‘Arrr’ You Ready?
“Aye aye” think we should start this photo gallery with a throwback to Days of Our Lives’ 2011 Halloween party and “soul-mateys” Bo (Peter Reckell) and Hope (Kristian Alfonso) doing their best to make pirate chic a thing.
Dressed to Perplex: Soaps’ Best Disguises and Costumes [PHOTOS]
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Male Call
Image Credit: CBS screenshot Seemingly having exhausted her supply of wigs, The Young and the Restless’ Crazy Aunt Jordan (Colleen Zenk) continued to elude the authorities in 2024 by transforming herself from a wanted woman into an unrecognizable man.
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‘Paws’ and Rewind
Image Credit: The Walt Disney Company General Hospital sweetheart Trina (Tabyana Ali) proved that she wasn’t afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf by accessorizing her Little Red Riding Hood Halloween costume in 2023 with unusually hirsute boyfriend Spencer (Nicholas Alexander Chavez).
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Heavy Metal
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI In 2016, it was steampunk all the way for Bold & Beautiful trick-or-treaters Caroline (Linsey Godrey, now Sarah on Days of Our Lives) and Thomas (then Pierson Fodé).
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Second to Nun
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI While searching for Days of Our Lives’ Kristen at, of all places, a convent, Steve (Stephen Nichols) and Kayla (Mary Beth Evans) risked eternal damnation in 2022 by going undercover as the ultimate holy rollers.
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Mae We?
Image Credit: Sean Smith/JPI In 2015, The Young and the Restless’ Nikki (Melody Thomas Scott) seized the opportunity to let out her inner Mae West. Why she would’ve ever put her inner Mae West back in is a question we are ill-equipped to answer.
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Marge Simpson, Is That You?
Image Credit: Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images Nah, the height is right but the color, all wrong. All My Children dressed Ryan Lavery (Cameron Mathison, new Drew on General Hospital) and wife Annie (Melissa Claire Egan, now Chelsea on Young & Restless) as Frankenstein’s creature and his bride for a 2009 monster mash.
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Sea-Worthy
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI With apologies to Bold & Beautiful birthday girl Beth, she was upstaged at her own mermaid-themed party in 2023 a trio of sirens: aunts Katie (Heather Tom) and Donna (Jennifer Gareis) and grandma Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang).
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#RelationshipGoals
Image Credit: Paul Skipper/JPI When Days of Our Lives’ Jan (Heather Lindell) said in 2004 that she wanted to grow old with Shawn (then Jason Cook), this wasn’t quite what she had in mind.
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Queen of Denial
Image Credit: Sean Smith/JPI Wonder if Julius Caesar salad was on the menu the year that Young & Restless dressed up Lily (Christel Khalil) as Cleopatra.
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Serving Breakfast Club All Day Long
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Somewhere John Hughes had to be smiling as General Hospital paid tribute to his ’80s classic with Trina (then Sydney Mikayla), Dev (Ashton Arbab), Cameron (William Lipton) and Josslyn (Eden McCoy) in 2019.
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Ghoul, Please!
Image Credit: ABC/Getty Images (2) No, these shots were not taken seconds after Grey’s Anatomy doc Jo (Camilla Luddington) learned that husband Alex was dumping her for an old flame. The occasion was actually just Halloween 2019 — and the opportunity to, we suppose, scare patients back to good health.
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Is It Hot in Here…
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI … or is it just Bold & Beautiful schemer Thomas (Matthew Atkinson) looking for all the world like the kinda fireman that shows up at a bachelorette party and then sets off the “smokin’” alarm?
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Top of the Mourning to You!
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI The Young and the Restless had Phyllis (Michelle Stafford) get wiggy and don glasses in 2023 so that she could crash her own memorial service and count the number of tears that fell. You know, the way anybody would have.
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A Wear-Feather Friend
Image Credit: Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images When All My Children positioned Adam (David Canary) between heaven and hell in 2009, the former was represented by Annie (Melissa Claire Egan); the latter, by David (Vincent Irizarry).
