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B'wana Beast: B'wana Beast. How you doin'?
Zatanna: [notices his stare] My legs are fine... as is the rest of me. [points to her face] Up here.
B'wana Beast: Whoa! She's got the fire of the cheetah in her! [snarls]
Zatanna: [to Batman, annoyed] Why are you doing this to me?

An almost Always Female Stock Phrase, especially if the woman has large breasts, has an outfit that emphasizes them or is obviously Vapor Wear. Of course, if the woman purposefully dressed provocatively, she wants people to look, just not the person she is talking to. It is used to lampshade the Male Gaze, though occasionally a well-endowed man will utter it as well for laughs.

Can also be a good Fun T-Shirt print.

Truth in Television. Compare Distracted by the Sexy. Contrast with Big-Breast Pride, formerly "My Breasts Are Down Here". See also: Eating the Eye Candy, which often prompts this reaction; "No Peeking!" Request, for when a character requests this before the staring and Naked Freak-Out for when a character is mortified upon being stared at while exposed.


Examples:

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    Anime & Manga 
  • Leone from Akame ga Kill! meets Tatsumi when he is on the ground, and his eyes instantly go to her huge breasts. Leone is quick to tell Tatsumi to stop staring.
    Leone: Try to stay focused here.
  • Miharu from B Gata H Kei says this to her best friend Yamada, after the latter laments over her relative flat-chested-ness (Yamada's a B) and observing how very well-endowed (Miharu's an F) the former is.
    Yamada: What do you want, F-shita? [looks at Miharu's rack]
    Miharu: [grabs Yamada's chin] My name's Takeshita. Look at my face.
  • At the end of one chapter of Bloom Into You, Sayaka (herself very well endowed) stares at Touko's chest and asks a simple question:
    Sayaka: Have you grown?
    Touko: Where are you looking when you ask that?
  • City Hunter: In the first arc, Ryo's eyes were glued to his client's cleavage when he met up with her for first time. When she realized, she growled: "What are you staring at? My eyes are up here!"
  • Gender Inverted in Free!, with Rin Matsuoka, who, despite his girly name, is very much a guy. He is very muscular and his man-cleavage is considered very impressive In-Universe. Momotaro Mikoshiba of all people (who is crushing on Rin's little sister, Gou), briefly gets distracted by Rin's man-cleavage, when he is in his room wearing a tank top.
  • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex:
    • Subverted in 2nd Gig when Motoko encounters a street kid who's checking out her body, including staring directly at her breasts, but he's actually enthusiastic because she has a full prosthetic body. He later turns down an invitation to sleep with Motoko, showing he's not interested in her sexually.
    • Lampshaded in the Man/Machine Interface manga where an operative warns his men not to be distracted by her microskirt, as it's just "eyepull".
  • Hadzuki Nouge from Koe de Oshigoto! is not aware that boys are looking at her breasts unless she is told so.
  • Ui Hirasawa from K-On! has something of an attitude like this towards Sawako-sensei because the latter's pointing out the former's greater endowment (when compared to her older sister) ruins her Twin Switches.
    Ui: Good morning to my chest?!
  • Inverted in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun. When Kashima finds out that her crush, Hori, has a leg fetish, she decides to start deliberately start showing off her legs. Unfortunately, Hori doesn't notice because he never, ever looks away from her face when they're together.
  • In Nightschool, Sarah uses this line on a coworker and old college friend who's flirting with her. Since he's a vampire, however, he's staring at her neck instead of the usual area.
  • Played for Laughs in one of the official 4-koma strips for the anime adaptation of Run with the Wind, where Haiji looks at and talks to the guys' legs as if they're their faces. At first his comments are fairly normal remarks based on their legs (eg. staring at Musa's and declaring he looks fine) but then quickly get ridiculous:
    Haiji: (waves at Nico-chan-senpai's leg) Oh, Nico-chan-senpai! Good morning~!
    Nico-chan-senpai: At least look at my face while greeting me, Haiji...
  • Gender Inverted in Seitokai Yakuindomo, where it's almost all of the female characters who are perverts. Their eyes often wander down to The One Guy's crotch, which leads to him telling them to look up.

    Comedy 
  • Parodied by an Israeli stand-up comedian once:
    "I don't get women who say, 'My eyes are up here!' Cool, and your breasts are down here."
  • Also parodied by Jim Gaffigan, who stated that he'd just gotten a stomach implant, but he wasn't some piece of flesh to be oogled at.
  • Played somewhat straight with ventriloquist Jeff Dunham in a Halloween Special, in which one of his puppets, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, is dressed like a woman for Halloween — an American woman. At one point, Jeff looks over Achmed's dress and Achmed says this very phrase to him word for word, then adds...
    "My hoochers do not talk. But of course, you could make them talk if you wanted to, couldn't you?"

    Comic Books 
  • Spider-Man: Inverted in one issue set during the Civil War (2006) event. While in hiding, MJ decides to go out shopping for supplies. When Peter asks how she intends to do this without being recognized since she is a famous model and actress, MJ simply loosens her top to show off her cleavage, the idea being that no one will be looking at her face in that state.
  • Superman:
    • Humorously inverted when Cat Grant tries desperately to get Clark Kent to notice her breast augmentation, but Clark would always look her in the eyes instead, much to her annoyance. Amusingly, at one point Cat looks down at her own chest, as if to check that it's working properly.
    • Supergirl, who's still a bit new to Earth, meets her.
      Supergirl: ...Well, that's strange.
      Cat Grant: What's strange?
      Supergirl: My X-ray vision is picking up some weird plastics in your—
  • Teen Titans: In the second issue of Teen Titans (New 52), we get this exchange between Tim (Red Robin) Drake and Cassie (Wonder Girl) Sandsmark:
    Cassie: Yo! Up here. [points at eyes] And before you ask — Yes, they're real.
    Tim: I wasn't looking at, um... them, Cassie. I was trying to figure out how those war bracelets you're wearing are invisible.
  • Tom Strong: The second issue of Tom Strong's Terrific Tales had Jonni Future, the niece with big boobs related to Science Hero Johnny Future, catch Johnny's male felinoid sidekick Jermaal staring at her chest and tell him "My face is up here". To be fair, Johnny's own outfit was ridiculously beefcake and he didn't expect to be succeeded by a girl. He even had a Cleavage Window to show off his muscular, hairy chest!
  • Ultimate Spider-Man: Peter is standing in a lift next to Elektra and can't stop staring at her chest but glances away every time she looks at him.
    Spider-Man: What was your name again?
    Elektra: Stop staring at them.
    Spider-Man: What? No. What? I was—
    Elektra: [smirks, gives an aside glance]

