History Main / InstantSoprano

* In an episode of ''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."

* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''. Edmund Blackadder is introduced to Duke [=McAngus=] as the man in charge of the entertainment.

-->'''Guru''': He's not a man, you know! He's monster! (''sobs in pain'')

* The ''Film/InspectorGadget'' movie has Gadget accidentally [[GroinAttack grab 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 very high voice. The poor guru is then loaded into a an ambulance holding a huge icepack on his crotch and ''still'' in a high squeaky voice.

Not related to ''Series/TheSopranos'', unless the mob is fighting ''really'' dirty.

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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.
* A Lee jeans commercial from the early '90s had a singing man who recently emerged from the shower go from deep bass to a high soprano the minute he zipped up his tight-fitting jeans.
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* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo" has Giorno healing Mista after their fight with Ghiaccio. Mista ends up doing this trope, though Narancia sees it ''much differently'' when he was searching for them.

* In ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', four guards let out a high-pitched squeal (but not helium sounding) after receiving a simultaneous crotch kick from a guy on stilts.

* ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space''. After an AmazonBrigade of female cyborgs threaten to have our heroes castrated, Buster ScreamsLikeALittleGirl causing [[Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton Captain Proton]] to think they've started already.

** In ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}'', the slaver captain asks Rincewind if he can sing before revealing his intent to sell him as a eunuch.

* 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.

* 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]].

* ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'': Saitama planned to end his initial confrontation with Speed-of-Sound Sonic by threatening him with a punch to the crotch (which would have been [[LudicrousGibs much more than painful]]) that he'd stop just short of connection. [[InertiaIsAHarshMistress Sonic could not stop himself fast enough, so his groin crashed into Saitama's fist.]] Sonic's attempt to bow out from the fighting gracefully is undercut by his shaking knees and increased-pitch voice.

* The ''Film/InspectorGadget'' movie has Gadget grab 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 very high voice.
* Happens in ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' 2012 movie when Larry gets a [[SquirrelsInMyPants lobster down his pants]].

Subtrope of VocalDissonance. Works that overplay it follow it up with ShareTheMalePain. HeliumSpeech is a non-painful variant.

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. Castration is not retroactive.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Crowler is dueling the new vice-chancellor, Bonaparte, for the fate of the Slifer Red Dorm, and a one of the direct hits from the latter's toy soldier monsters hits his crotch.

* A Lee jeans commercial from the early 90s had a singing man who recently emerged from the shower go from a deep bass to a high soprano the minute he zipped up his tight-fitting jeans.

* In ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', four guards let out a high-pitched squeal (but not helium sounding) after receiving a simultaneous crotch kick from a guy in stilts.

* Francis lets out a high-pitched scream in ''Film/TheGoonies'' after he slips a on log over a stream of water and lands on it groin-first.

* There is a dutch joke that, translated, goes like this: "Two men are swimming in the ocean, when one of them glimpses something he recognizes beneath the surface. Quickly swimming to his mate, he shouts, "We have to leave the water immediately! I just saw a ''[[GroinAttack SHARK]]''!" If it's not clear, the speaker raises their own voice to soprano level the moment they say "''SHARK''!". This provides context of what the shark has just taken a great big chomp out of without stating it directly.

--> '''Red:''' You know how Buster has a false set o' teeth? Now he has a falsetto voice.\\

* ''Series/TheGoodies'': "Saturday Night Grease" has Tim talking in really high pitched voice that drops to his normal register as he unzips his ridiculously tight trousers.
* ''Series/BlackBooks'', "The Blackout". A RunningGag has Manny, who's drank so much coffee and watched so much ''Series/TheSweeney'' that he's permanently stuck in hyped-up cop mode, trying to sit on a chair backwards like a suave cop. It doesn't work because he keeps "sitting on meself". The very last time he does it, to close out the episode, he says in a helium-induced pitch:

* A non-painful variant from ''Series/DoctorWho''. When Cassandra - in Rose's body - kisses the Doctor completely out of the blue, the latter freezes for a couple seconds during PostKissCatatonia, before muttering how he's "still got it" in a ''very'' squeaky voice.

* In one of the ''TabletopGame/GrimtoothsTraps'' books, this trope is cited in the name of the so-called "Soprano Chest", which has a heavy lid and a board sticking out at the bottom front, designed such that when the chest it opened, the whole thing tips over backwards, sending the board up between a character's legs.

* In the second ''Series/{{Bottom}} Live'' tour, Richie (Rik Mayall) and Eddie (Ade Edmonson) are fighting, when Rik accidentally punches Ade in the nads. Out of character, Rik apologises to Ade, who speaks a couple octaves higher to complete the effect.

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic does this a lot, and ends up sounding like he's on helium. Notable cases include his reviews on ''Film/DemolitionMan'' and ''Film/TheWickerMan2006''.

-->'''Johnny:''' I told her we could make beautiful music together, but she left me singin' the blues... in soprano. Ooh, those feisty girls drive me crazy!

* Discussed in ''[[VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards]]''; you can perform a groin attack on the drunk at Leftys bar by walking into him so your foot connects with his privates. The second time you do this, he responds with "Wadda ya tryin' to do; make me a soprano??"

* It's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtaG-n_Olo become a minor trend to make edits of]] [[JoJosBizzareAdventures JoJo songs]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA0CR08-H7k with this trope as a theme.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': [[StarWars Lando Calrissian]] has this after being on the receiving end of a GroinAttack (delivered via fist) from Hera Syndulla, thanks to his using her as bait in a BatmanGambit, resulting in him sounding like he's on helium.

* In the intro to the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama'', Ron faces a Sumo Ninja, who speaks with a deep voice. After Kim beats him, Ron gives him a wedgie. Later in the movie, the Sumo Ninja comes back, looking for vengeance... only now, he speaks with a high, squeaky, girly voice.

* In the intro to the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama'', Ron faces a Sumo Ninja, who speaks with a deep voice. After Kim beats him, Ron gives him a wedgie. At the end of the movie, the Sumo Ninja comes back, looking for vengeance... only now, he speaks with a high, squeaky, girly voice.