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* In ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'', if you try to use the metal detector indoors, Strong Bad will comment that the last time he tried it he signed off Strong Mad's eyebrows and they couldn't tell how mad he was for weeks.

-->-- '''Adam Savage,''' ''Series/MythBusters'' [[note]] He was. [[/note]]

* The titular antagonist in ''Film/TheTerminator'' tries rushing after Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese even when Reese puts up a wall of fire between them. The terminator immediately has his hair burned down to a crew-cut and his eyebrows disappear completely. This turns out to be the ''least'' unsettling disfigurement he sustains throughout the movie.

* ''Music/NoFX'' have a song called "We Threw Gasoline On The Fire and Now We Have Stumps For Arms And No Eyebrows". The song is better than it sounds.
* In ''Music/KevinBloodyWilson'''s song "The Apprentice", one of the pranks the tradesmen pull on the apprentice is burning his eyebrows off with a welding torch.

-->-- '''Adam Savage,''' ''Series/MythBusters'' (he was)

* In ''Music/KevinBloodyWilson'''s song "The Apprentice", one of the pranks the tradesmen pull on the apprentice is burn his eyebrows off with a welding torch.

-> ''"I thought we agreed: no more secret projects. Some of you are still missing your eyebrows after your last secret project!"''

* ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'': Roger, in true BumblingDad style, [[DoomItYourself decides he can fix the furnace without needing to call the repairman, turning the valve so it keeps emitting gas and applying a lit match.]] Once the repairman shows up to fix it, he wonders if Roger managed to singe off both his eyebrows ''and'' hair, though Andy quickly corrects him on that last point.

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[[caption-width-right:260:"Nearly blew myself and the whole place sky high!"]]

** In "She of Little Faith", Milhouse's eyebrows get blown off and fly onto Bart's head, which he wears like sideburns.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Something Smells", the fumes from [=SpongeBob's=] rancid ketchup and onion "sundae" burn off Patrick's eyebrows.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'', the teams are in a cooking competition. The Screaming Gophers attempt to make a flambé but Heather lights it after Lindsay used the whole bottle of starter fluid, and the resulting explosion burns off Heather's eyebrows.

* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': Buzz =McNab= loses an eyebrow and a couple toes after a bomb explodes in his mailbox.

* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': Buzz McNab loses an eyebrow and a couple toes after a bomb explodes in his mailbox.

* In an early episode of ''Series/MythBusters'', host Adam Savage stood too close to a box full of gas fumes he was trying to light when it exploded, leading to the page quote above. Adam later claimed that he had said the line as a joke, only to find that his eyebrow (and a good chunk of his hair) had indeed been singed off. To make it worse, that night he had a date and was planning to propose! ([[spoiler:She said yes.]])
* There was a joke on ''Series/RescueMe'' about someone losing their eyebrows because his friend lit a fart.

* In the live episode of ''Series/WillAndGrace'', self-obsessed showman Jack lost an eyebrow trying to finish singing a song as the stage burned around him.
* Part of Sheldon's {{backstory}} in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. When he was a child one of his "experiments" exploded and blew his sister's eyebrows off. True to form Sheldon never noticed until he was told twenty years later.

* In ''Series/MalcolminTheMiddle'', this happened offscreen as a result of the Krelboynes' previous secret project.
-> ''"I thought we agreed: no more secret projects. Some of you are still missing your eyebrows after your last secret project!"''

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Nearly blew myself and the whole place sky high!"]]

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'', the teams are in a cooking competition. The Screaming Gophers attempt to make a flambé but Lindsay lights it after using the whole bottle of starter fluid, and the resulting explosion burns off Heather's eyebrows.

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'' features RC-1262, AKA [[MeaningfulName Scorch]], your grenadier and explosives specialist. He's equal parts DeadpanSnarker, BunnyEarsLawyer, and ComedicSociopath--basically an obnoxiously cheerful [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Demoman]], [[{{Dissimile}} if he spoke with an American accent and didn't have a drinking problem]]. As a clone, he doesn't have a name, [[YouAreNumberSix just a numerical designation]], but he got his nickname after an incident where he managed to blow both his ''and'' his training sergeant's eyebrows off at the same time.

-->-- '''Adam Savage,''' ''Series/MythBusters''

* In an ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' story, the gang holds a contest at school to see who can come up with the most bizarre eyebrow shape. Jughead wins by sporting no eyebrows at all. Never mind that he'd accidentally singed them off in a [[EducationThroughPyrotechnics chemistry lab explosion]].

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'' features RC-1262, AKA [[MeaningfulName Scorch]], your grenadier and explosives specialist. He's equal parts DeadpanSnarker, BunnyEarsLawyer, and ComedicSociopath--basically an obnoxiously cheerful [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Demoman]]. As a clone, he doesn't have a name, [[YouAreNumberSix just a numerical designation]], but he got his nickname after an incident where he managed to blow both his ''and'' his training sergeant's eyebrows off at the same time.

-> ''"Am I missing an eyebrow?"''

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The Mechanist has patchy eyebrows, which he claims is the result of finding a natural gas pocket while holding a lantern.