| | Costumes | |

• Buy accessories to go with something you already have at home. Be the $2 costume king or queen, baby! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Halloween)
  
• Feel free to go wild with your costume. Not you IS you, but NOT you. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Halloween)
  
• Be sure to wear something good-just in case you are turned into your costume. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Halloween)
  
• Recyle your old costumes. Just have your mom alter them. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Fear, Itself)
  
• Need the cheapest costume ever? Write something on a 'Hello My Name Is:' name tag. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Fear, Itself)
  
• It might be difficult to find something scary to wear-even if you are an ex-demon. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Fear, Itself)
  
• Making a protest statement with your costume and showing cleavage at the same time is hard - but possible. (Charmed - All Halliwell's Eve)
  
• If your husband wont wear a costume, guilt trip him - then let your child pick out the costume. That'll show him! (The Cosby Show - Halloween)
  
• Don't dress your kids in a costume they can't easily manuver. They'll end up black and blue by morning from falling and running into stuff. (The Cosby Show - Halloween)
  
• Need a sexy Halloween costume? Try going as slutty Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. (Friends - The One W/the Halloween Party)
  
• If you really don't really want to wear a costume just dress in something one of your friends would wear and go as them! (Friends - The One W/the Halloween Party)
  
• If the choice is a pink bunny costume or no bunny costume at all - it's always no bunny costume at all. (Friends - The One W/the Halloween Party)
  
• Don't wait until the last minute to get your Halloween costume-especially if you want to be a Power Ranger. (My So-Called Life - Halloween)
  
• If more people don't start wearing costumes-they are going to, like, be discontinued. (My So-Called Life - Halloween)
  
• Re-think your choice if you decide to wear actual clothes from a time period-you might just find yourself traveling back to that particular time! (My So-Called Life - Halloween)
  
• Be sure to take off your face masks before you decide to make out with someone-you might just kiss the wrong person! (Ned & Stacy - Halloween)
  
• You can never be too punk rock to dress in a coordinating costume with your honey. (The Real World: San Diego - Episode 22)
  
• Be sure to wear something thats clearly definable so you don't have to keep explaining your outfit. (Suddenly Susan - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Susan's Party)

| | Decorating | |

• Appreciate those who you enlist to help decorate for your party, it can be a pretty tough job. (Alias - Doppleganger)
  
• Make sure you don't decorate with anything too dangerous-just in case your decor comes to life. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Fear, Itself)
  

| | Parties | |

• If you throw a hissy fit at your Halloween party and storm off to your room or your parents might move the party there! (The Cosby Show - Halloween)
  
• If you invite someone to a Halloween party last minute - make sure you tell them wether they should wear a costume or not. I could be little embarrassing if you don't. (Dawson's Creek - Living Dead Girl)
  
• If you are going to shove the deviled eggs up your nose-leave them there. (Sabrina the Teenage Witch - The Halloween Scene)
  
• Forcing your boy/girlfriend to participate in Halloween activities might cause resentment between the two of you. Don't worry, if you take him/her to a murder mystery party you might get to relieve some of that tension by getting to murder them! (Sabrina the Teenage Witch - Murder on the Halloween Express)
  

| | Pranks | |

• Go on-bob for apples! Get crazy! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Halloween)
  
• Hiding in a coffin doesn't always get the results you expect. (Dawson's Creek - Living Dead Girl)
  
• Got a crush on a boy/girl? Pull an elaborate prank on him/her where they get the crap scared out of them and get jealous all at the same time and they'll be yours for sure. (Dawson's Creek - Living Dead Girl)
  
• If you are going to throw eggs at people-make sure to see who you are throwing them at first- you might just egg the wrong person! (Freaks & Geeks - Tricks & Treats)
  
• Change up your pranks from year to year, otherwise it just gets old. (My So-Called Life - Halloween)
  

| | Pumpkins | |

• Expect to not get exactly what you were going for when carving pumpkins. The eye holes will probably end up mocking you. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Fear, Itself)
  
• The life of a pumpkin is quite tragic. First they live a happy life entangled with others, then someone comes along, rips their guts out and cuts them up. Maybe next time you'll take pity on the poor pumpkins and leave them as freaks with no faces. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Fear, Itself)
  
• Slamming pumpkins on the ground works a lot better than kicking them. You might loose your shoe inside it! (Freaks & Geeks - Tricks & Treats)
  
• If your pumpkin starts sassing off to you, just magically turn it into pumpkin pie and eat it! (Sabrina the Teenage Witch - The Halloween Scene)
  

| | Trick or Treating | |

• Handing out toothbrushes is not a good idea. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Halloween)
  
• Make sure you have enough candy. You might regret it if you run out. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Halloween)
  
• Be cautious when opening the door for trick or treaters-it might not always be a cute costumed kid. (Charmed - All Halliwell's Eve)
  
• When taking little ones trick or treating, have 3 set rules. #1. Always have them hold your hand when crossing the street. #2. Have one bag for candy from the people you know and one for the people you don't. And #3. If you are dressed in a silly costume, insist they dont tell anyone who you are. (The Cosby Show - Halloween)
  
• If you are really greedy, go trick or treating again the day after Halloween and ask for the candy they had left over. (The Cosby Show - Halloween)
  
• Have candy ready for the trick or treaters or suffer the wraith of kids with raw eggs. (Dark Angel - Boo)
  
• Don't hand out homemade treats. Parents wont let their children eat them and they just might end up all over your lawn. (Freaks & Geeks - Tricks & Treats)
  
• If your in high school, you are probably too old to go trick or treating. But if you decide to go anyway, expect to be made fun of. (Freaks & Geeks - Tricks & Treats)
  
• Hit up the rich neighborhoods first-they give out the best candy! (Freaks & Geeks - Tricks & Treats)
  
• Have extra candy on hand in case you run out or your wallet could wind up empty as well. (Friends - The One W/the Halloween Party)