Pop Culture Halloween Costumes for Couples in 2009

If you are looking for Halloween costumes for couples, there's no better inspiration than something ripped from the headlines. Pop culture is a great source of great Halloween costume ideas.

Kanye West & Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift, female costume: a sparkly dress and a mock VMA award.
Kanye West, male costume: sunglasses, a black garbage bag, and a hair-do modeled after the Nazca lines.
The couple shares: microphone.
At the Halloween party, have your Taylor Swift start talking to a couple of strangers, and then your Kanye butts in: "Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you, and I'mma let you finish... but Mrs. Doubtfire had one of the best costumes of all time."

Jon & Kate Gosselin
Kate Gosselin, female costume: the Kate Gosselin haircut, sunglasses, and an eye strain from all the paparazzi photos.
Jon Gosselin, male costume: sunglasses, the look of pensive frustration.
The couple shares: eight Cabbage Patch Kids.
At the Halloween party, have your Kate Gosselin butt her way into every conversation as a way of getting attention, while your Jon Gosselin takes the opportunity to hit on other women. The Cabbage Patch Kids are nowhere in sight.

President Barack Obama & Rep. Joe Wilson
Joe Wilson, female or male costume: suit, white shirt, blue tie, a fit of Tourette's.
Barack Obama, female or male costume: suit, white shirt, blue tie, hint of nicotine smell.
The couple shares: the spotlight.
At the Halloween party, have your Barack Obama bring a karaoke machine, and sing a duet of Simon & Garfunkel's The Boxer with your Joe Wilson. Joe Wilson can solo the "lie, lie, lie" part.

Lady Gaga & Caster Semenya
Lady Gaga, female or male (or both) costume: aluminum turkey pan helmet, bacon-wrapped Snuggie, Burger King wrappers for shoes.
Caster Semenya, female or male (or both) costume: green track shorts, track shoes, yellow-green top with Toyota Semenya Berlin 2009 placard.
The couple shares: a deep, dark secret.
At the Halloween party, have your Lady Gaga lead the Halloweeners in a rendition of "Let's Do The Time Warp Again" while passing her disco stick like a baton to your Caster Semenya, who then runs the 800 meter.

Swine Flu & The Health Care Bill
Swine Flu, female or male costume: particle mask, Hazmat suit, curly pig tail.
The Health Care Bill, female or male costume: reams and reams of paper fastened to the body with red tape.
The couple shares: daily news stories in the fall and winter of 2009.
At the Halloween party, have your Swine Flu start bobbing for apples, as your Health Care Bill convinces everyone at the party that the benefits of an apple a day outweighs the harm of a potential outbreak.