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The detectives have raided a house and found some suspicious white powder or liquid. One of them puts his or her finger in it, then either sniffs it or tastes it. They pronounce it's heroin or cocaine or whatever. Or if it's phony drugs, they announce "Powdered sugar!" Also done by drug-dealing baddies. Seen in almost every 1970s Cop Show. The mysterious white powder (almost) never, ever, ever turns out to be a deadly poison or corrosive chemical that kills or maims our hero outright, despite the fact that he's found some powdered substance, doesn't know what it is, and is stupid enough to put it directly in his mouth. Even if it isn't poison, the amount of powder the hero tastes could very easily be far more than his system could handle. This is Truth in Television to the extent that certain drugs (opium, for example) have a distinctive taste or odor. Cocaine can similarly be identified not by taste, but by the way it instantly numbs where it touches.note The non-psychoactive, and more easily obtained, drug lidocaine, does the exact same thing, so it's used to cut or sometimes replace cocaine. However, any modern police lab is loaded with all kinds of test equipment for just this kind of thing. Without it, it's just a cop's word on the stand. (And how reliable would that word be if they just deliberately ingested something mind-altering?) But if a chemical reaction proves it's really drugs, it's a lot harder for a lawyer to disprove, and a lot safer for the cop (see the Real Life entries). Not to mention the fact that a police officer could get in serious trouble if they were tested and found to have a drug in their system. At the very least, a cop doing this can expect Da Chief to deliver an ass-chewing for contaminating a crime scene. If the substance is blood, you're performing The Ketchup Test. For any case of testing mysterious substances by taste or smell see Sniff Sniff Nom. |
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Averted in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. When Elliot is undercover as a white-collar drug dealer, he "tests the product" of a potential supplier by feeling the powder's consistency. Asked why he doesn't taste it instead, he claims that they do random drug tests at his workplace; he only sells cocaine, he can't risk using it. | |
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Mitchell does it in Mitchell, when he finds the plastic bags of powder in the old lady's luggage. He coats the tips of two fingers in an absurd amount of the stuff, tastes it, and declares that it's chalk. | |
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Frank Oz's police officer identifies the drugs planted on Louis Winthorpe in Trading Places as PCP using this method. Which is insane, considering what even a tiny amount of PCP can do. However, since it was a scam and they knew it was fake, it's likely that it was all for show. | |
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Busting: Keneely and Farrel break into crime lord Rizzo's apartment, where Farrel samples a white substance from a bottle and identifies it as baby powder. | |
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In The Mysterious Affair at Styles Poirot tests a saucepan of liquid in the room where Mrs. Inglethorpe died of poison this way, he identifies it as cocoa with rum. Later chemical analysis disproves it as the source of the strychnine that killed her but it did have narcotics that delayed the poison. | |
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Basil does this in The Great Mouse Detective, when he suspects someone of spiking his drink. | |
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The first episode of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries has Phryne check some white powder with this and determine that it's cocaine. Mac then double checks. Phryne then triple checks. | |
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Judgment: During one side case, Yagami tastes some mysterious white powder from the rim of a cup. That white powder is arsenic. | |
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In the Charlie's Angels episode "Angel Blues," Kris tastes the contents of a packet of "laundry detergent" and says, "It's cocaine. High-grade stuff." | |
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A twist in Bones. When a street sweeper mulches up the body of the episode, one of the drivers assumes he's being pranked and tastes the "fake" blood to try to determine its contents. His partner vomits. | |
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At the beginning of the Decoy episode "Dream Fix," a young woman collapses on the sidewalk, clutching a small package in her hand. Casey tastes the contents of the package and says, "Heroin!" | |
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In one episode of House, Thirteen does this when trying to track down what their patient's cocaine was cut with. Thirteen has a chronic case of death wish. | |
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Discussed in Psych. Shawn and Gus are watching a drug deal. Gus asks if one of the baddies performed this trope. Not only does he taste the drugs, he double dips! | |
