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6	[[caption-width-right:244:When you want to look ten years younger, there's [[{{Pun}} a small price toupee]].]]
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8	->''"When he was playing non-Bond roles in the '70s and '80s, he freely showed off his real hairline, but I guess they figured no-one would buy a James Bond with a receding hairline. But come on, who are they trying to fool? What, do they think nobody saw ''Film/{{Outland}}''? Do they think no one saw ''Film/FiveDaysOneSummer''? Do they think nobody went to see ''Film/{{Zardoz}}''? Uh... you know what, forget I said anything."''
9	-->-- '''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' on Creator/SeanConnery in ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''
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11	The ridiculously bad and often obvious toupee that adorns the head of a male character in the midst of a HollywoodMidLifeCrisis, to show off his vanity and reveal his desire to maintain a facade of authority or manliness. (It might not even have to be an incredibly bad toupee but one revealed comically to such an end.)
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13	While this is mainly a comedic trope, it might occasionally be PlayedForDrama if the character is wearing a cheap wig/toupee due to chemotherapy or a horrific accident that cost the victim his or her hair (like a fire or a chemical mishap).
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15	For other types of fake hair, see FakeHairDrama. Likely to end in a HairstyleMalfunction. Conversely, if someone's real hair looks like this, that's MistakenForFakeHair.
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18	!!Examples:
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22	[[folder:Advertising]]
23	* A series of Bud Lite commercials called "Real Men of Genius" once paid tribute to this with "Mr. Really Bad Toupee Wearer", noting how it couldn't be any more obvious if it came with a chin strap.
24	-->'''Singers:''' I don't think it's on straight!
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27	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
28	* ''Manga/HikaruNoGo'': There is an older male player (who is extremely sensitive about his lack of hair) in a go club that Shindou Hikaru constantly taunted for a while early on. He once put an empty stone container onto the man's head to grind around and gets the hairpiece caught a bit. This causes it to slip off, and the man to dash out of the building with tear-jets flying, but also his mother to scold him. The man shows up on another night in a different-styled wig but is only shamed again by Hikaru. Amusing indubitably, but the point was to further illustrate what a {{Jerkass}} the boy is at that point. The first time, though, is meant to teach the man a lesson on bullying other Go players, and the second time is somewhat by accident due to a SpitTake from Hikaru.
29	* Falling under the "desire to maintain a façade of authority" category is the principal of ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'s'' high school. He's bald from the start, with only that little bit of hair going from ear to ear behind his head. However, the sixth and final episodes of the series show that even ''this'' little bit of hair is in fact a toupee, to the utter shock of witnesses.
30	* Tián Xué-Fāng from ''Manga/FistOfTheBlueSky'' has a toupee made of ''metal'' that's so heavy, he has trouble moving around with it bolted on his head.
31	* ''Manga/MobPsycho100'': After Mob accidentally [[CloseCallHaircut shaves Teruki's head]] during their fight, he wears a ridiculously tall beehive wig until his own hair grows back. It nearly gets blown off his head at one point and half of it is cut off during an esper fight.
32	* ''Manga/SPYxFamily'': Before Operation Strix, Twilight's previous mission was to recover photographs proving a Minister in Westania's employ used a toupee.
33	* ''Manga/{{Haikyuu}}'': In the second episode, Kageyama hits Hinata in the face with the ball, and it flies straight to the vice principal's head, knocking his wig off, which lands on Daichi's head.
34	* ''Manga/PsychometrerEiji'': In chapter 1, Eiji tells Ryoko that he knows that the Haneyama is bald and that his hair is actually a toupe. This info sends Shima into a laughing fit. A couple of chapters later after the Moebius case was resolved, Eiji snatches Haneyama's toupe and plays catch Shokichi because Haneyama lost the bet they had (Eiji said that if he cleared Shokichi's name that he will show everyone that Haneyama is bald).
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37	[[folder:Comic Books]]
38	* ''ComicBook/TheDandy'''s (the comic, not the trope) ''Beryl The Peryl'' had her father's wig coming off as a running gag.
39	* One issue of ''Series/TheXFiles'' comic features a character with an obvious toupee to draw attention away from [[spoiler:the fact that he has a trepanning hole in his forehead, covered by a latex plug]].
40	* Francine's {{amazingly embarrassing\|Parents}} Uncle Maury, in ''ComicBook/StrangersInParadise''.
