Line #78 Main/InOneEarOutTheOther


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4	->''After you'd known Christine for any length of time, you found yourself fighting a desire to look into her ear to see if you could spot daylight coming the other way.''
5	-->-- ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}''
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7	The ear drum is a sensory organ within the ear canal and can be damaged if you stick an object deep enough in it. In addition, there's no direct path from one ear to the other inside the head, even if material could get through the eardrums -- rather, the ears hook up to the nose and throat via the Eustachian tubes, though the eardrum is designed to be watertight. In an ideal situation, nothing should pass through the ears and enter the throat!
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9	This is not the case in cartoons. In the toon world, the ears are there so sound (or just about anything) can go directly into the brain (or out the other ear if the character has [[WhoEvenNeedsABrain no brain to speak of]]).
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11	Sometimes, the thing that went into the ear ends up visible in the character's eyeballs, as if they were just windows into his head.
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13	A variation of this trope does not involve physical objects ''going'' into the ear, but rather a POV shot of a character's ear showing an unobstructed view through their empty head and out the opposite ear. At least it proves they're not too [[{{Pun}} dense]] for [[UsefulNotes/BlackHoles light to escape them]].
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15	If a living creature does this to another character's ears, this overlaps with OrificeInvasion.
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17	See also HollowSoundingHead and WhoEvenNeedsABrain. Can occasionally overlap with DisabilityImmunity and OrificeInvasion. Doesn't refer to when things people are ''saying'' go metaphorically "in one ear and out the other"; that sense would be covered by ComicallyMissingThePoint or NotListeningToMeAreYou.
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20	!!Examples:
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24	[[folder:Advertising]]
25	* An Australian KFC Hot and Spicy ad campaign from the 90s had customers gain the [[FireBreathingDiner ability to breath fire]] after eating the spicy chicken. One commerical featured a guy tucking into a bucket of extra hot chicken while his DumbBlonde girlfriend sitting beside him is ''completely'' absorbed in a very cliche sounding soap opera. Without taking her eyes off the screen she asks him what he is eating. He responds by leaning over and blowing softly in her ear causing a jet of flame to shoot straight out of her other ear. As he leans back she blinks, shakes her head slightly, comments that it sounds nice and reaches for a piece herself, still without taking her eyes off the screen. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaA8Xg7Z0UA See it here.]]
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28	[[folder:Art]]
29	* American artist George Condo has painted several satirical portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, one of which shows her with a carrot lodged through her ears.
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32	[[folder:Comic Books]]
33	* The French comic ''ComicBook/LesBlondes'' had a joke around this. In an early volume a DumbBlonde is listening to some gossip on her cell phone and laughing out loud. Her equally blonde friend asks her what the gossip is and the first blonde tells her to stick her ear next to the first blonde's other ear, allowing her to listen in on the phonecall. It works. A later strip had a similar joke involving an iPod an the two girls sharing a single set of earbuds.
34	** The 24th volume has a longer joke where [[AsianAndNerdy Kim]] brings a nervous [[IdiotHero Vanessa]] along to a Star Wars convention. Kim is dressed in full Jedi robes and carries a toy lightsaber but poor Vanessa lacks any sort of costume and is nearly thrown out. Kim tells the other fans that the "the Force is strong in her [Vanessa's] family" and 'proves' it by turning off the lights and having Vanessa shine a blue flashlight in her left ear... the beam of which naturally shines out Vanessa's right ear, looking like a lightsaber passing harmlessly through her (ala Obi-Wan in Episode IV). The other fans love it and literally fall down in worship of Vanessa, much to her surprise and delight.
35	** The 27th volume has Vanessa trying to get water out of her left ear after a shower. She 'loses' ''two'' cotton swabs down her left ear, only to discover them coming out her right ear.
36	* An early ''ComicBook/BillyAndBuddy'' page had Boule's dad try to administer some eardrops to Bill. The first ear goes fine, but when he switches to the second ear, the drops in the first start leaking out just at the right time for Boule (and soon Dad as well) to mistake it for this trope.
37	* The trope image is a one-panel gag taken from the 1940s ''Good Humor'' comics (now in the public domain, readable [[https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=59071 here.]]).
