History Main / TimePassageBeard

* In the ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "Cast Away", Slim Doc grows a beard as he spends time searching for Fat Doc and Lamput, who have both been stranded on a remote island.

* In the ''Caleb And Sophia'' episode "Lesson 35: The Best Use Of Time", Caleb is shown rapidly growing a mustache and also RapidAging the more time he spends looking down on his tablet.

* ''Film/DasBoot'': The German UsefulNotes/WorldWarII submarine crewmen grow beards over the course of several months at sea (even the initially always well groomed First Watch Officer lets his grow eventually, once he's disillusioned enough from Nazism).

* In ''[[Film/BenHur1959 Ben-Hur]]'', Ben-Hur grows a beard while a slave.

* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', Harry grows one in his hospital bed. It (along with the dogs' growth) helps convey how long the Kingsman assessment actually took.

* In ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' Diego de la Vega (Creator/AnthonyHopkins), the original Zorro, is imprisoned for twenty years, emerging with long hair and a grey beard, which he keeps and trims for a period, before shaping into a moustache and goatee and finally shaving off entirely as part of a disguise.

* In ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'', Taylor grows a beard while in hypersleep.

* In ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'', Moses grows a beard in the wilderness.

* Chrysagon grows a beard over the course of ''Film/{{The War Lord|1965}}''.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': At the end of season two the gang goes to the North Pole for three months; when they come back in the following premiere they all have big beards ([[PermaShave except Sheldon]], who has a neatly-trimmed goatee).

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Clams", Mr. Krabs makes [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward look out for the clam that ate his millionth dollar. After three days, all three have become ragged and grown beards; Squidward rips his off in frustration. It's also [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in the episode "Pressure". Sandy and Spongebob have a footrace, which Spongebob wins by a lot. When Sandy arrives at the finish line, Spongebob chides her for being slow while wearing a fake beard and speaking in an old man's voice. Afterwards, he rips off the beard.

** "Patty Hype" uses this as well. When Spongebob is waiting for customers to come to his burger stand, he repeats the phrase, "I'm Ready" as his present self, a middle-aged man, an elderly man, and a tombstone. But, "It was all just a dream"

* ''Film/TheWonderfulWorldOfHenrySugar'': To show his obsession with reading cards from the back over the next three years, Henry goes from coiffed dandy to having long, unruly hair and an accompanying wild beard.

* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' has dynamic facial hair growth mechanics. Arthur has ten different lengths for his beard as opposed to the seven for his hair, and almost every single one can be cut into a fashion to the player's liking, such as mustaches and goatees.

-->-- ''A Study in Murder'' by Robert Ryan

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* In ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'' Aki, [[GenderBender who only recently became male]], grows a beard while he and Goro (and later their daughter, who’s an adult by the time they’re out) are trapped in a field of accelerated time.

* One Webcomic/SluggyFreelance has Torg attempt to gauge the time they’ve spent waiting at an airport by the length of Riff’s beard, and going back and forth when it turns out to be a prop.

* In Film/AttackOfTheClones, Obi-Wan Kenobi turns up with a beard that he has grown since the last movie. This was filmed three years after Film/ThePhantomMenace, but ten years have passed in-story. In addition to showing the passage of time, the beard helps the baby-faced Creator/EwanMcGregor, who is now several years younger than his character is supposed to be thanks to the time skip, look a little closer to his character's age. Also, it moves him visually closer to [[Creator/AlecGuinness the older version of his character]] in Film/ANewHope, who also has a beard.

* In Film/AttackOfTheClones, Obi-Wan Kenobi turns up with a beard that he has grown since the last movie. This was filmed three years after Film/ThePhantomMenace, but the characters are supposed to have aged ten years. In addition to showing the passage of time, it helps the baby-faced Creator/EwanMcGregor, who is now several years younger than his character is supposed to be, look a little closer to his character's age. Also, it moves him visually closer to [[Creator/AlecGuinness the older version of his character]] in Film/ANewHope, who also has a beard.

