Boo! It's Halloween! And that means that it's time to not only think about what you're spooky, creep-tastic plans are for this year, but also look back on some of the fun you've had on Halloweens past. And we know you've had some very good times.

When electronic pop duo Breathe Carolina stopped by the MTV Newsroom recently to talk about their album Hell Is What You Make It and its single "Blackout" (two titles that, to us, sound vaguely Halloween-like! So good for them!), they also recalled a fun little anecdote about how they spent Halloween last year.

"Last year, we had the most ridiculous outfits," David Schmitt said. "And we were in Minneapolis [for a show]. It was Halloween that day and we didn't have any costumes." Before long, however, they had hunted down some goofy ones to hit the stage in. "So I think Kyle [Even] went to Wal-Mart and we were gonna figure it out," he continued. "And we got all this hunting gear and Tasty, one of our techs, he made a paper duck costume and we shot him with Nerf guns. It was ridiculous; it was awesome."

We're gonna go ahead and clarify that as ridiculously awesome. In fact, it's even more ridiculously awesome when the guys tell it themselves. So, check it out and perhaps steal, we mean, borrow their idea for your own last-minute Halloween costume this year if you haven't already nailed one down already!

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By Uptin Saiidi

So, you’ve procrastinated planning for tomorrow’s big party and your “go-to” costume just doesn’t seem to excite you the way it has for so many years. What to do? Fear not, with so many unique celebrity moments this past year, there are plenty of people to take inspiration from.

Here’s a list of some fairly easy, timely, last minute costumes to scramble together:

Charlie Sheen
And you thought it was easy to put on the “Superman” T-shirt underneath an undone button-up shirt. To be Sheen, simply grab a white shirt and write "#Winning" in the center. After all, who wouldn’t want to go out on Halloween as a celebrity?

Lady Gaga
Dig up any type of wig you’ve worn in the past, add a diamond encrusted lobster from your mom’s china cabinet as the hat, put on any sort of top you would never wear on a first date, and you're good to go!

90’s TV Show Character
Our favorite '90s classics were brought back to Nickelodeon this year, so why not get inspired by a member of the Tanner family or Bayside High Tiger? #Nostalgia

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Frankie Jonas took some of us MTV News-ers costume shopping in preparation for the spookiest day of the year, Halloween. We all headed over to Abracadabra costume shop here in NYC, where the Bonus Jonas himself weighed in on the two costumes he's thinking of wearing this year.

"I chose the zombie because I was a zombie for two years in a row ... zombies they're like the full on, everyone loves a zombie," the "R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series" star explained. "Zombies are the base of Halloween 'cause you get dead, you get living and you get creepy."

"I like Chucky because it's really, like no offense to Chucky, but he's kind of cheesy," the 11-year-old continued. "But that's what I like about him. I love old cheesy horror movies. I love horror movies. My two favorites are probably 'Sweeney Todd' and the original 'Nightmare on Elm Street.'"

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By Zachary Swickey

It’s almost that special time of year again, when girls from all around get the opportunity to eroticize a vast array of professions and every pet owner gets a chance to make their dog hate them just a little bit. My top costume predictions are Ryan Gosling’s “Drive” outfit with the badass cream-colored satin jacket, the inappropriate costume of the year will likely be a bloody Muammar Gaddafi, while the Steve Jobs get-up – black turtleneck and some blue jeans – will become the go-to outfit for all nerds (and people wanting a cheap costume) to pay tribute to the fallen visionary.

Everyone loves dressing up and attempting to be as witty as possible with their outfit. Halloween is actually a great backdrop for a music video too with its vivid imagery and slew of monsters to choose from. It’s no wonder these videos went the creepy route with their ideas, because few holidays are as fun and ridiculously memorable as Halloween. Here are five of the freakiest vids we could find.

Michael Jackson, “Thriller”

The one that truly started it all. After the King of Pop saw “American Werewolf in London,” he rang up the film's director, John Landis, to helm his epic 14-minute music video for “Thriller,” which also boasted narration from horror legend Vincent Price. MJ’s iconic red leather jacket from the clip sold at auction earlier this year for a jaw-dropping $1.8 million. Luckily, the winner was a Texas millionaire who plans on sending the jacket on charitable tour, which makes me feel better knowing Kanye isn’t wearing it while moonwalking through his living room.

