Hound Dog
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The Hound Dog is a community-created headwear item for the Heavy. It is a greased black quiff with sunglasses.
The hat description was written by Silentman for the Hat Describing Contest.
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Painted variants
Main article: Paint Can
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| An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge | Color No. 216-190-216 | Peculiarly Drab Tincture | Aged Moustache Grey |
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| A Distinctive Lack of Hue | After Eight | Radigan Conagher Brown | Ye Olde Rustic Colour |
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| Muskelmannbraun | Mann Co. Orange | Australium Gold | The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants |
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| Dark Salmon Injustice | Pink as Hell | A Deep Commitment to Purple | Noble Hatter's Violet |
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| A Color Similar to Slate | Zepheniah's Greed | Drably Olive | Indubitably Green |
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| The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime | A Mann's Mint | ||
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| Waterlogged Lab Coat (RED) | Waterlogged Lab Coat (BLU) | Balaclavas Are Forever (RED) | Balaclavas Are Forever (BLU) |
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| Team Spirit (RED) | Team Spirit (BLU) | Operator's Overalls (RED) | Operator's Overalls (BLU) |
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| The Value of Teamwork (RED) | The Value of Teamwork (BLU) | An Air of Debonair (RED) | An Air of Debonair (BLU) |
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| Cream Spirit (RED) | Cream Spirit (BLU) | Unpainted | |
Update history
March 18, 2010 Patch (First Community Contribution Update)
- The Hound Dog was added to the game.
- This hat was made craftable.
September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)
- This hat was made paintable.
- [Undocumented] Added a community-contributed description for this hat.
- [Undocumented] This hat can now be uncrated with Unusual quality.
- This hat's painting texture was improved.
Bugs
- When a Spy disguised as a Heavy with this item cloaks, the item itself sometimes won't Cloak properly (similarly to the Demoman's Fro).
Trivia
- The quiff and sunglasses look was popularized by Elvis Presley, who also made famous the song that the hat's name refers to. The item description also makes a reference to another one of Elvis's songs, "All Shook Up".
- However, the song Hound Dog was originally written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, and recorded by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton in 1952.
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