The Dance-Themed “Today” Show Costumes Were A Beat Behind

October 31, 2019 / Posted by:

The Today studio is haunted by the spectre of Matt Lauer dressed as Lucy from The Peanuts, and it shows. Of course, it wasn’t just Matt that brought a pox upon the Today studio that day, though he ultimately posed the greatest existential threat. October 31, 2015 was the day the earth’s core fissured, allowing Satan’s demonic load to germinate upon the soil, his evil issue taking the form of humanoid creatures capable of evil the likes of which have never been seen, in hell or on earth. The Today group costume has been whack ever since. This year’s is the worst one yet with a confusing and vague “Everybody Dance” theme. Where is the specificity? Where is the cohesion? Where is the gyrating blood lust invocation summoning the infernal damned to take their rightful place on the throne of man? Are we expected to quiver in the face of Al Roker with a Carlton Banks sweater over his shoulders and ill-fitting golf pants? Not today, Satan!

Today must have given the costume department the day off because the effort put into these looks was minimal. The “Everybody Dance” theme was loosely interpreted as “Everybody Just Pick A Wig”. According to Us Weekly:

Saturday night Thursday morning fever! The cohosts of theToday show did not shy away from going all out with the “Everybody Dance” theme for the 2019 Halloween episode on Thursday, October 31.

Carson Daly and Savannah Guthrie dressed as Grease’s Danny and Sandy; Hoda Kotb brought out her inner Saturday Night Fever; Jenna Bush Hager and Willie Geist recreated Dirty Dancing’s iconic dance-lift scene; and Craig Melvin and Al Roker buddied up as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air characters.

Even Us Weekly is so bored they couldn’t be bothered to ask an intern who Al and Craig were supposed to be. Here’s their look.

Of course, I would have preferred they really went with it and recreated this iconic scene. Al Roker in a crop top would have been truly demonic.

Here’s Jenna making her first appearance on the show since going on maternity leave. People reports that she’s still officially on leave, but I guess had a bunch of weird pouty faces in her that were yearning to be free.

Somebody please put Baby back in the corner. We also had Sheinelle Jones as Rhythm Nation Janet Jackson, Peter Alexander as Kevin Bacon in Footloose, and my personal favorite, meteorologist Dylan Dreyer as Elaine from Seinfeld. Here’s an example of why you aren’t supposed to have daytime Halloween parties.

And here’s 10 minutes of exposition necessary for the audience to “get” the Today crew costumes.

Ok, maybe Satan really did have his hand in this because I feel like he might have bored everyone to death. Even Beelzebub himself knows he’ll never top this.

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