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Shoe Shine, Mister?
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Rarely seen today and on the way to being a Discredited Trope (at least in First World countries) is the Shoe Shine Boy and the Shoe Shine Stand. The Shoe Shine Boy is a young boy who carries around a box. Inside the box are the shine tools, which the boy takes from the box as the customer places his shoe on a pedestal built on the box. The Shoe Shine Stand is a bunch of chairs, where the customer sits and places his feet up on a stand in front of them. Since this is a more established business, the shoeshiners are generally adult men. They are often black men, so calling them shoeshine "boys" is not recommended in modern times. Stands are often seen at bus and train stations, as well as at hotels. In older stories they were often on the street. In detective stories, the detective usually has a conversation with the shoeshiner while he gets his shoes shined. This lets him know what is happening "on the street". The detective usually adds an extra tip to pay for the information. Shoe shining is often used as the first step in a character's working his way out of poverty — the Burger Fool of its day. Horatio Alger Jr. is probably the Trope Codifier, if not the Trope Maker, for that aspect (see Literature below). Shoe shine stands do still exist, but this site is about tropes. You don't see them much in media set in the present anymore, although they may still appear in historical fiction. |
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There's one of these in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Paying him is necessary to enter the fancy store. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Whacking Day", Bart decides to make his living as a shoeshine boy after being expelled from school. In "The Day the Violence Died", Bart meets the true creator of Itchy & Scratchy, Chester J. Lampwick, who is now a hobo reduced to shining shoes for a living. After he successfully sues I&S Studios for all their money, he lives in a mansion, where he hangs out in front offering people a shine. A flashback from "Thursdays with Abie" reveals that Granmpa was one of these as a kid. He once shined Clark Gable's shoes, but he got stiffed. |
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Andy from Parks and Recreation gets the job of shoeshine boy at Pawnee City Hall after a season and a half of being essentially homeless and unemployed. | |
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Underdog's Secret Identity is "Shoeshine Boy." That's humble and lovable Shoeshine Boy. |
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Similarly, though offscreen, this contributed to Rambo's status as a Shell-Shocked Veteran in First Blood - one of his best friends was blown to bits because the shoe-shine box he'd bought from a Vietnamese boy was wired with explosives. | |
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In Sakura Gari, a very young Souma worked as a shoe shine boy. When his father Lord Saiki found out about him and went to London to retrieve him, he finds Souma in his stand. | |
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In The Dark Knight Rises, one of Bane's henchmen poses as a shoeshiner to smuggle a submachine gun into the Stock Exchange. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: In "The Birthday Bag", Harriet Conklin invents a story about an impoverished shoeshine boy friend of hers in order to get money from Miss Brooks. | |
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Young Frankenstein. When Frederick's train pulls in, he asks a shoeshine boy, "Pardon me boy, is this the Transylvania Station?" The boy replies "Ja, ja. Track 29. Oh, can I give you a shine?" This is a Shout-Out to the 1941 song "Chattanooga Choo Choo." | |
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Gulliver's Travels: During a montage of the Lilliputians working to spiff up the giant (to them) Gulliver, a shine boy is seen shining his fingernails. | |
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In The Grand Budapest Hotel M. Gustave instructs Zero to give what remains of the money he's giving him to a shoe-shine boy who is crippled with a prosthetic left leg. | |
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DuckTales (1987): Besides adapting the story of Scrooge's "Number One Dime" as told in the comics, one episode has Scrooge teaching his grandnephews the value of "working smarter, not harder" by telling them of how he financed his move to America during his days as a shoeshiner. By inventing a machine out a bicycle and his father's suspenders, he could shine four pairs at once, allowing him to earn his funds in few months instead of the years it would normally take. | |
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DuckTales (2017): In "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!", Scrooge accuses his father Fergus of not doing anything to support him when he was growing up, citing that his beloved Number One Dime was earned from the hours he spent cleaning Bert the ditch-digger's boots. At that point, Fergus reveals that he gave Bert the dime, muddied his boots and sent him Scrooge's way, all to help his son learn self-reliance and become the person he is now. In "The Ballad of Duke Baloney!", a flashback has Scrooge, during one of his globetrotting adventures, getting his spats shined by a South African lad named Duke Baloney. Scrooge gives the boy a dime as an affectionate nod to his own beginnings, but Duke feels cheated and swears vengeance, growing up to become Flintheart Glomgold. In "The Richest Duck in the World!" Scrooge, having lost his fortune, decides to build it all up from being a shoeshine boy again, and for the first time notices that very few Duckburg residents actually wear shoes. |
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Looney Tunes Cartoons: The short "Shoe Shine-nanigans" has Daffy Duck working as a shoeshine boy working on Elmer Fudd's shoes using various unconventional methods. At the end, Elmer tries to shaft Daffy, only to get hit by a truck, leaving behind only his shoes. | |
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Kicks the skunk from Animal Crossing: City Folk/Let's Go To The City is a shoe shiner you can meet in the city. He changes the color of your shoes according to the clothes you're wearing at the time. In later series entries, where shoes are a separately equipable item, Kicks works as a shoe salesman instead. | |
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MAD: Sergio Aragones did a number of shoe shiner gags: One strip has a shoeshine box fall to pieces under the foot of an obese man. Guiltily, he hands the crying shoeshine boy a wad of cash and walks off ... whereupon the kid quickly reassembles his flimsy box and waits for the next fat guy to come along. "A MAD Look at Movie Monsters" has Frankenstein's monster walking the streets and everyone fleeing in terror, except for an eager shoeshine boy offering to clean up the monster's boots. One Drawn-Out Drama shows a sullen bootblack with a "Going Out of Business" sign on his stand, as hordes of pedestrians in sneakers, sandals and bare feet walk past. |
