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Hollow-Sounding Head
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When a character, especially The Ditz, has someone knock on his forehead, we will sometimes hear a loud hollow sound, suggesting that the character's head is empty. While the knock on the forehead is the most common variation (sometimes preceded or accompanied by an exasperated "Is anyone in there?" by the knocker), anything that produces a 'hollow' sound effect or echo counts. See also Hard Head. Can sometimes be employed alongside an In One Ear, Out The Other visual gag. |
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One episode of El ChapulÃn Colorado involves El Chapulin and the Victim of the Week guessing about the secret passages of an old house. Cue this gag: | |
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Justified in Reaper Man, when Bill Door complains that the hailstones hitting him on the head make his skull echo. As Bill Door is The Grim Reaper, it's only to be expected. | |
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The Simpsons: This happens to Homer in "Treehouse of Horror III" when the zombies are searching for brains. And to Mr. Burns when Homer quits his job to work at the bowling alley and plays the boss's head like a bongo to celebrate. (Lampshaded by Lenny: "Hey, he's gettin' a pretty good sound outta that guy!") |
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An episode of Teen Titans Go! opened with the Titans wondering what a rattling sound is. Enter Beast Boy happily shaking his head to make his brain rattle around. After his brain leaves him forever, Cyborg replaces it with a pair of maracas to the same effect. | |
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Baikinman from Anpanman is like this. | |
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In one episode of Rocko's Modern Life, Filbert does this to Heffer — not because Heffer's normally stupidnote he is, but that's beside the point, but because he's become completely non-responsive. Rocko and Filbert realize that this is because Heffer's brain has literally been stolen by the TV and they have to voyage inside to get it back. | |
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In the first season of Total Drama, Izzy says Owen's head is "...good and hollow..." | |
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In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry tells aunt Petunia about how Dementors attack by sucking out your soul. Petunia promptly starts shaking her son Dudley and knocking on his head, Harry wondering if she's trying to "hear" his soul rattling inside to be sure it's there. | |
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The Beatles cartoon "We Can Work It Out" concludes with the boys agreeing that they'll have good luck as long as they stay together, and, saying in unison "Knock wood!", they knock on Ringo's head. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has a variation in "Rejoined", which opens with Dax demonstrating a sleight of hand trick. When Quark can't figure out how it's done (he assumes a teleporter is involved), Dax says it's because his head is full of latinum and pulls a bar of latinum from his ear. When Bashir pulls the same trick, Quark has to shoo away Rom, who's peering into his ear to see if there's any more latinum there. | |
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In Quest for Glory I, a hollow sound will play if you have the hero throw a rock at his own head. But then, you did just have the hero throw a rock at his own head. | |
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On an episode of Garfield and Friends, this is how Garfield distinguishes Odie from a set of robotic clones: the real one's head sounds hollow. | |
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Unusually used as an actual plot point rather than (just) a brief gag in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In the book and most adaptations, Veruca Salt is tested by squirrels to see whether she is a "bad nut" — bad nuts sound empty when tapped — when she tries to claim one of them for herself. A squirrel taps her on the forehead, and when this produces a hollow sound, they dump her where all bad nuts go — down a garbage chute. | |
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An Al Brodax Popeye cartoon had Popeye playing "Yankee Doodle" by knocking on his head and manipulating his mouth to produce the sound of a vibraphone. | |
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In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Jimmy has an Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? moment with his Dad and punctuates it by tapping his head. Hugh mirrors the gesture but gets a hollow echo, one that goes on long enough for them both to make a curious face at. | |
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Dredd has a psychic version during a Battle in the Center of the Mind. | |
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In an episode of Tiny Toon Adventures, Buster is climbing out of a hole in the ground and calls out to Babs that he's "spelunking". When she assures him that there is "a medicine you can get for that", he shoots a pained glance at the camera and knocks on her forehead, which gives off a hollow metallic sound. | |
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In Unsounded, Duane claims Sette's head is hollow when she offers to let him eat her brain to become smarter. | |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, Donatello knocks on Michelangelo's head and it produces a hollow clonk. | |
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The Three Stooges did this whenever they hit each other in the head (which is often), especially Curly. | |
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