I see you shiver with antici... *
SAY IT!* -pation.
When the
Mad Doctor is ready to "operate", this almost always includes shoving his hands into big latex gloves with a (usually upward) 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. Pretty much a
Mad Doctor and
Medic staple, and also pretty common in cartoons. Usually meant to inspire
fear or to startle; usually part of the
Creepy Physical.
Compare
Gloved Fist of Doom. Also see
Ass Shove, which frequently uses this as a family-friendly suggestion. Not to be confused with the
Glove Slap.
Examples:
Comics
- 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.
Film
- The infamous glove-snapping scene in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
- Latex glove snap done by a fearsomely large nurse in Armageddon.
- Implied in one scene in Kung Pow! Enter the Fist:
Master Tang: As you know, I am a man of special needs. One of you will now receive... the Fist of Fury!
(cut to students looking anxious)
Master Tang: Prepare... the long rubber glove. (sound of latex snapping) Eeny... meeny... miney... moe... I wonder where... my glove will go...
- Undercover Brother. One of Mr. Feather's minions does this repeatedly, greatly to Mr. Feather's annoyance.
- Fletch. A proctologist does this before giving Fletch an examination, as shown here
.
- Jim Carrey's Count Olaf does this in his herpetologist disguise in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Rush Hour 3 - The two protagonists have been detained by security in a French airport.
Chris Tucker: Can we go now?
Detective: *
Glove Snap* this will just take a moment.
- The Mad Doctor in The Rescuers Down Under does this. "All right, girls, let's snap to it!" *snap* Oh! That smarts..."
- Played for Laughs in Wayne's World, when the Big Bad is being "searched for drugs".
- Judge Doom does this before putting a toon shoe in "the Dip."
Live-Action TV
- In The X-Files, Mulder accuses Scully of enjoying doing this.
- Tony of NCIS; though it's more comedic than sinister.
- NCIS Los Angeles has used it for comedic affect, even more so in that it was the Geek that did the snapping.
New Media
Video Games
- The Medic in Team Fortress 2 does it◊ with his Syringe gun taunts.
"Anuhza successful procedure!"
"Woops! Zat was not medicine."
"Did zat sting? Sorry!"
"Zat, vas doctor-assisted homicide!"
- He also does it in the ''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 Uber Charge module—he did without benefit of gloves.
Web Comics
Western Animation
Real Life
- During the 2008 American presidential campaign, Mitt Romney had the spectacularly bad luck/judgment to have this picture◊ taken of him.
