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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' has particular fun with this, mentioning them throughout the series and even assigning specific colors to character. The otherwise hairless frogs frequently and inexplicably end up wearing an afro after [[Non-Fatal Explosions]]. Several bits of the soundtrack (notably several of the [[Ending Theme
** Afro Gunsou is a major [[Ear Worm]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdEaF-p2ux8 Ai kotoba wa Afro to Gunsou...] By the way, that means "The password is 'Afro Sergeant'".
*** As for "Dasonu Maso" (ダソヌマソ), that name comes from a mangling of the katakana for "Dance Man" (ダンスマン).
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The classic Western example comes from ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', when
* There's a single-episode [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Scrubs]]'' about the main characters being afraid they'll says something insensitive to one of their coworkers. He has a hook for a hand, but most of them haven't even noticed because they're too busy trying not to say something about his ridiculously large afro.
* Shepherd Book lets "down" his hair once in ''[[Firefly]]''. Once was enough, judging by River's reaction. Zoe is ''almost'' as freaked out by the sight.
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* As discussed under [[Real Life]], Leon Trotsky sported quite the Jew-fro. This is used to great effect in David Ives' tragi-comic one-act play ''Variations on the Death of Trotsky''. It isn't a plot point or ever even mentioned, but it makes the special effect of having an ice-axe through his head<ref>
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Guilty Gear]] XX'', Faust's ([[It Makes Sense in Context|an insane ten-foot-tall doctor with a paper bag over his head]]) Instant Death move has him putting the opponent on a gurney with a bomb hidden under it. The super-move has two variations, the second one giving both Faust and the now-dead opponent giant afros. Faust's afro appears '''''ON''''' the paper bag to boot.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J32-W1I5W3I Seen here]. It starts around 2:30, by the way.
* Jimmy T. from the ''[[Wario Ware]]'' series sports a large blue afro. In ''Wario Ware Touched!'', his family are shown to all have brightly coloured afros (he is also menaced by an insect named Scratchy the 'Fro
* ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' has Lotta Hart, whose bright red afro actually goes relatively unnoticed by the cast, but is clearly meant to get a laugh on the part of the player.
** The sequel, on the other hand, makes a bigger deal of it: when you meeting her again, you can choose to misremember her name as "Lotta Hair", which she takes offense to.
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* Disco Stu from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.
** Also from ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Homer in an episode where they were in "The Poseidon Adventure". When the ship flipped, his wig came off. "Ahh! My wig!...I mean, my real hair!"
** And George Bush senior getting a rainbow afro wig glued to his
** Martin Prince's normally straight hair reverts to an afro when exposed to high humidity.
* While it's not so much a fro but a box haircut, Gerald of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' will from time to time say "HEY! Watch the hair" in a situation that might mess up his Marge Simpson-like stack of hair. In some episodes, we see that his hair is shaped that way because his head is shaped that way (though he turns it into an true afro in one episode)
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