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In Great Teacher Onizuka, Onizuka needs more than a million yen to pay for a vacation trip and his Dirty Cop buddy Saejima gives him bags of white powder, supposedly cocaine, that are apparently worth millions. Kikuchi immediately pokes his finger in the bags and tastes the powder, and says that it is just ordinary flour. Onizuka is angry at being cheated, but Saejima replies that "I never said it was cocaine! It is good flour! You could sell it to a bakery!" | |
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Copper: Kevin does this to a fruitcake in "Arsenic and Old Cake": touching the dusting on the cake and then bringing his finger to his mouth as he attempts to determine the source of the poison. | |
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Parodied in The Simpsons, when Chief Wiggum does this for no reason to the Mob's farm for rat milk. In an earlier episode, Mrs. Krabappel takes her car to a mechanic, who tastes the car's gasoline, noting that there's sugar in there. In "The Yellow Badge of Cowardage", Homer, with help from fireworks manager Giuseppe Granfinali, tries to buy explosives from Cletus; Granfinali tastes the gun powder and finds out it's actually crystal meth. In "D'oh-in In the Wind" when all of Springfield went on a hallucinogenic trip from drinking the hippie organic vegetable juice that Homer remade after ruining the original batch. When Officer Lou is hallucinating from his drink, Chief Wiggum tastes it. |
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The Scarab Murder Case: Vance uses this to find the opium in Dr. Bliss' coffee. Sergeant Heath packs up the coffee cup for a real analysis (which confirms Vance's taste-test). | |
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The Mexican streaming series Harina evolved out of an earlier Youtube sketch from the same actors, where El Teniente tastes a package of cocaine and starts getting high on it while vehemently denying it's cocaine so he can take it home. | |
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Beckett does the test and finds heroin in Castle (2009). Castle comments on how badass she looked doing it. | |
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A variation from Totally Spies! where when the "lava" in a volcano doesn't seem to be as hot as it should be, Sam reaches down and tastes some, revealing it as marinara sauce. | |
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The Hyde persona in Jekyll identifies a soldier's age, diet, and number and breed of pets by smell and is also able to determine that he has cancer, where, and his life expectancy by tasting his sweat. | |
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In Detroit: Become Human, android crime investigator Connor does this frequently, though it is made clear he has some sort of chemical analyzing mechanism in his mouth. | |
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Spoofed in Charade, when Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant are going through her late husband's luggage to see if they can find something valuable enough for him to have been murdered for. They find a tin of what appears to be tooth powder; at her urging, he does the test... and concludes that either it's peppermint-flavoured heroin or it really is tooth powder. | |
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The buddy-cop movie Tango & Cash opens with Ray Tango arresting two punks, who have driven an oil truck well outside his jurisdiction. The highway patrol arrives on the scene and chides him for his recklessness, and a search of the truck reveals nothing but oil. They ask if he thinks he's Rambo, to which Tango calmly replies, "Rambo... is a pussy" before shooting the bottom half of the oil tanker, revealing a steady stream of white powder. Tango cups his hands under the stream for a few seconds, then licks the resulting pile of powder in his hands. | |
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Chief Inspector Japp does this at least twice in Poirot — identifying cocaine in "The Affair at the Victory Ball", and heroin in "Evil Under the Sun". | |
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Professor Watanabe does this in Isle of Dogs when he suspects someone of poisoning his sushi. He then promptly drops dead as even that small taste contained more than 10 times the poison needed to stop the heart of a whale. | |
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Subverted almost every episode of COPS (1989) (well, every episode there's a drug test) with the baggie-test. Portable chemical tests the police have contain reactants that will change color in the presence of the primary component of the drug; if you've gone more than three episodes of that show without seeing the next contestant on "Is It Blue?" at some point, count yourself lucky. | |
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A weird example from King of the Hill: When Hank suspects Dale topped off his mower's gas tank with water, Bill takes a drink from the fuel line. | |