    Fan Works 
  • Advice and Trust: In chapter 4 Shinji was sitting down when he realized someone was looming over him. He looked up to find a pretty big bosom. Quickly he looked further up to meet that girl's face.
  • Almost a Squib: The Sphinx sounds rather amused when telling Harry that he might be better able to focus on her riddle if he maintained eye contact, but since she's topless and he's a fourteen year old boy who's never had a girlfriend, he's unable to lift his eyes above her neckline. He then persuades her to put a shirt on — and as soon as her head is covered, he sprints past her.
  • In the Harry Potter fanfic The Amplitude, Frequency and Resistance of the Soul Bond, it causes Harry physical pain to look Fleur in the face. Ginny (who he is soul bonded with) is extremely annoyed at him for this. Fleur, on the other hand, points out that she is supernaturally beautiful, and Ginny should be more appreciative of the amount of effort Harry is going to fight it; most boys never even bother trying.
  • Baby Boom (Shawna Canon): In Chapter 31: When the boys point out that their classmates' boobs are getting bigger, Adrien can't stop looking. Repeatedly. When Ladybug tells him off, he resolutely refuses to look anywhere but her face, to her amusement.
    Ladybug: It's all right for you to look at my stomach.
  • In the Barbarella/Star Trek: Voyager mashup B'Elannarella, astrometrix Anna Seven makes First Contact with a man who keeps speaking to her breasts. Assuming this is the cultural norm, she addresses all her own comments to his chest as well.
  • Inverted in Butterflies Bearing Beater's Bats when Tonks, who's trying to seduce a thirteen-year-old Harry on their wedding night, bounces on her bed a couple times after inflating her bust two sizes.
    Harry: Was I supposed to see something?
    Tonks: Those are my eyes; look lower.
  • The Chaotic Masters: Gogo says this during the first fight with the Monkey King, when he starts checking her out.
  • Child of the Storm has Harry quite careful to keep his eyes on the face. Carol, who often has to deal with this, is appreciative, and in the sequel snarks at Ron (who had admittedly just walked in on her and Harry snuggling in sleep-wear - including a t-shirt with no bra) that she'd take his keeping her eyes on her face as suitable thanks for her advice.
  • In Chrysalis Visits The Hague, this said by the human male Estermann to the pony mare Lyra when she - being her human-obsessed self - can't stop ogling his hands.
    • Also often occurs when ponies' attention is drawn to other ponies' unusual cutie marks or humans' and formerly-humans' complete lack thereof, eg chapter 8 of the (NSFW) story Going Native:
      I looked back up and nearly recoiled at the sight of nearly everypony ogling my ass. "Hey! My eyes are up here!" I said snippily. They all ignored me.
    • Non-anthro ponies, being quadrupedal, have a different variation (from chapter 13 of the also-NSFW Slipstream):
      Hey—Hungry Eyes, her face is at the other end!
  • A Rare Male Example occurs in Colors and Capes when a Naked on Arrival Xander says this to Batgirl.
  • A Crown of Stars: During a conversation with Rayana Shinji can not help to be distracted by her breasts. After a few exchanges Rayana remarks "I’m up here, Shinji", prompting him to look up to her face.
  • In Escape Hermione stares at Harry's tight T-shirt.
    Harry: Hermione, my face is up here.
  • Ezreal: a True Champion, a League of Legends fanfic, brings us a rare gender-flipped example from Malcolm Graves.
  • Farce Contact, a Star Trek: Enterprise Parody Fic. T'Pol's Future Spandex is explained as a Secret Test of Character designed by the Vulcan Science Directorate. She would know humanity had achieved true sentience when the crew stopped talking to her chest.
  • In the Spider-Man Dead or Alive crossover "Flower Ninja Date", Kasumi says this to Spiderman when he gets sidetracked by her "hot cleavage".
  • Girl On Fire, a Lost Girl The Hunger Games mashup, Bo winds up staring at Lauren's breasts when they are both stripped while waiting for their stylist.
    Lauren: [tilting Bo's head back to eye level] It was uh...flattering for the first thirty seconds but I'm getting worried about you.
    • Although to be fair, what attracts Bo's attention in the first place are actually the scars just under Lauren's breasts.
  • In Harry Potter and the Well Intentioned Friends Ron and Ginny walk in on Harry and Tonks having sex.
    Tonks: OI! My eyes are up here Weasley!
  • A Hero Rises: This trope is mostly Played With in the story when it comes to Izuku and his girlfriends:
    • During the recommendation exam, Momo can't help but notice that Izuku is keeping his eyes focused on the exam or on her own, something she is not used to, given her voluptuous figure and appreciates it a lot.
    • Mina has no problem on teasing Izuku when she notices he is checking her tighs out.
  • HERZ: In chapter 1 Shinji turns around to face who had greeted him only to see a female chest in front of his eyes. Blushing, he looked upwards.
    Pulling the hands away from his face and turning around, he found himself facing a chest. It was not particularly well-endowed but it definitely belonged to a female. Blushing, he corrected his gaze and saw her.
  • In HP Halloween Padma lets her more outgoing twin pick a costume and ends up wearing a Princess Leia slave girl outfit.
    Padma: Eyes up here Finnegan or I'll hex you.
  • The Last Kiss Goodbye by Odon. Private eye Jane Kates hands around a photograph of the dame she's been hired to find.
    It was actually a close-up of her breasts — that's the only part guys look at anyway.
  • The marriage contract:
    "Harry language, and Harry I'm up here," [Hermione] said as he stared at her almost fully uncovered breast.
  • In Make a Wish Lavender hits Seamus with a breast expansion charm during a classroom duel, which startles him and affects his balance enough that she easily wins. She comments that part of her reason for picking that charm is payback for him constantly talking to her chest, since "my eyes are a bit higher".
  • Inverted in Moon when Lavender tries to prove that the scars on her abdomen will scare Mark away, as they have with every other man she's dated, but her pink lacy bra is what seizes his attention.
    'The scars are lower down,' Lavender told him; she sounded amused rather than angry.
  • Naru-Hina Chronicles Mini-sodes: During an undercover mission, Naruto takes on the appearance of Hinata and spends the night with an hotel manager while the real Hinata is investigating the hotel. At one point, the Uzumaki notices the manager staring at his breasts with a pervy face and pushes the manager's chin upward while frowning and telling him "Eyes up Mister! If you wanna look at me, look at my face."
  • The Night Unfurls:
    • Chloe scowls at Bergen when she notices him staring at her cleavage, wordlessly conveying this trope's message to him. Bergen tries to pretend he isn't staring by rubbing his forehead.
    • Not said outright, but from how Grace feels glad that someone (Kyril) looks at her in the eye instead of leering, it's implied that she has been on the receiving end of this trope at least once, being a Fan Service With A Smile and all.
  • Out of the Corner of the Eye: While she doesn't say it, Jade is clearly upset when Paco is looking her over and lets his gaze settle on her chest.
  • In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, Hilda's response to a boy glancing at her shorts: "My eyes are 44.7º up, boy."
  • In Pranking The Tournament Harry, who took a potion to turn himself into a girl, gets dolled up for the Yule Ball, making Neville gawk at the end result.
    Lavender: Her eyes are a few inches up, Nev!
  • Inverted in the Invader Zim story Rise of the Smallest, where at one point Tenn notes Zim staring at her antennae and snaps that "my eyes are down here".
  • In The Hunger Games fanfiction Some Semblance of Meaning, Vale uses this in her first conversation with District One's Obsidian, who had been admiring the sparkly necklace her sister gave her. He calls her "sparkle girl" and tells her that it's shiny and pretty, and she responds, "Yeah, my eyes are pretty, too, One—not that you're looking at them." (This may have been the first indication that Vale was a Type B Tsundere. Also, Obsidian actually was just looking at her necklace.)
  • In Spider-Man and Power Girl, Karen muses at one point that she will tolerate at least three seconds of staring at her cleavage before she gets annoyed; one reason she swiftly likes Spider-Man is that he didn't look at all (to be clear, he was tempted, but was able to control his reaction).
  • Parodied in Sword Art Online Abridged with the leader of a level 20 guild trying to recruit the level 40 Kirito.
    Keita: Let me assure you, we could certainly use someone with your... [gazing at the health and stat block above Kirito's head] assets.... mmhhhhmmm.
    Kirito: Hey! Hey! My eyes are down here!
  • We're In This Together:
    Pansy: I do have incredible legs, don't I?
    Harry: Yes.
    Pansy: My face is up here, Lord Potter.
  • White Sheep (RWBY):
    • We never actually see an example, but Yang mentions most guys her age can't stop looking at her "girls." Part of the reason she likes Jaune is because he actually looks her in the eyes when he talks.
    • We do, however, see a gender-flipped example with Nora staring a Sun's abs. While trying to teach him how to get with Blake, no less.
  • A Witch and an Amazon Walk Into a Bar:
    Diana: You like strong women, I take it?
    Rose: I've, uh, never seen anyone like you before. But yeah, I sure do.
    Diana: My eyes are up here.
    Rose: Yeah, they sure are.
  • In the X-Men fanfiction X-Men: The Early Years, Scott Summers and Jean Grey are attending an anger management seminar. Unfortunately their shrink is a lecher. After catching him leering at her chest still again, Jean is not pleased (he still doesn't take the below-mentioned warning, and gets a snooker ball shoved halfway down his throat):
    Jean: I have no patience for all forms of male stupidity. I really have no patience for men who forget that women do exist from the shoulders up. That's why I take pride in the fact that I put Will Anderson's head through the wall. Dr. Tom, my eyes are a few inches further up my body.
  • The aptly-titled, NSFW website Rule 34 (and with a name like that...) has a funny (and only mildly NSFW) featured image (image only) about a Gorgeous Gorgon that combines this trope with Shmuck Bait.
  • Slight variant by Joe Gravel: "Fangs are up here!" (Tame compared to his usual gags and hereby declared as SFW.)
  • This fanart has Dr. Manhattan saying it to Power Girl, who of all people should really know better.
  • Parodied in this Animorphs fanart: Ax, a centauroid alien, has shorts on both his hindquarters and front legs saying this, with helpful arrows, as well as a crop top pointing to his head, and then a hat pointing up to his stalk eyes.

