History Main / PuttingOnMyThinkingCap

* ''{{Tales Of Xillia}}'': [[BadassGrandpa Rowen]] starts StrokingTheBeard while [[CombatMedic Jude]] tilts his head while tappimg his temple.

* Ed of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddnEddy'' once tried to think whilst putting the tips of his thumb and forefinger together as though he was trying to literally grasp an idea. Another time when Eddy tells Ed to think (about a matchs problem) Ed stands absolutely motionless for a whole day and night, his pose so unbreakable his pals resort to sleeping in the crook of his arm til the following morning. These aren't so much habits as they are humorous.

--> '''Eddy''': Well I'm stumped

* ''{{Nextwave}}'': Dirk Anger has some very odd rituals he engages in when he needs to concentrate, or just be alone. Some of them are intended to be potentially lethal for no easily discernible reason.

* ''WorzelGummidge'' didn't have a thinking cap, he had a literal ''thinking head''. Being a living scarecrow, he was able to remove his own head and replace it with a more intelligent one when he needed to concentrate on something.

* Sen-chan, [=DekaGreen=] in ''TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' has his "thinking pose" where he stands on his hands. This quirk was retained for his American counterpart Bridge Carson in ''Series/PowerRangersSPD''.

* According to research linked from [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19971_5-things-you-didnE28099t-know-could-make-you-smarter.html this]] {{Cracked}} article, wearing a white lab coat can help people think better, as long as they believe that it's a lab coat and not a painter's coat.

* ''HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'': The Sorting Hat described himself as a thinking cap.

* In ''{{The X-Files}}'', when Mulder needs to think really hard about a problem he watches ''PlanNineFromOuterSpace'' on the reasoning that the film is so bad it shuts down his logic and allows him to make his standard huge leaps of deduction.

* ''WinnieThePooh'': Pooh Bear thumps his head while saying "think think think". He also had a Thoughtful Spot, where he went specifically to do this.

* [[PowerRangersSPD Green Ranger Bridge Carson]] does a perfect hand stand when thinking.

* BBC's ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', like his literary counterpart plays the violin and uses [[SetttingUpdate nicotine patches]] instead of smoking, and also stops eating when he's figuring out a case. This can go on for days.

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* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8615605/8/The-Never-ending-Road The Never-Ending Road]]'' Dumbledore rubbed the knuckles of his left hand when he was thinking about something that disturbed him.
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** In a related ritual, Scrooge [=McDuck=] in ''DuckTales'' would retreat to a private room to pace around a stylized statue of "The Thinker"; he's done it so many times that the ground around the statue has recessed into a deep pit.

* ''SouthPark'': When Towelie wants to think, he gets high (unfortunately, the ideas he comes up when he's high only inevitably get him into trouble).

--> '''Ford''': This should give him [[AWorldWidePunomenon some zest]] for a couple minutes.

* ''HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStione'': The Sorting Hat described himself as a thinking cap.

* Sen-chan, [=DekaGreen=] in ''[[SuperSentai Dekaranger]]'' has his "thinking pose" where he stands on his hands. This quirk was retained for his American counterpart Bridge Carson in ''PowerRangersSPD''.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Professor Farnsworth]] has the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCZbb85R0B0 Chamber of Understanding]].

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* In the ''{{Fallout}}'' series, most hats give a bonus to Perception. Perception governs skills like Energy Weapons, Explosives and Lockpicking. So if there's a puzzle involving lasers, bombs and tumblers, you might well need a thinking cap. [[BoozeBasedBuff Or Absinthe]].

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