* In Film/AttackOfTheClones, Obi-Wan Kenobi turns up with a beard that he has grown since the last movie. This was filmed three years after Film/ThePhantomMenace, but the characters are supposed to have aged ten years. In addition to showing the passage of time, it also helps the baby-faced Creator/EwanMcGregor, who is now several years younger than his character is supposed to be, look a little closer to his character's age. Also, it moves him visually closer to [[Creator/AlecGuinness the older version of his character]] in Film/ANewHope, who also has a beard.

* In Film/AttackOfTheClones, Obi-Wan Kenobi turns up with a beard that he has grown since the last movie. This was filmed three years after Film/ThePhantomMenace, but the characters are supposed to have aged ten years. In addition to showing the passage of time, it also helps the baby-faced Creator/EwanMcGregor, who is now several years younger than his character is supposed to be, look a little closer to his character's age. Also, it moves him visually closer to [[Creator/AlecGuinness the older version of his character] in Film/ANewHope, who also has a beard.

* In Film/AttackOfTheClones, Obi-Wan Kenobi turns up with a beard that he has grown since the last movie. This was filmed three years after Film/ThePhantomMenace, but the characters are supposed to have aged ten years. The baby-faced Creator/EwanMcGregor is now several years younger than his character is supposed to be, and he still looks awfully young, but the beard does help a bit.

* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', Goku and Vegeta grow beards after training in isolation for a while. While Vegeta ends up looking like his father, seeing Goku with facial hair is just ''weird.''

* Done in ''ComicBook/{{Thorgal}}'': after he escapes from caves where time flow was slowed, he wakes up with a long beard the next day. Not at all played for comedy, as the girl he was with had spent most of her life there and got aged into a shriveled husk overnight.

* Subverted in one issue of ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'', "Tic-Tac-D'oh!", where it looks like this had happened to Homer after a two-month time skip. He's actually just looking at a photo taken from [[NoodleIncident the time he tried]] to join Music/ZZTop.
* In ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book story "The Strange Awakening Of Lazy Smurf", the Smurfs wear fake beards while pretending to have aged 300 years during Lazy's "long sleep".
* In the Gold Key comic book adaptation of the ''Series/BuckRogersInThe25thCentury'' movie, Buck Rogers grows a beard during the time he spends in suspended animation while on a deep-space mission.
* Female version in ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' after Snow White is [[spoiler: shot in the head by Goldilocks]] at the end of the Animal Farm storyline, she spends the next year recovering, which is shown by her [[spoiler: post-surgery]] clean-shaven head growing out to her usual past-the-shoulder-length locks in the end-of-book montage. This montage also shows the time that was spent cleaning up the mess from the [[spoiler: failed revolution]], allowing a reset without trivializing the scenario.
* In ''ComicBook/RevengeOfTheGreenGoblin'', Peter's facial hair gradually increases in "Trick of the Light" to show the amount of time that's passed as he remains Norman's prisoner. By the end of it, he has a full beard.
* [[ComicBook/{{Archie}} Archie Andrews]] grows one while he is waiting for his date Veronica Lodge to be ready. She shows up, asking if she has kept him waiting long, while he is sleeping on a chair with a RipVanWinkle beard.
* This is a RunningGag in ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'', where it is usual for characters to have a beard after doing (or waiting for) something like going up a very high building elevator for months.

* In ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'', Moses grows a beard in the wilderness.

* Chrysagon grows a beard over the course of ''Film/{{The War Lord|1965}}''.
* In ''Film/MajorDundee'', Dundee grows a beard during a period of convalescence.
* In ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'', Taylor grows a beard while in hypersleep.
* Happened to Ash in the deleted alternate ending of ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'', when he "slept too long" and [[DownerEnding overshot the 20th century.]]
* ''Film/DieAnotherDay'': When Film/JamesBond is finally freed by the North Koreans more than a year after his capture, he's grown a beard (as well as a mustache and long, shaggy hair).
* In the Film/{{Apocalypse}} film series movie ''Tribulation'', Tom Canboro wakes up with a beard a few years into the Tribulation after being in a coma from a car accident.
* Parodied in ''Film/SuperheroMovie'', where after breaking up with his girlfriend Rick is next shown with a BeardOfSorrow indicating that a lot of time has passed. Then it turns out the beard is fake.

* ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'': Arthur begins the film as a young man. After a TimeSkip in which he's become a mature king, he's shown with a dignified beard
* ''Film/ForrestGump'': Forrest grows a beard during his three years of running cross-country.
* Matt Damon's character in ''Film/TheMartian'' grows a scraggly beard after a seven-month time skip. He shaves it off before taking off.
* In ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' Diego de la Vega (Creator/AnthonyHopkins), the original Zorro, is imprisoned for twenty years, emerging with long hair and a grey beard, which he keeps and trims for a period, before shaping into a moustache and goatee and finally shaving off entirely as part of a disguise.
* In the third act of ''Film/TheBounty'' Lt. Bligh and several of those hands loyal to him are set adrift during the mutiny. They grow beards that correspond to their 47-day journey to safety.
* In ''Film/TheEdge'', Anthony Hopkins once again grows a beard while stranded in the wilderness, along with his love rival, played by Creator/AlecBaldwin. However, it comes across as unintentionally hilarious since he goes from PermaStubble to a full beard within minutes while fashioning a fish hook.

* In ''Film/RescueDawn'', Dengler grows a beard while captive in a prisoner-of-war camp.

* In ''Film/TheOutlawJoseyWales'', Josey Wales grows a beard.

* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' shows Steve Rogers with a beard after his time on the run after the Sokovia Accords. Doubles as a BeardOfSorrow, given his more grim demeanor after the breakup of the Avengers.
* In ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'', the titular duo time travel to spend 16 months of guitar lessons and return to the present soon after they left with Bill sporting a long ZZ Top beard and Ted with a mustache and goatee.

* Arthur Dent grows one of these when he is trapped on Earth 2 million years ago in ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' books. He sticks a chicken bone in it because he's decided to go insane.
* Tech Detective Neshi in ''Literature/TheWandering'' grows one during the time he spends traveling through space and hibernating inside his spaceship, going from one world to another.

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': when a milkman's PizzaBoySpecialDelivery is {{Subverted}}, he's locked in a room with many other milkmen with various lengths of beard.

* Crichton does this a few times in ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', notably while he's stranded on an alien planet in "Jeremiah Crichton", and the season 4 premiere.

* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Ted becomes part of a very long discussion about Teddy Roosevelt with another man and a woman. He explains it went on for "days" and by the end, the other man and Ted have grown long beards.
* At the end of ''Series/TwentyFour'''s fifth season, Jack is taken prisoner by the Chinese government and held there for nearly two years. When he's released in the following season he now has a long, unkempt beard as well as shaggy hair, similar to the James Bond example.
* Sherlock at the start of the ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' episode "[[Recap/SherlockS03E01TheEmptyHearse The Empty Hearse]]", during which he'd been kept a prisoner in Eastern Europe. He has it all shaved off by a barber upon his rescue. (This is used [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange as symbolic contrast]] to the moustache that John grows.)

