Pasadena Doo Dah Parade is the gloriously unhinged answer to the Rose Parade. Born as a grassroots event in 1978, it's become beloved for its eccentric and irreverent satire Pasadena doo dah parade — think art cars, outrageous costumes, rogue marching bands, and performance artists of every variety. It's a day, as founder Peter Apanel once said, for people to simply "be kind of screwballs."