41	* In ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'', Clark finally delivers comeuppance to [[JerkJock Steve Lombard]] by surreptitiously setting Lombard's toupee on fire. Clark often quietly used his powers to make Lombard's pranks backfire in MediaNotes/{{the Bronze Age\|OfComicBooks}} but he was never quite this cruel.
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44	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
45	* There is a weeklong story involving Roger of ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' getting himself a bad toupee. His wife Andy is less than pleased:
46	-->'''Roger:''' Andy, I can't believe you don't like my hairpiece.\
47	'''Andy:''' Did I say I didn't like it?\
48	'''Roger:''' No.\
49	'''Andy:''' Then don't put words in my mouth.\
50	'''Roger:''' Fine. (''silence'') Andy, I can't believe you think my toupee looks like roadkill.\
51	'''Andy:''' Unkempt roadkill.
52	* Although Jon from ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' has only a receding hairline, he's had a couple incidents... Like the time he went swimming and there was an uproar when somebody yelled "Rat in the pool!". In Garfield's words, there are some places you just can't wear a chest toupee.
53	* This is the defining characteristic of ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' bad guy Rughead.
54	* According to one ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' strip, Ted Koppel wears one that's actually a rodent. Pig claims that he saw a small, pinkish hand emerge from said toupee and wave hello.
55	* ''ComicStrip/{{Mutts}}'': In one strip, Frankie asks Millie what she thinks of his new look, which is apparently a ridiculous Elvis Presley-style wig that doesn't even match his hair. Millie says it looks like he's wearing a dead rat on his head, only for the reader to see that the "wig" is actually Mooch the cat who was asleep on Frank's head, and he hadn't noticed.
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58	[[folder:Fan Works]]
59	* In ''Fanfic/MaFille'', just like in canon, Don Flamenco wears a toupee. In one chapter, it gets flung off while he is dancing with Carmen, much to his embarrassment. That same chapter explains that he wears it because he started losing his hair when he started [[AdaptationalGenderIdentity taking testosterone]].
60	* In ''Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation'' Counselor Troi says "I sense something terrible is about to happen" just before a stoned Commander Riker yanks off her wig. She runs off screaming, and Riker tries to slip the wig onto Picard's famously bald head while his back is turned.
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63	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
64	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', Victor Quatermaine's impressive head of hair is sucked up by the [=BunVac 2000=]. It is later replaced by a rabbit.
65	* In ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'', the Duke of Weasel Town ([[RunningGag it's Weselton!]]) wears a toupee that comes off whenever he makes a sudden movement or bends over.
66	* Principal Mazur in ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' wears a toupee, It gets knocked off a couple of times in the movie.
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70	* ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerDonuts'': At the end of their fight in Dandy Donuts, [[MadScientist Luther]] rips Cliff's toupee off the top of his head.
71	* A movie with Robert Downey Jr., Marisa Tomei, and Billy Zane called ''Film/OnlyYou'', where Zane's character enters a restaurant with flowing auburn locks and sharp manner of dress before making his move on the movie's LoveInterest (Tomei). Then the protagonist (Downey Jr.) turns up and gets into a scrap with him, during which his long flowing locks go flying off.
72	* In ''Film/ThePaperTigers'', it's revealed that Hing was wearing a wig and is actually completely bald when Carter snags it off of him in their fight.
73	* On the Creator/DCComics front, in ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'', we see Lex Luthor's array of wigs before we see his face to give us a sense of his vanity and we never see him without one on. Then when he is finally brought low by defeat by Superman and delivered straight to prison, the wig comes off at his moment of humiliation.
74	* Since the bad toupee or sudden reveal both lend themselves well to visual humor, it was a popular trope in silent movies.
75	** Creator/LaurelAndHardy would often make use of it, particularly when worn by their frequent supporting actor Jimmy Finlayson who would also wear a fake moustache for similar purposes.
76	** There's also the film ''Film/HaroldsToupee'' starring Louis Simon
77	** Also Creator/HaroldLloyd used it in the cliffhanger classic ''Film/SafetyLast'' where a mouse gets onto Lloyd's characters leg which he shakes off, drops down the side of the building, and knocks off the toupee of someone looking out of a lower window.
78	* Francis's hairpiece in ''Film/TheGoonies''. It's especially bad after the various times it gets knocked off his head and he puts it back on.
