40 Halloween Plans That Went From “Boo!” To “Oops!” Real Quick

Halloween is that one night of the year when chaos is not just accepted, it’s encouraged. Between the elaborate costumes, spooky decorations, and wild party ideas, something always goes hilariously wrong. And honestly, that’s half the fun.

From makeup that melted faster than the candy in your pocket to costumes that didn’t survive the night, these Halloween fails are pure gold. You’ll see ghosts that look more confused than scary, pumpkins that probably need a therapist, and group costumes that definitely weren’t as coordinated as planned. Here are some Halloween plans that started spooky but ended up spectacularly silly.

#1 All Of My Coworkers Agreed To Dress Up As Smurfs For Halloween. Im The Only One To Go Through With It

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#2 Was At My Kid’s School For A Costume Parade. One Dad Misunderstood In The Best Way Possible

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#3 My Team Said We Were Dressing As Dominoes

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#4 I Was Asked “Why Didn’t You Dress Up For Halloween?”

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#5 Another Year, Another Pumpkin That Won’t Make It To Halloween Night

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#6 Carved Our Pumpkin A Bit Too Early This Year

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#7 Halloween Is Ruined

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#8 Oh That’s Funny

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#9 Accidentally Let A Pumpkin From Halloween Rot In My Front Yard, And Now There’s A Pumpkin Vine That Won’t Stop Growing, What Should I Do?

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#10 Bought This For Our Halloween Family Skeleton Setup Because It Looks Exactly Like My Sweet Dachshund. She Unexpectedly Passed The Next Day

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#11 Halloween Spider

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#12 I Ordered Some Tights For Halloween Online. I Didn’t Check The Size And It Turns Out They Were A Bit Too Small

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#13 My Son Partied Too Hard At School Before Trick Or Treating

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Lil guy ate too much pizza, cupcakes and candy at school, found him passed out on the sofa from a tummy ache while in costume when I got out of work at 6. time for sum Pepto…

#14 I Hit A Deer… While Dressed As A Deer. Happy Halloween

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#15 We Were Supposed To Go As Bikers But He Didn’t Get The Memo

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#16 This Pennywise Halloween Costume

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#17 My Partner And I Tried To Make A Gingerbread Cat For Halloween I Think Ours Is Spookier

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#18 Threw A Halloween Party On Monday. This Is The Only Picture Of Me, Because 20 Minutes Before Everyone Showed, I Got Hit With The Worst Food Poisoning I’ve Ever Had In My Life

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I spent the night huddled in bed with a plastic bowl to vomit in while 30-40 of my friends continued partying outside my door. Couldn’t even use my bathroom, because there was always a line of drunk people waiting to use it. I was looking forward to it all month.

#19 I Wanted To Dress As ‘Cotton Candy’ For Halloween

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#20 Woke Up This Morning To 6 Cops, A Fire Truck, And An Ambulance At My Door Because A Passing Car Was Concerned About The One Halloween Decoration I Neglected To Take Down

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#21 My Contribution To Tomorrow’s Halloween Treats At Work

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#22 I Spent $200 On Full Size Candy To Be “That House” For Halloween. Only Had One Group Of Trick Or Treaters Come By So Far And It’s Almost 9pm

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#23 Hosted A Halloween Party And No One Showed Up

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Sent a lot of invites and got everything decorated for absolutely no one to show up or bother giving me a heads up they weren’t coming or assured me they would come and bailed.

#24 Halloween Decoration My Mom Bought

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#25 October Thunderstorm, Before And After

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#26 Two Women Let Their Dogs Pee And Jump On My Halloween Decorations. Then Let One Up On My Porch

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#27 The Only Picture My Drunk Boyfriend Got Of My Halloween Costume

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#28 Someone Ruined My Neighbour’s Kids’ Halloween Pumpkin They’ve Been Growing For Months And Months

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#29 I Did Not Do The Research On When To Plant Pumpkin Seeds For Halloween (21 July)

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#30 To Be The Mask For Halloween

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#31 How Many Years Bad Luck For Breaking My Bosses Hundred Year Old Mirror… In A Haunted Pub… On Halloween?

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#32 Finally Have My Own Place And Bought Candy For Halloween Only Had 2 Kids Come By

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#33 Happy Halloween

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#34 Tried To Make A “Stab Wound” For Halloween… And It Looks Like A Menstrual Pad

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#35 Neighbor Wants Halloween Decorations Down Nov 1st

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#36 Wife Made A Spooky Halloween Dinner. Result Was Slightly More Terrifying

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#37 Ah Yes, My Favorite Halloween Tradition, The Christmas Tree

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#38 Got Appendicitis On Halloween. Luckily We Caught It Early Before It Perforated So I’m Here To Live Another Day

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#39 I Bought This Pallet Specifically For The “Blue” Middle Shade. Wasted My Money Because I Need It For My Halloween Costume

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#40 Today I Learned That 99% Of The People At My Work Don’t Know Who Prison Mike Is, So I’m Just A Huge Loser In A Suit & Bandana For Halloween

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