesn’t need to be in check - yes his life is about to change, but up until the point of Bobby tackling hin and hi arrest - he thinks he can still get away with what he’s done. 

And there we have it. I hope any of those of you who have been affected by the subject matter of 6x03 are in a place where you can get help if you need it - that you can reach out to someone, or that you are now safe and well here is a link to a post Jess put together that signposts resources should you need to access them - take care of yourselves.

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Lois Lane costume appreciation (Part II, seasons 6-7)

Part I (seasons 4-5)

Part II of my Smallville retrospective, focusing on the Superman colour scheme as it relates to Clark and Lois, and in particular how Clark often wears red and blue (and the blue shirt/red jacket basically becomes his costume in these seasons), while Lois is often wearing or associated with the missing piece of the Superman puzzle - yellow.

I've identified three main instances where Lois seems to be costumed in yellow - the first is when she's in investigator/journalist mode, the second when she has a non-Clark love interest (which symbolises her future destiny with Clark, as all of these prior relationships help her discover what's not right so she knows when it is right), and third when she and Clark take a step forward in their relationship (even if it's often followed by two steps back).

In season 6 we start spending a lot more time at the Daily Planet with its iconic gold globe, and interior decorated in blue and yellow/gold:

Now, gold isn't exactly yellow, but I do think gold is adjacent thematically - especially as we get into the later seasons where the show doesn't rely as heavily on the primary colour palette. We're out of high school and the pseudo-college year, on our way to the more mature later seasons. Gold is a metallic form of yellow, and while Smallville High and the Talon both heavily featured sunshine yellow, given the Art Deco style of the Daily Planet we move to a burnished gold for the more adult world Clark is moving into.

Gold kryptonite also shows up in season 10 (and I'll go into what I think the meaning of that may be when we get there).

In 6x02 Sneeze, we not only see Clark make a significant step towards becoming Superman by developing his super breath, but Lois make a significant step towards her destiny as a reporter. Clark’s sneeze blows the barn door hallways across town, where it lands by Lois and ignites her journalistic intrigue, and by the end of the episode she’s had the story published and decided it’s the career she wants to pursue.

In 6x03 Wither, Lois meets Oliver Queen for the first time, and there's no yellow but she does wear a gold headpiece as part of her Maid Marian costume (your face, madam!), and we get the blue gown and that helpful Talon decor in the background to remind us that this will be temporary. Oliver is an important relationship for Lois - arguably the only other man we see Lois genuinely fall for in the series, and we'll get hints of yellow throughout.

In 6x04 Arrow, Lois once again wears yellow as she's on the trail of Green Arrow and gets the front page of the Inquisitor coining his name (also check out the binders on the right and the desk items below her). At the end of the episode Clark is very protective over Lois once he finds out that Green Arrow is Oliver, so continuing our tradition of Lois wearing yellow in an episode when she has a new love interest that Clark isn't happy about.

She wears this outfit again in 6x05, Reunion, as she and Clark work together again to track down a murderous former classmate of Lex and Oliver's, and where the window placement is on point.

We once again get Lois and Clark in complementary t-shit/jacket combinations, with Lois's yellow as the missing piece to Clark's red-blue. There's also some excellent blocking in this walk and talk, as Lois and Clark each move from the foreground to background as they go down the hall, one taking the lead then falling back, and then switching again. They're a team, even when they're arguing.

6x10 Hydro is iconic as Clark and Lois's first kiss, but Lois also starts off the episode in red and blue with yellow on her bag (over Tom Welling's directing credit no less). Funnily enough Jimmy is also wearing yellow in this scene (a mustard shirt he wears a few times this season) as he and Lois plot to expose Green Arrow's identity.

Lois also wears a red top with what looks like yellow piping during her attempt to catch Oliver in the act as Green Arrow (although it's under a white jacket during the actual kiss scene).

Then at the end of the episode, when Lois tells Clark how much she enjoyed the kiss with "Green Arrow" she's back in block yellow, with a red mug to boot (and blue couch/wall). This episode is a significant step forward, as it's clear Clark enjoyed that kiss too (thank you Tom Welling for your direction in that scene!).

