PaRappa's Hat Theories
Since the beginning of the music game genre, there has been one question that has boggled man's mind:WHAT THE HELL'S UNDER PARAPPA'S HAT?The bipedal rapping dog has never taken off his hat at any point of the game, or possibly his life.
The issue of what PaRappa looks like underneath his beanie is such a video-game-character-related issue, that the upper half this WMG has been dedicated to finding an answer.
- PRHT 1: PaRappa's bald.
- PRHT 2: PaRappa has red hair.
- PRHT 3: PaRappa doesn't have a scalp. His hat is the only thing encasing his brain.
- PRHT 4: PaRappa's a robot, and the hat hides his cranial circuitry.
- PRHT 5: PaRappa's head is shaped exactly like his hat.
- PRHT 6: Ed, Edd, and Eddy's universe is contained under his hat. His universe is contained under Double D's.
- PRHT 7: PaRappa's hat is the one thing that lets him literally have a grip on his sanity.
- PRHT 8: PaRappa's hat is part of his head.
- PRHT 9: PaRappa keeps drugs in his hat (which would explain a lot.)
- PRHT 9.1: He gives those drugs to the makers of the games. Talk about For the Lulz.
- PRHT 10: PaRappa's brain is stored in his hat.
- PRHT 11: PaRappa is his hat. Everything else is just a meat puppet.
- PRHT 12: PaRappa's hat is what grants him his anthropomorphism. If he goes too long without it, he degenerates down the Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism until he becomes your average non-sentient, four-legged dog.
- PRHT 13: PaRappa hides a Third Eye under his hat.
- PRHT 14: PaRappa's soul is stored in his hat.
- PRHT 15: PaRappa has an Embarrassing Tattoo on his head.
- PRHT 16: PaRappa has a comically oversized afro crammed under his hat. Especially considering Stage 5 of Pa Rappa the Rapper 2.Hairdresser Octopus: "Hey, take that stupid hat off. What does it look like in there?"PaRappa: "Aaa, I'm not sure myself."
- PRHT 17: The Bermuda Triangle leads to the inside of PaRappa's hat.
- PRHT 18: PaRappa has a Reverse Brain Slug under his hat.
- PRHT 19: PaRappa's hat is acutally a headband, and he just has Idiot Hair.
- PRHT 20: PaRappa has blonde hair, like the anime. (i think (i'm unsure))
- PRHT 21: PaRappa has horrifically untamable hair under his hat that got so matted that it tangled with the fibers of the hat. Any attempts to remove the hat have ended in failure.
- PRHT 22: PaRappa hides nothing. Literally nothing. Under his hat is a black hole.
Now for other theories about the PaRappa Universe
Sunny Funny's genitalia is inside her head.
- Real world flowers are the reproductive part of the plant. Sunny Funny has a flower for a head. What that says about what she has downstairs is kind of unsettling.
Katy Kat smokes when nobody's looking.
- I can't be the only guy to notice that Katy's voice gets shriller and raspier with every sequel. There's definitely some damage to her larynx going on.
Parappa The Rapper is set in the same universe as Regular Show.
- Think about it. Both are set in a Mundane Fantastic World of Weirdness populated with Funny Animals and Anthropomorphic Objects that coexist with humans.
Parappa The Rapper is set in the same universe as pop'n music.
The Amazing World of Gumball is set in the same universe as these games.
- Proof of this is the first issue of the comic has a DMV instructor who bears a strong resemblance to Instructor Moosilini, in the second issue the Karate Instructor bears a strong resemblance to Chop Chop Master Onion... now either this is true or the writer is a HUGE fan of Parappa the Rapper!
The Robot Chicken parody (where PaRappa was defending himself in court and was shot by King Kong Mushi) happened.
How else could he have been able to play Stage 6 of Lammy?- Well, if you're playing the US version, maybe he took a plane.
- The cutscenes for PaRappa's story mode in Um Jammer Lammy don't appear to have any correlation towards the actual levels, plus the title screens for each stage having a day of the week in PaRappa's story mode appears to suggest that PaRappa's story occurs over a week as opposed to within 15 minutes like Lammy's story.
In Um Jammer Lammy, the object that PaRappa thought he was holding in his hand within the Dummied Out PaRappa's take on Chop Chop Master Onion's song was a microphone.
- I mean, I guess it makes sense, considering the theme of the game(s).
Taste of Teriyaki is a song about someone who loves two people.
Katy was born in Pure Heart Valley, and managed to escape from it way before the Ruby got cracked.
- Given that most of the sweetiepies are Amazing Technicolor Wildlife, and there's seemingly no other technicolor wildlife besides Katy in Parappa Town, this sorta makes sense.
The Anime takes place before the games.
- Parappa and his friends seem to be kids, high school age at the oldest in the anime, but in the games Parappa seems to be in his late teens.
- Adding onto this, PaRappa, Sunny, Katy, and PJ may have had a falling out with Matt and Paula, which would explain why neither of them appear in any of the games. Not even PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.
PaRappa hallucinates in "Full Tank" because he left the cake sitting out.
- In the cutscene after level 4, he can be seen leaving the seafood cake out overnight in his room, causing the fish to spoil. This could explain why PaRappa hallucinates birds turning into flying toilets and runs around in a psychedelic rainbow void full of his teacher's floating heads when he reaches cool mode.
Paul Chuck, the teacher for Lammy level 5, is Lammy's dad.