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Discworld Spoofed in Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay, where Constable Flint (a troll serving in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch) tastes a mysterious white powder he suspects to be Slab, a troll hallucinogen, and says, "Yes, this is definitely Slab wurble wurble sclup," and has to spend three days tied to his bed until the spiders go away. The same thing happens to Sgt. Detritus later in the book. Ironic especially since Detritus was the one who relayed the fate of Sergeant Flint and stated how dumb it was. Earlier, Vimes found a mysterious bag of white powder in his desk but explicitly refused to taste it, instead asking the on-staff alchemist to see if it was arsenic. Shortly afterwards Carrot did use this method. On a mysterious bag of white powder he'd just seen Vimes stuff a handful from into his mouth. It turned out to be sugar, Vimes having swapped out the bag for one from the canteen. |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: In "Greg & Larry", Detective Hitchcock touches and tastes chocolate marks Holt smeared on the hospital sign (as a lead for them to find him). Since he can't have known what it is, Jake Peralta is understandably grossed out that Hitchcock would just put "a hospital thing" in his mouth. Hitchcock later tastes the smear of brown stuff on the car park sign, and even after establishing that it isn't chocolate this time, Hitchcock licks it again. | |
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Subverted in the movie Showtime, which shows an undercover detective verifying a drug buy with a small chemical apparatus, and later, when William Shatner as Himself demonstrates the Fingertip Method, he is met with the question "And what if it was cyanide?" | |
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Young Doctors in Love has a variant, when Dr Ludwig demonstrates this with a patient's urine sample as a way to detect madical conditions, and gets the protagonist, August, to do the same. Subverted when he then reveals he tricked them (the finger he dipped in the sample wasn't the one he put in his mouth) and the whole thing was a lesson in paying attention. Then August points out that if he'd actually tasted the urine, he'd have noticed a sweet taste indicating possible diabetes, which prompts a curious Ludwig to actually taste it for real. And then August reveals that he played the same trick... | |
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A variation appeared in The Amazing Spiez!. The kids are investigating the cocooning of various scientists/important people and while on-site, Marc takes the liberty of performing this trope on the yellow substance used on the victim. His siblings are understandably disgusted and somewhat baffled, but Marc is quick to inform them it's just honey. Now, why The Smart Guy of the team in both this and the above example took the liberty of doing this is unclear. | |
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The Black Ice: Detective Harry Bosch does this when finding a sack of sugar in Cal Moore's apartment. Turns out it really was sugar. | |
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Spoofed in Just Shoot Me!: Jack is about to take a bite of what he thinks is a diet pastry when Nina stops him, tastes the substance on top, and declares it to be "Sugar, pure cane." | |
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In The Con is On, the fake nun buying the drugs off Harry pokes a hole in the package, dips her finger in, and licks the tip to test the purity. | |
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In the Mann & Machine episode "Billion Dollar Baby", Eve tastes a pile of white powder and announces, "It's baby powder!" | |
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James Bond For Your Eyes Only. Bond identifies raw opium by taste. He does the same in The Living Daylights. The same substance looks slightly different in both films. |
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Played completely straight in episode 2 of Space Adventure Cobra: The Psychogun where Cobra tastes a vat of some glowing substance the villain has hidden away, and concludes that he is smuggling drugs. | |
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On American Dad!, Steve's high school principal is shockingly good at this, as shown when Francine frames Steve for possessing cocaine. | |
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In The Incredible Hulk (1977), David taste-tests some white powder he finds on his foot after transforming back from being the Hulk. (Hulk had rampaged through a warehouse full of drugs.) | |
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A group of Darwin Awards almost-winners were stationed in Russia when they discovered a barrel of white powder in storage, which turned out to contain thallium, one of the most toxic elements. | |
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The X-Files: Mulder tests substances with his fingers all the time. He frequently touches some weird substance or its residue, and sometimes he goes that one step up and smells it or licks it as well. In "Eve," he tastes soda (that he suspects is poisoned, which it is, with digitalis) and his tongue goes numb. He performs The Ketchup Test on fake blood in "Revelations." Scully's face is a wonder to behold. From "Squeeze": | |
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Batman Beyond. It looks like Terry is going to do this, always dipping his finger into strange substances, but really he's using his suit's built-in analyzer. | |