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By Kara Klenk

Halloween is a few days away, so stragglers will be picking apart the remains of costume shops or paying extra for shipping all week. Some people opt for funny (Angry Jet Blue Flight Attendant), political (Kim Jung Il), or cultural memes (keyboard cat). But sadly, a majority of the adult female population tries to go sexy. While it’s pretty easy to make a Snooki or Tinkerbell costume revealing, costume companies also push some “sexy” options that should be anything but.

10. Sexy Ninja Turtle Michelangelo:
There must be a better way to pay homage to your late '80s/early '90s upbringing besides trying to make an anthropomorphic turtle look hot. Plus, there is NO way a girl stands would stand a chance against Shredder in this kind of get up.

9. Bollywood Ho:
Seriously? Not even “Bollywood Star” or “Bollywood Hottie”? You’re just going with “Bollywood Ho”? You know, to be an actual “ho” in Bollywood all you have to do is publicly embrace Richard Gere; you can actually be wearing pants.

8. Big Bad Sexy Wolf/Sexy "Twilight" Wolf:
Now you can channel your inner Taylor Lautner! Not a fan of the "Twilight" movies? Don’t sweat it! You can just be a regular sexy wolf! Rawr. Er … Woof . Whatever … wolf noise.

7. Sexy Nurse:
Was there a point in time where nurses didn’t wear baggy pastel scrubs and white Crocs and actually dressed in skin-tight-vinyl? Don’t think so. Ironically, this costume brings the word “unsanitary” to mind.

6. Sexy Bee:
This is what a bee looks like. How did we end up sexualizing this insect? Where is the sexy grasshopper? The hot cricket? The flirty mosquito?

5. Sexy Girl Scout:
It’s been a while since my days as a Brownie, but I don’t recall the Girl Scout Motto starting, “On my honor, I will try, to look as smoking hot as possible, and keep my abs tanned and ripped.”

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By Maura Gavaghan

Annual costume contest at work? Halloween party during lunch? After work drinks for All Hallows Eve? However your office chooses to celebrate, there are certain do's and don'ts when choosing a costume to wear around your co-workers (and more importantly, your boss). Here at MTV News, we care about you and your future employment, so we are highlighting what you should and should not do as you prepare for your Halloween festivities!

DON'T show too much skin or use too much fake blood
Save your hot pants for another time! Some women and men (yes, this applies to you too) use Halloween as a time to show off what their mama gave them, but this puts you and your co-workers in a potentially awkward and uncomfortable situation! Likewise, if you happen to have an infatuation with fake blood and gore, consider wearing a toned down version to the office.

DO show off your personality with your costume
Halloween is a chance to step out of your boring work clothes and show your co-workers your sense of humor, creativity and character. If you are a Gleek at heart, dress up as Sue Sylvester. If you are obsessed with Will Ferrell, show up to the office as Ron Burgundy. (Disclaimer: Some costume choices may change your co-workers' opinions of you … but let your freak flag fly!)

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Halloween is a good excuse for kids to dress up and beg for candy and for adults to stretch the outer reaches of their imaginations for Halloween party show-stoppers. In the celebrity world, it's kicked up several notches, as not only do famous folks have even more insane ideas, but they also have the funds to execute them and the forums in which to show them off.

(Click here for more celebrity Halloween costumes, including Kim Kardashian, Heidi Klum, Liv Tyler and Ice-T!)

This year's batch of celebrity Halloween costumes had some great highs and lows, but they were all pretty impressive. Rapper and "Law and Order" star Ice-T hit the red carpet dressed as a sort of post-modern Dr. Frankenstein, and wife Coco was just behind him in one of the most revealing sexy nurse costumes ever constructed (it honestly violated the laws of physics, space and time). Elsewhere at celebrity Halloween parties, Jamie Lee Curtis posed as a cheerleader (she had the varsity letters "CAAF" on her chest, marking her support for the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation), while Tori Spelling donned some feathers for a complicated peacock get-up. Kim Kardashian poured herself into a medieval wench costume — or was she Red Riding Hood or a particularly foxy pirate? It's sort of difficult to discern.

Ashanti went with a sexy cat costume, while Liv Tyler appeared to be dressing up pre-emptively as the Natalie Portman character from the upcoming film "The Black Swan." But undoubtedly this year's costume championship goes to model and "Project Runway" host Heidi Klum, who morphed into ... well, just take a look.

(Click here for more celebrity Halloween costumes, including Kim Kardashian, Heidi Klum, Liv Tyler and Ice-T!)

What's your favorite celebrity Halloween costume? Let us know in the comments!

