History Main / ThereWillBeToiletPaper

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-->'''Homer:''' Now we take some little squares of toilet paper and put them here, and here, and here ... don't worry, the blood will hold them on. And now, some aftershave! '''YEEEEEEAAAAAARGH!!! nnnnnnnnn!''' ''Son of a--!'' And that's how we shave.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "A Tale of Two Tables", Lincoln tries to prove he's "grown up" by attempting to shave. The scene then {{Smash Cut}}s to his face covered in toilet paper bandages.

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* ''Film/{{Jumanji}}''. Creator/RobinWilliams' character, who had been trapped in the game for over 20 years, starting as a child, shaves for the first time ever and comes out of the bathroom with pieces of bloody toilet paper stuck to his face.

* Mark Studdock in "That Hideous Strength" by C.S.Lewis cuts himself badly shaving and has to go to an important interview with a big glob of cotton wool stuck to his upper lip.

* Becomes a minor plot point in ''Literature/TheValleYOfFear'', where the butler had seen the dead man cut himself shaving to explain the presence of a small plaster on the corpse. [[spoiler:The corpse is in fact the would-be murderer, and the would-be victim chides Holmes for not looking under the plaster and seeing no cut, which would have been a dead giveaway.]]

* ''Series/KeepingUpAppearances'': Hyacinth has a habit of plucking Richard's arm when he is shaving.

** Sam Vimes in the novel ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'' is distracted and in a hurry, so cuts himself shaving. This is referenced later in the book where he's neglected to remove the tissue from his chin at the benefit, and a foreign diplomat asks if he had been injured while subduing a criminal.
** Also happens at the end of ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant''. After being in charge for a while, Fred Colon's sanity slips pretty far until Carrot comes back and begins issuing orders. He tells a relieved Colon to shave, who does so with such enthusiasm and vigor that he comes back with a few nicks on his face.

* On ''Series/{{CSINY}}, at the beginning of "Indelible," the series' 10th anniversary tribute to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Mac gets shaving cream on his ear, which triggers his flashback of Claire's last morning. He had done the same that day, and cut himself shaving, prompting his use of toilet paper to stop the bleeding.

* Happens to Lister in the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Future Echoes"... but he sees it in the mirror [[TimeTravel before it actually happens]].
* Parodied in ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture''. Lloyd Diffy was having trouble figuring out 21st-century razors and ended up with bits of toilet paper stuck to cuts all over his face, including his forehead.

* When ''Series/MythBusters'' took on "pyramid power", Tory agreed to shave for a month with a razor blade stored inside a pyramid for so-called sharpening. At the end of the month, he came out with bits of bloody paper all over his face.
* A DeletedScene from the ''[[Series/TheWestWing West Wing]]'' episode "Posse Comitatus" (which is about the president deciding to order the assassination of a foreign statesman who sponsors terrorists) shows the original, more {{Anvilicious}} teaser, in which Bartlet -- humming the [[SuspiciouslyAproposMusic "and victorious in war shall be made glorious in peace"]] song used later in the episode -- cuts himself shaving and dabs the blood off with a White House towel. The camera lingers on the image of blood smeared next to the Seal of the President before smash-cutting to the opening credits.

* One ''Series/{{CSI}}'' episode ends with a man cutting himself while shaving, which is funny but [[spoiler: if one would remember that killer has been using anti-coagulant before, and they didn't catch her in the end]]. He bleeds, saying that it looks bad. Makes it a sinister example.
* On ''Series/{{CSINY}}, at the beginning of "Indelible," the series' 10th anniversary tribute to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Mac gets shaving cream on his ear, which triggers his flashback of Claire's last morning. He had done the same that day, and cut himself shaving, prompting his use of toilet paper to stop the bleeding.
* In one later episode of ''Series/FamilyMatters'', Steve comes out of the bathroom with his face covered in bits of toilet paper. Eddie asks what happened to him, and Steve replies, "Oh, I was shaving, [[HiccupHijinks and I got the hiccups!]]"
* A [[GenderInvertedTrope rare example with a female character]] came in "Last Whiff of Summer," the fourth-season premiere of ''Series/TheMiddle''. In her attempt to gain more parental attention by [[GoodGirlGoneBad going bad]], Sue decides to shave her legs with her father's razor. [[SmashCut Cut to]] her sitting next to her father watching TV with bits of bloody toilet paper on her legs.
* Happens to Adama a lot in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''.
* In the ''Series/GetSomeIn'' episode "Kit," [[DrillSergeantNasty Corporal Marsh]] finds a straight razor in [[TheDandy Teddy boy Jakey Smith's]] coat during the National Service recruits' morning ablutions and threatens to put him on a charge for having an unauthorised weapon. Jakey claims that he was going to use the razor to shave (which, as he has just put a blade in a safety razor, is clearly false); Marsh calls his bluff and makes him shave with it. In the next scene, Jakey's face is covered with squares of toilet paper.
* Happens to Casey when he attempts to shave while hungover in the ''Series/FrontierCircus'' episode "Patriarch of Purgatory".
* ''Series/NewTricks'': In "The Sins of the Father," Gerry is shown cutting himself wile shaving multiple times. This shows how much the current case (which he has a personal stake in) is getting to him.

