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== Film ==
* Parodied in ''[[Wall WALL-E]].'' The hair dressers were, of course, robots. They only had a set list of pre-recorded phrases they could say, and would still prattle on regardless if the customer was talking.
* Paulette of ''[[Legally Blonde]]''.
* Subverted in the gay-themed comedy ''The Broken Hearts Club''. All the characters at one point go to their hairdresser (played by Jennifer Coolidge, better known for playing Paulette in ''[[Legally Blonde]]', a straight example of the trope) for a heart-to-heart. The main characters are pouring their hearts out with their problems; the hairdresser doesn't say *anything* beyond "Sit up straight" and "Turn your head to the side." At the end of the sequence, one character compliments her for always knowing the right thing to say, to which she modestly replies, "It's a gift."
* [[Vincent Price]] briefly impersonates a [[Camp Gay]] hairdresser in ''[[Theater of Blood]]''.
* The women in ''[[Steel Magnolias]]''.
* In ''[[Drop Dead Gorgeous (Filmfilm)|Drop Dead Gorgeous]]'', Amber's aunt is a gossipy woman who runs a hair salon out of her trailer and is happy to take up more than her fair share of "[[Mockumentary|documentary]]" time.
* ''Shampoo'' has Warren Beatty's character acting as one of these, and playing on the assumption that everyone thinks he's [[Camp Gay]] to seduce his female clients with ease.
 
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== Literature ==
* The hairdresser in ''The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency'' is gay and like this.
* In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'', Rincewind acts like one of these... while shearing a sheep.
* [[Older Than Print]]: [[The Barber]] in a series of tales in the ''[[Arabian Nights (Literature)|Arabian Nights]]'' is endlessly talkative, to the annoyance of his patrons, despite his constant insistence on being a very quite man.
* Partridge in ''Tom Jones'' is a schoolmaster turned barber-surgeon who is fairly talkative and has major [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]] tendencies. He is compared to the barber of ''[[Arabian Nights (Literature)|Arabian Nights]]'' at least once.
* In the book ''The Market'' by J. M. Steele, the [[Camp Gay]] hairdresser Carlo is stated to be this.
* Katniss's "prep team", Venia, Flavius and Octavia, in ''[[The Hunger Games (Literaturenovel)|The Hunger Games]]''.
 
 
== Live Action TV ==
* Appears in an episode of ''[[MamasMama's Family]]'' titled "Psycho Pheno-Mama". Mama and her family meet a self-claimed psychic who can supposedly channel a dead duchess' spirit, who knows all of the family's secrets. Turns out the "psychic" is actually a hairdresser who gleans all of her information from her chatty customers.
* Parodied in the Barber Shop sketch on ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', where, behind the customer's back, the Barber puts on a ''tape recording'' of himself chatting and cutting hair because he's afraid to do any actual cutting. He'd rather be... a lumberjack!
* Hilda on ''[[Ugly Betty]]''.
* In ''[[The Nanny]]'' there was a [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]] set in a salon full of chatty hairdressers. And of course there's [[The Nanny]] herself.
* Mot, the blue-skinner barber on [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation|StarTrek: The Next Generation]], does this to various characters in the show, much to their chagrin.
* Vanessa from ''[[Everybody Hates Chris]]''
* In ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'', Wayne loves doing a [[Sassy Black Woman]] version of this trope whenever he finds a hairdressing-related idea in the ''Props'' game. "So I was tellin' (made-up name), that she better stay away from..."
* Shelly the hair-styling nanite in ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)|Mystery Science Theater 3000]]".
* The Chilean humor show ''Jappening con Ja'' had a recurrent sketch about this, with two [[Camp Gay]] male versions of this trope.
 
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== Web Original ==
* [[Whateley Universe]] example: The girl who does Jade's hair in ''Jade 6'' is chatty about the town of [[HPH.P. Lovecraft|Dunwich]], only a walk away from [[Super-Hero School|Whateley Academy]], which may mean that she has planted more than one [[Chekhov's Gun]] for later stories.
 
 
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