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* In the movie ''Summer Rental'', John Candy's character gets socked in the groin and he starts singing the first line of The Star-Spangled Banner.
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* In the movie ''Summer Rental'', John Candy's character gets socked in the groin and he starts singing the first line of The "The Star-Spangled Banner.Banner", which has a rising high pitch.
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* In a MAD Magazine gag, a man tried a helium vending machine for a dollar. His friend wanted to try it but only had a quarter, which was just enough for the "helium substitute" machine next to it, which sent a mechanical foot straight into his crotch.
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* In ''The Running Man'', Ben Richards shoves the blade of Buzzsaw's titular weapon into his groin area, causing him to emit a scream that went higher in pitch.
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* In the movie ''Summer Rental'', John Candy's character gets socked in the groin and he starts singing the first part of The Star-Spangled Banner.
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* In the movie ''Summer Rental'', John Candy's character gets socked in the groin and he starts singing the first part line of The Star-Spangled Banner.
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* In the movie ''Howard The Duck'', Howard barely survives a butcher knife landing near his groin and he responds in a soprano.
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* In the movie ''Summer Rental'', John Candy's character gets socked in the groin and he starts singing the first part of The Star-Spangled Banner.
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** In ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}'', the slaver captain asks Rincewind if he can sing before revealing his intent to sell him as a eunuch.
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* The InspectorGadget movie has Gadget crush a guru's testicles when told to "reach out and grab the balls" (meaning the marbles on a pedestal). The guru's reduced to squealing "TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF!" in a voice like a little girl's.
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* The InspectorGadget ''Film/InspectorGadget'' movie has Gadget crush a guru's testicles when told to "reach out and grab the balls" (meaning the marbles on a pedestal). The guru's reduced to squealing "TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF!" in a voice like a little girl's.
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* In the lost ending of ''{{Film/Freaks}}'', [[{{Jerkass}} Hercules the strongman]] would have been punished by the "freaks" by castration. He would have then become a castrato singer, [[KarmicTransformation and now a freak himself]].
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* The {{Discworld}} ''[[AllThereInTheManual Fools' Guild Diary]]'' mentions an incident in which King Harold the Rampant neglected to comply with his jester's suggestion that he adjust his chain mail. This negligence, together with the very good aim of a Pseudopolitan archer, is why the Battle of the Field of Cloth and Ants ended on such a remarkably-high note.
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* In ''AnimalMan'', the Bakers' neighbour, Morris Weidemeir, fires a warning shot at Ellen's would-be rapist and tells him, "One more step, sonny, you're singing soprano."
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* In ''AnimalMan'', ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'', the Bakers' neighbour, Morris Weidemeir, fires a warning shot at Ellen's would-be rapist and tells him, "One more step, sonny, you're singing soprano."
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Not related to ''TheSopranos'', unless the mob is fighting ''really'' dirty.
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Not related to ''TheSopranos'', unless the mob is fighting ''really'' dirty.
dirty. HeliumSpeech is a non-painful variant.
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** In the short story "Heorot", Harry hits the grendelkin in the [[UnusualEuphemism fire extinguisher]] while they're fighting. Although his opponent's post-injury voice doesn't sound particularly high-pitched by human standards, the huge creature's bottomless-well-deep speech ''does'' rise by a couple of octaves, to something more typical of humans than of giants.
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* In an episode of ''RedDwarf'', Rimmer says he believes that in a past life he was Alexander the Great's... chief eunuch. Lister responds, "No wonder you're such a good singer."
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* In an episode of ''RedDwarf'', ''Series/RedDwarf'', Rimmer says he believes that in a past life he was Alexander the Great's... chief eunuch. Lister responds, "No wonder you're such a good singer."
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* JohnBarrowman while singing [[AnnieGetYourGun Anything You Can Do]], as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meZS87xNbo4 here.]]
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* ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': At the time, a GroinAttack could be included in the show with [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar careful positioning]]. To indicate to the viewer that it actually had happened, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAWvgPO_s7w note the Joker's noticeably higher voice after]].
