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| 12 | [[quoteright:350:[[ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anal_probing.jpg]]]] |
| 13 | [[caption-width-right:350:Greetings, Hellboy. We have traveled millions of light years to explore new planets, and now we seek to explore {{Uranus|IsShowing}}!]] |
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| 15 | ->'''Alien 1:''' Couldn't we, at least, abduct their political and religious leaders, instead of just any idiot in a pickup truck?\ |
| 16 | '''Alien 2:''' I'm sure the Great Leader has his reasons.\ |
| 17 | '''Alien 1:''' Well, ''I'm'' sure the Great Leader is just some sort of twisted ''ASS FREAK!'' |
| 18 | -->-- ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'' |
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| 20 | More often than not, [[AlienAbduction humans taken on board a spaceship against their will]] are subjected to grueling tests and experiments by their [[LittleGreenMen Strange]] [[TheGreys Captors]] for intended purposes ranging from studying foreign biology, researching the prospects of [[HalfHumanHybrid interbreeding]], and monitoring for long periods of time via tracking chip implants. |
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| 22 | Fortunately for the abductors, all three of those things can be achieved through a single method which involves [[AssShove inserting vaguely described alien technological instruments into the rectal cavity of the victim]]. If the audience learns ''anything'' about the probing tech itself, it's usually never much more than just what it looks like, which is typically either an insanely large torture device with pincers and needles and spinning blades mounted on a rotating head or a dildo. |
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| 24 | Naturally, the trope can be used to great effect to either showcase the sheer horror of or, more frequently, use VulgarHumor to explore the total absurdity of the nature of {{Alien Abduction}}s; it can also be a novel way of fitting jokes about [[HoYay gay sex]] (abductees depicted as being subjected to this are much more frequently male) and [[BlackComedyRape rape]] into a story or work. |
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| 26 | Anal Probing is a DeadUnicornTrope. This trope is rarely, if ever, taken seriously in fiction, and even when it's supposed to be seen as something truly horrible and undesirable, there's usually enough room to interpret the trope's use as ComedicSociopathy. RealLife UFO abduction communities, which would seem like the most likely place to hear straight-forward examples, don't even discuss probing as something that exclusively involves the rectal cavity (if they do at all). |
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| 28 | The ScienceFiction equivalent to a [[OverreactingAirportSecurity cavity search]]. |
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| 30 | Be on the lookout as well for {{pun}}s about space programs launching probes to [[UranusIsShowing Uranus]]. |
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| 32 | See Also: AssShove, VulgarHumor, DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale; HalfHumanHybrid and MarsNeedsWomen which are both popular motivations for one kind of alien probing or another. This trope is practically synonymous with TheGreys and is often evident whenever AliensAreBastards, especially if the probing doesn't appear to have any real significance apart from torturing the abductee. |
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| 34 | !!Examples: |
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| 36 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 39 | * In one radio spot for Dos Equis beer, the narrator describing Advertising/TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld says about him, "Alien abductors ask him to probe ''them''." |
| 40 | [[/folder]] |
| 41 | |
| 42 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 43 | * There's an old joke where a group of aliens is having a conference about Earth. The keynote speaker gets up and informs the gathered scientists that, "We have now been performing our rectal probe study on the inhabitants of Sol 3 for 60 of their years. So far, the only information we have reliably obtained is that one in six likes it." |
| 44 | * One of the ''Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG'' involves the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' Federation finding those "little grey butt-probe aliens to return the favor". |
| 45 | [[/folder]] |
| 46 | |
| 47 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 48 | * Pierre from the ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' strip ''Bec & Kawl'' was abducted in the prologue to "Attack Of The Cones." Explaining his experience, "Whatever their ''[[GratuitousFrench desseines impenetrable]]'', the temple of my body was violated," showing one panel with two Greys producing increasingly larger probing apparatuses with diagrams instructing to insert them in Pierre's anus. |
| 49 | * Aliens do this to Cherry during ''Series/TheXFiles'' parody in ''Cherry Comics''. Cherry, naturally, enthusiastically enjoys it and is disappointed when it ends. |
| 50 | * Almost happens to ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' the time he is abducted by aliens. He decides he doesn't like the idea and proceeds to kick all their asses. |
| 51 | * The Gagwallers from the "Spacehack" strip in ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'': |
| 52 | -->'''Captain Queaze:''' After all these experiments... over all these centuries, what have you learned?\ |
