History Main / LampshadeWearing

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* ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Lords and Ladies]]'' puts it in an interesting context:

* In ''Series/{{MASH}}'', when Winchester thought he had an accidental marriage, there are pictures (which the audience never sees) of him doing just this.

* Michael Scott in the ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' episode "Christmas Party" wears a lampshade at one point during the episode, likely drunk.
* Series/FatherTed wears a lampshade in one episode - not out of drunkenness, but to impersonate a stereotypical Chinaman. (How was he to know that there were three Chinese people observing him through the window?)
* Referenced in ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'':
--> '''Adam: (to Jamie)''' I know I'm drunk, but I can't even remotely tell that you're drunk. It's kind of annoying. I want to see you put a lampshade on your head or something.
** So would that be a LampshadeHanging of Lampshade Wearing?
* In one episode of ''Series/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.

* This was the basis for one of the physical challenges on ''[[Series/DoubleDare1986 Double Dare]]'' - one partner would have to find poker chips in a bowl of dip and throw them to his partner, who was required to catch them with the lampshade serving as a blindfold.

* ''Series/{{Pixelface}}'': Alexia wears a lampshade on her head while attempting to '[[StealthHiBye vanish]]' in "Fool's Gold". Claireparker is not fooled, but some of the other inhabitants of the Console are.

* Music/BradPaisley's "Alcohol", sung from the POV of alcohol itself, contains the line "And I'll bet you a drink or two / That I can make you / Put that lampshade on your head." Deconstructed in the music video, where "Little" Jimmy Dickens walks onscreen and dons a lampshade in the most deliberate fashion.

* In ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'', Mark Slackmeyer is bartending a college reunion, and an attendee comes up to the bar wearing a lampshade... before the party has even begun.
* One ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' strip had Jason admonishing his parents for napping on New Year's Eve, telling them to live it up. In the last panel, they've donned lampshades...and are still sleeping. Jason gives up on them.

* Leroy from ''ComicStrip/TheLockhorns'' has been shown letting loose at a cocktail party via this trope.

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* ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'': Near the end of "Lost Thing", Treelo wants Bear and his friends to play hide and seek with him as a way to help them find Snowbear, Ojo's missing teddy bear. Treelo wears a lampshade as a means of posing as a lamp, but Bear still finds him because he hears his laugh.
* On an episode of ''Series/BetweenTheLions'' the computers in the library get infected by a virus. After Lionel runs the antivirus software it destroys the virus and then restores everything that was on the computers, including some New Year's Eve pictures of Theo wearing a lampshade on...something. We don't know what because Lionel cuts off his own sentence in surprise.
* ''Series/GregTheBunny'' once wore a lampshade while drunk at a funeral [[ItMakesSenseInContext (long story)]] and... well... ''[[LampshadeHanging lampshaded it]]''.
* On Elke Sommer's episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', Beaker sticks a lampshade on his head to hide from Bunsen and get out of testing a diesel shaver on Muppet Labs. [[PaperThinDisguise Even though his lab coat is still clearly visible]], and he makes noises right behind them, Bunsen and Kermit are completely fooled and think Beaker is missing. Later, Beauregard finds Beaker and tries to plug him in, which makes his eyes light up as he shrieks and makes a run for it (though he appears fine later in the episode).
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* ''Videogame/SaintsRow 2'' has a lampshade wearable as a hat. Drunkenness is optional.
* In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', a Sim with the Pleasure aspiration will put on a lampshade and start dancing (wasting your time and theirs) if their aspiration level gets too low.

* Magical Fox from ''VideoGame/CardCityNights'' is depicted this way.
* ''VideoGame/LivingBooks'': In ''Literature/TheCatInTheHat'', if you click on what appears to be a lamp on Page 11, the Cat removes the lampshade to reveal the Purple Bird wearing it.
-->'''Purple Bird''': Guess it wasn't too bright to try being the light!
* The Pißwasser TV commercial in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' shows, among the images of several drunk consumers, a man walking around Liberty City with a street cone in his head.

* Subverted in [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/60 this]] ''Webcomic/{{Loserz}}'' comic.

* ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'' used this once.
* Steve in the webcomic ''Life and Death'' often wears a traffic cone while drunk.

