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{{trope}}
In this [[Personal Appearance Tropes|Personal Appearance Trope]]
"I got it! You got a new haircut, right?" Sometimes the person will continue guessing: "You lost weight? You got new glasses? New cologne? Don't tell me..."
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Eventually the person undergoing the change tells, or some bystander who can't stand the ridiculous guesses does.
If the person has had a complete makeover to the point where they're not even the same gender ...well, then [[
{{examples|Examples}}▼
== [[Advertising]] ==
* Early ads for Viagra used this trope. It was left to the viewers to ask the obvious final guess, "Hey, Joe, got wood?"
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]''. Seymour asks Audrey if she's wearing eye shadow, but it's actually a shiner caused by Orin.
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* ''[[The Little Mermaid]]''. Scuttle the seagull does this after Ariel has made her [[Deal
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* ''[[Lady and
* ''[[Highlander II the Quickening]]''. After McCloud regenerates back into his younger self, he visits an old scientist friend of his who notices something different. "Have you had a facelift?"
* Inverted in ''[[Cloudy
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'''Flint''': Oh. Uh, you look different. Uh...did you get...a new...haircut?
'''Mayor''': Yes, I did. Thank you for noticing. }}
* In ''[[Death Becomes Her]]'', after Madeline has drunk a potion giving her eternal youth and beauty, her husband Ernest asks, "Change your hair?"
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In the ''[[
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"Doctor, I..."
"It's the hair, isn't it? You've had your hair done."
"No, I..."
"I know! You've lost weight."
I sighed.
"No, Doctor, I'm [[Sweet Polly Oliver|disguised as a man]]."
He checked again.
"Are you? How very [[Shakespeare
* In a book on arts and crafts featuring characters of ''[[Sesame Street]]'' (in the 70's), the adults show the kids how to make masks out of paper grocery bags. Mr. Hooper is given one that actually looks a bit like him and he goes outside wearing it. Big Bird sees him and asks him if he got a haircut.
* Brutally and seriously subverted in ''[[
== [[Live
* Played with in an episode of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]''. Jenny really ''does'' get a horrible (and dramatically shorter) new haircut:
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'''Jenny:''' Actually they are.
'''Harvey:''' People tell me I'm not perceptive. }}
* On ''[[Friends]]'', when Chandler starts wearing glasses, he attempts to invoke this, but nobody seems to think that he ever DIDN'T wear glasses. Not his best friend of ten years, not his roommate of over five, not the woman he's in love with!
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* Subverted on ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' when Jess asks Rory if she changed her hair. (She didn't, it was an excuse for him to talk about something else.)
* In ''[[The Sopranos]]'' episode "All Happy Families...", AJ's friends shave his eyebrows off while stoned. It takes Tony a minute to catch on the first time he sees him.
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'''Carmela:''' He has no eyebrows, Tony! }}
* A ''[[
* There's a somewhat different example in ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'', in the episode "It Pays To Advertise", when Mrs. Slocombe and Mr. Humphries have mannequins made of themselves, and Mr. Grainger mistakes the mannequin of Mrs. Slocombe for the real thing:
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* Happens on ''[[Pixelface]]'' when Kiki has illegally eaten one on the power-up fruits and turned into a giant. Rex sees her and comments that there is something different about her: her hair is glossier. A few seconds later, he realises that she is six times her normal size.
* In ''[[Scrubs]]'' Elliot's transformation actually includes a new haircut.
* On an episode of ''[[
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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* From ''[[Big Top]]'', the leader of the [[Circus of Fear|Dark Tent Circus]] kidnaps Dusty and replaces him with a robotic clone. Upon seeing the bot, Wink asks, "Did you get a haircut or something?" Dusty-bot replies, "Tinted corrective lenses. For my corneas."
* Double subverted in one ''[[FoxTrot]]'' strip. Paige asks her mother if she notices anything different, and when Andy says no, Paige goes on a mini-rant about how she's resolving to be a person of depth and substance. [[Hypocritical Humor|That, and she trimmed her bangs.]]
