View Full Version : "Shaking Her Hair Loose" moments in TV shows


TMC
08-25-2016, 06:35 AM
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Imagine this picture: a woman with her hair tied up in a bun, held in place only with a pin or some kind of stick. She pulls it out of her hair and shakes it out (https://www.facebook.com/I-Let-My-Hair-Down-on-TV-and-Film-163527567098232/?fref=ts), allowing it to fall down freely. This is sometimes accompanied by a Dramatic Wind. It can usually either be part of a romantic scene or something dramatic though it does pop up in parodies a lot of the time too. The woman will usually be dressed up to the nines as well and the letting the hair out of its fancy updo is often the first step towards her undressing for her lover. A variant is for the woman's hair being tied up to reflect discipline and structure and allowing the hair to come undone is a symbol of freedom. Or sometimes it could be just for plain old Fanservice. A lot of the time this woman will have Rapunzel Hair but the hair just needs to be long enough to tie up so past the shoulders at the shortest.

Does anybody care to add to this list;) :
Live Action TV
In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Go Fish" Buffy pulls a pencil out of her hair and shakes it loose.

Parodied in an episode of Tucker where Tucker imagines his parents getting together in a dramatic scene without dialogue. Jeannie first takes her hairclip out and shakes her hair loose before ripping off her waitress uniform to reveal a fancy dress underneath.

Another parody in an episode of Degrassi where Holly J shakes her hair out in a failed seduction attempt.

In one of Barney's Imagine Spots in an episode of How I Met Your Mother he seduces a female cop and she proceeds to shake her hair out of its bun and strip for him.

A quasi-parody happens in the Murder Mystery episode of Lizzie McGuire when Larry starts chatting up Veruca, both of them dressed in Edwardian era clothes. Veruca shakes her hair down as some faux dramatic music plays.

An episode of Friends has Ross and Monica's cousin Cassie shaking her hair loose in slow motion, prompting a sagging jaw from Chandler, Ross forgetting he's related to her and even Phoebe getting turned on.