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[[File:stonecutters_8656.jpg|link=The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|frame|Who illustrates this trope the best? [[Ear Worm|We do!]] ]]
 
{{quote|''You think they look funny, what with their silly hats and their little carts. If you knew what those hats actually stood for, you'd never laugh at anything, ever again...''|Flavor text for the "Fraternal Orders" card, from the [[Collectible Card Game]] ''Illuminati: New World Order''}}
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Terry Pratchett's ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'' features a sequence where the protagonist is initiated into the postmen's secret society, which involves an ominous-sounding and rather painful hazing ritual known as "The Postman's Walk". It's mentioned he's previously joined several Brotherhoods of Funny Hats with names like The Men of the Furrow, as a prelude to defrauding the other members.
** As mentioned in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]'', Lancre, centre of all rural folklore, has a [[Brotherhood of Funny Hats]] so ancient and secret it doesn't even have a name. According to ''[[Universe Compendium|The Discworld Companion]]'' their regular meetings at an earthworks called The Long Man may be an ancient rite, or simply represent man's ancient desire to get out of the house and have a couple of pints.
** And Ankh-Morpork, as shown in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Guards Guards|Guards! Guards!]]'', has many secret societies, most of whose members would ''like'' to be part of an [[Ancient Conspiracy]], but are really just in it for the mysterious robes. And in one case, in the society that ''is'' important to the plot {{spoiler|and winds up being incinerated by the dragon it summoned}}, to chant [[Malaproper|"mystic prunes"]].
** And this pretty much describes how the Unseen Univserity was run before Archchancellor Ridicully came into the picture, a bunch of wizard who were only concerned with eating, sleeping, wearing the clothes that pointed out that they were wizards... Oh, and moving higher in the University by making an opening with the "removal" of senior wizards.
* Pierre Bezukhov joins the Freemasons in ''[[War and Peace]]'' at the insistence of one of his [[The Obi-Wan|Obi Wans]], to find some guys are [[Contemplate Our Navels|actually into it]] and other guys...not so much. He gets in a huff later when Boris joins the Freemasons purely to advance his social standing.
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* ''[[The Honeymooners]]'' featured a fraternal order known as The Raccoon Lodge.
* Each episode of ''[[The Red Green Show]]'' ends with a meeting of the Possum Lodge, whose motto is "Quando omni flunkus, moritati" ([[Canis Latinicus|pseudo-Latin]] for "When all else fails, play dead").
* One episode of ''[[Mama's Family (TV)|Mamas Family]]'' featured Thelma infiltrating a snake-themed Brotherhood her son had joined, called "The Order of the Cobra".
* Also, a [[You Go, Girl!]] episode of ''[[Punky Brewster]]'' started with Henry coming back from his meeting of the [[Brotherhood of Funny Hats]], complete with ridiculous bison-headdress.
* ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' had an episode where Howard Sprague joins an order of which Andy and Goober are members. They only seem to wear the silly robes when they're deciding whether to accept a new member.
* ''[[Greek]]'' offers many Fraternities/Sororities of Funny Hats. You've got the Animal House frat, the Preppy frat, the Geek frat, the Jock frat, the Pretty Girl sorority, the Slutty sorority, etc.
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* Parodied in ''[[The Thin Blue Line]]'' with "The Todgers", an exaggerated expy of the Masons whose rituals involve wearing a dress and kissing a frozen turkey's bottom.
* [[Everybody Loves Raymond|Frank Barone]] belongs to one of these.
* ''[[Married... Withwith Children]]'s'' National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood, or [[Fun Withwith Acronyms|NO MA'AM]] for short is supposed to fight the increasing power of women all over society. But when it comes down to it, they are just there for drinking beer.
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' has The Badger Convention, a [[Brotherhood of Funny Hats]] that goes around annoying people with childish pranks [http://snltranscripts.jt.org/80/80dbadger.phtml]
* [[Monty Python's Flying Circus]] includes the famous Ministry of Silly Walks. Lampshaded in "Live from the Grill-O-Mat" with the [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things]], when John Cleese is questioned why his Staffordshire branch has not done anything.
{{quote| '''John Cleese:''' Well, Mr. Chairman; it's just that most of the members in Staffordshire feel...the whole thing's a bit silly.<br />
'''All:''' ''[Offended]'' Silly?!<br />
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Order of the Harvest Moon ([[Harvest Moon|no relation]]) from the adventure game ''[[Harvester]]'' is the sinister version. The initiation process requires you to commit vandalism, breaking and entering, petty larceny, arson, and manslaughter, and the Order turns out to be a front for a [[Religion of Evil|cult of nihilists]] {{spoiler|who have trapped you in [[Lotus Eater Machine|a VR simulation]] with the intent of driving you crazy and turning you into a serial killer}}.
* ''[[Suikoden V]]'' has a rare distaff version. [[Fun Withwith Acronyms|SAPPHIRE]] is the Secret Alliance for the Protection of Pretty Hunks In Real Endangerment. They consist of various female characters who enjoy ogling male characters. Their motto is "To observe! To protect! To observe some more!"
 
== [[Web Animation]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [http://www.shortpacked.com/2006/comic/book-3-is-totally-gay/01-cadbury-cereal/hats/ This] ''[[Shortpacked (Webcomic)|Shortpacked]]'' strip.
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090408 Knights of Jove] in ''[[Girl Genius]]'', while successfully gone underground, eventually became mostly a secret fan club for old men. Until [[It Got Worse|the Mongfish family took a keen interest in them]], that is.
 
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* The rival frat house/skater team in ''[[A Goofy Movie|An Extremely Goofy Movie]]'' was depicted as one of these briefly in a montage. Predictably, Goofy's role as a candle bearer [[Hilarity Ensues|does not go over so well]].
* On ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'', Stimpy and Ren's cousin Sven belong to the Royal Order of Stupids.
* ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'' has "The Cephalopod Lodge", which Squidward was a member of until being kicked out due to Spongebob and Patrick's fault.
* In ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'', some of Billy's nerdier acquaintances have a [[Brotherhood of Funny Hats]] that, with [[The Grim Reaper|Grim]]'s help, gets upgraded to "snake-demon summoning cult".
 
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