History Main / GloveSnap

[[caption-width-right:260:I snap my glove and SCARE MYSELF!]]

When the MadDoctor is ready to "operate", this almost always includes shoving his hands into big latex gloves with a thrusting motion while tugging on the back of the glove with the other hand; then there's a loud snap at the end when the back of the glove is released. Usually done with the forearm facing upward, though downward-facing variations exist too. Pretty much a MadDoctor and [[TheMedic Medic]] staple, and also pretty common in cartoons. Usually meant to inspire fear or to startle; usually part of the CreepyPhysical.

* "Film/SoulPlane": When searching someone who sets of the metal detector, TSA agent Shaniece orders the man to drop his pants and turn around while she snaps a glove on and shouts "cavity check!". A scream is heard.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AllHailKingJulien'' episode "Empty is the Head", Mort puts up a rubber glove on his head, complete with glove snap, to give suspicious lemurs a [[OverreactingAirportSecurity security search]]. Later when a group of lemurs starts to ask too much questions he snaps his glove again and winks at them suggesting they should shut up.

* In one scene in ''ComicBook/SuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'', FirstPersonSmartass Boomerang describes TheChewToy fellow villain Mirage as not talking despite undergoing lots of "probing" by more fearsome villains Chameleon and Owl. The illustration shows Chameleon clad in surgical garb and sporting a SlasherSmile as he snaps a glove (labeled "genuine latex") onto his wrist.

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* The title character of ''Literature/BeautifulBonesSakurakosInvestigation'' does this whenever she encounters a crime scene.
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* In one scene in ''ComicBook/SuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'', FirstPersonSmartass Boomerang describes ChewToy fellow villain Mirage as not talking despite undergoing lots of "probing" by more fearsome villains Chameleon and Owl. The illustration shows Chameleon clad in surgical garb and sporting a SlasherSmile as he snaps a glove (labeled "genuine latex") onto his wrist.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' has a comic where Dilbert opens a package, and by doing so agrees to a full cavity search at any time. Enter woman with the glove snap.

* In ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'', we hear this when Leafa takes Kirito to the "Fairport," a place where ''Alfheim Online''[='s=] players pretend to run an airport, complete with customs officials, pretzel vendors, and security checkpoints. A later scene confirms that Kirito was subjected to a full cavity search.
-->'''Kirito:''' Look, before we go any further, I need you to be straight with me - [[FantasticRacism am I in for some additional screening over there?]] ...Leafa? (''Leafa pushes him offscreen'') Leafa, c'mon, answer me!\\
'''Security Guard:''' (''offscreen'') Greetings! How are you folks doing today? Oooh, a ''Spriggan!'' (''snap'')

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* The MadDoctor in ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'' does this. "All right, girls, let's [[{{Pun}} snap to it]]!" *snap* Oh! That smarts..."
* ''Film/Rio2'': Nigel undergoes surgery and the surgeon does this.

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* Latex glove snap done by a fearsome large nurse in ''Film/Armageddon1998''.
* ''Film/{{Fletch}}''. A proctologist does this before giving Fletch an examination, as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBsIcRZBh3A shown here.]]
* Missing in ''Film/TheHandThatRocksTheCradle'' when the [[Creator/JohnDeLancie gynecologist]], right before performing a vaginal exam, holds his hand up high enough for the patient, already in the stirrups, to see him put on his glove. As he brings his hand down and out of view, he slips the glove off and pockets it, so he can do the exam with his bare hand. He was a bad man.
* [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] in one scene in ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'':

* ''Film/{{Polar}}''. Mr. Blut is torturing the protagonist every day for four days, and does this with latex gloves in the opening montage that begins every torture session. As we see him applying skin cream to his hands on several occasions, it would make sense that he would look after his hands.

* ''Film/RushHour3'': The two protagonists have been detained by security in a French airport.
-->'''[[Creator/ChrisTucker Carter]]:''' Can we go now?\\

'''[[Creator/JackieChan Lee]]:''' [[OhCrap Oh shit!]]
* Jim Carrey's Count Olaf does this in his herpetologist disguise in ''Lemony Snicket's Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''.
* ''Film/UndercoverBrother''. One of Mr. Feather's minions does this repeatedly, greatly to Mr. Feather's annoyance.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/WaynesWorld'', when the BigBad is being "searched for drugs".
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': Judge Doom dramatically puts a rubber glove on his hand before putting a Toon shoe in "the Dip."

