Overview

• Fishel confirmed on Pod Meets World that the Season 4 episode “Hair Today, Goon Tomorrow” featured her real hair being chopped, not a wig.
• She persuaded co-creator and executive producer Michael Jacobs to build an episode around her desire for a haircut and negotiate the final length on camera.
• Director Jeff McCracken staged multiple fake snips before signaling the actual cut to capture genuine reactions.
• The scene marked Fishel’s first haircut since age two and elicited audible gasps from the live studio audience during the 1996 taping.
• After filming, Fishel handed out locks of her freshly cut hair as keepsakes, adding to the show’s fan-engagement tradition of signed scripts and memorabilia.