History Main / DidYouGetANewHaircut

* Done hilariously in the 1998 version of ''Film/MyFavoriteMartian'', after Lizzie eats the [[OneWingedAngel gum with the Venox XII alien]] and disposes of two {{Mooks}}.

** She also '''[[EatenAlive ATE]]''' one of the bad guys who were beating up Tim. BewareTheNiceOnes indeed.

* ''Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening''. After [=McCloud=] regenerates back into his younger self, he visits an old scientist friend of his who notices something different. "Have you had a facelift?"
** If you look closely, he actually DID get a new haircut.

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[[caption-width-right:350:To be fair, Moustachio the Thinkonium ''does'' have a moustache.]]

* ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'' has a scene where the former titular character shows off her collar to a friend who goes through a few such things ("You've had a bath") before noticing it.
* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''. Scuttle the seagull does this after Ariel has made her DealWithTheDevil and has ''legs and feet'' instead of a tail. Note that while he says this, '''[[FailedASpotCheck he is standing on her legs and leaning on her toes!]]'''

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Rarity's Mane gets ruined after Pinkie accidentally covers her and the bakery in crazy string and she ends up using remover potion on her mane. Near the end of the episode, Rarity develops a punk look. When she and Pinkie Pie meet again, Pinkie notices something different about her and asks she got a new hoof polish.
** Legend of Everfree has another example, where Gloriosa Daisy goes full-on NatureSpirit, complete with a total change in costume, skin color and hair. She's also ''levitating''. Snips and Snail still fail to notice any difference, save that she seems 'taller'.

-->-- '''[[RunningGag Various characters]]''' to [[TheProtagonist the Boss]], ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2''

* In ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2'', when Kristoff meets with Elsa once she returns from [[spoiler:saving Arendelle from the wave after recovering from her DisneyDeath]], he asks if she cut her hair or something. Elsa (who is now [[spoiler:wearing an elaborate white dress, has untied her hair, and looks happier than we have ever seen her]]) answers "or something".

* In the ''ComicBook/MortAndPhil'' comic "El antídoto" El Súper's head is transformed into one of a pig. Mort & Phil ask him if he had shaved his moustache or changing his tie and even being told of the fact, they still think he looks the same as always.

* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' with Flint ObfuscatingStupidity to cover his surprise at the Mayor's sudden [[TemporaryBulkChange weight gain]].

** Also in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer is unsubtly replaced with an emotionless German man, doing a bad impression of him. When Bart asks, he points out that he's wearing a new tie.
* A very similar joke was used in ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':

** The episode 'Squid Wood' has Spongebob making a puppet version of Squidward to replace the real one when he doesn't want to play with him. When Patrick comes up this conversation occurs:

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', a BadFuture is shown where Mandy has transformed herself into an enormous worm creature to be immortal, and has hundreds of Billy clones at the ready for when one is inevitably destroyed. Her hair is exactly the same, even on a worm creature, but upon awakening, each Billy asks "Did you change your hair Mandy?"

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' Cadet gets a space rock that cause him to become a tall, muscular daredevil. Dodgers can't tell what's different about him, asking if he got a new haircut or a new hat.

** Legend of Everfree has another example, where Gloriosa Daisy goes full on NatureSpirit, complete with a total change in costume, skin color and hair. She's also ''levitating''. Snips and Snail still fail to notice any difference, save that she seems 'taller'.

* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'', the first time [[TheDitz Captain Qwark]] sees [[EvilGenius Dr. Nefarious]] after the latter is turned into a robot, he says that there's something different about him and guesses that he changed his hair, despite Nefarious not having hair both before and after his transformation.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'', the cast is able to instantly recognize the player no matter what Warframe they're using, even though they looks radically different and can have entirely different powers and genders. This is on top of the fact that there are hundreds or thousands of these Tenno running through the system at any given time.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'': When Steven brings [[spoiler:Spinel]] to his house after [[spoiler:she gets her memories back]], Pearl and Amethyst understandably go on the defensive, but [[spoiler:the still-amnesiac Garnet]] cheerfully welcomes her back and asks if she changed her hair. (She ''has'' changed her hair, but only [[spoiler:as part of resuming her MadnessMakover "evil" outfit]].)