* In ''Series/TheFlash1990'' episode "Fast Forward" where Barry Allen jumps ten years into the future, his partner Julio Mendez (who is normally with squidlike hair and a goatee) is seen with [[DreadlockRasta long dreadlocks]] and a full beard.
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'':
** In "Flashpoint", the imprisoned Eobard Thawne has a stubbly beard in order to indicate that he and Barry have spent several months in the Flashpoint timeline.
** In Season 4, Barry Allen is framed for murder and sent to prison for a time. He gets a beard.
* In the ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' episode "Out of Time", Ray Palmer is stranded in the time of the dinosaurs and has a massive, shaggy beard and hair by the time he is rescued.
* Since ''Series/ThisIsUs'' covers three different decades, family patriarch Jack Pearson goes through a beard in the '70s, a mustache in the '80s, and a goatee in the '90s. Whichever facial hair he has onscreen is an indication of the decade.
* Invoked in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' commercial parody advertising [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Long White Beard,]] a fake beard meant to be worn when someone has kept you waiting for way too long.
* Parodied in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' when the show catches up with Elliot's ex-boyfriend, who has slipped into depression and not bothered shaving, resulting in a thick, bushy beard despite Elliot having broken up with him just days ago. He explains that he's part Hungarian.
* PlayedForLaughs in episode 7 of ''Series/BrassEye'' where they show a policeman [[https://youtu.be/RcU7FaEEzNU?t=7m5s growing a beard that twists into a figure-eight]] as a part of their sensationalist news story.
* ''Series/BlakesSeven'': Blake disappears at the end of season 2, but Avon encounters him as a bearded patient in a hospital a year later (this is also a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot, as actor Gareth Thomas had grown his beard for a theater role). However, this bearded Blake [[LotusEaterMachine turns out to be an illusion]]. When the real Blake turns up at the end of the series, the passage of time is indicated by a nasty facial scar and PermaStubble.
* ''Series/{{Crashing|US}}'': Referenced in one of Pete's go-to bits. He talks about how he can't grow a beard, so if he were ever stranded on a desert island for years, he would look like he'd just arrived there to his eventual rescuers. They'd assume that he just couldn't wait to wear a loin cloth.
* In an episode of ''Series/ThirtyRock'' where Tracy has Frank test out a porn-based video game, Frank thinks he has spent only three hours playing the game, and Tracy points out that he has actually spent ''three months'' playing the game... as evidenced by Frank now having long hair and a beard.
-->'''Tracy''': Yes! I'm going to be a billionaire!
* ''Series/{{Taken}}'': In "Jacob and Jesse", eleven years after his last appearance, Russell Keys has a long, straggly beard as he has spent most of the last decade drifting around the country trying and failing to stay one step ahead of the aliens.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Shelter Skelter", Harry Dobbs and Nick Gatlin both have full beards after six weeks in the fallout shelter. Harry eventually shaves his but Nick's becomes longer and more unkempt as the months pass.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E10WorldsApart Worlds Apart]]", the astronaut Christopher Lindy is stranded on an alien planet. At the end of the episode, he has grown a beard.
* Used in the series finale of ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'' to indicate a TimeSkip at the end of the episode. The episode primed the pump early by having the character mention growing a beard, but lamenting that it took him "six months" to grow one, then drove the point home really hard when the beard was revealed and another character said (paraphrased), "Wow, it took you six months to grow that."
* {{Parodied|Trope}} in the ''Series/ModernFamily'' episode "The Old Man and the Tree". In the episode, Phil has bought a crosstrainer. After a while, he loses interest in it and throws a towel over a camera attached to it. When he removes the towel months later, he's suddenly sporting a huge, grey beard - which turns out to be part of the Halloween costume he's wearing.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': At the end of the second season there's a nine-month TimeSkip during which Chief Tyrol grows a beard and Bill Adama grows a moustache. In a female example, Starbuck lets her BoyishShortHair grow down to her chest during this time. The beginning of the third season brings another skip of three months, during which Saul Tigh also grows a beard. All four actors [[DyeingForYourArt grew their hair out for real]] for the third season.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'':
** In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIPsirens Psirens]]", Dave Lister emerges from [[HumanPopsicle two centuries in stasis]] with not only long hair and a huge beard, but excessively long fingernails as well.
** In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXLemons Lemons]]", the crew find themselves in first-century Albion (England) and discover that, to travel back to Red Dwarf, they'll need lemons, which haven't been introduced yet, and are only found in India. After the 6-month trek to India, Lister and the Cat are sporting gigantic beards.
** In "[[Recap/RedDwarfThePromisedLand The Promised Land]]", the boys from the Dwarf have been kicked out by Holly and are heading off towards a distress signal which has been sent nearby. Lister insists that they will find the ship in no time. Cut to three months later and the two biological members of the cast (the Cat and Lister) have gained long hair and notable beards.
* Zig-zagged in the ''Series/That70sShow'' episode "It's A Wonderful Life". As Eric is shown what life would have been like if he'd never dated Donna, his guardian angel shows him that Donna would have dated Hyde instead. At one point in this imagined timeline, Hyde is seen sporting a full-length beard as a biker. After a while, they flash forward to the gang's 10-year high school reunion, and Eric sees that his future self appears to have grown a mustache, which impresses him until the angel tells him that it's just chocolate frosting from the cake they served.

