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{{quote|"I've seen starers in my time, many of them, but never one that came within a mile of putting up the performance which Chuffy did then. The eyebrows had shot up, the jaw had fallen, and the eyes were protruding from one to two inches from their parent sockets."|'''[[Jeeves and Wooster (
Happens when a cartoon character is so shocked (shocked!) that his eyes stretch far from his eyesockets or even pop from their sockets, connected only by a thin muscle, or not stay connected at all and fall to the floor, or a myriad of things. Blowing up is optional. Often accompanied by an aooga horn.
Subtrope of [[Wild Take]]. Compare [[Eye Take]], the realistic and more characterizing form of this.
{{examples|Examples}}▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* In one episode of [[Arthur Buster]] dreams about aliens, and when he sees them his eyes pop out.▼
* Early use by [[Tex Avery]] in the MGM wolf cartoons like ''[[Red Hot Riding Hood]]'' (1943), in reaction to a beautiful woman.▼
* There is an episode of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures (Animation)|Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' where Plucky practices an over-the-top version of the trick but loses control and gets stuck as a giant eyeball.▼
** The [[Eye Take]] in question is from the classic ''[[Looney Tunes (Animation)|Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon "[[Book Revue]]". The more seasoned Daffy, of course, is able to snap back to normal after a second.▼
* Happens in ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' regularly, usually to Spongebob, Patrick, or Squidward.▼
* [[Looney Tunes (Animation)|Looney Tunes]] does this, especially as an [[Unusual Euphemism]] for [[Something Else Also Rises]].▼
* Happens in one of ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]''' Halloween specials where Bart and Lisa are caught in Itchy & Scratchy's show. While their eyes are still out of their sockets they run away causing their eyes to follow up only later.▼
** In another Treehouse of Horror episode Bart becomes Stretch Dude and is able to stretch everything, including his eyes.▼
** [[Deconstructed Trope]] in the episode "The Scorpion's Tale" where a drug overlubricates the eyes of Grampa Simpson, causing them to pop out. Gruesomely.▼
* Happens in ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'', naturally.▼
* Not frequently used in Disney's canon, but it does happen to [[Donald Duck]] in ''[[House of Mouse|Mickey MouseWorks]]''.▼
* In one episode of ''[[I Am Weasel]]'' Weasel and Baboon are [[Animated Actors]] and one of the things their director makes them to do is have this reaction to mundane objects. ie. "Oh look, an egg" * Eyes pop out of sockets* ▼
* ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'' has used this at least a few times.▼
* A standard of [[Saturday Morning Cartoon|Saturday Morning Cartoons]].▼
* No discussion of the Eye Pop would be complete without mentioning [[Tex Avery]], who, although he may not have originated it, [[Trope Codifier|certainly developed it into an art form.]]▼
* ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' features a version of this with Bender, who is able to telescope his eyeballs, complete with ''whirr'' sound effect. Not used so much to indicate shock, but rather to get a better view of something (usually a shapely fembot). In one occasion, he extends them too far and they fall off.▼
* Done often in ''[[Rocko's Modern Life (Animation)|Rocko's Modern Life]]''; one memorable example involved an eye doctor intentionally provoking this by frightening Rocko and then making him hold the pose while he examined them.▼
* A version of this happens to [[Re Boot|Enzo]] in the [[Evil Dead (Film)|Evil Dead]] game, but it only happens to his right eye. This is used to foreshadow the fact that Enzo {{spoiler|''loses'' that eye three episodes later}}.▼
* Wylie Burp from ''[[An American Tail]]: Fievel Goes West'' weaponized the Eye Pop. By the end of the movie, Fievel, Tiger, and even Wylie [[More Dakka|take it to the extreme]].▼
* The titular character of ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog (Animation)|Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' would react with this, sometimes with some atypical twist on the classic gag.▼
* Used on ''[[Jimmy Two Shoes]]'', when a [[Creepy Crossdresser]] is discovered.▼
== [[Live Action TV]] ==▼
* A woman who could do this in [[Real Life]] demonstrated it on [[David Letterman]]'s "Stupid Human Tricks" segment. She ended up doing it for a living in T.V. commercials, popping her eyes out at a competitor's prices and etc.▼
* A common gag in ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'', usually performed by Ryan while playing the "Props" game whenever he had objects that could even vaguely mimic the effect.▼
* Jess from ''[[New Girl]]'' imitates it by moving her glasses back and forth, complete with [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud|sound effects]].▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Bobobo-Bo
* Most of the cast of ''[[One Piece]]'' do this very frequently.
* Chisame of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' did this when she saw Negi and Kotarou innocently checking out a [[Yaoi]] [[Doujinshi]]. Her eyes smashed the lenses of her glasses along the way.
