History Main / DistinguishedGentlemansPipe

%% * Roger was almost always seen with his trademark pipe in the original animated ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''.

* Subverted with Kent Mansley in "WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant''. Mansley smokes a straight billiard pipe several times in the film, but it's just to make himself look suave in order to hide his true paranoid and unpleasant personality.

This is AlwaysMale but, as always, Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible. A key element in the attire of the QuintessentialBritishGentleman, often enjoyed in a SmokyGentlemensClub. Also a key wardrobe accessory for the StandardFiftiesFather. The smoker is often, but not always, a [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking Good Smoker]]. Compare CigarChomper, SmokingIsCool. Occasionally revealed as a BubblePipe for comedic relief.

** Bruce Banner smoked a pipe in his first appearance, in ''The Incredible Hulk #1''. In TheNineties when Hulk had Bruce Banner's brain he also smoked a normal sized pipe, which for him was very tiny.

* Doc Magnus, creator of the ''ComicBook/MetalMen'', is rarely seen without his trademark pipe. Even in the present day he looks like a stereotypical intellectual from TheSixties.

* Dad from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has several pipes, suggesting he all too keenly embraces the stereotype of StandardFiftiesFather. His IM handle is "pipefan413".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has Professor Richard Impossible, who is a very dark take on the StandardFiftiesFather, or rather, husband. After his full-blown FaceHeelTurn prompts an EvilCostumeSwitch, Impossible swaps his old pipe for a new one designed to look like a cartoony skull.

** In the episode [[Recap/CheersS4E5 "Diane's Nightmare,"]] Sam starts acting very sophisticated and debonair, which includes his lighting up a pipe. Then Diane wakes up to discover it was AllJustADream. When she looks through Sam's desk, she finds an actual pipe, causing her to wonder OrWasItADream... then she examines the pipe more carefully, blows into it and discovers it's a BubblePipe.

* Played straight during a Season 10 news segment on ''Series/TopGear'' when the presenters try out Porsche-designed pipes. Everyone starts laughing when they see how natural James May looks when smoking a pipe (especially because they were using old armchairs on the set that series) and he immediately plays up the old-gentleman mannerisms for laughs...before everything gets completely averted by Jeremy Clarkson ten seconds later when he burns his tongue after putting the wrong end of the pipe in his mouth (it's a Porsche, so the hot bit's supposed to go in the back).

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': Bruce Wayne smoked a pipe when he first appeared, in keeping with his RichIdiotWithNoDayJob persona. In fact, the very first panel of his first appearance showed him smoking a pipe in Commissioner Gordon's study. The trait lasted for about a year before vanishing.[[note]]Though it did pop back up from time to time, as recently as the mid-80s ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' run.[[/note]]

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* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', the First Doctor, who was certainly haughty and considered himself smarter than everyone, smoked a [[http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a293/toolbox1234/Doctor_smoking_.jpg pipe]] in his first serial.

* Granada Television's legendary Franchise/SherlockHolmes adaptation subverted this by having him switch to cigarettes later on, as per the books.

%%* Music/MrBTheGentlemanRhymer. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhcSEwWHYI4 Militantly.]]
* Captain Robert Brown of Music/AbneyPark, a gentleman pirate, smokes a pipe.

%%* In keeping with his [[Film/DollarsTrilogy inspiration]], [[TheGunslinger Angel Eyes]] fulfills this trope in ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG''.

%% * Several members of Theatre/TheLeagueOfSTEAM smoke pipes.

%%* ''WebVideo/LeftPOORDead'': Reginald's signature pipe

* Jamie [=McJack=] in ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots'' is a rare female example: her "Romance Detective" character has a bubble pipe (Sherlock Holmes' Calabash-style).

%% * ''WesternAnimation/TennesseeTuxedoAndHisTales'': Commander [=McBragg=]. Quite.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has Professor Richard Impossible, who is a very dark take on the StandardFiftiesFather, or rather, husband. After his full-blown FaceHeelTurn prompts an EvilCostumeSwitch, Impossible swaps his old pipe for a new one designed to look like a cartoony skull.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': When Bart visited [[Magazine/{{Playboy}} Hugh Hefner]] (to get Hef to appear on Krusty's Komeback Special) Hef smoked a pipe, and Bart had a similar looking pipe which [[BubblePipe blew bubbles]].
* Professor Utonium in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' smokes a pipe. Occasionally, it's a BubblePipe.
%% * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'': ComicBook/TheJoker was seen with one when he and Harley "adopted" Tim Drake.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': Bad lady Natasha Fatale was occasionally seen with a pipe while impersonating a man. Mr. Peabody during "Peabody's Improbable History" would regularly be seen with a pipe was well.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': Dexter's father was an occasional pipe smoker.
* Ren in some of the Games Animation episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', most notably "I Love Chicken" and "Dinner Party." Typically this would accompany him wearing an elegant suit, or a smoking jacket and fez hat.

