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Monkey Morality Pose
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The Monkey Morality Pose is a visual comedy trope frequently seen in film, television and animation. It is based on the old idea of the Three Wise Monkeys, whose example good people should follow to live their lives: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil with hands over eyes, ears, and mouth, respectively. A fourth monkey, Do No Evil, keeps his hands in his lap — but since that could be interpreted in at least one unfortunate way, it may explain why the fourth monkey is not so well-known. According to the Other Wiki, the saying dates back to Confucius. When translated to Japanese, it becomes "Mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru" (literally, "Don't see, don't hear, don't say"). Since -zaru sounds like saru (which means "monkey") it became known as the Three Wise Monkeys. Generally the western world has a more cynical interpretation of this trope, where it is used to convey people refusing to acknowledge things they should be acting on. It may also be used as a shorthand for people reacting to something shocking or horrifying as a type of Battle Discretion Shot, if you will. Not to be confused with See No Evil, Hear No Evil, when off-screen events aren't audible until they appear on-screen. May turn up in shows with Silly Simians. |
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In an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the villain of the week spray-painted these monkeys as part of his trail for the police. | |
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In the play The Curious Savage, three inmates at a sanitarium assume this pose on a couch for a while. | |
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A variation appears in Resident Evil (Remake), wherein there are four death masks around the mansion that have to be collected. One's missing its eyes and one's missing its mouth, but as the masks don't have a place for ears, the third doesn't have a nose. The last one's missing everything. A file can be found referring to them as "a mask that sees no evil, a mask that speaks no evil" and so on. | |
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The World Ends with You has several pins from the Gatito brand that only work when used together. One set, with the Irregular Note psych, has the Gatito logo (a skull) performing Monkey Morality Poses: Swift as the Wind is covering its eye sockets, Hushed as the Wood is covering its jaw, Fierce as the Flame is covering its ear cavities. The "Do No Evil" pin, Stalwart as the Mount, has its hands covering its entire face rather than recreating the traditional pose. NEO: The World Ends with You establishes the trope as a motif for the Fatal Flaw of each protagonist in the series. Neku was a misanthrope who wore headphones to block out the world around him, while Rindo wears a facemask and stays quiet so he can avoid responsibility and making decisions. Both of them wear clothing from the Jupiter of the Monkey brand. Unintentionally, Neku’s design might follow Rindo’s as well because his first outfit has a big turtle neck that obscured his mouth often and in this game, his new outfit doesn’t obscure his mouth whatsoever. Like Rindo, Neku also didn’t want to speak or be spoken to. |
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In Madagascar, when Mort nervously says that Alex is "going savage", there are three lemurs behind him playing this trope. | |
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In one episode of TaleSpin when Baloo and Louie were having a fight, Louie's monkey employees did this as a suggestion of how Louie should fight. | |
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The Haven two-parter "See No Evil" and "Speak No Evil" has the Barrow family. They have monkey dolls in this pose, and their Trouble causes people to get their eyes, ears, and mouth sewn shut when they deliver bad news. | |
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Justice League of America: Alluded to in the Rock of Ages arc of Grant Morrison's run on JLA (1997). In the Bad Future where Darkseid has conquered Earth, humans are herded into a “zombie factory� and emerge with masks shaped like three pairs of hands covering their eyes, ears, and mouths. To drive the point home, the words "WISE MONKEYS" can be seen over the exit. | |
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Ovide and the Gang has a trio of koalas who echo this—one of them wears headphones, one of them has dark sunglasses, and one of them is usually just covering their mouth. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway? has one game called "Animals", where the players attempt to act out a generic drama scene while behaving like predetermined animals — any game that has them acting like primates will end in this fashion. | |
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Walt Disney Presents: In the animated special "Donald's Award", Jiminy Cricket goes to Big Pete's house to ask him about a bad experience he had with Donald Duck, and he sits down next to a small statue of the monkeys. As Pete explains that it involves his trombone and he plays a few notes for him, Jiminy looks at the "kikazaru" monkey and says "I'm with you" before covering his own ears. | |
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Foolkiller: The MAX version of the Foolkiller arranges his victims' bodies into 'artistic' displays. The first example seen: three disemboweled men in this pose on a park bench. | |