| 53 | '''Gagwaller 1:''' We have learned... that most of... them don't like the... probing.\ |
| 54 | '''Gagwaller 2:''' Well... ''most''... of them. |
| 55 | * [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Maxwell Strangewell'', where the Moon Man complains to a Martian, "All you Martians care about is probing people up the bum and [[AliensStealCattle slaughtering cattle]]!" The Martian's response: "Hey, it's a living." |
| 56 | * The trope is played horrifyingly straight in ''ComicBook/SaucerCountry''. As part of the abduction of the lead and her ex-husband, both are probed by aliens. Their reactions make it very clear that there was ''nothing'' funny about it. |
| 57 | * In "[[Crossover/ComicBooks Overkill]]: ''Comicbook/{{Witchblade}}''/[[Franchise/{{Alien}} Aliens]]/[[ComicBook/TheDarkness Darkness]]/''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' Issue 2" Jackie Estacado gets dazed and abducted by the Predator. When he wakes up, he finds himself [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable tied to a table]] with a large piece of machinery hanging above him. He warns the Predator not to do it, but the Predator ignores him and puts the probe in his butt. |
| 58 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Squee}}'', when the wheelchair-bound aliens try to abduct Squee for a second time, one of the two aliens goes to his parents' room and subjects Mr. Casil to this. |
| 59 | * Discussed in ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'' when a depowered Kon-El and a couple of other Project Cadmus personnel are abducted by aliens with Kon stating that he is not going to put up with any probing. The alien who abducted them enslaves them instead, though Kon escapes into the bowels of the ship before he can be fitted with a collar and manages to free all the slaves. |
| 60 | [[/folder]] |
| 61 | |
| 62 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 63 | * In ''Bubba the Redneck Werewolf Super'' Sci-fi Special, Bubba starts to beat up an alien spaceship and gets bound and zapped by a security device and passes out. After he is waken up by his wife inside the spaceship he asks where they are and why his butt hurts to which she replies that he doesn't want to know the answer and that they should get out of here before the alien doctors get back (just outside their cell is even a table with a pointy device above it). Bubba is not very pleased that the aliens have violated his nether regions. |
| 64 | * ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'': The "Black Hands 2011 Special" ends with the Black Hands characters being anally probed by aliens after Weird Pete decides to combine his ''Cattlepunk'' campaign with ''Scream of Kachoolu''. |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 68 | * A RunningGag in ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace'' |
| 69 | ** A Martian says this trope was due to a biological misunderstanding. It was supposed to be a MindProbe but "we assumed from human behavior [[HumansAreMorons that your brains were located in your behinds]]." |
| 70 | ** Captain Proton explains that the Stealth Mode on their helicopter makes it look like a FlyingSaucer so that "no-one dares go near you in case you stick a probe up their behind." |
| 71 | ** There's [[NoodleIncident mention of]] a supervillain called The Bugger Being From Galaxy Five, who looks like a Grey alien wielding a well-lubricated rectal probe. |
| 72 | ** As part of his CulturalPosturing, D'Ork of the Thorkoth claims that his species "abducted the entire Mayan civilization solely to further our studies into the anal regions." Earlier, witnesses accuse D'Ork of having probed them. |
| 73 | --->"I thought if these beings were more advanced than us, they should be nearer the Creator," babbled a pasty-faced pastor. "But the alien said the only creator it worshipped was Creator/RayHarryhausen. Then it stuck a PROBE up my behind! IT'S EVIL!"\ |
| 74 | "Sometimes we would find our cattle mutilated, and our men with probes up their behinds," muttered a hot Hispanic babe. "The old women, they crossed themselves and whispered crazy things: The Beast That Makes Queers Out Of Men." |
| 75 | * The following exchange takes place between Paul and the alien Varx in the Prologue of ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' when Varx is trying to convince Paul to go on a "great adventure": |
| 76 | -->'''Paul:''' Is this one of those alien abductions where you're gonna probe me, then?\ |
| 77 | '''Varx:''' ''[snorting]'' Gods, you Earthians are masochists. Believe me, if we really wanted that info, which we don't, we could do a deep scan right from our own universe and you'd never know it happened. |
| 78 | * ''Fanfic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'': In "Conspiracy Buddies", Dib, Dipper, and Huey theorize that aliens stick probes up people's butts to take their temperature. |
| 79 | [[/folder]] |
| 80 | |
| 81 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 82 | * Boss Skua in ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet'' tells the story of how he got abducted by [[HumansAreCthulhu "aliens"]]. He mentions that they probed him, although it's not certain if he meant anal probing. |
