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Regardless, the cliche 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 [[
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.
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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."
== Meta ==
* The TV Tropes logo wears one, although whether it's drunk or not is up to opinion.
* On one of [[George Carlin]]'s stand-up albums, he claims that doing impressions of [[
== 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."}}
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cQdd1z3uIg "It's Christmas and I Wonder Where I am"], a 1995 parody of "Walking in a Winter Wonderland" by the [[The Bob and Tom Show|Bob and Tom band]] and sung in a passable impression of [[Dudley Moore]] as [[Arthur (film)|Arthur]], includes the following lines:
{{quote|''I was looking for a lady I could dance with,
''And so I stood beneath the mistletoes.
''Someone said, "You'll have a better chance if
''You take that lampshade off, and put back on your clothes."}}
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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{{quote|This is a big cone of bright orange plastic. You have no recollection of how or where you got it, but it's like I always say -- it's not a good night unless you end up with a traffic cone!}}
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* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' at least once.
* Pintsize in ''[[Questionable Content]]''.
* Subverted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20110423134325/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/60 this] ''[[Loserz]]'' comic.
* Bun-Bun in [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/030101 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' strip.
* ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'' used this once.
* Steve in the webcomic ''Life and Death'' often wears a traffic cone while drunk.
* Literally lampshaded [https://web.archive.org/web/20120529080727/http://www.basketcasecomix.com/?p=109 here].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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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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