• A '50s Swedish ad jingle for a cough drop. "Hälsan för halsen, Bronsol." "Health for the throat, Bronsol."
• A 1991 British advert for an anti-rust coating called Hammerite used a repurposed version of the music hall song "Any Old Iron", which ended with "Stick it on yer drainpipes, all right!"
• In the late 1970s/early 1980s, VW advertising in the US used the tagline "Volkswagen Does It Again" set to this beat.

• In "Is It a Break?" from the Azumanga Daioh soundtrack, the "shave and a haircut" melody can be heard at about 55 seconds in.
• In an episode of Beyblade Burst, Ranjiro resorts to knocking on the door like this in order to try and talk with Suoh (even though it fails).
• In an episode of the English dubbed Digimon Fusion, Shoutmon says "Shave and a haircut to this!" when attacking an enemy.
• Occurs as a Recurring Riff in the OP of Space Patrol Luluco (the "two bits" can only be heard in the short version of the song).

• In the Mitch Benn show Ten Songs to Save the World, he says that people on the autistic spectrum can't accept things that don't make sense (like Greta Thunberg with "Climate change is a serious problem, we know how to fix it, but eh."). He illustrates the dissonance an autistic person feels at these things by playing "da da-da da da" on his guitar and then stopping. It feels like that.

• When Loki stole the Sorcerer Supreme mantle from Doctor Strange, he drove himself nuts trying to find the key to the latter's locked vault. Turns out, he just needed to knock on it to this rhythm. Loki was not impressed ("Oh, you unbelievable hack...")

• The Far Side:
  • In one cartoon, an exasperated conductor informs his orchestra that they will not be concluding the symphony with "Shave and a Haircut".
  • In another, police are arresting a group of mobsters, and one of the mobsters complains, "I knew it. I just knew it! 'Shave and a Haircut' was a lousy secret knock."
• An old Funky Winkerbean comic featured band director Harry Dinkle recounting his very first piano recital. He couldn't remember how Moonlight Sonata ended, so he ended with "Shave and a Haircut"
• A cartoon in The New Yorker by Roz Chast skewered the inflationary angle, portraying a barbershop with a sign reading, "Shave and a haircut, 200 bits."

• Frozen (2013): Anna's signature knock is the "shave and a haircut" rhythm, as seen whenever she knocks on Elsa's door in "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" and in a flashback in Olaf's Frozen Adventure.
• Madagascar 1 Alex knocks on Gloria’s crate comedically as she arrives on the beach… but gets knocked back 100 feet on the last beat.
• Onward: Barley used to drum it on his dad's feet, blowing two raspberries for the "Two Bits" part.

• In The Breakfast Club, Vernon goes into the library to investigate the commotion caused by Bender falling through the ceiling of the bathroom; unknown to him, Bender is hiding under a table at the moment. Bender starts to sit up but bonks his head on the table, and Andrew nearby quickly raps the "and a haircut" part of the beat; Bender fist-beats "two bits" back.
• In Can You Feel Me Dancing?, Larry honks "shave and a haircut — two bits" while picking Karin up outside the Braille Institute.
• In Deadpool 2, Russell uses the sign/countersign knocking variation to set up his partnership with Juggernaut.
• 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 flips the bird in lieu of the 'two bits'.
• In the scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest goes on The Dick Cavett Show, Forrest has recently played ping-pong in China. As Forrest enters the studio, the (in-movie) band plays a jingle starting with an Asian-sounding tune and ending with Shave and a haircut.
• In Flubber, Professor Brainard tests Flubber's intelligence by blowing a raspberry to this beat, with Flubber giving the "two bits".
• Kingsman: The Secret Service: Lancelot uses this knock at the hideout where professor Arnold is locked. Perhaps wanting to appear inconspicuous.
• Used at the beginning of Kramer vs. Kramer by Ted Kramer when knocking at the door of his own home.
• In Lethal Weapon 4, Riggs honks this on his car horn upon disrupting the meeting between Wah Sing Ku and the General.
• Del Griffith clears his throat to this tune in Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
• In a scene in Spy Kids 1, 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.
• The Movie of On the Town has the main characters hiding under a street vendor's stand while being chased by police. One of them sticks out a sign saying, "Shave and a Haircut—75¢,"^note this would be SIX bits, which still fits the rhythm and the familiar snippet is heard.
• Several The Three Stooges short subject films have them. Usually a stooge (usually Curly) would tap something (usually a wall) and get a response from whatever is on the other side (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.
• Used in classic style in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, complete with the demonstration that Toons must, absolutely MUST complete the line if the "two bits" is omitted. Judge Doom knows how to use this to lure Roger out of hiding. Roger literally bursts through the wall of his hiding place just to hit his cue.
  Judge Doom: No Toon can resist the old "shave and a haircut" trick...
• 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!"
• 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.

• Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz by Langston Hughes:
  The musical figurine indicated after each "Ask your mama" line may incorporate the impudent little melody of the old break, "Shave and a haircut, fifteen cents."
• Discworld:
  • "Shave and a haircut, no legs" is the jingle of the Guild of Barber Surgeons.
  • Used as a secret knock ("The Hairdressers Barber-Surgeon's Knock") in Making Money.
  • At the start of the Music With Rocks In story Soul Music, "Shave and a haircut, two pence" is the very first thing the drummer plays.
    Lias: Shave and haircut good deal for two pence.
• Shows up in a couple of The Dresden Files novels. The first time it appears, Harry uses the words "six bits!" as the punchline - perhaps he learned of the gag from the Michelle Shocked example below in Music? Regardless, someone must have corrected him, as in a later book he uses the more common "two bits" version.
• According to John McCain's autobiography, Vietnamese people are unfamiliar with this ditty and would tap back "shave and a haircut" again, so he and other American POWs would use it as a Trust Password to hail each other through walls.

In General:

• Argentinian comic Carlos "Carlitos" Balá had this in his TV sketches as his signature greeting or knocking, using it each time he could. The first part, if not used for knocking, would be vocalized by him as "pa-pa-ra-ra-pa", and a chorus of children's voices would be heard responding with his last name: "Ba-lá!"

By Series:

• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: The Nelsons' neighbor "Thorny" Thornberry always announces his arrival with this knock.
• Andor: In "Announcement" when Cassian visits Bix during the night, he uses the shave-and-a-haircut knock on her door and appears to wait for the "two-bits" response.
• The Beverly Hillbillies: This snippet is frequently used as a stinger at scene's end on this show. It's always heard played by a banjo, closing out a short section of bluegrass-style "picking."
• The Big Bang Theory: Amy knocks "shave and a haircut" on her kitchen table when Sheldon claims that he has no problem leaving things unfinished. After a brief staring match he compulsively knocks "two bits".
• In the Blackadder II episode "Beer", Queenie knocks on Blackadder's door this way, with Percy rapping on the table inside for the last two notes.
• The theme for Camp Runamuck ends this way.
• The Captain And Tennille Show show had a recurring sketch called "Masterjoke Theatre" which opened with the very regal theme music from the real Masterpiece Theatre (from "Symphonies and Fanfares for the King's Supper" by Jean-Joseph Mouret), except the song ended with an equally regal version of this sting.
• Mexican comedy show Derbez en Cuando by Televisa used the Mexican meaning in a sketch from Eugenio Derbez's character Dr. Armando Hoyos, where he defined "lamentamos"^note literally "we lament", but for the purposes of the joke, taken as meaning "we insult their mothers" as "tata-ta-tata", which is how the Shave and a Haircut is known in that country.
• Doctor Who:
  • "The Enemy of the World": The Second Doctor mimes recorder-playing to indicate to Jamie that it is him and not Salamander. Jamie whistles the first part of 'shave and a haircut' and the Doctor happily finishes off with the "two bits".
  • "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'".
• Subverted on one episode of Full House: someone knocks at the front door "Shave and a haircut, two". The listening family nearly falls over when the expected "bits" doesn't land. (What kind of psychopath would do such a thing? Steve Urkel!)
• 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.
• The episodes of the German comedy series Klimbim always ended with this.
• In the Kraft Suspense Theatre episode "Are There Any More Out There Like You?", a college student plays the melody on his recorder.
• A variation of the song is in the closing theme music to Married... with Children.
• M*A*S*H:
  • 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!"
  • In "Bug Out", the unit has bugged out (except for Hawkeye, Margaret, and Radar) and see a shack they can use as a makeshift operating room. Upon hearing giggling (it's occupied by ladies of the night), B.J. knocks "Shave and a Haircut", then whistles "two bits".
• The Muppets Tonight version of The Muppet Show's "Mahna Mahna" sketch (where the pink... things have been appearing whenever Kermit says "phenomena") ends with Sandra Bullock's psychiatrist character saying "you should see what happens whenever I say "Shave and a haircut"... Cue a giant furry monster appearing out of nowhere, lounged across her desk: "Two bits!"
• Mystery Science Theater 3000:
  • In "Space Travelers", Joel and the 'Bots do the song in a riff following "Gregory Peck will be back in [for example] Mackenna's Gold!"
  • In "The Atomic Brain", the antagonist of the film spoofed knocks on a door to find out if two of the girls she has hired are in the room. Mike quips "'Shave and a Haircut'! What do we do?"
• Our Miss Brooks: Walter Denton usually rings the bell at Mrs. Davis', but a few times he knocks to the tune of "Shave and a Haircut". He has even honked the horn on his car to that tune; i.e. "The Loaded Custodian".
• Out of the Box: The song "Listen to the Rhythm" ends with the "shave and a haircut plus two bits" twice, the first by Tony and the second by the children and Vivian, befitting of it being the last "rhythm" for the song.
• Perry Mason: In the early seasons of the series, Paul Drake routinely knocks on the backdoor to Perry Mason's office to the tune of "Shave and a Haircut".
• QI: In the 10th-season Christmas Episode "Jingle Bells", in a discussion about astronauts playing practical jokes, Danny Baker mentions the Golden Record included in the Voyager probes, which contains pictures of humanity and the Earth, greetings in assorted languages and musical works ranging from Bach to Chuck Berry. Danny then says that a NASA guy he once spoke with told him that NASA also included the first five beats of the "Shave and a Haircut" knock, in the belief than any intelligent life wouldn't let it go, and some day they would receive the "Two bits" knock back from space.
• In Scrubs, J.D. visits Dr. Cox at home and knocks "shave and a haircut" on his door. Cox, exasperated, whips it open during the pause. J.D.: "Two bits."
• The Sooty Show: Sooty's Magic Wand was always activated by tapping it to the full "Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits" rhythm (sometimes preceded by the Catch-Phrase "Izzy-Wizzy, Let's Get Busy").
• A Black Comedy, punny example was used on an episode of Tales from the Crypt: after the Cryptkeeper, dressed as a barber, snips someone's ear off, we hear the victim scream. The Cryptkeeper then holds up the severed ear, sings this, and laughs.
• In Three's Company, "Shave & a Haircut" is Larry's distinctive knock on the door.
• During one "The News" segment of Top Gear (UK), while discussing national anthems (and how some of them could be quite long) with regards to the then-upcoming Olympics in London, James May argued that the UK could set an example for brevity by paring theirs down to "Shave and a Haircut."
• During Johnny Carson's hosting of The Tonight Show, the band would frequently end the opening theme with "Shave and a Haircut".
• At the end of the "Agatha All Along" theme from WandaVision, with Agatha interjecting "And I killed Sparky too!" before the "two bits".
• This is the password to get into Santos's secret stem-cell meeting in The West Wing.

