Line #4 WesternAnimation/HairHigh


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4	->''[[TitleDrop Hair High]], we love thy towers''\
5	''And your ivy-covered walls''\
6	''Sons of barbers and beauticians''\
7	''Ever roaming through your halls''\
8	''Though our shining locks may fall off''\
9	''And our tresses turn to gray''\
10	''Hair High, our alma mater''\
11	''In our hearts you will ever stay''
12	-->--Hair High's {{alma mater song}}
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14	''Hair High'' is a 2004 animated film by Creator/BillPlympton. Genre-wise, it falls somewhere between [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror romantic comedy, and horror]], or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Horror Romantic Comedy]]... But one thing that can be agreed on is it's a trip what with this being a Plympton work and all.
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16	Rod and Cherri rule the school as prom king and queen, respectively. New kid Spud accidentally offends both Cherri and Rod, and so is forced to become Cherri's slave. Naturally, [[BelligerentSexualTension they immediately hate each other, but later fall in love]]. However, Rod is not too pleased with this and, having already warned Spud beforehand, this could mean trouble.
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18	It features a huge ensemble voice cast including, but not limited to, Creator/SarahSilverman, Creator/DermotMulroney, Creator/DavidCarradine, Creator/KeithCarradine, Creator/EdBegleyJr, Creator/MattGroening, Creator/JustinLong, Creator/ZakOrth, Creator/CraigBierko, Creator/MarthaPlimpton, [[Film/WetHotAmericanSummer Michael Showalter]] and Creator/DonHertzfeldt.
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20	!!The following tropes include:
21	%%* The50s[=/=]The60s: The film seems to allude both periods, as it's being a spoof of teen movies from those decades.
22	* SixtiesHair: {{Beehive hairdo}}s for females, pompadours for males, and both are exaggerated for comic effect. The movie's title, which also serves as the name of the high school, alludes to 60s hair in general.
23	* AccidentalPublicConfession: Rod tries to cover the fact that Spud and Cherri [[spoiler:had drowned in the lake (after he butted them off the road) by saying that they moved to Mexico. Come next year's prom when Spud and Cherri, as skeletons, return that night and attempt to reclaim the crown but Rod refused to believe that that's them by saying out loud they [[ExactWords drowned in Echo Lake]] through a microphone]]... Nice.
24	* AlphaBitch:
25	** Cherri, at first, who apparently rules the school with her JerkJock boyfriend, Rod, and takes pleasure in humiliating Spud for giving her a bogus answer to the teacher's question. She shows a much softer side when [[HeldGaze she and Spud inadvertently exchange looks]].
26	** Darlene is a straighter example [[spoiler:after Cherri dies with Spud and takes over the role of Rod's new girlfriend]].
27	* AlmaMaterSong: The titular school's anthem plays during Zip's fantasy of Darlene doing a cheer routine topless, and plays again after [[spoiler:a brief {{moment of silence}} due to Zip's sudden but apparent demise from falling from a scoreboard]].
28	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Zip electrocutes a frog in his "sex organs" which seems to cause an erection. Frogs don't have penises. Ironically, the scene takes place in biology class.
29	* AssholeVictim: Zip and Rod. The former's mother even says she's glad he's dead. ''At his funeral.''
30	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When Rod forces Spud to be Cherri's servent, he ''hopes'' Spud falls in-love with her, simply so he has an excuse to brutalize him. [[spoiler:And he does, but Rod didn't count on Cherri falling in love with him back.]]
31	* BeehiveHairdo: A lot of female characters (and even some males) sport gravity defying hair-dos as part of its '50s-'60s motif.
32	* BelligerentSexualTension: Exaggerated with Spud and Cherri. They even outright torture each other in one scene only to find themselves staring into each others eyes afterwards... and then quickly turning away.
33	* BlackComedy: Everything that's immoral, disgusting, and possibly just plain offensive is PlayedForLaughs.
34	* ChunkySalsaRule: A non-video game example. Vomiting up your organs and and football jumping through you? Survivable. Being crushed and [[spoiler:drowning]]? Fatal.
35	* CoolCar: Rod owns one to which he is ''very'' attached with.
36	* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:Spud and Cherri are nothing but nice to [=JoJo=] after they come back from the dead. The only people they antagonize are [[AssholeVictim Rod, Darlene, and their cronies,]] and most of the school seems to support them.]]
37	* DaydreamSurprise: Spud bucks Cherri off his back who is literally walking all over him, causing her to fall into a puddle, and then the Earth crumbles while Cherri floats away into the sea as he waves at her smugly. Then as it turns out, it was just his imagination.
38	* DefrostingIceQueen: Cherri begins to fall in love with Spud after some strong tension.
39	* DemBones: [[spoiler:Spud and Cherri (who are apparently undead) return to the following year's prom with their bodies already decomposed. Naturally, everyone is shocked]].
40	* DerangedAnimation: As expected of a Bill Plympton cartoon.
41	* DisneyAcidSequence: Spud and Cherri's kiss stand out in particular simply to visualize the feeling.
42	* DoubleEntendre: {{Discussed}}. The scene with Rod and Darlene.
43	-->'''Darlene''': What if I told you that someone else is working on your car?
