History Main / MustacheVandalism

* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': In the episode "The Split", Fat Doc and Slim Doc [[FeudEpisode have an argument over them accidentally hitting each other trying to chase Lamput]], and they go their separate ways. Later in the episode, a picture of Fat Doc and Slim Doc with the former having facial hair doodled on him can be seen in Slim Doc's house.

Decorations can include mustaches, beards, devil horns/tail, blacked-out teeth, spiky hair or the arrow through the head. If they especially hate the person, it may be a [[GodwinsLaw Hitler-type mustache, accompanied by swastikas.]]

-->-- '''Daffy Duck''', [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes "Daffy Doodles"]]

* The cover to {{Music/Devo}}'s outtake compilation ''Something Else For Everybody'' is pretty much just a pseudo-vandalized version of the artwork to their album ''Something For Everybody''. The original cover photo is a woman with her eyes closed, about to bite into a candy shaped like the band's trademark "energy dome" hats - the ''Something Else For Everybody'' art adds the word "Else" and an arrow above the title and the band's signatures, and also blacks out one of the woman's teeth and adds a black pupil to one of her closed eyes.

** The gag appears in "One Droopy Knight", where a dragon defaces a picture of the princess Droopy wants to marry.

* ''Webcomic/ZiggyPigAndSillySeal2022'': One of Ziggy's schemes is to dress up as ComicBook/SpiderHam and deface a giant poster of The ComicBook/{{Avengers}} in the middle of Times Square.

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* In the ''VideoGame/{{Glider}} PRO CD'' house "Art Museum," you can draw a mustache, goatee and glasses on a self-portrait of Peter Paul Rubens--for points!

[[caption-width-right:349:[[CallBack "Who puts a picture frame]] [[LampshadeHanging on a window?"]]]]

* After being sorely tempted by native girl Wednesday, ''Film/LtRobinCrusoeUSN'' pulls out his picture of his fiance, Jane--only to find that the native girls have defaced it with a mustache and goatee (or maybe it's a [[Creator/DickVanDyke Van]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Dyke]]?).

* A 1990 Yellow Pages commercial ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djEcmrA-y1Y the one with the French polishers]]) shows a painting defaced this way.

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCfMoUSm2lQ this Froot Loops commercial,]] Toucan Sam paints a picture of [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Yoshi]] for Mario, who in turn, paints a mustache on it.

* ''ComicBook/{{Rocky}}'': During a Swedish election season in the mid-2000's, Rocky and Rippo are walking through a park and comment on the various candidate posters, with Rocky pointing out the cliche of drawing a gap tooth on posters like the one they're looking at, only for Rippo to point out that this particular politician actually ''has'' a gap tooth in real life, and it's not a case of vandalism. Rocky decides that this is genius, and that said politician should grow a Hitler moustache and have devil horns attached to his forehead just to be one step ahead on any future would-be poster vandals.

* In a GoldenAge Franchise/{{Batman}} story, Dick Grayson was randomly doodling mustaches on photos in the newspaper. Seeing one of Dick's doodles makes Batman [[PhotoDoodleRecognition realize that the thief he has been chasing is actually a European playboy with a fake mustache]].

* In one ''Comicbook/{{Simpsons Comics}}'' story, random posters around Springfield start showing up with moustaches drawn on them, and naturally El Barto is blamed. Bart is innocent of this particular crime, so he and Lisa try to track down the real culprit. It turns out to be [[spoiler:Rod and Todd Flanders, who didn't realise they were doing anything wrong; they just wanted everybody to look as handsome as their dad]].

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1759907/43/Death-is-a-Blessing Death is a Blessing]]'' Harry gets so fed up with Mrs. Black's portrait that he draws a padlocked zipper over her mouth and uses wandless magic to make it a permanent part of the portrait.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4194231/1/Pretty-Kitty Pretty Kitty]]'' Fred and George drew a mustache on Mrs. Black's portrait and she screamed for two days until it was removed.

* In ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'' Paul does this to a clay bust, then accessorizes it with a top hat. See it at 2:41 in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYBECKl0zFo this video.]]

* One scene in ''Film/{{Flubber}}'' has two chunks of Flubber fall into an inkpot, then paint a replica of the Mona Lisa on the desk. They finish it off by giving her a long thin mustache.
* In the Creator/CharlieChaplin short film ''Film/TheAdventurer'', Charlie plays an escaped convict. At one point he defaces his own wanted poster with a massive beard and moustache so that it looks just like TheHeavy.
* ''Film/TheLittleRascals'' had an episode with Alfalfa as a crooner and Spanky as his agent. A big talent show is coming up and Butch pays Spanky a visit. As he and Spanky talk, Butch takes the picture Spanky has of himself and gives it a black eye and blacks out some of the teeth. The purpose of this is to intimidate him into getting Alfalfa to drop out of the contest, Butch heavily implying that he'll make Spanky look like the picture if he doesn't.
* One of the first ''Film/FootballFollies'' clip shows/specials featured this in the bumpers, done to stills of a player. One has a pre-defaced image, followed by it being 'shaved' off quickly!
* In ''Film/TheBadAndTheBeautiful'', when the trio arrives at the Shields lot, Georgia draws a goofy mustache on the logo at the front gate. It's later revealed to be a CallBack to when Shields drew a mustache on a picture of her father in an effort to snap her out of her grief and self-pity.
* ''Film/NowYouSeeIt2005'': When angry at Danny, Allison spends her time defacing photos of him, giving him a mustache, goatee, and stupid glasses.
* ''Film/CatchUsIfYouCan'': On one of the Meat for Go ads, someone has drawn glasses and a beard on model Dinah's face, which a worker has to clean off. Later, Dinah draws glasses, a mustache, and bad teeth on her own poster.

