Spit Shine: Difference between revisions

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.
Content added Content deleted
m (categories and general cleanup)
m (update links)
 
(One intermediate revision by the same user not shown)
Line 7: Line 7:
{{examples}}
{{examples}}
== [[Film]] ==
== [[Film]] ==
* Some servants do it with the ''royal crown'' in ''[[The Madness of King George (Film)|The Madness of King George]]''.
* Some servants do it with the ''royal crown'' in ''[[The Madness of King George]]''.
* ''[[Space Jam (Film)|Space Jam]]'': The [[Looney Tunes]] gang cleans their gym this way.
* ''[[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.
* 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.
* On ''[[Cars]]'', Mater offers to clean off a spot of tar on Lighting McQueen's hood, and he starts hocking before McQueen hastily declines.
Line 14: Line 14:
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Jayne of ''[[Firefly]]'' does this with a knife, combining this with [[Licking the Blade]]. This...disconcerts the rest of the crew.
* 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 (Comic Book)|Aquaman]] action figure bought in a garage sale.
* ''[[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 ==
== Plays ==
Line 20: Line 20:


== [[Video Games]] ==
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The bartender in ''[[Monkey Island 2]]'' used his spit to clean the glasses.
* The bartender in ''[[Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]'' used his spit to clean the glasses.


== [[Real Life]] ==
== [[Real Life]] ==

Latest revision as of 00:33, 2 May 2014

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.