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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* Baikinman from ''[[Anpanman (Franchise)|Anpanman]]'' is like this.
 
== [[Commercials]] ==
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* [[The Three Stooges]] did this whenever they hit each other in the head (which is often), especially Curly.
* There is a great scene in ''The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials'' where the titular policemen are trying to prevent a type 2 [[Alien Invasion]]. Their only clue is that they are made of metal and so their whole body sounds hollow if you strike them. Panic quickly strikes when the characters discover that their ''own heads'' also all sound empty, which ends when the chief tests his own head and, upon finding it just as empty, declares that all is well.
* In the second ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Filmfilm)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' movie, Donatello knocks on Michelangelo's head and it produces a hollow clonk.
** "Hmm not quite ripe yet..."
 
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Unusually used as an actual plot point rather than (just) a brief gag in ''[[Charlie and Thethe 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 ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'', when Bill Door complains that the hailstones hitting him on the head make his skull echo. As Bill Door is [[The Grim Reaper]], it's [[Dem Bones|only to be expected]].
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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