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6	The Beehive Hairdo is a woman's hairstyle in fashion in TheSixties, in which long hair is piled high above the head and cemented with plenty of hairspray. A few elderly women could be seen sporting the beehive into TheNineties, at which point it became more of a gag and/or trope hairstyle than anything {{real\|Life}}. They seem to have made a small comeback in the last few years, thanks to celebrities from shows like ''Series/JerseyShore'' making "poofy hair" trendy again. It is named as such because it resembles a StockBeehive in shape.
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8	SubTrope to SixtiesHair. See also the Art/NefertitiBust.
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10	!!Examples:
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12	[[foldercontrol]]
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14	[[folder:Advertising]]
15	* An ad for [=MyHabit=] women's designer and fashion brands features someone with this hairstyle.
16	* The main character in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8nMesEnq90 this ad]] for Smirnoff flavored vodka.
17	* Creator/LouisVuitton once featured an ad depicting pairs of identical twin women with their hair updone.
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20	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
21	* During the first episode of ''Literature/{{Haganai}} Next'', Sena tries out a Victorian-style "poof", complete with various summer-themed decorations. Her father is not thrilled about her walking around with her hair like that.
22	* ''Anime/IsabelleOfParis'': When Isabelle is debuting at the Parisian ball for the first time, she wears her hair like this to signify that she's left her days of being a tomboy behind.
23	* Ruruka from ''Anime/JewelpetHappiness'' has one, meant to be seen as a practical hairstyle befitting her tomboy personality.
24	* ''Anime/LaSeineNoHoshi'': Marie Antoinette and Madame Catherine, being wealthy French elite, have this hairstyle. Marie decorates hers with a feather headpiece and Catherine puts flowers in hers.
25	* Telence D'Arby from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' is one of the rare male examples of this trope, and seemingly one of the few villains in the arc without a mullet.
26	* Iris styles her hair this way for a glamour contest in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite''. Her Pokemon can even hide inside it.
27	* Edel from ''Anime/PrincessTutu''.
28	* Astharoshe Asran sometimes sports this in ''Literature/TrinityBlood''.
29	* Ryoko Sakurai in ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'' sports this with a butterfly clip. [[spoiler: As her [[BigBad true self]] her massive amount of locks flow freely.]] It's most likely this hairstyle was chosen by the designers to make a visual difference between Ryoko and Finé outside of hair and eye color being different.
30	* ''Anime/VoltesV'': The [[HornedHumanoid Boaz]][[AliensAreBastards anians]] are a FantasyCounterpartCulture to Medieval France. The aristocratic female Boazanians have this hairstyle, including [[PrincessClassic Lozaria]] and Oral's wife. Katherine, on the other hand, wears her hair in a French braid and a ponytail.
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33	[[folder:Comic Books]]
34	* Night Girl of the [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Legion of Substitute Heroes]] wore a beehive hairdo for years... and has sported it in most of her modern appearances as well, as it's apparently now [[OutdatedOutfit considered her iconic look]].
35	* Susan Storm of the ComicBook/FantasticFour has worn a beehive at various points. This was {{lampshaded}} in an issue of ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' where the team of teenage heroes travel through time and see past versions of various heroes with one of them remarking that Susan Storm looked silly with her beehive hair.
36	* Mindscan in ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' ''appears'' to have one. [[spoiler:It's actually a wig to cover her [[MyBrainIsBig oversized, lumpy skull]].]]
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39	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
40	* Many panels of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' featured one or more beehive-coiffed beauties. Beehive hairdos and harlequin or cat-eye glasses were TertiarySexualCharacteristics for Gary Larson.
41	* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'':
42	** Creator Stephan Pastis wrote a strip that, apparently, nobody got. Pig sees a "Beware of Dog" sign in a yard, that appears to have the "g" missing. He knocks on the door to let the owner know, only to be greeted by a woman with an atrocious beehive haircut. Beware of ''do''. Geddit?
43	** Also worth noting Patty and Pigita, even though the former is, um, [[NonmammalianHair a reptile]].
