The Postmaster’s hat in Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal is very…strange.
Liz’s review from And you Call Yourself a Scientist of atlantis agreesd with me about the hats. No pix, again, though. Darn!
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/ 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.
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…
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.
A man walks down the street in a hat like that, you know he’s not afraid of anything.
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.
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?”
“Don’t loose your hat!”
Fine headgear was always a strong point of the many incarnations of Ming the Merciless.
I know some folks like them, but I always thought Guinan’s hats were pretty wacky.
Ah, here we are: Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe . 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.
No nominations for Queen Amidala? 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!”
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.
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…
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?
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 : his villainous cranial poultry really needs to be seen to be appreciated.
OK, here’s a vidcap from Gor. One scene. Ten DIFFERENT funny hats.
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!" OK, maybe not weep. Maybe … laugh. It’s a close call.