# The greatest mullets of movie history **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 30, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404 "2020-08-30T23:09:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/1 "2020-08-30T23:09:41Z")
Tele 5 is a German TV channel that plays 5 percent real cult movies, 20 percent movies that are so bad they’re really good and 75 percent real honestly bad movies. But tonight they had a real run with three movies of the second category: [Explorers (1985)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089114/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1), [The Blob (1988 Remake,](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094761/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) a really GREAT splatter movie) and [They Live (1988)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/) now running. Now in Explorers, the kid who was NOT River Phoenix (who of course wore thick glasses because he’s the nerd, wink wink) or Ethan Hawke [had a respectable mullet](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1a/d6/0f/1ad60fd1ebfa68bd1699ea75b8b89815.jpg), but that was topped by [Kevin Dillon in The Blob,](https://cdn-a.prisma.de/cdn/img/default/11/105112_5c8ffa80ffeeb369ef9b82c18d002252_980x365re0.jpg) who sported an impressionable mat of hair. But what can I tell you, all that got wiped out by [Roddy Piper in They Live](https://imagesvc.meredithcorp.io/v3/mm/image?q=85&c=sc&poi=face&w=612&h=320&url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.onecms.io%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F6%2F2015%2F07%2Froddy-piper-they-live.jpg)!!! I suspect that almost every response will be from around 1985-92, but I would especially welcome examples from other times. Keep the mullets coming! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/2 "2020-08-30T23:12:53Z")
There can be only one! [![](https://www.macgyveronline.com/wp-content/uploads/MacGyver-featured-678x381.jpg) ](https://www.macgyveronline.com/wp-content/uploads/MacGyver-featured-678x381.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/3 "2020-08-30T23:14:33Z")
I always think Kevin Sorbo, but I don’t want to look it up to see if that’s right (not without financial incentive). ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/4 "2020-08-30T23:17:01Z")
I apparently don’t get to see that, but I always think of Joe Dirt. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/5 "2020-08-30T23:41:13Z")
Thats pronounced Der-tey thank you. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/6 "2020-08-30T23:47:52Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I apparently don’t get to see that, but I always think of Joe Dirt. Yeah, nice hair, but that is parody. I rather meant mullets appearing as totally in conformity with the fashion of the times, like my examples. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/7 "2020-08-31T00:33:56Z")
TV rather than a movie, but MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) totally rocked the mullet. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/8 "2020-08-31T00:35:00Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > TV rather than a movie, but MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) totally rocked the mullet That was post #2. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/9 "2020-08-31T00:37:29Z")
Wayne’s World ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/10 "2020-08-31T00:41:52Z")
Any movie with Don Swayze. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/11 "2020-08-31T00:42:21Z")
They may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR MULLETS! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/12 "2020-08-31T03:48:25Z")
Another TV and not movie, but Danny McBride in _Eastbound and Down_. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/13 "2020-08-31T06:16:58Z")
The most popular streamer sports a (wigged) mullet. 😲 > **[Dr Disrespect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Disrespect)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Herschel Beahm IV (born March 10, 1982), better known as Dr Disrespect or SPECT or Mr. 2 Time, is an American video game streamer. He had over 4 million followers on Twitch when he was active on the site, and became known for playing battle royale games such as Apex Legends, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Call of Duty: Warzone, Fortnite, H1Z1, and PUBG: Battlegrounds. > In June 2020, Dr Disrespect was banned from Twitch and his channel was removed from... ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/14 "2020-08-31T12:29:25Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > That was post #2. Post 2 is a broken link to an image… ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/15 "2020-08-31T12:45:31Z")
If concert films qualify, here is Bono on U2: Live at Red Rocks (1983) [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ASSA_oKg4_6c010dAB4KYpx6D5eHhhdeoXC28FB9dFVWiWTXv3PUMWoWxxeq90pDptWO6iPb43GqReKiiq7iQSGCdEAWzXfUn6zw0OFTCzi2xSaMuTbgwqLyh-ioiN8ThwRgBvkjZA=w432-h315-p-k "New item by John Thornton") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/HuLv4VoSmkm8hv7d6) ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/16 "2020-08-31T12:57:51Z")
Lost Boys. Kiefer Sutherland has quite an impressive mullet, as do a couple of others. > **[Bloody Good Fun: Sink Your Teeth Into These Secrets About The Lost Boys - E!...](https://www.eonline.com/amp/news/1175075/bloody-good-fun-sink-your-teeth-into-these-24-secrets-about-the-lost-boys)** > > Joel Schumacher's 1987 cult classic gave vampires a cool-dude makeover for the new millennium and (maybe unintentionally) provided as many laughs as scares. (Link selected just to get an image.) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/17 "2020-08-31T14:24:46Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > > [@needscoffee](#): > > > > That was post #2. > > Post 2 is a broken link to an image…  Strange, the link works fine for me. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/18 "2020-08-31T14:57:13Z")
Mel Gibson had an impressive mullet in Lethal Weapon.It’s more of the “Camaro” variant than “Mississippi Mudflap”. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/19 "2020-08-31T15:08:24Z")
Both [Cher and Meryl](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/fd/9e/22/fd9e22ddfc24fb1f75b1e3d833edc797--merly-streep-labor-union.jpg) sported mullets for their characters in _Silkwood_. Interestingly enough, Kurt Russell, who was also in the movie, had one IRL but not for this movie. ---
**Author:** ![HammondsCollapse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HammondsCollapse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HammondsCollapse)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404/20 "2020-09-01T09:14:07Z")
Randall Flagg in The Stand 1994 [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1a/Randall\_Flagg\_(Jamey\_Sheridan).jpg/170px-Randall\_Flagg\_(Jamey\_Sheridan).jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1a/Randall_Flagg_%28Jamey_Sheridan%29.jpg/170px-Randall_Flagg_%28Jamey_Sheridan%29.jpg) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-mullets-of-movie-history/919404.md?page=2)