79	* In ''{{Film/Goodfellas}}'', Morris sells wigs for a living and praises their reliability in a commercial shown on TV. Seconds later his own wig can't endure the beating delivered by wiseguy Jimmy Conway, though.
80	* The Indian cricket official in ''Film/SaveYourLegs'' wears a ginger one that fools no one.
81	* ''Film/LiarLiar'' has a scene with Jim Carrey's character saying this to one of the board members of his company. It actually wasn't ''horrible'', but we still got this:
82	-->'''Fletcher Reede:''' Your hairpiece looks like something that was killed crossing the highway. I don't know whether to comb it or scrape it off with a shovel and bury it in lime!
83	* ''Film/JumpinJackFlash''. After being injected with TruthSerum Whoopi Goldberg's character tells her JerkAss boss what she thinks of him, culminating in her yanking the toupee off his head. Embarrassed, the boss steals a hat and rushes off. At the end of the movie, he turns up with his bald head, having clearly accepted that everyone knows so there's no point in wearing one.
84	* Used as a throwaway gag in ''Film/ScaryMovie3''. The psychic CreepyChild whom Cindy is caring for goes around Brenda's funeral service giving people cynical and mocking advice ("smoke all you want, you're gonna be hit by a car next week anyway"). He tells the guy with an obvious toupee that he's not fooling anyone.
85	* A RunningGag in ''Film/NothingInCommon'' is how Charlie (Hector Elizondo) tries wearing one bad toupee after another until he finally decides to go back to his natural bald look.
86	-->'''Lorraine:''' (''after Charlie has left because he's uncomfortable with her staring at his head'') That rug is the ''worst''! Do you think he realizes it?\
87	'''David:''' [[SarcasmMode He does now]].
88	* In the anthology film ''Film/BodyBags'', Richard in the "Hair" segment gets a really bad toupee to cover up his hair loss that his girlfriend and his hairdresser both dismiss as just making him look insecure.
89	* In ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'', one of Nicky "Rugrat" Koskoff's defining characteristics is his horrible toupee, which he seems not to be aware of to almost absurd levels of cognitive dissonance. Whenever anyone brings up how bad it looks, he furiously denies that it's a wig.
90	* Creator/NicolasCage's character from the [[SoBadItsGood infamous]] ''Film/{{Deadfall}}'' wears a pretty obvious one; in his final scene, he has a fight with the main character, who pulls the rug off his head and uses it as a distraction to kill him by [[CruelandUnusualDeath shoving his face into the fryer]].
91	* Chase [=McKinney=] in ''Film/NowYouSeeMe2'' has a pretty obviously fake mop of dirty blond curls that serve in part to differentiate himself from his [[AntiHero anti-heroic]] twin, Merritt. Merritt seems to think it's a weave instead of a toupee, but it's clearly not natural and nobody's fooled regardless.
92	* A [[GenderInvertedTrope rare female example]] in ''Film/{{Black Panther\|2018}}'' when [[ActionGirl Okoye]] is undercover with T'Challa and Nakia in South Korea; to cover her [[BaldHeadOfToughness impressively tattooed head]] she's wearing a jarringly-obvious wig and complains about how she can't wait to take it off again. When her cover is blown and a massive brawl/shootout breaks out, one of the first things she does is [[CombatPragmatist whip it off and throw it right into an attacker's face]].
93	* Rudy in ''Film/DISCO2017'' spends much of the movie wearing a wig.
94	* The court clerk's toupee in ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' short "Disorder in the Court" is repeatedly abused and shot after the boys mistake it for a tarantula.
95	* A recurring gag in ''Film/TakeMe'' involves people pointing out Ray's dodgy toupee.
96	* In ''Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation'', Uncle Lewis shows up for Christmas Eve dinner at Clark and Audrey's house. As Clark takes off his hat, his toupee sticks to it.
97	* Christian Winters in ''Film/ExtraOrdinary2019'' has severe pattern baldness that he hides with a wig, the only point where we see his bald head is before he falls to Hell.
98	* ''Film/YouAreSoNotInvitedToMyBatMitzvah'': As seen before Lydia's bat mitzvah, part of DJ Schmuley's pre-party preparation is putting on his toupee.
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102	* Mr Groat's hair in the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Literature/GoingPostal''. It may or may or be alive. It ''definitely'' moves. Some doctors once tried to put it in a cupboard, but it got out.
