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* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' people often get these from Granny Weatherwax. A particularly good description of one comes from the tax gatherer in ''Discworld/WyrdSisters''. When he was small, he'd gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar by his aunt and the look that Granny gave him was like that look, only worse.
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This look is also sometimes synonomous with the "Is Not Amused" meme.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Doctor is on both ends of them in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E9TheFamilyOfBlood The Family of Blood]]" It's his permanent emotion during the climax, sometimes edging into DeathGlare. Doesn't help that he looks right at the camera more than once. Joan also adopts this look when the Doctor returns, cheerfully offering to let her travel with him, whilst completely overlooking all the mayhem and death he's left in his wake.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Doctor is on both ends of them in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E9TheFamilyOfBlood The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood]]" Blood"]]. It's his permanent emotion during the climax, sometimes edging into DeathGlare. Doesn't help that he looks right at the camera more than once. Joan also adopts this look when the Doctor returns, cheerfully offering to let her travel with him, whilst completely overlooking all the mayhem and death he's left in his wake.
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* ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'': Viv gives one to Sandra [[http://zebragirl.net/?date=2012-04-15 here]] as she is threatening to kill the assassin who tried to kill ''her''. Though it's Viv caughting her off-guard with the following sentence that makes her stop:

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* ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'': Viv gives one to Sandra [[http://zebragirl.net/?date=2012-04-15 here]] as she is threatening to kill the assassin who tried to kill ''her''. Though it's Viv caughting catching her off-guard with the following sentence that makes her stop:
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** Owlowiscious gives Spike several over the course of ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation Inspiration Manifestation]]''.
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* ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'': Beatrice says she has her brother's look of disapproval memorized.
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* Done a few times by [[DeadpanSnarker Twilight]] [[OnlySaneMan Sparkle]] a few times on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''
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* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': Will liked to give this a lot, especially to Carlton when he acted particularly childish.

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* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': Will liked to give this a lot, especially to Carlton when he acted particularly childish.
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* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTrail'': In the anime, when Sawatari switches his crush to Seira, the OnlySaneWoman is Rina, who has this expression on her face.

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* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTrail'': ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'': In the anime, when Sawatari switches his crush to Seira, the OnlySaneWoman is Rina, who has this expression on her face.
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* ''Literature/{{Coraline}}'': Cat will stare like this at those who disappoint him.
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* VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi'': Yukimura gives one to Yuan Shao for thinking his enemies are ghosts.

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* VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi'': ''VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi'': Yukimura gives one to Yuan Shao for thinking his enemies are ghosts.


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* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTrail'': In the anime, when Sawatari switches his crush to Seira, the OnlySaneWoman is Rina, who has this expression on her face.

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* ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'': Huey is famous for it. Particularly noticeable in the show, which is less dialogue heavy and has more moments of Huey just looking at people to get his skepticism or disapproval across, but even in the comic the [[BeatPanel Beat Panels]] of Huey just looking at someone who is being ignorant or foolish are common.




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* The banker in ''Film/BeingHomerSimpson'', when Philippe continues to discuss his shares in Homer's voice.




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* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': Diane gives them a lot, usually when someone—usually Sam—seems to be (often deliberately) ComicallyMissingThePoint.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Doctor is on both ends of them in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E9TheFamilyOfBlood The Family of Blood]]" It's his permanent emotion during the climax, sometimes edging into DeathGlare. Doesn't help that he looks right at the camera more than once. Joan also adopts this look when the Doctor returns, cheerfully offering to let her travel with him, whilst completely overlooking all the mayhem and death he's left in his wake.
* ''Series/AGameOfThrones'': Renly gets one from his wife as he announces Brienne's appiontment to the Kingsguard. He's also been known to give them himself.
* ''Series/OnNDemandeQuAEnRire'': Catherine Barma, if she finds a joke in poor taste.
* Finch in ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' rocks at these.
* ''Series/TeenWolf'': Derek gives one to Isaac as he tries to talk to him about Derek's sister.
* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': Will liked to give this a lot, especially to Carlton when he acted particularly childish.

