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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* A running gag in early ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'' was Arthur doing this every time Merlin started predicting things he didn't want to hear.
* In ''[[Freefall]]'', one of the robots uses this as a "security measure" against {{spoiler|sticky notes detailing Gardener in the Dark, an update which will effectively lobotomize every robot on the planet, and which is forced on any robot which searches the name on the network}}, because all they know about it is that it's so dangerous it caused one of them to open his power breaker to avoid its effects. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170910114251/http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1900/fc01842.htm
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* Adam West does it at least once in ''[[Family Guy]]'', in the episode where he made a giant golden Dig'Em statue and the town protests against this waste in taxpayer money.
* In ''[[The Rescuers Down Under]]'', Frank the frill-necked lizard covers his ears and sings "Waltzing Matilda" when Krebbs the koala starts describing what the poacher is going to do to them.
* On the season nine [[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]] episode "Simpson Tide," the Naval Reserve recruiter does this when Homer tries to ask him about a question on the application that got blocked out about being a homosexual, which, if asked, would get the recruiter sent to jail for discrimination.
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