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It's an extra spooky day in the MTV Newsroom, as we are donning costumes (though everybody seems to have worn the same "news reporter" outfit they tend to wear), comparing notes on our Halloween disasters and spinning some creepy tunes in between the breaking news stories. Musically speaking, Halloween is the best holiday of the year, as not only are there a number of songs solely dedicated to the holiday itself (Boris Pickett's "Monster Mash," Dave Matthews Band's "Halloween," basically everything in the Misfits catalog) but in most cases any old metal will do. (Here, have an example.) But for a truly great Halloween celebration that actually has some melody and some funk, you can't do anything but crank up Michael Jackson's "Thriller."

It's crazy to contemplate that "Thriller" is 30 years old, as it still sounds incredible fresh and vital. It's even more amazing that it was as big a hit as it was, as it has all the makings of a novelty hit (though a lot of Jackson's songs sort of had that problem — perhaps that's why "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied him so much). But "Thriller" doesn't sound like a wacky Halloween-only jam — it sounds like one of the freshest displays of funky R&B of the past few decades.

And of course, there's the video. What can be said about "Thriller" that hasn't already been said before? It's an incredible accomplishment that proved that music videos could function as both art ("Thriller" was incredibly technically advanced and exquisitely plotted) and commerce (Thriller remains one of the best-selling albums of all time). And you know what? It's genuinely scary. Even the dancing zombies have a certain irksomeness to them, but the key scene is that transition that Jackson makes from man to monster. It's still unnerving all these years later and deserves spin on this creepiest of holidays.


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Halloween is this weekend, which means that many of you will be headed out to scare up candy, cause mischief and head to parties where women will most likely be dressed as sexy cats or slutty nurses. It's also the first Halloween since the premiere of MTV's hit reality series "Jersey Shore," which means that you will see a whole lot of people strutting around as Snooki or the Situation (in fact, Thursday night's episode of "The Office" featured Mindy Kaling dressed as everybody's favorite poof-wearing smoosh monster). You could certainly make your costume from scratch, but unless you really want to hit the tanning booth hard this weekend, there are official costumes available for Snooki, the Situation and DJ Pauly D.

Because we are committed to excellence here at MTV News, we got our hands on these particular outfits and decided to do some quality control research. Who better to judge the accuracy of these costumes than Jenni "JWoww" Farley, herself a "Jersey Shore" cast member? MTV News staffers Jocelyn Vena, James Montgomery and Kyle Anderson made the transformation into Snooki, the Situation and DJ Pauly D (respectively) and let JWoww decide whether or not they made convincing doppelgangers for her television pals.

Clearly, the costumes are decidedly accurate (though she obviously had some trouble with the tan level on those body pieces). The two wigs (one for Snooki, the other for DJ Pauly D) were especially convincing, as were the fake abs on the Situation. So know that if you're going out this weekend as your favorite GTL-er, JWoww approves of the official costumes (though she doesn't feel the same way about her costume, which is far too, uh, top heavy).

Which "Jersey Shore" cast member would you be for Halloween? Let us know in the comments!

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Waka Flocka Flame's "O Let's Do It" features a beat that could easily be confused for a spooky funhouse keyboard riff, but it turns out his affinity for creepiness extends further than we thought. In a universe where Justin Bieber has a line of nail polish coming out, it shouldn't be surprising that any new piece of artist-related merchandise exists. And yet the official Waka Flocka Flame Halloween mask is a little bit bizarre. Available for $5.99 via the rapper's official Warner Bros. Records store, the paper mask will let you masquerade as one of the hottest freshman MCs of the year.

But is Waka Flocka Flame's visage really all that frightening? Sure, the eyes on the mask look a little undead, but that's only because that's where your eyes are supposed to go. And while the mask is sparse and colorless (suggesting a sort of ghostly, undead quality), wouldn't it have been scarier with a little bit of blood or a massive head wound or something? It's a curious choice. (On the other hand, Waka Flocka Flame's dreads do make him look a little bit like one of the monsters from "Predators.")

Will Waka Flocka Flame eclipse Lady Gaga and the members of the cast of "Jersey Shore" as the dominant costume choice this Halloween? It seems unlikely, though considering that the MC's new album Flockaveli just hit stores (it's expected to make a top 10 debut when the Billboard album chart is announced this week), you could easily throw your Waka Flocka mask on and crank up "O Let's Do It" for the perfect effect. Or you could just re-enact the "O Let's Do It" video for maximum Halloween fun.

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