Ear Trumpet: Difference between revisions

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Oh for the love of—There are usually three types of Ear Trumpets in fiction:

* '''Type 1:''' Serving an accurate role in a [[Period Piece]], where they reflect the setting.

# Serving an accurate role in a [[Period Piece]], where they reflect the setting.

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# Used for comedic effect, to make it obvious that the person cannot hear.

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# Another comedic usage, usually to illustrate how ridiculously old a character is.

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* '''Type 2:''' Used for comedic effect, to make it obvious that the person cannot hear.

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* '''Type 3:''' Another comedic usage, usually to illustrate how ridiculously old a character is.

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* Trumpkin uses an ear trumpet in ''[[The Silver Chair]]''. This is both for comic effect (he mishears a good bit of information before he finally gets his ear trumpet) and to emphasize how old he is, and thus how much time has passed since the last trip to Narnia.

* Surrealist novel [[The Hearing Trumpet]].

* [[Discworld]]: Unseen University's elderly wizard Windle Poons apparently used to have one. By ''[[~~Discworld/Hogfather|~~Hogfather]]'' it was used to give [[Magitek|HEX]] verbal commands.

* [[Discworld]]: Unseen University's elderly wizard Windle Poons apparently used to have one. By ''[[Hogfather]]'' it was used to give [[Magitek|HEX]] verbal commands.

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

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* Several in ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]''. In the sketch "Benny Kelly, Son Of Ned Kelly" he pours some alcohol into someone's ear horn and the fluid comes out the man's mouth.

== Newspaper Comics ==

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* ''[[Hagar the Horrible]]'' once was trying to communicate with an old Viking. The problem: The Ear Trumpet was full of letters.

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