* Tony of ''Series/{{NCIS}}''; though it's more comedic than sinister.
* ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' has used it for comedic affect, even more so in that it was the {{Geek}} that did the snapping.

* The pose of the nurse on the cover of Music/Blink182's album "Enema of the State".

* One of the miniatures for ''TabletopGame/{{Malifaux}}''[='s=] resident MadScientist Dr. Douglas [=McMourning=] is posed mid-glove snap.

* In ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame'' right after Cletus gets [[AlienAbduction abducted]] for [[AnalProbe study]] one of the alien {{mook}}s does this with his tentacle before following him.

--->"Anuhza successful procedure!"\\

"''Zat'', vas doctor-assisted homicide!"
** He also does it in the ''[[SupplementalMaterial/TeamFortress2 Meet the Medic]]'' video, before he and the Heavy return to the battlefield. Notably, what he had been doing previously -- open thoracic cavity surgery to implant an [=ÜberCharge=] module -- he did without benefit of gloves.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'' short "The Science of Magic" it is downplayed, but Sunset does indeed snap a latex glove on her hand while explaining the experiments she has planned. While the gesture isn't too threatening, Applejack doesn't look overly confident.

* In this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkOXwXHvFa4 spoof of an Apple advertisement]] Mac decides to slip on a glove while PC is frozen. He is interrupted before he can do anything.
* [[WebVideo/LazyGameReviews Clint Basinger]] happily does this in his review of ''VideoGame/LifeAndDeath'', cosplaying as a surgeon himself thanks to the [[{{Feelies}} mask and latex gloves that come in the game box]].
* An interesting variant in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz9VmqYpiKc this]] ''[[WebVideo/FiveSecondFilms 5 Second Film]]'' in which the Glove Snap ''is'' the AssShove.

* In "Empty is the Head" of ''WesternAnimation/AllHailKingJulien'' Mort puts up a rubber glove on his head, complete with glove snap, to give suspicious lemurs a [[OverreactingAirportSecurity security search]]. Later when a group of lemurs starts to ask too much questions he snaps his glove again and winks at them suggesting they should shut up.
* Cyborg does this once in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', on Beast Boy's suggestion that they "check for batteries" in Robin to see if he's a robotic duplicate. He also [[AssShove sticks up one finger]]. Naturally, Robin's terrified and screams out that he's real.
* Dr. Drakken definitely did this in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''.
* Peter Griffin's doctor in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' does this just before giving him a [[AssShove prostate exam]].
* Happens a couple times in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':

* Happens several times in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''. In the episode "House Worming," after Prickles the worm and his residents start living in [=SpongeBob=]'s head and it gets him fired from his work, he meets Plankton who agrees to get rid of the worms in exchange of a deed (getting the Krabby Patty secret formula, of course). [=SpongeBob=] agrees and Plankton pulls on a large glove that snaps to [[OneSizeFitsAll somehow fit his little stubby arms]] (that have [[FingerlessHands no visible digits or fingers, mind you]]) before making a [[{{Pun}} lousy joke]] and entering inside [=SpongeBob=]'s head... only to get the living daylights battered and beaten out of him by the worms and is left crippled and gives up on the extermination, telling [=SpongeBob=] that he's on his own to get rid of the worms.

* Cyborg does this once in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', on Beast Boy's suggestion that they "check for batteries" in Robin to see if he's a robotic duplicate. He also [[AssShove sticks up one finger]]. Naturally, Robin's terrified and screams out that he's real.

* Latex glove snap done by a fearsome large nurse in ''Film/{{Armageddon}}''.

* In one ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' PSA, Simmons and Grif go on vacation while Sarge and Caboose are off camping. Grif twice invokes the wrath of the cavity search at travel security and we hear this just as the scene cuts away.

* In ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame'' right after Cletus gets [[AlienAbduction abducted]] for an [[AnalProbe anal probe]] on one of the alien {{mook}}s does this with his tentacle before following him.