History Main / ItKindOfLooksLikeAFace

Compare the InkblotTest, where a patient is judged by what they may see in incoherent stains. Contrast TheBlank, when someone who should have a face doesn't have one, and RushmoreRefacement, where someone commits an act of graffiti by carving their own face in the side of a mountain. See also BeastWithAHumanFace.

* The tape deck of the [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/BRL61-UNIVAC_I_CTTC.jpg UNIVAC 1]] computer looks sort of like a screaming human face.

* ''Film/TheCarRoadToRevenge'' features multiple shots of the eponymous car where the headlights look like glowing eyes and the grille like a grinning mouth.

* On July 13th 2015, the first clear images of the dwarf planet Pluto were taken and sent to earth. Many people have noted that it has a light patch on the surface that resembles a heart.

* A RunningGag in ''Discworld/TheTruth'' involves a man who keeps bringing vegetables from his garden that resemble human faces (and sometimes other body parts) in to the newspaper in the hope that they will find it newsworthy and perhaps print a picture.

* This was a RunningGag with resident weirdo Cliff on ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' for a while. He grows a potato that he thinks looks just like Richard Nixon ("[[Recap/CheersS4E4 The Groom Wore Clearasil]]"), a turnip that looks like June Lockhart and a squash that looks like the Hawaiian Islands ("Don Juan Is Hell"), and another squash that looks like George Shultz ("Cheers: The Motion Picture").

* This was a RunningGag with resident weirdo Cliff on ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' for a while. He grows a potato that he thinks looks just like Richard Nixon ("The Groom Wore Clearasil"), a turnip that looks like June Lockhart and a squash that looks like the Hawaiian Islands ("Don Juan Is Hell"), and another squash that looks like George Shultz ("Cheers: The Motion Picture").

'''Sam:''' You didn't pay anything.\\

* In ''[[Film/SisterAct Sister Act:]] The Musical'', Sister Mary Robert sings that she became a nun after seeing Jesus, Mary and various saints' faces in food.

** In another episode, Homer eats an old waffle that looks like Jesus he finds stuck to the kitchen ceiling. "Mmm, sacrelicious..."

* Many objects in ''Film/{{TheShining}}'''s Overlook Hotel suspiciously resemble human faces, most notable and obvious being the[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmlESfLHI4M "river of blood" scene]] (warning: nightmare fuel). Many people say it is a manifestation of the Overlook Hotel itself looking down on the characters, others say that it represents the screaming in agony faces of the victims of history. Either way, it's definitely creepy.

* One of the attractions you can visit in ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad'' is the Celebrity Vegetable Museum, which features assorted fruits and veggies that resemble famous people. The owner has a surplus of eggplants shaped like Conroy Bumpus, and will actually sculpt a vegetable in the shape of anyone you have a picture of, both facts that [[ChekhovsGun come in handy later]].

** ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail:'' An EasterEgg in the episode [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE146PopUp "pop up"]] features an aerial photo of Manicouagan Reservoir in Quebec that looks surprisingly similar to a portrait of Strong Sad.

* One of the attractions you can visit in ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad'' is the Celebrity Vegetable Museum, which features assorted fruits and veggies that resemble famous people. The owner will actually sculpt a vegetable in the shape of anyone you have a picture of, [[ChekhovsGun which comes in handy later]].

* ''WesternAnimaton/TheSimpsons'':

** One can show either an old woman or a young one depending on how interprets the features.

** In a similar arc, Dogbert drew a smiley face in a jar of peanut butter and claimed it was an image of "Saint Ted".

* A story arc in ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' featured the cynical Wally deliberately creating - and nurturing - a coffee stain in the cafeteria that looks like the face of Jesus to exploit the credulous. He is seen adding to it with judicious drips and drizzles...

** This is taken to such a length that in [[WhamEpisode Not What He Seems]], [[spoiler: secret agents]] are so distracted by the question, they completely ignore Mabel and Dipper slipping into the house.

* ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail:'' An EasterEgg in the episode [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE146PopUp "pop up"]] features an aerial photo of Manicouagan Reservoir in Quebec that looks surprisingly similar to a portrait of Strong Sad.