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40	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
41	* In an early 1980s ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip, Garfield witnesses a bug flying into Odie's ear... only to come out of the other one. Smiling, he thinks/speaks to himself: "Figures."
42	** In a later strip Jon whispers into Odie's ear what he is going to get Garfield for Christmas, only to stop when he notices Garfield listening at Odie's ''other'' ear.
43	* A 1960s ''ComicStrip/ThePerishers'' strip had Maisie being chased by Wellington with a water pistol. Maisie asked Marlon for help, only to have Wellington squirt the gun into Marlon's ear, straight through his head, into Maisie's face. Marlon, of course, hardly noticed.
44	* A 1940s-era political cartoon by Creator/DrSeuss showed a line of citizens waiting to have {{Uncle Sam\|WantsYou}} spray a "mental insecticide" into their ear (a teasing reference to Seuss' advertising work for [[CartoonBugSprayer Flit insecticide]]). Out of the other ear was blown a "[[FantasticRacism Racial Prejudice Bug]]." The citizen is shocked to realize that such a creature was living in their head.
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47	[[folder:Fan Works]]
48	* Referenced in ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', but with a snarky twist.
49	-->'''Chi-Chi''': Neither of you are going to fight this crazy robot. We're all going to stay here, be nice and peaceful, and become [[EducationMama doctor-lawyer-scientists]]!\
50	'''Gohan''': Yeah, that's great Mom, but you know if you tell that to Dad, it's gonna go in one ear and get bored and die.
51	* ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''. When [[NumberTwoForBrains bumbling henchman Lonzak]] has a laser-sighted pistol pointed up his nose, a faint red glow can be seen coming from his ears. Implied with Commander 'Chuck' Kotay who has a radio-plug stuck in one ear and a transmitter aerial in the other.
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56	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
57	* In ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndCleopatra'', when the workers are on lunch break, Artifis addresses them. One turns his head towards him but keeps moving his spoon, sending food into his ear until it comes through.
58	* In ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' one of Rita's countless hyperactive younger brothers experimentally sticks a spoon into one of his ears at meal time and cheerfully pulls it out the opposite ear.
59	* In ''Film/SpaceJam'', doctor Daffy examines Michael Jordan's ear and is able to see Bugs through the other ear. Bugs even yodels to test the echo.
60	* [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Dopey]] clears water out of his ears by ''blowing'' it out.
61	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', Gideon the cat tries to listen to what the coachman is whispering to Honest John by putting his ear to John's other ear. When he can't hear anything, he cleans out the ear with his finger. He also earns bonus points by plugging up his own other ear to make sure nothing comes out.
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64	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
65	* ''Film/HotShots'':
66	** Admiral Benson demonstrates this with a handkerchief through the ears, explaining it as a result of one of his [[RunningGag many war wounds]].
67	** The movie poster shows a jet going through several characters' ear canals.
68	* In ''Film/LoadedWeapon1'', when MsFanservice asks TheHero to "blow in my ear," doing so results in a hollow jug-sound, her hair covering her other ear billowing in the breeze, and a candle by her head being snuffed out.
69	* Played with in low budget horror spoof ''Film/StanHelsing''. After Mia (a BrainlessBeauty), does something particularly stupid the irritated hero blows in her ear and lifts up the hair on the other side, pretending he can blow through her head. Except blowing in Mia's ear really ''does'' cause a wind whistling-through-empty-space sound and the oblivious Mia looks around nervously for the source of the noise.
70	-->'''Mia''' ''Do you guys hear that?''
71	* Happens in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights''. Just watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMS-Fe9xXXc here]]. [[spoiler:[[DepthDeception It's just a perspective effect]].]]
72	* The kung-fu film ''Film/TheMightyOne'' has the main villain having a sword shoved clean ''through his eardrums''.
73	* In the first ''Film/ScaryMovie'', this happens to Ray. [[{{Squick}} With a penis.]]
74	* Years later in ''Dance Flick'' Shawn Wayans (who played Ray) is on the giving rather than recieving end: he seductively sticks his OverlyLongTongue into his girlfriend's ears and the tip of his tongue comes out her other ear (the girlfriend clearly enjoys the experience).