-> ''"You look different. Did you do something with your hair?"''

* ''Webcomic/CheckerboardNightmare'', [[http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/retro/20021101.shtml here]].
* [[http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/260 This]] ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' comic
* ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'' [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/skinhorse/series.php a particularly egregious example]], because Moustachio ''doesn't even have hair''.

%%* ''Real Life Fiction'' has it [[http://rlfcomic.com/?comic=20100328-jes-nes-cest-paw here.]]
* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''
** Faye does it in [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2536 this]] strip. (Claire just got her ears pierced.)
** In [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3478 this]] strip, Marten genuinely fails to notice that a seven foot battle robot who usually wears armour is now wearing a bright yellow sweater, and wonders if she's parting her hair the other way.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'': When Steven brings [[spoiler:Spinel]] to his house after [[spoiler:she gets her memories back]], Pearl and Amethyst understandably go on the defensive, but [[spoiler:the still-amnesiac Garnet]] cheerfully welcomes her back and asks if she changed her hair.

* ''Radio/BleakExpectations:'' When rescued by the Reverend Godly Fecund from a mob of Frenchmen, the Reverend sees nothing different about Harry Biscuit, who is at that point a ''dinosaur'' ([[ItMakesSenseInContext long story]]). The rev just says he thought Harry was wearing a different jacket.

-->'''Fry''': You look different. Did you get a haircut?
--> '''Bender's Head''': No! [[WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody I sold my body]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Vampirina}}'': In "Vampire Weekend," a magical pendant causes Vampirina and Poppy to switch lives, making Vee a human and Poppy a vampire. Demi, the household ghost, says the trope word for word, including making goofy guesses up to and including "...braces?"

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* ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'' has a scene where the former titular character shows off her collar to a friend who goes through a few such things ("You've had a bath") before noticing it.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' with Flint ObfuscatingStupidity to cover his surprise at the Mayor's sudden [[TemporaryBulkChange weight gain]].
-->'''Mayor''': It's me, the mayor.\\
'''Flint''': Oh. Uh, you look different. Uh...did you get...a new...haircut?\\
'''Mayor''': Yes, I did. Thank you for noticing.

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* In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire All-Consuming Fire]]'', the Doctor leaves [[GenderBlenderName Benny Summerfield]] in India, and picks her up again two months later:

* Subverted in ''Literature/NorwegianWood'' when Midori calls out Watanabe for being so lost in his thoughts and depressed that he does not notice her new haircut.
* Creator/DaveBarry mentioned a friend of his who was nearly ExiledTotheCouch when he failed to notice his wife had gone to the hairstylist. So this time, he proceeded to shower her with compliments on her new haircut when she returned, until she told him her appointment'd been cancelled and her hair was still the same.
* Inverted in one ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'' story where Marco gets a new haircut. Rachel wonders if it was chewed off by a wolverine, while Ax ''does'' notice the change but asks Marco if it's an Earth disease.
* In ''Literature/AnnoDracula'', Charles says this line to Kate Reed; she has actually become a vampire since the last time he saw her.

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* Played with in an episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''. Jenny really ''does'' get a horrible (and dramatically shorter) new haircut:
-->'''Harvey:''' You look different. Are those new earrings?\\
'''Jenny:''' Actually they are.\\
'''Harvey:''' People tell me I'm not perceptive.
* On ''Series/{{Friends}}'', when Chandler starts wearing glasses, he attempts to invoke this, but nobody seems to think that he ever DIDN'T wear glasses. Not his best friend of ten years, not his roommate of over five, not the woman he's in love with!

* In ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "All Happy Families...", AJ's friends shave his eyebrows off while stoned. It takes Tony a minute to catch on the first time he sees him.
-->'''Tony:''' ''(stares blankly)'' What's different about you?\\
'''Carmela:''' He has no eyebrows, Tony!

* There's a somewhat different example in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'', in the episode "It Pays To Advertise", when Mrs. Slocombe and Mr. Humphries have mannequins made of themselves, and Mr. Grainger mistakes the mannequin of Mrs. Slocombe for the real thing:
-->'''Mr. Grainger:''' Your hair's looking nice today, Mrs. Slocombe. ''(after a few moments)'' Alright, ignore me, you bad tempered old cow.