    Films — Animation 
  • Played straight in Antz. When Weaver meets the lovely Azteca on his first day as a worker ant, he spends a bit too much time during their introduction staring at her legs. Azteca gestures her hand at Weaver to look higher.
  • The Emoji Movie does this with a clock emoji as Gene is on his way to the text center.
  • The Wild does this, except it's a giraffe and a squirrel instead of people, and spots instead of boobs.

    Films — Live-Action 
  • Bridget Jones has a coworker called Mr. Fitzherbert that she had nicknamed "Tits Pervert" for this very reason.
  • Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. The gasoline station attendant stares directly at Varla's breasts when he states he wants to see America. She quips, "You won't find it down there, Columbus."
  • In Happy Death Day 2U, Danielle wears a tailored shirt with an Impossibly-Low Neckline which downright hypnotizes Samar (in the novelization, Ryan comments on the situation with "is he actually drooling?") as he tries to introduce himself. She slaps him and then says "Hey, Samosa. My head's the middle one."
  • From High School High
    Girl: You know, you're different from everybody else. Most of the boys here just want to stare at girls' breasts. You know what I mean?
    Guy: [quickly looking up from her breasts] Sorry... what?
  • The 1939 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame has sexually frustrated villain Frollo staring at Esmeralda's breasts when they meet first time.
  • Just Married - Sarah experiences this when she and Tom arrive at a rundown Italian hotel that looks like it won't be fun to stay in.
    Tom: We're in this together.
    Sarah: Do you have five guys staring at your boobies right now?
  • A Knight's Tale: When William is bludgeoning his way through a love letter to Jocelyn, Roland and Wat mention that he should mention that he "misses her breasts", after which Chaucer says, "I would tend to look above her breasts, William."
    Willian: I miss her neck?
  • In Kung Pow! Enter the Fist, The Chosen One is frequently distracted by Whoa's (single) breast.
  • Mildred Pierce has Eve Arden delivering an iconic line as she catches a co-worker checking her out.
    "Leave something on me; I might catch cold."
  • In Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Norah says this to Nick the first time he sees after his gay friends give her a more flattering bra to wear.
  • In No Way Out (1987), Susan, who's been staring at Tom across the room, asks the gentlemen sitting next to her to light her cigarette. When he doesn't do it because he's too busy staring at her chest, she snaps, "If you want to look down my dress, you should grow a few inches." Tom then comes up to light her cigarette.
  • In Now You See Me 2, when the Horsemen were being checked by Chinese security guards during a heist, Lula distracts them by taking off her bra and throwing it to the ground. She then snaps at a guard for staring at her barren chest.
    Lula: Hey! (whistles) My eyes are up here, man!
  • Lampshaded in the 1994 film adaptation of The Puppet Masters. A female agent notes that some teenaged boys should have been trying to look down her blouse, as an indication they are being controlled by the Puppeteer Parasites. She contrasts this with how her male partner greeted her. "Hi, I'm Sam!" [downward eye movement]. When Sam denies ever doing this trope, she replies, "You're still doing it."
  • RoboCop (1987) has a gender-inverted version. Officer Anne Lewis sneaks up on a male criminal while he's relieving himself. He puts his hands up, but then casually nods towards his crotch and asks her if he should "zip this up" first. She doesn't fall for the obvious ruse at first but, unfortunately, she can't resist glancing down, and once she does, he catches her off-guard and disarms her.
  • In the monster movie Sharktopus, this is said by a reporter (Stacy) to the boatman she's trying to hire (Pez) when he ogles her breasts.
  • Soap Dish inverts this. When Jeffry says Ariel has beautiful eyes, she says they're nothing compared to her tits.
  • Snake Eyes: Navy officer Kevin Dunne admits that when the Defense Secretary was about to be assassinated, he had been Distracted by the Sexy sight of a buxom redhead. In a POV flashback to when Dunne was talking to her, the camera keeps dropping to the woman's cleavage.
    Dunne: I was three feet away from a known terrorist, and I had my eyes buried in some broad's tits.
  • The truck stop waitress in Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny wears a shirt which reads "My Face Is Up Here".
  • Inverted in Where the Truth Lies, when Lanny tells a female audience member "I think you have the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. Now you notice I say 'I think you've got the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen'; that's because I haven't actually seen them yet. I've been too busy staring at your cans."