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Nick of Time. A disabled war veteran earning money this way becomes a reluctant ally to the protagonist, after he overhears the villain discussing his Evil Plan while having his shoes shined (he suffers from hearing loss, but is not completely deaf as the villain had been lead to believe). | |
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In Deewaar, Vijay starts shining shoes as a kid to help pay for his brother Ravi's education. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Scrooge McDuck famously earned his Number One Dime shining shoes as seen in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. | |
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In That Man from Rio, Adrian chases his girlfriend and her kidnappers from Paris to Rio de Janeiro. As he's lost them and is at loose ends, a street kid comes up and shines his shoes. Adrian has no money, so he shines the kid's shoes in return. They befriend each other, and the kid turns out to be pretty resourceful, saving Adrian in a couple of dangerous situations. | |
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Color Classics: In Little Dutch Mill, a blackfaced shoeshiner "shines" the Dutch people's wooden clogs by whittling away the dirty surfaces. | |
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Fantasia: Parodied in the "Pastoral Symphony" segment, which features a blackfaced centaur named Sunflower shining the hooves of the white ones. Due to severe Values Dissonance, that scene has been absent from the movie for over half a century. | |
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Black Caesar: During A Minor Kidroduction, Tommy is a shoeshine boy. He jumps at the chance to make real money by assisting in a mob hit - he talks the target into a shoeshine and then grabs his leg so he can't escape an ambush. | |
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In an early Batman comic, Robin goes undercover as a shoeshine boy, and when the villain of the week stops to get a shine Robin secretly applies a tracking device to his shoe. | |
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In Silver Streak, the police are looking for George, so Grover buys some shoe polish from a shoeshiner at a stand at the train station to use to disguise him as a black man. | |
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El Chavo in El Chavo del ocho has tried a job as shoe shiner on more than one opportunity. Always ending up distracted mid-job and painting the socks, trousers and sometimes even the face of the poor adult that accepted his services. | |
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Prince of Space is a shoeshine boy. | |
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Toward the end of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, after rejecting Wonka's desire to have him take over the factory and abandon his family, Charlie is shining the shoes of an unknown man and insults Wonka. The man promptly drops the newspaper from in front of his face, revealing a rather offended Wonka. | |
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In the movie M*A*S*H, the snippets of the song "Tokyo Shoe Shine Boy" are played at various times. The song is also on the movie soundtrack. In the film it is sung in Japanese, except for the words "Tokyo Shoe Shine Boy" in English. You can hear the entire song in Japanese here. | |
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Live and Let Die: While James Bond is trailing Kananga's car in Harlem, he's spotted by a black shoeshine man, who calls Mr. Big on a radio inside his shoeshine kit. | |
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Goodfellas features a scene in which Tommy DeVito brutally beats and knifes Billy Batts to death for insulting him about being a shoeshine boy in Tommy's younger days. This eventually gets Tommy killed, as Batts was a made man, and you do not kill a made man in the mob without a sitdown and an okay from the made man's boss. The film is based on the real-life experiences of Henry Hill and the people he met through the Vario brothers, who owned a shoeshine stand and other businesses. In real life, Billy Batts taunted Tommy DeSimone, calling him "spit-shine Tommy." DeSimone retorted by yelling, "Shine these fuckin' shoes," and then executing Batts. |
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Sushi Pack: In one episode, the Titanium Chef's evil plan involves shoe-shining, even though his own minions point out that no one shines his shoes in this day and age. However, his plan also involves the power of peer pressure, and sure enough, everyone wants to get their shoes shined to be "cool". One boy even volunteers to help them shine shoes. | |
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In The Band Wagon, Fred Astaire sings and dances "Shine on your Shoes" with the shoe shiner. He was a real dancing shoe shiner rather than an actor/dancer, and the inspiration for the song "Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy." A BLAM song. | |
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Police Squad! had Johnny the Shoe-Shine Boy, who knew everything, so much that he's listed on this site as an Almighty Janitor. Our hero goes to him to catch the 'word on the street', then various celebrities turn up for advice on everything else. | |
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The Legend of Korra: Hiroshi Sato got his start as a shoeshiner, before finding a backer for his "automobile" idea. | |
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The Prisoner (1967) episode "The Girl who was Death" parodies secret agent adventures, and early on has Number Six exchanging info with a fellow agent who is posing as a shoe shine guy, complete with transmitter brush. | |
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Outrage: Played for a joke. After Jim declines a shoe shine, the shoe shine boy says "OK, if you want to look like a slob." | |
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Coco: At the beginning, Miguel gives the opening narration while shining a musician's shoes. His family has been shoemakers for several generations, and the kids apparently have the job of shining shoes until they graduate to making them. | |
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Gangster Squad features a shoeshine boy in one scene offering his services to the squad, only to end up machine-gunned to death by a mob assasin aiming for the squad. | |
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For a little while on Night Court there was a shoeshine stand that was an important place in the courthouse, with the shiner, Leon, as a recurring character. It turned out he was a runaway, hiding in plain sight in the courthouse. After he was sent to foster care, the shoeshine stand remained as a place to sit. | |
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