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[[Stock Phrases]] used when someone comments on another one's bad breath.

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* Cited in a commercial for CreditStinks.com. "If someone told you you had bad breath, you'd brush your teeth."

 

* 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.

* 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.

 

* 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.

* 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.

{{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.

* 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.

* Draco from ''[[Dragonheart]]'', when Bowen says that his breath is foul after sitting in his mouth for several hours.

* The wyvern from the [[Syfy|SyFy]] film ''Wyvern''. One of the characters makes a comment about a horrible smell in the air after it roars for a rather long time inside the bar she and other characters are hiding in.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* 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}}.

 

* [[Community/Recap/S1/E02 Spanish 101|During a protest on]] ''[[Community]]'':

{{quote|'''Abed:''' Conflicts like this will ultimately bring us together as an unlikely family.

* 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!"}}

 

== [[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.''}}

 

* [[Christopher Titus|"And Jesus, you need a Tic-Tac."]]

* [[Jeff Dunham]]

'''Jeff:''' What?

'''Peanut:''' Dun-'''ham'''!! ''Dot com!'' }}

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[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." }}

'''Jolee:''' "No, but it could be. An [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|Anduvian salt tablet]] would clear that right up, you know." }}

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* The Flash when he and the ''[[Justice League]]'' face the fire-breathing Hades:

{{quote|'''Flash''' ''Whoo, someone get this guy a breath mint!''}}

 

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