Nun in a baseball cap instead of a habit?

October 23, 2006 2:00 PM

I have a very strong image in my head of a nun who, instead of the traditional habit, is wearing a baseball cap of sorts. Where did I see this?

The cap has a flap on the back, sort of like a French Foreign legion cap but longer. The cap may have been white on the front, possibly with an embroidered cross, while the back of the cap, including the flap, was black.

I'm almost certain I saw this on a TV show in the 80s (Sledge Hammer! maybe?), but it's possible it was in a movie, a dream, or just maybe real life. Does the above description sound familiar to anyone?

posted by PinkStainlessTail to Religion & Philosophy (8 answers total)

Best answer: Well, I don't know where you saw it, but I saw a bunch of them in Rome this summer...
posted by PercussivePaul at 2:53 PM on October 23, 2006

Could it have been Tracy Nelson's character in Father Dowling Mysteries? The only pictures I can find of her show her in a normal habit, but for some reason the baseball cap is ringing a bell with me. Also, she apparently went undercover as a stripper and knew how to hotwire cars, so it sounds like she was...non-traditional.
posted by katemonster at 3:12 PM on October 23, 2006

Fletch? Spies Like Us? This rings a bell for me.
posted by mattbucher at 3:24 PM on October 23, 2006

Check out this nun.
posted by mattbucher at 3:27 PM on October 23, 2006

This rings a bell for me.

Same. 'Sister Act?'
posted by ericb at 3:33 PM on October 23, 2006

The Flying Nun?
posted by thirteenkiller at 3:58 PM on October 23, 2006

is it rosie o'donnell in 'Wide Awake'? That's late 90s, Shyamalan's first directed flick.

She's a nun. And she wears a baseball cap.
posted by ryecatcher at 4:41 PM on October 23, 2006

Oh, wait...that whole french legion thing. Probably not.
posted by ryecatcher at 4:42 PM on October 23, 2006