44	** Some of the dialogue counts, like a football announcer saying "that cock's got a lot of spunk"[[labelnote:]]referring to a school mascot which happens to be a rooster[[/labelnote]], and Rod telling Cherri that the Reverend has a huge organ[[labelnote:]]as in ''church'' organ[[/labelnote]].
45	* EarnYourHappyEnding: In a way, despite [[spoiler:Spud and Cherri both dying. They share a kiss at prom in the end while they symbolically revert to their human forms]].
46	* EyeScream: Spud, who by then had grown a spine, rebuffs a bully by poking him in the eye with the bully's own [[OralFixation toothpick]].
47	* {{Fingore}}: Rod demonstrates what he'll do to Spud if he falls in love with his girlfriend Cherri by tearing off a fingernail...that turns out to belong to Zip.
48	* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the beginning when the guy squishes two flies that were, er, having sex on the table, it prompted [=JoJo=] to tell them the story of Cherri and Spud. Also, the ballad played a few times in the movie as background music had the lyrics explicitly mention that the couple die on the way to the prom.
49	* FramingDevice: The movie is a story [=JoJo=] is telling to a young couple who are on the way to prom.
50	* GangOfBullies: Rod terrorizes Spud, with Zip and Dwayne backing him up. After Zip dies, Dwayne becomes Rod's sole support.
51	* {{Gorn}}: The movie dips into it at times.
52	** For example, Mr. Snerz who after choking on a cigarette, he ''coughs up all of his entrails on the table''. Then the students, with the help of Spud's knowledge in Biology, attempt to ''hurl it back in'' in the proper order!
53	** The aforementioned {{fingore}} scene, where Rod graphically tears off Zip's fingernail with a switchblade.
54	* TheHeroDies: Spud when he drowns in the lake with Cherri.
55	* HighSchool: The setting of the film. Which gives us...
56	** HighSchoolDance: An important topic with the characters to be nominated prom king or queen.
57	* JerkJock: Rod, Cherri's [[spoiler:and later Darlene's]] boyfriend.
58	* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Rod is devoured by the animals from Spud and Cherri's skeletons after their arrival]].
59	* LightningGlare: An unlikely usage which indicates two people who are falling in-love with each other, such as when Spud and Cherri accidentally gaze into each other's eyes after the two get into a violent scuffle just seconds before. [[spoiler:It's put into use again with Buttercup and Wally before sharing a passionate kiss.]]
60	* MoodWhiplash: Gory, surreal imagery, and death is thrown everywhere.
61	** More so in-universe. Zip seems to have been crushed after falling off the scoreboard and the whole stadium is silent for awhile. Then the cheerleaders begin dancing and everything is back to normal with the crowd cheering and music playing.
62	* MusicalSpoiler: "Ballad of Spud and Cherri", which plays as [=JoJo=] begins the story, pretty much tells us point blank that they die on their way to prom.
63	* RagingStiffie: Rod gives Zip one in the form of an aphrodisiac disguised as a tonic so he could have the courage to ask Darlene out for the prom. After drinking the whole thing, he began humping at just about everyone and every''thing''.
64	* RealAfterAll: Wally and Buttercup don't believe [=JoJo=]'s story about Spud and Cherri going to prom as skeletons. [[spoiler:However, Wally catches a glimpse of Cherri behind them. Wally and Buttercup barely miss them walking out the door and peel off the road, but they notice the flower trail left behind as a symbol of Spud and Cherri's strong love. The teens finally buy it.]]
65	* SoundtrackDissonance: [[spoiler:"The Ballad of Spud and Cherri" states their deaths were an accident. It ''wasn't.'' They were murdered by Rod and Dwayne.]]
66	* SeeminglyWholesome50sGirl: Every prim and proper looking young lady in the high school is somewhat promiscuous.
67	* SillyBrainDiagram: One scene shows Cherri's brain, divided into sections with nothing but pictures showing her doing things like preening herself and putting on a crown, showing that she's a vain and mean popular girl. But slowly a picture of Spud appears in her brain, to signify that she's starting to like him.
68	* TheStarscream: Darlene is Cherri's best friend who wants to steal the title of prom queen from her as well as her best friend's boyfriend. She does so by suggesting to Rod that Spud is fooling around with his girlfriend, causing his animosity towards the new kid to escalate [[spoiler:leading to him eventually bumping him off the road with Cherri, who by now made it clear has decided to go steady with Spud.]]
69	* StillSucksThumb: [[spoiler:Darlene starts sucking her thumb in a mix of fear and panic when she sees Cherri and Spud's reanimated skeletons usurp her and Rod's title for prom king and queen.]]
70	* TeenageDeathSong: If such a song was adapted into a film (and some random, crazy stuff thrown in), this would be it.
71	* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Spud and Cherri are forced off the road by a jilted Rod and into the lake. As the car sinks to the bottom, they share one last kiss.]]
72	* TooDumbToLive: Zip, literally. He's the first one to die after [[ItMakesSenseInContext dry humping a giant image of a chicken on the scoreboard and falling from it]].
73	* UnreliableNarrator: The young couple have their reservations about how true the story [=JoJo=] is telling them, and seem to infer that the crazy stuff happening in it may or may not be just [=JoJo=]'s own embellishments. [[spoiler:Though Cherri and Spud coming back as skeletons might be true.]]

Context WesternAnimation / HairHigh