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== [[Film]] ==
* ''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 [[It Makes Sense in Context|(long story)]]. He lead the rather prim woman to believe she did dance naked with a lampshade on her head.
* In ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' one of the teens constable Angel arrests for being drunk and disorderly is wearing a traffic cone on his head.
* No alcohol involved, but Master Splinter does this to cheer up Michelangelo in the third ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' movie.
** Michelangelo himself had done the same thing earlier.
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* Michael Scott in ''[[The Office]]'' episode "Christmas Party" wears a lampshade at one point during the episode, likely drunk.
* [[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?)
* Referenced in ''[[
{{quote|'''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 [[Lampshade Hanging]] of Lampshade-Wearing?
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* In one episode of ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (TV series)|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.
* 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 [[It Makes Sense in Context|wearing traffic cones on their heads and their pants around their ankles.]]
* This was the basis for one of the physical challenges on ''[[Double Dare (1986 TV Show)||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.
* 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 Wave]]s it by saying "It's not a good night unless you get a traffic cone."
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== Music ==
* [[Brad Paisley]]'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.
* The Irish Rovers' song "Wasn't That a Party?" has a variant of this trope.
{{quote|"Someone took a grapefruit and wore it like a hat."}}
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*** Judging by his expression, even ''Larry'' was impressed by this particular move... 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.
* 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.
* On the late-60s ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' 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.
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