Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits Knock

[@pretentiousteatime]

I honestly just found out this knock has a name....

[@marcjugmohan]

Same here I've been doing this since I was a kid too

[@kl06m.]

@@marcjugmohan ME TOO

[@josegalvan5654]

Same here....watching shameless with the subtitles on...

[@mrfclarke]

Never watched who framed roger rabbit then.

[@mrsmellulatter1216]

I found out after watching who framed Rodger rabbit

[@RXI63]

I thought we were all born knowing how to make this tune

[@danielburdine9036]

same ngl

[@freyja2001]

yes and i think its a universal thing

[@nosu5530]

Yea agree

[@Caac4aw]

Barber knock 💀💀💀

[@reignrevival2689]

My dad has used this knock on every door, everywhere for everyone for the entire 2 decades of my life and the 3 decades before mine. This whole time I didn't know it had a name

[@JessicaLovesFoxes]

My dad does too!

[@lucasfbazzini3114]

me too

[@thomasandfriendsrailfanner4836]

My mom did the same thing.

[@scapeshiftmeta]

But did you know it’s from Vietnam War POW’s using this knock to identify other American POW’s? It’s cliché to trail off after the first 5 knocks and leave it to someone else to finish with the last 2 knocks- but it’s likely straight out of POW camps and we don’t even realize it was a communication code.

[@reignrevival2689]

@@scapeshiftmeta I didn’t actually know that thanks for sharing that. Luckily that’s not where my family picked it up, not directly at least.

[@LD-hs9iv]

Wait I've been doing this my entire life without realising? I just did this series of knocks because it sounded nice

[@eesr]

sameee

[@xChimkin]

iconic, fun

[@LennyQUMFIF]

Same. I even heard how Cars always Honked like this lmao.

[@Mudkip_lieker13]

same

[@JesusLightsYourPath]

you heard it from somewhere

[@GigaMan91]

Knew of this knock all my life, but never knew the name of it. Now I know.

[@Paul_Gamer297]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@AquaOnYoutube]

FROM ALL THESE YEARS IVE FOUND IT, IVE FOUND IT

[@sitsia3808]

Xd

[@potatoesandducks958]

This rhythm is like the universal S. Everyone knows it but doesn't know that everyone else also knows it, nor that it has a name

[@Don.Taco1103]

Gossip girl, when blair said dorota was a stickler for shave and haircut

[@zackpatton]

Thought I would be the only one that did this and came to this exact video. What are the odds

[@heyitselladean545]

@@zackpatton Same omg

[@kiyaelizabeth7588]

Thats also why I'm here 😂

[@444luvrr]

YESSS LOL

[@SerenaShado]

SAME

[@chagito1113]

I have been searching SO long for this. I didnt even think it had a name so I gave up. This is truly the knock of all time.

[@RandomMajin]

*Busts through the wall* TWO- BIIIIIIITS- *gets grabbed around the throat*

[@davidadams2211]

It's such a good day, TO BE. Toons gets um every time.

[@eliotero9335]

Right now I feel like serving some justice. Bring me some DIP. 🛢☠️

[@tantalizingtiddies7387]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the only reason I know what this knock is. I've always knocked like this ever since I was little. I didn't even know it was a thing till now

[@JHS270694]

Bust through the wall with, two hits!

[@JAKECOT_CENTER]

No toon can resist the old shave and haircut trick

[@RammsteinLover294]

I first heard this knock when playing Lego Indiana Jones at my great grandma's house when I was like 8. Dr. Jones knocked on a door just like that and my great grandma said "shave and a haircut, two bits!" And I looked at her like she was crazy. Years later after she has passed away I still think of her every time I hear this knock

[@jackhudner3804]

That's where I heard it too! If I remember correctly, Indy knocks like that when trying to access guard posts - if you aren't dressed like a German soldier, you aren't let in.

[@NessLover94]

My trademark knocking whenever I'm going to see my best friend in his flat.

[@spizun]

Flats are awesome.

