History Main / ChattyHairdresser

* In the {{Discworld}} book ''Discworld/TheLastContinent'', Rincewind acts like one of these... while shearing a sheep.

* Parodied in the Barber Shop sketch on ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', where, behind the customer's back, the Barber puts on a ''tape recording'' of himself chatting and cutting hair because he's afraid to do any actual cutting. He'd rather be... a lumberjack!

* A very good example is Kaoru in ''StrawberryShakeSweet''. That she is a LipstickLesbian is not surprising in a GirlsLove manga...

* Parodied in ''WallE.'' The hair dressers were, of course, robots. They only had a set list of pre-recorded phrases they could say, and would still prattle on regardless if the customer was talking.

* In ''{{Film/Drop Dead Gorgeous}}'', Amber's aunt is a gossipy woman who runs a hair salon out of her trailer and is happy to take up more than her fair share of "[[{{Mockumentary}} documentary]]" time.
* ''Shampoo'' has Warren Beatty's character acting as one of these, and playing on the assumption that everyone thinks he's CampGay to seduce his female clients with ease.

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* Characters/BugsBunny does this twice in his cartoons with Gossamer and a MadScientist. In [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair-Raising_Hare Hair-Raising Hare]], he acts as a chatty ''manicurist''. On [=YouTube=] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW7kEBLtx5g at 4:30]]. In [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water,_Water_Every_Hare Water, Water Every Hare]] he acts as a talkative hairdresser.

* [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in ''TheLooneyTunesShow''--in one episode, Daffy styles Bug's wig (he's DisguisedInDrag) while Bug confides the entire subplot in him. Daffy proceeds to give him Chatty Hairdresser advice. No MythologyGag about "interesting monsters", sadly.

* Mot, the blue-skinner barber on [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration StarTrek: The Next Generation]], does this to various characters in the show, much to their chagrin.

* Characters/BugsBunny does this twice in his cartoons with the huge orange monster and a MadScientist. In [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair-Raising_Hare Hair-Raising Hare]], he acts as a chatty ''manicurist'' toward the monster. On [=YouTube=] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW7kEBLtx5g at 4:30]]. In [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water,_Water_Every_Hare Water, Water Every Hare]] he acts as a talkative hairdresser toward it. On [=YouTube=] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLCoumFSKFU at 3:45]]. He also does this character in ''Rabbit of Seville'' with Elmer Fudd in the chair.

* In ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', Wayne loves doing a SassyBlackWoman version of this trope whenever he finds a hairdressing-related idea in the ''Props'' game. "So I was tellin' (made-up name), that she better stay away from..."
* Shelly the hair-styling nanite in ''MysteryScienceTheater3000".

* OlderThanSteam. TheBarber in a series of tales in the ''Literature/ArabianNights'' is endlessly talkative, to the annoyance of his patrons, despite his constant insistence on being a very quite man.

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* See [[TroperTales.ChattyHairdresser Troper Tales]].
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* [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in ''TheLooneyTunesShow''--in one episode, Daffy styles Bug's wig (he's DisguisedInDrag) while Bug confides the entire subplot in him. Daffy proceeds to give him Chatty Hairdresser advice.

* OlderThanSteam. TheBarber in a series of tales in the ''ArabianNights'' is endlessly talkative, to the annoyance of his patrons, despite his constant insistence on being a very quite man.
* Partridge in ''Tom Jones'' is a schoolmaster turned barber-surgeon who is fairly talkative and has major KnowNothingKnowItAll tendencies. He is compared to the barber of ''ArabianNights'' at least once.

* The blue fellow on [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration StarTrek: The Next Generation]] does this, both to Worf and Picard; neither are best pleased.

* Appears in an episode of ''[=~Mama's Family~=]'' titled "Psycho Pheno-Mama". Mama and her family meet a self-claimed psychic who can supposedly channel a dead duchess' spirit, who knows all of the family's secrets. Turns out the "psychic" is actually a hairdresser who gleans all of her information from her chatty customers.
* Parodied in MontyPython's Barber Shop sketch, where, behind the customer's back, the Barber puts on a ''tape recording'' of himself chatting and cutting hair because he's afraid to do any actual cutting. He'd rather be... a lumberjack!

* In an episode of ''Sonic Underground'', the chatty hairdresser is actual an unwitting spy for Robotnik, using hypnotism to lull her customers into spilling their true feelings for the dictator.

DistaffCounterpart to both TheBarber and the AlwaysMale chatty cabdriver.

* In TheArmandoIannucciShows, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY6UngkXdjg Armando's barber]] takes this trope BeyondTheImpossible.

* In ''The Women'' this is how Mrs. Haines (the protagonist) learns that her husband is having an affair ? her chatty, gossipy hairdresser tells her about Mr. Haines, not knowing she is his Mrs.

* The two unnamed hairdressers in ''TheWomen'' are merely comic relief, giving their customers the customary extravagant but undeserved compliments. It's Olga, the manicurist at the same place, who dishes out the real dirt.

* Characters/BugsBunny does this twice in his cartoons with the huge orange monster and a MadScientist. In [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair-Raising_Hare Hair-Raising Hare]], he acts as a chatty ''manicurist'' toward the monster. On [=YouTube=] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW7kEBLtx5g at 4:30]]. In [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water,_Water_Every_Hare Water, Water Every Hare]] he acts as a talkative hairdresser toward it. On [=YouTube=] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLCoumFSKFU at 3:45]].

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* WhateleyUniverse example: The girl who does Jade's hair in ''Jade 6'' is chatty about the town of [[HPLovecraft Dunwich]], only a walk away from [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]], which may mean that she has planted more than one ChekhovsGun for later stories.
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* The two unnamed hairdressers in ''TheWomen'' are merely comic relief; they dish out a few compliments but aren't half as gossipy as their customers are.