• P.D.Q. Bach:
  • The theme of the Fugue in D minor from "The Short-Tempered Clavier" is built around the melody of "Shave and a Haircut".
  • The first aria of the P.D.Q. Bach cantata "Blaues Gras" ends with "Rasieren und Haarschneiden, zwei bitte." Which means, of course: "Shave and a haircut, two please."
• Victor Borge had a comedy bit about the lady who invented the "two bits" part, but without words so it was an unrecognizable couple of notes until the punchline where the phrase was played in full.
• It happens at the end of "Unsquare Dance" by Dave Brubeck.
• Happens at the end of "Piano Picker" by Carpenters.
• Richard Cheese's version of "Come Out and Play" by The Offspring ends with the famous original riff (on xylophone), then switches to this for the close.
• Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater has used this as an audience participation segment at the end of his drum solo.
• The Dubliners' rendition of the traditional "Finnegan's Wake" ends with the sting, and the lyrics "How's yer aul one? Game ball!" (Translation: "How's your mother?" "Very well thank you.")
• DVDA's version of "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" feature a guitar riff based on the rhythm of "Shave and a Haircut", and the phrase is also played on the drums after each chorus.
• The rapid strumming section of Nuno Bettencourt's solo in Extreme's Play With Me ends with one of these.
• The end of the Martin Garrix & Tiësto song, The Only Way is Up.
• Multiple iterations of the theme appear in the Jimmy Giuffre tune "Cloudburst." (The Sam Taylor recording of the song was turned into vocalese by Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross, and was covered notably by Barry Manilow, the New York Voices, and others.)
• At the end of Tom Lehrer's "The Elements", from An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer.
  And there may be many others, but they haven't been dis-covered!
  [shave-and-a-haircut playout]
• First two lines of chorus from "Verdinha" ("little green", slang both for a dollar bill and cannabis) by Brazilian singer Ludmilla are five of those seven notes ("two bits" notes are out). For some reason.
• The song "I Know What I Want" by No Secrets incorporates this melody in the chorus.
• The shortest musical single ever released was called "Magic Melody, Part 2," by Les Paul. It consisted entirely of "two bits!" and lasted less than one second. Part 1 had ended abruptly on "Shave and a Haircut," and DJs had been complaining.
• Pete Rugolo built an entire arrangement around the theme, creatively titled "Shave and a Haircut". It was a follow-up of sorts to his "Theme from the Lombardo Ending", which was built around the five-note figure which Guy Lombardo's orchestra often used to end its songs.
• Both sections of "Sally Ann/Sally Goodin", better known as "that bluegrass song from Encarta", end with it.
• An instance of a song opening with this is Franz Schubert's Military March No. 1 in D major, though in this case the "two bits" is omitted and the second-to-last note in the opening goes down rather than up.
• The first LP put out by David Seville and the Chipmunks included the song "Yankee Doodle." Near the start, Alvin sings "...and called it spaghetti" instead of "macaroni" much to Dave's annoyance. The song ends with the chipmunks singing "Shave and a haircut — SPAGHETTI!"
• The Japanese rap song "Shiroi Yami no Naka" by Shakkazombie ends in this.
• At the end of Michelle Shocked's version of "The Arkansas Traveler"(?) the old man playing the farmer in the dialogue parts ends up flubbing the classic ending, "Shave and a haircut: two bits!" by saying "six bits" instead. This is followed by his and Michelle's raucous laughter, and the old man muttering the quip, "Six bits?...I'll saw you in half for six bits...."
• The original version of "Love and Marriage" by Frank Sinatra ends with this.
• The Smothers Brothers have a bit involving church bells that combined to form the tune.
• The chorus of "Little Willy" by Sweet is built around this, albeit with minor alterations to the melody and rhythm ("Little Willy, Willy won't... go home.").
• "Everything About You" by Ugly Kid Joe ends with this.
• In nearly every one of his polka medleys, "Weird Al" Yankovic includes "Shave and a Haircut" right before the final few notes.
• The end of the "Cabbage Rolls and Coffee Polka" by Yosh and Stan Schmenge of SCTV fame contains multiple variations on the theme... which goes on for half a minute. (Most of their polkas ended with shave-and-a-haircut, as a running gag.)
• David Zed's Italo Disco song "I Am a Robot" has it at the end.