▲* On an episode of ''[[Hells Kitchen]]'', Chef Ramsay asked the three remaining contestants if they noticed anything different about him. New hair or a new jacket were guessed wrongly. (He was smiling for a change.)
== [[Video Game]] ==
* At the end of ''[[Saints Row]]'', your character is immolated in a massive explosion to set up the character customization in the sequel?reconstructive surgery in a burn ward is, after all, the perfect time to change one's gender and/or race. Nobody has much trouble identifying you when the plot calls for it, as well. Yet no matter what design choices you make, the only remark about the change anyone seems to have is to ask if the character has "done something with [his/her] hair." Lampshaded at one point when your character pulls out his/her gun and cuts someone off by shouting, "I didn't do shit with my hair!"
* ''[[
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== [[Web Comic]] ==
* ''[[Polk Out]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20120507004419/http://www.polkout.com/page92.htm here].
* ''[[Checkerboard Nightmare]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20110822183427/http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/retro/20021101.shtml here].
* [http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/260 This] [[Looking for Group]] comic
* ''[[Skin Horse]]'' [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/skinhorse/series.php a particularly egregious example], because Moustachio ''doesn't even have hair''.
* In ''[[Spacetrawler]]'', Yuri gets both her arms and legs replaced with [[Artificial Limbs]], as well as cat ears surgically attached to her head. Dustin is slow to pick up on this.
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'''Dustin:''' Something's different about her, isn't there?
'''Dmitri:''' She was fishing for a compliment on her ears, my friend.
'''Dustin:''' I ''knew'' it was something! }}
* ''[[Real Life Fiction]]'' has it in this page: https://web.archive.org/web/20150428011652/http://rlfcomic.com/?comic=20100328-jes-nes-cest-paw
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "A Head in the Polls"
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'''Bender''': No! I sold my body. }}
* Jade did to a four-armed Hak Fu in ''[[
* In the episode "Arthur's Eyes" (based on the book), after [[Arthur (
** Probably a [[Lampshade Hanging]], as the episode in question aired late in its season, and to the viewer, the Arthur without glasses was "something different" while the Arthur with glasses was business as usual.
** Not so, unless the previous troper is in a different market that the U.S. or something. "Arthur's Eyes" was the very first episode of the show.
* From ''[[The Simpsons (
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'''Homer:''' New glasses?
'''Marge:''' No, he seems depressed about something...
'''Homer:''' Probably misses his old glasses. }}
** Also in ''[[The Simpsons (
* In an episode of ''[[Rugrats]]'', the other babies guess what's different about Tommy for a while, including asking if he got a haircut (while he has virtually no hair), before they realize he's completely naked.
* In ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* [[Hangs a Lampshade|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''
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'''Candace:''' [who has just used P & F's growth elixir]...Maybe I've just grown out of my awkward phase. }}
* ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
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* [[
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'''[[SpongeBob]]:''' Actually, Patrick, this is...
'''Patrick:''' Hold it, [[SpongeBob]]. Ooh, I know. You shaved your beard. ([[SpongeBob]] and Mini Squid look at each other) }}
* Used in ''[[Mucha Lucha]]'' when Rikochet lost his mask. As Buena Girl comes up, he's standing there with a mailbox on his head, because it's horribly humiliating for a masked luchador to be seen without his mask. She asks if he got a new haircut. [[Completely Missing the Point|What makes it even funnier is the fact that she's never seen Rikochet's haircut before, since they never/rarely take off their masks...]]
* ''[[My Life
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'''Sheldon: [who is an old man of 75 rather than the 15 year old boy he should be, takes out his false teeth]''' Got my teeth whitened...? }}
* Happens in an episode of ''[[Dave the Barbarian]]'' where Oswidge accidentally turns himself into a newt.
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* Occurs in an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]''. Brian finds his ex-girlfriend, Tracy Flannigan, and the two exchange the trope.
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'''Tracy:''' Yeah...''haircut''. }}
* ''[[Turtles Forever]]'': when the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987
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