A small one, but in 6x11 Justice, we see Lois's jeans have yellow crown decals on the rear (oh, the mid-2000s!). Lois will wear these jeans several times this season.

The next big Clois moment is 6x13 Crimson i.e. when Lois and Clark get dosed with red Kryptonite and make out. The interior of the box the red-k lipstick comes in is yellow, and the cover of the mix cd Lois makes is red yellow and blue. Was it heavy handed? Yes. Did I appreciate it? Absolutely.

In the aftermath Lois wears a yellow jacket (and the jeans with the yellow decals). At this point Clark knows that without inhibitions he wants to - ahem - "kiss Lois" - and we get the sense that she is starting to develop genuine feelings for him - or at least becoming more aware of them. Also note the yellow in Clark's blue plaid in this scene.

In 6x21 Prototype, Lois wears yet another blue shirt-yellow jacket combo (seriously, how many yellow clothes does she own?!?), tracking down a childhood friend whose been turned into a weapon by Lex. Now, Wes isn't exactly a love interest, but we do learn that he was Lois's first kiss, so I'd say it counts in the tally of Lois wearing yellow to show her future with Clark even when there's romantic tension with someone else, and also her destiny as an investigative reporter (in the first image she's about to expose a corrupt senator, in the second she's intent on finding the truth about Wes.) Clark's concern for her in the latter scene is also very sweet.

In 6x22 Phantom and 7x01 Bizarro, we get the opposite in a yellow shirt blue jacket, including of course a scene with Clark in his red and blue. In these episodes Lois is determined to expose Lex's crimes, so definitely fits into the pattern of Lois the reporter in yellow.

We also get some nice interaction between Lois and Clark at the hospital, where Clark chooses not to tell her about Lana's (apparent) death because it might be too much given Chloe's condition.

7x01 also features Bizarro Clark hitting on Lois - he has all of Clark's memories and actually makes some astute observations ("I know you're looking for a guy who doesn't play by the rules.")

Of course Lois thinks this is actually Clark, and the kindness he showed her at the beginning of the episode is reciprocated as she forgives him for manhandling her, chalking it up to grief over Lana. As much as Lois likes to bust his balls, she also shows enormous grace over his oft-times strange behaviour (proof of "other [times] I think you know me better than anyone" from season 5). She may not know the circumstances or his secret, but most of the time Lois understands Clark at his core in a way I'm not sure any other character does.

In 7x02 Kara they are back in parallel costuming - I mean, look at these two!

This episode is also a major step forward in Lois's journalistic career, and also closer to Clark's secret even if she doesn't realise it - she finds Kara's spaceship and is pretty cool with the idea of aliens, even if she's intent on uncovering the truth.

At the end of the episode when she's offered a job at the Daily Planet, she's in this coat which is yellow-gold, and from this point we start seeing Lois move away from the more casual jeans-tshirt-jacket combo to more professional attire (Clark will catch up to her in season 8), and from light and/or bright yellows to metallics/golds.

As seen in 7x05 Action, where Lois is once again on Lex's trail even when her boss tells her not to follow the lead. That boss is Grant Gabriel, and the two also engage in some unfortunately flirting later in the episode. In the first part I said I didn't mind Lois with AC or Oliver (I enjoy Lois/Oliver in particular, and their continued friendship) and think it makes sense she would be attracted to both of them, but I HATE her relationship with Grant and don't think it makes any sense at all. It's a relationship devoid of reason, chemistry, and purpose.

In 7x07 Wrath, we're briefly back in bold yellow under her business jacket as she and Grant flirt some more. I usually don't care for criticism of Smallville Lois that she's not enough like the iconic Lois because she can be a bit messy and makes mistakes - because that's the point, she's isn't the iconic Lois Lane yet, she's unformed, she's a work in progress just like Smallville Clark is. But I just think she's savvier than to get into a relationship with her boss, and honestly I think she would peg (heh) Grant as kind of shady? He's so clearly shady! There is precedent I guess - she went out with serial killer/hitman Graham, but that seemed like an aberration, not a pattern (and it was one date). Lois stringing him along but never actually giving in to his overtures in order to find out what he's hiding would have been a much better subplot imo.

The hotdog is also a nice touch though (Superman II reference?).