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* ''Roleplay/InterestingTimes'': After all the incentives, anger and/or discontent failed, Tybald simply falls on his trusty disapproving stare and/or {{facepalm}} whenever the team (usually Alvis) do something awfully stupid.
* ''Roleplay/PokemonEpoch'': The moment Ronnie is up to her usual shenanigans, this look becomes Elliot's default expression.




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* ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'': In several games, the player character gets the look from other characters if you mess up the rhythm.
* ''VideoGame/TheIdolmaster:'' Sachiko's default expression. She's noticiably more "sinister looking" than most of the others, even when she's honestly smiling.
* VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi'': Yukimura gives one to Yuan Shao for thinking his enemies are ghosts.



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* ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'': Viv gives one to Sandra [[http://zebragirl.net/?date=2012-04-15 here]] as she is threatening to kill the assassin who tried to kill ''her''. Though it's Viv caughting her off-guard with the following sentence that makes her stop:
-->'''Viv''': If that makes you happy.\\
'''Sandra''': O_O

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* ''WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}}'': [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/7811-Fee-to-Pay According to Visceral's John Calhoun]], people expect mobile games to have {{Freemium}} content in it, so a [[VideoGame/DeadSpace3 console horror game]] [[InsaneTrollLogic must include it as well]]. Jim tips down his glasses and sighs.




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* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'': Ben gave one to Kevin for stealing from a Forever Knight castle.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaijudo}}'': Nigel gives The Choten one at the end of "Unmasked" and again at the end of "Dueling Partners". He also expressed his disapproval at poaching Rumbling Terrasaur horns. He doesn't seem to be agreeing with the The Choten lately.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': Splinter frequently give these to his young charges.
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* The look that JamesEarlJones gives in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxw5aprXK4M this Sprint commercial]] about 19 seconds in.
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* In the ''Series/MamasFamily'' show (and its predecessor sketches on ''TheCarolBurnettShow''), both Eunice (Carol Burnett) and Mama (Vicki Lawrence) often did this when they were angry with another character.

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* In the ''Series/MamasFamily'' show (and its predecessor sketches on ''TheCarolBurnettShow''), ''Series/TheCarolBurnettShow''), both Eunice (Carol Burnett) and Mama (Vicki Lawrence) often did this when they were angry with another character.
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* Mike from ''Series/GraceLand'' is on the receiving of one from all five of his roommates when he says "marijuana" instead of its various street names. Needless to say, HilarityEnsues.

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* Mike from ''Series/GraceLand'' ''Series/{{Graceland}}'' is on the receiving of one from all five of his roommates when he says "marijuana" instead of its various street names. Needless to say, HilarityEnsues.
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* Mike from ''Series/Graceland'' is on the receiving of one from all five of his roommates when he says "marijuana" instead of its various street names. Needless to say, HilarityEnsues.

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* Mike from ''Series/Graceland'' ''Series/GraceLand'' is on the receiving of one from all five of his roommates when he says "marijuana" instead of its various street names. Needless to say, HilarityEnsues.
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* Mike from ''Series/Graceland'' is on the receiving of one from all five of his roommates when he says "marijuana" instead of its various street names. Needless to say, HilarityEnsues.
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* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
** Sheldon is often on the receiving end of these Looks, mostly from his room-mate Leonard or Penny.
** Amy got four Disapproving Looks ''simultaneously'' from Leonard, Penny, Raj, and Sheldon when they were all administering Bernadette and Howard's wedding together, and Amy said that she would be happy to be Bernadette's maid of honour again should their marriage fall apart.
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* The "ಠ_ಠ" emote. The two "eyes" come from two letters in the Kannada language spoken in part of India.

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* The "ಠ_ಠ" emote.emote, usually referred to as the "Look of Disapproval". The two "eyes" come from two letters in the Kannada language spoken in part of India.
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This expression is commonly found on two types of characters. One is priests, clerics, or other religious figures. The other is the housewife, generally the long-suffering variety, who tends to give this to both her bumbling husband and her misbehaving children.