* ''VideoGame/PokerNight2'' parodies it with the Necronomicon ending -- all of the other characters FakedRipVanWinkle the player and wears long white fake beards -- including Claptrap, a robot.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' has a short scene in the epilogue where Eliwood and Hector meet up several years after the events of the main plot, with Hector having grown one of these. By ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'', which takes place over a decade later, it's grown even longer.

* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'' advertised its dynamic beard growth mechanics. Which is to say, Geralt's beard actually grows over time until it hits a max length (although you can shave it, at which point it starts growing from the beginning again).

* In ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings'', your character's portrait ages as the years pass (specifically, it shifts an age category higher at thirty and fifty years old, gaining wrinkles in the former and white hair in the latter). If they have facial hair, this trope comes into full effect: what starts off in the youngest age category as simply a full beard, covering the jawline but no more, becomes a full-on Methuselah!Beard in the oldest.

* Similarly to ''The Witcher 3'', ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' has dynamic facial hair growth mechanics. Arthur has ten different lengths for his beard as opposed to the seven for his hair, and almost every single one can be cut into a fashion to the player's liking, such as mustaches and goatees.
* The main male character's beard (or lack thereof) can help you navigate the timeline in ''VideoGame/TellingLies''.
* In ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', Gobi the Camel runs away to find the Lava World after Banjo and Kazooie jump on him to water a giant flower in [[FourSeasonsLevel Click Clock Wood]]. When Banjo and Kazooie next meet Gobi in ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'', Gobi is being held prisoner as an exhibit in [[AmusementParkOfDoom Witchyworld's]] Cave of Horrors and has grown a gray beard from being imprisoned for two years.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Delicious}}: Emily's Hopes and Fears'', Patrick grows a beard during his quest to find a flower for an ailing Paige. He keeps this beard in subsequent installments, although it's better groomed there.
* In the ''Videogame/GodOfWar'' series, Kratos' facial hair grows from a short goatee during his time in Greece to a full-on beard in Nordic Europe.

* Taken to almost parodying lengths in WebAnimation/WalrusGuy's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qSBhsvW_zg Gwonam's Great Adventuwe]]" ''[sic]'', where after [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Gwonam's]] BungledSuicide, he awakens from a coma in the emergency room and sees signs that he was out for a long time, including [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] now having grown a mustache and small beard. [[spoiler:Gwonam was only out for a month.]]
* Subverted in ''WebAnimation/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged'' when the party is stranded after the Tiny Bronco is shot down. Cloud is shown to have a full beard, but it's then revealed only fifteen minutes have passed and Cloud merely glued hair from his head onto his face.
* The ''WebAnimation/BravestWarriors'' season four episode "Too High, Too Far, Too Soon" has Impossibear sent by the Bravest Warriors to investigate a planetoid. When they finally bring him back to the ship, he has grown a long beard because [[YearInsideHourOutside he was on the planetoid for a century]].

* Inverted by Roy on ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': after the group has been trapped in a LotusEaterMachine for an undetermined amount of time, he figures it couldn't have been too long since he doesn't have to shave.

