Movember #22 - The Flanders

November 22nd, 2009 Graig

For the past 20 years, Ned Flanders has had one of the most recognizable moustaches on TV, and an impressive soup strainer it is.

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Movember #21 - The Trebek

November 21st, 2009 Graig

Hands up, who misses Jeopardy host Alex Trebek’s debonair lip fuzz?
It was the king of salt-and-pepper ’staches, it was!

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Movember #20 - The Lanny

November 20th, 2009 Graig

Probably the most famous moustache in sports history… Lanny MacDonald might also get the most famous red-stache, accentuated by years of adorning the vibrant red Calgary Flames colours.

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Movember #19 - The Borat

November 19th, 2009 Graig

Sacha Baron Cohen’s perhaps played-out pop-cult phenomenon still yields one of the most impressive and impressionistic moustaches in recent history. The sheer breadth and density of the ’stache is what makes it so unique and impressive.
(Although it should be noted it was formerly, and, if the whole Borat thing finally plays out, it will once again be “The Freddie”)

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Movember #18 - The Shaft

November 18th, 2009 Graig

Few men have so expertly sported ’stache like Richard Roundtree. Think the reason the Shaft remake wasn’t any good had anything to do with acting, direction, or script? Nope, it was all ’cause Sam Jackson decided to go with a bald head and a goatee instead of an afro and “The Shaft”.

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Movember #17 - The Bazooka

November 17th, 2009 Graig

What makes Bazooka one of the most enduring and endearing of the G.I. Joe line? Is it his special-ed helmet? His vibrant red t-shirt sporting his IQ? His totally 80’s military-weapon codename? Nope, it’s the plastic replicant version of “The Burt”, morphing into its own as “The Bazooka”.

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Movember #16 - The Minnesota Viking

November 16th, 2009 Graig

Not just any old viking, but the classic logo for the Minnesota Vikings football club. My high school had, for many years, appropriated this logo as their own for their various sporting teams. The Viking-themed comic column I worked on for over five years also utilized the logo for their ranking system. It gets around…

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Movember #15 - The Romero

November 15th, 2009 Graig

The Romero is named after the late Cesar Romero, most famous for his role as the Joker in the campy ’60’s Batman series. It’s been said that the creepiest thing about his Joker portrayal is the fact that the face paint also attempts to cover over his moustache (which Romero famously refused to shave off for the role). The Romero can only work when it is covered over with white face paint.

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Movember #14 - The Cranky Muppet

November 14th, 2009 Graig

Thanks to the Muppet Wiki I found out that the cranky muppet that Grover is always serving in the restaurant is named Mr. Johnson. I think you can only really pull this ’stache off if you are a muppet.

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Movember #13 - The Vincent

November 13th, 2009 Graig

Both sinister and classy at the same time, thanks to Vincent Price’s both creepy and comedic turns, this mo’ is a true legend.

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Movember #12 - The John Waters

November 12th, 2009 Graig

There have been a few users of the whisper-thin upper lip fuzz, but none are as recognizable as notorious avant-garde director John Waters.

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Movember #11 - The Brimley

November 11th, 2009 Graig

Despite his years of acting, sir Wilfred Brimley is best known as the Quaker Oats guy (”the right thing to do, and the right way to do it”), but even that notoriety is fading. For long years, Brimley was the king of the Walrus moustache, making it so much his own that once a Walrus-stache turns white, it’s officially “The Brimley”.

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Movember #10 - The Groucho

November 10th, 2009 Graig

So famous that for over half a decade the same mold of novelty prop glasses-nose-moustache has been used. Of course, you can’t have one without the other, and the stogy helps too…

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Movember #9 - Fu Manchu

November 9th, 2009 Graig

“The Fu Manchu”… does it perpetuate racist stereotypes or is it a pop-culture curiosity, or both? Or is it just “the ’stache for white guys who want to portray chinese guys?” (see Christopher Lee, Nicholas Cage, Graham Chapman).

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Movember #8 - The Stalin

November 8th, 2009 Graig

The Stalin is a rather sophisticated moustache, and of the dictatorial moustaches it doesn’t retain the same connotations as the Hitler.

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Movember #7 - The Super Mario

November 7th, 2009 Graig

Animated moustaches don’t get much bigger or better than Super Mario, who first appeared in Donkey Kong back in 1981. Did you know that the voice of Super Mario in his animated series was done by Optimus Prime himself, Peter Cullen (who himself sports a pretty smart moustache of the Vincent genre)?

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Movember #6 - The Gable

November 6th, 2009 Graig

Also called “The Clark”, Clark Gable was the first truly suave gentleman of the silver screen to sport a ’stache, and what an immaculately groomed ’stache it was. His ’stache nemesis of the time must have been Errol Flynn

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Movember #5 - The Hitler/The Tramp/The Triple-J

November 5th, 2009 Graig

It’s funnier to show John Cleese as “Mr. Hilter” than the real thing… one man ruined an entire moustache style for eternity

“The Tramp”, aka “The Chaplin” is virtually the same moustache as the Hitler, and the only way you can really get away with it is by dressing up as Chaplin.

“The Triple-J” named after famous Spider-Man hater, Daily Bugle editor J. Jonah Jameson, was about the only successful use of the Hitler post-WWII. But even then I think we’re supposed to infer some dictatorial/evil leanings from his choice of ’stache. JK Simmons’ JJJ in the Spider-Man movies sported a standard-fare moustache, avoiding the whole “Hitler” thing.

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Movember #4 - The Dali

November 4th, 2009 Graig

My kooky art teacher all through high-school had a picture of Dali pasted on the door leading into the art room… that moustache staring me down 200 days a year for five years.

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Movember #3 - The Burt

November 3rd, 2009 Graig

While Tom Sellick’s moustache is primarily associated with the character he played, the Burt is 100% about Burt Reynolds and not a specific role.

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