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46	[[folder:Fan Works]]
47	* ''[[http://moloveanime.deviantart.com/art/Beehive-Randomness-244224782 Beehive Randomness]]'', a one-shot ''Manga/LuckyStar'' fic about six of the (long-haired) characters' hair mysteriously becoming updone. Miyuki finds it rather embarrassing, and so does Kagami once she and Konata wind up next. (Despite the title, there is not actually much random about it.)
48	* ''Fanfic/{{Starbound}}'', another ''Manga/LuckyStar'' fic, also involves the Kagami, Konata, and Miyuki's hair becoming updone during the first half of its first chapter. They later find out from Kagami and Tsukasa's second cousin Rokuna ([[Anime/MonColleKnights yes, that one]], except with [[AdaptationDyeJob brown hair]] already also done up into a hive) that the [[spoiler: crystals]] responsible for it are actually meant to enable them to use psychokinetics. (The version on Fanfiction.net is even marked with a photoshopped image of Kagami with her hair updone.)
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51	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
52	* In ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie'', every female bee has a beehive hairdo.
53	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': There's Fru Fru, a shrew who wears her hair similarly to Amy Winehouse.
54	* Piella in ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit: WesternAnimation/AMatterOfLoafAndDeath''.
55	* Charlotte from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''
56	* The unnamed gift shop clerk in ''WesternAnimation/BebesKids'', whose hair might count as a "triple-hive" of sorts.
57	* Angelica sports this for the ballroom scene in ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn''.
58	* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' Olivia [[spoiler:Octavius]] styles her hair up in this fashion [[spoiler:when assuming her Dr. Octopus identity, which makes her look like a proper octopus]].
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61	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
62	* The girl band called the Bee Hives in ''Film/BachelorParty''.
63	* Joy Miller, at times in ''Film/TheBeauticianAndTheBeast''.
64	* ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'' has an infamous version of a beehive.
65	* Prof. Holt from ''Film/ClassOfNukeEmHighPartIISubhumanoidMeltdown'' has to lower her head whenever she passes through a door.
66	* ''Everyone'' sports this style in ''Film/{{Hairspray\|1988}}'', hence the title.
67	** Up to the point where [[Music/BlondieBand Deborah Harry]] has a hollowed-out one with a door on the front, tall enough to keep a time bomb inside.
68	** Ricki Lake sports this style at the beginning, but she becomes the one major exception when she irons her hair flat in jail like she learned it from the beatniks.
69	** And quite a few other Creator/JohnWaters characters have this hairstyle.
70	* ''Film/HedwigAndTheAngryInch'': "Suddenly, ''she's'' Miss Beehive, 1963..."
71	* In ''Film/MarsAttacks'', one of the aliens disguises itself as a woman sporting one of these, because it was the only kind of costume that would hide its huge head.
72	* Holly Golightly from ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys''.
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74	%%* ''Film/WomanTimesSeven''
75	* Magenta of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' sports an Elsa Lanchester-style beehive near the end of the film.
76	* Brazilian film ''Film/SuperXuxaContraBaixoAstral'' has Florinda Floripede, a reporter for the in-universe apocalyptic news show ''[[ShowWithinAShow TV Fim]]'', sports a variant shaped like a ''mushroom cloud''.
77	* Eve Teschmacher in ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' and ''Film/SupermanII''.
78	* Johnny Cash's mother in ''Film/WalkTheLine'' acquires one of these in TheSixties.
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81	[[folder:Literature]]
82	* Susan Sto Helit sported one when she was being Death's granddaughter (as opposed to Governess Susan) in the Sky One LiveActionAdaptation of ''Film/{{Hogfather}}''. Based on the painting by Paul Kidby which has her with more of an afro, which in turn is based on the description in ''Literature/SoulMusic'' of her hair resembling a dandelion clock.
83	* In ''Literature/{{Relativity}},'' the supervillain Vera Barracuda uses a beehive hairstyle as part of her disguise. In her day-to-day life, she wears her hair down. This, plus a DominoMask, is enough to completely hide her identity.
84	* In ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'', George and Harold's teacher, Ms. Ribble, has a beehive hairdo.
85	* The lady on the cover of ''Rich People Problems''.
86	* ''Literature/InCryptid'': Many female [[{{Medusa}} gorgons]] who interact with humans wear beehive wigs, since there's more room to hide their snakes inside.
