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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''I left Cleveland to get away from His and Her towels, people who call cocktail parties 'pours' and the guy who always breaks it up by wearing a lampshade on his head.''|''[[Time Magazine]]'' article on actor '''Jim Backus''', December 15, 1958.}}▼
▲[[File:lampshade_01.jpg|frame|link=http://basketcasecomix.com/|Some inanimate objects just [[Can't Hold His Liquor|can't hold their liquor]].]]
▲{{quote|''I left Cleveland to get away from His and Her towels, people who call cocktail parties 'pours' and the guy who always breaks it up by wearing a lampshade on his head.''|''Time Magazine'' article on actor '''Jim Backus''', December 15, 1958.}}
A person getting drunk enough at a party to wear a lampshade as a hat.
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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.
Note, there is another reason you may see someone with a lampshade on their head: the [[Rule of Funny]] use as a [[Paper
A [[Sister Trope]] to [[Necktie Headband]] (what a Japanese [[Salaryman]] will do instead).
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Not to be confused with [[Lampshade Hanging]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The Person Formerly Known as Taro Sekiutsu in ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
** ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* Millie does this in ''[[Trigun]]''.
== [[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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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Discworld|Lords and Ladies]]'' puts it in an interesting context:
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* One of the students in ''[[Wayside School|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.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[
* 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!
* 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 ''[[
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** So would that be a [[Lampshade Hanging]] of
* ''[[Greg the Bunny]]'' once wore a lampshade while drunk at a funeral [[It Makes Sense in Context|(long story)]] and... well... ''[[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded it]]''.
* In one episode of ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (TV series)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'', Bertie does this and stands behind a
* 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 ''[[
== 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.
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* [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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* In ''[[The Sims|The Sims 2]]'', sims with a Pleasure aspiration will put on lampshades and start dancing (wasting your time and theirs) if you don't keep their aspiration level high enough.
* From ''[[Full Throttle]]'', while Ben is looking at a photo:
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'''Quohog''': Lampshade. }}
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'': traffic cones were available as hats for one Sneaky St. Pete's Day, after adventuring while drunk enough:
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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]] ==
* [[The Flintstones|Fred Flintstone]]
* [[The Simpsons (
* Patrick from ''[[
** Oddly enough, in "Spongebob Meets the Strangler", [[Only Sane Man|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, 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.
* Spanky Ham from ''[[Drawn Together]]'', in the first episode.
* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', Genie turns himself into a lampshade over Al's head for the line "A girl appreciates a man who can make her laugh."
* One episode of ''[[
* 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 [http://www.tv.com/madeline/madeline-and-the-big-cheese/episode/138143/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;summary TV.com summary].
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'''Danielle:''' Me? Queen who?
'''Madeline:''' (''thinks'') '''AHA!''' (''Puts lampshade over Danielle's head'') '''Queen ''Lampshade!'''''
'''Danielle:''' Fine, and you be Princess Drapery! }}
* In the first episode of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** In "Ponyville Confidential", Pinkie Pie is photographed wearing a lampshade, as part of a newspaper story about how she is an out-of-control party animal.
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