Other than challenging her, Grant also doesn't fit the pattern of men Lois is attracted to - he's not a particularly good person, their banter is painful rather than stimulating, and while he is in a position of power, he exercises it in a way that usually annoys Lois rather than impresses her. Honestly, they should have nixed Grant's character altogether and put Lex in as editor of the Planet much earlier, giving Lois a better entry point in hiring her to keep his enemies close, and her subplot of the season could have been investigating him from the inside.

As it was, this episode is where Lana gets Clark's abilities and immediately goes insane with them, including blasting into Grant's office and injuring Lois in the process. We see her brown and yellow bag again in the hospital scene.

In 7x09 Gemini, Lois's supply of yellow clothes has seemingly been exhausted, because she's back in the metallic gold top from 7x05. This is the episode where she's forced to write an expose on Lex (again, this could have worked if he was the editor! We didn't need Grant!). Lois is now fully enmeshed in the Daily Planet, so this ticks both the boxes of journalism and other relationships for the presence of yellow/gold.

However it's the last we see of this top on Lois (I think Chloe does wear it or a similar one in a later season).

This is the end of her relationship with Grant, who we learn is actually a clone of Lex's brother Julian, but he's dead an episode later and this entire subplot was pointless. We don't even know if Lois finds out about Grant's death, and other than a throwaway line in 7x11 she never mentions him again, so I don't think she ever really loved him or that he can be counted among her serious relationships.

Speaking of 7x11 Siren, Oliver returns wanting to rekindle his relationship with Lois, but when she discovers he's Green Arrow she ends it for good. This is one of thew few times we see Lois in a print rather than a block colour, and looking closely yellow is incorporated into the pattern as she tearfully tells Oliver she can't handle the dual-identity life and "share [him] with the rest of the world". Dramatic irony in that's exactly what she will do with Clark, but at this point in her life, with Oliver, it's not a choice she can make.

Later, Clark comforts her about her fears - "Just because someone's life has great responsibility, doesn't mean your life has to take second place" but Lois doubles down on her fears that "[she] will always be left behind".

They are both talking about Lana and Oliver respectively, but foreshadowing their future together, when Lois will be ready to accept and live that double life because they will share a destiny, and she'll trust that her relationship with Clark won't end in heartbreak like she's sure her relationship with Oliver would have.

In season 10, when these fears resurface, Clark tells her "you're not in my way, Lois. You're by my side."

The last one is 7x16 Descent, where Lois and Jimmy are working together to uncover the truth about Lionel's death and she is back in a yellow top for this milestone of the show. She wears this the entire episode, including being shot and locked in a freezer by Lex's minion, and then saved by Clark.

That's it for these two seasons, and actually the last time Lois wears yellow for a quite while as we more into the later seasons which are darker both tonally and in the visual storytelling.

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Jeronica Season Six Scenes (Real)

6x01

("Exhausting, aren't they?")

Time-Stamps; 2:03 - 2:09

(Whatcha' Looking at Jughead?)

Time-Stamps; 9:50 - 9:56

(I Think I’ve Seen This Film Before)

Time-Stamps; 32:11 - 32:55

(Look at the Height Difference! I'm Screaming!)

Time-Stamps; 34:16 - 34:29

(I'm Sobbing into My Roach Infested Marshmallow Rainbows)

Time-Stamps; 35:44 - 35:47

6x03

(Jughead, Your Crush is Showing)

Time-Stamps; 41:06 - 41:46

6x05

(The Man Was Too Stunned to Speak)

Time-Stamps; 2:37 - 2:55

(Veronica Forgets She Has a Boyfriend pt. 1)

Time-Stamps; 4:41 - 4:58

(The Eye-Contact That Was So Intense that Veronica had to Hook Up with Two Reggies to Deal With It)

Time-Stamps; 11:11 - 11:54

(I Just Think They're Neat)

Time-Stamps; 22:04 - 23:02

(My Boy Didn't Even Have to Think)

Time-Stamps; 27:56 - 27:59

(A Jeronica Conversation? In This Economy??)

Time-Stamps; 28:13 - 29:23

(...Is That...What I Think It Is?????)

Time-Stamps; 29:33 - 29:37

("...and the luckiest red-headed boy in the universe.")

