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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|West Side Story:]]'' "Gee Of-fi-cer Krup-ke, ''Krup You!''"
* 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.
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* On ''[[Ghost Hunters]]'', the team is constantly using it to try to get responses from whatever paranormal entity might be lurking in the location of the week. The team member knocks out 'shave and a hair cut' and waits for the entity to knock the 'two bits' response.
* This is the password to get into Santos's secret stem-cell meeting in [[The West Wing]].
* In the ''[[
** In fact, the closed captions for the episode actually read "Knocking 'shave and a haircut'".
* In ''[[MASH]]'', Hawkeye once started singing Largo al Factotom("Figaro, Figaro, Figaro!") before segueing into "Shave and a Haircut". Radar then adds, "So that's where that came from!"
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== Video Games ==
* In [[Half Life]] 2, Alyx plays this on the buttons of a vending machine, and bangs on it twice for the "two bits" part. It's her way of signaling to Dr. Kleiner that it's her, and opens the door to the secret lab behind the vending machine.
* ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'' featured a version of the tune, titled "Rat-a-Tat-Tat, It's . . . Mitsuda!", in its [[
* In the beginning of ''[[Earthbound]]'', Pokey/Porky knocks on the door in a very annoying fashion. In the middle of the knocks is the classic "Shave and a Haircut".
* [[Um Jammer Lammy]]: "I Am A Master, and You!", [[Um Jammer]] Lammy's version of the Master Onion stage, eventually evolves into this quite subtly, eventually--unsurprisingly--finishing off with it.
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