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Nose Tapping
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When a character taps their nose, they "know" something. This seems to be a western cultural thing; in Asian cultures, pointing to the nose (or the face in general) is equivalent to the Western gesture of gesturing at your chest to indicate you're talking about yourself (essentially, the unconscious gesture you do anytime you say, "Who, me?") Indeed, nose tapping is almost always dependent on the context in order to make much sense at all what it is. All any of these examples can really say for sure is that tapping the nose means something. Can, of course, be used to indicate The Nose Knows, but not required. Compare Secret Message Wink. For when a character taps another character's nose, usually affectionately, see Affectionate Gesture to the Nose. |
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Some of the characters in Redwall do this on occasion. | |
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Played for laughs on Psych in season 2 when Gus has to pretend to be psychic in front of his uncle Burton, with Shawn giving him clues just out of his uncle's view. At one point Gus is on the right track, and Shawn responds by tapping his nose. This leads to the conclusion that: | |
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In an episode of Castle, the boys use the gesture as a reference to The Sting as they're discussing con men and con movies. At the end of the episode, Beckett repeats the gesture to a bank manager who'd just played along in their sting, revealing that she'd lied earlier about disliking the movie. | |
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On Cheers, when resident con-artist Harry the Hat went up against a card-shark who had been fleecing Coach, the card-shark coerced Coach to help him, claiming that Harry was scamming them both. They set up the 'finger-on-the-nose' bit so Coach could signal the card-shark if Harry had a bad hand. Coach, however, kept saying "I'm scratching my nose because it's itchy!". Needless to say Harry won the hand. In the end, it turned out that Coach was working with Harry to get back at the card-shark and get everyone's money back. That's right, Coach pulled a Xanatos Gambit! | |
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Super Duper Sumos: Part of their Transformation Sequence includes a pre-battle taunt. Kimo's taunt is to mockingly tap his nose. | |
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The Simpsons: In a Halloween episode when the school is murdering kids and putting them into the lunches, Krabappel asks why the school's sandwiches taste so good—then realizes what's actually inside them. Skinner knowingly taps his nose to tip her off that she's in on the school's secret. In "Burns, Baby Burns," Ned clues Homer in about season passes at the apple cider mill. He taps his nose and winks at Homer to show he's treating it like their little secret. Homer, of course, couldn't care less. |
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In an episode of Are You Being Served?, Captain Peacock indicates with this gesture that he knows something about somebody other than himself being promoted to Mr. Rumbold's position, but has been told not to say why. Mr. Lucas takes the gesture as meaning that Captain Peacock didn't get the position because he's Jewish. Captain Peacock ends up explaining the gesture. | |
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Dennis the Menace: In an episode where Dennis and Mr. Wilson go to auction, Wilson explains to Dennis how the bidders make known they'd like to bid on an item; one of the bidders taps his nose. Dennis inadvertently gets Mr. Wilson to tap his nose – and do other things – to buy multiple items he didn't want. | |
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In Mad Men, Don does this while on a date with Faye Miller: | |
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In From Russia with Love, Bond's ally, Kerim Bey does this while referring to his nose as his "old friend", who tells him that "something smells". | |
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Harry Potter: Gilderoy Lockhart has an annoying habit of doing this. | |
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Scrubs: Just watch Doctor Cox closely, nay — at all, sometime. Ever. John McGinley does this as an homage to Paul Newman from The Sting (see page image). |
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Frederick does the Charades version in Young Frankenstein. | |
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In the Made-for-TV Movie of Dead Like Me, the Reapers tap their noses to each other at the end in order to remain incognito. | |
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From Discworld franchise: Jingo: In Going Postal, a drunken Crispin Horsefry tries to do this, and keeps missing. Later, Moist experiences the horror that is his "assistant" Mr. Groat tapping his nose. |
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In the The Mysterious Benedict Society books, this is a signature gesture of Mr. Benedict throughout the series, however, Mr. Benedict generally taps his nose to indicate that someone else is right. By The Riddle of Ages, the members of the Mysterious Benedict Society have adopted it themselves in honor of Mr. Benedict. | |
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Jingo: | |
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Slayers: Xellos does this every time he says his catchphrase. | |
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In Going Postal, a drunken Crispin Horsefry tries to do this, and keeps missing. Later, Moist experiences the horror that is his "assistant" Mr. Groat tapping his nose. | |
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When asking a group of people for someone to volunteer to do an unpleasant task — clean the living room, take out the trash — the last person to touch their nose is the person stuck doing it. Urban Dictionary calls this "The Nose Game", and it's also referred to as "Nose Goes". | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: Bud demonstrates that having a nose isn't strictly necessary for pulling this gesture off, but it helps. | |
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In an episode of NCIS, Ziva makes this gesture while interrogating a perp. It's significant because it's the body language equivalent of an idiom, but she's not getting it wrong. | |
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Monk: Adrian Monk did this to get the hotel security during the episode in which Benjy sees a murder but Monk is the only person to believe him. | |
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During the Tripod song "Justin", when they're trying to sing about Jesus without using either the name Jesus or any other word that could be connected to Christianity. Everytime they try to cover up something, Gatesy does this. Subverted when, near the end of the song, Scod complains that Gatesy is making fun of his huge nose, which Gatesy admits to. | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Ragetti does this after Pintel "promises" Elizabeth that they won't hurt her while they're looking for her. | |
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In the movie The Sting, the nose tapping is a signal between the con men. | |
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On NewsRadio, Bill says "It is the wise man who knows there's a lot he does not know." Matthew responds with a nose tap, "I know." | |
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In the Futurama episode "Spanish Fry", aliens steal Fry's nose. Amy asks if they were "little grey dudes with big oval heads," and Fry points to the blank spot in the middle of his face, only for Amy to reply that she "doesn't get that gesture." | |
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Seen in Hannah Montana: Hannah is interviewing prospective bodyguards. One says in reply to a question "It's better not to know" and touches the side of his nose. | |
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One a scene from the extended version of the film of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Merry and Pippin stumble upon barrels of pipeweed in the ruins of Isengard. Merry says it would be better to not tell Treebeard about it; Pippin says "Oh, I get it" and touches the side of his nose, too. | |
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In Blank Check, the bank manager, who believes he's delivered $1 Million in stolen money to a recently-released criminal, invokes this when the man who was supposed to pick up the money arrives. It doesn't work. | |
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Doctor Who: A Character Tic of the Fourth Doctor, revisited during his cameo in "The Day of the Doctor", in a bit of Leaning on the Fourth Wall. With him it would literally be a Who nose. A related example; the Seventh Doctor had a habit of affectionately tapping his companion Ace's nose whenever she impressed him. "The Beast Below": The Eleventh Doctor does this after putting a glass of water on the floor to check for vibrations. |
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