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‘You’ve Got Some ’Splainin’ to Do’
Image Credit: Paul Skipper/JPI In 2003, Days of Our Lives had Elvis — that is, Lucas (Bryan R. Dattilo) — say, “I love Lucy” — that is, Sami (Alison Sweeney). Got all that? ’Cause we’re not sure we do.
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Head Case
Image Credit: Paul Skipper/JPI General Hospital scared up a new look with which Lisa (Brianna Brown) could terrorize Robin (Kimberly McCullough) in 2011. But judging from the latter’s blasé reaction, we’re guessing all she saw in her tormentor’s costume was pie.
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No Lack of ‘Mojo’ Here
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI In 2004, Sally (Darlene Conley) — aka the most masterful master of diguise ever to play dress-up on Bold & Beautiful — hatched a scheme that was so bonkers, it required her to deck herself out in Massimo drag.
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Churn, Baby, Churn
Image Credit: Procter & Gamble Productions After driving off a bridge in 1990, Guiding Light’s “late” Reva (Kim Zimmer) resurfaced as an Amish amesiac. And Alan (Ron Raines)? He wasn’t Amish, nor did he have amnesia; he just couldn’t resist a snazzy pair of suspenders.
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Who’s Bad?
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI (3) We have to gloved-hand it to Young & Restless’ Devon (Bryton James): When it came to his 2017 Michael Jackson costume, nobody could beat it.
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Shantay, You Stay
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Michelle Visage would’ve had a field day clocking their scruff, but Days of Our Lives’ Chad (Billy Flynn), Sonny (Zach Tinker) and Will (Chandler Massey) still put their best stilleto’d feet forward on Beyond Salem in 2021.
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Grave Matters
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI In 2019, General Hospital sent Maxie (Kirsten Storms) and Peter (Wes Ramsey) so far back in time that pigeons had yet to do their business on that headstone.
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‘Did Somebody Call for an Electrician?’
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI Here’s the Bold & Beautiful tag team of Sally (Darlene Conley) and Gladys (Phyllis Diller) “plumbing” the depths of their imagination in 2003 to role-play their way into… Well, knowing them, hot water. But that’s rarely the goal.
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What Ever Happened to Fay Wray?
Image Credit: Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images When Loving took a trip to Universal Studios in Florida in 1993, Ava (Lisa Peluso) drove King Kong… well, ape.
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Fang Male
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Knowing how much there was, ahem, at stake, The Young and the Restless’ Billy (Jason Thompson) really sunk his teeth into Halloween in 2019. Hope they weren’t serving garlic dip!
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Piñata Chic
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI In 1997, Days of Our Lives’ Susan (then Eileen Davidson) was all dressed up with nowhere to go. Then again, where would one go in an outfit that’s so very… um… very.
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What Comic Book Is *This* In?
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI General Hospital let future exes Michael (Chad Duell) and Sasha (Sophia Mattsson) make it up as they went along on Halloween in 2019.
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To Know a Veil
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI Beneath that flimsy pastel disguise in 2005 was the unimistakable face of Bold & Beautiful knockout Taylor (then Hunter Tylo).
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The Best-Maid Plans
Image Credit: ABC What really sold the housekeeper get-up in which General Hospital dressed Holly Sutton (Emma Samms) in 2023 was the stack of towels with which it was accessorized. Even Felicia Scorpio (Kristina Wagner) seemed to be fooled.
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Not *Quite* as Young as Restless
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI In 2003, The Young and the Restless offered a glimpse of what it would look like if it hit Victor (Eric Braeden) with a case of Soap-Opera Rapid-Aging Syndrome.
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Nunsense
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Even guest star Maureen O’Sullivan had to look away in 1981 when All My Children tried to pass off the sinful Erica Kane (Susan Lucci) as a twisted sister.
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‘Elementary, My Dear Watson’
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI As he headed out for the evening, General Hospital had Curtis (Donnell Turner) go Holmes for Halloween 2019 — Sherlock Holmes, that is.