Time-Stamps; 34:18 - 34:35

(Jughead Forgets His Girlfriend pt. 13)

Time-Stamps; 39:19 - 39:56

6x08

(I'm Frankly a Little Ashamed of This One Guys)

Time-Stamps; 16:23 - 16:24

(Ummm, That's Not Percival You're Staring at Jughead)

Time-Stamps; 36:18 - 36:27

(Percival Is a Jeronica Shipper Confirmed)

Time-Stamps; 41:20 - 41:27

6x09

(The Other Two Might as Well Not Be There)

Time-Stamps; 9:31 - 10:27

6x13

(One Can't Help Put Wonder What Thoughts Jughead Might Be Hearing From Veronica's Head)

Time-Stamps; 9:43 - 11:12

(It's the Yearning Gazes for Me)

Time-Stamps; 24:47 - 26:28

(The Costume Department Strikes Again)

Time-Stamps; 37:21 - 38:01

(His Girlfriend Isn't Even In the Scene and Yet; Jughead Forgets His Girlfriend pt. 14)

Time-Stamps; 38:04 - 38:46

(Something Something...Darkness to Archie and Betty's Light...Something Something...Silhouettes...Something Something...Neither One Burning Their Totems...)

Time-Stamps; 39:22 - 40:07

(Height Difference Makes a Nostalgic Appearance)

Time-Stamps; 40:26 - 40:31

6x15

(The...With A...I Just...They...)

Time-Stamps; 5:48 - 6:40

(I Think Jughead Should Be Blessing His Lucky Stars that Veronica Can't Read Minds)

Time-Stamps; 14:48 - 15:46

(There Is No Platonic Explanation For Any of This)

Time-Stamps; 21:59 - 22:55

(My Morally-Grey Babies Off To Destroy People!)

Time-Stamps; 32:20 - 33:56

6x16

(I Live Here Now)

Time-Stamps; 14:35 - 15:09

(I'm Not Saying Veronica Wants to Jump His Bones, but I'm Not Not Saying It Either)

Time-Stamps; 26:43 - 26:59

(The Unbearable Terror of Being Truly Seen)

Time-Stamps; 27:36 - 28:15

(A Completely Platonic Amount of Concern)

Time-Stamps; 28:23 - 28:55

6x19

(Even With Someone Else In His Body He Can't Keep Away)

Time-Stamps; 14:43 - 16:12

(In My Head and Heart Veronica Goes To  Jughead)

Time-Stamps; 16:50 - 17:56

(I Spy Wasted Potential)

Time-Stamps; 18:51 - 20:26

6x20

(Jughead Forgets His Girlfriend pt. 15)

Time-Stamps; 00:09 - 01:39

(Even on Paper Jughead Can't Stop Staring)

Time-Stamps; 18:01 - 18:50

(He Was Not, In Fact, Watching Mr. Cypher)

Time-Stamps; 31:46 - 32:17

(Veronica Almost Snapping Her Neck Because Jughead Came In Is a Reason For Me to Live)

Time-Stamps; 38:52 -  39:17

(WHAT WAS THE REASON?!)

Time-Stamp's; 40:25 - 41:51

6x21

(Smol Wife, Angsty Husband)

Time-Stamps; 4:48 - 5:56

(They Just...I...)

Time-Stamps; 9:58 - 11:15

(Whatcha Lookin' at Jug?)

Time-Stamps; 28:13 - 29:12

(Doesn't Percy Know that You Don't Mess With Jughead's Girl and Get Away With It?)

Time-Stamps; 31:50 - 32:15

(Veronica Being In the Most Eye-Catching Color - I See You Costume Department, I See You)

Time-Stamps; 35:21 - 36:22

(Perhaps I Cried Over This Look)

Time-Stamps; 37:33 - 38:03

(Something, Something, Background Characters)

Time-Stamps; 41:34 - 41:36

6x22

(The Director Said Cut but Cole Heard Eye-Contact or Bust)

Time-Stamps; 00:00 - 1:36

(So Close, Yet So Far)

Time-Stamps; 7:47 - 8:58

(She Could've Just Asked to Hold Jughead's Hand But...This Works Too I Guess)

