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== [[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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{{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 or 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.
* 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.
{{quote|'''Elaine:''' ''I DON'T LIKE THIS THING! AND HERE'S WHAT I'M DOING WITH IT!'' [throws it out Jerry's window]}}
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* Several appear in ''[[The Goodies]]'' episode "Scoutrageous'' when Graeme and Bill are trying to earn their [[Merit Badges for Everything|Wig Spotter's Badge]].
* 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.
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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/Recap/S2
== [[Truth in Television]] ==
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* [[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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