* ''Film/OurMissBrooks'': An interesting case, where Dell's Comic Book adaptation of the [[TheMovie cinematic]] [[GrandFinale series finale]] has Mr. Boynton carrying and smoking a pipe. In [[Series/OurMissBrooks the series]], the one time Boynton smokes ("Bartering With Chief Thundercloud") he gets sick.

%% * Reed Richards of the ComicBook/FantasticFour used to smoke a pipe from time to time, before it became PC not to smoke.
%% * ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'': Francis Blake and Philip Mortimer.
%% * Banshee would often smoke a pipe during his downtime while he was a member of the ComicBook/XMen.
* ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'''s cohort and sometimes boss, Police Commissioner Eustace "Diogenes" Dolan has never been pictured without a pipe in the mouth!
* Doc Magnus, creator of the ComicBook/MetalMen, is rarely seen without his trademark pipe. Even in the present day he looks like a stereotypical intellectual from TheSixties.

* Bruce (Franchise/{{Batman}}) Wayne smoked a pipe when he first appeared. In fact the very first panel of his first appearance showed him smoking a pipe in Commissioner Gordon's study. The trait lasted for about a year before vanishing.[[note]]Though it did pop back up from time to time, as recently as the mid-80s ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' run.[[/note]]
** And Commissioner Gordon himself, although depicted smoking cigars in the early years, was soon established as a dedicated pipe smoker. (''Batman: Year Two'' established that Batman himself was responsible for this, having given Gordon a pipe to help him quit cigarettes.) Gordon eventually quit smoking after suffering a heart attack in the late 80s. Flashbacks will sometimes still show him with the pipe.

* The none-more-British space pilot of the 1950s, ComicStrip/DanDare, was also sometimes seen smoking a pipe, perhaps as a ShoutOut to the pipe-smoking RAF officers of the Second World War on whom the character was based.

* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'': When Jason became a millionaire (by converting all his cash into Turkish lira), he started wandering around in a smoking jacket and puffing on a bubble pipe.

* ComicStrip/SteveCanyon also smoked a pipe, for almost the exact opposite reason as Mark Trail. Canyon's pipe made it clear that he was more than just the average rough-and-tumble pilot: he was a ''thinking man's'' fighter jock.

* A ''[[ComicBook/TheFlintstones Flintstones]]'' print comic has Fred trying to buy such a pipe in a shop, but he's outraged at the price (a shockingly high ten dollars!) and demands something cheaper, so the salesman gives him a water pipe from the sink.
%% * Both Henry and Mr. Wilson smoked a pipe in the early years of ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS''. It was eventually phased out.

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%%* Basil in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective.''
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* Franchise/SherlockHolmes would probably be the TropeCodifier.
** Technically, Sherlock Holmes gained his cliche calabash pipe when he made the transition to ''{{theatre}}''. He smoked in the stories as well, but his three pipes were a short stemmed brier, a long stemmed cherrywood and a very well-used clay. Starting with William Gillette, actors added the large pipe to make it more clear from the stage what he was doing.
** The stage actor needed a pipe he could hold easily in his mouth while working with his hands. The famed meerschaum had the balance needed.
** And although Granada's classic adaptation with Jeremy Brett as Holmes is the only adaptation that remembers this, unless you count [[Series/{{Sherlock}} nicotine patches]], Sherlock switched to cigarettes when pipes went out of fashion.
%%* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'':
%%** Gandalf and Bilbo. And Aragorn.
%%** Merry and Pippin, after conquering Isengard.
%%** Honorable Mention: Théoden. ''Smoke, then, and think of him.''
* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': SS Colonel Hans Landa's austentatious calabash pipe is an {{homage}} to Sherlock Holmes and indicates Landa's very high opinion of his own sleuthing skills.
* ''Film/MarsAttacks'': Prof. Donald Kessler is a proper English scientist, and his pipe smoking indicates his thoughtful, academic nature.
* Michaleen Flynn in ''Film/TheQuietMan''. Also Father Lonergan and Rev. Playfair.

* Professor Kirke from ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'' (both film and book).
* Subverted in the 1982 film version of Creator/AgathaChristie's ''Literature/EvilUnderTheSun''. One of the murder suspects, Patrick Redfern, is seen with a pipe throughout the film, but it's only at the end that Poirot realises he's never actually been seen smoking it. The reason: [[spoiler:he's hidden a stolen diamond in the bowl.]]
%% * Sam Neill in ''Film/TheDish''.

