# Where Did You Get That Hat?: Alarming SF/Fantasy Headgear **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 3, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230 "2005-11-03T03:00:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/21 "2005-11-03T16:31:32Z")
The Postmaster’s hat in Terry Pratchett’s [Going Postal](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0413774473/qid=1131035417/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-0811009-6167959?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) is very…strange. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/22 "2005-11-03T16:32:43Z")
Liz’s review from **And you Call Yourself a Scientist** of **atlantis** agreesd with me about the hats. No pix, again, though. Darn! > [@](#): > > But what really drives the final nail into the coffin of Atlantis, The Lost Continent is - believe it or not - the hats! Nowhere in the world - not even in Melbourne on the first Tuesday in November - will you ever see a bigger collection of ludicrous headgear. Now, you may think it unfair of me to condemn a film on the strength of the actions of a misguided milliner, but the fact is that the hats worn by the characters in this film make it next to impossible to take their actions seriously. It’s bad enough that everyone is stuck with dialogue that sounds like what Shakespeare might have written while he was in kindergarten; having all this fruity oratory emanating from beneath bizarre concoctions of fur, feathers, cardboard and spangles makes the whole thing irresistibly risible. > … > We now cut to a Council of the Governors of Atlantis, and oh, my Lord! The hats! The hats!! [http://twtd.bluemountains.net.au/Rick/liz\_alc.htm](http://twtd.bluemountains.net.au/Rick/liz_alc.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/23 "2005-11-03T16:35:14Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Here’s a copy of the VHS box. You can see Jack Palance’s hat in one corner. > > [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/outlaw\_of\_gor/](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/outlaw_of_gor/) > Here’s a whole pages devoted to the silly hats of Gor. No pix, though: > > [http://www.bondagerotica.com/articlesnopix/gormoviereview.html](http://www.bondagerotica.com/articlesnopix/gormoviereview.html) Hey, that’s my review! Thanks for the link! There’s another version that is full of pics, but I can’t access it from work as the firewall here thinks my site is adult in nature for some reason. Feel free to link to it if you can. Here’s a link to a directory that should have it: [http://www.bondagerotica.com/](http://www.bondagerotica.com/) mainstream.html I have purposesfully broken the link by putting a space in front of “mainstream.html” since a couple of the pics in the directory are NSFW. You really should access the article with pics … there are a HUGE number of silly hats in that picture. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/24 "2005-11-03T16:53:30Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Here’s what’s known as the [Wrath](http://www3.telus.net/public/mehwulfe/kyan/WoW/blizzcon/Plate.jpg) set. Are you comfortable in that? DON’T NOD! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/25 "2005-11-03T17:59:18Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > Are you comfortable in that? DON’T NOD! Well, I’d certainly think twice about outfitting a blond character in that, I’ll tell ya… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/26 "2005-11-03T20:14:43Z")
> [@slortar](#): > > I’m fond of this [this one](http://quicksitebuilder.cnet.com/rob_63/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/mordru.jpg) from [here.](http://quicksitebuilder.cnet.com/rob_63/id10.html)😃 Oh, good god… It’s sad that of all the hats and masks in those two productions, Mordru’s is the least eye-gougingly bad. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/27 "2005-11-03T21:08:00Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s a tossup between the Morrowind beetleheads and Jayne’s wooly hat.: A man walks down the street in [a hat like that](http://www.liquidfractal.com/brigade/pix/logo1.jpg), you know he’s not afraid of anything. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/28 "2005-11-03T21:28:29Z")
> [@slortar](#): > > Just about anyone from the old black and white serial, The Undersea Kingdom. [Just](http://www.cinefania.com/pics/personas/7/7448.jpg) [a](http://www.art-posters.net/posters/newart/mm4862.jpg) [taste.](http://davidszondy.com/future/robot/undersea.jpg) OK, the “taste” one is fantastic: the robot is pretty spiffy, too. I’ll see what I can dig up on _Flash Gordon_: some of the guards there used to have stylin’ titfers, too. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/29 "2005-11-03T21:32:35Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > Iz a _gut_ hat. > > Silly hats galore at [www.girlgeniusonline.com](http://www.girlgeniusonline.com) , but that’s Phil Foglio’s sense of humor. Still, look at 'em. Heh. I linked to that in **Podkayne** ’s hat thread. “And vat do ve call a plan vere you loose your hat?” “Iz not a gut plan?” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/30 "2005-11-03T21:35:01Z")