103	-->''There may actually be a man somewhere on whom a toupee works, but whoever that man may be, Mr Groat was not he.''
104	* The beginning of young adult novel ''Literature/NoMoreDeadDogs'' features main character Wallace Wallace's inability to lie. This included an incident of young Wallace letting his uncle know that his toupee looked like an animal had crawled on top of his head and died there.
105	* Mr. Krupp in ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants''. He sheds it when his Captain Underpants personality is activated. By contrast, his MirrorUniverse self prefers his baldness, and when Evil George and Harold activate his Captain Blunderpants personality, they give him a toupee to wear.
106	* Dr. Victor from ''Literature/DanShambleZombiePI'' wears a truly ''terrible'' toupee, which is all the more obvious in that he has no hair ''anywhere'' on his body, not even eyebrows.
107	* Geppetto from ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' wears a bright yellow toupee causing local kids to tease him and call him [[EmbarrassingNickname "Polendina"]] because it resembles a cornmeal mush of the same name. This feature about him tends to be left out of most adaptations.
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111	* In the TV adaptation[[note]]The original Swedish version, not the American adaptation which can be found here as ''Series/{{Backstrom}}''[[/note]] of Swedish author Leif G.W. Persson's [[Literature/{{Backstrom}} mystery novels]] featuring a DefectiveDetective named Evert Bäckström, at one point the vain and egotistic Bäckström wears a horribly unconvincing blond wig. Eventually a less-than-convinced public reaction persuades him to ditch the wig and go back to balding.
112	* Elliot Carlin, on ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'', a patient of Bob's, wears a piece. Just before Bob was about to conduct a group therapy session on live TV, the director gets on the PA and tells the stage manager to "get some more makeup on the guy with the toupee".
113	* ''Series/GetSmart''. In "Operation Ridiculous", a magazine writer is coming to do an article on CONTROL, so The Chief wears a toupee to give his organisation a "young and vigorous" look. He quickly gets annoyed at Max and 99 staring at the toupee, then the writer comes in and promptly labels him as the "middle-aged, toupeed Chief" for his article.
114	* Grantly Budgen in ''Series/WaterlooRoad''. The toupee is eventually destroyed in a hair salon accident.
115	* Part of the plot of the "Michael Ellis" episode of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Eric Idle is trying to return the ant he purchased from Harrod's and at one point is directed to the toupee department. All the salespeople in the department wear them, they all don't match, and the salespeople are blind to the fact.
116	* Special mention must go to the ''Series/AmazingStories'' episode "[[PunBasedTitle Hell Toupee]]", where the toupee is possessed and gives its wearer a compulsion to kill lawyers. This idea and the pun have been used elsewhere:
117	* ''Series/NightCourt'':
118	** An episode has a grade school principal wearing such a toupee as a plaintiff. The defendant is a disgruntled prodigy student who programmed the school gym's scoreboard to publicly announce that the principal wore a toupee. Upon hearing this, nobody in the courtroom could keep a straight face.
119	** Later in the episode, the kid stole said toupee off the principal's head. The principal started to call his toupee supplier to get a new one but Bull talked him out of it, saying a bald head drives women wild.
120	** Averted in another episode where Bull wins his choice of a free toupee and goes with the genuinely stylish (and indestructible) "Shatner Turbo 2000", which instantly turns him into a ChickMagnet.
121	* Showed up in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' when Marshall, having shaved some of his hair off in a brief fit of insanity, needed something to cover his head before going down the aisle on his wedding day. One of the guests at the wedding has one of these toupees that just might work, but, come hell or high water, the guy refuses to admit he's wearing a toupee at all. Eventually Barney [[RefugeInAudacity just snatches it off his head]]. However when Marshall puts it on it still looks obvious.
122	* There was a ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode where George got a toupee that went all over the place. Both he and Kramer thought it looked great, Jerry referred to it as George's 'hair hat', while Elaine took matters into her own hands...
