Putting on My Thinking Cap: Difference between revisions

* In older Disney comics, Gyro Gearloose had a thinking cap he'd put on when he needed an idea for an invention. The cap looked like a roof of a house, complete with a little chimney, and there was a bird's nest with three crows on top of the said chimney. The hat seems to have disappeared from the comics at some point, probably because its role as a source of inspiration was replaced by Little Helper, Gyro's robot buddy.<br /><br />It was revived in a later comic, where he explained that he had indeed put it into storage, the reason for it was that the ideas that it gave were too random to be of much use. It's also shown that it works just as well on anyone else, and naturally [[Donald Duck]] "borrowed" it while Gyro wasn't present to try to solve his usual money problems by coming up with some sort of a revolutionary new idea he could sell and patent. Naturally, this being [[Born Unlucky|Donald]], there's only one possible outcome...{{spoiler|which results in Gyro having to save him by using the cap himself, causing him to come up with a mathematical formula that can be used to predict any future event with 100% accuracy. While he did write it down, the cleaner lady that he had hired in the beginning of the story [[Status Quo Is God|ended up wiping the board he had written it on clean while he was away]]}}

* In ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'', Jimmy has his "Think, think, think!" bit. Then it shows us his brain and a few tidbits from earlier (in case you forgot them) that usually help him solve...whatever.<br /><br />In a Jimmy Neutron/ [[Fairly Oddparents]] crossover, Timmy Turner attempts to do this, only to give up half-way with a tired "[[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|Okay, bored now]]".