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* ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' has this be a plot point that sticks for the rest of the game. Ichiban Kasuga has just gotten out of prison after doing an 18-year stretch and seeks out a salon to get his punch perm back. Problem is, the barber he goes to is an amateur who has to google what it is and completely screws it up, leaving him with a FunnyAfro that he's stuck with all game long.

* Happens in ''Film/Paddington2'' when Paddington tries to work in a barbershop. The haircutting victim ends up being the ''judge'' in Paddington's trial, and along with stealing the book, Paddington is charged with [[IncrediblyLamePun grievous barberly harm]]".

* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' has this happen to Rosa in the episode "The Crime Scene", rather surprisingly given her [[AloofDarkHairedGirl usual personality]]. It turns out that Rosa's girlfriend is in cosmetology school and [[IntimateHaircut needs someone to practice on]]. So she has an entirely new haircut in every scene. It serves both as a means to show the passage of time and to give levity to an otherwise serious LockedRoomMystery.

* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' has this happen to Rosa in the episode The Crime Scene, rather surprisingly given her [[BadassBitch usual personality]]. It turns out that Rosa's girlfriend is in cosmetology school and [[IntimateHaircut needs someone to practice on]]. So she has an entirely new haircut in every scene. It serves both as a means to show the passage of time and to give levity to an otherwise serious LockedRoomMystery.

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' this this UpToEleven in the ''Film/PumaMan'' episode. Inspired by the film's title character, Mike asks the [[{{Nanomachines}} Nanites]] to give him "the dry look". Unfortunately he offends the hairdresser and she goes a little too dry...as in, Mike has a desert on his scalp, complete with a miniature cactus. Crow thinks they could fix it if they just manage to redirect a river onto Mike's head, however.

-->'''Calvin''': LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO MY HAIR! IT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS CUT WITH A WEED-EATER!\\

-> '''Sister Diana''': You let Sister Carmen talk you into letting her give you a haircut?
-> '''Sister Floriana''': She said she had been practicing! She said she was following a book and everything! And she always had really nice hair, so I thought...
-> '''Sister Diana''': Of all the people to mess with your hair, you chose Sister Carmen!
-> '''Sister Pacifica''': I wouldn't trust her to shave me bald.
-->-- ''Fanfic/SisterFloriana'', [[https://www.wattpad.com/944840774-sister-floriana-the-haircut The Haircut]].

* An episode of ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'' involved a prank war between Kate and Miranda and one of Miranda's pranks involved putting green hair dye in Kate's shampoo.

Essentially every person has a bad hair day, it happens. Unfortunately for these characters their bad hair days just happen to be a whole new level of bad. The character will find themselves in a situation where they need a haircut...only for the haircut to go horribly wrong. But typically the bad haircut will only last one episode and [[HairReboot it'll be back to normal]] [[StatusQuoIsGod by the next episode]]. Usually overlaps with TraumaticHaircut except while the haircut will be traumatic for the victim, it's always PlayedForLaughs, so it could be seen as a subversion of the Traumatic Haircut. The situation quite often involves getting gum in the hair. Variations can include bad dye jobs which may or may not result in actual hair getting cut to solve the problem, or [[HumiliatingWager losing a bet]] and ending up with a shaved head or otherwise [[InvokedTrope intentionally]] bad haircut.

* A PlayedForDrama example occurs in ''Manga/WanderingSon''. The protagonist wishes to get a pixie cut she saw on a female model, however due to the fact she's [[{{transgender}} beginning puberty]] it turns out looking masculine instead of feminine. Nitori eventually begins growing it out but keeps it short.

* ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'': In the 1937 cartoon ''Modern Inventions''. Donald Duck walks up to the Barber Cut machine and examines it. He then sits down and uses his coin on a string to turn on the machine. He tells the machine "Give me the Works" which the barber cut machine does but not without flipping him upside down in the chair with his rear end sticking up and locked in the chair while his head is locked on on the shoe shiner. The machine mistakes Donald's rear end for his head and clips his tail feathers and puts the hot towel on his butt, while his head is getting painted with black shoe polish and shined. The machine finishes off by parting his butt and curling his tail into a pig tail. The barber machine puts the hat on Donald's rear end and sets him down and Donald put's his hat on the head, but Donald's last hat gets taken away from the Robot Butler and he throws a temper tantrum.

* In ''Film/ItTakesTwo'', Amanda spits gum into Clarisse's hair so the next time we see Clarisse, she has a truly awful hairdo.

* In ''It Takes Two'', Amanda spits gum into Clarisse's hair so the next time we see Clarisse, she has a truly awful hairdo.

* Shun from ''Manga/KimiToBoku'' asks his friends to cut a little of his hair off because of the summer heat. They end up cutting off a large chunk of it. He looks fine but is aggravated because his hair becomes wavy when short. Shun's displeasure doesn't stop him from keeping his hair short the rest of the series.

"You'd have done a better job cutting it yourself," Diana said.

* In a ''Kate & Allie'' episode, Jenny gets a haircut that is apparently so horrible she insists on wearing a hat everywhere. We never see it--thouugh her younger brother claims "She looks like Creator/MrT!", but it's apparently awful enough to be "[[GoryDiscretionShot censored]]" for Emma's video documentary after her family finally convinces her to take the hat off. Sure enough, she's back to normal by the next episode.

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' made a whole episode out of Jerry getting a bad haircut.

* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'': When Big Pete gets his introverted barber to talk to him, he gets distracted and shaves most of his head, leaving just some hair in front.

* Look through Website/YouTube. There are thousands of videos of people having their hair cut by friends.

* The 3rd episode of ''The Music/NewEdition Story'' miniseries [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nbyTkiNXIc re-enacts one]] [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer that actually happened]] to Music/BobbyBrown. During the filming of the "Every Little Step" music video, Bobby's barber got [[DistractedByTheSexy too wrapped up in trying to flirt with the girls in the video shoot]], and accidentally cut a chunk of Bobby's flat top off at an angle. with only a few minutes to go before the shoot, the barber hastily cut the rest to match the slant, resulting in Bobby's "''WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}''" haircut.