123	-->'''Elaine:''' ''I DON'T LIKE THIS THING! AND HERE'S WHAT I'M DOING WITH IT!'' [throws it out Jerry's window]
124	* ''Series/RedDwarf'':
125	** This is played with in the episode "Out of Time", which featured the time-traveling epicure versions of the crew. Kryten, the android, looks exactly like what he is -- an android -- in the main series (justified because "humans have always found exact duplicates [[UncannyValley very disturbing]].") As an epicure, however, the new Kryten has to "blend in", and he shows up in a pale blue suit and a ridiculous toupee, which incidentally does nothing to conceal the rather cubic nature of his head. Later in the episode, when they must decide whether to fight their future selves because they hate everything they stand for, or give them what they want in order to survive, Kryten uses it as a justification for fighting:
126	--->'''Rimmer:''' Then I say fight... better dead than smeg.\
127	'''Lister''': Ye-ess. Cat?\
128	'''Cat:''' Better dead than sofa-size butt.\
129	'''Kryten:''' Better anything than that toupee!
130	** Also used in the episode "Kryten", where they pick up Kryten, but think that they are instead picking up three hot girls, when the ship's computer Holly is the one to "dress up" by donning a toupee, and again in the song "Tongue-Tied" which has the toupee on Holly's head again.
131	** In an early episode, Lister notes that mankind doesn't have the technology to create a toupee that doesn't get big laughs.
132	* Kevin wears one to Jim and Pam's wedding in ''Series/TheOfficeUS''.
133	* Several appear in ''Series/TheGoodies'' episode "Scoutrageous'' when Graeme and Bill are trying to earn their [[MeritBadgesForEverything Wig Spotter's Badge]].
134	* Principal Caplan in early seasons of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' has a toupee that would sometimes be knocked off as a running gag.
135	* In ''Series/{{Charmed\|1998}}'', Paige had to deal with a {{Jerkass}} coworker and she growled about her toupee and accidentally orbed it off of his head.
136	* Zacarias of Brazilian comedy group ''Os Trapalhões'' is bald, and uses a toupee that is generally spoofed or stolen.
137	* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''' Stanley Zbornak frequently wears one of these, at least in the early episodes. It is the source of great amusement for the women.
138	* In ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'' Alan Brady wore a bad toupee. At one point Laura gave this away on national TV, though really EverybodyKnewAlready.
139	* In the "Police Officer" episode of the British {{Mockumentary}} series ''Series/PeopleLikeUs'', the police captain is wearing such an obvious and horrible toupee that the documentarian has trouble keeping a straight face -- especially when the captain uses several hair-related [[DoubleEntendre Double Entendres]] in the course of discussing the life of a police officer.
140	* On the "Advanced Gay" episode during the third season of ''Series/{{Community}}'', Pierce's father Cornelius wore an ivory toupee, due to regular toupees being made from the hair of "godless Orientals". The ivory hairpiece, quote, is the only way to be assured of true follicular purity while still identifying oneself as a man of means.
141	* Mr Bronson in ''Series/GrangeHill''. He strangely stopped being a complete bastard the day he had to send it to the cleaners.
142	* The classic ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Revelation of the Daleks" has Mr. Jobel, the sleazy head embalmer of a funeral home planet. [[spoiler:As he dies, he falls onto his back and his toupee falls open like a clamshell.]]
143	* An ObligatoryJoke in spoofs of Creator/WilliamShatner in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. For instance, Creator/JimCarrey did a skit for ''Series/InLivingColor'' in which Captain Kirk's toupee flipped over his face with every ScreenShake.
144	* On ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle,'' Lois gets fed up with her boss and quits. As she walks out of his office, she tosses his toupee to her shocked coworkers and states "Velcro. I win the pool."
145	* ''Series/{{Danger 5}}''. Used as HairyHammerspace by the President of the World to hide his SexySecretary. It's no more insane than [[SurrealHumor anything else that happens in the series]].
146	* A slightly odd aversion crops up as the B-plot to an episode of ''Series/LondonsBurning'' when Sicknote goes to work in one. It's actually a ''very'' convincing one, to the point where you can only tell because he was bald in previous episodes, but the rest of Blue Watch -and his wife- still find it utterly hilarious. [[TheChewToy Poor guy just can't catch a break, can he?]]
147	* ''Series/TheCreatives'' features absent-minded manager Jim Haldane, whose hair may or not be an extremely bad wig... though he does get it cut.
148	* ''Series/CitizenKhan'' has Mr Malik wearing one which Mr Khan tries not to draw attention to. When he first sees him he asks if he can take his hat, then realises he's not wearing one, later Mr Khan says he knows some local bigwigs. Finally when Mrs Malik gets arrested for assaulting a Police Officer [[HenpeckedHusband Mr Malik]] says he doesn't think he needs to do anything to which Mr Khan says [[FreudianSlip "Toupee"]] before correcting it to Touché.
