History Main / FollowYourNose

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''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy episode "A Yard Too Far''

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''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' does this in the episode "One Bad Apple", where Spike is lifted into the air by the smell of carrot crepes. Unfortunately for him, Pinkie Pie breaks his connection with the smell and hijacks it for herself.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'':

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' does this in the episode "One Bad Apple", where Spike is lifted into the air by the smell of carrot crepes. Unfortunately for him, Pinkie Pie breaks his connection with the smell and hijacks it for herself.

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* Spider-Ham from ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' is a FunnyAnimal who operates on ToonPhysics, so he apparently has this trope as an actual ability. He asks Miles if he can "float in the air at the smell of a delicious pie".

* This often happens to the dog Louie of ''CimicStrip/{{Overboard}}'' when something is cooked on a barbecue.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'':

->''"Wait. A pie with [[{{hobos}} hobo]]-lifting aroma? Who baked it?"''

Particularly GenreSavvy villains will sometimes build a trap around this trope and ensnare an unsuspecting hungry person.

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* Parodied/inverted in ''Series/TheYoungOnes'':
-->'''Mr. Right Bleeding Bastard:''' Where's your toilet?\\
'''Neil''': Oh, it's upstairs, just follow your nose.
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Often an example of EditorialSynaesthesia. Compare TheNoseKnows.

* [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4245 Squidley]] in ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}''.

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* In ''Anime/SpiritedAway'', Chihiro's parents find a spirit restaurant by following their noses and proceed to gorge themselves on the food. Only Chihiro resists eating it, and [[TransformationTrauma good thing, too]].

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* Parodied/inverted in ''TheYoungOnes'':
-->'''Mr. Right Bleeding Bastard''': Where's your toilet?
-->'''Neil''': Oh, it's upstairs, just follow your nose.

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* Played with in a ''{{Garfield}}'' strip, where Garfield actually puts a hand to his ear and rushes up to Jon holding an ice cream cone, to which Jon incredulously replies "How can you ''hear'' ice cream??"
* This often happens to the dog Louie of ''CimicStrip/{{Overboard}}'' when something is cooked on a barbecue.
* In ''ComicStrip/OverTheHedge'', a woman had gone into labor (at home), but the baby just wouldn't come out. So the friendly neighborhood animals put their heads together: "If you had to pick ''one thing'' to convince the baby that ''life's worth living'', what would it be?" They cooked up a batch of chocolate chip cookies, used a fan to blow the scent in through the window, and the baby ''leaped'' out of his mother, sniffing eagerly at the aroma.

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* ''Webcomic/KarateBears'' [[http://www.karatebears.com/2011/06/bbq.html can smell your BBQ]]
* [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4245 Squidley]] in ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}''

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* Early lampshading: in MickeyMouse's ''The Little Whirlwind'' (1941), Mickey is lifted through the air to Minnie's house by the scent vapors of a delicious cake. Before getting the whole way there however, Minnie shuts the window from which the vapors emerge... and the vapors instantly react by ''dropping'' Mickey.
* The page quote comes from the ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' episode where Bender attempts to become a chef, and this trope is parodied by a couple of hobos who float off the ground thanks to jetpacks upon smelling [[strike:Yoda]] Spargel's pie.
* Wilma's Yabba-dabba-dooberry pie on ''TheFlintstones'' tended to have this effect on anyone who smelled it.

* On ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'', Uncle Scrooge would often parody this trope by having the same reaction to the smell of ''money''.

* In ''APupNamedScoobyDoo'', Scooby's nose would sometimes cartoonishly pop off, and Scooby and the gang would literally follow his nose.
* In one episode of ''{{Freakazoid}}'', a pumpkin pie is used as bait for JustForFun/CandleJack. He floats anyway, but follows the scent lines to the trap.
** Hey! Who left this pumpkin pie here?
* [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] can not only smell food, but can actually smell the writing on a birthday cake.
** [[UpToEleven "That's nothing. He can hear pudding".]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' somewhat invokes this trope on Squidward in "Just One Bite" where the scent of a Krabby Patty gently caresses his nose, flicks it and kisses it.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' does this in the episode One Bad Apple, where Spike is lifted into the air by the smell of carrot crepes. Unfortunately for him, Pinkie Pie breaks his connection with the smell and hijacks it for herself.

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* The "Breakfast" episode of WebAnimation/{{Eddsworld}} has the flying variant.

Often an example of EditorialSynaesthesia.

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* The "Breakfast" episode of WebAnimation/{{Eddsworld}} has the flying variant.

* ''SpongebobSquarepants'' somewhat invokes this trope on Squidward in "Just One Bite" where the scent of a Krabby Patty gently caresses his nose, flicks it and kisses it.

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* In Miyazaki's ''SpiritedAway'', Chihiro's parents find a spirit restaurant by following their noses and proceed to gorge themselves on the food. Only Chihiro resists eating it, and [[TransformationTrauma good thing, too]].
* In ''XxxHolic'', Watanuki finds the Fox Spirit's Oden cart this way, and eventually forms a strong friendship with the shop owner's son.
* After sniffing around for a while, Mikoto in ''Anime/{{Mai-HiME}}'' is drawn to a kendo dojo in the second episode and initiates a FireBreathingDiner after stealing some super-spicy curry bread.
* Variation: In ''WolfsRain'' the wolves are drawn to Freeze City by the smell not of food but of lunar flowers. The scent ultimately leads them to the Flower Maiden Cheza, whom they hope will show them the way to Paradise.
* In ''OnePiece'', Luffy often forgets what he was doing and runs off if he smells food somewhere.
* Non-intentionally hillarious: ''BakiTheGrappler'' shows us how reanimating the frozen body of the Jurassic man, Pickle, seems unattainable... but he awakes on his own after smelling [[spoiler:a T-Rex steak]].

* BugsBunny does this in the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short "Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears", when he floats out of his rabbit hole, led into the Three Bears' home by the scent of carrot soup.

-->-- '''Bender''', ''{{Futurama}}'', "The 30% Iron Chef"

* The page quote comes from the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode where Bender attempts to become a chef, and this trope is parodied by a couple of hobos who float off the ground thanks to jetpacks upon smelling [[strike:Yoda]] Spargel's pie.

* KarateBears [[http://www.karatebears.com/2011/06/bbq.html can smell your BBQ]]
* [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4245 Squidley]] in ''{{Sinfest}}''

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* ''ScoobyDoo'' often did this as well when he and Shaggy were anywhere near food.

* Non-intentionally hillarious: BakiTheGrappler shows us how reanimating the frozen body of the Jurassic man, Pickle, seems unattainable... but he awakes on his own after smelling [[spoiler:a T-Rex steak]].

* This often happens to the dog Louie of ''Overboard'' when something is cooked on a barbecue.

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* Parodied/inverted in ''TheYoungOnes'':
-->'''Mr. Right Bleeding Bastard''': Where's your toilet?
-->'''Neil''': Oh, it's upstairs, just follow your nose.

* [[TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] can not only smell food, but can actually smell the writing on a birthday cake.