Mr. Toad's Wild Hat

March 13, 2017 11:33 AM

- A Toad Kept Visiting This Guy’s Porch So He Made It Some Hats
- 64 Photos Of Animals Wearing Hats
- 20 Awesomely cute animals wearing tiny hats - Lindsey Bonnice makes hats for her farm animals
posted by Room 641-A (25 comments total)

we thought you was a toad
posted by poffin boffin at 11:35 AM on March 13, 2017 [16 favorites]

The expression on the dog's face as she models the toad's hat is priceless.
posted by rtha at 11:35 AM on March 13, 2017 [13 favorites]

At a certain angle, Toady looks very presidential.
posted by effluvia at 11:52 AM on March 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

I like that Mr. Toad seems pretty much okay with the whole thing. Or at least he's got that Samuel L Jackson-in-a-Kangol look down.

Possibly also relevant to this post: cats in wigs.
posted by Mchelly at 12:06 PM on March 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

Also relevant: Sneezy the Penn State Squirrel.

Sneezy has been going strong for at least four years. Her facebook page is an absolute delight. You should friend her.
posted by Capt. Renault at 12:13 PM on March 13, 2017 [3 favorites]

Telephone and tell me I'm you're owwwwn
posted by hal9k at 12:13 PM on March 13, 2017 [5 favorites]

Everything about the toad-wearing-hats article is 💯💯💯
posted by aka burlap at 12:17 PM on March 13, 2017 [2 favorites]

Observe...
The Little Hats
posted by mrzarquon at 12:18 PM on March 13, 2017

Oh, to have been born in a time when a toad could wear a hat every day and need never fear the harsh judgments of strangers...

submitted 3 minutes ago by AtomEyes to r/lewronggeneration
posted by Atom Eyes at 12:22 PM on March 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

He needs to make Mr. Toad a motoring outfit, like the original Toad.

Poop poop!
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:24 PM on March 13, 2017 [5 favorites]

*dies of squee*
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 12:41 PM on March 13, 2017

The one with the feather is very Sir Eltoad John.
posted by darkstar at 12:43 PM on March 13, 2017 [4 favorites]

Cultural tangent: Mojo Nixon played Toady in the Super Mario Bros movie.
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 1:02 PM on March 13, 2017

I hope there's a MacArthur Genius Award for whoever realized you could attach a monocle to the brim of a pet-sized hat for instant added sophistication
posted by Mchelly at 1:03 PM on March 13, 2017 [15 favorites]

Then there's this picture of a kitten in a hat which I've been sending to everyone I know and which I just found out is photoshopped. D'oh! (Even though someone could make a hat that looked like that and someone should do that.)
posted by Room 641-A at 1:39 PM on March 13, 2017 [2 favorites]

Pertinent Would I Lie To You clip.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 1:43 PM on March 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

This makes me unreasonably happy; so thank you very much for this post.
posted by Phlegmco(tm) at 2:09 PM on March 13, 2017

Last night I was out with Mr Fig, and he was talking to me about something important and I was sort of half-assed skimming through facebook (I had my phone on the table off to the side, so my attention was mostly on husband). Then, I caught a glimpse of "man makes hats for toad" and immediately all attention was on phone and I made some sort of involuntary noise. Husband gave me the disappointed exasperated look I get when my brain finds cute animals more deserving of attention than his important talkings, but when I lifted the phone to show him, he was like "hah! oh wow"

So, if you want to bring a conversation to a dead stop and direct it elsewhere, have a bookmark to the "tiny toad gets custom tiny hats made for it" article, and just flash that at whoever you're talking to.
posted by Fig at 2:16 PM on March 13, 2017 [9 favorites]

"She was trying to tease him, but it came out wrong, like a lizard with a little hat on."

--Lorrie Moore
posted by mudpuppie at 4:16 PM on March 13, 2017 [2 favorites]

I'm reminded of my favourite part of my favourite documentary:

"Sometimes I call him Greeny, and sometimes I call him Reddy. Sometimes I call him Cane-Almost-Toad, and sometimes I call him Dairy Queen."
posted by EXISTENZ IS PAUSED at 4:51 PM on March 13, 2017 [3 favorites]

I certainly agree with the person who commented that putting a hat on a toad is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. I also enjoyed the snake hat and the lizards in hats.

Reptiles can really rock headgear.
posted by BlueHorse at 7:07 PM on March 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

I'm on the wrong device, but somewhere I have a picture of my python Bella, curled up in a feather boa, so we put a tiara on her, as you do, and took a picture. She's quite the queen, is our Isabella.
posted by SecretAgentSockpuppet at 7:48 PM on March 13, 2017 [6 favorites]

I can't tell you how much time I've wasted making beautiful hats for pets who absolutely refuse to wear them.

I think I do have a picture somewhere of the late, great Mr. Whiskers in a Pharoah headdress, though.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 10:51 PM on March 13, 2017 [4 favorites]

not nearly enough pigs, so here you go
posted by FirstMateKate at 6:03 AM on March 14, 2017 [1 favorite]

Without doubt, the guinea pigs steal the show. No other animal can rock a hat quite like a guinea pig
posted by WalkerWestridge at 2:24 PM on March 14, 2017