[@Vasily_dont_be_silly]

Same, also instead of the last hit I burst open the door

[@matheusmariani3108]

"No toon can resist to this" Judge Doom

[@russwentz3957]

I have been wondering for the longest time where that so popular knock came from! Thank you for this clip.

[@raehik]

my dad taps out this tune half the time he moves rooms. it resounds in my head nonstop. curse of the british

[@kevinhosein3676]

Has nobody ever seen Who Framed Roger Rabit??? The evil guy says and does the knock when he draws Roger out. No toon can resist the ol shave and a haircut.

[@MagsMusicfan9]

Okay, Im 53, I lost my Dad in 2012. Every time he came to pick me up somewhere when I was younger he would beep the horn to this sound. It used to embarrass me to tears! Id be “Can you just beep once?” Sometimes I would wait outside so he didnt have to hit the horn. All my life he did it in the car, knocking on doors but I dont think he ever sang words to it. Sadly, I never asked him about it cause honestly I thought it was a “MY Dad” thing. So, Im very happy to have found this tonight! Thank you for posting! ❤

[@sugarperez6933]

Walking dead subtitles brought me here lol

[@theeplaguedoctor3516]

THEY BROUGHT ME HERE RIGHT NOW! I just figured out there was a name to this sound lmfao... also we are looking at the part where Dwight is looking at the “go now” note and they come in and beat his ass, right?

[@riptidereaper2716]

yes that's where this knock is in the 2nd half of season 7

[@madollamike]

big same

[@EM-vr8ip]

Months ago I googled this and learned the name of this knock. I never knew the name or how it came about. We used to do this when I was little. I guess my sisters and I just learned it from the other kids in our neighborhood, lol. So funny. 😂

[@blee3181]

Literally found this knock’s name through watching this TV series called My Ghost Story: Caught On Camera (Episode 67) 🤣

[@Bongbongo]

If theres a zombie apocalypse this is a good way to show that your a human 😂

[@emilyjonah3691]

0:02 * bashes through the wall * "TWO BITS!"

[@courtneymann7618]

Came here from watching the walking dead season 7 episode 11. The captions read the name..and I had to rewind twice to realize there was an actual name.and history behind this knock! Pretty interesting.

[@RobBanks2006]

Bro, saaaaaaaaame!

[@anothergamingchannel2656]

Literally the same exact thing. I just saw it and had to google it because I never realized that knock had a name until I saw it in the caption lol

[@sullynutz1019]

I'm here from shameless season 11

[@Saydin-qg9mk]

Yooo same here , I was like wtf ! Then I hit google up lool

[@G0LDN5]

I was expecting someone to open the door and yell, "WHAT?!"

[@SpiderJAAM]

I'm pretty sure it's either a Beethoven symphony or Michael Jackson's Thriller. Also, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody it's a good honorable mention.

[@chanu1704]

Literally everyone's secret knock!

[@liaduenow9494]

41k people watched a 4 second video on someone knocking on a door and I decided to do it to- quarantine most be getting to me

[@rhea9474]

Roger Rabbit would be proud 😍

[@drenchedinsyrupp6059]

This was canonically the password to The God Emperor of Mankind’s gene-vaults in Warhammer 40k. I’m not making this up.

[@dominicesquivel3901]

Which canonically proves the fact the E was a fucker.

[@michealfoux]

this knock is a fuckin pattern i do with everyshit..honestly it's hard to have ocd lol

[@PrimeTimeE-jt6dd]

Who's here watching a breakdown of the music video

[@KascadeP]

Takes me back to 9th grade where me and 3 others would meet up at the computer lab to hang out with the Teacher, He was chill and this became our signature knock for us to know that it's us who's knocking. We used to play Warcraft and Dota 1 on the computers, good times.

[@Rezurrect_]

The universal PMC + Scav extract rhyme in tarkov.

[@itswazowski]

yeah this takes me back to being 2 years old and not having any thoughts about what life is

[@eze4068]

the captions on AHS brought me here lmao

[@notginaa4]

literally 😂

[@jahnikash]

Me too 🤣🤣🤣

[@kanakrandheer]

definitely one of my favourite knocks

[@Neoheim.]

