Halloween used to be about trick-or-treating and staying up late on a school night. But in college, everyone knows it’s about the costumes. While you may have the urge to dress as a classic or a pop culture staple, take note of Release’s list of the five most exhausted costume ideas and try to be creative this year. Boys, if you’re looking to go back to campus with Wonder Woman or a Playboy bunny, think up something funny and clever to grab her attention. Ladies, wearing lingerie and animal ears are so overplayed.

Mario and Luigi ‘ Meghan Planken

Whether you are buying your costume for Halloween or making one, a lot of effort goes into pulling it off. Sometimes boys are very willing to go ‘all out’ in making their costume clever or believable. Why then, would a pair of boys who have an unending list of possible costumes, waste all their effort on the most played-out costume of the decade? If you believed being Mario and Luigi was cute and classic, you were wrong. Not only has nobody played that game in 10 years, but every year State Street seems to be filled with more than one of these dynamic duos.

Thing 1 & 2 ‘ Sam Abramovitz

Your best friend and you want to show the world how close you are with a Halloween costume. There are plenty of dynamic duos you could dress up as for Halloween, but please step away from the blue wigs and red-footed pajamas.

While there’s nothing wrong with clich√É©s when half the people dressed up for Halloween don’t have a creative bone, there is something heart-wrenchingly annoying about this specific clich√É©. Take a step back and really consider this costume idea. Unless you and your friend plan on being attached at the hip for the entire day, you’ll look pretty stupid running around as Thing 1, while your Thing 2 is hooking up with some random guy or girl at a party.

Also, make note about how many people dress up as these two Dr. Seuss characters, and imagine how your friendship might look when there are about 50 pairs of blue-haired Things on campus. After all, the reason the two of you want to demonstrate your friendship through a costume is to show off how nobody else can replicate the wonderful friendship you have. At least, that’s how matching costumes look to others. So please, do your friendship a favor and step away from these overdone childhood characters.

KeSha ‘ Oulimata Ba

Attention Binghamton University students, as you go prowling through the aisles of your chosen vendor for a Halloween costume this year, please do not consider dressing up like the newest pop sensation KeSha.

Some might call her a harmonizing genius; others might classify her as a breath of fresh air in a sea of austere entertainers (however this is highly debatable). But she most certainly is not a replicable Halloween costume and there are several reasons to take this suggestion to heart.

The most obvious reason is that KeSha’s look is just not cute. With heavy makeup over one eye, supposed to imitate running mascara, a confusing disarray of what looks like clothing, and a grungy ‘I’m not all there’ expression on her face, KeSha has successfully created the just-rolled-out-of-bed look. Dressing up like Ke will render any girl (or adventurous boy) a drunk lunatic stumbling home after one too many shots of Jack.

The bottom line is that for Halloween, you can be something other than what you are in everyday life. Do you really want to smell like you just stepped out of the garbage? It may sound like fun, but whoever adopts this image won’t look anything but dumb.

The cast of ‘Jersey Shore’ ‘ Emily Gandolfo

If your idea of costume perfection is getting your GTL on like the cast of Jersey Shore, maybe you should reconsider. You may think it’s creative and unique to emulate your favorite ‘celebrity’ from your favorite pop culture hit, but so does everyone else. Your one-of-a-kind costume might not be so one-of-a-kind.

Besides, you’re allowed to dress in something you normally wouldn’t for Halloween, and short skirts and high heels that constitute a Snooki or Jwoww ‘look’ aren’t too far from what many ladies wear on State Street. Plus, that much bronzer doesn’t look cute on anyone.

Lady Gaga ‘ Emily Gandolfo

You will not be the only one dressed as Gaga at a party. Even the best of Gaga costumes won’t match up to what she has stepped out in, because for Lady Gaga, every day is Halloween. Her full-body fishnet jumpsuits, solar-system-style dresses and 10-inch armadillo pumps have come to be classic high fashion, and cost a pretty penny. A Halloween version would only be a poor imitation.

And if you were thinking about copying Gaga’s dress of meat, please don’t. You’ll start to smell in a few hours and could possibly violate some health code that would get you kicked out of parties. Wouldn’t that put quite the damper on your weekend?