Please spare us all and skip the Pennywise costume (unless you’re going as Kate McKinnon as Kellyanne Conway as It, then we’ll allow it). Instead, see how many of your friends pay attention to the who’s who of local animal celebrities, Instagram-friendly art exhibits, and other D.C. notables. Once you settle on an idea, here’s our favorite spots for finding costumes.

People walk through a Hyperloop tube after the first test of a propulsion system at the Hyperloop One Test and Safety site on May 11, 2016 in North Las Vegas. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)

Hyperloop

Eat all the candy meant for trick or treaters while wrapped up in bungee cords or hula hoops, and voila, you’re a very hyper loop. Take it up a notch by showing up in a Tesla.

Trash raccoon was a viral sensation for that one day back in February. (Via Twitter)

Trash Raccoon

Grab that face paint and a raccoon outfit, make a garbage truck backdrop, and spend the evening telling people alternatively to hang in there or to ride a trash truck the hell out of #thistown. Be sure to clutch a ladder all night.

Six-year-old Symba weighed 35 pounds when he was brought to the shelter. (Photo via Twitter)

Symba/Vito

Why just be a regular old cat, when you can be a famously fat cat? Symba charmed the internet masses when the Humane Rescue Alliance announced that the 35-pound feline was in need of a new home. He was quickly adopted, got a new name (Vito), and shed some pounds. But you’re going to want to take inspiration from the photos above. Cat ears and a bright orange outfit filled out with a full-size pillow should do it, but take it to the next level by getting engagement pictures printed up.

Curators Michael Brown-Palsgrove and Craig Saffoe at Ollie’s capture. (Photo by Steve Sarro, Smithsonian’s National Zoo)

Ollie

For a different take on the old cat standby, go with Ollie, the escaped bobcat who gave National Zoo officials a scare back in February. A regular cat costume will do, just make a short (or bob) tail and be sure to have everyone project their wants and needs on you. Commit to the idea by encasing yourself in a cage and looking sheepish all night.

(Photo courtesy of a reader)

Urinauguration

Paint a rectangular box green and step into it. Re-create the Don’s Johns sign, then slap some blue painter’s tape over it, and you’ve got urinauguration all over again. Keep the theme up by recreating the golden showers burger, too.

(Photo by Blink O’fanaye)

Kusama

One exhibit, so many costume possibilities. The easiest might just be an all-white outfit with colorful sticky dots scattered about. But easily the most on-brand for Halloween, though, has to be the surreal polka-dot pumpkin. Go all in by making it a couple’s costume, where the other half is a selfie taker who keeps bumping into you all night. Or clad yourself in a lot of mirrors and recreate one of the obliteration rooms.

(Photo by Rachel Sadon)

The Hive

Here’s one for you people who hoard paper towel and toilet paper tubes for a rainy craft day. Spray paint the insides pink, the outsides silver, and make yourself into the National Building Museum’s summer exhibition. Be sure to have it cave in a bit while insisting you’re not going to collapse all night.

A screenshot from Justin’s reckoning on MTV.

Six Dates In One Night Dude

If ever there was a lazy group costume, here you have it. Find one dude, let’s call him Justin, and six women to rotate being by his side for “pre-date conversations.” Up the ante by recreating the awkward MTV News episode when they reunited for the first time after that disastrous evening.

Man puts on his “seat suit.” (Image courtesy of Ford)

“Self-driving” car

Fashion yourself a seat costume and strap in for a night as one of the weirder things we saw this year. A driver, camouflaged in the distinctive beige and black leather of a car seat, was spotted cruising around the mean streets of Arlington. Turns out it was all in the name of science. Bonus: you only need to be disguised from the waist up!

Or do a throwback costume and pull an idea from years past (but not 2015, we can’t help you there): 2016, 2014, 2013.