Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
214,734
edits
Never Trust a Hair Tonic: Difference between revisions
BOT: Replaced link(s) to "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" with link(s) to "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy"
m (Mass update links) |
(BOT: Replaced link(s) to "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" with link(s) to "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy") |
||
| (2 intermediate revisions by one other user not shown) | |||
Line 7:
== Anime and Manga ==
* On ''[[Ranma
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has a female variation, when short-haired Ako thinks she should grow her hair out to be more attractive. A (not so) helpful denizen of the magic world promptly gives her a magic hair-growth potion, which works perfectly for all of a minute before the hair begins to engulf her.
* An early [[Inuyasha]] story has two demon brothers kidnap Kagome. She thinks they simply want to eat her, but it turns out one of them is severely balding and embarrassed about it, and he has heard you can get a hair growth potion by ''boiling down a human maiden''. At hearing this, Kagome angrily insists they eat her instead. (Not 100% really this troupe, since we never learn whether the potion works - but the kidnapping does lead to the demon losing his last few hairs - before he is killed.)
Line 36:
* In the ''[[Better Off Ted]]'' episode "Father Can You Hair Me?", Ted tests an experimental hair tonic (packaged as an aerosol) on his arm, causing massive amounts of hair to grow not only on Ted's arm, but also on his desk.
* In (what turned out to be) the final episode of ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' Bobby gets some mail-order hair tonic to sell, which turns Greg's hair orange. In the [http://jonrowe.blogspot.com/2004/11/my-sense-of-humor-my-best-friend-david.html memo] attributed to Robert Reed about how weak the show's internal logic had become, he complains about this in particular:
{{quote|
* A ''[[Good Eats]]'' episode on celery has a sketch of a celery drink just made regrowing hair, then shows Alton paying the man whoes hair supposedly grew back in private.
* [[Seinfeld]]: George Costanza's Chinese baldness cure. Whether it actually works is moot, because it smells horrible and he never manages to keep it on his head long enough.
Line 74:
** ''The Simpsons'' used this trope twice. At the end of the episode "Barting Over" Homer acts in a commercial for Viagra-gaine, a drug that grows hair and is also for impotence which side effects are said to include loss of scalp and penis.
* The ''[[Mother Goose and Grimm]]'' cartoon had a hair tonic which could grow hair on billiard balls, as advertised...but it couldn't grow hair on anything else.
* Billy in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* In ''[[Dexter'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.
* In one episode of [[Courage the Cowardly Dog]], "Hothead", Eustace applies for an experimental hair tonic, with the warning that the recipient not be angry when in use. Little does Eustace know, is that every time he uses the tonic, it amplifies his anger to the point that he can cause explosions (and to add insult to injury, he doesn't grow any hair other than one long strand at the end of the episode, which makes him so angry he destroys the entire house.
| |||