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Can sometimes be employed alongside an [[In One Ear, Out the Other]] visual gag.
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* The people who "Could've Had a V-8" get a [[Dope Slap]] accompanied by a hollow sound effect. ▼
* Used in a Guinness beer commercial starring [[Rutger Hauer]] as Draught Guinness and Rutger Hauer as Canned Guinness. ▼
'''Canned Guinness:''' I see what you mean. }}▼
== [[Anime]]
* Baikinman from ''[[Anpanman]]'' is like this.
▲== [[Commercials]] ==
▲* The people who "Could've Had a V-8" get a [[Dope Slap]] accompanied by a hollow sound effect.
▲* Used in a Guinness beer commercial starring Rutger Hauer as Draught Guinness and Rutger Hauer as Canned Guinness.
▲{{quote| '''Draught Guinness:''' Just so you can tell us apart, he sounds different. <br />
▲'''Canned Guinness:''' ''(Identical voice)'' Do I? <br />
▲''Draught taps on Canned's head. There is a hollow metallic clang.'' <br />
▲'''Canned Guinness:''' I see what you mean. }}
== [[Film]] ==
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** "Hmm not quite ripe yet..."
== [[Live
* In one sketch on ''The Carol Burnett Show'', Carol was a queen and [[Tim Conway]] was an inept guard. [[Harvey Korman]], as the king, wanted to know why such an inept person would be assigned to the royal personage. Carol said that Tim got the position through meritorious action in combat — he had swallowed a grenade. She opened Tim's mouth and spoke into it. "Hello...lo...lo...lo...lo."
* One episode of ''[[El Chapulin Colorado]]'' involves El Chapulin and the [[Victim of the Week]] guessing about the [[Secret Passages]] of an old house. Cue this gag:
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'''VOTW:''' ''[after knocking the walls]'' ''Orale'', Chapulin! You really know!
'''Chapulin:''' Bah, it's all just in the head ''[Knocks own head. Hollow wood sound effect]''. }}
== [[Literature]] ==
* Unusually used as an actual plot point rather than (just) a brief gag in ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]''. In both the book and the second film, Veruca Salt is tested by squirrels to see whether she is a 'bad nut', bad nuts sounding empty when tapped. A squirrel taps her on the forehead, and when this produces a hollow sound, they dump her down the garbage chute with the other 'bad nuts'.
* Justified in ''[[
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Happens to Homer on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' Halloween episode when the zombies are searching for brains.
** And to Mr. Burns when Homer quits his job to work at the bowling alley and plays the boss's head like a bongo to celebrate. (Lampshaded by Lenny: "Hey, he's gettin' a pretty good sound outta that guy!")
* On an episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', this is how Garfield distinguishes Odie from a set of robotic clones: the ''real'' one's head sounds hollow.
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* Played with soon after [[Frankenstein Monster|Quilt]] is introduced in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]''. Only his head doesn't ''sound'' hollow...
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Open your mouth and tap on the top of your head.
** I find that opening my mouth is not necessary. Air pockets?
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