* Part of Jason's gentleman disguise in ''Film/MysteryTeam''.
* Very rare female example: Juno [=MacGuff=] is seen sporting a distinguished gentleman's pipe, though not actually smoking it, in ''Film/{{Juno}}''.
* ''Film/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'': Miss Peregrine is a wealthy and dignified Englishwoman who smokes a pipe.
* ''Film/IfYouBelieve'': Susan's (ex-)husband Peter was present only in one scene, smoking or chewing a pipe. He definitely felt to be above everybody else.
* Bernard Lee's M smoked a pipe in the early ''Film/JamesBond'' films.
* In ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'', Lewis smokes one [[Magazine/{{Playboy}} Hugh Hefner]]-style after having sex with one of the Mus during their party.
* Frisbee smokes one when he's doing his scholarly thinking in ''Film/ASongIsBorn''.
* In ''Film/TheGreatRace'', The Great Leslie smokes a white pipe.

* Inspector Harper smokes one in ''Film/Madhouse1974''. He is the only character in the film to smoke a pipe.
* In ''Film/TortureGarden'', Creator/EdgarAllanPoe scholar and collector Ronald Wyatt (Creator/JackPalance) smokes a pipe right through the film.
* In ''Film/MistressOfTheApes'', Paul Cory smokes one as part of GreatWhiteHunter persona.
* In ''Film/ReturnToOz'': Doctor Worley smokes a pipe, and later the Nome King (played by the same actor). Just before his VillainousBreakdown, he hurls his pipe to the ground, creating a small explosion.

* In ''Film/{{Frieda}}'', Robert smokes one; fitting his role as a dashing RAF pilot and his PreWarCivilianCareer as a schoolmaster.

* Commissioner [[Literature/{{Maigret}} Jules Maigret]] smokes a pipe in direct contrast to the other characters' cigarette habits. If he's not smoking, he's almost invariably fiddling with his pipe in one way or another.
* Literature/PhilipMarlowe sometimes smokes a pipe at home or in his office, though he smoke cigarettes while he's out and about. In ''Literature/FarewellMyLovely'' he says in narration that he chooses the pipe to give his hands something to do and that anybody who assumes it signifies that he's a solid and respectable man is going to be disappointed.
* Creator/ElleryQueen smokes one, although it appears to be one of his affectations that comes and goes according to the story.
%% * Literature/JamesBond's boss, M, is described as a avaunt pipe smoker.
%% * Female example: Physsil in ''Literature/WisePhuul'' smokes one.
%%* Bill Kraft and John Rumford in ''Literature/ Victoria'' both smoke pipes.

** In “The Baseball Game,” Rhino says he would look distinguished smoking a pipe. Or as he puts it, "Like Creator/MarkTwain or Creator/JRRTolkien, actually."
** Subverted in “The Murder Mystery” when the Sherlock Holmes-style calabash pipe Penny tries to smoke emits soap bubbles.

* Also deliberately invoked by UsefulNotes/JosephStalin. He preferred cigarettes over pipe tobacco, but he had a small problem. In Russia at the time cigarettes were seen as glamorous and for the upper classes, while pipes associated with commoners and the inteligentsia. So Stalin opted for a pipe, but he packed it with rolling tobacco instead. That way he could appear as an intelectual and champion of the proletariat while and not give up his bourgeois preferences. He never cleaned his pipes, instead smoking one until it was unusuable than starting a new one.

* Creator/CharlesNelsonReilly, American actor, voice actor, comedian, and stage director best known for his role as one of the regular celebrity panelists on the 70's game show series/MatchGame, was a known pipe smoker and he can be seen on a number of episodes of Match Game smoking a pipe.

* Professor Plum in ''Film/{{Clue}}''.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Alderman Fenwick is a pipe smoker (as seen in episode 3), which differentiates him from CigarChomper Tom Anderson, because Fenwick is older, more serious, and wields more political power than anyone else at the informal SmokyGentlemensClub.

%%* ''Series/RemingtonSteele'' (also played by Pierce Brosnan)

%%* Dan Rowan of ''Series/RowanAndMartinsLaughIn''
%%* Jim Anderson on ''Series/FatherKnowsBest''
%%* Charles Nelson Reilly on ''Series/MatchGame''
%%* Steve Douglas on ''Series/MyThreeSons'' (also played by Fred [=MacMurray=])
* Occurs on the show ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' at times.
** Kelly Gaines's father Walter is a wealthy, snobbish high-society sort who is frequently seen smoking a pipe.
** In the episode [[Recap/CheersS4E5 "Diane's Nightmare,"]] Sam starts acting very sophisticated and debonair, which includes his lighting up a pipe. Then Diane wakes up to discover it was AllJustADream. When she looks through Sam's desk, she finds an actual pipe, causing her to wonder OrWasItADream... then she examines the pipe more carefully, blows into it and discovers it's a BubblePipe.
* Alan Harper from ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'', while staying at Lindsey's home, finds her ex-husband's pipe and starts using it to look more distinguished. Unfortunately, he leaves it too close to the drapes and burns the house down.
* Data smoked one in an episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' where he used a SherlockScan to figure something out, until Picard told him to put it away.
* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'': In "Bad Earl" Earl's friend Ralph is taking advantange of an old woman with bad eyesight and even worse memory loss by pretending to be her long dead husband, sitting around in his old clothes smoking a pipe. Earl then takes over the gig.