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89	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
90	* Turned up often enough in the original ''Series/{{Star Trek\|The Original Series}}'', that it's been speculated that (like many, many other parts of the show) it was a case of AuthorAppeal with Creator/GeneRoddenberry. The most famous example was the do worn by Yeoman Rand, made by gluing two wigs together! In later series like ''Series/DeepSpaceNine'', HumanAliens would be given towering hairstyles to portray a different culture without bothering with [[RubberForeheadAliens extensive makeup.]]
91	* ''Series/MadMen'':
92	** Brought back from the dead by Joan Holloway and her startlingly-red updo. The show is, after all, set in the very early 60s.
93	** Worn by by Betty Draper when she and Don go to Italy.
94	* Vlad, the Divine Executioner, from ''{{Series/Lexx}}'' had such a hairdo... about a foot-and-a-half high.
95	* When beehives appear in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' movies, one of the gang will probably make buzzing noises at least once.
96	* Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark sports a rather unusual beehive-mullet.
97	* As mentioned above, Snooki's signature "poof" from ''Series/JerseyShore''.
98	* Joy once sported one in ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', when she and the rest of the cast went to see an independently produced movie.
99	** She also wore one in a flashback to a day when she was asked to do some trade-show modeling at "Barba-Tubba-Con," until Earl accidentally ruined it by lighting a cigarette too close to where she was applying hairspray.
100	* [[Creator/JoannaLumley Patsy Stone's]] signature look in ''Series/AbsolutelyFabulous''.
101	* Lois sometimes styles her hair this way in ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''.
102	* In an episode of ''Malibu, CA'', Tracey tries her hand in styling Stads' and Samantha's hair. Stads' is styled into an impossibly large beehive, which she initially pretends to love, before asking for Samantha's help to get rid of it once Tracey leaves.
103	* Bug-Eyed Bandit styles her hair like this in ''Series/TheFlash2014'', tying to her queen bee theme.
104	* The signature hairstyle of ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'''s [[Creator/CCHPounder Mrs Frederic]].
105	* Rimmer, from ''Series/RedDwarf'', on [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIFutureEchoes one occasion]] rudely demanded that Holly give him a haircut. In revenge, Holly inflicted a beehive on him instead.
106	* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. In "[[{{Recap/BlakesSevenS4E7Assassin}} Assassin]]", TheReveal that a DecoyDamsel is actually the VillainOfTheWeek is given when she [[TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot somehow has time for]] an EvilCostumeSwitch into [[DarkIsEvil black clothes]] and a towering bun of hair. The latter makes her [[NightmareRetardant not as scary as she should be]].
107	* In ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'', Didi, the drummer for the Jukebox Band has this hairstyle.
108	* ''Series/ToastOfLondon'': Janet Plough sports a gray beehive hairdo along with her mod-print psychedelic dresses, which together give her an anachronistic 60's secretary look, consistent with most of the main cast being 60's throwbacks in the 2010's.
109	* ''Series/TheSopranos'': Livia Soprano wore her hair in a beehive during Tony's childhood in the '60s. Apparently, his father "Johnny Boy" shot a bullet through it while driving home from a double date at one point. (We only see the beehive in flashbacks; by the time of the series Livia's beehive is long gone.)
110	* ''Series/FawltyTowers'': Sybil Fawlty sports a beehive hairdo, or "rat's maze" as Basil calls it.
111	* ''Series/TheCrystalMaze'': In series 3, Auntie Sabrina has a beehive hairdo.
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114	[[folder:Music]]
115	* Music/RonnieSpector is the TropeCodifier who played a major role in popularizing the hairstyle.
116	* Music/ArianaGrande wears a short 60s-style beehive on the cover of her album ''Positions'' and a taller, poofier one in the video for "34+35".
117	* Cindy Wilson and Kate Pierson of Music/TheB52s used to sport a pair of beehive wigs. It's where the band's name came from, after all (because the way they did it resembled the nose of the Boeing B-52 airplane). [[ArtifactTitle They stopped doing it]] in the '80s, but the name stuck.
118	* Mari Wilson of ''Just What I Always Wanted'' fame.
119	* Music/{{Adele}}, of course.
120	* [[Music/TheSupremes Diana Ross and The Supremes]]. And others of their time.