75	** This gag with the tongue in ear has also been used in ''Film/WrongfullyAccused'', ''Jane Austens Mafia'', and a ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews'' sketch.
76	* Happens a few times in ''Film/TheThreeStooges''. For example, in one episode Moe throws a feather duster through Shemp's ears and has to help him pull it out.
77	* The [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/4c9147b806414d015c1618b7f63f9a8a/tumblr_mka8od2b7q1rthgz2o1_1280.jpg?.jpg poster]] for ''Film/ScaryMovie5'' has a devilish looking Creator/KatrinaBowden sticks her tongue into Sarah Hyland's right ear, with the forked tip flickering playfully out the left ear (Hyland's expression while this is going on is hilarious.)
78	* Happens in French comedy ''Film/DelusionsOfGrandeur'' (a parody of Victor Hugo's ''Theatre/RuyBlas''), where Don Salluste's servant Blaze attempts to dry his master's ear after his bath, and ends up pulling the towel from the other ear.
79	* A BlackComedy example in ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare''. Freddy torments a deaf teen named Carlos by sticking a very long q-tip so far into his ear that it pops out Carlos' opposite ear.
80	* In the 1953 Creator/BobHope film ''Film/{{Off Limits\|1953}}'' Creator/MickeyRooney is being evaluated for Army service, a doctor uses his penlight to examine Rooney's ears and Hope holds his palm up at the other side to show the light is going straight through unimpeded.
81	-->'''Bob Hope''': ''Looks like this man is officer material!''
82	* One of the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/heathers_heathers.png publicity shots]] for ''Film/{{Heathers}}'' has Heather [=McNamara=] whispering into Heather Chandler's right ear, while Heather Duke clings to Chandler's left shoulder, leaning close to Chandler's left ear to listen in.
83	* [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]] scratches through his ears with a file.
84	* A short gag in ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'' has Beaker cleaning his ears with a Q-tip that goes all the way through his head.
85	* One of [[https://www.pastposters.com/details.php?prodId=18375 the posters]] for the 1996 Tom Arnold comedy ''Film/TheStupids'' had the main character shining a flashlight through the ears of his entire family.
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88	[[folder:Jokes]]
89	* '''Question:''' What goes in one ear, comes out of the other yet still stays in the head?\
90	'''Answer:''' [[BlackComedy The pickaxe]].
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93	[[folder:Literature]]
94	* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'' has a variation: Yeerks are slug-like aliens who can flatten themselves to wrap around a host's brain and control them, entering through the ear canal to do so (being soft-bodied, the host isn't harmed by the Yeerk slug entering and exiting every three days to feed).
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97	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
98	* An episode of ''Series/NightGallery'' has a man in a jungle being tortured by having an earwig tunnel through his head, going through one ear and out the other. He survives, but [[spoiler:it leaves eggs inside]]. Needless to say, the whole thing is biologically wrong.
99	* ''Journey of the West 2'' (1998 TVB series based on the novel, ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'') has a rather funny episode where Wukong gets SquashedFlat, near a bird-spirit (who assumed the form of a pretty young girl) whom secretly had a crush on Wukong. The bird-spirit tries blowing Wukong back to normal by breathing into his right ear... only for her breathe to exit from his left. Wukong then said she's going to [[AccidentalKiss blow it in from his mouth]], much to the bird-spirit's delight.
100	* In an episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' Zelda looks into Sabrina's ear and can see Hilda through the other ear.
101	** They also, on occasion, use "mental floss" to enhance their mental acuity. It works exactly how it sounds.
102	* {{Invoked\|Trope}} in the ''Series/HannahMontana'' episode "Get Down, Study-udy-udy":
103	-->'''Lilly:''' ''[lifts Miley's hair and peers into her ear]'' Hey, Oliver, I can see you!\
104	'''Oliver:''' ''[looks into Miley's opposite ear]'' Oh, I see you too! ''[they wave at each other]''
105	* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E13FromWithin From Within]]", a small town is invaded by prehistoric slug-like parasites who crawl into a victim's head through nostrils or earholes and turn them into hedonistic delinquents. A waitress has one slug crawl in her right ear, then much later falls out of her left ear dead, leaving her back to normal. This might have been a mistake, but she did come across as [[BrainlessBeauty pretty ditzy]], so this might have been a stealth pun...
