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The final episode of Futurama airs on Comedy Central tonight. Even though there have been two other “final” episodes, we think this may really be the end. The show’s brought us numerous funny in-jokes and, of course, the cosplay.

To send off Futurama in a way not involving a Boys II Men video, we’ve collected some of our favorite Futurama cosplay pictures. The first gallery is below, and part two is available here.

Captain Yesterday and Clobberella photographed by Robert Williams.

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Zapp Brannigan photographed by Anna Fischer.

Kiff Kroker photographed by Heather F.

“My cat Stewie dressed up as Nibbler from last Halloween.” – mennonite

Leela and Zapp Brannigan photographed by Elliot Trinidad.

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Nibbler photographed by Gage Skidmore.

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“This is a reference to that one episode where Leela has two eyes.” — Melissa Nilsson

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Zapp Brannigan and Kiff Kroker photographed by Knight725.

Scruffy photographed by David Ngo (DTJAAAAM).

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD! Photographed by Heather Paul.

PART TWO AVAILABLE HERE.

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The final episode of Futurama airs on Comedy Central tonight. We’re giving the show a site-wide send-off today, with a collection of the best one-liners and a huge collection of GIFs and funny screencaps.

We’ve also collected some of our favorite Futurama cosplay pictures. The first gallery is here, and the final gallery is below. Tip out a little from your forty of BenderBrau and NEVER FORGET.

Nibbler photographed by Matt DeTurck.

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Fry, Bender, and Amy Photographed by Matthew Mendoza.

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Zapp Brannigan photographed by Phoenix Comicon.

Turanga Leela as Clobberella photographed by Cathy Chang.

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Captain Yesterday and Clobberella photographed by David Ngo (DTJAAAAM).

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Bender R2-D2 photographed by chaines106.

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Dr. Zoidberg Photographed by W1N9Zr0.

Not sure if he meant to use that caption. Photographed by Cliff Nordman.

PART ONE AVAILABLE HERE.

No superheroes, princesses, or sexy maids. These old school costumes are pure terror.

Our yearly costume idea, when we see these “costumes.”

Every Halloween, we go shopping for a new costume, and every Halloween, we get to see some genuinely awful costumes actually sold as real products. And this year is no different!

Yeah, it’s not hard to guess the appeal of these costumes, but by the same token, some of these are really just beyond even the fairly low standards we hold costume manufacturers to. In fact, they’re outright lazy on the part of both designers and consumers. And worse, some of them are officially licensed. The fun of a costume is figuring out who you’ve turned into, for cryin’ out loud. Also, there are kids on my lawn.

So here’s a whole new crop of “sexy” Halloween costumes, or rather “sassy”, which is the new codeword for “skimpy” apparently. We put them next to their alleged inspirations for contrast.

You know, because a character who is actually a careful and sometimes biting satire of the insecurities of teenage girls needed to be summed up with a “sassy” costume. The best part is that this is officially licensed.

(Images courtesy of Spirit Halloween/Nickelodeon)

I don’t know. That cable-knit sweater is plenty sexy just on its own. But the hockey jersey is a nice touch.

(Images courtesy Party City/Paramount Pictures)

This actually isn’t that bad, but somebody needs to explain to costume designers that “character” hats basically look terrible at all times. Seriously, this woman looks like she just squeezed the top of her head up Pikachu’s butt, and Pikachu seems a little too happy about it.

(Images courtesy of Spirit Halloween/Nintendo)

This also is not that bad; at least you can recognize that it’s Boba Fett and it’s actually trying to look like Boba Fett. That said, though, the Lucasfilm licensing department decided to go full-on with the dork hats this year. Seriously, add a pom-pom and it’s Winterized Boba Fett.

(Images courtesy Spirit Halloween/Disney)

A quick preview of your night, for anybody who wears this: “Well, that escalated quickly.” “What?” “My junk.” Remember, ladies, a knee to the crotch to a jerk is not only justified, it’s really, really funny.

(Images courtesy of Spirit Halloween/Paramount Pictures)

You know, there does come a point when a pretext is so thin that it wears out. When it comes to sexy costumes, I think we just found it.

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If your costume has to have both the T-800 emblazoned on your collarbone and “Terminator” written down the side of your arm and on your waist so people know who the wearer is supposed to be, you might want to reconsider a career in costume design.

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Actually, this one is probably not new this year, but I just want to point out that this “costume” is so lazy, it doesn’t even come with the mask. It’s a Michael Myers costume without the one distinguishing feature of Michael Myers. They don’t even call it “Michael Myers”; they call it, and I’m not kidding, a “Sexy Halloween Costume”. No, they didn’t throw any quotes around Halloween. They just slapped the mask on the back and called it a day. Apply some blue paint and you have Sassy Air Conditioning Repairlady for next year!

