Never Trust a Hair Tonic: Difference between revisions

It seems that a man's greatest fear is losing his hair, and once it's gone, it's gone for good. Which is why a bald character is bound to try using some kind of product that promises to grow back their hair. [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|This product never works]]. Or rather, it usually works too well, with way more hair sprouting than necessary, and often in places that it wasn't wanted. Other side effects may occur as well, including, but not limited to, the hair turning an unnatural color or what little hair was left falling out completely.

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* On ''[[Ranma One Half½]]'' Genma is quite embarrassed about his baldness and has tried all kinds of cures. This doesn't stop him from trying new remedies. There was the one that only works when he's angry, the one that comes from a one-of-a-kind dragon's whisker, and so forth.

* In ''[[Cloudy Withwith a Chance of Meatballs]]'', one of Flint's [[Bungling Inventor|failed inventions]] is "Hair Unbalder." A little bit squirted on the scalp causes his dad to burst out with hair on his entire face.

* Similarly, some hair-voodoo worked by Dr. Facilier in ''[[The Princess and Thethe Frog]]'' initially grants a man a full head of hair, but it quickly spreads to the rest of his body.

* In the ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'' movie, King Triton tries to use some hair tonic, but accidentally it gets into his eye. So his eyeballs grow hair.

* In ''[[PetesPete's Dragon]]'', when [[Snake Oil Salesman|Dr. Terminus]] comes to town, the townspeople confront him about his various medicines that didn't work the last time he was there, including one man whose hair turned from gray to pink, thanks to the doctor.

* In ''[[The Naked Gun (Film)|The Naked Gun]] 33 1/3'', there's a flashback with the detectives in what's supposed to be the 1970s. Drebin has long hair, and when Nordberg appears, he has an Afro so huge he can't fit through the door. After the movie returns to the present, Ed says to Nordberg, "I do remember! You were one of the first cases for minoxidil."

* An episode of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' called "Planet of the Ood" has a similar situation. Ood Sigma constantly hands his boss, the [[Big Bad]] of the episode, a drink which he claims is hair tonic. It turns out to be {{spoiler|ood-graft which eventually transforms the guy into an Ood.}}

{{quote| Why any boy of Bobby’s age, or any age, would be investing in something as outmoded and unidentifiable as “hair tonic” remains to be explained. As any kid on the show could tell the writer, the old hair-tonic routine is right out of ''[[Our Gang]]''. Let’s face it, we’re long since past the “little dab’ll do ya” era.}}

* One early episode of ''[[Married... Withwith Children]]'' had Al and Steve freak out about their baldness and try an experimental "tonic" to reverse it. Not only did it not work, but Al's dog Buck took to the stuff better than their hair did {{spoiler|(they were actually using some kind of dog food in their hair, and the doctor who sold it to them was a quack)}}.

* Pirelli's Miracle Elixir from ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatretheatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'', which turned out to be, in Sweeney's words, "an arrant fraud, concocted of piss and ink."

* The ''[[SCP Foundation (Wiki)|SCP Foundation]]'' had a [http://oi56.tinypic.com/eb91rl.jpg hair tonic] which caused its users to be "completely torn apart from the inside by torrential amounts of internal hair growth"

* Billy in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'' tried some hair tonic and ended up growing hair all over his body looking like a Bigfoot. It turns out that all he has to do was wash it off.

* In ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'', Dexter makes a hair tonic for Dee-Dee after she accidently cuts off one of her pigtails. Despite repeated warnings to use only one drop, Dee-Dee uses the entire bottle. Three guesses what happens next.

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