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* Johnny Carson's shtick as Carnac the Magnificent was well known for the giant turban that apparently granted him psychic powers.

* On the A&E TV series ''[[Nero Wolfe]]'', Archie Goodwin (Timothy Hutton) always dressed very well whenever he went out on business or pleasure, frequently topping off his outfit with a snappy fedora. Wolfe himself (Maury Chaykin) sported a few Nice Hats of his own on the rare occasions when he left the brownstone.

** And the Spacing Guild representative; you know the Guild has been knocked down a peg when he appears without his bizarre black headgear.

* Mention ''must'' go to Jayne Cobb's "cunning hat" in the ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' episode "The Message"... knitted for him [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|by his mom]].

* Benton Fraser's Mountie standard issue wide-awake hat in ''[[Due South]]'', which has a brim stiff enough to ''knock someone out'' when hurled Frisbee-style.

** Some fans point out that Fraser's susceptibility to injury and harm is dependent on whether or not he has his hat. If he has his hat, he is invincible (the hat once saves him from being shot at point-blank range, by TAKING THE BULLET no less). The bullet went straight through the hat front-and-back, but without the hat, he'd spend an episode in the hospital. Inversely, through the entire episode of ''Victoria's Secret'', he almost never wears the hat, and we ALL know how THAT went for him...

** Not one to be outdone in the fashion department, Romana sported at least four (if you count "Shada"). Not counting the awful Burberry one from "The Stones of Blood" that today screams uncool, there's "The Androids of Tara", "City of Death" ([[Fetish Fuel|topping off a rather memorable outfit]]), "Shada" and the time she wore the entire Fourth Doctor get-up.

** Though they're all tame compared to what most Time Lords wear.

* 1975's ''The Ghost Busters'' was pretty much all about the nice hats. Tracy, the gorilla sidekick, would go through about 10 hat-changes or more through the course of each episode.

* In the pilot episode of ''[[White Collar]]'', Agent Burke's probationary agent compliments Neal Caffrey on his hat when she first meets him, leading Caffrey to think that she's flirting with him, when Burke tells Caffrey that {{spoiler|"She'd rather be wearing the hat"}}, implying that {{spoiler|she's actually a lesbian (which is confirmed later in the episode)}}.

* ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'': Since he keeps his gut-pouch covered, the only thing preventing Teal'c from [[Human Aliens|passing for human]] is his gold forehead tattoo. The obvious solution is a selection of [[Nice Hat|Nice Hats]], or in one case a [[Funny Afro|fake Afro]] and bandanna.

* ''[[Leverage]]'': If Nate Ford (also played by Timothy Hutton) can wear a hat, he will. And he looks damn good doing it.