    Literature 
  • Subverted in Adrian Mole, who is not sure where to look when Doreen Slater is breastfeeding her baby son. Wondering if it is good or bad manners to ignore a suckling baby, Adrian keeps his eyes on Doreen's neck to be on the safe side.
  • Avengers of the Moon by Allen Steele. Inspector Joan Randall keeps telling off Captain Future for doing this. He doesn't mean to be rude, but as a young man raised in isolation from female company, he doesn't know how to act and keeps getting Distracted by the Sexy.
    Joan: My eyes are up here, not on my knees!
  • The Barbarian and the Sorceress: After Rom looks her over, starting from the feet up, Kira scathingly asks whether he had a good look.
  • In Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, this is Tej's reaction on first meeting Ivan.
    "Hi, there" — with difficulty, he dragged his gaze from her chest to her face — "Nanja."
    It didn't take that long to scan her nametag. Slow reader, are you? Why, yes, I get a lot of those.
  • In her own inimitable style, Irene Adler says to Colonel Moran in The Hound Of The D Urbervilles:
    "That's better. Look me in the lamps, Colonel."
  • Subverted in The Last Legion by Valerio Massimo Manfredi: Action Girl Livia insists that she recognizes the protagonist, Aurelius, as the soldier who saved her life during the sack of a city in Italy, when she was only a small child. Aurelius says she's wrong, and she challenges him to answer why he keeps staring at the medal around her neck, which is a talisman of his old legion. He says he's not, it's an ordinary lustful Male Gaze.
  • Averted by the young king in Masques, he looks Aralorn straight in the eyes. This comes back to bite him, as he shouldn't have been able to see her - if he wasn't resistant to magic, he would have seen the illusion of a snow falcon. Aralorn even told him how the illusion he was supposed to see looks, but the fact that, during the entire conversation, and afterwards, when he pretends to be talking to/ looking at a bird, he looks to where Aralorn's eyes are, not where the illusion falcon should be, gives him away, leading to an Oh, Crap! moment when the villainous mage he tried to fool mentions this. Ironically, ogling her breasts might have been safer.
  • The Patchwork Girl. When the protagonist encounters Luna Fair Cop Laura Drury, the first thing he notes is that she has big boobs. He then apologizes to the reader and says that thanks to her tall skinny body (from growing up in a low gravity environment), they're rather prominent.
  • In the 1632 novel, once Gretchen (who is very attractive and very well endowed) marries, she affectionately teases her husband Jeff "Stop looking at mein tits! What scandal!"
  • Special Circumstances:
    • Throughout the series, the buxom heroine, Barbara, often has to remind men that her bosom is not where to find her eyes.
    • In Queen of Wands, Janea, in the metaphorical version of DragonCon, has to remind Kelly Lockhart of where to find her eyes. His response: "I've made my decision."
  • Swellhead. When they first meet DS Stacey Cotterill, Richard Jeperson looks at her face while Adam Onions looks at her body.
  • In Sanctuary, Keira stares at Araminta's chest. Araminta says, "Um, my face is up here." Keira panics, mumbles that she was looking at Araminta's pendant, and flees almost in tears. Araminta feels guilty.
  • In Dave M. Strom's "Super Holly Hansson" stories, the heroine's Chest Insignia is an upward-pointing arrow intended to direct attention toward her face instead of her breasts.

