History Main / EarTrumpet

* An old friend of Benjamin (and Gabriel's future father-in-law) in ''Film/ThePatriot'' has this; he lost his leg and most of his hearing in the French and Indian War. He sometimes uses it to mess with Gabriel by pretending he cannot hear him properly.

* A villain in ''Film/WildWildWest'' is briefly seen with one, tipping out accumulated ear wax for disgusting effect.

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* After signing Rumpelstiltskin's contract in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'', Shrek goes around scaring villagers by roaring at them, but he simply whispers "roar" into an elderly woman's ear trumpet (pictured above).

* One of the White-hats in ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls''

* In Max Fleischer's ''WesternAnimation/GulliversTravels'', one of the Lilliputians uses his ear trumpet as a bugle to summon a crowd to the beach where Gulliver washed up.

** In the Chinese Invasion Alarm myth, Kari and Adam use construction cones as these to help them hear the faint beats emanating from their sunken drum. It doesn't help Adam, but Kari does hear the drum responding to the pickaxes digging through the rock below.

* The Grand Grizzly from [[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Yogi The Easter Bear]] uses one of these.

* One of the White-hats in ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls''
* Abe Simpson has used one in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Abe's age is a frequent point of comedy.
** Professor Frink uses an ear trumpet as an echolocation device to find the kids in town who are running a [[BuccaneerBroadcaster pirate radio station]] giving away all the adults' secrets.
** Mr. Burns has used an ear trumpet once or twice.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': The 1963 short "WesternAnimation/NowHearThis" had an old man finding a new ear trumpet in place of his old and worn-out one. He is overjoyed to have a new shiny trumpet, but it is, in fact, Satan's lost horn, and it has the old man's world turn into a synesthetic, nightmarish acid trip sequence.
* In Max Fleischer's ''WesternAnimation/GulliversTravels'', one of the Lilliputians uses his ear trumpet as a bugle to summon a crowd to the beach where Gulliver washed up.
* Played for laughs in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' when Fry travels in time and accidentally has sex with his grandmother when she was younger; upon having it spelled out for him she responds to his screams with "What was that dear?" and uses an ear horn.

* Gargamel uses one of these to listen to the Smurfs while waiting out in the forest to spring his Trickle Trap in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "The Chief Record Smurf".
* ''Animation/MotoPerpetuo'': One sight gag has a reproduction of the iconic "His Master's Voice" painting of a dog listening to a gramophone record, except that the dog has an Ear Trumpet in his ear, basically using a trumpet to listen to a trumpet.

* Gargamel uses one of these to listen to the Smurfs while waiting out in the forest to spring his Trickle Trap in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "The Chief Record Smurf".

* ''Professor Calculus of ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' fame uses one in ''Destination Moon'' (which gets switched out at one point for the Captain's pipe). For the actual trip to the moon, he uses a hearing aid that allows him to hear perfectly. Needless to say, later volumes return him to his hard-of-hearing state.

Frequently accompanying an ICantHearYou gag.

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* After signing Rumpelstiltskin's contract in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'', Shrek goes around scaring villagers by roaring at them, but he simply whispers "roar" into an elderly woman's ear trumpet.

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The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_trumpet Ear Trumpet]] (or Ear Horn) is a very old-fa--

'''The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_trumpet Ear Trumpet]] (or Ear Horn) is a very old-fashioned type of hearing aid that was first invented in the 17th century. For the most part, they exist only as relics of older eras. However, they still serve a purpose in fiction.'''