History Main / LampshadeWearing

* [[DoctorWho The Doctor]] does the "tie wrapped around the head" variant to feign being drunk in "The Girl in the Fireplace."

Sometimes the lampshade wearer will say that [[IncrediblyLamePun they're feeling light-headed.]]

* In a fifth season episode of ''HowIMetYourMother'', Ted Mosby ends up with a tie wrapped around his head during a quick montage of a [[DrinkingGame drinking game]].

[[{{Salaryman}} Japanese salarymen]] will instead take off their tie and wrap it around their head like a {{Hachimaki}}.

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* In [[http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z73/omelas/commie14hs.jpg this drawing of the Communist Party]], Karl Marx wears a lampshade.

* [[TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone]]
* [[TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]]
* ''PennyArcade'' at least once.
* Pintsize in ''QuestionableContent''
* A ''{{Far Side}}'' cartoon with three teenagers on a couch, surveying a living room which they have obviously carefully tidied, moments before the parents come home... "Play it cool," says one, "they'll never know we've been partying." The deception would be perfect if they were not all three wearing lampshades.
* It's definitely appeared in a few different ''{{Garfield}}'' strips.
** It's a prominent recurring feature in TheGarfieldHowToPartyBook by Jim Davis.
* In ''{{Peanuts}}'', Snoopy and Spike have worn lampshades on a couple of occasions.
* In ''[[{{MASH}} M*A*S*H]]'', when Winchester thought he had an accidental marriage, there are pictures (which the audience never sees) of him doing just this.

* Patrick from ''SpongebobSquarepants'' comes home in one when he arrives home at midnight saying, "That was some party!" when he was supposed to come home earlier and help Spongebob with the baby scallop/clam (long story).
** Oddly enough, in "The Bully", [[OnlySaneMan SQUIDWARD]] wore one of these... TWICE.
** Gary also does it in another episode, and SpongeBob is still able to pull the chain attached to the shade and turn off the light.
* Kinda played with in [[http://xdd.xanga.com/6b2801503723951631111/w20838143.gif this]] [[http://threadless.com Threadless]] t-shirt design involving various major figures in communism having a party.

* In one ''{{Freakazoid}}'' episode, the villains are at a party for Freakazoid's imminent doom. [[{{Invisibility}} Invisibo]] wears a lampshade so you can tell where he is.

* The Person Formerly Known as Taro Sekiutsu in ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' sold his name to an immigrant, and now lives in a cardboard box in the streets, wearing a lampshade as a mask.
** SayonaraZetsubouSensei also does its fair share of [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] ''[[LampshadeHanging hanging]]''.
* On the late-60s ''LooneyTunes'' short "Norman Normal" there's a character who wears a lampshade while droningly saying "Approval" over and over.
** One of the drunken cats in "Trap Happy Porky," belting out "On Moonlight Bay" (natch) also wears a lampshade.
* Spanky Ham from ''DrawnTogether'', in the first episode.

* Subverted in [[http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/60 this]] ''{{Loserz}}'' comic.

* Bun-Bun in [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/030101 this]] ''SluggyFreelance'' strip.
* In ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'', Genie turns himself into a lampshade over Al's head for the line "A girl appreciates a man who can make her laugh."

* ''KeychainOfCreation'' used this once.

* In [[http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z73/omelas/commie14hs.jpg this drawing of the Communist Party]], Karl Marx wears a lampshade.
* ''[[SaintsRow Saints Row 2]]'' has a lampshade wearable as a hat. Drunkenness is optional.
* ''In [[TheSims The Sims 2]], sims with a Pleasure aspiration will put on lampshades and start dancing (wasting your time and theirs) if you don't keep their aspiration level high enough.
* One episode of XiaolinShowdown involves the Ring of Nine Dragons, which spits a person into up to nine copies of themself, unfortunately also dividing intelligence among them. When Jack Spicer gets his hands on it, we see one of his clones with a lampshade on his head.

* Seen on a Japan Airlines animated pre-flight safety message detailing the impact of altitude on the effects of alcohol. Where the guy got the lampshade from at 30,000 feet is anyone's guess.
* From ''FullThrottle'', while Ben is looking at a photo:
-->'''Ben''': Are you the guy with the lampshade on his head, or the guy chugging out of the punch bowl?\\
'''Quohog''': Lampshade.

* Steve in the webcomic Life and Death often wears a traffic cone while drunk.
* Lisa from TheRoom does the tie wrapped around head variant.
* In a fifth season episode of HowIMetYourMother, Ted Mosby ends up with a tie wrapped around his head during a quick montage of a [[DrinkingGame drinking game]].
* In the episode ''Madeline and the Big Cheese'' of the ''Madeline'' animated series, Danielle and Madeline has to come up with an impromptu way to lull Lord Cucuface to sleep so... well, see the [[http://www.tv.com/madeline/madeline-and-the-big-cheese/episode/138143/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;summary TV.com summary]].

* In one episode of JeevesAndWooster, Bertie does this and stands behind a chair--not because he's drunk, but to disguise himself as a floor lamp. Surprisingly enough, it works.

* Millie does this in ''{{Trigun}}''.

* In the first episode of ''MyLittlePony: Friendship Is Magic'', Spike is wearing a lampshade when he comes to invite Twilight back to a party she ran out of.

** Oddly enough, in "The Bully", SQUIDWARD wore one of these... TWICE.

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* In an episode ''Madeline and the Big Cheese'' of the ''Madeline'' animated series, Danielle and Madeline has to come up with an impromptu way to lull Lord Cucuface to sleep so... well, see the [[http://www.tv.com/madeline/madeline-and-the-big-cheese/episode/138143/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;summary TV.com summary]].

* In an episode ''Madeline and the Big Cheese'' of the ''Madeline'' animated series, Danielle and another girl has to come up with an impromput way to keep Lord Cucuface distracted while... well, see the [[http://www.tv.com/madeline/madeline-and-the-big-cheese/episode/138143/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;summary TV.com summary]].

-->''Madeline:'' ''thinks'' '''AHA!''' ''Puts lampshade over Danielle's head'' '''Queen ''Lampshade!'''''

* In an episode of the ''Madeline'' animated series, Danielle and another girl has to come up with an impromput way to keep Lord Cucuface distracted while Miss Clavel and Madeline has to go get a replacement role of cheese after... well, long story.
-->'''Girl:''' Psst, Danielle, you be the queen

-->''Girl thinks'' '''AHA!''' ''Puts lampshade over Danielle's head'' '''Queen ''Lampshade!'''''

-->''Girl thinks''' AHA! ''Puts lampshade over Danielle's head'' '''Queen ''Lampshade!'''''

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-->''I left Cleveland to get away from His and Her towels, people who call cocktail parties 'pours' and the guy who always breaks it up by wearing a lampshade on his head.''
-->-'''Time Magazine''' article on actor Jim Backus, December 15, 1958.

-->''"I left Cleveland to get away from His and Her towels, people who call cocktail parties 'pours' and the guy who always breaks it up by wearing a lampshade on his head."''