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Best Tennis Match Ever
Image Credit: Paul Skipper/JPI In 2009, The Bold and the Beautiful had Owen (Brandon Beemer, now Shawn, Days of Our Lives) make throw a pass at to Jackie (Lesley-Anne Down) while Pam (Alley Mills) did her best to referee.
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Who’s That Girl?
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI That, believe it or not, is Young & Restless’ Phyllis (Michelle Stafford) exceptionally well-disguised in 2005. Wonder if she discovered that blondes really do have more fun.
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When the Chips Are Down…
Image Credit: Paul Skipper/JPI … we can always tell Days of Our Lives’ Princess Gina (Kristian Alfonso) from Hope. As in this photo from 2012, the royal pain is almost never seen without champagne, a cigarette and a haughty expression.
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Costume Party
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI When General Hospital told A Christmas Carol in 2019, Ava (Maura West), Josslyn (Eden McCoy) and Obrecht (Kathleen Gati) got made over as the ghosts of Christmas future, past and gorgeous. Sorry, present — future, past and present.
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G’day, Mate!
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Dunno how this picture from 2015 got in here. This is just a shot of the Bold & Beautiful mother/son duo of Quinn (Rena Sofer) and Wyatt (Darin Brooks) on their way to pick up a few things at Piggly Wiggly.
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Eat Your Heart Out, Kristen DiMera!
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI (2) Young & Restless’ Nick (Joshua Morrow) only wore one incredibly lifelike mask — to turn him into a replica of ex-brother-in-law J.T. (Thad Luckinbill) — but it sure did the trick. He scared the bejesus out of half of Genoa City; now they all have to take bejesus supplements.
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Nun of a Kind
Image Credit: Paul Skipper/JPI Days of Our Lives revealed in 2007 that the DiMera/Brady feud had its origins in… Wait, what? EJ (then James Scott) and Sami (Alison Sweeney) looking like contenders to win second prize in a costume contest?
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‘The World Was Such a Wholesome Place Until… ’
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Cruella de Vil was embodied by General Hospital femme fatale Ava (Maura West) in 2019. But don’t worry: The coat is “foe” fur.
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‘Costumes? What Costumes?’
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI We jest. The Bold and the Beautiful went extra wild and crazy to celebrate Halloween in 2019. Just to be on the safe side, though, let’s keep Douglas (Henry Joseph Samiri) away from the villainess in the previous photo, shall we?
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The Phantom of the Soap Opera
Image Credit: Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images In 1998, All My Children had Erica (Susan Lucci) try to distract ex-husband Adam (David Canary) from the mask with which she was covering up a souvenir from a car crash by giving him the cold shoulder.
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‘You’re the One That I Want’… for Now
Image Credit: Paul Skipper/JPI Though Days of Our Lives’ Rafe (Galen Gering) was hopelessly devoted to Sami (Alison Sweeney) in 2011, they didn’t get the happy ending that Danny and Sandy did.
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Boy Toy?
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Ironically, the same year that Young & Restless’ Mariah (Camryn Grimes) crossed the borderline with Tessa, she celebrated Halloween looking like a virgin. Well, like Madonna circa her album of the same name, anyway.
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Tomb Raiders
Image Credit: Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images In 1981, Ryan’s Hope had archaeologist Ari (Gordon Thomson) convinced that mild-mannered Faith (Karen Morris-Gowdy) was the reincarnation of an Egyptian queen. Um… could the outfit have had something to do with it?
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Red Alert
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI All Bold & Beautiful psycho Sheila (Kimberlin Brown) had to do to convince people that she was Lina was put on a red wig, glasses and a mask that slightly altered her appearance. Oh, and not try to murder anybody; that helped, too.
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Back to the Future
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Days of Our Lives’ recreated 1990s flashbacks in 2020 recast Abigail (Marci Miller) as Jennifer and outfitted her in, if we’re not mistaken, Seinfeld’s infamous puffy shirt.