106	* In ''Series/ThePitts'', Faith at one point gets a pipe lodged through her head (side to side rather than front to back) at ear level and is completely unharmed (other than the social embarrassment of being a teenage girl with a pipe through her head). At one point, a doctor shines a torch through her pipe and can see out the opposite side.
107	* One episode of ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'' features Granny giving Jethro a physical before he joins the army. At one point she is using a candle to look into his ear then, still looking in the same ear, moves the candle to the other side of his head. She blows in the original ear, snuffing the candle out. "If that boy had six ears, you could play him like an ocarina!" Granny concludes.
108	* An episode of ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' had Cat get a butterfly stuck in her left ear. After several attempts to get it out Robbie enlists the aid of Andre's grandmother who yells into Cat's left ear, causing the butterfly to fly out the opposite ear. {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d by a confused Robbie:
109	-->'''Robbie:''' But it came out of your right ear.\
110	'''[[TheDitz Cat]]:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint It's a miracle!]]
111	* Invoked in ''Series/OperationOuch'' when one of the doctors is looking in his brother's ear and claims to be able to see daylight on the other side. His brother then tries to look for himself.
112	* In one episode of ''Series/SisterSister'', Ray is in the middle of chastising Tamera, notices she isn't paying any attention and adds "Why do I get the feeling that everything I say is going IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER?!". The camera pans to Tamera daydreaming while Ray's suddenly visible dialogue goes in her left ear and out her right.
113	* In ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', when they're showing what the doctor sees when he looks in someone's ear, Ryan looks into Colin's ear and sees Greg on the other side of the stage.
114	* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': In one episode of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Tool Time]]'', Al shines a flashlight on the side of Tim's head, and the light shines through to the far side of the set.
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117	[[folder:Music]]
118	* The cover of Music/{{Accept}}'s third album ''Breaker'' has a woman who has barbed wire going through her ears like this. {{Homage}}d on the cover of Breaker's ''Accept'' EP, with this done to a dog.
119	* There are pictures of persons with flutes through their ears. [[http://www.peterschaaf.com/schickele/fluteinhead80/ This]] picture of Peter Schickele doesn't quite fit it.
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123	* The Music/TomPetty and the Heartbreakers music video for "Make It Better (Forget About Me)" has a tiny Petty climb into the ear of a (very confused looking) young [[DumbBlonde blonde]] woman and play the whole song inside her ([[BrainlessBeauty mostly empty]]) head. She eventually uses a q-tip to get rid of them.
124	* The Music/{{Bjork}} music video for "I Miss You" is part live action, part animated (by [[WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy John Kricfalusi]]) and features a sexy cartoon Flintstones-like 'cave girl' version of Bjork with a bone going through her ears. This is ''far'' from [[DerangedAnimation the weirdest sight to appear in the video.]]
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127	[[folder:Print Media]]
128	* Several versions of this trope turned up over the years in the pages of ''Magazine/WeeklyWorldNews'' ranging from a man with transparent brain tissue (so one could shine a light in one ear and have it come out the other), to a young Kansas woman who discovered someone blowing in her ear would result in a breeze coming out the other side to a dimwitted Californian surfer dude who was cleaning his ear with a q-tip, and "not finding much resistance" decided to see how far it could go (right out the other ear it turns out, which the surfer found "way cool").
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131	[[folder:Toys]]
132	* Waxy Wendy (also called Cute Tippi) from the Franchise/GarbagePailKids trading cards is a girl who uses a giant cotton swab to clean both ears simultaneously.
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135	[[folder:Video Games]]
136	* In the ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' game series, someone with their brain removed can still be quite alive, but unable to do much apart from mutter things like "Teevee... hacky sack..." and wander around staring. Looking into the ear of someone without a brain allows you to see right through. (This is not considered a very serious injury, since the usual method of brain removal is exposing someone to super sneezing powder and having them sneeze their brain out through their nose. On the bright side, reinstalling the brain doesn't really require more sophisticated technology that a sturdy funnel.)