** In "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish", when Homer decides it's time to teach Bart how to shave, [[http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads//2012/10/homeshaving.jpeg he makes sure to show him how bits of toilet paper can be used to staunch the many, many little wounds that will result]].

** And, in "Weekend At Burnsie's", when Homer has to take medical marijuana, [[MushroomSamba Homer tries to shave while high]]. Large rainbows shoot out of his face.

** And his blood covers his fingers and his razor in a ''Series/DowntonAbbey''-esque theme in "Dangers on a Train".

* In an episode of ''Radio/HancocksHalfHour'', Tony Hancock is preparing for a date on which he hopes to strike a Beatnik pose when he cuts himself repeatedly while shaving. He arrives on his date but the woman thinks he looks like a thug. When he explains the tissue paper all over his face by saying, "They're razor cuts", she screams, "He admits it!".

* In the ''Series/GetSomeIn'' episode "Kit", [[DrillSergeantNasty Corporal Marsh]] finds a straight razor in [[TheDandy Teddy boy Jakey Smith's]] coat during the National Service recruits' morning ablutions and threatens to put him on a charge for having an unauthorised weapon. Jakey claims that he was going to use the razor to shave (which, as he has just put a blade in a safety razor, is clearly false); Marsh calls his bluff and makes him shave with it. In the next scene, Jakey's face is covered with squares of toilet paper.

* ''Series/NewTricks'': In "The Sins of the Father", Gerry is shown cutting himself wile shaving multiple times. This shows how much the current case (which he has a personal stake in) is getting to him.

* A [[GenderFlippedTrope rare example with a female character]] came in "Last Whiff of Summer," the fourth-season premiere of ''Series/TheMiddle''. In her attempt to gain more parental attention by [[GoodGirlGoneBad going bad]], Sue decides to shave her legs with her father's razor. [[SmashCut Cut to]] her sitting next to her father watching TV with bits of bloody toilet paper on her legs.

* A rare example with a female character came in "Last Whiff of Summer," the fourth-season premiere of ''Series/TheMiddle''. In her attempt to gain more parental attention by [[GoodGirlGoneBad going bad]], Sue decides to shave her legs with her father's razor. [[SmashCut Cut to]] her sitting next to her father watching TV with bits of bloody toilet paper on her legs.

* ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel''. A man tries to shave himself in the lunar shuttle's bathroom and cuts himself horribly. [[TooDumbToLive The shuttle is in the process of crash-landing on the moon at the time.]] True to the trope, he subsequently tries to apply aftershave, screams, and collapses. When last seen he is covered with toilet paper bandages.

* DistaffCounterpart version: A female character in the BodyHorror extravaganza ''Film/CabinFever'' shaving her legs while unknowingly exposed to [[ThePlague the flesh eating bacteria]]. Hilarity most certainly does not ensue.

* In ''Film/Firestorm1998'', Davis is shaving and cuts himself and sticks a piece of toilet papet on it. This is the last thing he does before Shaye sticks him with a SinisterShiv.

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* Parodied in ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture''. Lloyd Diffy was having trouble figuring out 21st century razors, and ended up with bits of toilet paper stuck to cuts all over his face, including his forhead.

* You don't see him actually shaving, but in ''Series/LoisAndClark'', when Clark temporarily loses his powers, he comes in to work covered in little squares of toilet paper. This is of course to be expected, since he usually shaves by blasting himself with lasers in the mirror, and is also unaccustomed to flesh that well, you know, can be cut.

* In an episode of ''Radio/HancocksHalfHour'', Tony Hancock is preparing for a date on which he hopes to strike a Beatnik pose, when he cuts himself repeatedly while shaving. He arrives on his date but the woman thinks he looks like a thug. When he explains the tissue paper all over his face by saying, "They're razor cuts", she screams, "He admits it!".

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' episode "Bachelor Daze", we flash back to Fred's first job as a bellhop at the Honeyrock Hotel; it was shortly after his father gave him his first razor, and the flashback begins with a shot of him with some bandages on his face.

* In ''Film/InOrderOfDisappearnce'', Nils cuts himself shaving and goes through the rest of his preparation for his award dinner with toilet paper stuck to his face, showing his general lack of familiarity with anything formal.

** In "Channel Chasers," Timmy and the gang end up in a parody of ''Series/BluesClues'' called "Clint's Hints." The Steve/Joe character, here named Jeff, claims he is a kid but has a shaving cut with a large piece of toilet paper on it.

** When Homer decides it's time to teach Bart how to shave, [[http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads//2012/10/homeshaving.jpeg he makes sure to show him how bits of toilet paper can be used to staunch the many, many little wounds that will result]].
--->Now we take some little squares of toilet paper and put them here, and here, and here ... don't worry, the blood will hold them on. And now, some aftershave! '''YEEEEEEAAAAAARGH!!! nnnnnnnnn!''' ''Son of a--!'' And that's how we shave.
** And, in the episode when Homer has to take medical marijuana, Homer tries to shave while high. Large rainbows shoot out of his face.