History Main / GagHaircut

* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': Senshi the dwarf gets a gag hair''wash'' -- when his beard and moustache get their first shampooing in a ''very'' long time, they go from a bushy mass to a long, slick, Fu Manchu-esque tail until they dry out. Chilchuck tremulously asks if it'll go back to normal.

* Shun from ''Manga/YouAndMe'' asks his friends to cut a little of his hair off because of the summer heat. They end up cutting off a large chunk of it. He looks fine but is aggravated because his hair becomes wavy when short. Shun's displeasure doesn't stop him from keeping his hair short the rest of the series.
* ''Manga/PuellaMagiKazumiMagica'' plays with this trope for the better: Kazumi goes to get a haircut, but the stylist cuts off most of her hair. In a sense, this is an EstablishingCharacterMoment since, metaphorically, cutting off hair is a sign of a new start in life. Of course, most, including her friends, don't like this new look since her long hair was shown on the cover.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Hayley dyes her hair green at a Green Party rally. Stan cuts it off while she's asleep.

** In "It's About Time" Spike accidentally burps out a jet of fire that singes Twilight's mane.

* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' called "The Mane Event", Bubbles and Buttercup accidentally rip a chunk out of Blossom's hair and do a scary tidy-up job. Even the MonsterOfTheWeek finds it funny. Blossom gets revenge by singing her sisters' hair with her eye beams at the end of the episode.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "Thanks to Them", one of the entries in Luz's video diary has her showing off a sword she bought at a convention and proudly proclaiming that she's going to try cutting her hair with it. [[GilliganCut The very next entry]] reveals she went through with it, and that the results weren't pretty.

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* ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' has this be a plot point that sticks for the rest of the game. Ichiban Kasuga has just gotten out of prison after doing an 18-year stretch and seeks out a salon to get his punch perm back. Problem is, the punch perm has gone out of style since then and the one who does his hair is a young woman who has to google what it is and completely screws it up, leaving him with a FunnyAfro that he's stuck with for the rest of the game.

Essentially every person has a BadHairDay, it happens. Unfortunately for these characters their bad hair days just happen to be a whole new level of bad. The character will find themselves in a situation where they need a haircut...only for the haircut to go horribly wrong. But typically the bad haircut will only last one episode and [[HairReboot it'll be back to normal]] [[StatusQuoIsGod by the next episode]]. Usually overlaps with TraumaticHaircut except while the haircut will be traumatic for the victim, it's always PlayedForLaughs, so it could be seen as a subversion of the Traumatic Haircut. The situation quite often involves getting gum in the hair. Variations can include bad dye jobs which may or may not result in actual hair getting cut to solve the problem, or [[HumiliatingWager losing a bet]] and ending up with a shaved head or otherwise [[InvokedTrope intentionally]] bad haircut.

** One of the novelisations has Sabrina discover that her aunts have done this to Salem in the climax. He had insulted them, not knowing they were listening, and they punished him by turning his coat pink. And will apparently change to purple within the hour.

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': ''Film/ThePumaman'' episode. Inspired by the film's title character, Mike asks the [[{{Nanomachines}} Nanites]] to give him "the dry look". Unfortunately he offends the hairdresser and she goes a little too dry...as in, Mike has a desert on his scalp, complete with a miniature cactus. Crow thinks they could fix it if they just manage to redirect a river onto Mike's head, however.

* In a ''Series/KateAndAllie'' episode, Jenny gets a haircut that is apparently so horrible she insists on wearing a hat everywhere. We never see it--thouugh her younger brother claims "She looks like Creator/MrT!", but it's apparently awful enough to be "[[GoryDiscretionShot censored]]" for Emma's video documentary after her family finally convinces her to take the hat off. Sure enough, she's back to normal by the next episode.
* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'': When Big Pete gets his introverted barber to talk to him, he gets distracted and shaves most of his head, leaving just some hair in front. This was apparently done so his actor Michael C Morona could play a punk in an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrder''.

* In the Chilean kids show ''Series/31Minutos'' one of the songs featured in Policarpo's Ranking Top is called "Me cortaron mal el pelo" (lit. "They cut my hair wrong") which talks about how the singer tried to save money on a hairdresser and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin they cut his hair wrong]] and how all his friends are going to tease him for it.

--> '''Luz:''' This was a mistake!

* Happens in ''Film/Paddington2'' when Paddington tries to work in a barbershop. The haircutting victim ends up being the ''judge'' in Paddington's trial, and along with stealing the book, Paddington is charged with "[[IncrediblyLamePun grievous barberly harm]]".

* ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'' has Virginia get long hair from a spell and Wolf takes a magic axe to it, leaving her [[UnnecessaryMakeover with a very short hairstyle]]. One of the rare occasions where the haircut isn't fixed with a HairReboot.

** Marshall got a twofer when Lily's cousin gave him bleached blond highlights an hour before his wedding. He then ended up shaving those off to give himself an even worse haircut.

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' this this UpToEleven in ''Film/ThePumaman'' episode. Inspired by the film's title character, Mike asks the [[{{Nanomachines}} Nanites]] to give him "the dry look". Unfortunately he offends the hairdresser and she goes a little too dry...as in, Mike has a desert on his scalp, complete with a miniature cactus. Crow thinks they could fix it if they just manage to redirect a river onto Mike's head, however.

* In ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'', a barber accidentally shaves Eikichi's head (with its elaborate DelinquentHair) right before a date. He ends up having to wear a wig.

* In ''WebComic/ElGoonishShive'', Nanase's hair grows out of control as a result of her latent magic conflicting with the effect of a Magitek device and she asks Sarah to shave her head to prevent the hair from becoming too heavy for her to support her head. When Sarah [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-06-26 starts the hair clipper]], Justin somehow [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling senses the imminent loss]] of such long hair (which he would have loved to play with) and gives a BigNo. Within a couple strips it grows back again but shorter than before.

* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' called "The Mane Event", Bubbles and Buttercup accidentally rip a chunk out of Blossom's hair and do a scary tidy-up job. Even the MonsterOfTheWeek finds it funny. Blossom gets revenge by singing her sisters' hair with her eye beams at the end of the episode.

* ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'' has Virginia get RapunzelHair from a spell and Wolf takes a magic axe to it, leaving her [[UnnecessaryMakeover with a very short hairstyle]]. One of the rare occasions where the haircut isn't fixed with a HairReboot.

* ''WesternAnimation/The7D'': One of Jollywood's various holidays is "Funniest Haircut Day", and most of the main cast gets a GagHaircut (most of which somehow lead to a hair lengthening) as part of a contest. Officially, the winner is Grumpy (with his haircut being an extreme case of RapunzelHair that fills the barber shop to the rim as soon as his hat was taken off), but Grumpy believes Queen Delightful (with a similar extreme case of hair decompression) the winner, so they split the reward.