Line #12 Main/NecktieHeadband


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9	[[quoteright:347:[[Webcomic/YellowPeril https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Necktie_1541.jpg]]]]
10	[[caption-width-right:347:[[MundaneMadeAwesome That's no overreaction.]] [[StealthPun Plumbing]] is ''very'' demanding work.]]
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12	ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: someone wearing a necktie around the head as an improvised MartialArtsHeadband.
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14	A trope often associated with [[{{Salaryman}} salarymen]] and other corporate types whose business clothes come with a necktie. Sometimes they get [[LampshadeWearing overenthusiastic during an after-work party]], or they get involved in SeriousBusiness that justifies dropping the DressCode.
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16	In real life, most specifically in the hard drinking context, this custom comes from a drunken guy's ostensibly failed attempt to take off his necktie, which remains wrapped around his head for the rest of the party after they forget the matter or quit trying due to alcohol-numb fingers.
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18	SisterTrope to LampshadeWearing.
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26	* A 1999 ''This Is Series/SportsCenter'' ad had anchors discussing a test of their [[MillenniumBug Y2K]] emergency procedures. The test goes [[HilarityEnsues less than optimally]] as chaos in the offices break out. The kicker, though, is Charlie Steiner shoving his face into the camera, wearing a necktie on his head and holding a latern while shouting, "Follow me! Follow me to freedom!"
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30	* Worn by Bradley in an omake of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' [[spoiler:parodying the bit where he turns out not to be dead.]]
31	* Oji "Gabriel" Tanaka does this when playing guitar in the early episodes of ''Anime/TheLegendOfBlackHeaven''. Later on, he just takes the tie off.
32	* [[ConversationalTroping Discussed]] in ''Manga/LuckyStar'' when Konata, Kagami and Tsukasa wonder why a drunk person is always depicted wearing a necktie around their head; they conclude that it's likely because they're too drunk to take it off properly.
33	* ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' has a chapter where [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Youko]]'s father Genjirou sports one of these after having too much to drink. This is doubly funny because 1) he wasn't even wearing a tie before, and 2) as a full-blooded vampire he's somewhere between two and three times taller than the rest of the cast.
34	* Seen on a horde of drunken salarymen in ''Manga/PeepoChoo''.
35	* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'': Vash the Stampede does this a couple times in both versions, when he gets down to some serious drinking. We never see the tie otherwise--he seems to only pull it out for this purpose.
36	* Episode 10 of ''Anime/YuriOnIce'' reveals that Yuri did this while drunk at the previous year's gala. Even more funny since he is seen removing the tie earlier, meaning that either he or someone else purposely tied that tie around his head.
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40	* ''Film/BlackRat'': When the Black Rat offers to let Takashi go if he can block his shot on goal, Takashi takes off his necktie and ties it around his head to show how serious he is. It doesn't help.
41	* Done by some of the clerks when they turn pirate in ''The Crimson Permanent Assurance'' short that accompanies ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife''.
42	* Abby in ''[[Film/{{Grindhouse}} Planet Terror]]''
43	* Lisa sports one in ''Film/TheRoom2003'' while she and Johnny get very drunk on Scotchka before their second love scene.
44	* In ''Film/{{Sam}}'', Steve is wearing his necktie as headband by the end of his StagParty.
45	* Shaun in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' does this to cover a dart wound.
46	* Arlo Pear in ''Film/{{Moving}}'' when he wants his furniture back from the movers. Reflects his earlier martial arts fantasy.
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50	* ''Literature/TheBadGuys'' has Mr. Snake tie his tie around his head in Book 7.
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54	* ''Series/OneHundredThingsToDoBeforeHighSchool'': In "Sit at a Different Lunch Table Thing!", Fenwick gets carried away with his impersonation of an 8th grader, and ends up dancing on the 8th grade patio wearing his tie as a headband.
55	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace "The Girl in the Fireplace"]], the Tenth Doctor dons his necktie as a headband after partying with 18th century French aristocrats. Of course, since it's the Doctor, [[PlayingDrunk it's all part of his plan]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity to make the bad guys underestimate him.]]
56	* Will does this on the first day at his upper class school in ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' arguing that while the dress code specifies a tie in a half-Windsor knot, it doesn't say where he has to wear it.
57	* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': When celebrating their last day of class before graduation with the other girls, KT is shown to have converted her uniform tie into a headband.
58	* In a fifth season episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Ted Mosby ends up with a tie wrapped around his head during a quick montage of a DrinkingGame.
59	* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'': Randy unties Earl's tie (which Earl doesn't know how to retie) in order to show Earl what he would look like as an eighties guy at a rock concert.
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63	* In ''Theater/BlackFriday'', Gary Goldstien puts his tie around his head like this after joining the impromptu mall cult and keeps it that way for the rest of the show, implied to be due to the mania and mob mentality the Wiggly Dolls are causing.
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67	* Tao Cheng in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' wears one at the beginning of the mission "Crystal Maze".
68	* In ''VideoGame/OsuTatakaeOuendan'', the salaryman dons a neckie headband to get ready for a showdown with a giant mouse monster.
69	* The OST album cover for ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'' has Peppino wearing a necktie like that while singing karaoke.
70	* ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'': One of the revelations that you can get as Saejima and Kiryu has an insanely drunk office worker with his tie wrapped around his head telling off a younger guy for harassing a young woman. He tries to punch the young guy when he keeps bothering her, but his tie gets caught up in the automatic doors yanking him back, and with the motion he accidentally kicks the young guy, knocking both of them out. Saejima notes that it was common back in his day (as in, 1985) for people to wrap their ties around their heads when they went drinking, while Kiryu remarks that alcohol can make heroes even from the most ordinary men.
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74	* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja:'' Dr. McNinja does this a couple of times when he's either about to do something awesome or when he's [[WhatDidIDoLastNight drunk]].
75	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Elliot [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/nanasecraft-49 does]] this as part of a gradual [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/nanasecraft-23 slide]] toward being sexily undressed.
76	* Used by the very first hero in ''Webcomic/TheSuperest'': [[http://thesuperest.com/archives/2007/10/16/k01_unopposinator/ The Unopposinator]].
77	* Kane does it when tackling an after-hours assignment in ''WebComic/YellowPeril''.
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81	* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': Donned by Sam during Scanlan's solo assault on the manor in Episode 31.
82	* In Franchise/TheMuppets' version of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Bq69HfR0Y Jungle Boogie]]", Sam the Eagle has this at one point, even though ''he was never wearing a tie in the first place''.
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86	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has Numbuh 1 teaming up with a former salaryman hunting a serpent-like tie monster whose {{breath\|Weapon}} forcibly turns people into [[SharpDressedMan suit-wearing businessmen]] who slave away in corporate management. The man in question, Vin Moosk, wears his former necktie as a headband and later goes on to become one of the few adults Numbuh 1 is trusting of/considers to be cool.
87	* Agent/Principal Phil Coulson of ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' seems prone to this trope when going into battle. After all, nothing says [[BadassTeacher Badass Principal]] like an improvised MartialArtsHeadband.
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91	* At at least one factory in the US, labor union representatives wore their neckties on their heads to a meeting with Japanese executives overseeing the plant to show their willingness to stand for their positions.
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