121	* Music/AmyWinehouse, probably the most notable example of the last ten years. It was a ShoutOut to '60s girl group the Ronettes (themselves an example), of whom Amy was a fan.
122	* Music/DustySpringfield.
123	* Music/CyndiLauper sported the reverse version of the Elsa Lanchester beehive hairdo around the time of her 1989 album ''A Night To Remember''.
124	* A woman with one of these appears on the cover for Andre Kostalanetz's record album for Strauss Waltzes.
125	* Patty Smyth of Scandal briefly sported one in the video for "The Warrior".
126	* Mentioned in Australian rock band The Skyhooks' "Women in Uniform":
127	-->Beehive hairdo, 45 on the hip
128	-->[[FairCop Patrolwoman]] Saunders don't you give her no lip
129	* Mentioned in "Honky Tonk Song" by Terri Clark:
130	-->It's for that good ol' boy preachin', dealin' with the Deacons
131	-->And the little ladies with the beehive hairdo's
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134	[[folder:Pinballs]]
135	* True to the television series, Janice Rand has one of these in Creator/DataEast's ''[[Pinball/StarTrekDataEast Star Trek]]'' pinball.
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138	[[folder:Toys]]
139	* The black Franchise/{{Barbie}} is shown with this at times.
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142	[[folder:Urban Legends]]
143	* A popular legend during the 60s, when beehive hairdos were all the rage, is one where a woman with one doesn't take it down and wash her hair for a really long time, keeping the hairdo going by continually adding more hairspray. One day she passes out unexpectedly, and when she is medically examined, it's discovered that she has a huge nest of spiders in her beehive hairdo that have bored a hole in her brain. She later dies from this.
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146	[[folder:Video Games]]
147	* Professor Juniper of ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' has a [[AnimeHair fairly complicated]] beehive.
148	** Meloetta's Pirouette Forme.
149	** Lily, the protagonist's mother in ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness''.
150	* The titular ([[MsFanservice heh]]) protagonist of ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' sports one in the first game, with the intention of it looking reminiscent to a witch's hat. It's MagicHair that also forms her SpyCatsuit and is used in her most powerful attacks. She trades it out for a BoyishShortHair in [[{{VideoGame/Bayonetta2}} the sequel]].
151	* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'': Puzzlette's hair looks quite like a beehive.
152	* Someone is shown with a beehive in an ad banner for VideoGame/GrandFantasia. [[CoversAlwaysLie As it turns out, though, this is not actually a selectable hairstyle.]]
153	* An old lady in the opening cutscene to ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'' is shown to have one.
154	* According to early concept art of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', Rosalina was originally going to have her hair mounted atop her head.
155	* Shirley in ''VideoGame/MySims'', who is a hairdresser. It's pink, has hearts on the sides of it, and she's pretty dang proud of it.
156	* There is at least one female NPC with this in ''VideoGame/WeHappyFew'', a game set in an alternate 1960s England.
157	* Purah sports this in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity''.
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160	[[folder:Web Comics]]
161	* ''Webcomic/{{Dregs}}'': Meatball wears her hair in a large bun, ''outside'' of her protective suit.
162	* A spectator sitting next to Tycho in [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/01/22/saving-private-ion this strip]] of ''Webcomic/PennyArcade''.
163	* Rosemary "Rosie" Willow from [[http://fac-agentc.deviantart.com/ FAC-AgentC's]] dA comic ''Timepeace''.
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166	[[folder:Web Original]]
167	* [[http://the-beehive.deviantart.com/ This DeviantArt group called "The Beehive"]] is all about this trope. In case anyone's curious about the icon, though, the girls depicted are: [[Manga/LuckyStar Konata Izumi, Kagami Hiiragi, and Miyuki Takara]]; [[Anime/MonColleKnights Guuko]]; Makoto Minagawa (from ''Getter Love!!''); [[Anime/ALittleSnowFairySugar Pepper]]; [[Anime/PaniPoniDash Rebecca "Becky" Miyamoto]]; Mai Tsurugino (from ''Makeruna! Makendou Z''); and [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Kiyomi "Yomi" Mizuhara]]. None of the girls ever actually sport a hive canonically; these were modified versions of pre-existing images. Why them? Ask the group owner.