This knock features in Frozen, which takes place in 1843 (she first performs the knock in 1830 from my calculations) but the song in which this knock originates from had first debuted on 1899 so Anna shouldn’t have performed the knock.

[@freduruk6623]

gonna get into Big E's genecraft labs with this

[@lyndellrobinson3611]

I was just listening to a creepypasta narrated by Scary JuJu and the Shave and a Haircut knock was mentioned. I assumed this was the knock being referred to. So glad to be able to confirm it. 🙂🙂

[@CaptainCretaceous91]

No toon can resist the old Shave and a Haircut trick!

[@frithfiver]

Watching a show with subtitles taught me that this knock has a name

[@lessonmet5291]

I looked for the name of this knock for a decade. We all know it, but never think it had a name

[@stormtendo]

I have heard this tune in so many cartoons. Never once did I know it had a name

[@GavinoGotIt]

What's the password? I see dead people.

[@videodingus]

3 Stooges knock never knew it had a name

[@Pokpak_Manoban]

Well I came here because of Toph Beifong😂

[@JasonDogbey]

Who’s here after Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us video?

[@chatobalencian1504]

Kendrick brought me here with this knock i wonder whats the meaning behind the knock against drake

[@BuckshotLaFunke1]

I read somewhere that this was a slogan with New York barbers: 'Shave and a haircut, shampoo!'

[@metalboy5150]

Not "shampoo." It's "Shave and a haircut, two bits!" Two bits is very old American slang for 25 cents. By the way, good luck finding a barber that will do a shave and a haircut (or even one of the two) for 25 cents nowadays.

[@BuckshotLaFunke1]

@@metalboy5150 Aha, thanks!

[@apathly]

good thing to know that I'm not the only one having this thought!

[@smusky4643]

I always use this. Seems like I'm the only one in my town who does, because they always recognize that it's me there.

[@Insanity554]

I can now die happily knowing the name of it.

[@henriksirkku]

i dont know where i learned it but always knocking this to my 420 buddies and few guys laughed about recognizing the way i knock xD didnt know it had name

[@palp66]

Shave and a haircut. Haircut

[@JJ-eo9kw]

You forgot the accents at the end

[@ironassassin1332]

The universal sign of please open the door

[@marefynn81]

When I worked with Test and Trace, I was told to use this specific rhythm if I had to visit people in the projects. It differentiates you from the cops. You are a lot less likely to be shot if you avoid pounding on the door.

[@FloreyXE]

The tune every human being knows how to make but doesn't know the name of

[@MarioS-wj2bn]

I don't know about eua. But in many countries of Latin America this knocking is an insult. It basically means fuck you in spanish. (Yet I think that nowadays most doesn't know that and they only know that that knocking is meant to be an "insult") I would say that it is not too offensive, as for some it is also as a funny knock. Yet its something that you might only want to do with friends and make sure they're ok with it before 😅

[@ndJssFlurt]

1: How does a knock have a name? 2: Why does it have this name?

[@metalboy5150]

It's to a beat from a sort of jingle that goes, "Shave and a haircut, two bits!" in the rhythm of the knock. Two bits is old American slang for 25 cents.

[@Neris-of-the-other]

It has a history of being used by captured US soldiers to recognise each other through cell walls It also means "f#ck your mother, asshole" (###### tu madre, cabron) in Spanish, as used in Mexico - especially by drivers who can honk the phrase out with their car horn

[@ykagz007]

thank you that one video from speedrunning shorts

[@kelliintexas3575]

Elvis used this knock for his friends too 🥰

[@jebbush3130]

fantastic

[@seratjp8281]

the first time i heard this jingle was in um jammer lammy in 2022. i never played um jammer lammy. I knew the jiggle as "I am a master, and you"

[@iikendollz8541]

Shameless episode subtitles brought me here I can’t believe this has a name

[@tavaresrussell939]

Today years old when I found this out lol thanks to tv captions 😂😅

[@Metallic_Hero]

The Holy Emperor's knock.

