History Main / ImprobableHairstyleSequence

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Susan goes through [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/parable-106 two of]] [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/parable-104 these]] during the "Parable" storyline.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': In one episode, Jenny is trying to make herself look nice so she can befriend the resident {{Alpha Bitch}}es. She gets a MakeoverMontage, where she can adjust where her parts go to make them seem more fashionable. In one part, she practices adjusting her hair to magazine pictures that Tucker is showing her and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers he accidentally shows her a picture of an upside-down high heel]], which she hesitantly morphs her hair into. Tucker is embarrassed when he realizes his mistake.

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* ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' has a montage of Creator/RobinWilliams trying out a bunch of different styles before settling on Mrs. Doubtfire's signature look. In this case they're explicitly wigs however, as he needs to be able to go back to looking like Daniel Hillard at will.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDevilAndDanielMouse'': In this short Halloween-horror-themed film, Jan, the girl mouse who signs her soul over to the devil in exchange for becoming a successful pop star, is a redhead with a typical [[SeventiesHair late 1970s-style curly hairdo]]. At one point during her period of peak fame, she is shown giving an interview sporting an altogether different look, platinum blonde and heavily styled. In the very next scene, however, her hair looks exactly as before (while another character holds a magazine with her picture from the interview on the cover). It's possible that she was wearing a wig or that, this being a cartoon with a metaphysical theme, magical shapeshifting was involved, but this is never explained.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'': In "Smurfette's Golden Tresses", Smurfette comes into Barber Smurf's shop asking for a new hairdo. Barber tries out a series of largely anachronistic [[ImprobableHairstyle improbable hairstyles]] on her, [[spoiler:[[EightiesHair big 80s hair]], two very thick braids, multiple spiky tails, and ''cornrows'']], but Smurfette doesn't like any of them and leaves with her hair loose as usual. At the beginning of the sequence, Barber was vaguely shown cutting a layer or bangs into her hair but this is not visible afterward.

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* ''Webcomic/VGCats'': Parodied [[https://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=325 in this comic]], where a clean shaven man asks a barber to give him a beard. Cut to the man walking around with what appears to be armpit hair (or worse) glued to his chin as people around him [[{{Squick}} react with disgust]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEWgnkmrub4 This commercial]] from the 1990s for the Braun Style 'N Go styling tool takes this trope UpToEleven.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E7TheTwoMrsNahasapeemapetilons The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons]]", [[GoodTimesMontage as Apu is living up his bachelor lifestyle, he and Homer go to the Hairy Shearers hair salon, where he tries out various hairstyles, each getting a thumbs-up from Homer.

** In "[[TheSimpsonsS9E7TheTwoMrsNahasapeemapetilons The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons]]", [[GoodTimesMontage as Apu is living up his bachelor lifestyle, he and Homer go to the Hairy Shearers hair salon, where he tries out various hairstyles, each getting a thumbs-up from Homer.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E4LisaTheBeautyQueen "Lisa the Beauty Queen"]], Lisa gets a makeover on entering a beauty pageant. The beautician (whose implements include such things as a welding torch) tries out a variety of completely unrelated styles on her; ultimately, Lisa leaves the salon with a wavier version of her regular style.