All I Want For Christmas is a Topher Grace Lookalike Contest
Topher Grace Lookalike Competition When?
As 2024 comes to an end, I find myself looking back on the year with mixed emotions. It was a year of glorious highs and devastating lows. Nothing sums up 2024’s contradictions better than the explosion of celebrity lookalike contests.
It started with a Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest in October, unintentional counter programming for a totally not fascist Madison Square Garden rally on the same day. The event went viral, Chalamet himself made an appearance, there were multiple arrests, and a movement was born.
Here’s why the 2024 celebrity lookalike competition trend is a perfect crystallization of 2024 being a year of peaks and valleys:
One on hand, these lookalike competitions were a true bright spot. They were rare modern examples of communities coming together both online and in-person. They were much-needed cheat codes for husband-hunting on the cheap.
On the other hand…how the hell did we not get a Topher Grace lookalike contest this year? Yet we still found the time to have two lookalike contests for the overrated Jeremy Allen White? Arther-the-fucking-Aardvark got one before Topher? Seriously?
I only have myself to blame. As America’s #1 Topher Grace Fan (not fact-checked), it was my responsibility to pull this together. I let the Toph-heads, Topher Grace himself, and the world down.
But I’m really busy right now. Plus, I don’t have social media and I get shy around people I don’t know (also, people I do know).
So, my last resort for getting a Topher Grace lookalike contest to happen is to wish for one for Christmas. Luckily, I’ve laid out some guidelines below to help whoever wants to surprise me with one.
Tips For Planning a Topher Grace Lookalike Contest
Make it an inclusive event: Topher Grace is so much more than an able-bodied white man with an amazing head of brown hair. The contest should be open to anyone who can capture the essence of Topher Grace, regardless of race, gender, age, etc.
Suggested categories for judges’ scorecards:
Jerkiness
Awkwardness
Overall Presentation
X-Factor
Recruiting the lookalikes: I suggest hitting up the following hot spots to source contestants who embody the spirit of Topher Grace:
Improv classes
Linkedin
The Buck Mason store in SoHo
Guidelines for the Lookalikes
So you were just minding your own business, shopping at Buck Mason, when someone stopped you and demanded you enter a Topher Grace lookalike contest to help Hunter Lang’s dreams come true. Here are some tips to help you along.
Come as a specific Topher: there’s no denying it, coming in costume gives you extra brownie points. The winner of the Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest came as Willy Wonka, of course.
Luckily, Topher Grace has played plenty of iconic characters over the years. Here are just some of the costumes you can wear in a Topher Grace lookalike contest:
Eric Foreman from That 70’s Show (needed: bowl cut, large collared shirt)
Venom from Spider-Man 3 (needed: Black latex suit, hair gel, face tape)
Pastor Jason from Breakthrough (needed: light wash skinny jeans, Bonobos shirt, prayers to recite live on the news)
Pete from Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (needed: white button down, red tie, sense of entitlement that you deserve to be with a woman you are mean to)
Topher Grace from the Ocean’s franchise (needed: leather jacket, goatee, more famous people surrounding you)
Go the extra mile: one of the most memorable contestants of 2024 was from the San Francisco Dev Patel lookalike contest. He performed the “Jai Ho” dance from Slumdog Millionaire. Unexpected, sexy, using all the skills in his arsenal, no notes.
But keep it loose and have fun: you think Topher Grace wakes up each morning thinking about how he can look the most like Topher Grace? No, he just does his thing, baby! And so should you.
What if Topher Shows Up?
There’s a non-zero chance that there will be an appearance from the big man himself, so everyone should sit down with the members of their household and come up with an emergency plan now. I’ve got mine (hide before he sees me because I’m not my best self yet).