History Main / WearingItAllWrong

* ''Film/WeirdScience'' has Gary and Wyatt decide to create a person on Wyatt's computer, in an homage to ''{{Film/Frankenstein}}'', even hooking a doll up to electrodes. While doing so they wear brassieres on their heads. Wyatt asks why they are doing this, and Gary claims it's ceremonial. Later on, when they repeat the process with Max and Ian, they have the two of them wear bras on their heads as well.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}:'' One early strip (back during the George H.W. Bush administration) has Dogbert comment that the U.S. President is still a normal guy: "He puts his pants on one leg at a time, just like the rest of us." The final panel shows the President not just wearing his pants on his head, but trying to shove his upper body into one leg. His wife facepalms and thinks, ''Not again...''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':
** The intro for the later seasons shows a diaper falling from the sky and landing on Dil's head.

* In one ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' strip, Calvin attempts to head out for school with his shirt and pants swapped, so he's wearing his shirt as pants and has his pants on his arms. His mom is not amused, and makes him go change.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Crabgrass}}'': [[https://www.gocomics.com/crabgrass/2021/11/06 After spending all his time on preparing for a school test,]] Miles unintentionally, and without realizing it himself, wears his underwear over his shorts, and only puts on 1 shoe.

* In ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox'', Ash wants a bandit hat like Mr. Fox, Kylie, and Kristofferson, so he cuts eye-holes in a tube sock and wears that on his face.

** In ''Hard Luck'', Fregley has a hard time putting on a shirt and ends up with his head sticking out of an arm hole.

* ''Series/DeadGorgeous'': In "150 Years Later", Rebecca--a FishOutOfTemporalWater ghost--has never encountered 21st century clothing before, and assumes a bra is bonnet. She is soundly humiliated when she goes to lunch in the dining hall with the bra on her head.

* The pilot episode of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' has Will, an urban kid from Philadelphia, wearing a suit with the cummerbund around his chest at a dinner party throw by his wealthy Aunt Vivian and Uncle Phil.

* In ''Series/MorkAndMindy,'' AmusingAlien Mork wears his watch on his ankle, and thinks it's wierd that earthlings wear watches on their wrists. It may have something to do with the fact that orkans evolved from birds, who'd want their arms free to fly with.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In "Return of The L.O.S.E.R.S.", Chloe tries to teach Timmy to dress himself. The result is Timmy wearing his shoes on his hands, his shirt around his hips and his pants on his head.

* In a the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Baby Cakes", Pinkie Pie tries to change the twins' diapers, but one of them puts a diaper on her head.

** In "[[Recap/RugratsS2E4ShowdownAtTeeterTotterGulchMirrorland Mirrorland]]", Tommy believes the mirror that Didi bought from an antique store to be a portal to a dimension called Mirrorland. When he and Chuckie go to Stu and Didi's bedroom, Chuckie sees it looks the same as before, so Tommy tries to prove that Mirrorland is real by wearing his diaper on his head, since that's what a mirror baby would do.
** In "[[Recap/RugratsS3E15NakedTommyTommyAndTheSecretClub Naked Tommy]]", Tommy [[NakedPeopleAreFunny decides to take off his clothes]] after seeing how much fun his dog, Spike has not wearing clothes. At one point when Stu tries to put Tommy's diaper back onto his bottom, Tommy takes it off again and tosses it onto Stu's head. When Didi sees this, she tells Stu, "Get that thing off your head, you're going to give Tommy ideas!"

* ''WesternAnimation/SevenLittleMonsters'': In "I'm Telling", One gets on her brothers and sister's nerves when she tattles on them during a backyard campout. Near the end of the episode, One catches Four wearing a pair of boxer shorts on his head, which makes the other monsters laugh. One thinks about telling Mom, but decides against it. To get back on her brothers and sister's good sides, One puts a pair of panties on her head.

** At the beginning of "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E1YourShoesUntiedSquidsDayOff Your Shoe's Untied]]", Patrick gets a new pair of shoes, and decides to wear them on his hands instead of his feet. [=SpongeBob=] likes this idea, and suggests also wearing gloves on their feet and hats on their "captain's quarters". [[BrickJoke In a later scene]], Patrick is still wearing his shoes on his hands as he eats a Krabby Patty at the Krusty Krab.

** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E18MissingIdentityPlanktonsArmy Missing Identity]]", when [=SpongeBob=] puts on his pants, they first end up on his hand, then on his head. He eventually gets it right, but fails to notice that his shirt is backwards.

** According to ''The Discworld Companion'', King Ludwig of Ankh-Morpork was known for wearing his underpants on his head. Since the idea the king was completely detached from reality is unthinkable, this becomes a fashion at court.