Take 5: Hair ye, hair ye
Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson on NBC's "Parks and Recreation. Credit: NBC
"Whisker Wars," which debuts Aug. 5 on IFC, takes a look at the world of competitive facial-hair growing. (Really.) To honor such an eminent sport, we'd like to offer five candidates from the TV world whose beards or mustaches have truly been hair-raising.
1. RUPERT BONEHAM ("Survivor") -- Wily dude looked like a roadshow version of Harry Potter's Hagrid even before he began his time on the island.
2. UNCLE JESSE (Denver Pyle, "The Dukes of Hazzard," right) -- What Santa might look like had he lived in Hazzard County instead of the North Pole.
3. RON SWANSON (Nick Offerman, "Parks and Recreation") -- Because he has the audacity to wear a '70s porn-star 'stache in 2011.
4. SNIDELY WHIPLASH ("Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties") -- Baseball's handlebar king Rollie Fingers had nothing on this animated evildoer.
5. MAYNARD G. KREBS (Bob Denver, "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis") -- His "beatnik" chin whiskers looked like the beards you used to make with a magnetic wand and iron filings from the old "Wooly Willy" toys.
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