Spit Shine

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Characters using their own spit to shine some object.

Some examples include:

  • A restaurant worker cleaning tables.
  • A mother cleans a smudge off her child's face using her spit as the cleaning solution. Or using her spit to manage the child's hair.
Examples of Spit Shine include:

Film

  • Some servants do it with the royal crown in The Madness of King George.
  • Space Jam: The Looney Tunes gang cleans their gym this way.
  • Mushu tries shining up Mulan's armor to cheer her out of her Heroic BSOD. It doesn't work.
  • On Cars, Mater offers to clean off a spot of tar on Lighting McQueen's hood, and he starts hocking before McQueen hastily declines.

Live Action TV

  • Jayne of Firefly does this with a knife, combining this with Licking the Blade. This...disconcerts the rest of the crew.
  • The Big Bang Theory: Raj uses his spit to clean off dirt from the crotch area of an Aquaman action figure bought in a garage sale.

Plays

Video Games

Real Life

  • Works on shoes.