Time-Stamps; 30:25 - 32:36

(We Love A Worried Stare)

Time-Stamps; 32:36 - 33:04

(Scared and Horny for the Forth Time)

Time-Stamps; 33:37 - 34:44

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honorable mention to 6x07 buffy’s stylish yet affordable boots which i couldn't fit :(

part one

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[ozymandiasdirge]

Jennifer the costume designer was talking in the Slip podcast about how Jimmy was already subconsciously dressing for Kim, telling her he'll be good and trying to make her look good too. he wants to be her barbie doll so bad

we need to invent a version of the bechdel test for jimmy's motivations (the parameters being has he ever done anything in his life that isn't completely influenced by his brother, his ex boyfriend, or his wife) just he can fail it every single time. anyway scream this is so real, that scene in 6x03 when she's tying his tie i just KNOW that man's brain was white nosie

[sansalicents]

top 5 (or 10!) outfits worn on glee! :)

i don't have a clear top 5 or 10 but some of my highlights are:

- santana's overalls

- s4-6 rachel (my fave rachel outfit is the striped shirt/leather skirt combo in 6x03)

- s1-2 tina

- santana's trouty mouth outfit

- santana's s2 and rachel and tina's s3 prom dresses

- the bad romance costumes (especially santana's - see my icon choice lol)

[poirott]

Agatha Christie's Poirot costumes [5/?] ↳ Favourite light-colored suits

[brycecreations]

Kristin Kreuk as Lana Lang in Smallville (6.03 Wither)

Merci de créditer BryceH et de liker le poste s’il vous a été utile. ♥

[satccloset]

wardrobe appreciation: Charlotte York + Ralph Lauren’s ‘Pink Pony’ Collection

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Season 6

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[talas-first-lady]

Zari Tarazi Fashion Tournament: Round 2 Match 4

The outfit she wore when she was kidnapped onto the Waverider

vs

Her "Merci Beaucoup Enchante" costume

Find other polls here!

[aimmyarrowshigh]

Dark Greetings this Spooky Season Ms. V. Can we get a list of your favorite Halloween movies and specials? I know you have seen *everything* and I am trying to go beyond my usual rewatches this holiday month.

V. AIMMYARROWSHIGH’S CRITERIA FOR HALLOWEEN EPISODES

Does the Halloween element combine convincingly with the usual universe of the show (ex: Lizzie McGuire 2x09 “Those Freaky McGuires” is not good as a Halloween episode because it changes the rules of the Lizzie McGuire universe, whereas Community 2x06 “Epidemiology” is a GREAT Halloween episode because it manages to logically introduce zombies to the regular Community universe)?

Does the Halloween element advance the plot of the episode/series (ex: the reason Boy Meets World 5x17 “And Then There Was Shawn” is literally the best Halloween episode ever made is that it uses the horror movie tropes it satirizes to provide a CRUCIAL turning-point to the plot of the show)?

Is the Halloween episode in the forefront enough that it’s clearly a holiday episode (ex: HAVING ONE JACK-O’LANTERN ON A DESK DOES NOT A HALLOWEEN SPECIAL MAKE, LAW & ORDER 16x03 “GHOSTS”! You gotta go ALL-IN, like Bob’s Burgers 3x02 “Full Bars”!)?

Does the Halloween theme balance well between spooky and warm-n-fuzzy (ex: Criminal Minds 11x21 “Mr. Scratch” is too fucking bleak, but Criminal Minds 12x06 “Elliott’s Pond” has a joyous/celebratory tone to the ending despite being a genuinely scary episode)?

Is it generally a well-written, acted, and designed episode of television (ex: Saved by the Bell! 3x26 “Mystery Weekend” is seriously, not exaggerating, the worst thing I’ve ever watched in my life; Psych 1x15 “Scary Sherry, Or Bianca’s Toast” is a triumph of the medium)?

