History Main / AffairHair

* In the Indian novel ''Literature/TheWhiteTiger'': How Balram realizes that Ashok slept with the Ukrainian student. %% This comment was added automatically by FELH2. In case the wording doesn't make sense, rewrite it as you like and tell this troper.

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* In the film ''TheKidsAreAllRight'', [[spoiler:Nic finds the truth when she finds her wife's distinctive red hair in a bathroom drain at a mutual friend's house]].

Not to be confused with [[ParksAndRecreation Sex Hair]].

** Jane Goodall herself told the story on the title page of one of the Far Side collections. Her society was getting ready to sue over the strip when she returned from field work. Her reply was, "Wow, real fame at last!" Now, it's one of her society's biggest moneymakers, appearing on many fund-raising products. Ms. Goodall invited Mr. Larson to her preserve - where he promptly got the snot kicked out of him by her lead chimp, a male named Frodo.

* Inverted in the film ''TheKidsAreAllRight'', in which [[spoiler:Nic finds the truth when she finds her wife's distinctive red hair in a bathroom drain at a mutual friend's house]].

* ''A Rose For Emily'' ends with [[spoiler: a strand of gray hair found next to a body that's been dead for ''decades'']].

* {{Lolcats}}: [[http://icanhascheezburger.com/2010/12/01/funny-pictures-care-ta-splain/ Dis Not Mai Hairz!]]

* ''SabrinaOnline'' has a gag along these lines after Sabrina's dad has the tour of Zig Zag's porn studio - while the hair ''color'' is nothing to worry about (since both he and Zig Zag are skunks), the ''length'' is...

* ''SabrinaOnline'' has a gag along these lines after Sabrina's dad has the tour of Zig Zag's porn studio - while the hair ''color'' is nothing to worry about, the ''length'' is...

** For those who are not familiar with the strip, Roger is balding, and in denial about it.

* Inverted in the film ''TheKidsAreAllRight'', in which [[spoiler:Nic finds the truth when she finds her lesbian wife's distinctive red hair in a hairbrush at a mutual friend's house]].

* In ''ThatOldFeeling'', Rowena's bright red hair is a significant part of the backstory because it proved that she'd had an affair with Molly's father while he was still married to Lilly, Molly's mom. At the climax of the movie, Rowena's bright red hair also reveals that [[spoiler:she'd slept with Molly's newlywed husband on the previous night]].
* In the film ''CrossingDelancy'', an African-American character with curly black hair finds a long, straight blonde hair on her boyfriend, which she takes to mean that he's cheating on her.

A wife suspects her husband is having an affair and [[GPSEvidence can prove it by presenting him with the hair she found on his jacket]]. More likely than not the "affair hair" is also "[[IncrediblyLamePun A Fair Hair]]" meaning "[[DumbBlonde Blonde]]", [[GentlemenPreferBlondes which the wife is not]], nor is the husband.

* In the film ''Crossing Delancy'', an African-American character with curly black hair finds a long, straight blonde hair on her boyfriend, which she takes to mean that he's cheating on her.

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* One single-page Archie comic has Archie inexplicably the First Teen on Mars. He's asked a bunch of questions regarding the terrain, the weather, etc. Cue Ronnie with, "''I'' have one question. ''Whose'' purple hair is this?"

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* This happens in the pantomime sketch "Argument to Beethoven's 5th" by Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray, just as the couple seems to have made up. At the very end, she figures out that it's belongs to the cat, and they're reconciled.

* Mariah Carey's "Heartbreaker" has JZ rapping about how "she found a strand of hair, longer than hers". The video shows a toon Mariah finding an Affair Hair.

* A poem by E.E. Cummings in which the wife initially suspects that her husband is having an affair... [[SubvertedTrope then he reveals that they have a new cat]]... [[DoubleSubversion then he reveals it's of the wrong colour]].

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[[caption-width-right:350: [[DontExplainTheJoke It is funny because]] [[{{Frankenstein}} Frankenstein's Monster]] [[BiologicalMashUp is made of body parts from multiple corpses]] [[DontExplainTheJoke thus giving the question a double meaning.]] ]]

[[caption-width-right:350: [[DontExplainTheJoke It is funny because]] [[{{Frankenstein}} Frankenstein's Monster]] [[BiologicalMashUp is made of body parts from multiple corpses]] [[DoubleEntendre thus giving the question a double meaning.]] ]]

* Parodied and Played Straight in ''TheIncredibles'': Helen plucks a piece of rubble from Bob's jacket in order to confront him on his late night vigilantism. Later she discovers Mirage's platinum blonde hair on his jacket and begins to grow suspicious.

* There was a ''FarSide'' strip that caused a bit of controversy because it showed a female chimp picking a blond hair off her chimp husband and asking if he'd been doing more "research" with "That Jane Goodall tramp". Jane Goodall, by the way, loved that strip.