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* ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': At the time, a GroinAttack could be included in the show with [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar careful positioning]]. To indicate to the viewer that it actually had happened, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAWvgPO_s7w note the Joker's noticeably higher voice after]].
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* Happens in the ''ThreeStooges'' 2012 movie when Larry gets a [[SquirrelsInMyPants lobster down his pants]].
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* Happens in the ''ThreeStooges'' ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' 2012 movie when Larry gets a [[SquirrelsInMyPants lobster down his pants]].
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-->''Well, it's a [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar blue ball!''ball!]]''
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Subtrope of VocalDissonance. Works that ''really'' overplay it follow it up with ShareTheMalePain.
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Subtrope of VocalDissonance. Works that ''really'' overplay it follow it up with ShareTheMalePain.
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Not related to ''TheSopranos'', unless the mob is fighting ''really'' dirty.
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* Hawkeye from ''MASH'' complained that he'd become a soprano when he was suffering from stress-related impotency.
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* In ''History Of The World Part I'', to a Roman soldier after Comicus (Mel Brooks) kicked him there.
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* A rare female version occured on ''The Big Bang Theory''. Amy spoke in a higher register for a while after receiving her first bikini wax.
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* In ''Film/AChristmasStory'', the Old Man gets a bowling ball dropped in his lap for Christmas, and his voice goes at least a little bit higher.
-->''Well, it's a blue ball!''
-->''Well, it's a blue ball!''
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* ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': At the time, a GroinAttack could be included in the show with [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar careful positioning]]. To indicate to the viewer that it actually had happened, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAWvgPO_s7w note the Joker's noticeably higher voice after]].
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* ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': At the time, a GroinAttack could be included in the show with [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar careful positioning]]. To indicate to the viewer that it actually had happened, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAWvgPO_s7w note the Joker's noticeably higher voice after]].
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!!Examples:
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* In ''[[TheDresdenFiles Dead Beat]]'', Will returns Harry's pistol to him, having carried it tucked into his pants. Harry remarks that this is a good way to invoke this trope on one's self.
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While shrill yelps at the initial injury [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl may be justified]], prolonged high-pitched speech is a misconception, based on the false notion that eunuchs' voices are always high-pitched. In actuality, while boys whose testes are lost before puberty will retain a high vocal range into adulthood, a grown man whose voice already changed in adolescence can't lose his masculine tone of speech due to testicular injury: his larynx (voicebox) has already grown to a larger size that produces deep sounds, and lack of testosterone won't make it shrink.
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While shrill yelps at the initial injury [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl may be justified]], prolonged high-pitched speech is a misconception, based on the false notion that eunuchs' voices are always high-pitched. In actuality, while boys whose testes are lost before puberty will retain a high vocal range into adulthood, a grown man whose voice already changed in adolescence can't lose his masculine tone of speech due to testicular injury: his larynx (voicebox) has already grown to a larger size that produces deep sounds, and lack of testosterone won't make it shrink.
shrink. Castration is not retroactive.
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* Invoked, albeit as a ''very'' delayed effect, by the past practice of removing young boys' testes so they would retain a high-pitched singing voice into adulthood. Such ''castrati'' were in demand for female-role vocal performances because their man-size chests gave them powerful voice projection in an era before amplifiers.
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* In ''The Pirate Movie'', a comedy 1980's version of ''ThePiratesOfPenzance'', the enemy Chinese pirate says/sings "Spare me!" and the Pirate King says, "Ooh, an Irish Tenor, no less! We could use an Irish Tenor, lads!" He accidentally stabs the man in the crotch and the guy goes "yeeOOOWWW" in a very high-pitched voice. "Soprano! Even better."
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* In ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', four guards let out a high-pitched squeal after receiving a simultaneous crotch kick from a guy in stilts.
