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* ''[[Bride Wars]]'': "My hair's blue! '''''IT'S BUH-LUE!'''''"
* ''[[Bride Wars]]'': "My hair's blue! '''''IT'S BUH-LUE!'''''"
* The botched Dye job look was the inspiration for approach to the Joker's hair in ''[[The Dark Knight]].''
* The botched Dye job look was the inspiration for approach to the Joker's hair in ''[[The Dark Knight]].''
* Frenchy does this to ''herself'' while in beauty school in ''[[Grease]]''; her hair comes out ''pink''.


== [[Literature]] ==
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In Robert Service's poem ''The Baldness of Chewed-Ear'', Chewed-Ear Jenkins wagers $1,000 that his wife can't cure his baldness. The wife tries every hair tonic she can find, even selling stock to Chewed-Ear's friends so they'll try their own ideas on him. When their combined ministrations start to work, Chewed-Ear tries to cheat them by shaving and applying hair-destroying drugs to his scalp when they're not looking. The unholy combination of hair restorers and hair destroyers eventually makes the hair come in - ''green''.
* In Robert Service's poem ''The Baldness of Chewed-Ear'', Chewed-Ear Jenkins wagers $1,000 that his wife can't cure his baldness. The wife tries every hair tonic she can find, even selling stock to Chewed-Ear's friends so they'll try their own ideas on him. When their combined ministrations start to work, Chewed-Ear tries to cheat them by shaving and applying hair-destroying drugs to his scalp when they're not looking. The unholy combination of hair restorers and hair destroyers eventually makes the hair come in - ''green''.


== [[Live Action TV]] ==
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In the last episode of ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', Greg buys some hair tonic from Bobby out of pity, and it turns his hair orange. Greg wasn't trying to colour his hair; it just worked that way.
* In the last episode of ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', Greg buys some hair tonic from Bobby out of pity, and it turns his hair orange. Greg wasn't trying to colour his hair; it just worked that way.
* In ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]''/''[[Hannah Montana]]''/''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'', Miley tries to dye her hair blond and it ends up green.
* In ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]''/''[[Hannah Montana]]''/''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'', Miley tries to dye her hair blond and it ends up green.
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* Liz from ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' goes for a dye job, and apparently ends up with her hair bright purple.
* Liz from ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' goes for a dye job, and apparently ends up with her hair bright purple.


== Theatre ==
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Frenchie in ''[[Grease]]'' accidentally dyeing her hair bubblegum pink is what leads into the song ''Beauty School Dropout''.
* Frenchie in ''[[Grease]]'' accidentally dyeing her hair bubblegum pink is what leads into the song ''Beauty School Dropout''.