THE BEST, bar none, Halloween special ever made is Boy Meets World 5x17, “And Then There Was Shawn.” Period. There can be no argument, except MAYBE Community 3x06, “Epidemiology,” but I like “And Then There Was Shawn” better because the parody and homage as less… biting? And because I think it continues and addresses the emotional core of the regular BMW season better than “Epidemiology” does for Community s3. “Epi” DOES plant the seed (…heh) for the Season 3B major plot arc of Shirley’s pregnancy and Chang Deciding To Murder, but it gets some major minus points for mocking Yvette Nicole Brown’s weight with other characters’ responses to her costume, tbh. And “And Then There Was Shawn” is just fucking iconic. It is THE Halloween episode manual, IMO, if there were to be a textbook on how to write a perfect Halloween episode for your sitcom.

HOWEVER, I also have to give major props to Bob’s Burgers and Psych, as complete series, for their CONSISTENTLY excellent Halloween episodes. A lot of series that have multiple Halloween eps really phone it in after one or two, because they don’t have any more ideas for how to incorporate Halloween pastiches while maintaining the overall feeling of the series (tbh B99, while the Halloween Heists are excellent in general, is/has been coming very close to this line, and I think that if they HADN’T had to switch out the Heist to Cinco de Mayo in s6, they would have jumped their Heist Shark [and I think they know it, too, because it was lampshaded in the episode itself]) or they just straight-up don’t have any more ideas for what or how to have the characters they’re bound to parody or pay homage to a Halloween thing after they’ve already done one or two. And let’s be real: those one or two have probably been either The Shining or Rear Window, because those are pretty much the two that every show starts with.

Bob’s manages to make every Halloween episode feel very fresh and organic to the series, which I think they do have some leeway to do because of the nature of cartoons keeping the Belchers living a kind of loop of never aging, yk, but amazingly they’ve only done the “Tina feels too old to trick or treat, maybe? Nope, she’s not 14 yet, so there’s still time!” thing in a way that felt tropey once (in 3x02 Full Bars). They’ve been able to address Tina being 13/in 8th grade, and worrying about it being almost too late for her to keep trick or treating, in ways that were in-character and added to the overall episode in 4x02 Fort Night, 5x02 Tina and the Real Ghost, and 9x04 Nightmare on Ocean Avenue Street, without me rolling my eyes at the screen and going “TINA, EVERY SINGLE SHOW WITH A TWEEN IN IT HAS ALREADY DECIDED THAT THE AGE AT WHICH YOU MUST STOP TRICK OR TREATING IS FRESHMAN YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL, COME ON NOW” which… at this point, is a Feat. Because like, I’ve POSTED over a thousand Halloween episodes, right? But I’ve watched and screencapped ::checks folder:: 3,905 Halloween episodes since 2014. Which is, um, a. lot. The ACTUAL BEST Bob’s Burgers Halloween episode is 6x03, “The Hauntening,” which is just… achingly perfect television. I know I’ve posted about it before (probably a couple times tbh) but the way that it aired originally back-to-back with The Simpsons 27x04, “Halloween of Horror,” so that the evening of Sunday cartoons juxtaposed eight-year-old Louise whose family worked so hard to scare her like she wanted with nine-year-old Lisa’s family working so hard to keep her from being too scared and make sure that she felt safe… reader, I FUCKIN CRIED. Little girls being deeply loved while also Spoopy Things!!!!!! IS WHAT HALLOWEEN SPECIALS ARE!!! FUCKIN!!!!!! ABOUT!!!!!!!

Psych, though, has the benefit of not really having any, like… central tone to the series? Beyond “friendship” and “having fun with joking,” tbh? So it’s able to do what a lot of series get docked “points” for in my Foolproof Halloween Special Ratings System That Is Completely Subjective To My Tastes And Mood, which is really just run full-tilt into parody and homage without really worrying about overall tonal connection to the rest of the season or series. 1x15, “Scary Sherry, or, Bianca’s Toast,” while it DOES fall victim to the way-too-common Halloween episode trap of making mental hospitals into a Scary Thing (they are a medical normality and a necessary thing for health for many people and should not be feared), is delightful Spooky Fun AND has the benefit of having Shannon Woodward in it.* We all know by now that if an episode of any show has Shannon Woodward as the guest star, it will by default end up being one of the best, if not THE best, episodes of that series. It’s just how having Shannon Woodward as your guest star rolls. I also really like, with Psych’s Halloween episodes, that quite a few of them understand the underlying thematic scope of Horror, which is “The Monstrous Feminine Is A Thing And All Horror Tropes Are Actually About Women’s Interior Lives Because Men Can’t Write Women And Fear Women Always,” yk, in a way that is neither TOO Actual Horror, which I am too afraid of to Do, or too trite and demeaning, which is the other basic trap that Halloween stuff falls into A Lot. Like, Scary Sherry is very much about women villainizing other women, avenging other women, and being in very specifically-female pain, even though Shawn & Gus are still the lens through which we solve the mystery, and so are 4x04 The Devil Is In The Details And The Upstairs Bedroom and 6x03 This Episode Sucks. But they give their Monstrous Females dignity and breadth, which is impressive, ESPECIALLY since they’re one-off guest characters. Also, 3x15 Tuesday the 17th is just plain funny and well-done, like, just give it props for the title alone.