** The whole school is summoned before the headmaster, when it is discovered that somebody drew a moustache on the portrait of UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher above the headmaster's desk, and wrote "three million unemployed" on her cleavage.

* In ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', Edmund draws a mustache on a stone lion. It's portrayed as malicious rather than funny, since he ''knows'' that it [[TakenForGranite used to be a real lion]], and in fact, thinks it used to be [[CrystalDragonJesus Aslan]].

* In ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'', Nanny Ogg kills some time by drawing mustaches on the Instructive Diagrams in one of Verence's books on "marital arts". It's hinted that Verence thereafter interprets the diagrams as requiring him and Magrat to [[ComicSutra wear false mustaches while having sex]].

* In a ''[[Literature/SweetValleyHigh Sweet Valley Twins]]'' book, Jessica and Elizabeth become rivals when they run for class president. ''Elizabeth'' is the one to invoke this by ruining the posters Jessica has made for her campaign by drawing a mustache over all of her pictures. Although she's doing this in retaliation for Jessica taking ''her'' flyers and throwing them into the school fountain, Jessica actually ''didn't'' do that, so Elizabeth's actions end up looking especially malicious.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'' featured a segment where Muppet cowboys compare a WantedPoster of Cookie Monster with the actual Cookie Monster. When their suspicion peaks, Cookie Monster distracts them long enough to draw a mustache on the poster. The cowboys notice the disparity, and apologize to Cookie Monster for suspecting him. Cookie Monster amiably tips his hat ... and lots of stolen cookies tumble out. [[Mayhem Ensues]].
* In an episode of ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'', the cast gets issued their school yearbooks. Gordo rhetorically asks his friends what the first thing anyone does with their new yearbook is. Miranda and Lizzie say it's to draw a mustache on the gym teacher.

* ''Series/GrangeHill'': The pupils use putty on a gallery of the teachers, giving Mr Keating a moustache, and Mr Baxter horns.

* In one of the sketches in the British comedy series ''Series/TheSketchShow'', Ronni introduces her boyfriend Lee to Karen by showing her a picture of him, which has a red mustache, red glasses and red hair doodled over it. Karen asks her why she did that, but it turns out that's what Lee really looks like.
* In the ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "The Mind and the Matter," Archibald Beechcroft draws a mustache on a poster of a woman in a desperate attempt to amuse himself in a world where he has made all the people disappear.

* In the opening intro to ''Series/LazyTown,'' Trixie can be seen drawing a moustache on one of Mayor Meanswell's posters.
* In ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', Kara Thrace gave her surrogate father Bill Adama a birthday card with a photo of herself, "proving" their relation by jokingly drawing a mustache and a pair of glasses on her own face.
* In the ''Series/{{Shoestring}}'' episode "Listen to Me," Eddie hears that a rapist and murderer had a mustache and glasses. He draws a mustache and glasses onto a police sketch in the newspaper to help identify the man.
* Doctor ''Series/{{House}}'' once [[https://i.imgur.com/XkYbVlM.jpg enhanced a poster featuring his Jewish underling with hair parted on the right and a little square moustache]]. In front of said man (and his colleagues). Then asked him whether it was "Inappropriate? You know, because of the Jew thing..."
* One episode of ''Series/YoungDracula'' has the Count repeatedly draw on a picture of Ingrid. This backfires later in the episode when he summons her to be introduced to a suitor she has no interest in, only for her to show up with an extremely ugly face thanks to a Halloween makeup kit. In a panic, the Count pulls out a photo of her to show the suitor what she really looks like... only to discover it's the same one he kept drawing on, which doesn't look any better.

* In another Aragones comic, a criminal sees his image on a WantedPoster, so he quickly goes home and puts on glasses and a fake mustache. However, some kid draws glasses and a mustache on the poster, so when the criminal goes out again, he's arrested.

* The cover to {{Music/Devo}}'s outtake compilation ''Something Else For Everybody'' is pretty much just a pseudo-vandalized version of the artwork to their album ''Something For Everybody''. The original cover photo is a woman with her eyes closed, about to bite into a candy shaped like the band's trademark "energy dome" hats - the ''Something Else For Everybody'' art adds the word "Else" and an arrow above the title and the band's signatures, and also blacks out one of the woman's teeth and adds a black pupil to one of her closed eyes.
* "By the Monument" by Music/MaximoPark implies it:
--> Defacing pictures of famous people on the train...