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Who’s That Guy?
Image Credit: Jimmy Wood/JPI General Hospital fans might guess Todd Manning. Or Franco Baldwin. Or Austin Gatlin-Holt. And they’d be kinda right, because that is Roger Howarth. But this isn’t actually a General Hospital photo but one from As the World Turns, where in 2009, the soap-hopper was playing Paul.
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‘It’s a Pie!’
Image Credit: Chris D/JPI Somehow people saw through the cater-waiter disguises that Bold & Beautiful schemers Shirley (Patrika Darbo) and Sally (Courtney Hope) donned in 2017.
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Heard Any Good Blond Jokes Lately?
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI No, Young & Restless’ Nick (Joshua Morrow) wasn’t engaging in some Justin Bieber cosplay in 2021, he was working out then-significant other Phyllis’, ahem, kinks as Sven the Masseur.
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Aw, Hell!
Image Credit: Paul Skipper/JPI Has anybody ever more convincingly adopted a devil-may-care attitude than did Days of Our Lives’ Lucas (Bryan R. Dattilo) in 2004? And before you ask, “‘Witch’ character is that with him?” we’ll tell ya: It’s Sami (Alison Sweeney).
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Look at These Pictures ‘for a Spell’
Image Credit: JPI (3) Every day was Halloween for Passions sorceress Tabitha (Juliet Mills). And in our heart of hearts, we like to think that it still is.
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‘Here’s a Tip: Get a Better Disguise!’
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI Actually, Young & Restless’ Sheila (Kimberlin Brown) didn’t need one to fool boss Gina (Patty Weaver) in 2005. The ol’ fake-nose-and-Swing-Out-Sister-wig get-up worked. Maybe it was the English accent that sold her waitress act.
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‘I’m Just Gonna Take Your Temperature Now’
Image Credit: Paul Skipper/JPI Days of Our Lives’ Shawn (then Jason Cook) probably still has nightmares about his 2004 stint as the imprisoned “patient” in the care of “Nurse Wretched” — aka Jan (Heather Lindell). We know we do!
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Ginger Spice?
Image Credit: Jesse Grant/JPI Close but no cigar. That’s April Knight, the Patty Duke-style lookalike cousin that Bold & Beautiful gave Amber (Adrienne Frantz) in 2003.
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Somewhere in Time
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI As Young & Restless’ Traci feverishly worked on her next novel in 2019, she imagined Lily (Christel Khalil) and Cane (Daniel Goddard) bringing to life her characters in period garb. Not that the garb was period to the characters, they lived in that period. But you knew what we meant… right?
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The Eyes Have It
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Anyone who looked directly at Days of Our Lives’ possessed Marlena (Deidre Hall) would have gasped, “Jeepers creepers, where’d you get those peepers?” — and promptly taken away from her any and all sharp, stabby implements.
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Somewhere in Time
Image Credit: George De Sota/JPI In 2007, As the World Turns outfitted Gwen (Jennifer Landon) and Will (Jesse Lee Soffer) in what sure looked like outfits from the fancy-schmancy section of Ye Olde Thrift Shoppe.
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‘No One Will Suspect a Thing!’
Image Credit: Aaron Montgomery/JPI In 2008, Bold & Beautiful’s Bridget (Ashley Jones) threw on a wig and really convinced folks herself that she was Madame X, the mysterious new designer hired to doodle gladrags for Jackie (Lesley-Anne Down).
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Scruff Enough
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI When Young & Restless had Dylan (Steve Burton) infiltrate the Mafia in 2016, the undercover detective changed his whole appearance… a little. But if he’d really wanted to convincingly portray a mobster…
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Aaay!
Image Credit: Paramount/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Sean Smith/JPI As General Hospital hitman Jason (also Steve Burton) could’ve told him, the costume to put on was the one that the Fonz had made cool on Happy Days. (Hey, when you have information that valuable, ya don’t — wait for it — sit on it.)