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Donkey Kong Country Returns: Towards the end of level 3-2: Button Bash there's a column of monkey statues doing these poses. | |
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In Grand Theft Auto V, the three protagonists do a variation of this trope when the incredibly corrupt government agent tells them some of the government is corrupt. Trevor double facepalms, Franklin covers his mouth with his fist, and Michael puts his hands behind his head, covering his ears in the process. | |
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A variation in Naruto: when the Ten Tails enters its second form, it gains an eyeball on its head, an ear on its side, and a mouth on the back. | |
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Scary Godmother: Darryl, Katie, and Bert do this briefly, along with gasps of shock, when Jimmy tells them that he's planning to ditch Hannah. Doesn't stop them going along with his plan, though. | |
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In a rather frightening version, episode 51 of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood has an eyecatch showing three members of the "cyclops army" in such a pose◊. | |
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Community: in the Christmas Glee Club episode of Season 3, in the song Baby Boomer Santa, you can see Britta, Annie, and Shirley cover their ears, eyes, and mouth respectively. | |
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RWBY: In the dining hall, Nora throwing food for Yang to catch with her mouth escalates until Nora accidentally hits Weiss in the face with a custard pie. Team JNPR is shown with Ren covering his eyes, Pyrrha covering her mouth and Jaune covering one of his ears. Nora, meanwhile, points at Ren, passing the buck in a parody of the fourth monkey, 'Do no Evil'. | |
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In No Evil: Ixtlilton, Xochipilli, and Xochiquetzal, who incidentally are depicted as spider monkeys, sacrificed their vision, hearing, and voice respectively to seal the Black Tezcatlipoca in And The Raven Brought Fire. They receive artifacts that cover their eyes, ears, and throat respectively. | |
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On Rocko's Modern Life, Rocko brings his car to a repair shop. The mechanics are all monkeys (a pun on "grease monkey"), and three of them do this pose while laughing. Subverted in that they are laughing at Rocko for wanting to repair his old car and have it compete in a race against their muscle cars. | |
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In Muppets from Space, a tiny sculpture of this can be briefly seen during a transition to another scene.◊ | |
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In Planet of the Apes (1968), the orangutan judges briefly take this pose◊, conveying their willful ignorance in a courtroom scene that plays out like a bizarre version of the Scopes Monkey Trial. | |
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Sesame Street: In one of the Journey to Ernie segments, Big Bird searches for Ernie at a playground. Ernie is found on the monkey bars amongst a horde of monkeys, sitting between two of them who are taking on the famous poses, with Ernie himself mimicking the "see no evil" pose. | |
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A poster for A Wedding (1978) depicts three winged cherubs posing in this manner. | |
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Ready Jet Go!: In "Mini-Golf at the DSA", Sunspot helps Mindy putt the golf ball into the tenth and final hole — the rocket ship. The ball ricochets all over the place. Jet, Sean, and Sydney, all on edge, do the famous pose — Sean is see no evil, Jet is speak no evil, and Sydney is hear no evil. | |
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Kamen Rider Ghost has this as the Finishing Move for Sanzo Damashii. | |
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Green Lantern: The War of the Green Lanterns arc had Hal Jordan create constructs of three Guardians where one covered his ears, another his eyes and the last one his mouth when he confronts the rogue Guardian Krona and expresses his disbelief that Krona retained his emotions. | |
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Persona: The protagonist's Initial Persona, Seimen Kongou, comes with three monkeys. While the monkeys aren't doing the poses, one has a blindfold, another has headphones, and the third has a bandana over its mouth. | |
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Walking in the Dark: Third panel of this page. | |
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Turning Red: Some of the movie posters evoke this, especially "Speak No Evil". | |
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Mario Party 9 has a bonus event on DK's Jungle Ruins featuring totem poles depicting Diddy Kong with his hands over his eyes, ears, and mouth. | |
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Sam & Fuzzy has ninjas doing this. | |
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Used as a very creepy symbolism in The People Under the Stairs: the Psycho Couple that are the main antagonists of the film have a statue of such monkeys in their house. It turns out they cut the parts of their adoptive children each time they do something wrong. | |