* One Webcomic/SluggyFreelance has Torg attempt to gauge the time they’ve spent waiting at an airport by the length of Riff’s beard, and going back and forth when it turns out to be a prop.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': When Cartman (and later Kyle) awakes from a coma, he's got a big beard. [[SubvertedTrope But it's just a facewarmer]], he's only been out for a day or so.
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E30FieldsOfHoney Fields of Honey]]", where Babs is looking for a personal hero in old cartoons. As she sits in the Acme Looniversity archive the camera pans around and when it comes back to her she has a long gray beard and a cane. She tosses the cane aside, then rips the beard off and is about to storm off in frustration but decides to watch one more film.
* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "Smurf Van Winkle", where the only characters seen with any Time Passage Beards are the Smurfs that claim that Lazy has slept for a few hundred years. The whole thing was a FakedRipVanWinkle, since the Smurfs were wearing fake beards.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'' episode "The Saga of Beta Ray Bill", this happens to Thor when he winds up in the abandoned space station. He sits in a corner waiting for someone to show up, and eventually he's sporting a long, full beard, and [[SanitySlippage treating]] {{Mjolnir}} as a CompanionCube.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Parodied in the episode "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade", when Homer and Bart spend day after day sitting on the couch watching TV. Bart grows ''a stubble of his own''.
** Many other episodes, when Homer spends a lot of time waiting or doing nothing, have his stubble growing into a beard (visually indicated by it getting a bit fuzzy).
* The hero of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' grows one in the fifty years between seasons 4 and 5. But otherwise doesn't age. Lampshaded by [[BigBad Aku]]
-->'''Aku:''' "But he hasn't even aged, like at all! He just grew that stupid beard!"

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Clams", Mr. Krabs makes [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward look out for the clam that ate his millionth dollar. After three days, all three have become ragged and grown beards; Squidward rips his off in frustration. It's also [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in the episode "Pressure". Sandy and Spongebob have a footrace, which Spongebob wins by a lot. When Sandy arrives at the finish line, Spongebob chides her for being slow while wearing a fake beard and speaking in an old man's voice. Afterwards, he rips off the beard.
** "Squid on Strike" also has Squidward's ImagineSpot after realizing that he and [=SpongeBob=] are on strike "even if it takes ''forever!''" (They are in the exact same spots, but are now old, with beards that trail on the ground.)
--->[[MemeticMutation ...nyeh, Squidward? ...nyeh, Squidward? ...nyeh, Squidward?]]
** "Patty Hype" uses this as well. When Spongebob is waiting for customers to come to his burger stand, he repeats the phrase, "I'm Ready" as his present self, a middle-aged man, an elderly man, and a tombstone. But, "It was all just a dream"
* The ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' episode "Now Museum, Now You Don't" had Scooby and Shaggy falsely accused of stealing the samurai swords. In response, they have an ImagineSpot of spending the rest of their lives in jail, where they are seen with long gray beards and [[TallyMarksOnThePrisonWall countless tally marks etched on the walls of their cells]].
* In a rare serious female use of this trope, ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', Della's time on the moon is shown as this. She begins with short-cropped hair barely to her chin, but she lets her hair grow out during the numerous time skips in her episode, ending with her hair all the way down her back.

