History Main / SleightOfTongue

* The 1979 film ''The Great Train Robbery'', based on the Creator/MichaelCrichton book of that name. (Scene's in the book, too.)
* Parodied in ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'', where Frau Farbissina passes a key to Dr. Evil this way, as an excuse to slip in [[OverlyLongGag an excruciatingly long, wet, sloppy makeout scene between the two of them]].
* In ''Film/OurManFlint'', Gila commits to her HighHeelFaceTurn by using this method to slip Flint his [[SwissArmyWeapon cigarette lighter]] while kissing him.
* In ''Film/AeonFlux'', Aeon receives a pill containing a message this way.
-->'''[[Podcast/RiffTrax Mike Nelson]]:''' Man, there must be an easier way to get your vitamins.

* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}''. The titular character sneaks into the prison with a bullet hidden in his mouth. After ungagging Beans, she kisses him and accidentally takes (and swallows) the bullet.

* This is a favourite means of passing drugs to someone during a prison visit. Probably any prison show has depicted this at one time or another.

* In ''Film/Deadpool2016'', Wade steals a match from Angel during a kiss, which he later use to escape from Ajax's restrains.

* ''Fanfic/TotalDramaDoOver'': In the episode "Chef Bait Ooh Ha Ha" of the Pahkitew Island season, Mel eliminates B from the challenge by kissing him and slipping a leech into his mouth with her tongue.

* In the manga ''[[{{Manga/AnatoliaStory}} Red River]]'', Rusafa is framed for assaulting a nobleman's daughter and is placed out in the desert, his arms and legs all stretched out and tied with leather and is to be left there for five days. If he manages to escape or is alive when the five days are up, he can go free because 'the gods allowed him to live'. Yuri goes to him (accompanied by guards), kisses him, and passes him a sharp sliver of obsidian, which he somehow manages to spit out towards his hand, pick up and cut himself free with.

* In ''FanFic/ACureForLove'' [[Manga/DeathNote Misa]] attempts to do this with a ForcefulKiss, trying to restore [[spoiler: Light's [[MemoryGambit Kira memories]]]] with a scrap of the Death Note she has hidden under her tongue, but it doesn't work and Light pushes her away.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': At the conclusion of "[[ComicBook/RasAlGhul The Saga of Ra's al Ghul]]", Batman is stung by a scorpion while fighting a duel against Ra's. Talia lingers by the dying Batman, saying she wishes to give him one last kiss. However, she uses the kiss to give him an antidote to the scorpion venom, allowing him to recover hours later.

-->-- '''Elim Garak''', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E10OurManBashir Our Man Bashir]]", ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''

** Also done later when [[spoiler:it was retconned that Cordelia gave Angel one of those psychic whammies so that he could end the series]].

* In the manga ''[[{{Manga/AnatoliaStory}} Red River]]'', Rusafa is framed for assaulting a nobleman's daughter and is placed out in the desert, his arms and legs all stretched out and tied with leather and is to be left there for five days. If he manages to escape or is alive when the five days are up, he can go free because 'the gods allowed him to live'. Yuri goes to him (accompanied by guards), kisses him and passes him a sharp sliver of obsidian, which he somehow manages to spit out towards his hand, pick up and cut himself free with.

* A one-man variant in ''ComicBook/{{XIII}}'': While imprisoned in a mental facility, XIII gets hauled out in front of the Mongoose, who's come to gloat. An enraged XIII grabs him by the lapel before being subdued by the guards, and remains silent until he's back in his cell. Where he reveals that he ripped off the Mongoose's visitor badge, and more importantly the safety pin on it, so as to unlock his cuffs.

* Parodied in ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'', where Frau Farbissina passes a key to Dr. Evil this way, as an excuse to slip in an [[OverlyLongGag excruciatingly long, wet, sloppy makeout scene between the two of them]].

* In ''Series/DaVincisDemons'' Lucrezia and Zoro are chained together and about to WalkThePlank (or at least get shoved off it). Lucrezia gives him a LastKiss, and transfers a lockpick to his mouth as does so.
* In the Australian mini-series ''Janus'', a prison guard catches drugs being passed this way from a visiting girlfriend to an inmate, and forces him to spit it out.

