History Main / InOneEarOutTheOther

* The [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/4c9147b806414d015c1618b7f63f9a8a/tumblr_mka8od2b7q1rthgz2o1_1280.jpg?.jpg poster]] for ''Film/ScaryMovie5'' has a devilish looking Katrina Bowden 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.)

** 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 {{Adorkable}} surprise and delight.

The ear drum is a sensory organ within the ear canal, and can be damaged if you stick an object deep enough in it. 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]]).

* [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Dopey]] clears water out of his ears by ''blowing'' it out.

-->-- '''Terry Pratchett''', ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}''

* In ''Disney/{{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.

->''"After you'd known [[BrainlessBeauty 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."''

* The Music/{{Bjork}} music video for "I Miss You" is part live action, part animated (by [[Series/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.]]

* In ''Film/SpaceJam'', doctor Daffy examines Michael Jordan's ear and is able to see Bugs through the other ear.

* 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.

* 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 [[TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs seen it done in cartoons many times]].

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* The 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.

* [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]] scratches through his ears with a file.

* The trope image is gag taken from the 1940s ''Good Humor'' comics (now in the public domain, readable [[http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=26728 here.]])