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A Three-Hour Tour

  • one sailor cap, red long-sleeve shirt, white pants
  • one captain's hat, blue shirt with pillow stuffed under, white pants
  • one navy blazer, khaki pants, white shirt, ascot, monacle
  • one 1960s fancy cocktail dress
    = Gilligan, the Skipper, the Millionare & His Wife from Gilligan's Island


Marxism Is Fun

  • one black tux, glasses with funny nose and mustache, and cigar
  • one curly wig, long coat, and horn
  • one plain suit and felt cap
  • one stylish suit
    = the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo)


Three's Company

  • three black suits
  • one bald cap
  • one curly wig
  • one bowl-cut wig
    = the Three Stooges (Larry, Curly, and Moe)


Start Spreadin' the News

  • tuxedos
  • cigarettes
  • martinis
    = The Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.)
    (Frank and Dean as seen at FDPB 1998)


Like, Totally Awesome

  • three miniskirts
  • three tight tops
  • three 1980s-style jackets
  • bright makeup & big hair
    = the three Heathers who got killed in Heathers


Witchy Menage a Trois

  • smart 1960s dress & wiggle your nose
  • plain 1960s suit & exasperated expression (two of each)
    = Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha, Dick York as Darren #1, and Dick Sargent as #2, all as in Bewitched


Boogie Woogie Bugle Gals

  • 1940s suits and hats
    = two out of the three Andrews Sisters (Laverne & Maxene)


I Wanna Be Sedated

  • two pair jeans
  • two black T-shirt
  • two pair sunglasses
  • shaggy, messy hair
    = Joey and Dee Dee of the Ramones


Across the Universe

  • two pair jeans
  • two hippie-ish shirts
  • one pair round glasses or sunglasses
  • one sitar or other Indian artifact
    = John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles


Like, Totally Bogus, Dude

  • two pair baggy shorts
  • two oversize t-shirts
  • two big flannel shirts
  • two pair tennis shoes/vans/hightops
    = Bill and Ted from Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (they die and come back)


No, You're Dead

  • one dark suit
  • one pale bathrobe and nightgown
    = Friedrich Nietzsche and God
    (as seen at FDPB 1998)


Hogwarts' Honeys

  • modern British clothes
  • graduation robes
  • wizard wands
    = James and Lily Potter, Harry Potter's parents (as seen at FDPB 2002)


Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow

  • Medieval or Renaissance men's outfit, knife wounds
  • Medieval or Renaissance women's outfit, knife wounds
    = Romeo and Juliet at the end of the play


Altogether Oooky

  • smoking jacket, black pants and shirt, fez
  • long black dress, long black wig
    = Raul Julia as Gomez from The Addams Family movies and Carolyn Jones as Morticia on The Addams Family TV show


The All-American Couple

  • one dark suit
  • one fluffy fifties dress and pearls
    = Ozzie and Harriet Nelson


Love, French Existentialist Style

  • 1950s or 60s clothes, esp. in black
  • copy of No Exit and The Second Sex
    = Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Bouvier