* Music/KateBush depicted Houdini's trick in her song "Houdini" and on the cover of her album ''[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kate_bush_the_dreaming_1982.jpg The Dreaming.]]'' Take a good look in her mouth and listen to / read the lyrics some time.

* In the final arc of ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', Bitch-Sensei uses this to [[spoiler: smuggle bomb components into the students, who are in government custody.]]

* In the final arc of ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', Bitch-Sensei uses this to [[spoiler: smuggle bomb components in to the students, who are in government custody.]]

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* A one-man variant in ''{{ComicBook/XIII}}'': While imprisoned in a mental facility, XIII gets hauled out in front of the Mongoose, who's come to gloat. An enraged XIII grabs him by the lapel before being subdued by the guards, and remains silent until he's back in his cell. Where he reveals that he ripped off the Mongoose's visitor badge, and more importantly the safety pin on it, so as to unlock his cuffs.

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-->'''[[Podcast/RiffTrax Mike Nelson]]''': Man, there must be an easier way to get your vitamins.
* In ''Film/TheATeam'' [[spoiler: the team is being carted back to prison at the end when Face reveals that Sosa used their kiss goodbye to slip him the key to their cuffs.]]
* In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfFordFairlane'', the titular character gives his girlfriend/secretary a sudden kiss at a dinner party to quickly get rid of a nasty-tasting hors d'oeuvre. Since, you know, spitting it out on the ground would be ''rude''...

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* Played with in ''Series/{{Angel}}'', when Doyle hands off his psychic whammy to Cordelia before he does the HeroicSacrifice thing.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Our Man Bashir" a GenreSavvy Julian Bashir gets out of a pair of handcuffs in this manner via a holographic Bond Girl (who happens to be storing the genetic pattern of Jadzia Dax due to some TechnoBabble plot occurrences, and so looks just like her).
** Complete with the actual former spy who is also tied up with him remarking that they never taught that particular trick ("kiss the girl, get the key") when he was in the service.

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* Trevor Goodchild does this to ''WesternAnimation/AeonFlux'', except he actually stores the microfilm into her false tooth and closes the lid. With his tongue. No wonder she's into him.

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And the MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter or TheBaroness or the FemmeFatale moves in for that last lingering sadistic LastKiss to resolve that pesky {{UST}}...

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* At the end of ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'' [[spoiler: Dianna slips 47 the antidote of the feign-death poison she injected into him earlier through her lipstick. Subverted in that if the player doesn't juggle the joysticks fast enough to get his heart rate up, he'll slowly be pushed into the giant crematorium oven]]

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* ''Frnchise/{{Batman}}'': At the conclusion of "[[ComicBook/RasAlGhul The Saga of Ra's al Ghul]]", Batman is stung by a scorpion while fighting a duel against Ra's. Talia lingers by the dying Batman, saying she wishes to give him one last kiss. However, she uses the kiss to give him an antidote to the scorpion venom, allowing him to recover hours later.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Our Man Bashir" a GenreSavvy Julian Bashir gets out of a pair of handcuffs in this manner via a holographic Bond Girl (who happens to be storing the genetic pattern of Jadzia Dax due to some TechnoBabble plot occurrences, and so [[FetishFuel looks just like her]]).

* ''Frnchise/{{Batman}}'': At the conclusion of "[[ComicBook/RasAlGhul The Saga of Ra's al Ghul]]", Batman is stung by a scorpion while fighting a duel against Ra's. Talia lingers by the dying Batman, saying she wishes to give him one last kiss. However, she uses the kiss to give him an antidote to the scorpion venom, allowing to recover hours later.

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* ''Frnchise/{{Batman}}'': At the conclusion of "The Saga of Ra's al Ghul", Batman is stung by a scorpion while fighting a duel agains Ra's. Talia lingers by the dying Batman, saying she wishes to give him one last kiss. However, she uses the kiss to give him an antidote to the scorpion venom, allowing to recover hours later.