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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.
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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?)
* Referenced in ''[[Myth Busters]]'':
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** So would that be a [[Lampshade Hanging]] of [[Lampshade-Wearing]]?
* ''[[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]]''.
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* [[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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== [[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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== Webcomics ==
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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.
* 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|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Spike is wearing a lampshade when he comes to invite Twilight back to a party she ran out of.
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