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Anti-Sneeze Finger
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Very common in Western Animation. When one character is starting to sneeze and the current situation calls for being quiet, this character or someone else will use a finger under the nose to stop the sneeze from happening. This is typically followed up with a GIANT sneeze about three seconds after the finger is removed. This trope is Truth in Television. There's a pressure point under your nose that, if you press it, temporarily stops the sneeze reflex. Note that you need to press it; simply holding your finger under your nose will have no effect (much like many examples on this page). A similar and equally effective strategy is to press the sides of the nostrils together to relieve the itching sensation; a more clandestine method is to tickle the roof of your mouth with the tip of your tongue. Compare Inconvenient Itch and Potty Emergency. Attempts to defy Pepper Sneeze, Ill-Timed Sneeze, or Sneeze of Doom with this trope happen sometimes. |
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Happens in The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl when Sharkboy, Lavagirl, and Max are crossing an ice bridge. Lavagirl has to sleepwalk in order to cool down enough to cross, but she nearly sneezes mid-dream, and Sharkboy takes preventative measures. They don't work. | |
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In the Lamb Chop's Play-Along episode "Too Sick To Go To The Circus", Shari does this twice to Lamb Chop. Both times it works for just a second, but then Lamb Chop sneezes in Shari's face. | |
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An episode of Full House has Jesse about to sneeze and Joey trying to prevent him from doing so this way. He still sneezes. | |
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In the Looney Tunes short "Frigid Hare", Bugs Bunny stifles an Eskimo's sneeze this way to keep the ice ledge under them from breaking. And then Bugs sneezes. Likewise Yosemite Sam and a chronically sneezing dragon in Knighty Knight Bugs; he attempts to stifle the dragon this way when they end up in a room full of dynamite. |
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In Let Me Warm Your Heart, Heike gives Narcis one of these. Justified, as well, since Narcis is a very loud sneezer. | |
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The first episode of Mr. Bean has a scene like this, with Bean almost sneezing during a church sermon, briefly holding it back, but then loudly sneezing after all, albeit without the actual finger. | |
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In the Poirot episode The Third Floor Flat, after Hercule Poirot gets to his neighbor's room, he feels a sneeze coming on. He takes a deep breath while pointing the finger to his nose... then nothing happens, and he feels relieved... temporarily. A few seconds after he walks offscreen, we hear his high-pitched "ATCHOOO!!!". | |
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Alan does this for Anne in The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan episode "The Greek Caper" when they, Tom and Suzie are being chased by a masked stranger in a museum and disguise themselves as statues. It works... for about half a second. | |
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Fun and Fancy Free: In "Mickey and the Beanstalk," Mickey does this to himself to try to prevent an Ill-Timed Sneeze after he falls into Willie the Giant's snuffbox. It doesn't work. | |
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Mentioned in the Adventures in Wonderland episode "Noses Off." When the Queen of Hearts starts to sneeze from the flowers she's using to hide the long, goofy rubber nose that's glued onto her face, Alice whispers for the White Rabbit to hold his finger under her nose. But he replies that "a bunny could get hurt doing that." Fortunately, the Queen's sneeze blasts away not only the flowers, but the rubber nose too, returning her face to normal. | |
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In Barbie Presents Thumbelina, Chrysella does this to Janessa after they fall into a dandelion patch (which Janessa is allergic to) and get covered in fluff. | |
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The dwarfs do this to Sneezy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. When Dopey stands on Sneezy's shoulders for the dance with Snow White, Sneezy begins to sneeze right before they go out, and Dopey uses his foot to stop his sneeze, and it works. When Sneezy begins the sneeze interrupting the dance, Dopey tries the Anti-Sneeze Finger on himself. It doesn't work. |
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In an episode of Dragon Tales Ord stops himself from sneezing as they fly through the Dandelion Forest by putting clothespins on his nose. It works, until Max takes off the plugs because they need a powerful Sneeze of Doom to save them from the vicious roaring dandelions. | |