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Vow of Nudity: Serris of Tides' hemocraft allows him to identify the racial origin of blood samples by tasting them. He mentions regularly using it at crime scenes or while tracking a suspect, and he uses the ability on Haara to deduce that she has inhuman heritage. | |
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In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Ties of Blood and Water", Sisko gives Gul'Dukat back a bottle of poisoned wine. Weyoun takes a swig and declares it "quite toxic". He then explains that Vorta are immune to most poisons. | |
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Reina tries this with a spice Mile magically distills in Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?. Given that what Mile had cooked up was crystallized capsaicin, she quickly regrets it. | |
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The A-Team: In the episode "Uncle Buckle-up", the team finds bags of a white powder while investigating the warehouse. Hannibal tastes a bit and promptly identifies it as heroin. | |
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In Squidbillies, the Sheriff does this to everything, which gets lampshaded by Denny when he does it to a uranium pile. | |
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In Dominick and Eugene, Guido tricks Nicky into delivering a newspaper with drugs hidden inside. When Gino finds out, he takes the packet out of the newspaper, opens it, and tastes the powder inside. | |
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Played for laughs on The Goodies, with smell instead of taste. | |
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Star Trek: In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Arena", Kirk gives the taste test to a white powder he finds lying about on the planet, but in that case, it's potassium nitrate. In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Ties of Blood and Water", Sisko gives Gul'Dukat back a bottle of poisoned wine. Weyoun takes a swig and declares it "quite toxic". He then explains that Vorta are immune to most poisons. |
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Aaron Loves Angela: One of Beau's buyers dabs some cocaine on his tongue and gums, then yells, "The stuff is shit!" | |
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Also spoofed in the Utah film The Singles Ward, when a young woman is arrested for breaking in to what turns out to be her own apartment. A plastic tub full of white powder is handed to the senior partner (played by a Morning Radio Personality), who takes a deep whiff, buries his finger in it, sticks the whole finger in his mouth, and pronounces it "Tide". | |
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Murdoch Mysteries: Although usually portrayed as the smart one, Detective Murdoch does it once with a white powder found at a crime scene. Constable Crabtree gets agitated and warns him that it could be poisonous, but Murdoch tells him it's just plaster. | |
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In a chapter of Gokusen, one of the teachers at the school discovers a mysterious pill. The protagonist, a Yakuza Princess grinds it between her fingers and tastes it, to the shock of her colleagues. Seeing their reaction, she claims that it's just an antacid, but identifies it to herself as drugs. Seeing how her Family are Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters who supposedly don't deal drugs, it's kind of odd that she would be able to tell what the substance is/why she would think of doing this. | |
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Has appeared a couple of times on Lost in the heroin-related subplots. | |
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Done in GoodFellas by the narcs when they find the carton of egg-shaped bricks of cocaine. | |
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Bletch the Walrus does this in Meet the Feebles with a substance that is said to be cocaine. Turns out it's borax. He then proceeds to force-feed the borax to the dealer who sold it to him, killing the dealer. | |
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Exaggerated in the CollegeHumor sketch Katie Gets Busted, where the police officer that busts Katie for cocaine possession does this to confirm the evidence. When questioned if he has an actual drug kit he does pull one out, but it's just a bowl and spoon to eat the cocaine. Then he asks for a second opinion, who is sampling it from a wine glass, who asks for a third and fourth opinion, who are using the cocaine as seasoning on sweets and meats respectively. Eventually it devolves into the whole squad of policemen just engaging in cocaine induced debauchery. | |
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In the movie version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore does this to some blood that's dripped onto Harry's forehead from the ceiling, but doesn't immediately comment. After he locates Slughorn, he identifies it as dragon's blood (which, as the alchemist who discovered the twenty uses of the substance, makes sense and reveals that it's what made him positive the ransacked house was faked). | |