[@theboxygenie]

note to self: a knock which is seemingly widespread and yet also perceived as special/unique...this should be the first option when outside a secret bunker.

[@akaithecreator7448]

if the earth had a theme song then this would be it.

[@avalonjustin]

Apparently this is over a hundred years old. I always knock this way!

[@ehrenamtistso]

Marvelous Mrs. Maisel brought me here.

[@Speyes13]

I first heard it on Gossip Girl of all places.

[@samueldoeswhatever7307]

shave and a haircut!~ two bits!~

[@Audrey_h0m0]

bro. i always though it was the "dead drunk" knock because my granpa did the thing once with a song that went "I'm in a beer bar...dead drunk". I DIDN'T KNOW THIS WAS THE-

[@horrortimesyt]

Match in the gas Tank... boom Boom

[@ambrosemorningstar]

This wins

[@crystalcosmicreads]

I was watching Shameless with the subtitles and found this

[@mafiabosslvl1007]

if this was your secret knock… we’re friends now

[@davidcheatwood9032]

I remember it saying 6 bits.

[@anittagabittaa]

The captions from lucifer (3x1) brought me

[@gwwasham]

I HATE this knock more than anything. Anyone using this knock to gain entry into my house WILL remain outside.

[@BlickWinkel]

I think this is the first anti-shave and a haircut two bits knock comment I've ever seen, so congrats on the originality.

[@blakewalker5903]

"Do you wanna build a snowman?"

[@Mikulis1000]

People are born with this knocking pattern.

[@FRDKNG]

I just watched Seinfeld and realised the name of this beep/knock lol

[@meatiest1989]

Toph

[@scarlettefoxx5585]

I always thought this was from the schoolyard game where you go "poop in the poop yard, P-U! Somebody ate it- that's you!" And eliminate one of the group until theres a winner

[@riptidereaper2716]

What on earth are you even talking about man? XD

[@scarlettefoxx5585]

@@riptidereaper2716 schoolyard game, man Like bubblegum bubblegum but this

[@N-N_Collectables]

everyone in the comments... "I FOUND IT!!! Ive always wanted to know where it comes from!!!!! I FINALLY FOUND IT!!!!!!" I agree.

[@junecameronbailey355]

Shave and a haircut two bits

[@Pokekart47]

Thanks Vinny

[@junecameronbailey355]

My mom was knocking on my door nine decades before nine

[@sashab7354]

It's in Indiana Jones

[@junecameronbailey355]

Skunk in the barnyard, PEE YEW!

[@thomasandfriendsrailfanner4836]

Skunk In The Barnyard, Pee-Yew!

[@Lex-Tha-Man-Est]

Doot doola doot doot

[@sailor-h2v]

Doot doot

[@riptidereaper2716]

Yes

[@InsaneGold]

Came here from a creepypasta

[@ianfortuna9385]

Pause at 0:03 and tap left of the screen Repeat this process and see how long you can handle it

[@ianfortuna9385]

Shadow Dragon the frustration of it not finishing would drive people insane

[@ianfortuna9385]

@yassin good job

[@ianfortuna9385]

@yassin I couldn’t last more than 30 seconds

[@riptidereaper2716]

Why am I surprised this is in Creepypasta stories that's a place you wouldn't really expect this from I'm here from Family Guy

[@riptidereaper2716]

Did not know this had a name until seeing the subtitles in Family Guy when Peter knocked on a door in Season 13 Episode 15

[@TrillAntho]

The captions from Cristela brought me

[@Ryan_asti]

I came here because I just finished watching that one scene in who framed Roger rabbit that featured this knock 😂

[@taraquinch1256]

I must be old because I knew the name and the tune..LOL

[@CookiesAndSharks]

i just found out it has a name and now i can find the sound effect on youtube

[@cheahwy9914]

I’ve been trying to find out what this is called ever since I was 5 years old