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170	[[folder:Western Animation]]
171	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
172	** Marge Simpson here is the modern queen of the beehive. She's never seen anyone with taller hair outside of Graceland.
173	** Her mother's beehive is pretty impressive as well.
174	** Sideshow Mel also counts, as a rare male example.
175	** Agnes, Principal Skinner's mother, also has one, but not nearly as large (and it's a wig; she's actually bald).
176	* This hairstyle was spoofed in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''. In the episode, Robotnik's Mother adopts Sonic. A social worker comes to inspect the fortress and not only does she have a beehive hairdo, but real bees buzzing around it, and a hole for them to fly into.
177	* Lady Nickelbottoms from ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack''. According to one episode, it's actually a wig that she wears to cover up her "beauty mark".
178	* Gerald from ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', though his is an exaggerated hi-top fade.
179	* Sheila Broflovski on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.
180	* A villain from ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' sported one of these to hide the top half of her head, [[MyBrainIsBig which had grown huge after stealing the intelligence of several geniuses]].
181	* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolbus'': Miss Frizzle sports one in the episode where they go see the inside of a beehive.
182	* Cordoth's Daughter from ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee''
183	* ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'': Pickles Oblong wears a beehive hairdo ''wig'', as the pollution of the Valley caused her hair to fall out.
184	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'', Brittney sports a hive at a dance. Someone on the sidelines can also be seen with one.
185	** In the episode "Pierce Me", Helen wears one for a Mother-Daughter fashion show with Quinn.
186	* Betty Jo Flynn from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''.
187	* The unnamed gift shop clerk in ''WesternAnimation/BebesKids'', whose hair might count as a "triple-hive" of sorts.
188	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': Didi Pickles has one that points in three directions.
189	* Mrs. Brinks in ''WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda'' wears a beehive wig, which periodically falls off.
190	* Miss Sculptham in ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' has this. Another hint (see page description) that this show might be set in TheFifties.
191	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' episode "Fred's New Boss", Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble get their hair done in gigantic, elaborate beehives at a salon, and the pair drive their car very slowly to protect their hairdos. Unfortunately, their 'dos are destroyed after a fast-moving dinosaur vehicle passes by and blows them down.
192	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Toph regularly wears her hair in a large, flat bun atop her head.
193	** Buttercup Raiko has a similar hairdo in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra.''
194	* Eustace's mother in ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog.''
195	* Marguerite Grey in the ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' episode Mad Love.
196	* Olga in ''WesternAnimation/TheMouseAndTheMonster''.
197	* Some episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' have either Kaeloo or Quack Quack wear a wig that looks like a beehive hairdo.
198	* In the ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' episode ''No Hope for Courtney'', popular girl Courtney Gripling has her hair done in a beehive.
199	* The female lead in the 1931 Fleischer Animation short ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PPX7gps4iI In My Merry Oldsmobile]]''.
200	* Ms. [=McBrisk=] in ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets''.
201	* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Starlight Glimmer has this manestyle as the ArcVillain of Season 5. [[spoiler:In Season 6 onwards (post-HeelFaceTurn), [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange she swept her cut bangs out of the way and curled it to her side]], but otherwise kept her original style.]]
202	* ''WesternAnimation/LittleCharmers'': In "Hairy Ways", Posie sports a beehive as tall as her body, though she's constantly struggling to keep her balance throughout the episode while trying not to fall over.
203	* Li'l Gideon from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' is a rare male example with a massive white beehive. It emphasizes his extravagant and vain personality, and adds a few feet to his short stature.
204	* Cheryl and Meryl Farrell of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' sport beehive hairdos. This is lampshaded in "Double Trouble", where Cheryl and Principal Huggins get chased by bees.
205	-->'''Cheryl:''' RUN, HUGGINS! THEY THINK MY BEEHIVE IS ''THEIR'' BEEHIVE!
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208	[[folder:Real Life]]
209	* There are images of [[https://communications.lafayette.edu/2015/09/09/kimberle-crenshaw-pioneer-in-the-field-of-womens-and-gender-studies-to-speak-at-lafayette/ Kimberlé Crenshaw]] with her hair done up this way.
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