• In Season 12, Episode 1 of Add To Playlist, a BBC Radio 4 music show in which each guest has to provide a piece of music with some kind of connection to the previous one, Richard Stilgoe follows up Lehrer's "The Elements" with "Shave and a Haircut" by Billy Watson and His International Silver String Submarine Band, an extended riff on the phrase, and also goes into some detail about the history of the phrase, tracing it back to "At a Darktown Cakewalk" by Charles Hale in 1899, and from there to actual cakewalks and the West African tradition.
• In The Goon Show episode "The Great Bank of England Robbery", Neddie, Eccles, and Bloodnok are trapped underground. When tapping on the walls and receiving mysterious replies, Eccles taps out the first part and, in the silence that follows, ribs the listeners for expecting the second part but is interrupted by the *Two Bits!* tap.
• In a 2013 episode of The Now Show, Mitch Benn sang a music-hall style song about the then-current resignation of Pope Benedict XVII, "What Do You Do With a Bloke Who's Pope (When the Bloke Ain't Pope No More)?", which ended with him singing "Ave Maria, amen!" to "Shave and a haircut".

• "I Can Do That" from "A Chorus Line" ends with this riff.
• "This Is The Life" from The Musical version of Golden Boy finishes off the spoken call-and-response patter with:
  Group: Shave and a haircut—
  Joe: Me next!
• Half A Sixpence, the 1965 Tommy Steele vehicle based on the H. G. Wells novel Kipps (filmed with Steele in 1967, revived without him in 2016), the chorus of the song "Flash Bang Wallop", about a Victorian wedding photo, ends with "Stick it in your fam'ly album!"
• I Can Get It For You Wholesale uses this riff in the middle of the Opening Ballet.
• A "shave and a haircut" riff oddly comes right in the middle of the Shipoopi song in The Music Man.
• The New Moon uses a minor variant of this at the end of the eccentric dance following "Love Is Quite A Simple Thing."
• West Side Story has it sung at the end of "Gee, Officer Krupke", albeit with triplet eighth notes rather than regular eighth notes for "Officer":
  "Gee, Of-fi-cer Krup-ke, KRUP YOU!"

• If you run out of lives in the Game Within a Game in The Adventures of Willy Beamish on Sega CD, the "game over" tune ends with a speedy "shave and a haircut".
• Batman: Dark Tomorrow: After subduing a group of Arkham inmates, Batman hears someone playing an organ tune, and goes to investigate. The camera pans over to the organ and reveals it's Joker, who ends his session with a contrasting "Shave and a Haircut" snippet.
• Three cartoon shorts were created for Bendy and the Ink Machine Chapter 3. One of them is called "Haunted Hijinx,'' and it ends with this tune.
• Chrono Trigger featured a version of the tune, titled "Rat-a-Tat-Tat, It's . . . Mitsuda!", in its toughest ending. (Yasunori Mitsuda was the composer.)
• Cuphead has a song from the soundtrack, "Winner Takes All", where this "Shave and a Haircut" tune plays at the end.
• Donkey Konga: The song for the juggling minigame is "Turkey and the Straw", but ends with Shave and a Haircut.
• In the beginning of EarthBound (1994), Pokey/Porky knocks on the door in a very annoying fashion. In the middle of the knocks is the classic "Shave and a Haircut".
• The first five notes appear at about 55 seconds into the stage 2 theme from Gimmick! (1992).
• The Glider PRO house "AutoPilot" has a room titled "Shave and a Haircut," where 'Copters are set to spawn in this rhythm.
• In Grand Theft Auto IV, sometimes when you honk the first half of this tune using a cat horn, other drivers will respond with the rest.
• 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.
• In Jazzpunk, this is the secret knock to get into the hotel in the Soviet Embassy level.
• In the third game of the Joe & Mac series (Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics), the first part of the Game Over jingle is a variation on this familiar two-bar motif.
• In both LEGO Indiana Jones games, whenever you knock on a door.
• Mario Kart 64: One of the car horns in Toad's Turnpike makes this sound. Check the Real Life section below to see why kids in Mexico found this really amusing.
• In Chapter 2 of Nocturne (1999), Ma Smith gives The Stranger their family's "secret knock" so he can rescue her children from their hiding place in the midst of a small-scale Zombie Apocalypse. The Stranger sarcastically commends Ma on her originality when it turns out to just be the familiar melody.
• In Nuts & Milk, the "MIS TAKE" jingle (for when the player loses a life) is a variation on this familiar two-bar motif.
• In Ponpoko, this is used as the Game Over jingle.
• Rhythm Heaven:
  • Used in "The Snappy Trio" from the first game, at the end of the song.
  • Another minigame, "Dr. Bacteria" has this attached to the end of the song before it loops.
  • This comes up again in Rhythm Heaven Megamix, found at both the beginning and the end of "Catchy Tune."
• In the Arcade Version of Ring King (a.k.a. King of Boxer), this is used as the Game Over jingle after you lose the match.
• Oncoming traffic will occasionally honk the rhythm at you in Road Rash 3: Tour de Force.
• One of the bosses in Rocket Knight Adventures (whom you face in a few smaller battles before the end of the stage) has this accompany each of his defeats at your hands.
• "Sting Barbershop" in Spore is used as the death sting of Clark & Stanley, who appear in a large string of adventures.
• In Super Mario Bros Deluxe, it can be heard in the main menu theme.
• Um Jammer Lammy:
  • "I Am a Master, and You", Lammy's version of the Chop Chop Master Onion stage, eventually evolves into this quite subtly, eventually—unsurprisingly—finishing off with it.
  • Also occurs in the outro of Stage 1.
• In Zero Wing, this riff finishes off the ending theme of the arcade version.