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This expression is commonly found on two types of characters. One is [[GoodShepherd priests, clerics, or other religious figures. figures]]. The other is the housewife, HouseWife, generally the long-suffering variety, who tends to give this to both her bumbling husband and her misbehaving children.
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* On "Dave's Old Porn", Dave Attell brings in other comedians to discuss (heavily censored) 70's porn films. He then brings in a star from those movies. On one episode he had Kathy Griffin and Tom Byron. When Attell asked Byron if he was still working, he responded that he was going to play Obi Wan Kenobi in a porn Star Wars spoof. Griffin's "disapproving look" was hysterical alone, but she followed it up with a "slow clap" and the comment "Way to stay classy".
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* The famous [[http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u263/stonehavenfightnight/implied-facepalm1.jpg implied facepalm]] of ''NoCountryForOldMen''. This often seems to be TommyLeeJones's default expression.

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* The famous [[http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u263/stonehavenfightnight/implied-facepalm1.jpg implied facepalm]] of ''NoCountryForOldMen''. This often seems to be TommyLeeJones's Creator/TommyLeeJones's default expression.
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* Often accompanied by jii~ or jiro jiro (an onomatopoeia for staring) in [[LightNovel/OokamiSan ma]][[Manga/HayateTheCombatButler ny]] an [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud anime]] & [[UnsoundEffect manga]].

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* In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', Will often gave this to Carlton when he was acting particularly childish.

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* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3.5, this is the iconic cleric Jozan's default expression around the iconic rogue Lidda practically any time they're interacting, as she's kind of his BerserkButton ''person''. [[https://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/dungeonscape_gallery/102756.jpg Observe.]]

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Sometimes, when you need to show your disapproval, you don't need to speak. All you need to display your disapproval is ''that'' look.

It's not quite an angry or tense look; it's more of a look that says "really?" Generally, the one giving the glance has his or her brow lowered a little bit, with either a flat face or very slight frown with pursed lips. Often, the glancer has arms folded for extra disapproval effect.

This expression is commonly found on two types of characters. One is priests, clerics, or other religious figures. The other is the housewife, generally the long-suffering variety, who tends to give this to both her bumbling husband and her misbehaving children.

In manga, this is accompanied with the Japanese onomatopoeia jii~ or jiro jiro.

Compare its "edgier" counterparts, DeathGlare and KubrickStare. {{Facepalm}} has a nearly identical effect.
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* The famous [[http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u263/stonehavenfightnight/implied-facepalm1.jpg implied facepalm]] of ''NoCountryForOldMen''. This often seems to be TommyLeeJones's default expression.
* ''[[Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove Kronk's New Groove]]'': The whole reason Kronk does everything to avoid this. It is called "The Nostril Flare of Total Rejection".

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* During the weighing of the wands in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', Harry gets this from Fleur as he hastily tries to clean his wand, accidentally shooting some sparks in the process.

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* One ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch had its humor revolve around the shots of several coworkers giving disapproving glances to an employee who mistakenly submitted "You're the One that I Want" from ''Film/{{Grease}}''.
* In ''Series/HomeImprovement'', "The Look" is discussed by Tim and his coworkers after Tim gets basketball season tickets and Jill gives him "The Look". Later in the same scene, Harry's wife gives him The Look, and all of his coworkers react in horror.
* In the ''Series/MamasFamily'' show (and its predecessor sketches on ''TheCarolBurnettShow''), both Eunice (Carol Burnett) and Mama (Vicki Lawrence) often did this when they were angry with another character.
* This was practically Shepherd Book's default expression whenever he was around Mal on ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
* In ''Series/LoisAndClark'', Superman frequently gave this look to lawbreakers, though usually minor ones. His [[DeathGlare glares]] were reserved for the likes of [[ArchEnemy Lex Luthor]] and others like him.
* On ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' Earl was on the receiving end of one more than once from his wife, Fran.
* In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', Will often gave this to Carlton when he was acting particularly childish.

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* In several games in the ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'' series, some of the characters will give the player character a disapproving look if you mess up the rhythm.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[=MuscleBob BuffPants=]", Sandy gives Spongebob a well-deserved look of disapproval once it's exposed that he used fake rubber muscles.
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