* In ''WebComic/{{Precocious}}'', [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2011/01/25 Tiffany sports a lampshade]] at Kaitlyn Hu's birthday party.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', a [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1696 sober-looking Elijah]] wears a lampshade after some not-remembered hijinks.
* In ''Webcomic/ParadoxSpace'' story "Deadline Day", the Enquiring Carapacian journalists [[http://paradoxspace.com/deadline-day/4 celebrate]] that they now have something to publish.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer often wears one when drunk.
** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E13HomerAndApu "Homer and Apu"]] [[TheAlcoholic Barney]] is seen at [[WeSellEverything Monster Mart]] purchasing oil drum sized keg of beer and Pepto-Bismol and asks a lady (actually a human sized Miss Maple syrup dispenser) where the lamp shades are at, implying he plans on wearing them in the near future.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** Patrick comes home in one ("Rock-A-Bye Bivalve") 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 "[=SpongeBob=] Meets the Strangler", [[OnlySaneMan SQUIDWARD]] wore one of these... TWICE. Judging by his expression, even ''Larry'' was impressed by this particular move... TWICE.
** Gary also does it in another episode ("Party Pooper Pants", a.k.a. "[=SpongeBob=]'s House Party"), and [=SpongeBob=] is still able to pull the chain attached to the shade and turn off the light.
* In one ''WesternAnimation/{{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.

* Spanky Ham from ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', in the first episode.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/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.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'':
** In one episode, one of the many teenagers at a party at the Delightful Children's mansion does this.
-->'''Teenager:''' Hey, I'm a lamp! Get it?
** In an example that doesn't involve AlcoholInducedIdiocy, Knightbrace wears a lampshade to disguise himself from [[TheFriendNobodyLikes the Toiletnator]] in "Operation: F.L.U.S.H.".
* In ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' this happen at the party in "''Bitter Reunions''" with one guy who was bouncing around with a lampshade on his head.
* In the ''{{WesternAnimation/Detentionaire}}'' episode "Friday Night Bites", when the partygoers become mind-controlled and Lee Ping commands them to "go crazy", one guy puts a lampshade on his head.
* Non-alcohol example with Bashful in ''WesternAnimation/The7D''. When Goldilocks steals his hat, Bashful goes into a panic looking for something to cover his exposed face with and finds a lampshade.
* A non-alcohol example is invoked in "Party Down" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''. Lori's father suggests that she have a wild party when he brings her some props and says that "nothing brightens up a party like a lampshade on the head". Lori references that she's seventeen and she instead wants a "sophisticated party". In the end, Lori's party turns into a (very mild) WildTeenParty, complete with a boy wearing the lampshade prop. Lori's parents end up proud of her as they think teens are meant to have energetic parties.
* A non-alcohol (and by extension, non-party) example occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E18HareTodayGoneTomorrow Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow]]". When Buster tries to get the keys to unlock the cages and rescue Elmyra's captive pets [[DontWakeTheSleeper without waking Elmyra up]], he accidentally breaks Elmyra's lamp. When she wakes up, he puts the lampshade on his head to pose as her lamp. Cue Elmyra turning Buster on and his skull being exposed.

* In [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/406281/jadore J'adore]] by BikerPon3, under the disguise category:

** It's definitely appeared in a few different ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strips.

* ''Series/GregTheBunny'' once wore a lampshade while drunk at a funeral [[ItMakesSenseInContext (long story)]] and... well... ''[[LampshadeHanging lampshaded it]]''.

* On an episode of ''Series/BetweenTheLions'' the computers in the library get infected by a virus. After Lionel runs the antivirus software it destroys the virus and then restores everything that was on the computers, including some New Year's Eve pictures of Theo wearing a lampshade on...something. We don't know what because Lionel cuts off his own sentence in surprise.

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* On one of Creator/GeorgeCarlin's stand-up albums, he claims that doing impressions of [[Series/TheEdSullivanShow Ed Sullivan]] is replacing wearing the lampshade at parties.
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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'', where the hat-loving [[spoiler:[[FrogMen troglodytes]]]] make [[spoiler:Will Solace]] wear one as a NiceHat due to his ability to [[spoiler:[[LightEmUp glow in]] [[PowerGlows the dark]]]].

* In WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor, one of the many teenagers at a party at the Delightful Children's mansion does this.

* The Bob and Tom Band's song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cQdd1z3uIg It's Christmas and I Wonder Where I Am]], set to the tune of "Winter Wonderland", is told in the perspective of a man who gets drunk on Christmas; this is one of his many antics:

* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', after a party that [[NoodleIncident no one remembers,]] Hannelore wakes up with a [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=611 hangover, a lampshade hat, and a taste in her mouth reminiscent of a nine-volt battery.]] Pintsize, meanwhile, is wearing a red Dixie cup on his head

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Genie turns himself into a lampshade over Al's head for the line "A girl appreciates a man who can make her laugh."

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[[caption-width-right:250: Some inanimate objects just [[CantHoldHisLiquor can't hold their liquor]].\\

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* In ''Film/HotFuzz'' one of the teens constable Angel arrests for being drunk and disorderly is wearing a traffic cone on his head.

* An episode of ''Feral TV'' involved the cast having acquired a large stash of lampshades, which they naturally put on their heads and used as 'helmets' for a ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' spoof.

* [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Sora, Donald, and Goofy]] ''invoke'' this in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13141582/1/Sora-and-the-Princess-of-Power Sora and the Princess of Power]]'' by bringing lampshades to the Princess Prom.

* 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."