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The ridiculously bad and often obvious toupee that is adorned by comedic character and men in mid life crises to show off their folly and reveal the character's desire to maintain a facade of authority or manliness (it might not even have to be an incredibly bad toupee but one revealed comically to such an end). Can be [[Played for Drama]] if the character is wearing a cheap wig/toupee due to
▲The ridiculously bad and often obvious toupee that is adorned by comedic character and men in mid life crises to show off their folly and reveal the character's desire to maintain a facade of authority or manliness (it might not even have to be an incredibly bad toupee but one revealed comically to such an end). Can be [[Played for Drama]] if the character is wearing a cheap wig/toupee due to chemotheraphy.
== [[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
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** 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.
▲== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
▲* 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.
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* One issue of ''[[The X-Files]]'' comic features a character with an obvious toupee to draw attention away from {{spoiler|the fact that he has a trepanning hole in his forehead, covered by a latex plug}}.
* Francine's [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents|amazingly embarrassing]] Uncle Maury, in ''[[Strangers in Paradise]]''.
* In [[All-Star Superman]], Clark finally delivers comeuppance to [[Jerk Jock|Steve Lombard]] by surreptitiously setting Lombard's toupee on fire. Clark often quietly used his powers to make Lombard's pranks backfire in the [[Bronze Age]] but he was never quite this cruel.
== [[Film]] ==
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** 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
== [[Literature]] ==
* Mr Groat's hair in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[
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* 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
* 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.
* Part of the plot of the "Michael Ellis" episode of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. Eric Idle is trying to return the ant he purchased from Harrod's and at one point is directed to the toupee department. All the salespeople in the department wear them, they all don't match, and the salespeople are blind to the fact.
* Special mention must go to the ''[[Amazing Stories (TV series)|Amazing Stories]]'' episode "[[Pun-Based Title|Hell Toupee]]", where the toupee is possessed and gives its wearer a compulsion to kill lawyers. This idea and the pun have been used elsewhere:
* An episode of ''[[Night Court]]'' has a grade school principal wearing such a toupee as a plaintiff. The defendant is a disgruntled prodigy student who programmed the school gym's scoreboard to publicly announce that the principal wore a toupee. Upon hearing this, nobody in the courtroom could keep a straight face.
* Showed up in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' when Marshall, having shaved some of his hair off in a brief fit of insanity, needed something to cover his head before going down the aisle on his wedding day. One of the guests at the wedding has one of these toupees that just might work, but, come hell or high water, the guy refuses to admit he's wearing a toupee at all. Eventually Barney [[Refuge in Audacity|just snatches it off his head]].
* There was a ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode where George got a toupee that looked really bad, though both he and Kramer thought it looked great.
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* 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
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'''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.
* Kevin wears one to Jim and Pam's wedding in ''[[The Office]]''.
* Several appear in ''[[The Goodies]]'' episode "Scoutrageous
* Principal Caplan in early seasons of [[Power Rangers]] had a toupee which would sometimes be knocked off as a running gag.
* In ''[[Charmed]]'', Paige had to deal with a [[Jerkass]] coworker and she growled about her toupee and accidentally orbed it off of his head.
* Zacarias of Brazilian comedy group Os Trapalhões was bald, and used a toupee that was generally spoofed or stolen.
* ''[[The Golden Girls]]''' Stanley Zbornak frequently wears one of these, at least in the early episodes. It is the source of great amusement for the women.
* In ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' Alan Brady wore a bad toupee. At one point Laura gave this away on national TV, though it was really [[The Not-Secret]].
* In the "Police Officer" episode of the British [[Mockumentary]] series ''[[People Like Us]]'', the police captain is wearing such an obvious and horrible toupee that the documentarian has trouble keeping a straight
* On the "Advanced Gay" episode during the third season of ''[[Community]]'', Pierce's father Cornelius wore an ivory toupee, due to regular toupees being made from the hair of "godless Orientals". The ivory hairpiece, quote, is the only way to be assured of true follicular purity while still identifying oneself as a man of means.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* There was a weeklong story involving Roger of ''[[FoxTrot]]'' getting himself a bad toupee. His wife Andy is less than pleased:
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'''Andy''': Did I say I didn't like it?
'''Roger''': No
'''Andy''': Then don't put words in my mouth.
'''Roger''': Fine. *Silence* Andy, I can't believe you think my toupee looks like roadkill.
'''Andy''': "Unkempt roadkill." }}
* Although Jon from ''[[Garfield]]'' has only a receding hairline, he's had a couple incidents... Like the time he went swimming and there was an uproar when somebody yelled "Rat in the pool!". In Garfield's words, there are some places you just can't wear a chest toupee.
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* Frank Sahwit in the first ''[[Phoenix Wright]]'' game. It gets thrown into Phoenix's face during his [[Villainous Breakdown]].
** Also notable is his 'freak out' face, where the toupee jumps up for a moment of its own accord. But yeah about that... after the breakdown, you'll wish he kept that thing on... Ugh.
* Don Flamenco from the ''[[Punch
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'': one of the [[Cosmetic Award|unlockable hats]] for the [[Husky Russkie|Heavy]] is a
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' [[Halloween Episode|Treehouse Of Horror IX]] has a segment called "Hell Toupee" where Homer acquires a toupee made from the scalp of the recently executed Snake. Not only does the scalp contain its originator's murderous intent, it shares his [[Surfer Dude]] accent.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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* 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.]
* [[Donald Trump]]'s hair(piece) is a frequent target for comedy. One would think a man that wealthy could afford something that doesn't look like he's wearing a dead tribble on his head.
* [[William Shatner]], of course!
** Depends on the era. His current ones aren't too bad, but back in the days of Star Trek II and III...
* Former Ohio Congressman [[wikipedia:James Traficant|Jim Traficant]] was famous for his eccentricities (e.g. wearing an all-denim suit on the floor of the House) and his awful toupee (which looked like it was ''floating''). He also turned out to be one of the most corrupt members of Congress in recent history, being one of the only 20 members of Congress and only ''four'' from the House ever to have been expelled from the body.
* During ''[[Battle of The Network Stars]]'' back in the Seventies, the first show was hosted by sports journalist Howard Cosell, who was rather notorious for his toupee. After her team won a tug-of-war contest, [[Wonder Woman|Lynda Carter]], who somehow didn't know it was a rug, began celebrating and poured a bottle of champagne over his head, ruining his toupee, and royally pissing him off.
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