| 83 | * In ''WesternAnimation/JourneyToSaturn'', the Danish astronauts Per Jensen, Arna Skrydsbøl, Pussy-Ole and Jamil Ahmadinejad are captured by aliens and are brought before their leader. After a failed communication attempt, their leader orders for the translator to be inserted and they are all forced to get on all fours on the floor. The aliens have a short discussion about them not having an orifice in their back for the translator until one of the aliens removes their butt flaps and discovers an orifice further down and orders the machine to be brought down. A large cylindrical device descend and one of the aliens loads it with a smaller tube like device after which it does a few test runs, positions itself behind the first astronaut and closes itself. Each astronaut screams in pain when the device is shoved into their ass except for Ole who enjoy the experience and asks for the device to be moves slightly to the left. |
| 84 | * ''WesternAnimation/Planet51'': Skiff gives Lem a cork to put it in certain place on his body in order to defend against the "alien's favorite form of research, the probe". |
| 85 | * Hilariously subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'' when Cale is in the sick bay and he thinks Akima is gonna do this to him. |
| 86 | --> '''Akima:''' Hand me the probe. |
| 87 | --> '''Cale:''' The probe? Uh, where does the probe go? Ya'know, I'm really feeling much better. ''[Akima jams the probe into a wound on Cale's thigh.]'' |
| 88 | [[/folder]] |
| 89 | |
| 90 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 91 | * Creator/ChristopherWalken's character reports this in the film adaptation of ''Film/{{Communion}}'' (see Literature). |
| 92 | * There's a bit in ''Film/EightLeggedFreaks'' where Harlan goes on a tirade about aliens and this very subject. "...I mean, what do they expect to find there? It's just wrong!" |
| 93 | * Happened in the beginning of the AlienInvasion [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror Horror Comedy]] ''Film/EvilAliens''. Including a close-up of the probe getting inserted into the anus. |
| 94 | * ''Film/Extraterrestrial2014'' suggests rectal probing. The film's social media promo campaign even uses the hashtag "[=#GetProbed=]". |
| 95 | * Parodied in ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', where the cast of Star Trek actor expies, having been transported up to the alien ship, are approached by tentacled monsters carrying CowTools, one of which looks like a speculum. They tremble in fear until the aliens realize they haven't turned on their disguises yet, and do so, apologizing. It comes back as a BrickJoke at the end of the movie, when Fred, the only person unbothered by the prospect of getting anally probed at the beginning, gets it on with his Thermian love interest Laliari and she puts one of her tentacles ... some place that makes the watching Guy react in disgust. |
| 96 | * In ''Film/IndependenceDay'', Russel Casse attests to having been abducted by aliens. Those who don't believe him crack jokes and ask if he was ever sexually abused on the flying saucer, suggesting this trope. |
| 97 | * ''Film/JusticeLeague2017''. A woman is shown on the news insisting that her husband has been kidnapped by aliens (which is actually true) and goes off on a [[SoundEffectBleep bleeped out]] rant regarding what she'll do to those probing aliens. The gag was added by Creator/JossWhedon after he took over the film's post-production. |
| 98 | * In ''Film/MenInBlackII'', Sci-Fi nerd Newton, upon finding out what Jay and Kay actually do, raises the question, "What's up with Anal Probing?" |
| 99 | -->'''Newton:''' I mean, do they really travel billions of lightyears just to...\ |
| 100 | '''Agent J:''' Boy, move. |
| 101 | * In ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'', Servo riffs on the practice a couple times. |
| 102 | -->''[Dr. Cal Meachem get pulled into a flying saucer by a beam of light.]''\ |
| 103 | '''Tom Servo:''' ''(As Dr. Meachem)'' Oh great. And I just know they're gonna probe my anus. |
| 104 | * In ''Film/{{Nope}}'', Angel [[DiscussedTrope sarcastically comments]] that the aliens are just waiting for the perfect time to "shove metal probes up our asses." [[spoiler:As it turns out, there's only one alien, and it's a non-sapient predatory animal whose only interest in humans is [[ToServeMan eating them]].]] |
| 105 | * In ''Film/{{Paul}}'', the eponymous alien appears to have assimilated human culture after 60 years on the planet, and is your average slacker-nerd. However, Clive isn't so sure and asks Graeme, "What if we wake up and find him inserting a probe into our anus?" Paul is annoyed by the suggestion. Wondering why people assume aliens do that, he asks, "Am I harvesting farts? What can I learn from an ass?!" Paul does, however, threaten a pair of homophobic hillbillies with probing, on the grounds that they would probably believe it. On Twitter, Simon Pegg mentioned that they did consider doing a joke about anal probing and repressed memories (of sexual abuse), but they ditched it because they couldn't find a punchline and felt that it might actually be true and [[DudeNotFunny not funny]]. |
| 106 | * Anal Probing is {{Invoked|Trope}} by the {{Space Marine}}s on occasion in ''Film/Recon2020TheCarpiniMassacre''. Anyone thought lost or gone missing is assumed to have been "either anal probed to death or turned into a cyborg." |
| 107 | * In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', after Sonic wakes up from being tranquilized by Tom, Tom presumes he is some kind of alien planning to abduct him. When they hear a vehicle approach, Tom asks, "What's happening? Is this your mother ship? I'm not in the mood to get probed." Sonic replies, "You think you're worried? I'm not even wearing pants!" |
| 108 | * In the {{Mockumentary}} ''Film/WaitingForGuffman'', a supposed visit by a UFO is a significant part of the history of Blaine, Missouri. One abductee shares his story, in which he details being probed for "three to four hours" by "five or six" aliens--not all at once but individually. Every Sunday around the time of his abduction, the abductee finds that he has "no feeling in his buttocks." |
