Trick-or-Treat Memories
When your cheap plastic pumpkin bucket got too full, you upgraded to using this common bedroom item to haul your candy.
What is a Pillowcase?
If you forget to buy a costume, you can poke two eye-holes in this linen closet item for the ultimate last-minute outfit.
What is a Bedsheet?
You spend an hour doing this to a vegetable, only for it to rot and cave in on your porch three days later.
What is Carving a Pumpkin (or making a Jack-o'-Lantern)?
This tri-colored, cone-shaped candy is highly controversial—people either fiercely love it or think it tastes like candle wax.
What is Candy Corn?
A neighbor achieved instant legendary status on the block if they handed out this "holy grail" of Halloween items.
What is a Full-Size Candy Bar?
In the 2004 movie Mean Girls, Karen points to her animal ears and famously delivers this four-word excuse for a costume: "I'm a..."
What is "...Mouse, Duh!"?
At a haunted house party, reaching into a bowl of peeled grapes in the dark is supposed to feel like this body part.
What are Eyeballs?
These small, brightly colored wafers come in a clear cellophane wrapper and taste suspiciously like chalk.
What are Smarties?
In It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, this is what Charlie Brown gets in his bag while trick-or-treating, instead of candy.
What is A rock ("I got a rock")
If you wear regular clothes to a party and tell people, "I'm a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else," you are quoting this deadpan movie character.
Who is Wednesday Addams?
To create a spooky graveyard vibe at a house party, you drop dry ice into water to create this low-hanging visual effect.
What is Fog (or smoke)?
If you try to eat these chewy, chocolate-covered caramel drops on Halloween, there is a very high chance they will glue your teeth together.
What are Milk Duds?
It was the ultimate disappointment to knock on a door, hold out your bag, and receive this dreaded oral hygiene tool instead of sugar.
What is a Toothbrush?
This tubular barbecue meat is consistently one of the most popular, and most awkwardly shaped, full-body foam costumes you can buy.
What is a Hot Dog?
The messy, stringy insides you scoop out of a pumpkin are usually separated so you can bake these in the oven with some salt.
What are Pumpkin Seeds?
You always ended up with a surplus of this lollipop, famous for having a bubblegum center that loses its flavor in about 10 seconds.
What is a Blow Pop?
To maximize your candy haul, you had to avoid the one house that always handed out these dried grapes in little red boxes.
What are Raisins?
Michael Keaton plays this black-and-white-striped “bio-exorcist” in a 1988 Tim Burton film, a popular costume
What is Beetlejuice?
This popular autumn weekend activity usually involves wearing a flannel shirt, taking a hayride, and paying $30 to do manual labor on a farm.
What is Apple Picking?
This polarizing candy bar features coconut covered in dark chocolate, meaning kids usually end up trading it away to their parents.
What is Mounds?
Featuring legendary horror movie actor Vincent Price providing the creepy spoken-word rap at the end, this 1983 music video basically invented the Halloween pop-culture dance routine.
What is "Thriller" (by Michael Jackson)?