(Images courtesy of Party City/Anchor Bay Home Entertainment)

Halloween is next week, and some people have been spending months carefully crafting the most awesome costume you will ever see. And some of us, like me, are screwed. If you think buying a crappy costume from a store is undignified, and trust the guy who wound up going as DJ Lance Rock because it was the only costume that fit, it is, but don’t want to half-ass it, the good news is you don’t have to.

Of course, your selection is limited and you’ll pay through the nose, but, hey, that’s what you get for waiting. Here are ten hoodies, robes, and other articles of clothing that serve as instant costumes.

Does it come with the buns? Of course it comes with the buns.

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You can also get Megatron, Soundwave, and Grimlocke. Oh, and Bumblebee, if you hate yourself. But come on, we all know Optimus is the best.

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OK, so it’s a little ’80s. But, hey, at least it’s got a mask to it.

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John DiMaggio not included. But then, he’s so hard to find. And yes, there are adult sizes, it’s just… well, you’ll see when you find them.

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You can, of course, get this in the tiger stripe and classic yellow spandex variants, but the brown and orange is the one with the best mask.

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The hoodies that just zip up over your face don’t really count as “costumes”, unless you enjoy bumping into things. This actually has a mask built into it, and it’s something more current than 1990, which helps.

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It’s not quite as cheap as “Bag-Head Spider-Man” or Forbush Man, but, hey, it gets the point across.

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OK, so this one will need a motorcycle helmet and some black tights to complete the effect, but hey, easy enough. Also, you can wear it in public after Halloween!

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We all know this is off-brand Mario, but hey, whatever keeps them from getting sued. Also, no, you can’t fly with this. For that you need a professional squirrel suit.

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This and a plush headcrab stuck to your head, and you’re good to go.

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The idea of what constitutes a “sexy” Halloween costume continues to get more ridiculous (here’s the worst of this year’s crop), to the point women are now dressing up as cleavage-y slices of pizza. And The Daily Show‘s Senior Women’s Issues Correspondent, Kristen Schaal, is outraged. Not because it’s degrading to women, but because this slow escalation of acceptable raunchiness isn’t getting to the point fast enough.

Here she unveils her line of super sexy Halloween costumes (one for men, one for women) that skip the skin-bearing nonsense and jump right to what each side is really after.

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Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) — $36 / $29 (Art via Marvel.)

Yesterday we featured ten clothing items that can be used as an instant Halloween costumes, which are even easier to put together than our 30 cheap and easy Halloween costumes. Most of those instant Halloween costumes were unisex or masculine, so we’re doing an additional roundup of feminine instant Halloween costumes.

We’ll have multiple versions of some of the most popular superheroines so you can vary your game depending on how much skin you want to show and how absurdly cold it is where you live. *shakes fist at the Sun that has abandoned us*

All of the costumes below come courtesy of WeLoveFine, although some of these may also be available on Amazon, ThinkGeek, 80sTees, Neatoshop, and other geek-friendly stores. Thanks to Nicole for the assist.

Supergirl — $25 / $29 / $45

The Doctor’s TARDIS ($34) and a DALEK ($36) from Doctor Who

Adventure Time‘s Cake the Cat ($29), Jake the Dog ($34), and BMO ($29)

Royce Hutain of Huntington Beach, California, built a stick figure costume for his 2-year-old daughter Zoey. It’s made simply out of LED cable and Velcro stuck to dark-colored clothing. Description doesn’t do it justice, so here’s a GIF:

That is some adorable justice.

Hutain, who works in IT, says he doesn’t have time to build and send LED Halloween costumes to the people who requested one, but he does plan to post free instructions online.

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For the record, Stupid Sexy Flanders will forever be the best Ned Flanders Halloween costume ever costume’d. No debate.

But if we’re considering a silver, I offer up this Reddit submission from the weekend where one devoted Simpsons fan went full yellow face (not to be confused with the other, ill-advised “face” variation) and in the process sufficiently creeped out everyone at his party by taking IRL a little too far. Well diddily played, sir.

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Are you invited to a Halloween party you desperately want to skip? How desperate? Are you “let semi-trained cats steer a Chewbacca robot around the party in your stead” desperate? Bro, you haven’t even begun to understand the true meaning of Halloween till you’ve been “let semi-trained cats steer a Chewbacca robot around the party in your stead” desperate.

Conan O’Brien and the U.S. Air Force (disclaimer: not actually the U.S. Air Force) have just the thing for our Halloween needs. This video has EVERYTHING: cats, Star Wars, Halloween, Chewbacca costumes, shirking responsibilities, robots, Conan O’Brien. SOLD.

That Chewbacca is so suave.