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The Drew Carey Show A version occurs in an episode where Drew is suspected of being a drug addict. The cop assigned to the case goes through his house, finding various evidence that means he could be an addict, and having it explained away by the peculiarities of Drew being Drew. Then he finds the coffee table in the living room covered in white powder. On another episode, a bag of what appears to be cocaine is found. An employee tastes it and says, "Interesting. I have no idea what cocaine tastes like." |
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Bodie, Doyle and Cowley regularly do this in seventies action show The Professionals. | |
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In Sisters, one of the sisters, Teddy, and her boyfriend come across some some drugs hidden in a shipment of clothes from her clothing line. The boyfriend opens one of the packages and tastes the drug. Teddy asks if it's heroin, and he replies he doesn't know, that's just what they do on TV. | |
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Every time powder-form drugs turn up in Case Closed, Conan verifies its identity by tasting it. (And he really shouldn't be that cavalier about putting strange substances in his mouth, given how many times he's seen victims die to Finger-Licking Poison.) | |
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Arena", Kirk gives the taste test to a white powder he finds lying about on the planet, but in that case, it's potassium nitrate. | |
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Luffy of One Piece does it once with a strange green powder he found near a hut in the desert. Not so much to identify it than to see if it can be eaten (it can't; it's an alchemical powder used to cause rain). This is because Luffy is perpetually hungry, his first approach to anything new is "Is It Something You Eat?", and he's a moron. | |
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In Gone in 60 Seconds (1974), the gang steal a Cadillac Eldorado that turns out to be filled with packets of white powder. Atlee pokes a hole in one bag and tastes it, then declares it to be heroin. | |
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In Agents of Light and Darkness, John Taylor performs the fingertip touch-and-taste test on a statue, and confirms it's a human who's been transformed into salt. Only in the Nightside... | |
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Done to ridiculous extremes in Dolemite, where supposed police officers actually inhale the cocaine they seize, before declaring it "the good stuff all right". | |
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The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries: Frank does this in Mystery on the Avalanche Express, taste-testing a makeup compact suspected of containing "angel dust, LSD, heroin, or cocaine". | |
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Gimli does this with orc blood in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. | |
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Lucifer (2016): Lucifer squicks out Detective Chloe by finger-tasting a pool of spilled blood, immediately identifying it as not human (turns out the victim's pet had been killed instead). | |
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For Your Eyes Only. Bond identifies raw opium by taste. | |
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Fraser of Due South does this constantly, much to his partner's irritation. Spoofed in one hilarious episode where the villain knows about Fraser's habit and sets a trap for him. Fraser finds a mysterious substance, sniffs and tastes it, looks confused, and keels over. | |
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Parodied on a VG Cats comic strip about Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. His lovely female assistant finds residue from "some mysterious [white] liquid" all over his computer and tastes it. She exclaims, "Salty...must be blood!" | |
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In an episode of Get Smart, a KAOS agent tries to poison Max with arsenic with a hot dog at a game. Before Max can take a bite, Hymie the android wants to try the hot dog. Reluctantly, Max give Hymie the hot dog. Hymie eats the whole thing and comments on the taste, including that arsenic is a bit bitter. | |
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And Then There Were None. The doctor puts a very-very-small amount of a mysterious substance on his finger and tastes it very cautiously. He is instantly able to tell it's cyanide. In the Russian movie adaption he smears a bit of the suspicious liquor on his palms and only sniffs them. |
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Axel does this in Beverly Hills Cop when he searches the warehouse with Jenny and finds the bags of white powder underneath coffee grounds in a crate. It ain't sugar. | |
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Sam Tyler in Life on Mars (2006) not only identifies a sample of heroin but can tell from its colour that it's from Turkey... much to the suspicion of his police colleagues, as heroin is a new drug that's barely hit the street in 1973.note This is very anachronistic. Heroin was a major problem as of the turn of the century, much less the 1970s. Heroin just seems to make a comeback every few decades... the 1930s, 1950s, 1970s, and 2000s have all seen big comebacks for heroin. | |