    Live-Action TV 
  • Monk: In "Mr. Monk and The Girl who Cried Wolf" said several times by Varla, the Sassy Black Woman Sharona has take her place. Varla wears very low cut dresses, showing off her breasts.
  • Inverted in 30 Rock when Hazel comes to work wearing only a bra underneath her page jacket and irritably demands, "Eyes down here, boys. I have breasts, you know!"
  • Done by Sally in an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun. A professor at Dick's university is staring at her chest. She says, "I'm up here." He responds, "A lot of women like to think that."
  • 2 Broke Girls:
    • The pilot has Max say to Oleg, "Stop staring at my boobs" while taking orders.
    • An odd Rare Male Example in "And the College Expirement" when Oleg, feeling neglected about Sophie breastfeeding their daughter, invents "moobs" so he can do the breastfeeding himself. This happens:
      Caroline: (staring at Oleg's "moobs") It's very sweet of you to do that, Oleg.
      Oleg: My eyes are up here, Caroline!
  • Ally McBeal. In "It's My Party", the title character gets in trouble with a judge for wearing a too-short skirt in court. Later she's having an amiable conversation with her client George, except his eyes keep dropping downwards every few seconds and he ends up agreeing to back her in standing up to the judge even though his own case might be put in jeopardy.
    George: I like your hemlines. I'd be glad to jump on the cause.
  • Angel. In "Heartthrob", after a trip overseas, Angel gives Cordelia a necklace.
    Cordelia: Oh my gosh, it's gorgeous! And look how it brings out my breasts!
    [Wesley, Gunn, and Angel glance around awkwardly]
    Cordelia: You know you were all thinkin' it.
  • Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: This happens between Rosalind and Coulson in "A Wanted Inhuman", except Coulson is looking at Rosalind's car, which she points out is a "he".
  • Kitty of Arrested Development says this to Michael repeatedly, regardless of whether he's actually looking at her breasts. And sometimes while flashing him.
  • Babylon 5. An Invoked Trope with Miss Chambers in "The Lost Tales" who wears a camera pinned to her blouse, right next to a Cleavage Window to make sure her interviewees look into it.
  • The Big Bang Theory: In an effort to help Leonard get tenure, Penny dresses in a tight, low-cut dress and plans to flirt with the tenure committee...at a funeral. Raj stares at her chest, looks away when he notices Penny looking at him, then immediately looks back at Penny's cleavage the instant she looks away.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
    • Done by the subject herself in "Doppelgangland" when Willow puts on her vampire alter ego's tight leather corset. Upon noticing the effect it has on her boobs, she says "gosh, look at those" - and all the males awkwardly look away.
    • In "The Prom", this trope is lampshaded when Anya first asks Xander out to the prom, saying she knows he finds her attractive because she's caught him looking at her breasts. Xander replies, "Nothing personal, but when a guy does that, it just means his eyes are open."
    • In the Musical Episode "Once More With Feeling", the "I'll Never Tell" number has Anya in a bra and petticoat, where Xander says he loves her "firm yet supple...tight embrace" and takes his eyes off her chest after a stern look.
  • When Caroline imagines getting a boob job on Caroline in the City, she first loves the attention they...uh, she gets. Then she realizes guys are staring only at her chest so she starts arguing she is "more than just a pair of breasts." As she argues, they start getting larger and larger, until she can't put her arms down.
  • Castle has a moment of this in a season 2 episode where the Body of the Week was reported while coroner Lainie was out clubbing. Turns out she's surprisingly buxom when not wearing scrubs. And she says it without missing a beat, making it all the funnier. Poor Castle has so much trouble not staring that he simply looks away.
    Lainie: [to Beckett] Well, unlike you, I don't stand around all day waiting for a body to drop. Quit lookin' at the girls, Castle.
  • Community
    • In "Interpretive Dance", Troy and Britta accidentally discover that the other is taking dance classes, Britta can't help but have her eyes drawn downwards — twice — to a certain spot in Troy's tights.
      Troy: I know it's tempting to sneak a peek, but I'm gonna need for you to keep your eyes up here.
    • Shows up in "Accounting For Lawyers", when Troy, Abed and Annie are trying to find evidence that Alan got Jeff fired. Annie is incensed that all she is used for is bait and distraction, but Abed and Troy are too busy staring at her bouncing chest to catch what she says.
  • Doctor Who:
    • Rory is told off twice after staring a bit too long at a naked statue (the Venus de Milo) and then at older Amy.
      The Doctor/Older Amy: Eyes front soldier.
    • The line gets repeated when the Doctor meets his next companion Clara, though in that case it's to prevent the Doctor looking up her skirt while climbing a ladder. Our Celibate Hero indignantly denies he's perving, only for Clara to casually admit she's checking him out instead.
  • CSI: In "You Kill Me", Greg is looking at Wendy's naked body on the autopsy table. As his gaze starts to wander down her chest, Wendy's eyes snap open to remind him that she died from a neck wound. It Makes Sense in Context as this is all taking place in a thought experiment of Hodges', and Wendy is not really dead.)
  • On The Drew Carey Show, Kate mentions trying to get a drunk Mr. Bell to stare at her face instead of her chest. They wound up compromising on the neck.
  • In Episodes, Beverley has been told by her husband how well-built Matt Leblanc is. She tries to remonstrate with him about how serious their show is, but her eyes keep drifting down. At the end of the conversation, Matt uses this line, much to her chagrin.
  • In the Friends episode "The One with the Boobies", Chandler accidentally sees Rachel topless. In a later scene, she notices that he's staring at her chest while she's talking:
    Rachel: Why can't parents just stay parents? Why do they have to become people? Why do they have- [notices Chandler] Why... can't you stop staring at my breasts?
    Chandler: [still staring] What? [looks up] What?
    • In "The One Where Nana Dies Twice", Rachel tells Chandler that when they first met, she thought he was gay "but then you spent Phoebe's entire birthday party talking to my breasts, so then I figured maybe not."
  • Frontier (2016): At one point Mary has to remind the drunk town priest to keep his gaze focused on her face instead of her cleavage. He finds her blue eyes no less beautiful.
  • Said word by word by Tina Cohen-Chang in the Glee episode "The Power of Madonna", during a fit of feminist rage against Artie.
  • Grange Hill: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, Tucker Jenkins glances at Trisha Yates's chest, while addressing her. She snaps back "I'm talking to the man, not your shirt button".
  • A rather...overcome Hayden Panettiere inverted this on The Graham Norton Show. She gleefully said she wasn't wearing a bra and stretched her chest out to allow the audience to look - so as not to have the other guests constantly looking down at her boobs the whole night.
  • An outtake of Happy Endings (included in the second season DVD) had Elisha Cuthbert saying this to Zachary Knighton. (She was wearing a bikini top at the time.)
  • House
    • Discussed in "The Right Stuff". When the fake breast enhancement surgery they plannednote  is threatened to be cancelled, the title character exclaims: "Would you condemn this woman to a life where people look at her face when they talk to her?"
    • In "Fidelity", a woman is complaining about back pain. House can't find the cause until she takes off her robe and reveals some impressive breast implants.
      House: I'm afraid the cause of your problem could be staring us right in the face. Actually I'm the one who's staring...
  • How I Met Your Mother
    • Show up when Ted and Marshall were at a gay bar looking for Barney's gay brother; they were constantly getting hit on by guys.
    • Happens with Ted and Robin in "Atlantic City" — with Robin wearing a bikini T-shirt. "Are you staring at my shirt boobs?"
    • In "Rebound Bro", Stella accuses Ted of staring at her breasts and he replies with "In my defense, they were staring at me."
  • An awkward moment in iCarly, which is a kids' show:
    Carly: I'm not a twig. I'm getting curvier everyday!
    Freddie: [turns at Carly] I know.
    Carly: [sternly] Eyes up, dude.
  • Lois & Clark features the male version: After trying out a variety of costumes, Clark ends up in the classic outfit.
    Clark: What do you think?
    Martha: Well, one thing's for sure, nobody's going to be looking at your face!
    Clark: [slightly mortified] Mom!
    Martha: [laughing] They don't call 'em tights for nuthin'!
  • Kate says this to Sawyer in the Lost episode "Catch-22" after he walks in on her dressing.
  • Luke Cage (2016). After her one night stand with the title character, Misty Knight mentions that one of the things that impressed her was how Luke looked her in the eyes the first time he spoke to her, even though she was wearing a low-cut dress.
  • When discussing the Hide Your Pregnancy trope, Person of Interest actress Sarah Shahi mentioned that a Badass Longcoat and a lot of close-ups were used, but as her breasts were also growing the audience might not have been looking upwards like they wanted.
  • There was a Saturday Night Live (guest host Kirstie Alley) where they had female aliens who had evolved their eyes in their breasts, because that's where all the men were looking.
  • Scrubs
    • In "My New Coat", J.D.'s daydream involves Dr. Cox wetting himself out of nervousness. J.D. is staring at Cox's crotch for a good several seconds before Cox has to whistle and repeat the name of the trope several times to get J.D. back to reality.
    • Inverted in "My Overkill", when J.D. and Elliot are in the locker room together. J.D. says they need to talk about the sexual tension, Elliot wheels around wearing only a bra and tells J.D. that there is no sexual tension. J.D. desperately tries to keep looking at her face until Elliot tells him to just look down before his neck snaps. Which he does. "Awesome".
    • This exchange in "My Brother, Where Art Thou?" when Molly approaches the guys eating.
      Molly: Hello there.
      [All look down at her chest]
      Molly: Yep, those are my boobs.
      [All look up at her face]
    • Happens in "My Occurrence", where Carla talks to J.D. alone about trusting his instincts — Carla teases him by asking him if he wants her body. J.D is flustered at first but gives in and looks down at her chest and Carla replies with a simple "I'm up here, Bambi".
  • The Shannara Chronicles: Wil finds Amberle taking a Waterfall Shower, and she tells him this in no uncertain terms - while holding a knife to his throat, no less. Gets a Call-Back in the next episode when he strips down to his underwear to swim, and Amberle is... visibly enjoying the view.
    Wil: [uncomfortable] "What happened to 'eyes up here'?"
  • In the pilot episode of Sledge Hammer!, Dori Doreau turns away from a room full of men and bends over a table. Her skirt rides higher up her thighs. All four men in the room stop talking and visibly bend forwards to get a better look. As she turns back they hurriedly resume their previous posture. She then bends over the table again and everyone cranes his neck to look at her legs.
  • Smallville: In "Crusade", Lois tells this to herself when she first meets the naked and amnesiac Clark. She fails.
    Lois: You've just been hit by lightning, you're stark naked, and you don't even remember your own name. You have a fairly loose definition of "fine."
    [Clark wordlessly turns to face her, completely naked.]
    Lois: [to herself] Look at his face. [her gaze immediately lowers and lingers on his crotch]
  • Stargate Universe: Lt. James does this to McKay at one point. In a previous episode, she implies she's done it before.
    • He then attempts to ogle her butt, she is however well aware of his intentions and makes him walk in front of her.
  • Two and a Half Men: Alan ends up doing this in at a really bad time, as Jake had just got suspended from school after drawing an offensive picture of a big breasted girl... the daughter of the woman he was staring at. To be fair to Alan, the woman in question was not only very well-endowed, but she was also showing a lot of cleavage, and given that their discussion was keeping his mind on the subject of ogling breasts, it would have been strange if his eyes hadn't wandered a few times.
  • A terrific subversion/lampshading happens in The X-Files episode "Humbug" in which Scully catches a sideshow freak staring at her chest through her unbuttoned shirt just as said freak notices Scully staring at his deformed conjoined twin through his opened robe. Both cover up immediately in embarrassment.
  • Wings: In a crossover episode with Cheers, Joe is flying Frasier and Lilith Crane to Nantucket and Frasier makes a remark about his wife's "porcelain bodice." Joe begins to look over his shoulder to take a peek, but Lilith immediately stops him by saying, "Eyes front, fly-boy!"

