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* ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'' does it [[http://ozyandmillie.org/2001/05/01/ozy-and-millie-672/ here]].

* In a ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' issue written by Creator/PaulDini, there's a flashback scene where Alfred tried to throw a birthday party for young Bruce, less than a year after his parents were killed, and hired Zatara the magician to entertain at the party. Bruce wandered off to be alone, not wanting to party with the other kids, Zatara's daughter ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} approaches Bruce and, without saying a word, pulls a variant of the coin-behind-the-ear trick, producing soap bubbles from behind Bruce's ear. Because of this trick, Zatanna became one of the first people to reach young Bruce after his parents' deaths. Batman recalled his first meeting with Zatanna when the two investigated the murder of her former assistant at the hands of ComicBook/TheJoker, which [[AuthorsSavingThrow helped him overcome his mistrust of Zatanna]] after the events of ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis''.

'''Jess:''' Oh this? Nothing. ''(makes the coin vanish)'' Just another little disappearing act.\\

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' pulled a Krabby Patty out of Squidward's ear once, as well as his nose.

* Mumbo pulls a penny out of a hostage bank teller's ear in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''. The real trick is that it was covered in ear wax...

* On ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', Mary's brother Roy tried to impress Tommy with this.

* A favorite trick -- sorry, ''[[InsistentTerminology illusion]]'' -- of amateur magician GOB Bluth on ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''. It leads to him getting stabbed as he accidentally manages to get the violent inmate "White-Power Bill" temporarily re-christened as "Dirty-Ears Bill".
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': In a flashback in "Uprising", Malcolm Merlyn is shown doing this to comfort his young son Tommy from a nightmare. On arriving at Nanda Parbat, he does the same trick for a young Nyssa [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior after she threatens to kill him]], causing her to give him his League name of "The Magician".

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii "The Fires of Pompeii"]], the Doctor does this to Quintus when bribing him into showing him where Lucius Petrus Dextrus' house is.

* On ''Series/GilmoreGirls,'' Jess's early characterization included a talent for StageMagic. At the end of his first episode, he's fiddling with a coin while talking with Rory, and attempts to parlay this into a pick-up line. It meets a NoSell.
-->'''Rory''': What are you doing?
-->'''Jess''': Oh this? Nothing. ''(makes the coin vanish)'' Just another little disappearing act.
-->'''Rory:''' Little tip?
-->'''Jess''': Yeah?
-->'''Rory''': If you ever want to speak to me again, don't pull that out of my ear.
-->'''Jess''': So I assume the nose is off limits too?
-->'''Rory''': Any place you wouldn't naturally find a coin, let's leave it that way.
* One of Aziraphale's favourites in ''Series/GoodOmens''. Crowley finds the whole thing very embarrassing, as Aziraphale is an angel capable of casually violating the laws of physics but struggles to convincingly palm a coin.

* On ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Barney has been luring women away from [[spoiler:Marshall]] using magic tricks. Before they go out for another night, [[spoiler:Marshall]] asks Barney to empty his pockets of magic paraphernalia, then his sleeves, and finally to look behind his ([[spoiler:Marshall's]]) ear, from which he pulls a coin.

* On ''Series/{{Psych}}'', a woman does this with a flower to convince a little girl that the flower was magic. Turns out to be a ChekhovsSkill, as she used a similar trick to steal the ring that Shawn and Gus had been hired to find.

* Dax does it to the (large-eared alien) Quark in an episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. This being TheFuture, he accuses her of [[{{Teleportation}} using a teleporter to do it]]. It's a bar of gold-plated latinum she produces from his ear. Afterwards, Quark has to shoo away Rom, who's [[ComicallyMissingThePoint peering into his ear to see if there's any more wealth in there]].

* On ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', when Frylock is looking for someone to resurrect Master Shake, one of the applicants is a stage magician repeatedly pulling the same quarter out of where Meatwad's ears would be, if he had any.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode “[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E15MyThreeSunsMagnetPI Magnet, PI]]", Sean pulls a magnet out of Sunspot's ear.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Moe entertains Maggie by pulling a penny behind her ear... who then proceeds to grab the penny and swallow it.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' pulled a Krabby Patty out of Squidward's ear once, as well as his nose.

** Dr. Orpheus mentions that if he reaches behind your ear, it won't be a nickel he pulls out, '''[[LargeHam BUT YOUR VERY SOUL!!!]]'''

* In a ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' written by Creator/PaulDini, there's a flashback scene where Alfred tried to throw a birthday party for young Bruce, less than a year after his parents were killed, and hired Zatara the magician to entertain at the party. Bruce wandered off to be alone, not wanting to party with the other kids, Zatara's daughter ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} approaches Bruce and, without saying a word, pulls a variant of the coin-behind-the-ear trick, producing soap bubbles from behind Bruce's ear. Because of this trick, Zatanna became one of the first people to reach young Bruce after his parents' deaths. Batman recalled his first meeting with Zatanna when the two investigated the murder of her former assistant at the hands of ComicBook/TheJoker, which [[AuthorsSavingThrow helped him overcome his mistrust of Zatanna]] after the events of ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis''.

* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'': Prof. Calculus does one by accident in ''[[Recap/TintinFlight714 Flight 714]]''.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': In a flashback, it is revealed that Jean's mental powers were inadvertently coming to, tearing down the mental blocks Professor X had placed there years before. To discover the cause, Professor X reaches behind Jean's ear and pulls out... a mental hologram of ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}, explaining that the resurgence of Jean's powers was due to her trying to emotionally "reach out" to him. Not quite a quarter, but pulling something out of someone's subconscious seems like a cool trick, too!