137	* The depressed inventor in ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'' tries to blow his brains out and points his BangFlagGun to his left ear but all that happens is [[BungledSuicide the flag coming out the other ear]].
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140	[[folder:Web Animation]]
141	* An episode of ''Webanimation/RWBYChibi'' has a firefly doing this on Penny. Justified in that she's a robot.
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144	[[folder:Webcomics]]
145	* At one point in ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'', Spark notes that Quilt doesn't have a brain. When Donovan (on one side of Quilt) asks why he thinks that, Spark (sitting on the other side) looks through Quilt's ears and says, "I can see you."
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148	[[folder:Western Animation]]
149	* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon ''Beanstalk Bunny'', Daffy Duck and WesternAnimation/BugsBunny enter the giant Elmer Fudd's head through opposite ears.
150	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': Stimpy's brain is often falling out through his ear.
151	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': Barney Rubble was once seen sticking a rag through one ear and out the other to give his brain a good flossing.
152	* In the old British cartoon ''Hamilton the Elephant'', the ringleader is giving orders to Hamilton but finds that his words literally go in one ear and out the other. He has to cork his other ear in order for Hamilton to comprehend.
153	* In a ''WesternAnimation/FreakyStories'' story, an earwig climbs into a man's ear. When it is finally removed, he realizes the earwig was extracted from the opposite ear it went in. Despite the explanation that it would lay eggs in the brain, the end of story confirms the man was ultimately fine.
154	* Happens often on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', mostly to [[TheDitz Beezy]].
155	* Happens a few times on ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' on one occasion Eddy sticks his hand clean through one of Ed's ears and out the other, and in another Eddy squirts a turkey baster at the kids the water passes through Sarah, Jimmy, and Johnny's ears.
156	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' after the gang has been defeated by Joe after trying to re-cripple him Bonnie shoots at him several times trying to hit his spine one of her shots passes through one of his ears and out the other, despite blood and brain matter splattering on the wall this doesn't kill him like it should.
157	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'' a bug flies into one of Geoff's ears and right out the other.
158	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
159	** In a ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' episode, Bart is attacked by a fleet of tiny spaceships. One flies into his left ear and flew out his right apparently without causing any damage other than a little discomfort.
160	** Another episode has Ralph Wiggum put Play-Doh into his mouth and pretend he's a Play-Doh activity center. It comes out of his mouth and nose... and eventually his ears.
161	** Yet another episode has Moe, depressed over Christmas, run through a monatage of failed suicide attempts ([[BungledSuicide all played for laughs.]]) At one point he sticks a revolver in one of his ears, pulls the trigger and [[BangFlagGun a "bang" flag]] pops harmlessly out his other ear. He then [[BreakingTheFourthWall asks the audience what the sign says]].
162	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
163	** In the episode "A Friend In Deed", Pinkie Pie blows on a horn which goes right into Cranky Doodle Donkey's ear and out the other side.
164	** In the episode "Princess Twilight Sparkle Part 2" Discord pops out of Twilight Sparkle's left ear, mocks her then slides back into her ear canal only to emerge from her right ear. She's not pleased.
165	* One ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode had a baseball pass through one of Sylvester's ears and out the other.
166	* In WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresNightGhoulery when Gogo and his wackyland friends are hiding from people they find really dull and annoying, at one point they encounter an overweight geek who dubs himself “The World’s Biggest Tiny Toons Fan” while rambling about various bits of trivia from the show he starts picking his ear and his finger goes out of the other ear.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'':
168	** The second act of the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS1E2ClassClownBogus Class Clown Bogus]]" had Bogus drying himself off with a napkin after a trip through the dishwasher, before he sticks the napkin through his left ear and pulls it out through the other ear.
169	** The first claymation short shown during the intro before the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS1E6BeachBlanketBogus Beach Blanket Bogus]]" had Bogus attempt to clean out his ear, before using a cotton swab to do so, with the cotton swab going through his left ear and sticking out from his right ear.
