On the hunt for a last-minute Halloween costume? Look no further. We’ve gathered the best construction-themed costumes inspired by popular movies and TV shows. So grab your hard hat — because builders and architects in pop culture don't dress too different from you, anyway — and get ready for the spookiest night of the year. 

1. Peter Gibbons — "Office Space" (1999)

If you work in an office, odds are you can relate to at least part of Gibbons' plight in "Office Space." After hating his job, being hypnotized, smashing a computer and eventually quitting, he takes up his neighbor’s offer to work for a construction crew. In that job, he’s finally happy. The movie offers easy costume options, requiring only a hard hat and safety vest. When your friends ask why you aren’t more dressed up for Halloween, you can tell them, "It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care."

2. Tim "The Toolman" Taylor — "Home Improvement" (1991-1999)

Do you own a collared shirt and tie? Well grab a hammer and mousse your hair, because you’re ready to be Tim "The Toolman" Taylor. Bonus points for carrying a fake fence and talking to your friends like they’re Wilson.

3. Ted Mosby — "How I Met Your Mother" (2005-2014)

The lead character of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" is more than just a lonely, single man searching for love in New York. He’s also an architect — and then, when that doesn’t work out, an architecture professor. To dress as Ted Mosby: Architect, you’ll need to muss up your hair, wear a collared shirt and look like an awards jury just rejected your design. Bonus points for adding red cowboy boots and a yellow umbrella to the look.

4. Emmet — "The Lego Movie" (2014)

Perhaps no movie celebrates the love of building more than "The Lego Movie." The main character, Emmet, uses his creativity and construction knowledge to save his friends and — if that wasn't enough — the world. To become a master builder like Emmet, you’ll need an orange vest and pants, a red hard hat and perfectly combed hair. Nothing is stopping you from singing the movie's incredibly catchy anthem, "Everything is Awesome," all night, either.

5. Wayne Campbell — "Wayne's World 2" (1993)

It would’ve been too easy for us to include the construction worker from the 1970s disco band the Village People on our list. Instead, we give you Wayne Campbell in "Wayne’s World 2," the entertaining-yet-inferior (in our opinion) sequel to the 1992 original. All this costume requires is a black T-shirt, jeans, a hard hat and a fake mustache — or a real one, if you’ve got it.

6. George Costanza — "Seinfeld" (1989-1998)

Or should we say Art Vandelay? From the hit "show about nothing" comes the ever-clumsy George Costanza, who often pretends to be an architect in order to impress the women he’d like to date. Grab a sport coat and slacks and make sure people know: "Nothing is higher than architect."

7. Elyse Keaton — "Family Ties" (1982-1989)

The AEC profession continues to struggle with gender equity, but Elyse Keaton was making strides in the 1980s as a lead character on the NBC sitcom "Family Ties." Grounded in the cultural liberalism of the '60s and '70s, Keaton worked as an architect in a male-dominated professional environment where she contended with '80s conservatism. Key prop: a working knowledge of second-wave feminism.

8. George Sr., Michael or George-Michael Bluth — "Arrested Development" (2003-2013)

We should have guessed. There was, indeed, $250,000 in cash lining the walls of Bluth’s Original Frozen Banana Stand — before George Michael Bluth and his father, Michael, both heirs to the family’s fraught real estate development firm, burned it down. Dress as one of the younger Bluths in a button-down shirt and khakis or as the family’s criminal patriarch, George Bluth Sr., in an orange jumpsuit.

9. Ariadne — "Inception" (2010)

The early phase of a project’s design — before stakeholder feedback and value engineering determine the final form — can present a fictional reality. That’s far from the plot of the blockbuster "Inception" but near enough to get into the mindset of Ariadne, a young architecture student called on to create false worlds in the aid of a brain-hacking scheme. Keep your own grip on reality, and stay in character, with a hollowed-out chess bishop in-hand.

10. Douglas Quaid — "Total Recall" (1990, 2012)

Dreams of a Mars vacation are part of today’s reality, but when "Total Recall" debuted in 1990, they were still the stuff of Cyberpunk fiction. Step into the shoes of 2080s construction worker Douglas Quaid, unsatisfied with his day job and distracted by the idea of visiting the Red Planet. Turns out he’s been there before. Choose between the Arnold Schwarzenegger original or Colin Farrell, who played the lead role in the 2012 remake.