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* In ''AnimalMan'', the Bakers' neighbour, Morris Weidemeir, fires a warning shot at Ellen's would-be rapist and tells him, "One more step, sonny, you're singing soprano."
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A comic follow-up to a GroinAttack, this is when a male character whose gonads have suffered injury cries out or speaks in a much higher frequency than his voice usually displays. Most often it's just a brief squeak of anguish, surprisingly high-pitched; in more extreme cases, he may talk, whine or even sing in falsetto for a time, or have his voice dubbed temporarily by an actress.
Less slapstick-oriented works sometimes reference this phenomenon, as when a DeadpanSnarker taunts a male with a high-pitched voice about his VocalDissonance, or TheSnarkKnight narrowly ''avoids'' a GroinAttack and muses how close he came to playing this trope straight.
While shrill yelps at the initial injury [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl may be justified]], prolonged high-pitched speech is a misconception, based on the false notion that eunuchs' voices are always high-pitched. In actuality, while boys whose testes are lost before puberty will retain a high vocal range into adulthood, a grown man whose voice already changed in adolescence can't lose his masculine tone of speech due to testicular injury: his larynx (voicebox) has already grown to a larger size that produces deep sounds, and lack of testosterone won't make it shrink.
Subtrope of VocalDissonance. Works that ''really'' overplay it follow it up with ShareTheMalePain.
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* An animated commercial for Duluth Trading Company's [[IncrediblyLamePun Ballroom]] jeans shows a large man squatting in a competitor's brand, and singing soprano while doing so.
[[AC: Comics]]
* Referenced by Dona Hermine in ''DeCapeEtDeCrocs''.
-->"Come any closer and you'll be able to sing for the pope!"
[[AC: Film]]
* In ''TheIcePirates'', the eunuchs speak in falsetto after being castrated during their conveyor-belt ride.
* Happens to Topper's unfortunate opponent in the opening scene of ''Film/HotShots Part Deux''.
* This happens to Jernigan in ''Film/{{Home Alone}} 3'' after Alice hits him with a crowbar when attempting to hit Doris the rat, who had crawled into his pants.
* The InspectorGadget movie has Gadget crush a guru's testicles when told to "reach out and grab the balls" (meaning the marbles on a pedestal). The guru's reduced to squealing "TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF!" in a voice like a little girl's.
* Happens in the ''ThreeStooges'' 2012 movie when Larry gets a [[SquirrelsInMyPants lobster down his pants]].
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* In ''[[GarrettPI Cold Copper Tears]]'', Garrett refers to members of a nihilistic cult as "sopranos" after finding out that they're all ritually castrated.
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* In an episode of ''RedDwarf'', Rimmer says he believes that in a past life he was Alexander the Great's... chief eunuch. Lister responds, "No wonder you're such a good singer."
* In ''AllInTheFamily'', Mike spoke in falsetto after having a vasectomy. (He was only kidding.)
* Referenced in ''Band of Brothers'' when one of the troops sings a line from ''Oklahoma'' in tenor, and another soldier teases him, asking if he was sitting on his bayonet.
* Referenced in a holiday episode of ''FearFactor'' -- the host described a [[EatThat plate of ten reindeer testicles]] as "five reindeer singing soprano".
* Done on ''{{Cheers}}'' when Rebecca accidentally hits Sam in the crotch with a coatrack, excited about the prospect of making a baby with him. Later, as he sings to her seductively while they dance, she comments that she didn't know he could reach a note that high. "I couldn't before the coatrack," he admits.
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* The Music/PaulAndStorm song "Why, Baby, Why?" is a falsetto doo-wop in which it turns out that the woman he's singing to has just done this to him.
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* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic does this a lot.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': At the time, a GroinAttack could be included in the show with [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar careful positioning]]. To indicate to the viewer that it actually had happened, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAWvgPO_s7w note the Joker's noticeably higher voice after]].
[[AC: RealLife]]
* Invoked, albeit as a ''very'' delayed effect, by the past practice of removing young boys' testes so they would retain a high-pitched singing voice into adulthood. Such ''castrati'' were in demand for female-role vocal performances because their man-size chests gave them powerful voice projection in an era before amplifiers.
