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Line 5: {{examples}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == * ''[[Hikaru no Go]]'': There was an older male player (who was extremely sensitive about his lack thereof) in a go club that ~~[[Hikaru no Go\|~~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 got the hairpiece caught a bit. This caused 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 was at that point. ** The first time, though, was meant to teach the man a lesson on bullying other Go players and the second time was somewhat by accident due to a [[Spit Take]] from Hikaru. * Falling under the "desire to maintain a facade of authority" category is the principal of ''[[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 third 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. Line 26: ** Also [[Harold Lloyd]] used it in the cliffhanger classic ''[[Safety Last]]'' 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. * Francis's hairpiece in ''[[The Goonies]]''. It's especially bad after the various times it gets knocked off his head and he puts it back on. * In ''[[Wallace and Gromit\|The Curse of the Were-Rabbit]]'', Victor ~~Quatermaine~~Quartermaine's impressive head of hair is sucked up by the ~~BunVac~~Bun-Vac ~~2000~~6000. It is later replaced by a rabbit. == [[Literature]] == * Mr Groat's hair in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[~~Discworld/~~Going Postal (Discworld)\|Going Postal]]''. {{quote\|'' There may actually be a man somewhere on whom a toupee works, but whoever that man may be, Mr Groat was not he.''}} ** It may or may not be alive. It ''definitely'' moves. Some doctors once tried to put it in a cupboard, but it got out. * The beginning of young adult novel ''[[No More Dead Dogs]]'' 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. == [[Live -Action TV]] == * Elliot Carlin, on ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]'', 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". * Grantly Budgen in [[Waterloo Road]]. The toupee is eventually destroyed in a hair salon accident. Line 43: * There was a ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode where George got a toupee that looked really bad, though both he and Kramer thought it looked great. {{quote\|'''Elaine:''' ''I DON'T LIKE THIS THING! AND HERE'S WHAT I'M DOING WITH IT!'' [throws it out Jerry's window]}} * In ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', 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 [[Uncanny Valley\|~~very~~rather 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~~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~~survive—Kryten uses it as a justification for fighting: {{quote\|'''Rimmer''': Then I say fight ..~~. better dead than smeg~~. '''Kryten''': Mr. Rimmer? '''Rimmer''': Better dead than smeg. '''Lister''': Ye-ess. Cat? '''Cat''': Better dead than sofa-size butt. '''Lister''': Kryten? '''Kryten''': Better anything than that toupee! }} ** 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. Line 84 ⟶ 87: * In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic\|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E18 A Friend in Deed\|A Friend In Deed]]", Cranky Doodle gets one from Pinkie Pie after she accidentally demolishes his original hairpiece. == [[~~Truth~~Real ~~in Television~~Life]] == * Rand Paul{{who}} * The story goes that Patrick Stewart had one of these when he was auditioning for ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. One of the producers thought maybe he ought to give his audition sans toupee, [[Bald of Awesome\|and the rest is history]]. ** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031072042/http://www.wimp.com/stewartbaldness/ In his own words.] Line 95 ⟶ 98: {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Dodgy Toupee~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Comedy Tropes]] [[Category:Hair Tropes]] ▲[[Category:Dodgy Toupee]]