“Don’t loose your hat!” ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/31 "2005-11-03T21:49:49Z")
Fine headgear was always a strong point of the many incarnations of [Ming the Merciless](http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hagedorn/visual.htm). ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/32 "2005-11-03T21:58:51Z")
I know some folks like them, but I always thought [Guinan’s hats](http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Guinan) were pretty wacky. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/33 "2005-11-03T22:18:58Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > I’ll see what I can dig up on _Flash Gordon_: some of the guards there used to have stylin’ titfers, too. Ah, here we are: [_Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe_](http://www.annegwynne.com/motion-picture/flash_gordon.htm) . A fine array of ludicrous headgear, but alas, the guard with the tufted helmet is pipped at the post by Dale Arden’s truncated forage cap: a coquettishly tilted vagina on one’s head - with a feather sticking out - is the new black, it would seem. Doctor Zharkov’s _Doctor Zhivago_ entry did not place. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/34 "2005-11-03T22:21:02Z")
No nominations for [Queen Amidala](http://groups.msn.com/QueenAmidalaTribute)? Half of those hats are so ridiculous, she can barely turn her head or stand up. I especially like the one second from the bottom. “Hey, can you make my hair curve out about two feet to each side? And then, can you attach these weights from a grandfather clock to them? KEEN!” ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/35 "2005-11-03T23:25:49Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Here’s a copy of the VHS box. You can see Jack Palance’s hat in one corner. If Jack Palance is the villain, why does he appear to have a rare tropical butterfly perched on his head? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/36 "2005-11-03T23:36:16Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > If Jack Palance is the villain, why does he appear to have a rare tropical butterfly perched on his head? It’s an evil butterfly, obviously. Probably the one that goes around causing all those hurricanes. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/37 "2005-11-03T23:37:27Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > Ah, here we are: [_Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe_](http://www.annegwynne.com/motion-picture/flash_gordon.htm) . A fine array of ludicrous headgear, but alas, the guard with the tufted helmet is pipped at the post by Dale Arden’s truncated forage cap: a coquettishly tilted vagina on one’s head - with a feather sticking out - is the new black, it would seem. Doctor Zharkov’s _Doctor Zhivago_ entry did not place. Does it make me strange that I not only own both of those serials (and more), I also really enjoy watching them? Hell of a lot of fun. Anyway. Having seen both, I think Undersea Kingdom trumps them in terms of sheer outrageousness in the headgear department–all of the characters look like cockatiels… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/38 "2005-11-03T23:38:00Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > It’s an evil butterfly, obviously. Probably the one that goes around causing all those hurricanes. Wasn’t that the same butterfly that caused Ashton Kutcher to kill himself in the womb? How could it be evil if that’s true? ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/39 "2005-11-04T00:23:51Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > It’s an evil butterfly, obviously. Probably the one that goes around causing all those hurricanes. And burning down schools with cans of petrol: “No-one suspects The Butterfly!” If the Black Guardian link in my OP isn’t working for you, try [_this one_](http://www.wilson203.freeserve.co.uk/MyDoctorWhoSiteBlackGuardian.htm) : his villainous cranial poultry really needs to be seen to be appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230/40 "2005-11-04T02:08:52Z")
OK, here’s a vidcap from Gor. [One scene. Ten DIFFERENT funny hats.](http://www.bondagerotica.com/articles/gorfunnyhatcrowd2.jpg) But I don’t rest my case there. Here’s the full article, with a funny hat montage up top: [Bow down and weep before the horror that is Gor the movie!"](http://www.bondagerotica.com/articles/gormoviereview.html) OK, maybe not weep. Maybe … laugh. It’s a close call. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-get-that-hat-alarming-sf-fantasy-headgear/329230.md?page=3)