• Gorgeous Freeman uses this as a gag. As Freeman is surrounded by more and more Combine soldiers every way he looks, he glances over a door. A soft knock is heard on the opposite end, hitting first six notes before it explodes off its hinges revealing more Combine.
• A clip of Suisei from hololive clapping the Shave and a Haircut in frustration while playing online video games, which in context sounds quite Mexican in meaning.
• Spanish-speaking YouTube Poop often uses this beat in the Mexican sense, specifically for being extremely offensive.
• Wileyk209zback: In most of his Big Bad Wolf videos where he plays a record of the Disneyland Records studio cast version of Disney's The Three Little Pigs, there's a part where the Wolf on the record knocks this way on Practical Pig's brick house, and usually after that, the actual Big Bad Wolf sings "Two bits!" This is borrowed from a gag he and his friend Tomblappy came up with for Golden Book Video Killers.

• Ace Ventura used this in the Animated Adaptation: He suspects he's being followed and does the "Shave and a Haircut" on his cat, since the other cat responded with the two bits, he knows he's being followed.
• Animaniacs did this a lot, particularly with Yakko's songs (and also with "Wakko's America").
  • The end of the theme song to Pinky and the Brain. "Narf!"
• Toph of Avatar: The Last Airbender knocked on a steel door this way in the Grand Finale, but instead of knocking the "bits" part she knocked the door down. She then turned it into armor, and used it to defeat multiple superpowered firebenders in a couple seconds.
• Classic Disney Shorts:
  • This tune is how Pete makes his entrance in "The Klondike Kid", but done with revolver shots.
  • "Steamboat Willie" uses this to end the "Turkey in the Straw" sequence.
  • In the Donald Duck cartoon "Trailer Horn", Chip and Dale drop a bunch of pine cones on Donald's breakfast and break his dishes to this tune, with the last two cones hitting Donald in the head for the "Two bits".
• Used at the end of most Camp Lazlo episodes.
• Garfield and Friends: Binky the Clown uses this at the end of his birthday song in "Peace and Quiet".
• The Chilly Willy cartoon "Hot and Cold Penguin" uses this as Smedley the dog makes dance-like movements as he drops to the floor to sleep. Chilly does it himself at the end.
• Phil Ken Sebben in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: "Shave and a haircut, two ti-whoah, hold on".
• Too many Looney Tunes cartoons to name. "Show Biz Bugs" is an excellent example of this.
• Done twice in "We're Despicable (Plunderers' March)" in Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol.
• Several episodes of UPA's Mr. Magoo and The Dick Tracy Show end with this, particularly the episodes made at Jayark Films (Larry Harmon Studios).
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Used in the episode "Fall Weather Friends", when Applejack makes the apples from a tree fall on Rainbow Dash's head in tune with this melody.
  • One wishes they'd had a bet for two of the Equestrian coin of the realm; the Bit.
  • The special end credits for "Pinkie Pride" ends with this.
• Phineas and Ferb: In "Fireside Girl Jamboree", Candace falls asleep on the keyboard after spending all night trying to win special VIP tickets to a Paisley Sideburn Brothers concert; when she sits up, some of the keys that stuck to her face pop right off as the melody plays in the background, and she spits out two more keys to the "two bits" part.
• In The Ren & Stimpy Show, a synthesised version is used right after Mr. Horse delivers his famous "No sir, I didn't like it." line from "Fire Dogs".
  • Also appears in the "Happy Happy Joy Joy" song (minus the two bits) at the end of each chorus.
• On an animated insert on Sesame Street, An animated orange ball plays a scale on the musical staircase. And then ends with the tune (But the last 2 notes were wrong), And gets applauded by the audience.
• The Simpsons:
  • "I Love Lisa" had it at the end of the President's Day assembly's song for "lesser" Presidents.
  • "Last Tap Dance In Springfield" uses the tune when Professor Frink demonstrates his applause-powered tap dancing shoes for Lisa.
• The SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Bunny Hunt" ends with this tune.
• Played by Owen in the Total Drama episode "I Triple Dog Dare You" on his freebie bottles.

