Today Show Personalities Go Once Upon a Time

In what has become an annual tradition, the Today show hosts (and newsreader--of all four hours!) dressed in elaborate Halloween costumes. This year, the theme was a storybook Halloween: Matt Lauer was Humpty Dumpty, Al Roker was the Gingerbread Man (with a suggestively placed... decoration), Meredith Vieira was Pinocchio (she said was "high" from the glue on her nose prosthetic), Ann Curry was Cinderella ("an ethnic J-Lo Cinderella"), Kathie Lee Gifford was the Big Bad Wolf, Hoda Kotb was Little Red Riding Hood, and Amy Robach was Rapunzel.

And why a storybook theme? Well, Today's parent company--NBC Universal--has the animated film, The Tale of Despereaux, coming out this fall. Hello, corporate synergies!

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Wow, that looks so incredibly horrible. You couldn't pay me to click on that clip. (OK fine, you could pay me, but it wouldn't do it for less than $40.)

Today has got to be the most hackneyed show in television.

That Pinocchio is impressive.

holy shit this picture is disturbing.

haha NBC "journalists" are finally unmasked, revealing their true identities. Where's Keith and Chris, in the clown car?

it's like the creepy toy room in Blade Runner

these guys always have the best costumes. ANn curry is looking like a ejlocilf.

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Dam you #2..you beat me to the punch! lol

That Pinocchio costume is kinda disgusting to look at.

This. Is incredibly. Creepy.

I bet Meredith Viera was pissed that Ann Curry got to dress like a princess when she had to dress as a burn victim.

Al Roker, have you no pride at all? I imagine the costume designer is having a nice chuckle right now. Maybe it's a shadow, but it appears Roker's costume has a spreading crotch stain.

Good costumes as usual, although I thought Kathie Lee was supposed to be subway rat.

Isn't this the part of Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory where Al Roker blows up like a gigantic blueberry and has to be rolled to the emergency bariatric surgery center at Mount Sinai?

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