* The live-action musical film of ''LittleShopOfHorrors'' has a kid in headgear so complex ''she cannot talk''. It looks like the Reverse Bear Trap from ''Saw''.
* ''CharliesAngels Full Throttle'': Teenage Natalie had outside-the-face braces. Even after the FlashBack, which showed that despite this she grew up to be a super-hottie, she still had the klutzy geekiness and was an unpopular girl at heart.
* ''SixteenCandles''
* In the second ''BradyBunch'' movie, Jan had the braces ''and'' the headgear.
* Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka from ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' has them in {{flashback}}s. His father was a very strict dentist, and the constant denial of candy was a major development point in his newly made up backstory. "Present" Willy has aggressively perfect teeth, though, so they did the job.
* Lane's fix-up date in ''BetterOffDead'' is with a girl wearing hideous orthodontia. Fortunately, she doesn't want to go out with him, either, so she just gets him to pay her what he would've spent on the date.

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* The live-action musical film of ''Theater/LittleShopOfHorrors'' has a kid in headgear so complex ''she cannot talk''. It looks like the Reverse Bear Trap from ''Saw''.
* ''Series/CharliesAngels Full Throttle'': Teenage Natalie had outside-the-face braces. Even after the FlashBack, which showed that despite this she grew up to be a super-hottie, she still had the klutzy geekiness and was an unpopular girl at heart.
* ''Film/SixteenCandles''
* In the second ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' movie, Jan had the braces ''and'' the headgear.
* Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka from ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' has them in {{flashback}}s. His father was a very strict dentist, and the constant denial of candy was a major development point in his newly made up backstory. "Present" Willy has aggressively perfect teeth, though, so they did the job.
* Lane's fix-up date in ''Film/BetterOffDead'' is with a girl wearing hideous orthodontia. Fortunately, she doesn't want to go out with him, either, so she just gets him to pay her what he would've spent on the date.

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* Miranda wore braces in one episode of ''SexAndTheCity'', after learning she was a tongue thruster. She had her braces removed by the end of the episode once she decided that being a tongue thruster was the lesser of two evils. Although the braces she wore looked normal, it's worth mentioning because she was in her mid-thirties, making her older than the usual children/teenagers you normally see wearing braces on TV.
* In the first episode of ''PoliceSquad'', Detective Drebin goes to shake down a nefarious orthodontist. The patients in his waiting room are actually sitting in order of the ridiculousness of their appliances: from the first patient with simple braces, to the last patient wearing a giant vice clamp on her head.
* Used in an episode of YouCantDoThatOnTelevision. Subverted, since the braces weren't meant for Orthodontic correction, but to prevent her from kissing boys.
* In "The Paper Route", a third-season episode of ''TheMiddle'', Sue is expecting to get her braces off. Instead, since they've overcorrected her teeth, she's forced to wear headgear full-time.

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* Miranda wore braces in one episode of ''Series/SexAndTheCity'', after learning she was a tongue thruster. She had her braces removed by the end of the episode once she decided that being a tongue thruster was the lesser of two evils. Although the braces she wore looked normal, it's worth mentioning because she was in her mid-thirties, making her older than the usual children/teenagers you normally see wearing braces on TV.
* In the first episode of ''Series/PoliceSquad'', Detective Drebin goes to shake down a nefarious orthodontist. The patients in his waiting room are actually sitting in order of the ridiculousness of their appliances: from the first patient with simple braces, to the last patient wearing a giant vice clamp on her head.
* Used in an episode of ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision''. Subverted, since the braces weren't meant for Orthodontic correction, but to prevent her from kissing boys.
* In "The Paper Route", a third-season episode of ''Series/TheMiddle'', Sue is expecting to get her braces off. Instead, since they've overcorrected her teeth, she's forced to wear headgear full-time.

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