I think we need to declare a moratorium on certain types of designs:

Pooping Birds
Skulls
Pandas
Paint splotches
Poop
Hearts, Suns and Clouds with smiley faces
Guns
Internal Organs (ie. lungs, hearts, stomachs and intestines)
Luchadors
Fruit with Faces
Poo-Poo
Giant Squids
Ninjas, Pirates, Yetis, and anything vs. anything
Photoshop brush abuse (especially those butterflies and scrolls)
Poo with Faces

This list is by no means exhaustive, and yes, maybe we should add barrels of monkeys.

Or perhaps Threadless should run a contest to see who can incorporate the most cliché elements into one design and actually create something fabulous out of it all? Or the most creative way to take a tired old idea and turn it around 360 degrees so you end up with the same tired old idea... I mean turn a tired old idea 180 degrees and create something unique and never-before-seen!