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System of a Down included this in their song ATWA. | |
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There is an old MAD comic where the shadow shows what people really think/want. The comic where a man is being mugged shows the three passengers waiting at the nearby bus stop and not responding have shadows in this shape. Alfred E. Neuman strikes the pose◊ on one cover of the magazine. In a full-page gag from the early 1970s, then-President Richard Nixon was shown in the "hear no evil" and "see no evil" poses, and then with his hands cupped around his open mouth with the caption "Well, two out of three ain't bad!" In Don Martin's Tarzan parody. Jane asks the monkeys who encouraged Tarzan to get plastered, after which they take this pose. |
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Cro: In the episode "Let Me Help", Gogg, Ogg and Bobb do the pose when Phil tells them to brace themselves for the gunpowder explosion. | |
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In Rio, three of the marmosets do this◊ after Nigel tosses their leader Mauro up and then catches him after he falls for a long distance. | |
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During the credits in episode 9 of Zombie Land Saga Revenge, Yugiri's three dance students do this pose while dancing in front of statues of the Three Wise Monkeys. | |
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AdventureQuest spinoff site ebilgames.com has a variation with Zorbak, Twilly and Twig in this pose. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: in Don Rosa's Escape From Forbidden Valley, Huey, Dewey and Louie do this as Scrooge McDuck starts ranting about all the ways he can profit from the titular's valley's dinosaur population. | |
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Sadakatsiz: After she learns Volkan kissed Asya, Derin runs to Onur's house seeking solace. She goes to the backyard to take a breath and the camera lingers on a trio of monkey statues that are in this pose. As with most of the show's symbolism, this has two non-mutually exclusive meanings. Up to this point, Derin has deluded herself into thinking Volkan loves her and Asya is trying to seduce him — the kiss is when she starts to realize that the reality is quite the opposite. If Derin wants to grow as a person and achieve happiness, she needs to pull the proverbial rug off her eyes and face the truth, something that she has difficulty with but finally manages to do. The secondary meaning is that her heartbroken state leads her to have comfort sex with Onur, something that she's deeply ashamed about later. The feeling of guilt makes her insist on keeping it under wraps because it was a mistake and no, she didn't do this. Basically, Head-in-the-Sand Management. | |
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The 1970 adaptation of Horton Hears a Who! has the Wickersham Brothers take up the poses during their Villain Song. | |
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In stage 3 of Enchanted Portals, the monkey hazards rolling on the ground are each posed in one of the three ways. | |
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One episode of Jackie Chan Adventures has Tohru, Jade, and Jackie being struck blind, deaf, and mute respectively by a giant statue of the three monkeys. Daolon Wong then teleports the statue to inflict an entire village with these, and at the end of the episode, he is cursed with receiving all three. | |
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The old Porky Pig cartoon "Porky's Hero Agency" has Porky imagine himself as a hero-for-hire in mythical Ancient Greece, and taking on the Gorgon. At one point, the Gorgon petrifies some look-alikes of The Three Stooges, who proceed to adopt this pose, leading the Gorgon to quip "Guess I made monkeys outta them!" | |
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In one episode of Gilligan's Island, one of Gilligan's monkey friends terrorized the castaways with objects made of plastic explosives. At the end of the episode, thinking he had one left, Skipper, the Professor, and Gilligan did this just before he threw it. Fortunately, it turned out to be a regular plate. | |
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Spoofed at one point in El Arca, where the third monkey puts his hands over his groin instead of his mouth. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: Two examples: In "The Loaded Custodian", Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton and Walter Denton mime the three wise monkeys when caught looking for hidden treasure in Mr. Barlow's office. In "Wild Goose", again Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton and Walter Denton mime the three wise monkeys when asked by Mr. Conklin who had tricked him into thinking he had won a free television set. |
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In The Powerpuff Girls Movie, the titular girls are briefly seen in this pose◊ when hiding from their problems on an asteroid. They try to ignore the screams of the Townsfolk, which their super-hearing allows them to hear through space (somehow). Ironically, at the time, the town was being attacked by hordes of evil simians. | |
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The Season Pass promotion of Far Cry 6 shows the primary villains of the past three games doing the poses: Vaas covers his ears, Pagan covers (one of) his eyes and Joseph has his hands together in front of his mouth. | |
