Comments on: Hat smashing movie and tv clips?

Question: Hat smashing movie and tv clips?

Ohdemah — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:41:31 -0800

Can anyone point me towards movie or tv clips that involve punching someone in the face through a straw boater held up in front of them or any other comedic hat smashing?

I've become obsessed with the convention of smashing hats in anger or frustration, so I'm up for all tips on hat-smashing in general. The only things that I've got so far are Apu talking to Homer's spy-camera cowboy hat and Harvey Kneeslapper from Sesame Street, keeping an "I" on someones hat. Smashy smashy!

By: ReiToei

ReiToei — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:52:25 -0800

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in651Ix15mU

By: mikepop

mikepop — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:52:31 -0800

You need to get the video of the Abbott and Costello version of the "Niagara Falls/Slowly I Turned" routine. At least in the one I recall, there was some hat smashing.

By: AJaffe

AJaffe — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:05:05 -0800

I recommend a documentary by Jeff Krulik (of "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" fame) called "Hitler's Hat"...

By: Bromius

Bromius — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:05:50 -0800

Isn't there some headgear mutilation in the lemonade-vendor scene in Duck Soup, after the hat-switching routine?

By: briank

briank — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:06:37 -0800

Look for some Edgar Kennedy shorts. Seems to me the broken straw boater shtick was part of his material.

By: willmize

willmize — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:05:25 -0800

I remember an Abbott and Costello routine about the Susquahanna Hat Company.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIXnz8R7E_w

By: dawdle

dawdle — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:37:43 -0800

Ian Holm as Sam Mussabini in Chariots Of Fire smashes his fist through his straw hat when Harold Abraham wins the 100 m sprint in the 1924 Olympics.

By: naoko

naoko — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:10:19 -0800

This involves a non-straw hat, but there is, as I recall, some hat-smashing in Mary Poppins - somthing to do with the father getting fired from his job at the bank? It's not a funny scene, but then I think later everything works out ok and he's still wearing the smashed hat around, just for kicks, so it ends up being funny, or soemthing (it's been awhile since I've seen it).

By: fishfucker

fishfucker — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:19:09 -0800

When the father gets fired, the other bankers put a fist through his top (or is it bowler?) hat and then put it back on his head. man, i haven't seen that film in awhile.

By: Gungho

Gungho — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:47:46 -0800

Any number of Three Stooges shorts.

By: ObscureReferenceMan

ObscureReferenceMan — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:30:04 -0800

The Skipper used to hit Gilligan with his (the Skipper's) hat...

By: ObscureReferenceMan

ObscureReferenceMan — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:36:43 -0800

Maybe not quite what you're looking for but... In "Pride of the Yankees", the team plays a joke on the Babe, and they all take a bite out of his straw hat.