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So it’s Halloween. Maybe you haven’t had a chance to get to the costume shop. Maybe you went last night and discovered there are corpses in the desert that have been less picked over. Either way, you’re up the creek, right? Nope, you can still get a costume. And with minimal work, too!

Here are five costumes, most of which I’ve jury-rigged myself and which are simple to gender-flip, that are generally clever enough to work. Keep in mind the true spirit of the holiday is consuming things that are bad for you and watching bad movies, so anybody busting your chops is an ass.

What You’ll Need: White mask, red hoodie, white duct tape.
Optional Item: Gold spraypaint

Anarky, as Batman: Arkham Origins players and hardcore DC fans know, is a Batman villain. It’s to your advantage that nobody else does. If you’ve got the time, spraypaint the mask, but either way, use the duct-tape to create an anarchy symbol on the side of your hoodie, put on the mask, pull up the hood, and BAM! You’re an annoying self-righteous teenager!

Can’t find a red hoodie? Look for a camping or hunting store; they probably have them on sale right now.

What You’ll Need: Furry brown vest, tan pants, brown boots, hand wrappings.

Another obscure villain, this time one of Spidey’s, and a good idea if you need something from your closet for Halloween. Yes, he’s a lame-ass, but let’s face it, it’s the last minute. The brown vest is best if furry, but realistically speaking, maybe five people are even going to get who you are. Especially funny if somebody’s going as Spider-Man, and somebody will always be going as Spider-Man.

What You’ll Need: A suit, a blank mask, black spray primer.

This one’s about as lazy as it gets and I’ve been guilty of using it for years. Got an OK suit? Wear it. Got a mask? It can be any blank mask, really, it just has to be something you can paint black. If somebody says “Isn’t his mask a skull?”, tell them you’re going as “classic” Black Mask from the ’90s, when he was a creepy badass who carved the mask from the wood of his parents’ coffin instead of just being a goomba who covers his face.

Be sure to get spray primer, or a matte finish spray paint, for the mask; it’s about a thousand times creepier when it absorbs light. At night, your head can disappear completely. Bonus points if you can get someone to go as “Circe” with you.

What You’ll Need: Blank mask, jumpsuit

The laziest outfit of all, and thank God for low budgets in classic horror movies. Just get a blank mask, tease your hair, and slap on the jumpsuit; you’ll be good to go.

Any suggestions? Let us know in the comments!

Jon Stewart welcomed Sir Patrick Stewart (hot Stewart-on-Stewart action!) to The Daily Show last night to promote his two Broadway plays, but mostly they just talked about his amazing lobster costume.

Sir Patrick opened with a poignant line about the Rob Ford and Rand Paul scandals that knocked Jon back (“You just blew my f*cking mind!”). But Jon quickly turned the conversation away from world politics because, like the rest of us, he wanted to know everything about the lobster costume. Sir Pat’s Halloween getup has a sweet story behind it, but it still managed to earn him some blowback from the hardcore crustacean fanboy community on Twitter.

And now, once more, to ensure it’s consigned to posterity:

Video via The Daily Show. Image via @SirPatStew

It’s that time of year again. We’re going to eat a near-fatal quantity of carbs and feign interest in our cousins’ new job titles while ducking questions about what our own job really entails. (We look at cats and not wear pants. BLOGLIFE.)

Let’s put the stress of those forced conversations out of our minds the same way we did last year: by laughing at perturbed pets stuffed into Thanksgiving-themed outfits. And thankful for them we are.

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“Happy Thanksgiving, America. Can I have turkey now?” — Orangeblossom8

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, directed by Jonathan Liebesman and coming this summer, has been a surprisingly tight-lipped production. Very little has actually leaked, other than Vanilla Ice desperately wants to be in it, and the old script was unsurprisingly terrible. But nothing stays under wraps forever, and the design of the Turtles has just leaked, via a crappy Halloween costume.

First dug up by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fansite, here’s the full costume in all its, ah, glory:

I’m still getting over Michelangelo beating up Kick-Ass and taking his pants. Joking aside, the design isn’t terrible or even actually that far from the original Turtles, really. Let’s face it, as long as they have the right weapons and the masks are either properly color-coded, most people will be happy.

Mostly it’s the sheer amount of crap on this costume that gives me pause. So, Michelangelo has sunglasses, a douchey surf-dude medallion and two leather straps across his chest, in addition to a loin cloth, board shorts, and what appear to be Chucks? Man, remember when the Turtles just had weapons and a leather belt?

True, we’d like to see, you know, a script, or a trailer, or any indication that this movie is actually coming out this year, since August is not actually that far away. But we’re sure that’ll turn up sooner rather than later.

