Perfect Hair Forever is an animated comedy series created and produced by Williams Street which aired in 2005 as part of Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim in the US and The Detour in Canada. It is a parody of stereotypical anime clichés combined with Williams Street's now infamous absurdist humor first developed in series such as Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021. The series blends frenetic visual montages and anime subculture references.

The storyline concerns a young boy named Gerald who, upon the urging of Uncle Grandfather, goes on a quest to find the perfect hair to remedy his premature baldness. Joining him on his journey are several strange companions such as Action Hotdog, a floating hotdog which only utters, "Doo da la-la-la-la-la-la la la-la-laaaaa-la-la!" and Norman Douglas, the Inappropriate Comedy Tree. For unknown reasons, Gerald is opposed by the evil Coiffio and his minions including his main henchman, Catman, a grumpy, fat man in a cat suit.

Perfect Hair Forever employs an ongoing serial format, a style that had been uncommon to previous Williams Street projects, due to their lack of emphasis on continuity. Each episode of the series featured different opening sequence music and visuals with the style and music of the end credits also varying from episode to episode. The pilot first aired on November 7, 2004, in the time slot that had been advertised as the premiere of the Squidbillies pilot.

Unknown to the audience at the time, the existing Squidbillies pilot had fallen behind and wasn't ready to air. Williams Street continued advertising the Squidbillies premiere up to and including the bump directly preceding the show, which talked about wanting to make the show "perfect" for you and your "hair" "forever", revealing the title "Perfect Hair Forever". The night's confusion continued when, instead of seeing the opening titles for Squidbillies, viewers were confronted with a title card reading "Space Ghost in: Perfect Hair Forever", thus introducing the pilot episode.

The actual series ran in 2005 and following the first six episodes, members of the Perfect Hair Forever creative team posted on the official Adult Swim message board that they weren't interested in continuing the show for a second season, and at the Adult Swim panel at Comic-Con 2006, the cancellation of the series was announced. In October 2006, Adultswim.com confirmed that Perfect Hair Forever was back in production with 16 episodes to be aired on its online streaming network "The Fix". However, this proved to be incorrect, since after the seventh episode aired, the series was never continued.

Episode 7 was broadcast on April 1, 2007, as part of Adult Swim's annual April Fool's prank in which the complete run of episodes preempted the regularly scheduled programming, but shown in reverse order and with subtitles in Engrish. Episode 7 is also available on Adult Swim's "The Fix" website. Japanese noise rock band Melt-Banana who had previously recorded both the opening and end themes for the third episode "Cat Snatch Fever" returned to record "Hair-Cat (Cause the Wolf Is a Cat!)" for the seventh episode.

To date, only the pilot episode is available on the Adult Swim in a Box DVD box set on a special DVD along with pilots for other shows such as Welcome to Eltingville, Korgoth of Barbaria, Totally for Teens, and Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge.

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