TV's Best Mullets: From 'Dog The Bounty Hunter' To 'The Facts Of Life' (PHOTOS)

Love them or hate them, mullets are a part of our mane history. And TV characters are no exception to bad hair days.

Luckily, the simultaneously crop-top, free-flowing style is mostly in our past. (Right, formerly-mulleted, newly-engaged Mario Lopez?) But some are in our small screen present, like Dog Chapman of "Dog the Bounty Hunter," (premieres Wed., Jan. 4 at 10 p.m. EST on A&E) who is still rocking the business in the front, party in the back. To celebrate Lopez's engagement and Season 8 of "Dog," we're taking a trip down TV mullet memory lane.

Who can forget Jo's (Nancy McKeon) epic Flock of Seagulls-esque style during the later years of "The Facts of Life"? And how many times did MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) save the day while his glorious mane blew freely in the wind? Plus, there's Elvis-loving Uncle Jesse's (John Stamos) mullet, which is basically the king of mullets, from "Full House." And who could forget Captain Planet and his environment-saving cartoon mullet of green greatness?

Take a look at 25 TV's most renowned mullets through the years and rank them as you see fit!

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[ShamaLlama]

02:00 AM on 01/09/2012

How could they possible leave out Billy Ray Cyrus??

[Chipara Namid]

01:50 AM on 01/09/2012

Not one of these hair cut they are showing are mullets...
The hair style is what was refered to as a bi-level hair cut...period...
A mullet is were the sides are SHAVED and the top is SPIKED and the back is LONG...
Don't write about something you know nothing about...
MovingOn...^_^

[ckc57tbird]

01:22 PM on 01/10/2012

You are absolutely right!!!

[Chipara Namid]

09:45 PM on 01/10/2012

Why... thank you..
For the reply...
Yeah, it really burns me...
When some people think...
They know what their talking about with hairstyles...
I took my state board test for my Cosmology license...
In San Francisco when I was only Seventeen back in the mid. eighties...
I passed being one of the top three...
Oh I did my share of the Real Mullet and the ever popular bi-level...
Thanks again...Have a great day...^_^

[myopinion5]

10:41 PM on 01/08/2012

I don't care how much fun people make of mullets or shag haircuts I still like them on men. Soooo much better than a buzz cut. At least you have something to run your fingers through and play with, while you are deciding your place or mine.

I'll date a man with a mullet or shag over a man with a buzz cut everytime.

[jejozi]

10:07 PM on 01/08/2012

Long hair does not a mullet make. David Cassidy and Florence Henderson were shags.

[lite9389]

09:57 PM on 01/08/2012

David Cassidy's haircut was really more of a shag than a mullet.

[pamela hoop]

09:54 PM on 01/08/2012

Did you all know that Andre Agassi's mullet was a wig. I read his book and was shocked when he confessed that. He was self conscious of his thinning hair at such a young age so he wore that mullet wig. He spoke about how he was nervous that is would fly off his head when he played or it would move out of place. Besides his amazing tennis, he was known for his unconventional mullet hair dew in the tennis world. And......it was a wig. Go figure.

[pamela hoop]

09:40 PM on 01/08/2012

MacGyver definitely had the best mullet. Keith Parrtidge (David Cassidy) comes in a close second. They are in my day and age. I feel a little giddy talking about it. Man.....I'm such a nerd!!

[FANTOMFAN]

09:22 PM on 01/08/2012

BEST SPORTS ANALYST MULLETT: BARRY MELROSE, ESPN HOCKEY

[JoMomma6]

09:18 PM on 01/08/2012

The first picture (Duane "Dog" Chapman) is not a mullet - not even close.

[DizzyDancing12]

08:30 PM on 01/08/2012

I had a wig (on sale for $20.00) that looked just like Mrs. Brady's hair-do. I looked so cool.

[pisswilliepete]

08:11 PM on 01/08/2012

This list is pathetic..lol, a third of these aren't even mullets. Where in the heck did they find the person/persons to do this list!? anyone on this forum that grew up in that time era and even younger could have done a MUCH better job...

[rseas]

08:41 PM on 01/08/2012

I agree with you. I lot of those styles are "shags" not mullets.

[Perriwinkle]

09:02 PM on 01/08/2012

Thank you! I was thinking the same thing.

[krisnelson800]

07:58 PM on 01/08/2012

I miss the "good old days" of T.V., when everything was clean and fun. Now we have to deal with "reality T.V."

[pisswilliepete]

08:21 PM on 01/08/2012

I couldn't agree with you more!

[Linda Moberg]

07:57 PM on 01/08/2012

I guess age shows with this haircut. Back in '71 or '72 when women had this cut, which I had, it was called a "shag", not many men wore it then, but I guess for guys "mullet" sounded more masculine. Calling women's haircut a "mullet" is a bit odd and I have never heard them called that. Oh well life goes on as they say. I loved my "shag" and wore if for about a year and then changed it and grew it out. I also had the Farrah Fawcett cut in the mid '70s and wore if for at least 2 yrs. Of course, mine never stayed as great as her's as I did my hair myself and it was so thick that it wasn't made for that kind of cut, but I loved it! My son, now 32, also had a "mullet" in the late 80s and before that he had a "tail" that we would sometimes braid, that went halfway down his back. He was about 8 when he started growing the "tail" cut it off when he was about 10, then the mullet in 7th or 8th grade. He was so cute! The girls just loved it. lol For some it was a great cut on the guys, for the women most could wear it if they didn't let it get to bushy where it was long.

[DizzyDancing12]

08:35 PM on 01/08/2012

"Back in '71 or '72 when women had this cut, which I had, it was called a "shag", "

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I think Jane Fonda started that trend in the movie "Klute." Girls would say to give them a haircut just like hers from the movie (all politics aside...please no Vietnam comments...I am just talking about hair).

[pslcitizen]

07:42 PM on 01/08/2012

The mullet officially died when the world saw Billy Ray Cyrus sporting it.. John Stamos & a few others looked hot in that do. Dog the Bounty Hunter looks like an very old man who is trying very desperately to hold onto his long past youth...

[travelingblogger]

07:37 PM on 01/08/2012

Geez. Almost NONE of those hairstyles are mullets. A couple are even shags (Flo Henderson in particular) and the rest are simply Perms Gone Wild. Some don't even come close to a mullet.

The "True Grand Daddy of All Mullets" is Billy Ray Cryus. THAT is a true mullet: shaved head sides at the ears and long down the back. They're pretty close to a mohawk cut.

Huffpost.. get your facts right. You're starting to act like Faux News.