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. In "Uprising", in a flashback Malcolm Merlyn is shown doing this to comfort his young son Tommy from a nightmare. On arriving at Nanda Parbat he does the same trick for a young Nyssa [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior after she threatens to kill him]], causing her to give him his League name of "The Magician".

* ''Series/TheXFiles''. Scully does this to Mulder when they're visiting a town of sideshow freaks and performers.

* In ''Film/TimeBandits'', King Agamemnon does this to Kevin as part of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cups_and_balls Cups and Balls]] magician's trick.
* Andy does this to Trish's youngest daughter with a fake ear in ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin'', delighting her. The older daughter is unimpressed, and quickly realizes the implication that he would've had to have a fake ear in his pocket all day just to do those kinds of tricks.

* Fake Jamaican Robert Marley pulls this off in ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'' twice. On the first time it's with a ''live centipede'' out of David's ear; on the second, [[spoiler:it's a live centipede out of his stomach!]]
* Shadow does coin tricks, including this one, throughout ''Literature/AmericanGods'', as a way of keeping his hands busy. It becomes important to the plot when he ends up with a pair of very special coins: [[spoiler:the sun and moon]].

* A variation occurs in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysVRHelpWanted''. In the "Parts & Services" level for Freddy Fazbear, one of the game's hidden coins can be found behind Freddy's left ear in a manner similar to this trick.

* ''WebAnimation/GothamGirls'': At the end of "A Little Night Magic", the doorman at Zatanna's hotel warns her that being out on the streets so late wasn't a good idea. She's quite capable of taking care of street hooligans, of course, but she's sufficiently touched by his concern for her to magic up a rose from behind his ear and present it to him.

* An adult version [[http://sexylosers.com/051.html appears]] (NSFW) in ''Webcomic/SexyLosers'', where a magician is fingering his girlfriend, then pulls out a coin.
* [[NonIronicClown Sarah]] from ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'' provides a particularly extreme example where she somehow manages to [[spoiler:have her newborn child pop up behind the doctor's ear ''while in the process of giving birth''.]]

* "The Dingo's Guide to Magic" from ''WesternAnimation/TazMania''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':
** Dr. Henry Killinger, despite the fact that he is capable of very powerful magic, does this to entertain children.
** Dr. Orpheus mentions that if he reaches behind your ear, it won't be a nickel he pulls out, '''[[LargeHam BUT YOUR VERY SOUL!!!]]'''
* Mumbo pulls a penny out of a hostage bank teller's ear in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''. The real trick is that it was covered in ear wax...

* Dexter's dad does this in ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' when he wants to go buy ice cream from the ice cream truck (whose driver had a grudge against him).
* On ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', when Frylock is looking for someone to resurrect Master Shake, one of the applicants is a stage magician repeatedly pulling the same quarter out of where Meatwad's ears would be, if he had any.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Moe entertains Maggie by pulling a penny behind her ear... who then proceeds to grab the penny and swallow it.
-->'''Moe:''' Okay. We won't tell no one about that.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Lawrence does this with Phineas which impresses Buford, to which Phineas points out that he always keeps a bunch of coins behind his ear.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode “[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E15MyThreeSunsMagnetPI Magnet, PI]]", Sean pulls a magnet out of Sunspot's ear.

* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'': Prof. Calculus does one by accident in ''Flight 714''.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': In a flashback, it is revealed that Jean's mental powers were inadvertently coming to, tearing down the mental blocks Professor X had placed there years before. To discover the cause, Professor X reaches behind Jean's ear and pulls out... a mental hologram of ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}, explaining that the resurgence of Jean's powers was due to her trying to emotionally "reach out" to him. Not quite a quarter, but pulling something out of someone's subconscious seems like a cool trick, too!

* A ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' strip has a headhunter tribe always entertained by one uncle pulling a skull from behind a child's ear.

* [[NonIronicClown Sarah]] from ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'' provides a particularly extreme example where she somehow manages to [[spoiler:have her newborn child pop up behind the midwife's ear ''while in the process of giving birth''.]]

* In ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Monica hints to her dad that she needs some money. He's oblivious to the request, and does the coin trick to nobody's amusement but his own. Monica's reaction? "You got anything bigger back there?"
%%%%* ''Series/HotelBabylon'':

* Dax does it to the (large-eared alien) Quark in an episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. This being The Future, he accuses her of [[{{Teleportation}} using a teleporter to do it]]. It's a bar of gold-plated latinum she produces from his ear. Afterwards, Quark has to shoo away Rom, who's [[ComicallyMissingThePoint peering into his ear to see if there's any more wealth in there]].

* In a ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' written by Creator/PaulDini, there's a flashback scene where Alfred tried to throw a birthday party for young Bruce, less than a year after his parents were killed, and hired Zatara the magician to entertain at the party. Bruce wandered off to be alone, not wanting to party with the other kids, Zatara's daughter ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} approaches Bruce and, without saying a word, pulls a variant of the coin-behind-the-ear trick, producing soap bubbles from behind Bruce's ear. Because of this trick, Zatanna became one of the first people to reach young Bruce after his parents' deaths. Batman recalled his first meeting with Zatanna when the two investigated the murder of her former assistant at the hands of SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, which [[AuthorsSavingThrow helped him overcome his mistrust of Zatanna]] after the events of ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis''.