Hip Halloween Costume Ideas for Couples

Check out any list of Halloween costume ideas for couples and you'll see the same tired duos -- from Adam and Eve to Homer and Marge. Many online costume retailers offer ready-made costumes for these cliche "celebrity" couples, along with even goofier and less glam costume ideas for couples, such as plug and socket and bowling ball and bowling pin.

If you're looking for some hipper Halloween costume ideas for you and your partner this year, here are some great couples to dress up as for Halloween 2010:

Halloween Couple Idea #1:
Don and Betty Draper from Mad Men
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Who can pull it off: Barbie and Ken types

What to wear:60's clothes, available from vintage clothing stores and closets of elderly hoarders

How to behave: Flirt with everyone but your spouse.

Halloween Couple Idea #2:
Barack and Michelle Obama
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Who can pull it off: Sophisticated, trim people of color, preferable with toned arms

What to wear: Stylish clothes, think GQ and Vogue

How to behave: Both are witty and charming. Barack tells a lot of jokes; Michelle glares at people making too many trips to the chips bowl.

Halloween Couple Idea #3:
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski from Morning Joe
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Who can pull it off: 40ish couple; guy is dark-haired, slightly overweight; female partner, trim and blonde

What to wear: Joe, cardigan and slacks; Mika, Donna Reed dress

How to behave: Joe offers opinions on anything and everything, talking over people with whom he doesn't agree; Mika scowls a lot and glares at people who gossip about celebrities.

Halloween Couple Idea 2010 #4:
Michaele and Tareq Salahi, White House gate crashers
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Who can pull it off: Middle Eastern looking guy with glamorous blonde wife

What to wear: Tux and sari (for a fun twist, Michaele can wear the tux and Tareq the sari)

How to behave: Crash the hottest party in your town and insert yourself into every photo op.

Halloween Couple Idea #5:
Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva
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Who can pull it off: Middle-aged man with younger, enhanced partner

What to wear: Mel, ruggedly handsome attire; Oksana, the tighter the better

How to behave: Mel walks around the party like Archie Bunker on steroids, trashing every gender, religion and ethnic group to which he does not belong. Lots of heavy breathing and epithet uttering. Oksana secretly trails Mel with a digital recorder.

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