Glasses Pull: Difference between revisions

* Parodied when Jack In the Box introduced their bacon and cheddar potato wedges and jalapeno poppers, running a television ad featuring a "doctor" extolling the wonderful health benefits of these new appetizers. He enters every single shot with his glasses on, then dramatically whips them off as he delivers his conclusions, at least five or six times total.

** And is never actually seen putting them back on during the course of said commercial.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* Just hope [[X-Men|Cyclops]] doesn't do this to you.

 

* General Rogard does it when Kent suggests using a nuclear strike on ''[[The Iron Giant]]''.

* Cobra Bubbles on ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'' first takes off his shades when he tells Nani that he's "the one they call when things go wrong".

* Played with in ''[[Horton Hears a Who!]]''. While answering the mayor's "hypothetical" question, Dr. LaRue whips off her safety glasses on the obvious dramatic line. In a later scene, she whips them off on an innocuous word so she can put them back on for the most dramatic line.

* Spoofed (like almost every other trope) in the movie ''[[Airplane!]]'', when Captain Rex Kramer whips off his sunglasses to make a dramatic point, only to reveal ''another'' pair of sunglasses underneath, which are themselves whipped off to emphasize ''another'' dramatic line.

* Brad whips off his glasses when Janet says his complaints to Frank N. Furter are "ungrateful" in ''[[Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' One common jeer at this is ''"Dun-da-da-DAH! Super Asshole!"''

** "Dr. McNeill paused here and removed his glasses, as if a blurring of the objective world might make the reminiscent vision clearer."

 

* [[Inverted Trope]]: Happens at the end of most [[The Teaser|teasers]] of ''[[CSI: Miami]]'', as Horatio Caine gives his horrendously (and hilariously) over-the-top [[Quip to Black]]. Cue [[The Who]]'s [[Big Yes|YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!]] Special mention goes to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d54Ok6Uz_A this scene], which features Horatio taking off his glasses as he's coming out of a car...for the sole purpose of pulling this ''mere seconds later'' as the car [[Unflinching Walk|explodes behind him.]] Honestly, Caine's version of this trope probably deserves its own page by now. There are references to/jokes about it ''everywhere''. The glasses pull has become such a signature for the character that when A&E began running reruns of the series, their promos had the announcer giving the name of the series and announcing its times...while all they showed on screen was the sunglasses sitting on a table.

** Here is a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948 You Tube] clip that collects several dozen examples.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QS0q3mGPGg Winning], during the call and response [[Auto Tune the News|Schmoyoho]] removes his shades to reveal a second pair.

 

* Jim Gaffigan has a bit about this; he describes Generals in old sci-fi films whipping off their glasses to make ominous pronouncements: "My God...* takes off glasses* ...I can't see a thing without these. That's probably why I wear them..."

 

* Hummel- er, Hudson gets a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-9Fvd0W-1o&feature=related particularly epic one] in one of the later levels of ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops]]''.

 

* ''[[Bigger Than Cheeses]]'': [http://www.biggercheese.com/index.php?comic=701 This infamous parody strip] singlehandedly catapulted the ''CSI Miami'' opening across the internet in a vengeful maelstrom of [[Image Boards|infernal]] [[Memetic Mutation|memetic virulence]]. Note the [[Crowning Moment of Funny|second pair of sunglasses]] in the third panel.

* Subsequently done by [[Memetic Mutation|Rick Astley]] in [http://xkcd.com/524/ this] ''[[Xkcd]]'' strip.

* ''[[VG Cats]]'' does this in a [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=297 Halo: Reach comic].

* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' uses this [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2037 as a way to deliver some really bad math.]

* ''[[Grrl Power]]'' hangs a [http://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/479 lampshade on it.]

 

== Web Original ==

* [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mother-of-god Now in meme form.]

* Desmond, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Splinter Cell Extinction]]'' poses as a geeky programmer. When he leads the protagonist into an ambush, he silently takes his glasses off and puts a tactical vest on instead of gloating. Works better, especially paired with [[One-Woman Wail|the music]].

 

== Western Animation ==

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== Real Life ==

* In terms of body language, someone pulling off their glasses generally means that they're either trying to artificially make you more receptive to them by removing a barrier, or they're about to lie to you, removing their glasses so that they won't be looking you (clearly) in the eye.

** To be fair, it is generally very rude to speak to someone while wearing sunglasses, especially upon first meeting them. Eye contact is important in most cultures, as it can be a judge of honesty, intent, and attention.

* Go watch the clips of [[Walter Cronkite]] reporting on the Kennedy assassination. He invokes this trope repeatedly, most famously in his "From Dallas, Texas..." announcement of the President's death. It appears that Cronkite keeps putting on his reading glasses to scan bulletins as they are handed to him, then takes them off as he faces the camera to avoid reflecting glare from the lights.

 

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[[Category:Glasses Tropes]]

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