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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''[[Badass Damsel|Rarity:]]''' Uh! What is that smell?
'''[[Pity the Kidnapper|Diamond Dog:]]''' Smeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell?
'''Rarity:''' [[Deadpan Snarker|Ah, mystery solved. It's your breath.]]
|''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E19 A Dog and Pony Show|A Dog and Pony Show]]"}}
[[Stock Phrases]] used when someone comments on another one's bad breath.
{{examples}}
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* Cited in a commercial for CreditStinks.com. "If someone told you you had bad breath, you'd brush your teeth."
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Tai in the ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' movie makes a remark about Koromon's breath after he kisses him.
* David and Veemon in ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' both say Tortomon has bad breath after he pants near them from exhaustion.
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* Parodied in ''Le Petit Spirou'', where the chronic <s>romantic</s> general failure that is the P.E. teacher freshens his breath with a deodorant spray and his armpits with Tic Tac mints.
== [[Film]]
* Subverted in ''Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas'', when Santa yawns in Louie's face, causing him to recoil. He suddenly says that his breath smells like peppermint and mocha.
* Timon tells Simba in ''[[The Lion King|The Lion King 1 ½]]'' to aim his foul morning breath in a different direction after he yawns in his face.
* When Crash and Eddie from ''[[Ice Age]] 2'' try to save an unconscious Sid from drowning, one of them grabs him by the mouth and opens it, causing one of them to say, "You really need to brush."
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* In ''[[Treasure Planet]]'', we get Jim doing this while Mr. Scroop is trying to scare him into minding his own business.
{{quote|'''Jim''': ''Too bad my nose is working just fine.''}}
* In ''Code Name: The Cleaner'', Jake tells the [[Big Bad]] that his breath "smells like ass" after he angrily demands information from him.
* Holly from ''[[Die Hard 2]]'' advises Dick Thornburg to use stronger mouthwash after he gets too close to her a few times.
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{{quote|'''Rodney''': "You know, a Tic-Tac wouldn't kill ya."}}
* In ''[[Theodore Rex]]'', Katie remarks about Theodore's bad breath several times. At one point she even squirted breath spray in his mouth.
* After one of the demons in the [[Live Action Adaptation|live-action]] ''[[Scooby
* In the ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' film ''[[The Enforcer]]'', Harry tells Lieutenant Briggs, after Briggs gives Harry a too close dressing down, "Your mouthwash ain't cutting it".
* The [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Good Burger]]'' threatens Ed while standing too close to his face. Ed calmly tells him afterwards that he needs a Tic-Tac.
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{{quote|'''Chandler Jarrell''': ''Hey, hey, hey...In my pocket, there's a whole thing of Tic-Tacs. Take as many as you want.''}}
* Draco from ''[[Dragonheart]]'', when Bowen says that his breath is foul after sitting in his mouth for several hours.
* The wyvern from the [[
== [[Music]] ==▼
* [[Victorious]]: 'Take A Hint' Song▼
== [[Literature]] ==
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** Lask Frildur (and his Monitor lizards) from ''Pearls of Lutra''. Nonverbal though since anyone who actually smelled Lask's breath simply scowled and turned their head away.
** Eefera from ''Taggerung'' after he eats wild ramsons. Vallug Bowbeast jokes that his breath is so bad that he could climb into Redwall and knock out the guards just by breathing on them.
* Tavi to Ambassador Varg in the ''[[Codex Alera]]''. Made more badass by their relative size difference, the fact that Tavi had assumed a command that he didn't have, Tavi's total lack of magical protection, and so he [[Refuge in Audacity|put a knife to Varg's throat and then insulted him]]. Retrospectively, Varg {{spoiler|knew from that encounter that Tavi was a Gaius}}.
== [[Live
* [[Community/Recap/S1
{{quote|'''Abed:''' Conflicts like this will ultimately bring us together as an unlikely family.
'''Troy:''' You have horrible breath right now. }}
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* In the ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' episode "House Divided", Cuddy is trying to sober up House's team.
{{quote|'''Cuddy''': "Wait! Everyone's getting breath mints!"}}
▲== [[Music]] ==
▲* [[Victorious]]: 'Take A Hint' Song
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[9 Chickweed Lane|Nine Chickweed Lane]]''
{{quote|'''Seth's Boyfriend''': ''I'd be more inclined to dish the dirt if you'd stop lunching on garlic pizza.''}}
* ''[[Garfield]]''
** In an old strip, Garfield claimed Odie had "bone breath". In another, he claims Odie's bark is worse than his bite, but [[Metaphorgotten| his breath is worse than his bark.]]
