Circling Birdies: Difference between revisions

* [[Pokémon Special]] had this trope sometimes. For example, in ''Yellow,'' Gengar gets these when it gets hit by Dizzy Punch. Meanwhile, in ''Diamond and Pearl,'' Roark's Craindos gets circling Torchic after becoming confused by a Water Pulse attack.

 

* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''

** Roger sees Circling Birdies after getting hit by a refrigerator while making a cartoon, but the director gets mad at him for not following the script: "It says 'Rabbit gets clonked, rabbit sees stars'. Not ''birds'', '''''stars!'''''" Roger proceeds to repeatedly bash himself in the head, resulting in a whole series of revolving visions of everything ''but'' stars.

* Near the end of the [[The Bible|"Noah's Ark"]] segment of ''[[Fantasia|Fantasia 2000]]'', [[Donald Duck]] is thrown against a wall after getting his foot stuck inside a rope holding up the door, and when he finally crashes down onto the floor, several animals on the ark can be seen circling his head (including [[Furry Confusion|a pair of non-anthro ducks).]]

* In the ''[[Tintin (film)|The Adventures of Tintin]]'', when the pickpocket is confronted outside his home by the police he tries to run away but we hear a crash off screen. Camera moves over to show him on the ground with little birds circling his head. The birds are in fact real and he had run into a woman who had just bought the birds at the pet store. The store owner can be seen catching the birds in a net.

* Fred Flintstone (John Goodman) sees circling pterodactyls after he's punched in the live-action film version of the ''[[The Flintstones]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roEjpll8_gA as seen here].

* Happens to George too many times to count in the two ''[[George of the Jungle]]'' films. One of the henchmen in the first film also hears birds after a punch, and Shep the elephant also sees circling stars and after unsuccessfully trying to use his head as a battering ram in the sequel.

* In ''The Scene,'' Jimmy Fallon hears tweeting birds after running head-first into a bus.

* In ''Gremlins'', [[Big Bad]] Stripe hears tweeting birds after getting knocked out moments before he sees the fountain.

 

== Literature ==

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* MTV's ''Room Raiders'' used bird sounds in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PJJF3BDn-A one episode] after a contestant banged his head on the top of a canopy bed.

* During a stop-motion segment on a holiday episode of [[That '70s Show]], Kelso is struck by lightning, falls to the ground and hears tweeting birds, as seen in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKPOB0M7mGI&list=UUffBt8Lsi5lpJJ_S7083obA&index=4&feature=plcp this clip].

 

== Music Videos ==

* Aaron Carter's music video for "That's How I Beat Shaq" uses bird sound effects near the end after Aaron's mother asks him whether he had hit his head.

 

* The stage musical version of ''[[The Lion King]]'' invokes this trope. At the end of ''I Just Can't Wait to be King'', the actor playing Zazu notices his bird puppet is gone. He asks, "Where is my bird?" before running smack into the wall at the side of the stage. Bird sound effects play as he staggers in a daze momentarily.

* Used in "Hot Shoe Shuffle," a West End musical about five Australian tap-dancing brothers. When the youngest brother, Slide, is [[The Door Slams You|hit in the head by a door]], he does a vaudeville-style dazed stagger while bird sound effects play. Adam Garcia originated the role, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6c1PjYVUqo&feature=related as seen here.]

* ''[[The Annoying Orange]]'': Seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyXX1ltl94E here]. Orange gets hit on the head by Cantaloupe, and has stars flying around his head. Then two cartoon-like birdies turn up complaining that the stars are stealing their jobs. Later, Midget Apple gets hit on the head as well, and the stars turn up again. But this time, the birds get ''really'' angry and start beating up the stars.

* Happens to Strong Bad at the end of the ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' animation "Marshmallow's Last Stand" as a result of him being tripped by Homestar for ripping up the star on his shirt after a fight. Homestar then takes one of the stars circling Strong Bad's head and places it on his own shirt.

 

== Web Comics ==

 

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