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| 110 | [[/folder]] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 113 | * "Literature/AngelDownSussex" by Creator/KimNewman features alien visitors whose appearance and actions vary depending on the expectations of the people they encounter. That one of the characters gets his rectal cavity probed really says more about him than about the aliens. |
| 114 | * A pastime of the eponymous ''Literature/TheAssGoblinsOfAuschwitz''. No reason is given why they do it; it's just apparently something that they do. |
| 115 | * Robert J. Sawyer’s ''Calculating God'' has a alien invoke this during first contact: |
| 116 | -->'''Hollus''': Of course, if you want, I could give you an anal probe... Sorry—just kidding. (...) Honestly, I will not hurt you—or your [[AliensStealCattle cattle]]. |
| 117 | * ''Literature/{{Communion}}'' by Creator/WhitleyStrieber, the allegedly true story of the author's experience of a UFO abduction helped establish this trope and has inspired just about every joke about rectal probes, much to Strieber's dismay, ever since. It's probably the closest thing to a straight example of this trope one can find. Even the FilmOfTheBook, starring Creator/ChristopherWalken as Strieber, made light of the probing with Walken's character trying to reason, "Can we talk this over? It looks like you're going to sing 'White Christmas'..." |
| 118 | * ''Literature/EarthTheBook'' mentions Anal Probing in the Foreword as one thing humans who believe aliens have already visited Earth think extra-terrestrials came here to perform. It then refers to the anus as "the orifice least likely to yield useful pedagogical results." Mykonos, Greece is described as the one place that would have been the most receptive to Anal Probing. |
| 119 | * Creator/FrancisEDec warned in his rants that Gangster Computer God's servants do this to people at night, when we are all "[[MindControl Frankenstein zombies]]". |
| 120 | * Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Firefly'' involves an alien who practices OrificeInvasion on his victims. One prospective victim muses during the attack that he's being "cornholed" by an alien and, worse, he was enjoying it. |
| 121 | * Christopher Buckley's novel ''Literature/LittleGreenMen'' reveals alien abductions to be the work of a GovernmentConspiracy to manufacture evidence of alien activity. Rectal probing wasn't actually their doing but rather something that the abductees seemed to have ''demanded''. |
| 122 | * In the ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'' series a Grey is seen lying in the gutter with a "Will probe for food" sign. |
| 123 | * In the erotic comedy ''Rock 'n' Roll Babes From Outer Space'' by Linda Jaivin, the Nufonians put a TrackingDevice in Jake's behind that causes him to fart whenever it's activated. |
| 124 | [[/folder]] |
| 125 | |
| 126 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 127 | * ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'': |
| 128 | ** One episode began with the main characters watching an episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' on television, groaning over how laughably inaccurate the show is. One scene, described by Tom as an alien inserting a probe through someone's ear, is met with the derisive comment from Dick, "''Everyone'' knows the proper place to insert an alien probe is the butt!" |
| 129 | ** In another episode, Dick is captured by an insane alien hunter who accuses aliens like him of "probing the butt of the poor American farmer". Dick initially denies this, but after being pressed, he mentions a farmer near Akron "...but he was ASKING FOR IT!" |
| 130 | ** Dr. Albright's brother Roy claims that this happened to him. |
| 131 | * A segment on ''Series/TheColbertReport'' about an "Alien Hunter," Derrel Simms, sees Mr. Simms recount a story about him being probed by aliens in his youth. After describing the alien probe in very phallic terms, Colbert interrupts him in a voice over just before Simms was about to say where the probe was "jammed very painfully," exclaiming, "Okay, that's enough; I think we ''all'' know where the probe goes." Simms then reveals that it went into [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope his nasal passage.]]]] |
| 132 | * Invoked in ''Series/TheFinder'', episode "Little Green Men". The lead character disappears for a couple of days while researching alleged alien activities, and one of the first questions when the Finder turns up back at his home is "Was there anal probing?" Naturally the one who asked it was the RequiredSpinoffCrossover guest character Jack Hodgins, the resident ConspiracyTheorist on ''{{Series/Bones}}'' who’d love actual alien proof. |
| 133 | * {{Discussed|Trope}} in the seventh episode of Volume One on ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', when Lyle discovers Claire's [[HealingFactor ability to heal herself]] after stumbling upon a tape that she and her friend Zach made to demonstrate her ability, this forces Claire and Zach to chase after him to retrieve the tape. A freaked out Lyle questions if they're both actually aliens to which Zach responds, [[DeadpanSnarker "Yeah, and we're gonna anal probe you."]] |
| 134 | * An episode of ''Series/{{House}}'' featured a young boy who believed he'd been abducted by aliens, and he had the bleeding anus to prove it. This obviously led the team to believe he'd been sexually abused, which (predictably for House) turned out not to be true. |
