History Main / ShaveAndAHaircut

* ''VideoGame/BatmanDarkTomorrow'': After subduing a group of Arkham inmates, Batman hears someone playing an organ tune, and goes to investigate. The camera pans over to the organ and reveals it's Joker, who ends his session with a contrasting Shave and a Haircut snippet.

* At the end of the "Agatha All Along" theme from ''Series/WandaVision''.

* ''Film/AceVentura'' used this in the AnimatedAdaptation: He suspects he's being followed and does the "Shave and Haircut" on his cat, since the other cat responded with the two bits, he knows he's being followed.

* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': the Cryptkeeper's barber skit ending with his pun of this after cutting an ear and cackling.

* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt: the Cryptkeeper's barber skit ending with his pun of this after cutting an ear and cackling.

* Several episodes of UPA's ''WesternAnimation/MrMagoo'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheDickTracyShow'' end with this.

(Cultural warning: be careful with expressing this song in Mexico or in front of Mexicans, because as noted under the real life section, for some reason this sting is ''extremely'' offensive over there, and is likely to get you in serious trouble with another Mexican unless you have enough of a friendship to justify it as friendly teasing).

* In the Music/MitchBenn show ''Ten Songs to Save the World'', he says that people on the autistic spectrum can't accept things that don't make sense (like Greta Thunberg with "Climate change is a serious problem, we know how to fix it, but eh."). He illustrates the dissonance an autistic person feels at these things by playing "da da-da da da" on his guitar, and then stopping. It feels like ''that''.

* A cartoon in ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' by Roz Chast skewered the inflationary angle, portraying a barber shop with a sign reading, "Shave and a haircut, 200 bits."

* According to John [=McCain=]'s autobiography, Vietnamese people are unfamiliar with this ditty, and would tap back "shave and a haircut" again, so he and other American [=POWs=] would use it as a TrustPassword to hail each other through walls.

* Argentinian comic Carlos "Carlitos" Balá had this in his TV sketches as his signature greeting or knocking, using it each time he could. The first part, if not used for knocking, would be vocalized by him as "pa-pa-ra-ra-pa", and a chorus of childrens' voices would be heard responding with his last name: "Ba-lá!"

** In "Bug Out", the unit has bugged out (except for Hawkeye, Margaret and Radar) and see a shack they can use as a makeshift operating room. Upon hearing giggling (it's occupied by ladies of the night), B.J. knocks "Shave and a Haircut", then whistles "two bits".
* Played with in an episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. In the movie ''Film/TheAtomicBrain'', the antagonist knocks on a door to find out of two of the girls she hired were in the room. Mike quips "'Shave And A Haircut'! What do we do?"

* A non-humorous, punny example was used on an episode of ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': after the Cryptkeeper, dressed as a barber, snips someone's ear off, we hear the victim scream. The Cryptkeeper then holds up the severed ear, sings this and laughs.

* Pete Rugolo built an entire arrangement around the theme, creatively titled "Shave and a Haircut". It was a followup of sorts to his "Theme from the Lombardo Ending", which was built around the five-note figure which Guy Lombardo's orchestra often used to end its songs.

* In ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' episode "The Great Bank of England Robbery", Neddie, Eccles and Bloodnok are trapped underground. When tapping on the walls and receiving mysterious replies, Eccles taps out the first part and, in the silence that follows, ribs the listeners for expecting the second part, but is interrupted by the *Two Bits!* tap.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had it at the end of the Presidents Day assembly's song for "lesser" President.

* ''Theatre/HalfASixpence'', the 1965 Tommy Steele vehicle based on the Creator/HGWElls novel ''Kipps'' (filmed with Steele in 1967, revived without him in 2016), the chorus of the song "Flash Bang Wallop", about a Victorian wedding photo, ends with "Stick it in your fam'ly album!"

For laymen unfamiliar with musical terminology, "Shave and a Haircut" is the name of the familiar beat that goes "[[https://youtu.be/zWbjP_ahuB4 dun dun dun dun dun, DUN DUN.]]"

[[BuffySpeak For the laymen unfamiliar with musical terminology]], "Shave and a Haircut" refers to the beat that goes "[[https://youtu.be/zWbjP_ahuB4 dun dun dun dun dun, DUN DUN.]]"

* Used in classic style in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit?'', complete with the demonstration that an animated character ''must'', simply ''[[RuleOfFunny MUST]]'' [[ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre complete the line]] if "two bits" is omitted. Judge Doom knows how to use this to lure Roger out of hiding.

** In the movie on another episode, "Space Travelers" (or ''Film/{{Marooned}}'',) Joel & the 'Bots do the song in a riff following "Gregory Peck will be back in [for example] 'McKenna's Gold'!"

* Multiple iterations of the theme appear in the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross classic "Cloudburst." (Later covered notably by Barry Manilow, the New York Voices, and others.)

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}: Barley used to drum it on his dad's feet, blowing two raspberries for the "Two Bits" part.

* Known on ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' as "Shave and a haircut, no legs" being the jingle of the Guild of Barber Surgeons.
** Used as a secret knock ("The [[strike:Hairdressers]] Barber-Surgeon's Knock") in ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Making Money]]''.
** And naturally, at the start of the Music With Rocks In story ''Discworld/SoulMusic'', "Shave and a haircut, two pence" is the very first thing the drummer plays.