10 Costume Ideas For Pledges
The awesome thing about having pledges is they will do whatever you tell them to do, be it a menial task around the house during house cleanup, or a humiliating public stunt. This simple reality is easily exploitable on Halloween. You can put them in whichever costume you can think of. Here are 10 ideas:
1. Miley/Wrecking Ball Combo
Two pledges — one is Miley, the other is a wrecking ball. If you can situate the dual costume so that Miley is riding the wrecking ball, that’s ideal. At minimum, they should be conjoined at all times. Minimal clothing is recommended.
2. Any Character that is Bald
Any excuse to shave a pledge’s head and give him the classic, U-shaped male pattern baldness, and you’ve got a winner. It’d be even funnier if the character you choose is someone really obscure just to drive the point home that all you really wanted was a reason to shave his head.
3. Speed Bump
It’s extremely demeaning. Demeaning is good. He’ll get stepped on a lot, too, and that’s funny.
4. Rush Boobs
Give him the required task of acquiring letters from all sororities accounted for at the party, and he must take pictures with all of them.
5. A Composite Photo
A live composite photo. He’ll have to cut out a place for his head to go, wear a suit, and stay picture-ready at all times during the evening. Give him a solid name, too — something humiliating.
6. A Stuffed Animal
Any kind will do, as long as it’s a full-body costume. It’s a classic, but he’ll be hot as hell in there, and miserable. It’s also a very punchable costume.
7. Waldo
Make it a requirement that he appears in the backdrop of every single photo taken at the party.
8. Kenny Powers
Again, the hair. You find an excuse to cut a pledge’s hair into something absurd. The Kenny Powers power mullet is perfect.
9. A Baby
Save the baby costume for your fattest pledge. Use a white sheet to fashion into a diaper. Shit’s gonna be hilarious.
10. A Fire
An old TFM classic. He’s to be seen and not heard for the entirety of the evening.
If you have an Asian pledge, have him go around as Lloyd, and have an active be Ari Gold. More specifically, have him dress like he does in season one, where Ari describes it as “Michelle Kwan in drag.”
12 years ago at 6:02 pmMore importantly, if you have an Asian pledge…kill yourself.
12 years ago at 9:51 pm^
12 years ago at 8:10 amMichael Myers with cerebral palsy is a hilarious one
12 years ago at 6:05 pmWe always had a xmas tree pledge dressed in all green and wrapped him in xmas lights. Stood in the corner all night. Don’t forget to plug him in.
12 years ago at 6:11 pmIt’s called Christmas, dickwad.
12 years ago at 9:37 am^The X comes from the Greek word for Christ. Try less next time champ
12 years ago at 3:28 pmHalloween, when it’s compulsory for girls to wear next to nothing and pledging can get a little sexually degrading, I love it.
12 years ago at 6:17 pmThe girl on top of Waldo… I’d pee.
12 years ago at 6:29 pmOne year, we made our pledges wear garbage cans and walk around the party. Everyone started throwing shit in there, and eventually a girl puked on one of the pledges.
12 years ago at 9:27 pmWe made a pledge be Kenny from South Park, and encouraged all of the brothers to “kill” him in some way during the night. Although, it got more and more dangerous as the night went on (from shoving him down to making him jump off the roof), it was all in good fun.
12 years ago at 9:56 pm
12 years ago at 12:38 amPeter Griffin vs. the Chicken. Every time the active blows a whistle, the two in the yard have to fight each other. Extra points if you throw in the evil monkey from the closet to point at them.
12 years ago at 7:40 amAs a pledge, I was a tennis ball boy and my big brother was a tennis player. Anytime he felt the need to throw a tennis ball across the bar I would have to sprint and find it and bring it back to him.
12 years ago at 8:46 am