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[[File:steamboat goat 5579.jpg|link=Steamboat Willie|frame|iSophagus--Classic Edition!]]

 

The '''iSophagus''' is any instance where, by swallowing a musical device or instrument, the swallower no longer speaks but emits music. Sometimes the person who swallows said item can magically control what is coming out of his mouth. Barring that solution the person must inflict bodily harm to himself to "change the channel". Oddly enough all that is required to make no noise is to shut their mouth. It stays in the person until it is [[Nobody Poops|expelled by hiccoughing or coughing, or else forgotten]].

 

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== Advertising ==

* There is a pair of Italian commercials, the first showing a man trying to find his new tiny cellphone when it rings, realizing the sound is coming from his small dog. He picks it up, pokes it in the tummy and holds it to his ear, and says 'Hello?'. The second one shows the same dog blurring and buzzing across a coffee table back and forth. "Now with vibration!"

* One cell phone commercial shows a man at the vet with his dog, the dog having swallowed his phone. However, the phone is still on, and he's being charged by the call (which the vet hears through the dog's stomach via a stethoscope). The man then [[Glove Snap|snaps on a glove]], saying "I'm going in!". Cut to the dog whimpering.

 

== Comic Books ==

* In a ''[[Spirou and Fantasio]]'' album (''Qrn pour Bretzelburg''), the [[Marsupilami]] once swallowed a state of the art miniaturized radio transistor (it was the Seventies), which somehow ended up stuck in its nose and started working intermittently, initially startling Fantasio in thinking [[Talking Animal|it could speak]], then depriving him for sleep when it refused to shut up, before picking up a distress radio signal and starting the plot.

 

* The first ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'' movie used dental fillings.

* [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s ''City Lights'' did this bit with a whistle.

* Played straight in ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' short ''Disorder in the Court''. When the stooges are reenacting a musical performance during a trial, Curly slaps Moe on the back, causing him to swallow a kazoo. They then find that when they press on Moe's stomach they can hear the kazoo, and soon Curly and Larry begin to make Moe play "Ach Du Lieber Augustine" by pumping his arm and squeezing his stomach, before he coughs the kazoo up.

* The satellite phone gets eaten by a Spinosaurus in ''[[Jurassic Park]] 3.'' The characters know they're in trouble when they hear the Nokia jingle.

 

== Literature ==

* ''Singenpoo'', a series of Australian children's books about a cat so named because it ate a radio.

* The protagonist of ''Fat Men From Space'' by [[Daniel Pinkwater]] has a dental filling that can act as a radio receiver.

** The problem of changing stations is handwaved by him being able to do so using different pieces of metal as an antenna. The plot of the book gets kicked off when he tries using a chain-link fence as one huge antenna and picks up a transmission from the eponymous aliens.

 

* Something similar happened on ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'', when Gilligan's fillings start picking up radio waves after he gets hit in the head with a coconut. (I swear, coconuts are like [[Lightning Can Do Anything|lightning]] on that show...)

* ''[[The Goodies]]'' did it with a foghorn in "Lighthouse Keeping Loonies".

** The Goodies also did a variation on this when they themselves ended up [[Don't Ask|in the stomach of a preserved dinosaur]] and were forced to manipulate it's vocal cords to broadcast a plea for assistance.

* The Petes' mother in ''[[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]]'' could pick up Mexican radio stations from the plate in her head.

* Done in ''[[Green Acres]]'' where a cow swallows the transistor radio right before one of the characters is listening in for his chance to win on a radio show. The station changes whenever the cow burps and [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* A ''[[Get Smart]]'' episode had a country singer (guest star Carol Burnett) swallowing a KAOS radio receiver shaped like a martini olive. Siegfried abducts her and tries listening to the broadcast in her stomach, but her nervous hiccups end up trying his patience.

* In one of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'''s At The Dance sketches, Gonzo asks a dancer if it's the monster who ate his harmonica. The monster responds with a musical note.

 

== Music ==

That plays in our teeth }}

 

* An African folktale about why Cat hates Rat explains that Rat played on Cat's precious family drum. When Cat chased and cornered Rat, Rat threw the drum at Cat, who accidentally swallowed it. While Cat was at first distressed, he found that he could recreate the drum's unique sound of "''purrum, purrum''" by stroking on his stomach. [[Just-So Story|This is why cats purr only when stroked]], so the tale goes.

 

== Theatre ==

* The 1943 Cole Porter musical ''Something for the Boys'', originally starring Ethel Merman, had the heroine picking up military radio signal with her fillings.

 

== Web Comics ==

 

== Western Animation ==

* In the [[Droopy]] cartoon "The Three Little Pups", the laconic dogcatcher wolf tries to catch the dogs by sucking them into an enormous soda straw, but instead swallows the tv they're watching. He lifts his shirt to see the live-action Western still playing through his stomach, and switches it off via a button on his pants, drawling "Doggone - I seen that one last week!"

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has a bit where Santa's Little Helper eats the remote and changes the channel by barking.

* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' has this example when Patrick's head gets stuck through a trombone, essentially giving him a long brass neck.

{{quote|'''Patrick:''' Whoever's the owner of the white sedan, you left your lights on.}}

 

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[[Category:Just for Pun]]

[[Category:Music Tropes]]

[[Category:Tropes Examined by the Mythbusters]]