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While the poses themselves don't appear in Paracentric, each of the game's three worlds is symbolically connected to one. | |
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NEO: The World Ends with You establishes the trope as a motif for the Fatal Flaw of each protagonist in the series. Neku was a misanthrope who wore headphones to block out the world around him, while Rindo wears a facemask and stays quiet so he can avoid responsibility and making decisions. Both of them wear clothing from the Jupiter of the Monkey brand. Unintentionally, Neku’s design might follow Rindo’s as well because his first outfit has a big turtle neck that obscured his mouth often and in this game, his new outfit doesn’t obscure his mouth whatsoever. Like Rindo, Neku also didn’t want to speak or be spoken to. | |
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Runescape does this. The three monkeys are actually found ingame, with the original names. There is a whole quest centered around them, even! A short version of the story is like this: Monkeys have once lived on the desert. The clash of two gods, Amascut, goddess of destruction, and Apmeken, goddess of friendship and sociability and monkeys, caused Apmeken to lose and lose her three senses — and so did the desert monkeys. Out of the stolen senses, three monsters were forged, and killed off the debilitated monkey population — except for Mizaru, Iwazaru, and Kikazaru, which escaped to a monkey island (no, not that one), by helping each other and filling out for their respective lackings. Also due to Apmeken's loss, people of the desert turned hostile and started wars. In the quest, the player establishes a new monkey colony on the desert and defeats those three monsters, restoring Apmeken's senses, and is spoken to by the goddess... and also does a lot of other funnier things. Talking to the three monkeys is a rather comedic routine if one can't talk back and one doesn't hear you. | |
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Subnormality uses it here | |
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Briefly referenced in a Halloween episode of NCIS. A trio of pranksters wearing monkey masks discover the corpse du jour at the beginning of the episode. They're listed in the credits as "See," "Speak," and "Hear." | |
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DDT Beer Garden Pro Wrestling 2011 - Day 5 - Kenny Omega & Michael Nakazawa Day included a three-way match to see which one was superior. It was No Hearing Monkey. | |
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The Loud House: Happens in "Butterfly Effect" when Lola and Lynn are shown leading a getaway on TV, with Izzy, Lincoln, and a monkey mimicking "hear", "see", and "speak" respectively. | |
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The Thanksgiving episode has Shenzi, Ed and Banzai performing the poses. | |
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Shrek 2: In the Far Far Away Idol special, when the Three Blind Mice sang "I Can See Clearly Now", they tripped over each other, causing Shrek, Fiona, and Simon (in that order) to assume these poses◊. Specifically, Shrek covered his eyes, Fiona covered her mouth, and Simon, being Simon, put his fingers in his ears. In the movie itself, the Three Little Pigs assume the positions◊ when they and the other fairy tale characters watch an episode of KNIGHTS and they see that the man they arrested is actually Shrek. |
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In the Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior episode "See No Evil", the UnSub patterns their attacks after this. The first attack is an Eye Scream, the second Ear Ache, and the third Tongue Trauma. | |
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Three characters from Killer7 are based on (and named after) this trope. Iwazaru (who hangs from the ceiling in a gimp suit and makes the "shush" hand sign) gives you important information, Mizaru (who wears bondage gear and covers her eyes) points out obstacles Kaede can remove, and Kikazaru (who wears all white, is completely silent, clings to walls and ceilings, and disappears when you draw near) indicates the presence of Soul Shells. | |
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One Daria credits gag has the Three J's as monkeys making these poses. | |
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In Tamara, Roger, under Tamara's mind control, references the quotation the pose comes from during his Psychic-Assisted Suicide, in which he cuts off an ear (hear no evil) and the tip of his tongue (speak no evil) before finally shoving the box-cutter into his eye (see no evil). It was Tamara's revenge for Roger's refusal to do anything to stop his friends' bullying of her that ended in her death. | |
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This is the logo for the production company of Sliders. | |
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Pokémon: Pansage, Pansear, and Panpour, as well as their evolutions all appear to be based off this trope, but each is actually based on a Japanese delinquent subculture that inverts their corresponding pose. Darmanitan's Zen Mode appeared to evoke all three at once, as its eyes are blank, it appears to be covering its ears (despite having no visible ones), and its mouth is closed. |