    Music 
  • On the Folsom Prison live album, Johnny Cash introduces June Carter to sing the duet "Jackson" with him, and they talk a bit, leading to this exchange:
    Johnny Cash: Well, I like to watch you talk.
    June Carter: I'm talking with my mouth. It's way up here.
  • Appears in the lyrics to "American Dreamgirl" by Joydrop:
    Hey Mr. Music
    My name's not honey
    And don't call me dear
    My eyes are up here
  • From the intro to Psychostick's "Because Boobs":
    Girl: Um, excuse me! My eyes are up here!
    Rawrb: Yeah, but your boobs are down there.

    Print Media 
  • A one-panel comic had a Mensa convention with two guys enraptured with a woman's large head, and she is saying "Ahem, guys — my breasts are down here."
  • Played straight and subverted by Toyfare magazine. Female toys will have word balloons saying this. Sometimes other toys you don't expect will have this as well. (Ex: the Bomarr Monk from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.)

    Radio 
  • Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me: Peter Sagal attempted to clue Paula Poundstone to the results of a slightly unnecessary University of Nebraska study concluding that men like to stare at women's breasts by alluding to this phrase. This only confused Paula, who seemed not to know the phrase, though she was quite familiar with the phenomenon itself. (The whole bit is transcribed here.)
    Paula: Give me a hint, would you?
    Peter: Hey, my research results are up here.
    Paula: Ah. OK, wait. I don't think I understood the last hint. My research results are up here, is that what you said?
    Peter: Yeah, that's what I said. You never heard that expression, hey my face is up here. My eyes are up here. You ever heard that? Never.
    Paula: No. (audience laughs) No. Why would anyone say that? I know where your face is.

    Pro Wrestling 
  • Bruce Santee picked on a woman heckling him at an All Aggression Pro event by repeatedly reminding her he did not have eyes down there. Thing is, most of the women were wildly cheering for him when he demanded it until he finally found the right buttons to push.
  • In 1997, shortly after Chyna got her breast implants, Shawn Michaels did a promo where he was talking to her breasts and Chyna pointed two fingers to her face to remind him that she was "up here".
  • Jillian Hall had this instruction for the fans of WWE Smackdown. The fans were looking a little closer to her eyes than most examples in that case though, specifically at a rice cake sized tumor right beneath them.
  • Eve Torres was interviewing Triple H and he was staring at her chest the whole time. He asked if 'they' were real and complimented them on their shape, before asking to touch...the pearls around her neck. And when they were briefly interrupted by Vladimir Kozlov, Triple H had this to say.
    "See, Eve? He couldn't keep his eyes off them either."
  • Santino Marella of all people pulled this line.
    "I am not a piece of meat."

