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Lampshade Wearing

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A person getting drunk enough at a party to wear a lampshade as a hat.
It's hard to pin down the origin of this trope. One theory is that the guys get drunk enough to mistake lamps for hat racks; other theories are collected on this web page. The idea of a drunk wearing a lampshade goes back to at least 1945 in the U.S. - and probably even earlier (another article dates it to 1928). If that's true, this trope could be Older Than Television. It has also been suggested that this originated as a piece of "dirty" physical comedy: the man puts on the lamp-shade, exposes himself, and asks for someone to "turn him on" using his "switch".
Regardless, the overused nature of it has turned it into a Dead Horse Trope. It's uncommon to find examples nowadays that aren't parodies of this.
Sometimes the lampshade wearer will say that they're feeling light-headed.
The same effect is sometimes achieved with a traffic cone, though in reality they tend to be too wide and heavy to be practical as headwear. Add to that the fact that they have to be drunk enough to consider stealing the cone in the first place, so cone wearers tend to be drunker than lampshade wearers.
Note, there is another reason you may see someone with a lampshade on their head: the Rule of Funny use as a Paper-Thin Disguise, in order to pretend to be a lamp. This has nothing to do with being drunk.
A third reason is as legitimate Improvised Clothes, when someone really needs to hide their hair or face (often because Our Nudity Is Different) and their hat was stolen. This also usually has nothing to do with being drunk, although it may have something to do with swimming.
A Sister Trope to Necktie Headband (what a Japanese Salaryman will do instead).
Not to Be Confused with Lampshade Hangingnote though it is still possible to hang a lampshade when this trope happens.
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A The 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.
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In one episode of Jeeves and Wooster, 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.
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In The Secret Life of Pets 2, Chloe is wearing a lampshade the morning after her owner gave her way too much catnip.
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The Simpsons: Homer often wears one when drunk.
In "Homer and Apu" Barney is seen at 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.
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Magical Fox from Card City Nights is depicted this way.
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Looney Tunes:
In the short "Norman Normal" (1968) there's a character who wears a lampshade while droningly saying "Approval" over and over.
One of the drunken cats in "Trap Happy Porky" (1945), belting out "On Moonlight Bay" (natch) also wears a lampshade.
In one of Chuck Jones' 'Three Bears' cartoons, Junyer inadvertently electrocutes his Paw, then gets the idea to plug two lightbulbs in the dazed Paw's ears (and they light up!) then places a lampshade over his head. Mama anxiously says "Henry - what will the neighbors think?"
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Greg the Bunny once wore a lampshade while drunk at a funeral (long story) and... well... lampshaded it.
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In 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.
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In Sylvester And Tweety In Cagey Capers, Sylvester can hide under a lampshade so he can pose as a lamp to avoid being spotted by Granny. If he does this for too long, though, he will get electrocuted.
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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 TV.com summary.
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In the 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.
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Millie does this in Trigun.
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Motörhead's "I'm So Bad (Baby I Don't Care)":
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One episode of Xiaolin Showdown 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.
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Saints Row 2 has a lampshade wearable as a hat. Drunkenness is optional.
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The Replacements' "Swingin' Party":
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In Precocious, Tiffany sports a lampshade at Kaitlyn Hu's birthday party.
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Garfield:
It's definitely appeared in a few different strips, such as the December 31, 1989 strip (which got made into a Garfield Quickie on Garfield and Friends) and the December 29, 2006 strip. Garfield being a cat though, he isn't drunk — he's just a party animal.
It's a prominent recurring feature in The Garfield How to Party Book by Jim Davis.
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Invoked in the "Nehru and Jinnah" skits on Goodness Gracious Me, about Nehru and Jinnah's days in an English university where the other students would engage in drunken parties that ended with them wearing traffic cones on their heads and their pants around their ankles.
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On Elke Sommer's episode of The Muppet Show, Beaker sticks a lampshade on his head to hide from Bunsen and get out of testing a diesel shaver on Muppet Labs. 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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In Hot Fuzz one of the teens Sergeant Angel arrests for being drunk and disorderly is wearing a traffic cone on his head.
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In one Freakazoid! episode, the villains are at a party for Freakazoid's imminent doom. Invisibo wears a lampshade so you can tell where he is.
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On an episode of Zoboomafoo, Zoboo puts a lamp shade over his head mistaking it for a headlamp which one of the brothers tells him is needed to see in the dark.
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Penny Arcade at least once. "Do you know if there is a number less than zero?"
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One Retail strip has Marla dealing with a customer who complains about paying sales tax on a lampshade because "there's no tax on clothing". When she questions this, he puts it on his head and shouts "I'M THE LIFE OF THE PARTY!"
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In the Red Dwarf episode The Last Day, Lister somehow wakes up wearing a traffic cone ("On a mining ship, 3 million years into deep space") after a night of drunken revelry. Cat Hand Waves it by saying "It's not a good night unless you get a traffic cone.note After all, traffic cones are often used at industrial sites around hazardous areas, and the Red Dwarf is a mining ship. It's the policewoman's helmet and suspenders I don't understand."note Because the only possible way those would be on a mining ship would be if they were some crewman's fetish gear!
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The Scott The Woz episode "History of Nintendo Switch (NX) Rumors and Leaks" opens with Scott wearing a lampshade on his head, after attending a so-called "leak party" the night before.
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Some of the zombies in Plants vs. Zombies Pinball wear traffic cones on their heads, getting extra protection as a result.
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Father Goose - a movie about a commander having to take care of a school teacher and her students had a scene in which the teacher accidentally got drunk because of a mistaken belief she was bitten by a snake (long story). He led the rather prim woman to believe she did dance naked with a lampshade on her head.
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Keychain of Creation used this once.
