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The Ketchup Test
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In which a character touches a blood stain with his fingers, usually in order to make sure that it actually is blood. Sometimes, it turns out to be ketchup or strawberry jam (something that's red, goopy and fake), especially if another character has been doing a Chicken Little impersonation over the supposed bloodstain. Being a vampire or a Cyborg may also help for analysing the type of blood. In Real Life, it's possible that some animals (bloodhounds, brown bears, tyrannosaurs, larger sharks) may have a sufficiently powerful sense of smell, this (or simply sniffing the blood) might actually allow them to determine the species or even the individual victim involved. See also Sniff Sniff Nom, Fingertip Drug Analysis. Not to be confused with The Ketchup Advisory Board.* Although those natural mellowing agents may account for the unscientific behavior... |
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Chappelle's Show: Dave Chappelle explains that since semen is also a tool used by police to frame the black guy while doing their jobs, they might check that instead. | |
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Parodied in the "Thanksgiving" trailer in Grindhouse, when two small-town detectives are investigating a murder scene amid the titular holiday parade. And by "investigating a murder scene" we mean, "The headless body is right there and the blood is still leaking out of it". | |
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Angel does this from time to time. Being a vampire, it makes sense he can automatically tell if something is blood from looking closer at it. | |
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In an episode of Bones, 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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Bunk'd: In "Inn Trouble", after seeing Finn licking the "dirt" off of his arm, Gwen reaches over and puts her finger into the "blood" on his elbow and tastes it, recognizing it as raspberry jam. Lampshaded by Destiny who asked her what if it had been blood. | |
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In an episode of Fringe, the ketchup test is notably averted. The team finds a reddish stain on a piece of evidence left at a kidnapping scene, believing it at first to be blood, but they bag it and submit it for analysis only to discover that it is not blood but hot sauce. Walter has a recurring habit of tasting whatever disgusting thing they're dealing with and then revealing it's just some food he left lying around in the lab. He's done this with what appeared to be blood, brain matter, and cremated ashes. Taste is apparently the most important sense for scientists. Given that, the hot sauce example seems particularly notable, since it would be a perfect specimen for Walter's Sniff Sniff Nom antics, since hot sauce generally has a distinctive odor. |
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In a sketch in Horrible Histories, Viking Paramedics know it's blood already. They taste it because they believe they can figure out what's wrong with the patient by doing so. They can't. This sketch is accompanied by the most, if not the only, truly serious Don't Try This at Home warning on the show. | |
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Inverted in Community. Britta sees a red stain on Jeff's shirt and is afraid it's paint. But with a relieved sigh he realizes that it's just blood. | |
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In Idiotsitter, during the episode "Fight Day", Gene surprises Billie in a dark garage, and paint cans fall on her. Hours later when Billie wakes up, she's got red all over her shirt and screams, before she realizes it's paint. | |
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Actually somewhat justified in Cornered!, since a lot of shelves were knocked over, and it could have very well been ketchup. | |
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Maskerade: While everyone else in the Ankh-Morpork Opera House is hysterically freaking out about what looks like a blood stain, Agnes Nitt touches the stain, sniffs her finger, and discovers it's turpentine. | |
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The title character of Inuyasha is half-youkai and has the supernaturally sensitive and accurate canine sense of smell to show for it, with the result that he's frequently shown noticing the scent of blood over considerable distances, and can recognize when the blood belongs to someone he knows personally. | |
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Caballistics, Inc.: During the mission at the Luddgate studio, Hannah tastes some of the blood the team finds all over the floor. It's not real, being merely Kensington Gore, but the blood itself is drippling down from mid-air. | |
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"Last Christmas!", a Season 2 episode of DuckTales (2017), saw Dewey Duck go back in time to meet his uncle Donald and mother Della, back when they were kids. He and Donald go looking for Della who has gone camping in the huge expanse that is Uncle Scrooge's backyard, and they come across a reddish substance smeared on a tree. Without hesitation, young Donald walks up, takes a huge lick of the unknown substance off the tree. | |
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Resident Evil: "I hope this is not Chris's blood..." | |
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In The Keening Blade (Dragon Age: Origins) the slightly-mad Maude samples the bloodstains available in Warden's Keep: And there actually is an inexplicable jar of jam to be found in-game. |
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In an episode of Beastmaster, Dar sees a spilled blue fluid and dips the tip of his spear in it so he can examine it without having to crouch. It turns out to be unicorn blood, and the blood on the spear makes it child's play for an Evil Chancellor to frame him for attacking the unicorns. | |
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The X-Files: In the episode "Revelations", Mulder dabs his finger in "blood" and licks it. He promptly informs Scully that it has too much sugar. The look on Scully's face... | |
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In the prequel to Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns, the middle Aeducan child sends a red-soaked nug into a feast full of dwarven nobility. After mayhem ensues, the visiting King Maric tries some and announces it's cherry jam. | |
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Parodied in one episode of My Gym Partner's a Monkey when Jake, Winston, and Snips are investigating if Adam ate his parents. They find the remains of Adam's ketchup sandwich, and Jake does the test to confirm if it's blood. Of course, it turns out he doesn't know what ketchup taste like, so not only does he think that it's blood, he thinks that blood taste delicious. | |
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As a prototype android, Connor in Detroit: Become Human can analyze fluids by tasting them with his tongue, which also has the tendency to disgust his human partner Hank. | |
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The 2001 obscure Nickelodeon movie, Snow Day, had the elementary students try to derail the snowplow man's efforts to remove the snow from the streets since it will reopen their snowed-in school. One of their less successful methods was having one of the students lie in the middle of the street in wait of the snowplow man with ketchup on his shirt pretending to be unconscious. Bemused, the snowplow man simply stands next to the boy, dipping his french fries in the ketchup and eating them. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Christmas Invasion", the Doctor does this. He then tastes the blood and identifies it as "A-positive, with just a dash of iron" (although his Bizarre Alien Biology could let him do this). | |
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Though it wasn't blood that he tested it with, Gil Grissom did this twice in CSI. The first time, Brass merely stared in horror at him; the second, Catherine warned him how unsanitary it was. | |
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In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Mighty Little Defenders episode 1, the wolves are hurt and have what appears to be blood on them. Wolffy tastes the blood to make sure it's actually blood, and then he says it's just tomato sauce. | |
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: Chekov finds a dried drop of something pink on the transporter pad, and pokes it before taking a sample. It's Klingon blood, which is what he was looking for. Repeated in the director's cut, with Colonel Worf investigating the pool of blood surrounding the attempted Klingon assassin. |
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines: This is how the T-X can determine the identity of her victims if there is ever any doubt. (DNA scanners in her tongue. Who'd have thought it?) | |
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Lehrigen, a human from the Wild Hunt subseries of ElfQuest, is an expert hunter and tracker, and can tell human and elfin blood apart by smell and/or taste. | |
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Gimli tops it by tasting the orc blood in Peter Jackson's rendition of The Lord of the Rings. While this raises the question of how he even knows the difference to begin with, the fact that he immediately spits it out in disgust suggests he's familiar with its repulsive taste. Given that he hacks orcs apart with an axe, it’s perfectly reasonable to assume that he’s been sprayed in the face with orc blood before. | |
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Cobra Kai: At the end of Season 5, Kreese is in prison and gets fatally stabbed by another inmate during a cafeteria altercation. After he's hauled off to the infirmary, the physician sniffs his blood and then tastes it, much to the surprise of a nearby guard. He notes that the "blood" is actually Jell-o, right about the time Kreese gets up and executes the next step in his escape plan. | |
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