170	* In the ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' episode "What Did You Say?" at one point Blythe cleans out her ears this way.
171	* In the ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' episode "Strike up the Sand" Genie having transformed himself into an insect buzzes around Razoul to distract him while Abu steals his badge. At one point Genie flies into one Razoul's ears and straight out the opposite ear.
172	* In the ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' episode "Inspector Goofy" Pete is trying to convince the city to hire Goofy, claiming he has an 'open mind', which he demonstrates by lifting up Gooofy's ears and revealing one can look in and see straight through the other.
173	* Tom was very frequently the target of this trope in the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoons, for example getting a fishbowl stuck on his head and having a goldfish swim through his ears. This also happens to Jerry but far less frequently.
174	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' saw the Warner siblings pestered by an extrememely boring guest they were unable to get to leave and who him continued droning on as they went to bed. Unable to get get to sleep Dot squeezed her pillow into one of her ears to block out the sound, resulting in half the pillow popping out her opposite ear.
175	* In the ''WesternAnimation/GrowingUpCreepie'' episode 'Night of Fright' Gnat (a bug) is buzzing around Creepie trying to aggravate her. He finally succeeds when he flies into her right ear and emerges out her left ear seconds later cackling [[WhoEvenNeedsABrain "Anybody home?"]].
176	* [[DumbBlonde Madison]] from ''WesternAnimation/ClassOf3000''.
177	-->'''Photographer:''' Alright. Which one of you is the smart one?\
178	'''Madison:''' [[InOneEarOutTheOther (while a butterfly flies through her entire head)]] [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance That's me!]]
179	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' cartoon episode "I've Just Seen A Face" has John, George and Paul examining Ringo, who has lost his singing voice. George and Paul look into each of Ringo's ears and see each other's eye looking back.
180	* Creator/TexAvery's M-G-M cartoon "Dog-Gone Tired" has a hunter's dog trying to stave off noises instigated by the rabbit he's to hunt in the morning by pulling a pillow through his ears.
181	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Snagglepuss}}'' cartoon "The Gangsters All Here" when posing as a lion skin rug the gangster Mugsy tries to a fly off Snagglepuss' nose it flys into his ear and out the other, then he fires his gun into his ear to shoot the fly out with the bullet passing out his other ear, he then comments "That's a bad taxidermy job the head is empty".
182	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "I Don't Scare" a goldfish bowl, complete with goldfish, is knocked into the air and lands on Olive Oyl's head. The goldfish happily swims into Olive's left ear and out her right without meeting any obstruction.
183	* Tex Avery loved this trope. Besides the aforementioned "Dog-Gone Tired" he also used it in "Slap Happy Lion" where a mouse trying to evade a lion creeps into one of his ears tiptoes through the lion's empty head and emerges from the other ear without the lion being any the wiser.
184	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Uncle Jokes" Starfire, trying to impress Beat Boy and Cyborg that she can use food as comedy, use a string of spaghetti to floss her ears this way.
185	* In the ''WesternAnimation/ScaredySquirrel'' episode "Water Damage" Scaredy gets his ears clogged by water while in the shower. As part of his many efforts to unclog them he tries flossing back and forth with a towel between his ears (it doesn't help.)
186	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS4E10GhostHostChimpsAhoy Ghost Host]]", while the Flying Dutchman is scaring Squidward, he sticks his clarinet through his ears like a hook and twirls Squidward around.
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189	[[folder:Real Life]]
190	* There has been a case where a young boy got something stuck in his ear and his brother tried to get it out by pushing it all the way through the other ear, apparently because he's [[JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs seen it done in cartoons many times]].
191	* There's a particular magic trick with a pencil (no, [[Film/TheDarkKnight not that one]], God no) which imitates this.
192	* The trope name is an almost word-for-word translation of a French expression ("Ça rentre par une oreille et ça sort par l'autre" -- "it enters through one ear and exits through the other") used for people who do not pay any attention to what is said to them. This trope name has also been adopted to identical meaning in a number of other languages.
193	* [[http://www.japantrendshop.com/mimi-pet-earplugs-p-3285.html These Japanese earplugs]].
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