149	* One of the odd products Mark Williams' salesman character attempts to peddle to Granville in ''[[Series/OpenAllHours Still Open All Hours]]'' is a range of dodgy toupees for the customer too embarrassed to consult a hair loss professional but who might impulse buy one at the counter of his local shop.
150	* The ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' episode "Seal Hunter" features a guest character with a rather atrocious...''something''...living on his head. The team spends half the show making fun of it.
151	* ''Series/FullerHouse'': Steve wears one in "Save The Dates," in an attempt to recapture his glory days in high school. Also a CallBack to the Pilot, when he mentions he lost half his hair in his divorce.
152	* In ''Series/HillStreetBlues'': Lt. Ray Calletano arrives at the precinct wearing one, thinking it makes him look younger. He proudly relates this to Capt. Furillo, who tries in vain to keep a straight face. Later, some gang members start a fight, and Calletano helps to break it up, resulting in his toupee halfway ripped off and sticking straight up in the air.
153	-->'''Calletano:''' ''(unaware)'' What?? What are you all laughing at??
154	-->'''Gang Member:''' Hey man, better put the top down, it looks like rain!
155	* One product featured on ''[[Series/WorldsDumbest World's Smartest Inventions]]'' is a visor that makes the wearer look like he has a [[Franchise/StarTrek tribble]] on his head.
156	* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': Frasier considers wearing one for a date when he and Lilith are estranged, but Sam mercifully manages to talk him into going ''au natural''. After they leave, Woody finds the hairpiece left in the washroom sink and assumes it's a giant rat.
157	* Mr. Tudball from ''Series/TheCarolBurnettShow'' has a rather obvious toupee. It occasionally gets knocked off during his sketches.
158	* ''Series/TheMuppetShow:'' Lewis Kazagger is a parody of sports-newscaster Howard Cosell, so naturally in one episode it's revealed he wears a slicked-down toupee when it jumps off his head and joins [[ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext a wig race.]]
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162	* In the music video for ''Music/{{Genesis\|Band}}'' song "[[Music/GenesisAlbum Illegal Alien]]", Phil Collins wears a toupee that looks like a black mop head and doesn't match his (much lighter) hair. He doffs it for the camera when getting a photo taken.
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166	* Wrestling/KurtAngle's head was shaven after he lost a hair vs. hair match to Wrestling/{{Edge\|Wrestler}} at ''Judgment Day'' 2002. He came back to the next TV taping wearing an incredibly shitty toupee held in place by wrestling headgear and insisted that his hair had regrown overnight. It was only a matter of time before Wrestling/HulkHogan pulled it off during a match, causing Angle to panic and lose. Angle got his revenge, defeating Hogan by submission (a rare feat) at ''King of the Ring'' 2002. This victory resulted in Kurt regaining his confidence and ditching the toupee for good.
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170	* Creator/BobNewhart did a routine about a man trying to return a toupee his wife bought him after it fell off into the cheese dip at a party while he was trying to put some on a cracker.
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174	* Frank Sahwit in the first ''Visualnovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' game. It gets thrown into Phoenix's face during his VillainousBreakdown. Also notable is his 'freak out' face, where the toupee jumps up for a moment of its own accord. He returns in [[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Gyakuten Kenji 2]] to throw it at Miles Edgeworth in the second case.
175	* Don Flamenco from the ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' series wears a toupee. Knocking it off during a match against him will cause him to [[BerserkButton go berserk]] and become [[TurnsRed much more aggressive]].
176	* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': one of the [[CosmeticAward unlockable hats]] for the [[HuskyRusskie Heavy]] is a Dodgy Toupee called the "Coupe D'isaster".
177	* In the Summer Games version of ''VideoGame/OfficeJerk'', the Jerk wears one which you can knock off with some of the heavier items.
178	* In ''VideoGame/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego'', a few of the crooks in Carmen's gang wear wigs/toupees with witnesses commenting something like "His hair almost looked real... almost."
179	* The butler Sebastian from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'' is suggested to wear a toupee. In a comedic scene, Lumina gets upset when she learns this.
180	* GT Blitz in ''VideoGame/JakXCombatRacing'' wears one and doesn't take too kindly to anyone who messes with it, as Pecker himself learned the hard way. [[spoiler:It's actually to cover up the flame tattoo on his head and his identity as [[BigBad Mizo]].]]