* ''[[The Slayers]]'' are quite famous for this trope (with the exception of [[Eyes Always Shut|Xellos]]). One notable example from the second season was when the crew were hunting for a lake dragon. Zelgadis emerges from the lake, covered in barnacles, and Amelia invokes this trope.
* ''[[
* In one episode of ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* Happens often in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' with Roger. Other characters do it as well, including the weasels and {{spoiler|Judge Doom}}.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADrojCw6amM Remember me, Eddie?!] In regards to the above spoiler.
** When Eddie first lays eyes on Jessica Rabbit, his own eyes look as if they're about to do that.
* The title character in ''[[The Mask (
* A strange live-action variant occurs in ''[[Twilight Zone the Movie]]'' when John Lithgow reacts to the monster staring at him through the window of the plane. While it's pre-CGI, his eyes bug out in a completely inhuman way. Just five frames long, and you can see a screencap of the most extreme eye-bugging [https://web.archive.org/web/20100606113801/http://www.cinematical.com/2007/10/17/retro-cinema-twilight-zone-the-movie/ here.]
* Happened in ''[[Drop Dead Fred]]'', when Fred slid under a lady's skirt.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Odd Joe, the comedian {{spoiler|aka the [[Psychic Vampire]] Dandelo}} can do this in the last book of ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series by [[Stephen King]], just by smacking his head in a certain way. {{spoiler|Because of his psychic influence, Susannah and Roland take a good long while to realize just how impossible this should be for a human.}}
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
▲* A woman who could do this in [[Real Life]] demonstrated it on [[David Letterman]]'s "Stupid Human Tricks" segment. She ended up doing it for a living in T.V. commercials, popping her eyes out at a competitor's prices and etc.
▲* A common gag in ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'', usually performed by Ryan while playing the "Props" game whenever he had objects that could even vaguely mimic the effect.
▲* Jess from ''[[New Girl]]'' imitates it by moving her glasses back and forth, complete with [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud|sound effects]].
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[
* [[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]'s Law of Cartoon Physics: "The size of one's eyeballs is directly proportional to the weight of the anvil landing on one's tail."
* Subverted in a [[
* Occurred at least once in ''[[
* Lambik's eyes do this in the [[Suske
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The characters in the ''[[Donkey Kong Country (
** The ''[[
** [[Conkers Bad Fur Day
* In certain ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' games, in addition to an exclamation point appearing over their heads, a guard's eyes will bug out of their head when they see Snake.
* In ''[[King's Quest VI Heir Today Gone Tomorrow]]'', this is Alexander's reaction {{spoiler|to the hunter's lamp bubbling and boiling for the perfection of the Make Rain Spell... while locked in a cage over the druids' bonfire}}!
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Cyanide
* As has ''[[
* In ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' this happens to [[Creepy Doll|Blair]] almost every time he [http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20090713.html sees Chloe], the [[Succubus]] schoolgirl.
* In ''[[Ménage à 3]]'', when [[A
▲== [[Western Animation]] ==
▲* In one episode of [[Arthur Buster]] dreams about aliens, and when he sees them his eyes pop out.
▲* Early use by [[Tex Avery]] in the MGM wolf cartoons like ''[[Red Hot Riding Hood]]'' (1943), in reaction to a beautiful woman.
▲* There is an episode of ''[[
▲** The [[Eye Take]] in question is from the classic ''[[
▲* Happens in ''[[
▲* [[
▲* Happens in one of ''[[The Simpsons (
▲** In another Treehouse of Horror episode Bart becomes Stretch Dude and is able to stretch everything, including his eyes.
▲** [[Deconstructed Trope]] in the episode "The Scorpion's Tale" where a drug overlubricates the eyes of Grampa Simpson, causing them to pop out. Gruesomely.
▲* Happens in ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'', naturally.
▲* Not frequently used in Disney's canon, but it does happen to [[Donald Duck]] in ''[[House of Mouse|Mickey MouseWorks]]''.
▲* In one episode of ''[[I Am Weasel]]'' Weasel and Baboon are [[Animated Actors]] and one of the things their director makes them to do is have this reaction to mundane objects. ie. "Oh look, an egg" * Eyes pop out of sockets*
▲* No discussion of the Eye Pop would be complete without mentioning [[Tex Avery]], who, although he may not have originated it, [[Trope Codifier|certainly developed it into an art form.]]
▲* ''[[
▲* Done often in ''[[
▲* A version of this happens to
▲* Wylie Burp from ''[[An American Tail]]: Fievel Goes West'' weaponized the Eye Pop. By the end of the movie, Fievel, Tiger, and even Wylie [[More Dakka|take it to the extreme]].
▲* The titular character of ''[[
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