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Show me a person who has ever been happy with his or her high school yearbook picture, and I’ll show you a person who, when not looking, would get devil horns and blacked out teeth drawn on that yearbook photo. We love terrible, awkward and messed up yearbook photos as much as we love cat GIFs and videos of puppies pushing soccer balls with their noses, because they make us forget about our mundane lives for a brief period of time, and they also remind us that our goofy-as-f*ck photos weren’t as terrible as we’ve always thought.

It looks like the students at Jeonju Haesung High School in South Korea actually have a pretty good idea for how we can keep all of the fun while doing away with awkward yearbook photos forever – by just acting like complete idiots in them on purpose. In these photos brought to us by the folks at Today Humor, the students are dressed up as everything from Iron Man to whatever that boy is doing above, and there’s absolutely no shame to their game.

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If you’ve never been to an Oscars costume party, consider yourself lucky to not be feeling the sting of personal failure when gazing at this most superior cosplay. This winning costume was made by Redditor papthegreek, who posted this photo with the caption, “For our Oscars costume party, I went as the whole movie.” This guy must have been so stoked when Gravity swept the technical awards and got the best director nod for Alfonso Cuaron.

SPOILER ALERT: at the end of the party, this guy hooks George Clooney to a helium balloon and tosses Sandra Bullock into the pool.

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“Get away from her, you doodyface!”

Carsten Riewe built this costume based on the “Caterpillar P5000 Power Loader” from that awesome fight scene in James Cameron’s Aliens. He and his one-year-old daughter wore the Power Loader costume to the Karneval Parade in his hometown in Germany last month.

Riewe says it took him 100 hours to finish the baby Power Loader costume. He powered its lights with a 12V battery in the backpack. That backpack also holds a Bluetooth boombox to play machine sound effects or MC Hammer songs because why not? You can’t touch this, you b*tch.

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We probably don’t cover Sailor Moon often enough in our frequent cosplay galleries, but we’re here to make amends. With puppies. Mayama_ya lives in Japan and makes tiny Sailor Moon outfits for equally tiny chihuahuas. Oh, Japan, never change your kawaii ways.

Some of our favorite pictures from Mayama_ya‘s adorable Instagram feed are collected below. Thanks to Kotaku East for the assist.

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Wil Wheaton tweeted a picture of the new GOAT at cosplaying Tyrion Lannister, played by Peter Dinklage on Game Of Thrones. For this year’s MegaCon in Orlando, Mica Bethea converted his wheelchair into the Iron Throne, then disguised his calves with fake boots to make himself appear shorter.

Between this costume and the previous mind-blowing Iron Throne cosplay, the bar is being set high for any future Game Of Thrones cosplayers. Check out the full picture of this most excellent Tyrion Lannister cosplay below, and you can see a few more pictures at Mica Bethea’s Instagram.

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I hope he rolled up on somebody dressed as Joffrey and slapped them. And the Joffrey couldn’t even be mad. If you’re dressed as Joffrey and a Tyrion in a rolling Iron Throne does a drive-by slapping, you should just add that to your bucket list then immediately cross it off and say thank you.

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Game Of Thrones Season 4 premieres this Sunday on HBO, and to celebrate we’ve collected our favorite Game Of Thrones cosplay our Flickr Group and Creative Commons has to offer. It’s certainly not the first time we’ve featured mind-blowing costumes based on the series, but this is our largest Game Of Thrones cosplay roundup yet with four galleries in total.

Admittedly, there’s a heavy emphasis on Daenerys Targaryen because she’s an awesomely popular cosplay choice. As she should be. If you’re not familiar with the characters (How?), you can check out the College Humor series recap or the Honest Trailers’ recap then continue on to the 20 excellent cosplay pictures below. As always, you can also view these on a single page.

Daenerys Targaryen photographed by Darryl Pamplin.

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Jon Snow photographed by Alexander Öglaend.

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Daenerys Targaryen cosplayed by Yaya Han, photographed by Anna Fischer.

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Cersei Lannister and Littlefinger photographed by Ethan Trewhitt.

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Khal Drogo and Daenerys Targaryen photographed by Kyle Nishioka.

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Photographed by V Threepio. Submitted via the Gamma Squad Flickr Group.

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Melisandre, Stannis Baratheon, two Margaery Tyrells, and Renly Baratheon photographed by Matt Malone.

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Photographed by Alan Teo.

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Jon Snow photographed by Hina Ichigo.

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Photographed by Rizwan Baig.

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Photographed by Matt Refghi.

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Daenerys Targaryen cosplayed by Roxanna Meta, photographed by Nikki Thayer. Submitted via the Gamma Squad Flickr Group.

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Direwolf and Brother Of The Watch photographed by Mike S.

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Lady Deadpool and Joffrey Baratheon photographed by Pat Loika.

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• Game Of Thrones Cosplay (Part Two)
• Game Of Thrones Cosplay (Part Three)
• Game Of Thrones Cosplay (Part Four)