Circling Birdies: Difference between revisions

** Happens to Nick in another episode, in which Nick gets knocked silly while trying to slide into home in a baseball game, leaving him on his back and hearing tweeting bird sound effects.

* Invoked in ''[[Scrubs]]''. After running face-first into a door, J.D. remarks that he hit his head so hard he thought saw cartoon birds but then realized that he was just seeing the wallpaper in the pediatric ward.

* On a segment on Popular Mechanics for Kids, animated stars appear and bird sound effects play after host Jay Baruchel is beaned with a baseball.

* ''[[You Can't Do That on Television]]'' used a bird sound effect after a head injury on rare occasions. Alasdair, for one, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lw_x26gKag hears tweeting birds] after a hard fall from the ceiling in the ''Wildlife/Animals'' episode. In one of the later episodes, Christian [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEHNjxbJ7EE hears birds] after the coach hits him on the head with a baseball bat. Strangely, the show never used the sound during the caveman sketches, which usually centered on finding a way for the caveman dad to bash his kids in the head with a club.

* Each ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' character has a different circling comething when dizzy. Felicia has white cats, for example. Some, like Morrigan, have little versions of themselves.

* Invoked in ''[[BioShock (series)]] II''. If you club a splicer while guarding a [[Creepy Child|Little Sister]], she comments "Daddy's makin' you see stars 'n' birdies!"

* A character in ''[[Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 2]]'' whose guard has been broken will stand there, dazed and with yellow birds circling over his or her head.

* In one cutscene of ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]'', as Chip explains on how he lost his memory, when he said "And then nothing," he sees stars and tiny versions of himself circling his head (Wii version only, for they are replaced with normal stars in all other versions), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHlyqlwjVtA&feature=related as seen here.]

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