Spit Shine
Characters using their own spit to shine some object.
Some examples include:
- A restaurant worker cleaning tables.
- A mother cleans a smudge off her child's face using her spit as the cleaning solution. Or using her spit to manage the child's hair.
Examples of Spit Shine include:
Film
- Some servants do it with the royal crown in The Madness of King George.
- Space Jam: The Looney Tunes gang cleans their gym this way.
- Mushu tries shining up Mulan's armor to cheer her out of her Heroic BSOD. It doesn't work.
- On Cars, Mater offers to clean off a spot of tar on Lighting McQueen's hood, and he starts hocking before McQueen hastily declines.
Live Action TV
- Jayne of Firefly does this with a knife, combining this with Licking the Blade. This...disconcerts the rest of the crew.
- The Big Bang Theory: Raj uses his spit to clean off dirt from the crotch area of an Aquaman action figure bought in a garage sale.
Plays
- In A Very Potter Sequel, Neville begins spit shining Harry's shoes while Dean gives Harry a massage. Ron quickly chases them off and then takes over both duties, spit shining Harry's back.
Video Games
- The bartender in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge used his spit to clean the glasses.
Real Life
- Works on shoes.