History Main / FunnyFlashbackHaircut

* ''WesternAnimation/Clarence'', [[GenderInvertedTrope a rare female example.]] In “Jeff Wins”, one of Jeff’s moms, EJ, tells Clarence about Jeff’s fear when entering the Anual Cook-Off, most notably in the flashback sequence, EJ has had wild haircuts in the past.

** This trope is a RunningGag with Doctor Hibbert (as pictured above). Whenever he's shown in flashback, he has a different hairstyle, including a FunnyAfro in TheSeventies, dreadlocks with beads and a Mr. T-style Mohawk at different points in TheEighties, and a high-and-tight in TheNineties.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', the flashback to Jim's time being the fry cook at the Krusty Krab (which seems to take place around the '70s) shows Mr. Krabs with sideburns and Squidward with gorgeous flowing blonde hair. A later flashback shows that Squidward lost all his hair on the night that Jim quit, while Krebs' sideburns were fake.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', the flashback to Jim's time being the fry cook at the Krusty Krab (which seems to take place around the '70s) shows Mr. Krabs with sideburns and Squidward with gorgeous flowing blonde hair. A later flashback shows that Squidward lost all his hair on the night that Jim quit.

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* Flashbacks to the past in ''ComicBook/LoveAndRockets'' show that Fritz and Khamo went through punk phases when they were younger, with Fritz sporting a long side cut and Khamo having a mohawk. Both ended up having to settle down soon afterwards; Fritz barely managed to avoid an arrest for underage drinking, which inspired her to get her act together and go to college, while Khamo ended up severely burned and decided to marry Luba because she was the only one of his lovers who would stay with him after he was disfigured.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'': In one strip, showing the office in 1985, 1990, and 1995, Wally is shown progressively going from a full head of hair to bald (and he's shown to have had a FunnyAfro in TheSeventies). The PointyHairedBoss' hairstyle also changes when he's shown in the past, as a MythologyGag to [[ArtEvolution his previous character designs]].
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'', Whitey, who is currently bald, goes into a flashback in the 70s, where we see that he had a [[FunnyAfro ridiculous-looking afro.]]
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TheNakedGun 33 1/3: The Final Insult'': Frank Drebin flashes back to a murder case at a disco in the '70s. He sports an (already white) mullet, the Captain has a Peter Frampton-esque head of blond curls, and Nordberg's Afro is so big he has trouble fitting through a doorway.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheMiracleMask'', flashbacks show that the super-gentlemanly and businesslike professor, of all people, had a giant FunnyAfro in his school days. It's downplayed though, as ''Lost/Unwound Future'' reveals that he still has a respectable amount of hair in the present.
* ''VideoGame/PsiOpsTheMindgateConspiracy'': in the present, Edgar Barrett normally keeps his head shaved. However, in flashbacks to Nick Scryer's psychic training sessions at Mindgate, Barrett (who presides over each test) sports a progressively more ridiculous array of haircuts, including flat-tops, afros, dreadlocks, mohawks, and many more.

[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'', we see balding prosecutor Winston Payne in flashback with a pompadour. We also see how he loses it: [[spoiler:he's so shocked at losing a case that his hair ''explodes''.]]

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* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': Coach Z has no hair in the present, but in an old VHS tape of a grade school talent show in the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE18StandUp stand-up]]", he's shown to have a FunnyAfro and a big, bushy mustache.

[[folder:Webcomics]]
* One flashback strip in ''Webcomic/ThePetriDish'' shows that Thaddeus (who's now nearly bald) had a mullet when he was in college.

* In ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'', Jamie has a short bob but is shown to have been a hippie with RapunzelHair when Pepper Ann was a toddler.

* 'WesternAnimation/HumanResources2022'': In "Rutgers is for Lovers," Emmy flashes back to the 1970s to explain why she and Rochelle nicknamed Pete "the Chugger." In the flashback, Emmy has longer hair while Rochelle's hair is more voluminous, and most amusingly, the normally-hairless Pete has windswept hair and a 70's-style mustache (or at least rocks sculpted to look like such).

** In "The One With The Prom Video" Ross is seen with an afro and porn stash on the videotape, it being set in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hXCNyLjwws spring 1988.]] Joey explicitly calls him "Mr. Kotter", a reference to the late seventies show ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter''.

** Back in high school, Jake had untypically flat and feminine shoulder-long hair.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': When we see the teenage Lister in "Timeslides", he is sporting an Afro. The Cat is depicted when a very similar hairstyle when the time-wand reverts him to his teenage years in "Pete Part 1" as well.

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[[caption-width-right:250:[[Characters/TheSimpsonsChurchDoctorsCelebrities Dr. Hibbert's]] hair wasn't always as plain as it is now.]]