TIL the Hairy Ball theorem

By moving the entire comb parallel, sure. But you can move one end slower than the other (i.e. as if you planted one end and pivoted it around, just with some speed, not stationary) and you can comb it without it.

hehehe ... balls

I remember first hearing about the Hairy Ball Theorum when watching some of the extended features on our Monster's Inc DVD. One of the animators was talking about how they had to constantly be re-combing Sully's hair to make sure the cowlick was in an unseen location

I'll have to poke around at some point because there was a really neat video on that DVD as well that was talking about the origin of the Monsters Inc universe, and how the monsters both discovered the power of screams and built the doors/portals for reaching the human world and I remember it being super interesting and extremely fleshed out for something that literally never happen on screen and probably doesn't influence anything on-screen at all

For mathematicians in Germany, this is known as the "Hedgehog Theorem" ("Satz vom Igel", as in "you can't fully comb a hedgehog")

A hairy doughnut … on the other hand, is quite easily combable.

What gives someone the right to speak like this. You think this is the kind of factoid I can just forget?? No, this meme is going to jockey my brain until the day I die.

Desktop link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem

Shave 'em. I don't want no cowlick near my balls