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.
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.
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.
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.