    Tabletop Games 

    Video Games 
  • A gender-inverted G-rated version occurs in Animal Crossing. Bunny Day mascot Zipper will tell the player off like this if you repeatedly talk to him from behind (where his very obvious suit zipper is).
    Zipper: Hey! I know what you're doing. You can't fool me twice. If you want to talk, my face is in the front.
  • Catwoman, in Batman: Arkham City, says so in mockery to an unflappable Hugo Strange in one of her interview tapes.
  • Fusionette from City of Heroes has been known to say this a time or two.
  • A very silly inversion occurs during one piece of random dialogue in Dragon Age II, where Varric reminds Isabela where his eyes are when she starts examining his chest hair.
  • Fallout 3. Sydney, a relic hunter, will say phrases like "Eyes up here, please," and "Less gawking, more walking," when you speak to her if you decide to team up with her to retrieve and split the loot you're both after.
  • Fallout 4: Cait, one of your companions, will sometimes say "We'd get on a lot faster if you kept your eyes on the road and off me arse."
  • This is said word-for-word in Fate/Grand Order by Altria Pendragon (Alter) (Lancer) in the Go West Event. As for why — well, she's in her third ascension outfit, which is charitably described as a Breast Plate with a Cleavage Window that also shows her underboobs.
  • Fear Effect: A Modesty Towel clad Hana is cornered by a Mook, so she drops the towel to the floor to distract him so her teammate Deke can Neck Snap him from behind. When Deke starts looking at her, she admonishes him for staring.
    Hana: Not too long Deke. I've killed men for less.
  • Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix has Hana talking to this male Jerkass and she states the trope.
  • This is said word for word in Camilla's victory screen in Fire Emblem Warriors, as she tilts the camera up and away from her cleavage.
  • Ruby from Gaia Online used to say this in her shop dialogue. Since the shops have been revamped, the line is now immortalized by the bonus pose of a collectible doll of her... blue eyes like hers.
  • Eula's introductory trailer for Genshin Impact features copious Male Gaze while she's talking about her backstory, followed by her chiding the player character that it's bad manners not to look a noblewoman in the eyes when she's talking to you.
  • Halo: With the IWHBYD skull on, marines and army troopers of both genders respond with something to this effect when the player looks at them for an elongated amount of time.
  • Horizon Zero Dawn: Said word for word by Aloy. The NPC replies that he was “looking at her spear”.
  • Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords This exact phrase is one of the dialogue option for the female protagonist (who starts the game only in her underwear) during the first dialogue with Atton Rand.
  • In Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail! when talking to the nudist Drew Barringmore, she'll chide Larry as his gaze gradually drops. Unless you found the earplugs.
  • Played with in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater... sort of. EVA's introduction scene features her partly unzipping her motorcycle jumpsuit, giving Snake (and, by extension, the audience) an excellent shot of her assets. Snake makes no move whatsoever to hide the fact that he's enjoying the view, and EVA doesn't seem to care — possibly just for the sake of comedy and fanservice, but it's hard to doubt that EVA was fully aware of what she was doing.
  • An inversion occurs in the fan-made Neverwinter Nights 2 mod "Dark Waters". In the first chapter, in which you learn about the memories/personality quirks/etc. that were implanted into you and your party at the beginning, a female player has to remind Daniel that she has breasts when he starts treating her like the person whose memories she has.
  • Rootbound:
    Accha: And what does someone who likes romance novels look like, I ask?
    Harid: Weeeeell...
    Loa: My eyes are up here, mister.
  • In Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle, the Hawaii bar girl Lokelani calls out the protagonist for staring at her breasts, but it's rather difficult for him not to do so when she's wearing a sexy pink bikini.
    Lokelani: All you men are all the same: you're so busy looking at our cleavage you can't pay attention to what we're saying.
  • Smite: One of Aphrodite's jokes played this straight, and this game actually has an inversion: Xing Tian, a headless deity who has his face on his belly, tells others that his eyes are... well, down there on his pecs...
  • In Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), Shadow repeatedly glances at Rouge's breasts, although you only notice if you pay close attention to where he's looking. But in one scene, he trails off and just stares until she looks at him and he looks nervously to the side.
  • Implied in the Spyro Reignited Trilogy version of Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, in the cutscene where Spyro and Elora introduce themselves. When Spyro asks what she is, Elora catches him staring at her hooves and leans down to meet his gaze, before replying, "I'm a faun, you dork!". A much more innocent version as Spyro is just confused and curious given Elora is the first faun he has ever met.
  • A PA in Star Ocean: The Last Hope has Edge walking in on Reimi in the shower while searching for Sarah's glasses. Reimi catches him while he's still partially stooped over, causing him to get eye level with her chest. He comments on her growth. She demands to know who he's talking to. Cue the slapping.
  • Valkyria Chronicles 4 invokes it as one of Rita's personal potentials (literally called, "My Eyes Are Up Here"). Her personnel files says she's frequently ogled by the guys of Squad E because she's stacked and usually wears a tank top. So whenever her potential triggers, she giggles and says it verbatim.

    Visual Novels 
  • Monika will play this straight in Monika After Story whenever she wears a particularly revealing outfit, such as on New Years.

    Web Animation 
  • A "The Diva" series made with The Movies had an actress being forced to do reality TV. Episode 2, 'The Diva Stuffed' has her opening a box of worms on pizzas. After she screams, it cuts to a zoom in on her boobs.
    Myshe: Hey!
    [cut to shot of her angry face]
    Myshe: Camera up here, buddy.
  • Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers: One of the Trope Namers of this trope is in "Mushroom Wars", where Mario is distracted by Peach's breasts (or boobs) while R2-D2 is giving a holographic speech of her to the former.
    Peach: AND STOP STARING AT MY BOOBS! MY EYES ARE UP HERE!

