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Turn Your Head and Cough

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A Stock Phrase and Stock Joke involving the medical community. This usually involves a doctor or physician examining a male patient's testicular region and instructing the patient to cough, turning his head so as to avoid the patient coughing on the doctor. The intended purpose of this part of a medical exam is to check if the patient has a hernia.
More humorously, however, doctors in fiction who get to this part of a physical exam may be revealed to not actually be doing this for any medical reason, thus revealing the doc as a perverted sexual deviant. Inversely, the person may be a perverted sexual deviant posing as a doctor just to feel someone's balls.
Often heard uttered during a Creepy Physical.

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The Penguins of Madagascar: Invoked in "Needle Point".
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In Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), as Spidey and his ragtag team descend on Latveria to take down Doctor Doom, he describes him as not being a real "turn your head and cough" doctor.
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The Simpsons:
Springfield has a hair salon named "Turn Your Head and Coif".
In "Brother, Could You Spare Two Dimes?", Homer has a physical at work and Marge asks how it went.
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In one "Scenes from a Hat" segment on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, one situation which came up was "Things You Wouldn't Want to Hear Your Doctor Say After 'Turn Your Head and Cough'."
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Spoken by Dr. Mario in "Dr. Mario with Lyrics" by Brentalfloss, as part of the character's depiction as being a quack. The Creepy Physical implications of the phrase is directly alluded to when he asks his patient to give him a physical exam immediately after.
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In NCIS: Los Angeles, while Hetty is examining Sam and Callen after the two had a close encounter with Clostridium botulinum bacteria, Sam warns about Hetty pulling this. She is not amused.
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The Tom and Jerry Show pulls this in an episode in which Tom and Jerry are animal doctors trying to remove a splinter from the paw of a zoo's lion. Tom dresses up as a lion nurse, and the lion goes gaga. He prepares for an exam and even says "I know. Turn and cough!"
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In Scrubs, when Dr. Kelso asks Dr. Cox to perform a physical on him for his new insurance policy, Dr. Cox issues the heavily sarcastic reply, "The day I willingly cradle your dusty old twig and berries and get a whiff of your chronic halitosis while you turn your head and cough is the day you can look for me up on the roof singing 'I Believe I Can Fly'."
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Alice's Restaurant: When Arlo goes for a physical examination, we see him in a line of people being told to do this.
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Rocko's Modern Life:
In "Flu-In-U-Enza", Rocko visits a "doctor" who asks him to do this several times, and he actually reaches between Rocko's legs for this "procedure".
In "Skid Marks", the doctor performing Rocko's eye exam at the DMV at one point holds Rocko's eyeballs and instructs him to cough.
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In Metalocalypse, Murderface once becomes "stimulated" when he reaches this point of a medical exam. This is rather unfortunate for the doctor.
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In ¡Three Amigos!, the final part of the titular group's salute involves them turning their heads and coughing, simultaneous with a forward hip thrust.
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M*A*S*H:
In one episode, the doctors are giving the camp annual physicals, and Major Burns is upset because this part is always his job.
In "Operation Noselift", Hawkeye introduces his friend Stash to Frank (Stash is a cosmetic surgeon who is there to operate on a soldier's nose, but Frank doesn't know it):
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In Shrek, when Donkey learns that Shrek has been hit by an arrow, Donkey panics at the thought of Shrek dying from it and shouts irrelevant medical advice, including "keep your feet elevated", a plea for somebody to perform the Heimlich Maneuver, and "turn your head and cough".
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My Friend Dahmer: Jeffrey Dahmer sets up an appointment for a physical exam so he could trick the doctor into touching his private area by performing this examination.
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Futurama: When Dr. Zoidberg is first introduced, he tells Fry to turn his head and make a burbling noise. Fry tries imitating the noise, which prompts an offended Zoidberg to say "What?! My mother was a saint! Get out!"
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This phrase is one of the StarCraft medic's "annoyed" lines.
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One Saturday Night Live skit involves a doctor performing this test on a male patient, asking him to cough over and over again. Another doctor soon enters the picture, and both continue to perform this one part of the exam over and over. Then a third doctor enters, not recognizing the other two doctors already in the room, revealing the first two doctors to be impostors who just like to sneak into examination rooms and feel people's balls.
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In an early Arthur, King of Time and Space strip, Arthur suggests to Guenevere during his physical that if she's going to be the ship's doctor, she should work on her beside manner. Her reply is "I'm very friendly. Cough."
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Robot Chicken: "Okay, turn your head and cough... It's just as I had suspected; you let a stranger grab your balls."
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In Team Fortress 2, the Medic may say this when holding a melee weapon, looking at an enemy player, and choosing the "battle cry" speech.
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In The Saga of Tuck, the main character's family doctor has been skipping this point on standard physicals as being needlessly embarrassing. It turns out that as embarrassing as it may have been, it certainly wasn't needless for Tuck, and if it had been done, half the plot would have been mooted.
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The Witch Doctor in Dota 2 sometimes says, "Cough" when last-hitting a creep.
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In the first episode of Police Squad!, Sally Decker plans to rob the bank she works at. Just off-screen, Ralph Twice is opening up an account at the bank, and the overheard signing-up procedure grows increasingly surreal until the bank teller instructs Ralph, "Now, turn your head and cough."
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South Park: In "Pinkeye", a Zombie Apocalypse has broken out in the town due to an embalming accident involving Worchester sauce, which the doctor has been diagnosing as pinkeye due to the infected's puffy, sticky eyes (ignoring that they lack both blood flow and heartbeat, not to mention their craving for brains). When Chef shows up at the hospital, the doctor is giving a patient this examination, and Chef rips the guys arm off to prove that he's undead.
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One of the Nurse's lines upon talking to her in Terraria.
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