Halloween Costume Budget Tip: ‘Web Slinger Boy’ Instead Of Spider-Man

People are sharing some of the funniest off-brand Halloween costumes they've found this year - like a "Where's Waldo" type costume called "Missing Boy" and a Wednesday Addams costume called "Evil Midweek Cutie."

If you've been shopping for BUDGET Halloween costumes for your kids, or let's be honest - YOURSELF - you may have seen how off-brand Halloween costumes kind of dance around trademarks to sell knock-offs. Like those designer Luey Vuitton, Kate Spayed, and  Goochi items. Oh - you KNOW they're out there!

You can find "Stranger Things" costumes under the name "Unusual Events," and "Game of Thrones" costumes under the name "Kingdom of Battles".

There are a lot of them out there - here are some of the more amusing generic costumes people have seen:

1.  A Michael Jackson mask called "Plastic Man," referencing plastic surgery.  Even better, there's a "not for children" warning on the label.

2.  A "Missing Boy" costume that looks a LOT like "Where's Waldo".

3.  An "Evil Midweek Cutie" costume that's clearly Wednesday from "The Addams Family".

4.  "A-Lad-In a Costume" outfit, that's obviously "Aladdin".

5.  A very questionable "Trans Boy"(???)  costume, which is SUPPOSED to be an innocent play on "Transformers"  - at least I think.

6. Maybe instead of number five, go with the Spider-Man-inspired "Web Slinger Boy".

6.  A "Boy of the Rings" costume, which looks very Hobbit-y.

7.  A "Governor of Tasteville" costume, which will have you all set up to host a variety of Food Network shows.

8.  A "Dark Angle" costume that spells ANGEL as ANGLE.

9.  A "White Clam" costume where adults can dress as a can of White Claw.

10.  And a "Little Factory Worker" costume, which is obviously an "Oompa Loompa" from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".

If you think about TV and movies, there have always been fake brands. If you can't afford to pay to use the actual brand, you have to come up with something else.

Here are some of those fake TV and movie brands know so well

Roadrunner cartoons are still popular. In every single episode, Wile E. Coyote hunts the roadrunner using goofy ACME contraptions that consistently fail or backfire, like anvils, fold-out roadblocks and stick-on tunnel entrances. There were many real-life ‘Acme’ companies at one time, because the name would appear at the top of alphabetical telephone directory listings. By the way, ACME means "perfection" in Greek.

For the who don't know, Cheesy Poofs are the fictional brand of cheese-flavored snack that South Park's gluttonous Eric Cartman loves. What South Park fan hasn’t at one time found themselves craving a packet of Cheesy Poofs? Comedy Central  released real-life Cheesy Poofs as limited editions on two occasions.

Not only did the makers of iconic 1984 comedy "Ghostbusters" create iconic branding for the film itself, they also created one of the most memorable in-movie brands of modern cinema history- Stay Puft Marshmallows!

Even if you’ve never watched The Simpsons, you can probably guess that Duff Beer is a satire on the kind of mass-market beverages popular with working-class Americans. It has its own spokesperson,  Duffman (a parody of Budweiser's '70s-era mascot Bud Man)it has the Duff Gardens theme park ride through a brown river of beer ("Duff beer for me, Duff beer for you, I'll have a Duff, You have one too") and the ever-present Duff beer blimp!

Bubba Gump Shrimp Company has probably now become even better known as a real-world brand than a fictional one. Featured in the 1994 film Forrest Gump, the fictional seafood restaurant inspired a real-life chain which had 40 branches by 2015, in the United States, Mexico, Japan, Malaysia, London, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Marianas and the Philippines, generating around $400 million per year in revenue. The company is based in Houston, Texas, and has been a division of Landry's Restaurants since 2010.