* [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] again in ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw''. While trapped in the time stream, Dakota, Cavendish, Perry, and Doofenshmirtz apparently grow these. It's shortly revealed that Doofenshmirtz made everyone wear fake beards in an attempt to lighten the mood.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Waste of Time," a time-stranded Wander and Sylvia take TheSlowPath and wait fifty years to get to the point where they can prevent their former selves from ever deciding to time-travel in the first place. The "old" Wander has a beard. [[spoiler:This is a particularly odd {{Invoked}} example as the same episode revealed that Wander is an extremely LongLived, potentially ''immortal'' being who hasn't visibly aged in at least a thousand years, and WordOfGod has it that [[https://owner-of-wendys.tumblr.com/post/142775435584/so-was-wander-faking-being-in-super-crotchety he was wearing a fake beard to make Sylvia feel better about getting old.]]]]
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' uses this a couple of times:
** In "Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain", GIR is accidentally [[BrainUploading uploaded into Zim's base computer]], trapping Zim in the house and quickly driving him crazy with his antics. Zim decides to wait GIR out, only for a quick TimeSkip of ''a year'' showing he's still stuck in the house and has grown a beard ([[RuleOfFunny despite the fact that Irkens don't normally have hair]]).
** In "Future Dib", Dib gets trapped in a cage by Zim. The end of the episode shows that he's still stuck there, now having grown a full grey beard.
* In the ''Caleb And Sophia'' episode "Lesson 35: The Best Use Of Time", Caleb is shown rapidly growing a mustache and also RapidAging the more time he spends looking down on his tablet.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
** In ''Island'', Owen grows a full beard while stranded with nothing but the confessional and Mr. Coconut for company. Hilariously, Heather assumes his beard is fake and tries to rip it off, as it's only been a day, but is taken aback when it doesn't come off.
** In ''Action'', Owen grows his beard again while lost in the woods for two days. He's not the only one, as Chris is also sporting a beard while waiting for him, Courtney, and Duncan to find their way back to the film lot.
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' episode, "[[Recap/TUFFPuppyS1E6DogDazeInternalAffairs Dog Daze]]"; Dudley gets fired from T.U.F.F. when Snaptrap [[BrainwashedAndCrazy hypnotizes him into acting crazy]] and destroying the Chief's pies, T.U.F.F. Headquarters, and the carnival. When Kitty discovers the hypnotic email on Dudley's computer, she sets out to find Dudley, and when she finds him, he has a beard. Kitty points out that Dudley has only been gone for 20 minutes and is in a crowded coffee shop, then asks him if his beard is real. Dudley tells her that his beard is fake but came with the latte he bought.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
** The episode "The Boss of Me" has Timmy's Dad and his boss Ed Leadly grow long beards after testing the ever-lasting pencil Timmy wished for to determine if it truly can't be used up.
** In "Beach Blanket Bozos", Timmy's parents compete with one another to see who's a better surfer and it goes on until they, Timmy, Cosmo, Wanda and Poof have all grown beards.
** Spoofed in "App Trapp", where Timmy is shown with a white beard after spending 9 days using his magic smartphone Chatty. Apparently, there was an app for it.
** "Hero Hound" shows Chet Ubetcha and various other denizens of Dimmsdale growing beards after waiting ten days for Sparky to save Timmy from the well.
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' episode "Schoolhouse Lock", where Fanboy and Chum Chum (who are prepubescent boys, mind you) manage to grow beards in the span of three minutes.
* Spoofed in the ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'' episode "Finding Hershel", Master Yo instructs Yin and Yang to watch a seemingly-harmless rock named Hershel for their training. After an unspecified amount of time, the twins started to grow beards. Growing impatient, Yang rips off his beard in frustration while Yin shaves hers off while complaining.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book story "The Strange Awakening Of Lazy Smurf" (and the AnimatedAdaptation original story "Smurf Van Winkle"), the Smurfs wear fake beards while pretending to have aged 300 years during Lazy's "long sleep".

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Smurf Van Winkle" (and its comic book counterpart "The Strange Awakening Of Lazy Smurf"), where the only characters seen with any Time Passage Beards are the Smurfs that claim that Lazy has slept for a few hundred years. Of course, the whole thing was a FakedRipVanWinkle, since the Smurfs were wearing fake beards.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' movie ''Bender's Big Score,'' Fry's continued meddling with time travel after [[FishOutOfTemporalWater returning to his former era]] creates two identical versions of himself, one of whom goes back to 3007 while the other picks up his old life right where it left off. The movie follows the latter until the year 2012 when he returns from a long voyage to the North Pole with a particularly impressive beard. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that Lars, Leela's new paramour, ''is'' this version of Fry and that his more civilized beard is just the remnants of Fry's after [[ItMakesSenseInContext he was singed when Bender blew up his apartment.]]]]

* Creator/ClintEastwood has had a couple of very realistically-paced Time Passage Beards in ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' and ''Film/TheOutlawJoseyWales''.

* Creator/ChristianBale has also perfected the beard grown during captivity, having employed it in three of his films: ''Film/BatmanBegins'', ''Film/RescueDawn'' and ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.

* Creator/CharltonHeston grows a beard in the wilderness in ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'', while a slave in ''[[Film/BenHur1959 Ben-Hur]]'', over the course of ''Film/{{The War Lord|1965}}'', during a period of convalescence in ''Film/MajorDundee'' and while in hypersleep in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968''.