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== [[Film]] ==
* Used in classic style in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]?'', complete with the demonstration that an animated character ''must,'' simply ''must'', [[Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are|complete the line]] if "two bits" is omitted.
* ''[[West Side Story
* Several ''[[Three Stooges]]'' short subject films have them. Usually a stooge (usually [[Too Dumb to Live|Curly]]) would tap something (usually a wall) and get a response from whatever is on the other side ([[Rule of Three|usually some kind of monster]]). They would mirror it perfectly until the "shave and a haircut" part was tapped out. A delay, a "nyuk nyuk", a "two bits" response, and you know the rest.
* ''[[Ace Ventura]]'' used this in the [[Animated Adaptation]]: He suspects he's being followed and does the "Shave and Haircut" on his car, since the other car responded with the two bits, he knows he's being followed.
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* Used in ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off]]'' when a florist delivers flowers to Ferris's house, where Mr. Rooney is. The florist honks the "shave and a haircut" but. Mr. Rooney [[Flipping the Bird|flips the bird]] in lieu of the 'two bits'.
* This tune shows up in ''[[You've Got Mail]]'' at the end of the scene where Joe and Kathleen meet (physically) for the first time.
* In the scene in ''[[Forrest Gump]]'' where Forrest goes on ''Captain Kangaroo'', Forrest has recently played ping-pong in China. As Forrest enters the studio, the (in-movie) band plays a jingle starting with an
* In a scene in ''[[Spy Kids]]'', Juni accidentally handcuffs himself to a metal lunchbox. He walks away from Carmen, trying to shake it off, and the soundtrack drum plays "Shave and a Haircut". Juni responds with "two bits" by smashing the lunchbox into the wall, and the lunchbox rebounds and slams into his head.
* Used in ''[[What's Eating Gilbert Grape]]'', when Gilbert has to lure Arnie down from the water tower: "Match in the gas tank, boom boom!"
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* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode The Doctor's Wife this is what the white message box uses to knock on the TARDIS' door.
** In fact, the closed captions for the episode actually read "Knocking 'shave and a haircut'".
* In ''[[
* Played with in an episode of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''. In the movie ''[[The Atomic Brain]]'', the antagonist knocks on a door to find out of two of the girls she hired were in the room. Mike quips "'Shave And A Haircut'! What do we do?"
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