| 135 | * The ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'' have a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tZar4wRP40 sketch about aliens]] (quoted at the top of this page) that [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on this trope. After doing this for over fifty years, one alien argues that they haven't learned anything from probing, except that one out of every ten "doesn't seem to mind". He wonders if his Great Leader is just some kind of weirdo with a disturbing fetish. |
| 136 | * ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': {{Discussed|Trope}} in "Down to Earth". Dale [=LaRose=] steadfastly denies that he was probed in this manner when he was abducted by aliens. He claims that the aliens tried to do so but that he fought them off. Silverface enjoys mocking him about it. |
| 137 | * When Alien Abductions were covered on ''Series/PennAndTellerBullshit'', they covered a sex toy with silver spray paint to show people who claim to have been abducted. Upon seeing the sex toy, many claimed they were probed with a similar device. They made a game out of this where they paused the tape before one female abductee disclosed where in her body the aliens had inserted a probe and encouraged viewers at home to ''guess'' what part of the body it was. The correct answer was [[spoiler: [[NoseShove the abductee's nose.]]]] |
| 138 | * Referenced a couple of times in the ''{{Series/Psych}}'' episode "Not Even Close...Encounters". At one point, as they are fleeing in terror from a UFO, Shawn yells to Gus," I don't wanna get probed, Gus!" |
| 139 | * On ''Series/ResidentAlien'', according to Harry Vanderspeigle, this one of the things that TheGreys do, true to their classic portrayal. While this may be the case, it is later revealed that they are much more sinister and [[spoiler:are planning to desolate the Earth entirely and are abducting human children, then creating Grey-human hybrids.]] |
| 140 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 141 | ** In the episode "Tall Tales" in which the Trickster forges LOTS of strange happenings in a college town, one of them involves a guy who's been abducted by "aliens." The victim's experience involved [[BlackComedyRape being repeatedly probed]] (a total of eight times according to the dialogue). This ordeal apparently paled in comparison to being forced to slow-dance with one of the aliens to "Lady in Red." |
| 142 | ** In the sixth season episode "Clap Your Hands If You Believe", when Dean informs Sam that he is fleeing from a pursuing UFO, Sam pronounces this a Close Encounter of the Third Kind and [[ComedicSociopathy suggests that Dean keep running as he has "heard the Fourth Kind is a butt thing".]] Dean reminds him that he's [[CameBackWrong supposed to be feigning empathy]]. |
| 143 | * Referenced and [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]] often on ''Series/TheXFiles''. In "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space,'" for instance, it's AgentScully's opinion that a young couple whom [[AgentMulder Mulder]] believes were abducted by aliens were only engaging in sexual activity before they're old enough to handle it. Mulder, not seeing how this could discredit the girl's interpretation of events as revealed under hypnosis (which resembles the typical AlienAbduction story), asks his partner, "So what if they had sex?" to which Scully responds, "So we know it wasn't an alien that probed her." |
| 144 | * ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'': ''The'' go-to joke whenever someone finds an alien mask during a game of "Dating Service/Hats." |
| 145 | [[/folder]] |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 148 | * Anal Probes are mentioned in the Newton Faulkner song "U.F.O.". |
| 149 | * Music/TheGreatLukeSki mentions anal probes in a filk song about ''Film/MenInBlack''. |
| 150 | * Music/WeirdAlYankovic refers to alien butt probing in the song "Foil". |
| 151 | --> ''Wear a hat that's foil-lined,\ |
| 152 | in case an alien's inclined,\ |
| 153 | To probe your butt or read your mind.'' |
| 154 | [[/folder]] |
| 155 | |
| 156 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 157 | * The quasi-improv theater group Sound and Fury used this trope in "Cyranose," while Cyranose is trying to distract De Guiche by pretending to be a lunatic: |
| 158 | -->'''Cyranose:''' They probed me--\ |
| 159 | '''De Guiche:''' Eeew!\ |
| 160 | '''Cyranose:''' For information.\ |
| 161 | '''De Guiche:''' Oh.\ |
| 162 | '''Cyranose:''' Anally. A few times. ''[beat]'' It's an acquired taste. |
| 163 | * The second act of ''In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play'' introduces the Chatanooga anal vibrator. |
| 164 | [[/folder]] |
| 165 | |
| 166 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 167 | * This is Cartman's mode in Sega's ''Pinball/SouthPark'' pinball. |
| 168 | [[/folder]] |
| 169 | |
| 170 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 171 | * In ''VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky'', in order to restart a broken-down loader robot, Joey has to jump-start it from behind with his extendable probe. He even complains on how embarrassing it is, and calls the PlayerCharacter a voyeur. |
| 172 | * ''VideoGame/CoffeeCrisis'', a game dealing with humanity facing an AlienInvasion, have one of these in the backstory which reveals an abducted punk rocker was probed by TheGreys who kidnapped him during a concert. |