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Likewise Yosemite Sam and a chronically sneezing dragon in Knighty Knight Bugs; he attempts to stifle the dragon this way when they end up in a room full of dynamite. | |
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One episode of Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines featured the Anti-Sneeze missile, which would hit anyone who sneezes. A misfired pepper shot forced the Vulture Squadron members to use the Anti-Sneeze Finger technique to avoid being targeted. It ended as well as expected in that cartoon. Muttley was the one who sneezed. He was at the end of the line so nobody could cover his nose. |
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Cool World: When Nails the Spider starts sneezing due to his cloud allergy, Frank sticks his finger under Nails' nose to stop him sneezing them off the building. Eventually the sneeze backfires and propels them in through a window. | |
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Seven Little Monsters: When the monsters are making cupcakes in "High Noon", Two begins to sneeze when they are measuring the flour. Three uses a finger to block Two's nose, but Two sneezes anyway, forcing them to start that step over due to the Powder Gag that ensues. | |
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In Balto, Nikki does this to Star to prevent triggering a cave-in (his previous sneeze having caused an avalanche). Unlike most other examples, it actually stops the sneeze permanently instead of resulting in a giant sneeze when the finger is removed. Not that it matters much since the cave-in is soon afterward triggered by the sled thudding hard on the cave's uneven icy floor. | |
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In the September 5, 1988 installment of U.S. Acres, Roy does this to Orson, resulting in himself finishing the sneeze Orson started. | |
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The gang do this to Scooby-Doo in almost every incarnation. | |
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Super Friends 1973/74 episode "The Baffles Puzzle". When Marvin and Wonder Dog are in a library, Wonder Dog starts to sneeze. Marvin holds a finger to his lip and stifles it, but a few seconds later he sneezes anyway. | |
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On the Barney & Friends special Barney's Night Before Christmas BJ attempts to stop Baby Bop from sneezing after she tickles her nose with Santa's feather pen. Obviously she still sneezes and wakes a sleeping Santa. | |
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In the 1933 Silly Symphony The Night Before Christmas, little "Junior" does this to try to stop himself from sneezing and alerting Santa Claus to his and his siblings' presence at the top of the stairs. It doesn't work. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Owl's Well That Ends Well," Spike does this to himself when the dust from the library book Twilight sent him to get starts bothering him. It doesn't work, and his fiery sneeze destroys the book. | |
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Doctor Who: The 7th Doctor does this to himself to prevent an Ill-Timed Sneeze when he and Ace are hiding from a Dalek in "Remembrance of the Daleks". | |
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Jonny Quest episode "Monster in the Monastery": Jonny does it to himself so he doesn't sneeze and alert the "yeti". He doesn't sneeze afterward, but Bandit does. | |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: In "A Tiki Scare is No Fair," Velma hides out in a stack of hay from the Mono Tiki Tia witch doctor, but the hay is triggering an impending sneeze. She uses the anti-sneeze finger, but she winds up sneezing hay right in the witch doctor's face. | |
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In the Little Bear episode "The Dandelion Wish," Little Bear does this to Duck to prevent her from sneezing away the dandelion fluff she has balanced on her beak before they can make a wish on it. For just a second it works, but then she does sneeze and blow away the fluff, forcing them to chase after it. | |
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An Even Stevens episode uses this at the end, when Ren is getting a retake of her school photo. She is about to sneeze, but Louis puts his finger under her nose to stop it and save her from being photographed mid-sneeze. | |
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The Three Stooges used the gag of preventing a sneeze by blocking the nose with a finger several times. | |
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PJ Masks: In the episode Gekko's Stay-at-Home Sneezes, Amaya does this to Greg at the start of the story. It works. | |
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Penelope does it to herself in The Perils of Penelope Pitstop episode "Tall Timber Treachery". | |
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Invoked by Vanity Smurf on Smurfette to keep her from sneezing when the feather in his cap tickles her nose in The Smurfs (1981) episode "The Adventures Of Robin Smurf". | |
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