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{{trope}}
[[File:whosehair.jpg|frame|link=http://StardustDragon.deviantart.com/art/Whose-Hair-58924563|[[Don't Explain the Joke|It is funny because]] [[Frankenstein|Frankenstein's Monster]] [[Biological Mashup|is made of body parts from multiple corpses]] [[Don't Explain the Joke|thus giving the question a double meaning.]] ]]
{{quote|"Aha! A strand of hair that isn't his! ... Oh, wait, it's mine."|'''[[Roseanne]]'''}}▼
A wife suspects her husband is having an affair and [[GPS Evidence|can prove it by presenting him with the hair she found on his jacket]]. More likely than not the "affair hair" is also "[[Pun|A Fair Hair]]" meaning "[[Dumb Blonde|Blonde]]", [[Gentlemen Prefer Blondes|which the wife is not]], nor is the husband.▼
|'''[[Roseanne]]'''}}
▲A wife suspects her husband is having an affair and [[GPS Evidence|can prove it by presenting him with the hair she found on his jacket]]. More likely than not the "affair hair" is also "[[
See also [[Lipstick Mark]], a trope that plays out similarly.
Not to be confused with [[Parks and Recreation
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▲== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]''. A girl's father finds a short hair not of his daughter's color while visiting her home and wonders if she has a cat. Before anyone answers, a [[Bifauxnen]] walks in and he immediately accuses her.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* A poem by [[
* ''[[A Rose for Emily]]'' ends with {{spoiler|a strand of gray hair found next to a body that's been dead for ''decades''}}.
* In ''[[The Dark Tower
== [[Live
* In ''[[Young Dracula]]'', they have some fake Affair Hair - Vlad gets some of his stuffed wolf's hair and pretends it's from his mother's werewolf boyfriend.
* This happens in the pantomime sketch "Argument to Beethoven's 5th" by Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray, just as the couple seems to have made up. At the very end, she figures out that it belongs to the cat, and they're reconciled.
* In ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'', Earl finds a piece of Darnell's hair on his pillow, but believes it's his own hair. {{spoiler|He does find out about the affair [[
* Played with in [[Roseanne]]. Roseanne notices a hair on one of Dan's shirts, and is suspicious for a moment, before realising it's actually one of hers.
== [[Music]] ==
* Mariah Carey's "Heartbreaker" has Jay-Z rapping about how "she found a strand of hair, longer than hers". The video shows a toon Mariah finding an Affair Hair.
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** For those who are not familiar with the strip, Roger is [[Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow|balding]], and in denial about it.
* There was a ''[[Far Side]]'' strip that caused a bit of controversy because it showed a female chimp picking a blond hair off her chimp husband and asking if he'd been doing more "research" with "that Jane Goodall tramp". Jane Goodall, by the way, loved that strip.
** Jane Goodall herself told the story on the title page of one of the Far Side collections. Her society was getting ready to sue over the strip when she returned from field work. Her reply was, "Wow, real fame at last!" Now, it's one of her society's biggest moneymakers, appearing on many fund-raising products. Ms. Goodall invited Mr. Larson to her preserve - where he promptly got the snot kicked out of him by her lead chimp, a male named [[The Lord of the Rings|Frodo]]. [[
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
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[[Category:Marriage Tropes]]
[[Category:Just for Pun]]
[[Category:Sublime Rhyme]]
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