| 173 | * ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'' has this being '''weaponized''' by the [[TheGreys Furons]]. In the first game, the anal probe is a ChargedAttack that can make the victim's head explode. It returns in [[VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans2 the second game]] without the need for charging, though it now requires ammo. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Alternatively]], it could be employed in a less-than-lethal manner without charging it, which would simply cause the humans to [[PottyEmergency run about in a panic]] as [[BringMyBrownPants their bowels are violently and involuntarily evacuated]]. In the [[VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans2020 remake]]'s [[AllThereInTheManual Furon Handbook]], it's explained that Furons found sphincters to be a common feature of almost all lifeforms they've encountered... so they figured that a weapon which ''rips the victim's brain out through their ass'' would be broadly effective. |
| 174 | * In ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'' human [[CovertPervert Jennifer]] asks [[Characters/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Laharl and co.]] if the demons (who basically are aliens in the ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' universe) anal probed them. It's a {{Subversion}} because Laharl and Etna are young demons and no demon in the series are interested in probing either them or Jennifer. |
| 175 | * ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' downloadable quest package "Mothership Zeta" sees [[PlayerCharacter the Lone Wanderer]] abducted on board a spaceship and probed. |
| 176 | * ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': There is an UFO-themed bar called Lil' Probe'Inn that is based on Lil' A'Le'Inn in Rachel, Nevada. |
| 177 | * ''Franchise/MassEffect'': |
| 178 | ** Referenced in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' - you can probe [[UranusIsShowing the planet Uranus]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-CDNLYZ0zA EDI is not amused]] when you do. The planet is even considered 'depleted' (...of minerals, although there are a few small pockets of resources to mine) on the scanner to logically discourage you to scan it aside from [[PlayedForLaughs Just For Laughs]]. |
| 179 | --->'''EDI:''' ''Really'', Commander?\ |
| 180 | '''EDI:''' Probing Uranus. |
| 181 | ** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Joker says he suspects Mordin planted a probe in his elbow. Shepard tells him to be glad it's just his elbow that got probed. |
| 182 | * ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' features an alien anal probe as a weapon to be wielded by the player. The player can approach a target from behind and thrust the weapon between the victim's legs, before pulling a trigger which launches the victim into the air. |
| 183 | * ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame'' during the AlienInvasion level, while Kang and Kodos's {{mook}}s are raiding the mall, [[HalfWittedHillbilly Cletus]] complains that he spend all day cutting out coupons for a new flat screen TV and this exchange happens between two of them: |
| 184 | -->'''Alien 1:''' This human has tiny pieces of paper which gives him big, big savings. We must study him!\ |
| 185 | '''Alien 2:''' Study him with Anal Probing?\ |
| 186 | '''Alien 1:''' Of course with Anal Probing! What else would we do?! Talk to him?! (They then [[AlienAbduction beam him up]] and one of the mooks follows him after doing a [[GloveSnap glove snap]] with his tentacle.) |
| 187 | * In the sequel games in ''VideoGame/TheSims'' series--''VideoGame/TheSims2'', ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', ''VideoGame/TheSims4''--the (actually light green) Greys have pollination technicians, who abduct, probe, and [[MedicalRapeAndImpregnate impregnate]] Sim [[MisterSeahorse men]]. |
| 188 | * In ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'', the New Kid gets abducted on the first night in South Park and winds up getting probed, but his ass muscles are so powerful that he winds up breaking all the probes they pull out. The last one sucks itself further up his ass and then becomes a satellite dish that you can use as a short-ranged teleporter to alien receivers all over the town. |
| 189 | * In ''VideoGame/SuperScribblenauts'', creating an alien and a probe will result in the alien making a '?' bubble and going to pick up the probe. The probe doesn't do anything. |
| 190 | [[/folder]] |
| 191 | |
| 192 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 193 | * ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy:'' With a malfunctioning translator system adding to [[http://galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=31 the indignity]]: |
| 194 | -->"Where do you want this probe?"\ |
| 195 | "Not up his ass!" |
| 196 | * ''Webcomic/{{Chainsawsuit}}'' [[http://chainsawsuit.com/2009/03/02/strip-172/ puts this into context]]. With one phrase... |
| 197 | --> '''Grey Alien:''' Our kind has traveled 10,000,000 light years to unlock the secrets... in your butt. |
| 198 | * A truly horrible probing is [[http://www.channelate.com/2009/09/14/can-i-abduct-you-pt2/ implied]] at the end of a two-part comic in ''Webcomic/ChannelAte''. |
| 199 | * ''Webcomic/DangerouslyChloe:'' Naomi, thinking that Teddy is an alien and is going to abduct her, warns him about "no probing on first date". |
| 200 | * In ''Webcomic/DoesNotPlayWellWithOthers'' one of the Greys next door reveals that [[http://www.doesnotplaywellwithothers.com/comic/pwc-0415 human colon polyps]] taste almost exactly like a rare delicacy from their homeworld. |
