History Main / WhatHaveWeEar

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* This can get downright repetitive and annoying in ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney''. Even worse, any time you present irrelevant evidence to one of the magician characters, they decide to do a trick with it. Usually making it disappear. Understandably Apollo never lets them do it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Moe entertains Maggie by pulling a penny behind her ear...who then proceeds to grab the penny and swallow it.

* Professor "Reg" Chronotis does this as a hobby in ''Literature/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency'' by DouglasAdams. Then he goes on to do something that actually "is impossible".

** When Bernadette and Howard about to begin having make-up sex, he does to Bernadette to reveal a condom.

* Robert does it to Giselle in ''Film/{{Enchanted}}''.

* A favorite trick--sorry, ''[[InsistentTerminology illusion]]''--of amateur magician GOB Bluth on ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''.

* In a ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' written by 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 {{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, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming 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 ''IdentityCrisis''.

* Prof. Calculus does one by accident in ''[[{{Tintin}} Flight 714]]''.

* Sheriff Pangborn is shown doing this at least twice in ''NeedfulThings'', by Creator/StephenKing, both times to cheer up someone who needs it.

For other stock tricks, see SawAWomanInHalf, PullARabbitOutOfMyHat, and DisappearingBox.

* In a ''{{Batman}}'' written by 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 murdered, 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 {{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, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming 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 TheJoker, which [[AuthorsSavingThrow helped him overcome his mistrust of Zatanna]] after the events of ''IdentityCrisis''.

* On ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Barney has been luring women away from [[spoiler:Marshall]] using magic tricks. Before they go out for another night, 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/TheBigBangTheory'', Howard pulls this on Sheldon when he wants to bug him because he is uninterested in Howard's magic tricks.

* Andy does this to Trish's youngest daughter with a fake ear in ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin''. She 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.

-->'''Roy''': Hey, what's that? A quarter?\\
'''Tommy''': Oh, I get it. You're trying to impress a youngster with what you think is a mystifying feat of trickery.\\
'''Roy''': [[PhraseCatcher Cut your hair, you look like a girl!]]

* On TheBigBangTheory Howard pulls this on Sheldon when he wants to bug him because he is uninterested in Howard's magic tricks.

* 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.

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* In ''HomeOnTheRange'', show cow Maggie is able to pull out stuff (food) from the ears of others and herself. Sometime later, Mrs. Caloway teases her on getting some money this way when they and Grace decided to go to town and negotiate with Buck.

* Happens in the ''DrakeAndJosh'' Christmas special, when Josh has been arrested and is in a jail cell with a ScaryBlackMan.
** In the episode with the magician, Josh tries to pull the WhatHaveWeEar trick on him... to be horrified when the coin comes away dripping fake blood.

* In ''{{Thunderstruck}}'', the magician Saxony Canterbury does this trick to amuse a child. Then an assassin tries to shoot him. Saxony catches the bullet ''in his hat''. Then "pulls" it from behind the assassin's ear - ''still moving''. The assassin's head is ChunkySalsa.

* 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 [[NightmareFuel out of his stomach]]! ]]

* Andy does this to Trish's youngest daughter with a fake ear in ''The40YearOldVirgin''. She 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.

* In a ''{{Batman}}'' written by 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 murdered, 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 {{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, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming 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 TheJoker, which helped him overcome his mistrust of Zatanna after the events of ''IdentityCrisis''.

* In a ''{{Batman}}'' written by 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 murdered, 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 {{Zatanna}} approaches Bruce and pulls a variant of the coin-behind-the-ear trick, producing soap bubbles from behind Bruce's ear. Because of this trick, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming 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 TheJoker, which helped him overcome his mistrust of Zatanna after the events of ''IdentityCrisis''.

* In a ''{{Batman}}'' written by 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 murdered, 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 {{Zatanna}} approaches Bruce and 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 TheJoker, which helped him overcome his mistrust of Zatanna after the events of ''Comicbook/IdentityCrisis''.

* In ''{{Merlin}}'', the titular wizard is asked by a young Morgan Le Fay to "Do some magic for me!" He obliges by doing this trick. Her response? "That's not real magic. That's just a trick. Anybody can do that." Which she then proves by pulling another coin from behind Merlin's ear.

* In ''Thunderstruck'', the magician Saxony Canterbury does this trick to amuse a child. Then an assassin tries to shoot him. Saxony catches the bullet ''in his hat''. Then "pulls" it from behind the assassin's ear - ''still moving''. The assassin's head is ChunkySalsa.

* 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 ''{{The 40 Year Old Virgin}}''. She 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.

* In ''{{Merlin}}'', the titular wizard is asked by a young Morgan Le Fay to "Do some magic for me!" He obliges by doing this trick. Her response? "That's not real magic. That's just a trick. Anybody can do that." Which she then proves by pulling another coin from behind Merlin's ear.
** If you pay attention, you notice that Merlin conjures the coin into Morgan's hand with real magic, but she doesn't notice, apparently assuming that's how the trick works.

* The ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'' story "Secret of the Coin" had a man take this ''way'' too far after it was performed on him as a child, to the point of killing people and finally summoning Beelzebub in order to learn the trick.
* Sheriff Pangborn is shown doing this at least twice in ''NeedfulThings'', by StephenKing, both times to cheer up someone who needs it.

* Happens in the ''{{Drake and Josh}}'' Christmas special, when Josh has been arrested and is in a jail cell with a {{Scary Black Man}}.

* When [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]]'s dad did it to him, he had Hobbes hold him upside down and shake him, to see if there was any other loose change in him.

* Dax does it to the (large eared alien) Quark in an episode of ''[[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space 9]]''. This being The Future, he accuses her of [[TeleportersAndTransporters using a teleporter to do it]].