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
** Garfield [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1994/ga940428.gif does this to a picture of Jon]], and when Jon demands Garfield fix it, Garfield draws a mustache on Jon's face as well.
** In another strip (September 29, 1999), Garfield proudly proclaims "I just finished drawing a mustache on every picture of Jon in the house!" The next panel sees Jon stick his mustachioed head in:
--->'''Jon''': "I just drew a mustache on my face!"\\
'''Garfield''': "Troublemaker!"

* Played with in one ''ComicStrip/{{BC}}'' strip. A character encounters a campaign poster for a bearded caveman, so he vandalizes it by ''erasing the beard''.

* ''VideoGame/TheRoomTheGame''. If you go into rooms when you aren't supposed to you can see weird things happening, like Mark drawing a mustache on Johnny's picture.
* In ''VideoGame/PunchOut Wii'', Aran Ryan's introduction video has him doodling a moustache on a poster of Little Mac.
* In ''VideoGame/JustCause2'', you can do this to billboards of Baby Panay.
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Glider}} PRO CD'' house "Art Museum," you can draw a mustache, goatee and glasses on a self-portrait of Peter Paul Rubens--for points!

* An EasterEgg in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon Crystal]]'' has the player discover some graffiti in the Celadon apartment building and doodle a mustache on it.
* Throughout ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'', Bentley keeps a photo of [[spoiler:his girlfriend Penelope]] on his binocucom. After the events of Episode 4, the photo is vandalized with a mustache and devil horns to signal [[spoiler:Bentley's newfound hatred of Penelope when they break up following her SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome]].

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', the world quest "Loa Your Standards" in Dazar'alor involves you putting mustaches on the Raptari druids' idols of their loa, Gonk.
* In ''VideoGame/NeighboursFromHell'' drawing a mustache and devil horns on a portrait with a marker is one of the pranks you can play on Rottweiler.

* ''VideoGame/JetpackJoyride2'': One of the monitors at the beginning of Legitimate Research stages has a portrait of Barry with a mustache and horns sloppily painted on it.
* In ''Andy Volcano'' Andy's grandfather drew various accessories such as glasses and a bra on a couple of native statues.
* One mission in ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' is given by Pickle, to draw mustaches on all the wanted posters of himself.

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In ''Walt Disney's Words That Tell You About Things'', WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck dreams about the kind of duck he's glad he's not. One of his dreams depicts him as a spiteful practical joker who vandalizes a picture of Minnie by drawing a mustache on it.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'' featured a segment where Muppet cowboys compare a WantedPoster of Cookie Monster with the actual Cookie Monster. When their suspicion peaks, Cookie Monster distracts them long enough to draw a mustache on the poster. The cowboys notice the disparity, and apologize to Cookie Monster for suspecting him. Cookie Monster amiably tips his hat ... and lots of stolen cookies tumble out. Mayhem Ensues.

* ''Series/ModernFamily'': After Phil sees one of the advertisments for his real estate agency defaced with a mustache drawn on his picture, he thinks he would look good with a mustache and decides to grow one.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Love Thy Trophy". Peter ransacks his neighbours' houses to find their supposedly stolen trophy and draws mustaches on their family portraits...except Cleveland, who already ''has'' a mustache, [[InvertedTrope so Peter erases it with a pencil instead]].

** The cartoon "WesternAnimation/DaffyDoodles" has WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck as the vandalizing "Mustache Fiend" and Porky Pig as a policeman trying to catch him. When Daffy finally gets arrested at the end of the cartoon (but let off by a jury of mustached Jerry Colonna look-alikes), Daffy tearfully repents and promises he'll never draw another mustache... "I'm doin' beards now!"

* "Better Off Undead" of ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'' shows Leonard defacing a WantedPoster of him. Having, of all, ''Mark'' wanting him drawn and quartered is quite an achievement...even for Leonard.

* This is the 'crime' committed in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' episode "Masterstroke of Malevolence". Fillmore and Third must discover the identity of the vandal before the ink dries so the restorer can identify the brand of marker used and save the portrait. [[spoiler:It wasn't actually vandalism, [[RedHerring despite one student doing this kind of thing regularly]], it was the original artist adding a detail his patron demanded he left out.]]

* Raven does this to a sleeping Jinx on the 2019 Comic Day Freebie of ''Comicbook/{{Teen Titans Go}}.

* In a ''[[Literature/SweetValleyHigh Sweet Valley Twins]]'', Jessica and Elizabeth become rivals when they run for class president. ''Elizabeth'' is the one to invoke this by ruining the posters Jessica has made for her campaign by drawing a mustache over all of her pictures. Although she's doing this in retaliation for Jessica taking ''her'' flyers and throwing them into the school fountain, Jessica actually ''didn't'' do that, so Elizabeth's actions end up looking especially malicious.

* In ''Neighbours From Hell'' drawing a mustache and devil horns on a portrait with a marker is one of the pranks you can play on the titular neighbors.

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* Dada artist Marcel Duchamp's 1919 artwork "L.H.O.O.Q" is a postcard reproduction of da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" with a hastily drawn mustache and goatee on her face. The title is a French pun for "she has a hot ass".