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Accidental in Bedazzled (2000). Elliot decides to taste the strange powdery product in his barn... and sees that it's cocaine. ("¡Es cocaÃna! ¡COCAÃ�NA!") | |
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Spoofed in The Princess Bride. The Man in Black kills Vizzini with the "odorless, tasteless" deadly poison iocaine. Later, Prince Humperdinck finds the vial which originally held it, sniffs it... and immediately identifies it as iocaine. Though in the book, he identified it as iocaine because of the lack of any odor and the fact that a man obviously was killed by a fast-acting poison beside it. He says "Iocaine, I bet my life on it," meaning he couldn't decidedly identify it, but given the circumstances and evidence, made an educated guess. | |
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Deconstructed in Leverage. An old FBI agent is talking about his old cases; a flashback shows his partner working undercover buying drugs from a Dirty Cop. He's about to taste-test the drugs when his partner shows up to stop him, having figured out that the cop isn't just corrupt, he's a psychopath, and the drugs are cyanide. | |
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The titular hero of Eragon tries this with a mysterious canteen he finds while tracking the Ra'Zac. It ends up eating through a few layers of skin, though Brom commends him for having the good sense not to try and drink it. | |
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It's said one of Sherlock Holmes' real life inspirations pulled a trick of this nature. The Professor had two vials of urine, one from a diabetic, and he dips a finger in and tastes it — remarking that the diabetic is sweeter and forcing all the students to repeat it. Then he admonishes them for not paying attention. He had actually dipped in his pointer finger, but sucked on his middle finger. Truth in Television, though - prior to the development of chemical assays for glucose in urine, doctors really did detect it in this way. The "mellitus" in "diabetes mellitus" means "honey-flavored." | |
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Barbossa does this in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, when he tastes a spring with a dead body floating in it and declares it to be poisoned. | |
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A non-drugs example appears in Black Books. A customer at the bookshop tries to return his holiday read for a refund, but Bernard immediately discovers sand between the pages and sprinkles a little on Manny's tongue, who is able to identify not only the country and region, but the specific beach the sand came from. | |
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Judge Dredd once identified a shipment of illegal sugar by tasting. | |
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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: In chapter 3, Chiaki tastes a weird green goo she finds stuck to the doors of the music venue. It turns out to be glue that was used to hold the doors shut, giving the illusion they had been barred from the inside. | |
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Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor developed a bit of a habit of um... licking things. He first does it with blood, even determining the blood group from the taste alone. This habit comes back to bite him when he tastes some sand, only to discover that the "sand" actually consists of pulverized corpses. While less of a habit, the Eleventh Doctor does this as well. With a shed. To calculate how long it's been since it was built. He also sticks grass in his mouth, only to spit it out in disgust. The Thirteenth Doctor also does this, but she skips the fingertips and straight-up eats soil to determine where she's landed (as well as the TripAdvisor ratings of a nearby gift shop). She then continues eating soil. She also offers some to her companions, who politely refuse. Later on, she eats bone dust to determine what century it came from. |
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Gill Grissom gets called out on this twice in CSI: early in the show, while trying to understand a woman's disappearance in a supermarket, he finds a yellow smudge on the floor and performs the fingertip dip taste test. Captain Brass, who was hovering nearby, winces in disgust and goes "Oh, that's sanitary." Luckily for Grissom, it was just mustard. But the second time he does it, much later in the series, it's Catherine who warns him that one of these days he'll really regret doing that. | |
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JAG: A variation in "Sightings". Harm notices a puddle on the tarmac and touches it before rubbing it between his fingers. It's aircraft engine oil. Which wouldn't be weird to find at an abandoned military airfield except that it should have dried up long ago unless a plane was there very recently. In "The Brotherhood", Captain Overton identifies a stash of drugs this way (specifically, he knows it's Crank (crystal meth) rather than Crack (cocaine)). Harm snarks at him, asking how he could know, and Overton explains that he was in a street gang before cleaning up his act and joining the Marines. |