| 201 | * Done in ''Webcomic/TheKamics'' with the punchline being that the probe was intended to be inserted into the abductee's throat, [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_KAMics/4770715/ but the aliens mistook the wrong orifice for that.]] |
| 202 | * In ''Webcomic/RasputinBarxotka'', during the Moscow alien invasion. |
| 203 | * ''WebComic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': In [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/probe-3 "Probe 3"]], the human abducted by aliens is disappointed to be scanned noninvasively in a way that doesn't involve anything being inserted anywhere. |
| 204 | * ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' used it [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-11-27 as a metaphor.]] |
| 205 | * Unity of ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'' once [[InvertedTrope probed an alien]]. |
| 206 | -->"If it [[LittleGreenMen looks like Kermit]], I'm gonna look for Brian Henson!" |
| 207 | * ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' has TheGreys in its "Oceans Unmoving" arc, apparently having arrived in Timeless Space from the game ''{{VideoGame/XCOM}}''. They make continual references to probing; later they explain that they have been genetically engineered to have an instinctual drive to shove things into holes. |
| 208 | * ''Webcomic/ThogInfinitron''. The title character is trampled by a herd of mammoths when an alien research robot attempts to administer an anal probe to an unsuspecting mammoth. |
| 209 | * ''Webcomic/TwoGuysAndGuy'': Frank gets involved in this... [[http://www.twogag.com/archives/1266 on the aliens]]. |
| 210 | * Invoked in a ''Webcomic/{{Wulffmorgenthaler}}'' strip by a very lonely farmer who ''wants'' to be anal probed and [[http://wulffmorgenthaler.com/strip/2010/01/20/ jumps at the chance to be abducted.]] |
| 211 | [[/folder]] |
| 212 | |
| 213 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 214 | * The ''[[http://www.8legged.com/ Deep Fried Live]]'' episode [[http://www.8legged.com/DeepFriedLive/DFL01_07.html "Fleeb Cooks A Cow"]] features a [[LittleGreenMen Little Green Man]] who lists his occupation as "probe technician" who seeks Chef Tako's assistance in learning [[AliensStealCattle how to cook a cow]], although he seems much more interested in probes. The alien even reveals his probing device, which resembles a human forearm and hand with the index finger fully extended. |
| 215 | * Website/DeviantArt has a smiley for this. |
| 216 | * The 2006 Halloween event at ''Website/GaiaOnline'' centered around the themes of AlienAbduction and AliensStealCattle with probing devices becoming available items with which to decorate user avatars. |
| 217 | * In the ''WebAnimation/QueerDuck'' episode "Tales of the City Morgue", Bi-Polar Bear gets abducted by aliens and asks them to probe him. |
| 218 | * ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' has this bit of dialogue between [[CloudCuckoolander Tristan]] and Duke: |
| 219 | -->'''Tristan:''' Dude, do you ''want'' the aliens to probe your anus?\ |
| 220 | ''[{{Beat}}]''\ |
| 221 | '''Duke:''' ...Maybe. |
| 222 | * In a {{retraux}} ''[[Creator/KeystoneStudios Keystone Cops]]'' parody of ''Series/TheXFiles'', the alien 'Moon Man' has a MyCard advertising his services. ''Rustics amazed, [[AlienAbduction yokels abducted]], derrieres probed''. He's introduced molesting a trouserless BoundAndGagged man in the park, who is still there at the end of the film as our incompetent heroes haven't bothered to free him. |
| 223 | |
| 224 | [[/folder]] |
| 225 | |
| 226 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 227 | * ''WebVideo/NeilsPuppetDreams'': In "Alien Abduction", Neil is abducted by aliens. He is very excited about everything, but once the aliens discover his identity they refuse to probe him as they are not allowed to probe famous people. However, Neil begs them to probe him. In the end, they probe him with some spinning device. |
| 228 | * A short film parody had ''Series/TheXFiles'' InTheStyleOf the silent film era ''[[Creator/KeystoneStudios Keystone Cops]]''. Our comedic cop heroes come across a 'moon man' in a park about to abuse a hapless human with his pants down. He even has [[MyCard a business card]] advertising his services: ''[[FirstContactFarmer Rustics amazed]], [[AlienAbduction yokels abducted]], derrieres probed''. |
| 229 | [[/folder]] |
| 230 | |
| 231 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 232 | * In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Roger's alien race can acquire a person's memories through probing. |
| 233 | * ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' indirectly offered an interesting theory as to why aliens anally probe. While dealing with a PuppeteerParasite alien that was controlling Shake, Frylock said he probably recycles his waste (he didn't). Therefore, one reason for anal probing may be that aliens lack anuses and are curious as to their purpose. |
| 234 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' episode ''Abduction'', Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head abduct Tom Anderson and try to conduct scientific experiments on him but the device suddenly malfunctions. Unable to repair it they accept Tom's help to restore the device, which he does, and they try to wipe his memory but accidentally erase their own instead. Forgetting who they are and what they were doing, Beavis steps in the probing cabinet and asks for it to be turned on after which he gets probed. |
| 235 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CodeMonkeys'' Todd and Dean get abducted by aliens. Probes are inserted and a meter shows how far up their butts the probes are. |
