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== [[Advertising]] ==
* There was an advertisement for Outback Steakhouse with this trope. Middle-aged woman tries to dye her hair and it turns out purple or pink. Her husband cancels their reservations at some hoity-toity restaurant and they go to Outback instead, where there are "no rules, just right" and her worries are forgotten.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the ''[[Maximum Ride]]'' fic ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5107706/1/Diary-of-a-Lovesick-Mutant Diary of a Lovesick Mutant]'' by "Phoenix Fanatic", Fang tries to dye his hair blond, and tomato gets into it, turning it green.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Bride Wars]]'': "My hair's blue! '''''IT'S BUH-LUE!'''''"
* The botched Dye job look was the inspiration for the approach to the Joker's hair in ''[[The Dark Knight]].''
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In ''[[Girl Talk]]'', Sabrina tried to dye her hair blond in an attempt to improve her chances of landing the part of Sandy in ''[[Grease]]'' - it came out ''Bright'' Orange and one of her friends had to do an emergency dye job. Amusingly, she ended up with the part of Frenchie (see below).
* In ''[[The Dog Who Wouldnt Be]]'', Farley's father tries to get the yellow tint—caused by rolling in cow carcasses—out of Mutt's fur. He uses something called "bluing", and uses so much he does dye Mutt blue.
* In Robert Service's poem
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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** Cody also tries to dye his hair and it ends up bright red.
* Emma of ''[[H₂O: Just Add Water]]'' decided to colour her hair and Cleo used a dye called "Scarlet Fever". Luckily for Emma it only showed up in her mermaid form.
* This got blended with a [[Green Aesop]], of all things<ref>For a Green Hair Aesop?</ref>, in an episode of ''[[
* An episode of ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'' was describing how she was involved in harmless pranks. One of the pranks had clients of a hair salon watch a teaser showing people using a shampoo/conditioner caused people's hair to turn out green. It was the same shampoo used in the hair salon.
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* Frenchie in ''[[Grease]]'' accidentally dyeing her hair bubblegum pink is what leads into the song
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* One ''[[House of Mouse]]'' short was actually about Minnie Mouse accidentally dyeing [[Pluto the Pup|Pluto's]] fur purple after mistaking a bottle of purple dye for shampoo. She then tries to find ways to get the purple dye off, including painting the dog with a can of "Pluto-colored Paint" (which is the same shade of orange as Pluto's fur).
* Happened to Lou in ''[[Rugrats]]''. The main plot dealt with Chuckie getting tired of getting attention from his red hair, so he used Lou's black hair dye. By the end of the episode, exposure to the sun turns both their hair orange. While Chuckie is thrilled to be a redhead again, Grandpa is less than happy. Didi chalks it up to buying hair dye off of an informational.
* On ''[[Daria]]
== [[Real Life]] ==
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