*(Speaking of Shannon Woodward, another amazingly good Halloween episode is Raising Hope 4x07, “Murder, She Hoped,” which is among my very favorite Rear Window homage episodes and has probably the funniest gag in ANY Rear Window ep, in Martha Plimpton floating across the screen in the Grace Kelly silk nightgown and peignoir and announcing that it was on sale at Walmart, can you believe?! and honestly, yes. Perfection.)

Also excellent:

• The Addams Family (1991) + Addams Family Values (1993) • Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU WERE GAY FOR SIBELLA AS A CHILD!) • Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost (RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU'RE GAY BECAUSE THE HEX GIRLS!) • Halloweentown + Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge • Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire! • Z•O•M•B•I•E•S (to a lesser extent, Z•O•M•B•I•E•S 2) • Clue (1985) • Coraline • Corpse Bride • 6teen 2x00 Dude of the Dead • Arthur 21x00 Arthur and the Haunted Treehouse • Lamb-Chop in the Haunted Studio • Arthur 8x04A Fern-kenstein's Monster • Arthur 10x02 The Squirrels • WandaVision 1x06 The All-New Halloween Spooktacular (I KNOW YOU, SPECIFICALLY, DEAR @plavoptice, HATE MCU!WANDA AND I DON'T BLAME YOU, YOUR REASONS ARE VERY VALID! But this is a good Halloween special so I'm putting it on my list In General.) • Boy Meets World 2x06 Who's Afraid of Cory Wolf? • Ghostbusters (2016) • Gravity Falls 1x12 Summerween • Leverage 4x02 Ten L'il Grifters Job • The Loud House 2x40 Tricked! • Mockingbird Lane 1x00 Unaired Pilot • It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! (Classic, etc.)

I'm SURE I'm forgetting some that I'll rewatch this year myself. I'm a big Halloween Baking Championship fan, tbh, which is on Discovery+ now so I recommend that if you like mostly-relaxing nice people baking cakes that look like bats and such.

I'm also IMMENSELY INTENSELY EXCITED for The Muppets' Haunted Mansion on Disney+ next week!!!

[esperastra]

You're all good. I'd like to ask again: if you like the other women, what are some of your favorite outfits from Sara Lance, Ava Sharpe, Spooner Cruz, Zari tomaz and Tarazi, Amaya jiwe, Charlie and Nora darhk? You could do these separately. Just if you're interested cause I'm curious.

I obviously don’t remember all costumes and outfits so I’m just gonna write down one for each of them that I remember loving. :)

Sara: The Wild West outfits, especially the one from season 5

Ava: The daddy!Sharpe outfit from 6x06

Spooner: The outfit from 6x15 with that red/brown leather jacket

Zari 1.0: The simple plaid shirt and black jeans she wore in 3x11 cause I love plaid shirts

Zari 2.0: Her stage costume with the wings in 6x03

Amaya: The Pirate costume in 3x12

Charlie: The outfit in 5x06, mostly because of the hair though

Nora: The baby blue dress she wore in 5x04

[fighterkimburgess]

Rewatching PD is giving me a whole new appreciation for the costume department. Each time Adam sleeps with someone and it's going to be a thing, he wears that damn denim jacket the next day. In 6x03 after Hailey, and in 7x05 after Kim. Like...there's so much of this stuff I can't see it all as a coincidence.