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In Don Martin's Tarzan parody. Jane asks the monkeys who encouraged Tarzan to get plastered, after which they take this pose. | |
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In a easily-missed moment, in the Rugrats episode "The Word of the Day", Stu, Didi, and Grandpa do this after Angelica swears on live television (It Makes Sense in Context). | |
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Tank Girl: One publicity shot shows Tank Girl, Jet Girl and Sub Girl with, respecively, headphones, shades and tape over her mouth. | |
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In Magic: The Gathering, the angelic sisters Bruna and Gisela got themselves new cards with Eldritch Moon, with the flavor text representing See and Hear No Evil respectively. Their cards can be merged to form Brisela, Voice of Nightmares. | |
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In Last Period, this is the basis of Wiseman's theme. Their names are based on the Japanese translation of the phrases, and each has an appropriate fashion accessory: Mizaru's hat covers her eyes, Kikazaru's headphones cover her ears, and Iwazaru's bandanna covers her mouth. | |
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In Robin Hood: Men in Tights when Robin of Loxley is about to be tortured in the beginning three other prisoners are shown assuming the poses. | |
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The Spongebob Musical has Spongebob and his friends imitate this pose when Mr. Krabs and Plankton start cussing each other out; Patrick covers his eyes, Spongebob his ears, and Sandy her mouth. | |
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Friday the 13th: The Series had a horror variant with three statues of the monkeys used by a Japanese father to tempt his two sons and daughter in order to know which one was worthy. The monkeys do exactly the opposite of what they're suppose to do. | |
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Ava's Demon the TITAN propaganda poster in Gil's ship showing the order of cyborg implants in order to achieve "perfection". | |
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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has an unconventional boss fight against the Folding Screen Monkeys, whom you must defeat by stealth instead of direct combat. The monkeys correspond to the proverb, but act inversely from their original roles. Instead of covering his eyes, "the seeing monkey" sees far with his glasses; instead of covering his mouth, the "speaking monkey" shouts loudly and bangs a gong; and instead of covering his ears, the "hearing monkey" listens intently with a straw collar acting as an amplifier. There's also an unnamed fourth monkey that's invisible, which is a play on the "Do no evil" monkey who is almost always left out of the references. | |
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The second season of Ninjago has a moment where Zane tells the ninja about a dream involving the Green Ninja during training, and when Sensei Wu turns around, he sees Cole covering his ears, Jay covering his mouth and Kai covering his eyes. His response is worth a few chuckles. | |
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Danny Phantom has Sam, Tucker and Danny take the pose in "One of a Kind" while Samson the Purpleback Gorilla puts the beatdown on Skulker. | |
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Cult of the Lamb: When he was imprisoned, the One Who Waits inflicted a wound on each of the Bishops creating the four monkey version: Leshy lost his eyes (See); Kallamar lost his ears (Hear); Heket's throat was torn out (Speak); and Shamura's skull was cracked (Think). Since he was once a Bishop of the Old Faith himself, Narinder represents a fifth monkey: He is bound in chains and cannot free himself on his own (Do). | |
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Team Fortress 2 promotional material "The Sound of Medicine", Pyro (covering their eyes), Scout (covering his mouth), Heavy (covering his ears) and Soldier (covering his crotch) recreate the four poses. | |
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The Punisher: Played with in an issue of Jason Aaron's run on The Punisher MAX, where Elektra walks into a mob meeting and slices some goombahs up. One loses his ears, the other his tongue, and the third his eyes, and they put their hands to where the wounds are. | |
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In the Doctor Who story "Revenge of the Cybermen", the Cybermen's hostages (including the Doctor) assume this pose◊ while sitting against the wall, holding their faces in pain. | |
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In Hunter × Hunter, Saiyu weaponizes these monkeys: Any successful attack done by these monkeys will deprive the victim of his or her sight, hearing, or ability to speak depending on the monkey. | |
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My Life as a Teenage Robot: The title cards for three different episodes named after each line have a variation of Jenny striking the three poses. | |
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In 1998, during the Austin vs. McMahon feud, there was a shot of Vince McMahon, Pat Patterson and Jerry Brisco doing this at "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. | |
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Journey to the West: When Sun Wukong is born in a 4-panel comic abridged version, several of the strips reference these monkeys. | |