** Garfield himself sometimes [https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1982/11/17 wakes up with terrible morning breath], often enough to wilt flowers ''and'' melt the vase they are in. In one strip he wonders if it's the sandwich he had before bed. Then he notices the melted vase and framed picture, and notes, [[Punch Line| "Or maybe that block of goat cheese."]]
== [[Recorded and Stand
* [[Christopher Titus|"And Jesus, you need a Tic-Tac."]]
* [[Jeff Dunham]]
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'''Jeff:''' What?
'''Peanut:''' Dun-'''ham'''!! ''Dot com!'' }}
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** There's also the [[Man-Eating Plant|putrid piranhas]], who appear throughout the series. Their breath is so foul that it's used [[Breath Weapon|as an attack that can poison Mario]]. Goombella responds with "Breath Mint, table four!"
* A couple of the characters in the ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' series, most of which involve Daxter telling said person about their breath.
* In ''[[Ratchet: Deadlocked]]'', Gleeman Vox laughs airily in Ratchet's face, prompting him to wave a hand in front of his nose.
* In ''[[Sly Cooper]] 3'', Bently insults [[Dumb Muscle|Muggshot]] by saying he gargled with raw sewage overnight. Muggshot doesn't even try to deny it, stating that the smell of his breath helps him maintain his "personal space."
* Pox from ''[[Destroy All Humans!]]'' mentions that the Blisk aliens have "withering halitosis."
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* In ''[[Mother 3]]'', when Kumatora first meets Duster, she suddenly approaches his face. After a few moments she backs away and comments "his breath kinda stinks".
* Primordial Serpent Kingseeker Frampt of ''[[Dark Souls]]'' apparently has terrible breath according to the Crestfallen Warrior. And he transports you in his mouth...
* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'': Mission comments her best-buddy Zaalbar has dog breath.
{{quote|"The Vulkar was so scared, he fainted. Either that, or Big Z's breath just knocked him out. I keep telling Zaalbar to brush those choppers of his, but he never listens. Just stay upwind when he's talking and you'll be fine." }}
{{quote|'''Jolee:''' "You remind me of someone I used to know. [[The Chosen One|Great destiny]], all of that. Breath like a Bantha."
'''PC:''' "Is that a comment on my breath?"
'''Jolee:''' "No, but it could be. An [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|Anduvian salt tablet]] would clear that right up, you know." }}
* Death Breath, the first boss in the old NES game ''[[Kid Niki]]'', who uses his bad breath as a weapon.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* In the ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episode "Parental Bonding", Sam (after she transformed into the Ghost Dragon) breaths her fiery breath at Danny. Although he dodges the attack, he still catches wind of her breath.
{{quote|'''Danny''': "Whoa, Sam! Two words: breath mints."}}
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
** And this moment from [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
{{quote|'''Applejack:''' Does [Rainbow Dash] really understand what a pet really needs?
'''Twilight:''' Yeah, like care and attention, love and affection...
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'''Twilight:''' UGH! And ''breath mints''! }}
* In the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "Pigs in a Polka," [[The Big Bad Wolf]] blows on the third pig's door three times in an effort to blow his brick house down. One of the pigs offers the wolf a bottle of mouthwash, which he promptly slaps away.
* The episode "Dragon Breath" in ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' revolves around...well, guess.
* "The Incredible Shrinking Dinosaurs" episode from ''[[Extreme Dinosaurs]]'' has Bullzeye saying this to Haxx after he's released from his mouth:
{{quote|'''Bullzeye''': "UGH! What do you use for mouthwash: rotten eggs?"}}
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* The Flash when he and the ''[[Justice League]]'' face the fire-breathing Hades:
{{quote|'''Flash''' ''Whoo, someone get this guy a breath mint!''}}
* In one ''[[Animaniacs]]'' story, the Warner siblings' [[Foil]] is Godfather, a mobster (parodying [[Marlon Brando]] in [[The Godfather| his role as Don Vito Corleone]]) who has ''really'' bad garlic breath, as Dot quickly discovers.
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