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In one episode of Three's Company, Jack Tripper hides from another character in the dark apartment by putting a lampshade on his head and pretending to be a lamp. In another, he gets drunk at a party and dances around the room with a potted plant on his head.
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The Flintstones: Fred does this whenever drunk.
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In The Sims 2, 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.
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It's definitely appeared in a few different strips, such as the December 31, 1989 strip (which got made into a Garfield Quickie on Garfield and Friends) and the December 29, 2006 strip. Garfield being a cat though, he isn't drunk — he's just a party animal.
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Michael Scott in the The Office (US) episode "Christmas Party" wears a lampshade at one point during the episode, likely drunk.
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Pixelface: Alexia wears a lampshade on her head while attempting to 'vanish' in "Fool's Gold". Claireparker is not fooled, but some of the other inhabitants of the Console are.
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Bear in the Big Blue House: 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.
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In 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.
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A non-alcohol example is invoked in "Party Down" from The Loud House. 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) Wild Teen Party, 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.
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In Paradox Space story "Deadline Day", the Enquiring Carapacian journalists celebrate that they now have something to publish.
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On an episode of Between the Lions 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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Non-alcohol example with Bashful in The 7D. When Goldilocks steals his hat, Bashful goes into a panic looking for something to cover his exposed face with and finds a lampshade.
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Lords and Ladies puts it in an interesting context:
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The Person Formerly Known as Taro Sekiutsu in Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei sold his name to an immigrant, and now lives in a cardboard box in the streets, wearing a lampshade as a mask. Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei also does its fair share of lampshade hanging.
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Seen on a background mare during Rarity's after-party in My Little Pony Micro Series Issue #3.
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In Futurama a scientist is shown wearing a lampshade on his head while partying in "Anthology of Interest II".
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Living Books: In The Cat in the Hat, 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.
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Questionable Content:
After a party that no one remembers, Hannelore wakes up with a 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
At a housewarming party that got a little bit out of control, Rene uses this trope to keep a hopelessly drunk Millefeuille out of trouble by putting a lampshade on her head and telling her to keep it safe.
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Father Ted 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?)
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In the short "Norman Normal" (1968) there's a character who wears a lampshade while droningly saying "Approval" over and over.
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From Full Throttle, while Ben is looking at a photo:
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In Peanuts, Snoopy and Spike have worn lampshades on a couple of occasions.
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One 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.
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The TV Tropes logo wears one, although whether it's drunk or not is up to opinion.
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The Patrick Star Show: In "Bummer Jobs", Cecil is hiding from Squidward so he doesn't have to pay for his newspaper subscription. When Squidward sees him through the window, Cecil puts a lampshade over his head to disguise himself. It doesn't work.
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This was the basis for one of the physical challenges on 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.
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In Danny Phantom this happen at the party in "Bitter Reunions" with one guy who was bouncing around with a lampshade on his head.
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A non-alcohol (and by extension, non-party) example occurs in the Tiny Toon Adventures episode, "Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow". When Buster tries to get the keys to unlock the cages and rescue Elmyra's captive pets 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.
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SpongeBob SquarePants:
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", 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.
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In El Goonish Shive, a sober-looking Elijah wears a lampshade after some not-remembered hijinks.
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Referenced in Mythbusters:
So would that be a Lampshade Hanging of Lampshade Wearing?
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Jellyfish mentions someone as wearing a "lampshade crown of thorns" in the lyrics of "Joining A Fan Club".
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' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III:
No alcohol involved, but Master Splinter does this to cheer up Michelangelo.
Michelangelo himself had done the same thing earlier.
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One of the students in Wayside School is Falling Down raises a theory that Mrs. Jewls lets Myron do whatever he wants because Myron has a picture of Mrs. Jewls wearing a lampshade, and threatened to show it to the principal unless she allowed him to break the rules. One of the other students then asks how the principal would recognize Mrs. Jewls if a lampshade covered her face.
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In Aladdin, Genie turns himself into a lampshade over Al's head for the line "A woman appreciates a man who can make her laugh."
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Codename: Kids Next Door:
In one episode, one of the many teenagers at a party at the Delightful Children's mansion does this.
In an example that doesn't involve Alcohol-Induced Idiocy, Knightbrace wears a lampshade to disguise himself from the Toiletnator in "Operation: F.L.U.S.H.".
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Roblox has several lampshade-themed hats in a variety of colors and styles.
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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 Power Rangers spoof.
Mighty Dorky Power Whingers!
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In The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne wears a lampshade as a party hat while handing out Hanukkah gifts.
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The Pißwasser TV commercial in Grand Theft Auto IV shows, among the images of several drunk consumers, a man walking around Liberty City with a street cone in his head.
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Steve in the webcomic Life and Death often wears a traffic cone while drunk.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
In the first episode, Spike is wearing a lampshade when he comes to invite Twilight back to a party she ran out of. He's a child, though, so no alcohol was implied.
In "Ponyville Confidential", Pinkie Pie is photographed wearing a lampshade while dancing in a punch bowl, as part of a newspaper story about how she is an out-of-control party animal.
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Kingdom of Loathing: Traffic cones were available as hats for the first few celebrations of Sneaky St. Pete's Day, after adventuring while drunk enough:
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Leroy from The Lockhorns has been shown letting loose at a cocktail party via this trope.
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Spanky Ham from Drawn Together, in the first episode.
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Sora, Donald, and Goofy invoke this in Sora and the Princess of Power by bringing lampshades to the Princess Prom.
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In The Muppets' version of "Jungle Boogie", Sam the Eagle is wearing a lampshade and waving glowsticks at one point (at another he's got a Necktie Headband and beads). He is seemingly drunk on the boogie rather than actually drunk, until it turns out the whole skit is in his imagination after a few too many mai tais.
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