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In the anime version of Dominion Tank Police there's a scene where Brenten tastes some mysterious liquid, then is informed a moment too late that it's a urine sample. (The manga had no such gag, but it's exactly the kind of thing Brenten would have done.) | |
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After finding a member of the Gothics dead in an alley in Baker Street #3, Sharon tastes the substance in the tip of the syringe found by the body and identifies it as very pure heroin. | |
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Funky Squad: In "A Shot in the Dark", Cassie identifies some powder found in Ramirez’ office as cocaine by sticking her finger in the bag and then licking it. | |
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Also spoofed in one episode of Police Squad! — presented with a bag of white powder, Norberg identifies it as a drug from a fingertip taste. Then, while the action continues in the foreground, he takes another fingertip, and another, and then a big fingerload, and starts rubbing it on his gums... When we next see him, he's high as a kite and draped around a piece of furniture. | |
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In The Sandman (1989), a quite visibly distressed son of a recently deceased immortal mentions that he tried this with a bag of white powder he found in his dad's stuff (along with several blank passports, valuable paintings, and Krugerrands), and that it made his tongue feel numb. | |
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He does the same in The Living Daylights. The same substance looks slightly different in both films. | |
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A variation on the trope occurs in the Barney Miller episode "Hash" when Barney suspects that some brownies baked by Wojo's girlfriend have hashish in them. He asks Harris to test the brownies, which Harris does... by eating one, rather than sending it to the lab as Barney had expected. | |
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Midsomer Murders: In "Happy Families", Winter tests a bottle of poison he finds in the kitchen by dipping his finger it and touching it to his tongue. It turns out to be a prop for the murder mystery game that was supposed to be played at the party. | |
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Urusei Yatsura: In a late chapter, Shutaro Mendo is trying to show his classmates why they should think that his pool — located next to the beach — is so impressive, and he shows them two cups filled with water (one of them picked from the pool). Ryuunosuke's father dips his forefinger in them, tastes each one, and determines one cup is filled with Japan Sea water and the second is filled with Pacific Ocean water (hence, they are swimming in Japan Sea water as watching the Pacific Ocean, something that Shutaro thinks it is utterly and unspeakably awesome. His classmates disagree...) | |
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Transmetropolitan: Spider does this to the contents of a witness's joint in one issue, being very experienced with drugs of all sorts he is instantly able to identify the specific blend of Fantastic Drugs she crushed up. | |
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In Rurouni Kenshin, Megumi drops a small packet on the ground when hurrying off to treat Yahiko, who was just poisoned by a ninja. Sanosuke picks up the packet and takes a small taste of the white powder inside. He discovers that it was opium, and angrily questions why she would have this in her possession. | |
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Marcus Didius Falco. Petronius kicks a member of his vigiles who's about to do this, as the man they've just found has apparently committed suicide from drinking poison. | |
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In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, the T-X analyzes blood samples this way. Unlike a human cop, she's highly unlikely to be poisoned as a result of tasting something nasty. Of course, this was mostly used as an excuse to have the actress suck on her finger, given that it's Kristanna Loken and all. | |
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MacGyver (1985): MacGyver tests a suspected drug sample this way, only to find out that it's keratin (powdered rhino horn). | |
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Often done in Mission: Impossible episodes that involve drug dealers, usually by purchasers checking the quality of the drugs (and thus would not care if they got high doing so). At the end of Jim Phelp's introductory episode, this test revealed that the team had swapped a drug wholesaler's entire supply of heroin with powdered milk, causing the wholesaler to be killed by the smaller-scale dealers he was trying to do business with for 'cheating' them. | |
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Parodied in Gravity Falls, when Mabel samples the strange substance coating just about everything in an abandoned convenience store. | |
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