• The Italian one (Ammazza la vecchia col Flit) means "Kill the old woman with DDT!"
• The phrase "hasta la vista, baby" fits the sting almost perfectly.
• Nardwuar the Human Serviette ends all his interviews with "doot doola doot doo" and the interviewee provides the "doot doo" at the end.
• A popular variation in the United Kingdom was "How's your father? All right!" the first part of which became slang for a certain act, as in "A bit of 'ows-yer-father".
• Used at the end of "George and Lil", a 1980s PIF about burglary prevention.
• In Icelandic it's Saltkjöt og baunir! Túkall!, meaning Salt mutton and pease pudding! Two crowns!.
• In Mexico it's known as tata-ta-tata and it means ¡Chinga tu madre, cabrón!, meaning Fuck your mother, asshole!. Do not knock on a Mexican's door with this pattern unless you have enough of a friendship to justify it as friendly teasing^note while this sting is always considered offensive, Mexican humor is also edgy to the point of being able to pass off such an otherwise huge offense as minor if you are not Mexican or have enough of a friendship with the victim. If you hear this tune being honked in a Mexican street, that means someone is having a fit of road rage — this led to an American Urban Legend which claims that if you honk the tune on your horn in a Mexican neighborhood, you'll likely be shot dead (which is not necessarily true, but given its local meaning, it has a very real possibility of leading to violent incidents).
• As noted under "Literature," American POWs in Vietnam communicated by tapping Morse code on their cell walls. One would initiate a conversation by tapping the familiar "shave and a haircut" pattern as a form of Trust Password. The other person would finish with a "two bits" knock. If the respondent instead repeated "shave and a haircut", it meant he was a Vietnamese agent.
• In Sweden there are two 'lyrics' to this tune. The oldest is "Kvart över elva, halv tolv." "A quarter past eleven, half an hour to twelve." The second is the cough-drop ad jingle above.
• This video on making an electronic secret knock detector of course uses it as the secret knock.
• An old novelty book called Telephone Songs (or something like that) listed the buttons to "play" as 9-4-4-2-1-6-6. Now go try it yourself.
• A children's playground song used for counting people out uses the tune:
  Skunk in the barnyard.
  PU!
  Somebody ate it.
  That's you!
• All of the current My Little Pony generations can be said to this tune, as most people refer to them as either "Gen" or "G", followed by their number - try saying phrases like "My Little Pony G3" or "My Little Pony Gen 4" in this tune, and you'll get the idea.
• In Morse Code, the sequence slash M (/ M) has exactly this rhythm (dah di di dah dit [pause] dah dah).