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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[¡Three Amigos (Film)!|Three Amigos]]'', the final part of the titular group's salute involves them turning their heads and coughing, simultaneous with a forward hip thrust.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* One ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' skit involved a doctor performing this test on a male patient, asking him to cough over and over again. Another doctor soon enters the picture and both continue to perform this one part of the exam over and over. Then, a third doctor enters not recognizing the other two doctors already in the room, revealing the first two doctors to be impostors who just like to sneak into examination rooms and feel people's balls.
* In one "Scenes From a Hat" segment on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'', one situation which came up was "Things You Wouldn't Want to Hear Your Doctor Say After '[[Turn Your Head and Cough]]'."
* On ''[[Scrubs]]'', when Dr. Kelso asks Dr. Cox to perform a physical on him for his new insurance policy, Dr. Cox issues the heavily sarcastic reply, "The day I willingly cradle your dusty old twig and berries and get a whiff of your chronic halitosis while you [[Turn Your Head and Cough]] is the day you can look for me up on the roof singing 'I Believe I Can Fly'."
* In the first episode of ''[[Police Squad!]]'', Sally Decker plans to rob the bank she works at. Just off-screen, Ralph Twice is opening up an account at the bank, and the overheard signing-up procedure grows increasingly surreal until the bank teller instructs Ralph, "Now, turn your head and cough."
 
== [[Music]] ==
* In [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s song "Living With A Hernia," the narrator goes to see his physician, Dr. Jones, who we are told takes off the narrator's pants and tells him to cough. [[Justified Trope|Justified]], of course, because he's seeing the doctor about his hernia.
* Lyrics in the chorus of the [[Barenaked Ladies]] song "Get In Line" are very reflective of things heard during physical exams, including the phrase "turn and cough."
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'', the Medic may say this when holding a melee weapon, looking at an enemy player, and choosing the "battle cry" speech.
* For the ''[[StarcraftStarCraft]]'' medic, this phrase is one of her "annoyed" lines.
* One of the Nurse's lines upon talking to her in ''[[Terraria (Video Game)|Terraria]]''.
 
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* Spoken by [[Dr. Mario]] in [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/517676 this] song number by [[BrentalflossBrental Floss]], which depicts the character as being a quack.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In an early ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'' strip, Arthur suggests to Guenevere during his physical that if she's going to be the ship's doctor, she should work on her beside manner. Her reply is "I'm ''very'' friendly. Cough."
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* In ''[[Shrek]]'', when Donkey learns that Shrek has been hit by an arrow, Donkey panics at the thought of Shrek dying from it and shouts irrelevant medical advice, including "keep your feet elevated," a plea for somebody to perform the Heimlich Maneuver, and (of course) "turn your head and cough."
* Invoked in ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'', "Needle Point".
{{quote| '''Skipper:''' Just a routine visit to the doctor. Turn and cough, boys. Turn and cough.}}
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'': "Okay, turn your head and cough... It's just as I had suspected; you let a stranger grab your balls."
 
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