Less slapstick-oriented works sometimes reference this phenomenon, as when a DeadpanSnarker taunts a male with a high-pitched voice about his VocalDissonance, or TheSnarkKnight narrowly ''avoids'' a GroinAttack and muses how close he came to playing this trope straight.
While shrill yelps at the initial injury [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl may be justified]], prolonged high-pitched speech is a misconception, based on the false notion that eunuchs' voices are always high-pitched. In actuality, while boys whose testes are lost before puberty will retain a high vocal range into adulthood, a grown man whose voice already changed in adolescence can't lose his masculine tone of speech due to testicular injury: his larynx (voicebox) has already grown to a larger size that produces deep sounds, and lack of testosterone won't make it shrink.
Subtrope of VocalDissonance. Works that ''really'' overplay it follow it up with ShareTheMalePain.
Examples:
[[AC: Advertising]]
* An animated commercial for Duluth Trading Company's [[IncrediblyLamePun Ballroom]] jeans shows a large man squatting in a competitor's brand, and singing soprano while doing so.
[[AC: Comics]]
* Referenced by Dona Hermine in ''DeCapeEtDeCrocs''.
-->"Come any closer and you'll be able to sing for the pope!"
[[AC: Film]]
* In ''TheIcePirates'', the eunuchs speak in falsetto after being castrated during their conveyor-belt ride.
* Happens to Topper's unfortunate opponent in the opening scene of ''Film/HotShots Part Deux''.
* This happens to Jernigan in ''Film/{{Home Alone}} 3'' after Alice hits him with a crowbar when attempting to hit Doris the rat, who had crawled into his pants.
* The InspectorGadget movie has Gadget crush a guru's testicles when told to "reach out and grab the balls" (meaning the marbles on a pedestal). The guru's reduced to squealing "TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF!" in a voice like a little girl's.
* Happens in the ''ThreeStooges'' 2012 movie when Larry gets a [[SquirrelsInMyPants lobster down his pants]].
[[AC:Literature]]
* In ''[[GarrettPI Cold Copper Tears]]'', Garrett refers to members of a nihilistic cult as "sopranos" after finding out that they're all ritually castrated.
[[AC:LiveActionTelevision]]
* In an episode of ''RedDwarf'', Rimmer says he believes that in a past life he was Alexander the Great's... chief eunuch. Lister responds, "No wonder you're such a good singer."
* In ''AllInTheFamily'', Mike spoke in falsetto after having a vasectomy. (He was only kidding.)
* Referenced in ''Band of Brothers'' when one of the troops sings a line from ''Oklahoma'' in tenor, and another soldier teases him, asking if he was sitting on his bayonet.
* Referenced in a holiday episode of ''FearFactor'' -- the host described a [[EatThat plate of ten reindeer testicles]] as "five reindeer singing soprano".
* Done on ''{{Cheers}}'' when Rebecca accidentally hits Sam in the crotch with a coatrack, excited about the prospect of making a baby with him. Later, as he sings to her seductively while they dance, she comments that she didn't know he could reach a note that high. "I couldn't before the coatrack," he admits.
[[AC:{{Music}}]]
* The Music/PaulAndStorm song "Why, Baby, Why?" is a falsetto doo-wop in which it turns out that the woman he's singing to has just done this to him.
[[AC:WebOriginal]]
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic does this a lot.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': At the time, a GroinAttack could be included in the show with [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar careful positioning]]. To indicate to the viewer that it actually had happened, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAWvgPO_s7w note the Joker's noticeably higher voice after]].
[[AC: RealLife]]
* Invoked, albeit as a ''very'' delayed effect, by the past practice of removing young boys' testes so they would retain a high-pitched singing voice into adulthood. Such ''castrati'' were in demand for female-role vocal performances because their man-size chests gave them powerful voice projection in an era before amplifiers.