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In Ultraviolet (2006), three vampiric goons receive wounds causing them to adopt this pose◊ before they collapse. | |
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Tinga Tinga Tales: In "Why Warthog is so Ugly?", the three monkeys did this when they saw Warthog's face after he got hit by Porcupine's quills. | |
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Genesis: The sleeve artwork for the single release of "Keep It Dark" depicts a statuette of the "say no evil, see no evil, hear no evil" monkeys in that order. The music video additionally features the band members striking the pose in the same order during the Title Drops, with Mike Rutherford covering his mouth, Phil Collins covering his eyes, and Tony Banks covering his ears and grimacing. | |
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In the final round of the 2017 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, as the contestants Austin Rogers, Alan Lin, and Buzzy Cohen are being introduced, they collectively strike this pose, leading host Alex Trebek to call them "a bunch of monkeys." | |
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Daffy the Commando: The letter that Von Vulture reads depicts Adolf Hitler, Hirohito and Benito Mussolini as the "see no evil, hear no evil, say no evil" monkeys. | |
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Ace Attorney: In Ace Attorney Investigations 2, Sota Sarushiro (Simon Keyes) is given this motif when upset. This is actually Foreshadowing that Simon is a Chessmaster who have incited several murders, never directly killing anyone until the final case of the game. In other words, a monkey that neither sees, hears, speaks, or does any of the crimes he's responsible for. All three lawyers in the Wright Anything Agency follow this pattern. Not only do they have color coordination, but monkey coordination through their unique abilities. "See No Evil" is handled by Apollo with his perceive system letting him spot tells. Athena is the "Hear No Evil" role with her ability to hear emotions. And finally, Phoenix and his magatama talking someone into revealing the truth fulfills the "Speak No Evil" of the pattern. |
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Magazine ads for Skull Monkeys parodied this. The ad had 4 Skullmonkeys, the first three posed as "Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil". The fourth was being smashed by Klaymen dropping in from above with the caption "Smash evil with your butt." | |
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In the Far Far Away Idol special, when the Three Blind Mice sang "I Can See Clearly Now", they tripped over each other, causing Shrek, Fiona, and Simon (in that order) to assume these poses◊. Specifically, Shrek covered his eyes, Fiona covered her mouth, and Simon, being Simon, put his fingers in his ears. | |
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A song on John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, season 4 episode 1. Each monkey sung about its own method of avoiding evil ("And although some don't think it wise/To simply cover up your eyes/It's certainly working for me") Of course, the third monkey just went "Mph, mph, mph". As with many modern versions, the point is that, rather than being virtuous, the monkeys are ignoring injustices they could be fighting. ("And if he sees no evil/Maybe there's no evil to see.") | |
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A variation of this occurs with the three head shrines in the Gretel and Hansel as one of the puzzles needed for Gretel to progress through the game. To activate them and get the remaining stone pieces to fit into the statues near the ravine, Gretel must commit an evil act related to the three senses in front of each head including: (1) killing a fawn with an arrow, (2) chanting Black Speech from a book of spells from the stickman's kitchen, and (3) carrying a screaming mandrake after watering it near the bridge. Doing so will cause the heads to cover their eyes, mouth and ears, opening their compartments and allowing Gretel to take the pieces. | |
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Charmed (1998): In one episode, Prue, Piper, and Phoebe rescue three chimpanzees. Near the end, Phoebe reveals she's taught them to do this pose whenever she says the word "evil". A later episode has the three sisters cursed with this. One sister is struck blind, another deaf, and the third mute. This leads to an amusing moment where Piper does a Face Palm (covering her eyes), Paige covers her mouth in surprise, and Phoebe (deaf and uncertain what they're doing) assumes they're striking this pose and covers her ears. And Leo figures out right away what the problem is. |
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In one episode of Friends, when Ross announces he has to give up Marcel (his pet monkey), he, Chandler and Joey take this pose for a moment. | |
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Referenced in Saint Seiya, where Shaka, who seems fixated on monkeys, once faced three enemies (Camus, Shura and Saga) and left one without his senses (with the loss of taste rendering the victim mute, due to paralizing the tongue) except his sight, one without senses but his hearing, and one without senses except taste. They caught the reference and laughed at it. | |
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