Every year there are those Halloween costume ideas that are topical and also easy to execute. That means at least one person at your Halloween party is going to have one of these costumes on. Don't be one of those cultural lemmings! If any of the following ideas are on your list, it's time to go back to the drawing board.

Devil's Night, also known as Halloween, is just around the corner and I'll bet you need a costume. No, you can't wear all black and go as a Beatnik again this year. You need a real costume. And here it is.

Recently we stopped by a Halloween superstore in search of some new work clothes (dressing up in costumes helps stave off writer's block), and noticed amidst the racks of Slutty Thises and Slutty Thats a pile of rubber Charlie Sheen masks for sale. It didn't surprise us that someone would want to dress up as this year's ultimate Hollywood meltdown and fright show, given the "Boo!! Scary!!" angle of the holiday—but little did we know that "Charlie Sheen" would actually win this year's costume popularity contest.

Reluctant to have your little ones participate in a demonic (but delicious!) pagan ritual? Then choose to celebrate Jesus Ween this October 31st instead. Jesus Ween is not, in fact, a celebration of Jesus's ween, but rather "a non for Profit Organisation [sic] also known as JesusWin...focused on helping people live a better life."

Flash mob recreations of the "Thriller" video have broken out of wedding reception halls and Filipino prison yards in recent years to become something of a rite of Halloween passage. But try telling that to the fascist city officials of Boca Raton, who have shut down this year's planned "Thriller" extravaganza, and in doing so, made Halloween Jesus cry.

Yesterday a passing motorist called 911 after spotting this Halloween decoration, which shows a fake man trapped under a riding mower, his fake-man blood messing up the lawn. Fake! Yet still scary enough to merit a "Caution: Graphic Images" warning from TV station WBTV. Boo!!!

Just watch this giant pumpkin growing in Ken Desrosiers yard in Broad Brook, Connecticut. The 1,487 behemoth took only two and a half months to grow and Desrosiers captured the entire thing with time-lapse photography. We haven't seen this dedication to Halloween since old Roseanne episodes.

Still thinking about buying one of those Casey Anthony masks on sale at eBay? You've still got about six hours to place your bid. Come on, it's only $24,300 (and counting)—just dip into your kid's college fund.

Whether you're looking to get a head start on a Halloween costume, planning a neighborhood effigy burning, into weird, ripped-from-the-headlines sex games, or just want to scare the crap out of your delinquent kid, this is the Casey Anthony mask for you. According to the eBay listing, the "Tot Mom" mask is one of only nine in existence — so get to bidding, sickies! (Makes a great companion piece with this equally accurate Nancy Grace mask.) [eBay]

The New York City Department of Transportation is installing signs that flash this supposed-to-be-scary skeleton to drivers going over 30mph. Do you really think this Halloween decoration is going to slow drivers down? Our pigeons are more frightening.

On American Dad last night Barry went as Jonah Hill — or, with a simple wardrobe change, Seth Rogen. Who knew?! Plus, the most flagrant pop up house decoration airing on network primetime.

How old can you be while getting away with dressing up in a costume? Apparently adults, children, and girls of all ages are allowed—as long as they dress as sluts—but Cleveland Jr. is stuck in an awkward in-between.

A lot of people were Antione Dodson for Halloween! We warned that this costume possessed dangerously high blackface potential, and a number of fake Antoines proved us correct. Then they posted their racist costumes to Dodson's Facebook page.

According to police in Surprise, Arizona, a 12-year-old boy threatened to stab his mother on Halloween after she refused to let him trick-or-treat in a "gay Justin Bieber" costume.

Halloween was not without its casualties: The NYDN reports that a "marauding clown" at the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade broke reporter Arthur Chi'en's face in six places when the clown scaled Chi'en's float, then knocked the newsman off of it.

Where were you on the morning of November 1st? If you're like the women featured on last night's How I Met Your Mother, you might have been making the Walk of Shame after partying hard in the West Village.

Once a year the age difference and scripted chemistry between Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa is masked by something more than heavy TV makeup. That day is Halloween. And their costumes were actually pretty funny! Here are all of them.

Do you people love Halloween or what? We put out the call last week for your best Halloween costumes and we sure received some spectacular entries. Here are the best of the best, and our spectacular winner.

Watch the clip to see the result of a terrifying yet impressive Teddy Ruxpin re-construction. He even moonwalks! Personally, we'd like to put him on a leash and walk him down the street just to see what would happen.

Watch the epic lights play along to Michael Jackson's "Thriller." The windows actually become faces and mouth the words. There are so many lights, you can play baseball under them. Christmas ain't the only season for a light show anymore.