181	* ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfWillyBeamish'' begins with the school principal, Mr. Frick, being relieved of his toupee by Willy's pet frog Horny. If you get sent to his office during the resulting detention, he demands it back; it looks very poorly laid on his head.
182	* Daijiro Saigo from ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'' wears a pretty obvious one, especially when you consider he was completely bald in ''[[VideoGame/Yakuza4 4]]''. Not only that, but Akiyama can knock it off no problem, leaving him scrambling to put it back.
183	* Dean Delmona from ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'' wears one that barely covers the poor man's head, making it no secret that he's bald. [[spoiler:What gives Don Paolo away that he was disguised as Delmona is that he thought the hair was real, thus gave his disguise white hair where the toupee would be.]]
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187	* In the first episode of ''WebAnimation/LesKassos'', not-Han Solo wears one, as revealed when his father-in-law (not-Darth Vader) moves it with telekinesis.
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191	* There's an example in ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'', with the punchline "Toupee" (as the speaker scored the winning touch in a duel, when one traditionally says "Touche", while simultaneously removing the wig).
192	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the principal of Moperville North has a toupee that isn't too bad in and of itself, but when combined with the rest of his look, it makes him look like Hitler. Ellen [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-09-27 told him so]] and later he ditches it and goes with a comb-over instead.
193	* After having his head shaved during his first fight with Mob, Teruki Hanazawa from ''Webcomic/MobPsycho100'' wears a ridiculous beehive hairdo wig, affectionately known as "The Haystack," for the 7th Branch Infiltration arc. It gets sliced in half near the climax, making it look more like his original hairdo, and he eventually ditches it for a new style altogether when his hair grows back.
194	* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', a newsman has the toupee sucked off his head by his interviewee with a reverse-thrust hairdryer. Someone from offstage yells "Fresh scalp-cat to stage 3!"
195	* In comic 126 of ''Webcomic/UnwindersTallComics'', Unwinder notices Dr. Minivan not wearing his wig. Turns out lice now live inside the wig and became sentient because of Dr. Minivan's drug testing.
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199	* ''WesternAnimation/FiftyFiftyHeroes'': Mr. Brick's toupee isn't even of the same color as his remaining hair.
200	* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode [[Recap/DuckTalesS1E4WhereNoDuckHasGoneBefore "Where No Duck Has Gone Before"]], [[CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth Courage's]] wig falls down when Launchpad starts calling him out.
201	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
202	** Despite Matt Groening hating this trope (it was the reason why he didn't want Principal Skinner to have one), ''[[HalloweenEpisode Treehouse of Horror IX]]'' has a segment called "Hell Toupee" where Homer gets hair implants from the scalp of the recently executed Snake. Not only does the scalp contain its originator's murderous intent, it shares his SurferDude accent.
203	** In "Homer Defined", Mr. Burns calls up the news station to dissuade "rumors" of an impending meltdown. A [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130712194540/simpsons/images/a/a0/Homer_Defined_24.JPG stock photo]] of Burns shows him wearing an obvious toupee. Not only is it blue, which obviously does not match his currently grey hair, Burns' real hair was originally ''red''.
204	** Despite his clear misery over his baldness, Homer has never bothered with wearing a toupee. This is parodied in one episode where Mr Burns and the Rich Texan are engaging in a scavenger hunt, one of the items being "Homer Hairs". After both of them pluck off Homer's remaining hairs, Homer runs into a nearby hair salon and buys a wig ''that looks exactly like his own bald scalp, complete with the now missing hairs''.
205	** One of Bart's blackboard punishment lines is "The principal's toupee is not a Frisbee."
206	** During a science fair, Nelson has a "wig detector" that's just a bunch of stuff taped together and Nelson himself makes beeping sounds while pointing the "detector" at whatever he believes to be a wig. When Superintendent Chalmers shows up wearing a wig that doesn't match his receding hairline, Nelson makes beeping noises at it until Chalmers removes the wig. Nelson then makes beeping noises at the receding hairline until Chalmers removes it as well.
207	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E18AFriendInDeed "A Friend in Deed"]], Cranky Doodle gets one from Pinkie Pie after she accidentally demolishes his original hairpiece. Though he completely loves it. In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E9SliceOfLife "Slice of Life"]], Cranky again finds himself bald just as he's about to take his wedding vows with [[spoiler:Matilda]]. [[spoiler:His friend Steven Magnet, a sea serpent, lends a hand by lopping off half of his mustache to enable him to improvise, mirroring what Rarity did for Steven himself in the second half of the pilot.]]