| 236 | * In the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'', when Dan and Chris are abducted by what he thinks are aliens, he says if they're gonna probe anyone, they should probe Chris. |
| 237 | * In a ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' CutawayGag, Quagmire has been abducted by aliens and is inquiring about anal probing. They reply that they don't do it anymore. [[{{Beat}} After a short pause]], he asks if they still have the device. |
| 238 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Fry is abducted by a flying saucer whose vanity plate reads "PROBE #1." They steal his nose. |
| 239 | * ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''. Phil Ken Sebben mistakenly believes WesternAnimation/TheJetsons are Greys--not time travelers--and that they're out to give him an anal probe. "Ha HA! [[Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind Third Kind]]." |
| 240 | * ''WesternAnimation/LifesAZoo''. When Ray believes he's been abducted by aliens he thought it was awesome, until he figured that: Alien Abduction = Anal Probe. |
| 241 | * ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': |
| 242 | ** Inverted. A group of flannel-wearing, toothless rednecks in a pickup truck [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-g4FWpxjYI abduct an alien on his home planet.]] Then later, in a simultaneous parody of this trope and ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'', the hicks gleefully surround the alien, bent over and tied to a tree stump, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3mE8RvQVOU bluntly announce]] how they're going to perform "scientific experiments deep inside {{Uranus|IsShowing}}". |
| 243 | --->"Now SQUEAL like a pig!" |
| 244 | ** Another episode had the aliens [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-0-dQHAM2o wondering]] how the story of them doing that got started. |
| 245 | --->"This is gonna be a PR nightmare, you know that?" |
| 246 | * During the 'Uh-oh!' sequence in ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2021'' a redneck is seen being probed by aliens. During the second 'Uh-oh!' sequence they take the probe out, but the redneck demands it be put back in his butt. |
| 247 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 248 | ** The HalloweenEpisode short "Citizen Kang" from "Treehouse Of Horror VII" saw Homer abducted by Kang and Kodos. Homer's reaction to this is to say, "I suppose you want to probe me. Well, might as well get it over with..." immediately dropping his pants and mooning his alien captors. Kang and Kodos respond to this with horror, begging, "[[NoJustNoReaction Stop!]] We have reached the limits of what rectal probing can teach us!" |
| 249 | ** In another episode, whilst searching an Air Force base for Sideshow Bob, an airman opens the door to Hangar 18 before quickly closing it again after seeing a Grey with a glowstick. The airman proclaims, "Watch out! He's got his probe!" |
| 250 | ** When Homer and Flanders marry floozies in Vegas while drunk, Homer decides they should tell their wives they were abducted by aliens, who "gang-probed" Ned. |
| 251 | --->'''Ned:''' Do we really have to tell them I was "gang probed"?\ |
| 252 | '''Homer:''' Would you rather tell them the ''truth?''\ |
| 253 | '''Ned:''' ''[sigh]'' What did the aliens look like?\ |
| 254 | '''Homer:''' Well, ''I'' only saw them from the back, since they were so busy gang probing you. |
| 255 | ** In "The Springfield Files", Homer tells a story how he met an alien on Friday night. He says they sat him on a cold, metal table and prodded him with humiliating probes, only to realise he was confusing his encounter with his physical at the hospital. |
| 256 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 257 | ** Eric Cartman was probed by TheGreys in the {{Pilot}} episode, appropriately titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Cartman Gets An Anal Probe"]]. |
| 258 | ** It was later revealed in "Cancelled" that Earth is actually an alien reality TV show, and that the device up Cartman's ass (and several other devices in over 50,000 peoples' asses) is tasked with the TV transmission. |
| 259 | * {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'': when the Tick is abducted, he is enthusiastic about being probed to expand interstellar knowledge, but it turns out the aliens actually want him to help defeat their enemies. The thought of probing him never crossed their minds. Eventually, they concede to probe him... by tapping him on the head with a stick. Tick seems disappointed. |
| 260 | * On ''WesternAnimation/TripTank'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9W816W40nE a sketch]] reveals that aliens' fascination with probing came when they abducted a drug trafficker and tried to implant a probing device inside his anus, only to find that there was already something up there--a bag of cocaine that he was smuggling. Every subsequent probing has been part of a quest for more cocaine. |
| 261 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' episode "Tears of a Sea Cow", Hank and Dermott mistake the Monarch's cocoon for a UFO and his henchmen for aliens. Dermott shoves a lighter up his butt so that if the aliens try to probe him, they'll get a "face full of fire." |
| 262 | [[/folder]] |
| 263 | ---- |
| 264 | ->'''[[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf Waldorf]]:''' You know, this isn't a bad trope these kids have here.\ |
| 265 | '''[[Series/TheMuppetShow Statler]]:''' Well, I think it's a real pain in the ass!\ |
| 266 | '''[[ThoseTwoGuys Both]]:''' Doh-ho-ho-ho-hoh! |
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