* Kramer on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' switches to a pipe every time he tries to pass himself off as a doctor.

* Played straight during a Season 10 news segment on ''Series/TopGear'' when the presenters try out Porsche-designed pipes. Everyone starts laughing when they see how natural James May looks when smoking a pipe (especially because they were using old armchairs on the set that series) and he immediately plays up the old-gentleman mannerisms for laughs...before everything gets completely averted by Jeremy Clarkson ten seconds later when he burns his tongue after putting the wrong end of the pipe in his mouth (it's a Porsche, so the hot bit's supposed to go in the back).
* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', the First Doctor, who was certainly haughty and considered himself smarter than everyone, smoked a [[http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a293/toolbox1234/Doctor_smoking_.jpg pipe]] in his first serial.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Spoofed in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E16Storyteller Storyteller]]" when Andrew lights up a pipe for his ''Series/MasterpieceTheatre'' introduction. [[OfCourseISmoke Then starts coughing.]]
* The patriarchal Ben Cartwright on ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'' was occasionally seen with a pipe.
* ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'': Captain Muramatsu (or Mura in the dub) can sometimes be seen smoking a pipe, befitting of his stern but respecting father-like personality.
* On ''Series/BarneyMiller'', Harris tries to invoke this with the author photo on the dust jacket of his book. His squadmates are quick to mock it considering that he's never been a pipe-smoker before (or since).
* As noted above, Granada Television's legendary Franchise/SherlockHolmes adaptation subverted this by having him switch to cigarettes later on, as per the books.
** ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' gave its titular character a ''nicotine patch'' habit due to [=21st=] century London's stringent smoking laws. The show's adaptation of "The Abominable Bride" had Sherlock and Watson puffing away on pipes due to the episode's Victorian setting[[note]]Creator/BenedictCumberbatch said, however, that he and Creator/MartinFreeman, rather than actually smoking, were using thermal pipes that merely created smoke from the bowl.[[/note]].
* In the "Flowers for Charlie" episode of ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', Charlie begins taking intelligence-enhancing pills, and starts using a big, elaborate pipe, while expounding on ''Literature/WarAndPeace'', though the pipe is clearly not lit. [[spoiler:The pipe being purely for show foreshadows the fact that the pills are placebos, Charlie has merely [[FeigningIntelligence convinced everyone he's growing smarter]]. Including himself.]]
* Befitting his status as one the more mature TV detectives of the time, Series/{{Cannon}} smokes a pipe, which makes him seem quite avuncular.

When a writer wants to show that a character is just a little bit "above" everyone else in the group, in one way or another, he'll give them a pipe. The man with the pipe is usually depicted as being a little bit older, a little bit (or a lot) smarter (often a [[TheProfessor Professor]] or a GreatDetective), in control, composed, unruffled and dignified. Perhaps even pompous, snooty, aloof or a bit haughty. Properly packing a pipe for smoking requires a bit of skill to judge - too loose, and the tobacco will immediately burn out; too tight and the smoker won't be able to draw enough air through it. When being held, the stem points back at the smoker, drawing attention to them as being the most important; it can also be used by them to point with.

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* A ''[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Flintstones]]'' print comic has Fred trying to buy such a pipe in a shop, but he's outraged at the price (a shockingly high ten dollars!) and demands something cheaper, so the salesman gives him a water pipe from the sink.

%% * ''VideoGame/HenryHatsworthInThePuzzlingAdventure'' - the pipe is also enchanted and lets Henry breathe underwater.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': Currently five classes can sport a pipe with specific items, namely the Soldier's 'Lord Cockswain's Novelty Mutton Chops and Pipe', the Sniper's 'Outback Intellectual', the Pyro's 'Bubble Pipe', the Medic's 'Nine-Pipe Problem', and the Demoman's 'Bearded Bombardier'. All of them even come with the 'Genteel Smoke' effect.

* In ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'' the Battlecruiser unit portrait smokes one, though his StopPokingMe suggests he's more of an old drunk guy.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Return of the Obra Dinn}}'', [[spoiler:Aleksei Toporov is one of the seamen in the firing line, and he often carries his trademark tobacco pipe, which he smokes on one rare occasion---a hint that his identity can be deduced.]]

* A WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes:

* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': SS Colonel Hans Landa's austentateous calabash pipe is an {{homage}} to Sherlock Holmes and indicates Landa's very high opinion of his own sleuthing skills.
* ''Film/MarsAttacks'': Prof. Donald Kessler (Pierce Brosnan)