    Webcomics 

    Web Original 
  • Amusingly played with in a cartoon picture of a cute gorgon in a toga, one breast exposed, pointing at her face, with "Eyes up here, buddy" as a caption.
  • There's a picture of a naturally naked Dr. Manhattan saying that to Power Girl.
  • A YouTube member pointed out Mass Effect 3's tendency to include Male Gaze shots with a video entitled "My Eyes are Up Here, Kasumi."
  • In Bad Machinery, thirteen year old Shauna laments the failings of thirteen year old boys to a sympathetic adult, or at least an Alternate Universe version of her:
    They caught puberty. I have to fold my arms a lot,
    Gross.
  • In 80's Dan, ROB is staring at Dolly's chest, and she says this.
  • Oscar Winner Marion Cotillard parodies the concept in this fake commercial.
  • In the first episode of Metamor City, "Welcome to the City", rookie cop Michael Perelli gets a particularly shocking version of this from Lieutenant Kate Kitaen; when he checks out her breasts, two huge eyes suddenly form on them to stare back at him. At the end of the episode he gets the explanation for how Kate managed this; she is an illusionist — and a bit of a prankster.
  • Miss Hannah Minx, in this video, donned a T-shirt that had this trope verbatim on it as a result of receiving loads of hate mail and backlash for failing to have her cleavage on display in one of her videos before it. This ended up backfiring miserably on her behalf, as the former video ended up being the only one on her channel to have more dislikes than likes before it became privatized in July of 2021 (along with the rest of her remaining videos at the time).
  • The Nostalgia Chick, as the Goblin King a.k.a. "Package!" says this in her review of Labyrinth.
  • Said by Jesus's busty sister Tammi in this article by The Onion:
    "I saith unto thee: Look upon mine eyes, which dwell within mine head, and not upon mine bosom, wherein no wisdom dwells. And then did Tammi snappeth her fingers together, saying, 'Seriously; I doth mean it. Up here.'"
  • Parodied in an episode of Sword Art Online Abridged:
    Keita: Let me assure you, we could certainly use someone with your... [gazing at Kirito's Level 40 stat block] assets... mmhhhhmmm.
    Kirito: Hey! Hey! My eyes are down here!
  • Parodied with this T-shirt from Teespring, which also points out other interesting body parts you might want to look at. Such as the lungs and gallbladder.
  • Quite common in Whateley Universe (though not often worded as such), due to the prevalence of the Most Common Superpower, especially by Phase, who, being an exception to the Third Law of Gender-Bending, is extremely displeased with the male attention he gets. Conversely, many of the characters like the fact that they draw the Male Gaze, which is probably at least in part due to the fact that most of them are teenagers — and many of the most notable cases were either significantly less attractive before, or else were Transgender and had the good fortune to have the Exemplar power to transform themselves to their true gender. Even those who are happy with their new-found beauty find it less than wonderful, though at least one has enough of a sense of humor about it to call herself "Attributes".

    Western Animation 
  • In one American Dad! episode, Roger shows Steve around a mall, including a stop at a room filled with no longer being used mannequins. When he sees Steve stare at one's bust he says "her dead, flesh coloured eyes are up here."
  • Parodied on Bob's Burgers in a flashback to Linda and Bob's first meeting. She got her engagement stuck in his mustache and was instantly transfixed by it. Bob notices her staring at his 'stache and tells her, "My eyes are up here."
  • The Critic:
    Jay: [openly staring at Valerie's breasts] Uh-huh... uh-huh... Ohh, yeah...
    Valerie: [more amused than insulted] What are you doing?
    Jay: [guiltily] Oh, I'm sneakin' a peek at your maguppies. It's my stumbling attempt at intimacy.
  • On Family Guy, Lois has to occasionally grab Peter's face by the chin to redirect his gaze. Peter, being who he is, he just goes right back staring at Lois' chest.
  • Parodied on Home Movies, where Melissa tells Jason to stop looking at her fake boobs (a pair of balloons shoved into her top as part of her role in Brendan's latest movie). He insists that he can't.
  • The exchange between B'wana Beast and Zatanna in Justice League Unlimited, quoted atop the page.
  • The Kid Cosmic episode "Kid Cosmic and the Heist of Fire and Ice" has this come up when Fantos walks up to Boss Fiosa and gazes at the fire and ice stones she is wearing around her necks. Thinking that he's staring at her cleavage, Fiosa admonishes Fantos that her eyes are up here.
  • The Looney Tunes Show: In "The Shelf", Daffy Duck (who doesn't wear clothes anyway) says this to Tina after he hands the towel he was wearing to Bugs Bunny. Later in the episode, Speedy Gonzales says this to Lola (holding his sombrero in front of himself) after she claims she has an X-ray eye.
  • OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: Inverted in "You're Everybody's Sidekick"; Red Action catches K.O. staring at her bad haircut, and snaps "Eyes down here!"
  • The Owl House: Inverted both in usage and gender when Luz looks up to converse with a centaur to try to sell him potions, only for him to reveal his face on his chest saying, "My eyes are down here!"
  • The Simpsons:
    • Played with the episode "The Frying Game": Homer is furious that he was unwittingly participating in a reality show, where he was framed for murder and subjected to a mock trial and execution. He angrily calls one of the show's hosts, Carmen Electra, out on allowing him to suffer such anguish just for higher ratings, while — the camera moves back to reveal this after his speech — staring into her cleavage.
      Carmen Electra: Homer, my face is up here.
      Homer: [completely deadpan while he keeps staring] I've made my choice.
    • One of the scenes cut from "Large Marge" (shown in FOX promos/commercials, but not in the episode) has Bart and Lisa run into Homer's and Marge's bedroom at night. Marge (who in the episode gets by mistake breast implants) is in her robe and Bart stares at her cleavage. Marge frantically points to her face and tells Bart to "Just focus on Mommy's face", to which Bart replies, "I'm trying, Mom."
  • Gender-inverted on South Park with Randy Marsh admonishing his wife Sharon for staring at his enlarged testicles during sex in "Medicinal Fried Chicken".
  • Inverted in Squidbillies where one of Early's hats has the phrase: "Tell your boobs to quit looking at my eyes" written on it.
  • Vixen: Mari invokes it when talking to Dr. Mc Callister. She came to see ask him about her necklace, which he started examining while she was still wearing it:
    Mari: Normally, this is where I'd say "my eyes are up here."

    Real Life 
  • Scientific research into the behavior has been examined by biologists since 1951.
  • Parodied by Alexandra Daddario, whose eyes are as distracting as her figure and thus she could wear this Fun T-Shirt.
  • A different Fun T-Shirt seen at anime conventions has a set of anime eyes at chest level and says "Fine, let's compromise." Using Irony and sarcasm to make the point.
  • Because of Amy Adams wearing so many costumes with a Navel-Deep Neckline on the set of American Hustle, this was inevitable. She describes the male co-stars as being "incredibly polite about it", but that Jennifer Lawrence was the one who kept staring — not helped by Amy having a habit of slouching when the camera wasn't on her. So she drew a smiley face on the area "so at least it would look friendly".
  • Rose McGowan shares a story of a Charmed producer who would constantly stare at her chest. One day, she said to him "You've seen my breasts for five years. Are they not boring yet?"

 
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