208	* Gargamel wears a wig on his date with Evelyn the enchantress which immediately falls off his head as he enters her house, though his date doesn't really notice, in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "Gargamel's Sweetheart".
209	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Dr. Scratchansniff ends up wearing a rather obvious toupee when he went on a date at the drive-in. Made even funnier seeing that it appeared to be several sizes too small for his immense head. When the Warners come in to crash his date, Yakko, at one point, comments, "By the way, something died on your head."
210	* ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'' has Mayor Manx, who wears a toupee that doesn't even match his hair color, and will frequently fly off.
211	* Steve in ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'' is revealed to be wearing a toupee in season 1 when a gust of wind blows it half off his head, forcing him to admit that he went bald in early puberty. Naturally, the entire cast being what it is, mercilessly mock him for it, and Malloy flushes the toupee down the toilet.
212	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' has Hoss Delgado mock Billy's principal for this trope, stating that all that's lacking is a jaw strap to make it even more obvious. Unusual for this trope, it's not revealed whether or not it actually is a toupee or not.
213	* The first season's intro for ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' has Jay exit his apartment with a bad toupee on his head, only for a bird to swoop down and steal it immediately.
214	* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', Mayor White's toupee tends to come off at times.
215	* In the 2006 revival of ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'', the villain Ronaldo Rump covers his bald head with a huge toupee, being a parody of Donald Trump.
216	* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'':
217	** In "[[Recap/RugratsS2E8FamilyReunionGrandpasDate Grandpa's Date]]", Grandpa Lou doesn't want to seem old when he meets Morgana, so he wears a black toupee, despite the fact that the hair on the sides of his head, and his moustache, are gray. Morgana even knows it and asks him to take it off at the end.
218	** The episode "[[Recap/RugratsS2E21FeedingHubertSpikeTheWonderDog Feeding Hubert]]" features a rare female example of this when a news reporter's wig is knocked off during a trash avalanche started by the babies, revealing to the neighborhood that the woman has about as much hair on her head as an egg does. There's probably a reason why she's referred to as "the one with the hair".
219	** In the B-Plot of "[[Recap/RugratsS6E6BakingDilHair Hair!]]", Lou is visited by Roy Davis, an old friend of his, but is envious of Roy because Roy still has all his hair and he's lost the hair in the upper part of his head. He tries to one-up Roy by wearing a toupee, but his plan is compromised when Tommy takes it following some trickery from Angelica in the A-Plot. Dil then pulls off Roy's toupee, revealing Roy to be bald as well.
220	* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'' sees Griffin Rock's mayor Luskey wear one--and much like the aforementioned Mayor Manx, it doesn't even match his real hair (it being a darker brown than his real hair) and will often come off. Season 4 revealed that his brother is bald, too, but has better taste in toupees.
221	* In the ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'' episode "Barrel, Barrel, Who's Got the Barrel", Bluster Kong, who normally has a tiny combover parted down the middle, tries to impress Candy by getting a "Banana Flip", an over-the-top drooping spike of hair. Candy wasn't impressed, and later the whole mess was eaten by Klaptraps.
222	-->'''Klaptrap 1:''' You know what I hate most about hair?\
223	'''Klaptrap 2:''' You eat a whole headful, and half an hour later you're hungry again!
224	* ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' had this happen in the ''Super Santa'' short "Naughty", where the villain Elmer Scrooge, a descendant of [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Ebenezer Scrooge]], wore an obvious powdered wig over his bald head and ended up losing it after he's defeated and put in jail.
225	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Quagmire is revealed to be bald in one episode when he loses his toupee at a baseball game while fighting over a stray ball with Brian and the embarrassing moment being caught on the jumbotron and ends up on the local news. He briefly tries to embrace his baldness and "bald culture", which apparently includes things like basement C.B radio and using a radar gun to catch speeding cars in the neighborhood, but everyone thinks he's become so annoying he decides to get a hair transplant from Dr Hartman and returns to his original personality.
226	* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Mr Wink of the villainous duo Mr Wink and Mr Fibb has one made from his own preserved original hair, which apparently fell out at ''age 14!'' He only puts it on once in the show though.
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