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* When Calvin from ''Comicstrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' transmogrifies himself into a tiger, he asks his dad if he notices anything different. His dad asks if it's a new haircut. Of course, Calvin's transmogrification is only in Calvin's mind, therefore his father couldn't see it even if he wanted to.
-->'''Calvin:''' Geez, did you go blind?! I'm a tiger!\\
'''Calvin's Dad:''' Oh, I thought you meant '''besides''' that.
* From ''BigTop'', the leader of the [[CircusOfFear Dark Tent Circus]] kidnaps Dusty and replaces him with a robotic clone. Upon seeing the bot, Wink asks, "Did you get a haircut or something?" Dusty-bot replies, "Tinted corrective lenses. For my corneas."
* Double subverted in one ''Comicstrip/FoxTrot'' strip. Paige asks her mother if she notices anything different, and when Andy says no, Paige goes on a mini-rant about how she's resolving to be a person of depth and substance. [[HypocriticalHumor That, and she trimmed her bangs.]]
* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'': Happens when Jeremy loses his retainer and becomes comically bucktoothed. Pierce was going to guess he had a new haircut.
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* On an episode of ''Series/HellsKitchen'', Chef Ramsay asked the three remaining contestants if they noticed anything different about him. New hair or a new jacket were guessed wrongly. (He was smiling for a change.)
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* ''Webcomic/PolkOut'', [[http://www.polkout.com/page92.htm here]].

* ''Real Life Fiction'' has it [[http://rlfcomic.com/?comic=20100328-jes-nes-cest-paw here.]]

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--> '''Bender's Head''': No! I sold my body.

-->-- '''[[RunningGag Various characters]]''' to [[TheProtagonist the Boss]], ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' [[note]]See example[[/note]]

-->'''Scuttle:''' There's ''something'' different about you, but I just can't [[VisualPun put my foot on it]]...
-->'''Sebastian:''' SHE'S GOT ''LEGS'', YOU IDIOT! She traded her voice to the sea witch and got legs. JEEZ, mon!
-->'''Scuttle:''' I knew that.

-->'''Mayor''': It's me, the mayor.
-->'''Flint''': Oh. Uh, you look different. Uh...did you get...a new...haircut?
-->'''Mayor''': Yes, I did. Thank you for noticing.

-->'''Tim''': (nervously) Did you do something with your hair?
-->'''Lizzie:''' (Still in alien form) Glad you noticed.

-->'''Harvey:''' You look different. Are those new earrings?
-->'''Jenny:''' Actually they are.
-->'''Harvey:''' People tell me I'm not perceptive.

-->'''Tony:''' ''(stares blankly)'' What's different about you?
-->'''Carmela:''' He has no eyebrows, Tony!

--> '''Calvin:''' Geez, did you go blind?! I'm a tiger!
--> '''Calvin's Dad:''' Oh, I thought you meant '''besides''' that.

* At the end of ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'', your character is immolated in a massive explosion to set up the character customization in the sequel--reconstructive surgery in a burn ward is, after all, the perfect time to change one's gender and/or race. Nobody has much trouble identifying you when the plot calls for it, as well. Yet no matter what design choices you make, the only remark about the change anyone seems to have is to ask if the character has "done something with [his/her] hair." Lampshaded at one point when your character pulls out his/her gun and cuts someone off by shouting, "I didn't do shit with my hair!"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDayMyButtWentPsycho'': In "Jurassic Fart", Deuce is licked by a giant tongue wearing Zack's coat (ItMakesSenseInContext) while asleep. Waking up and seeing the tongue, he mumbles "Did you do something with your hair? And your face?"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDayMyButtWentPsycho'': In "The Flushinator", Zack, Deuce and Elanor are fleeing from the Flushinator, who is pursuing Deuce. Zack says they have to hurry as their decoy won't fool the Flushinator for long. Cut to the Flushinator looking at the decoy--a drawing of Deuce stuck to a mailbox--and asking "Have you done something with your hair?".

-->'''Sebastian:''' SHE'S GOT ''LEGS'' YOU IDIOT! She traded her voice to the sea witch and got legs. JEEZ, mon!

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