History Main / GloveSnap

(''cut to students looking anxious'')\\
'''Master Tang:''' Prepare... the long rubber glove. (''sound of latex snapping'') Eeny... meeny... miney... ''moe...'' I wonder where... ''my glove will go...''

'''Detective:''' (''glove snap'') This will just take a moment.\\
(''"This" turns out to be a [[AssShove cavity search]]...'')\\

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': Judge Doom does this before putting a Toon shoe in "the Dip."

* ''Webcomic/TheHandbookOfHeroes'': In "[[https://www.handbookofheroes.com/archives/comic/guild-charter Guild Charter]]", the adventurer guild happens to have a mandatory annual ''[[CharacterAlignment alignment]] detection'' rule. While the guild attendant is seen putting on a magic white glove, Fighter and Thief (who are not exactly good-aligned) are seen fleeing in the background.

* A rare non-clinical example happens in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh2sZ9K_VaM this French AIDS-awareness commercial.]]

* Happens a couple times in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''

* Happens several times in ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarePants''
** In the episode "House Worming," after Prickles the worm and his residents start living in Spongebob's head and it gets him fired from his work, he meets Plankton who agrees to get rid of the worms in exchange of a deed (getting the Krabby Patty secret formula, of course). Spongebob agrees and Plankton pulls on a large glove that snaps to [[OneSizeFitsAll somehow fit his little stubby arms]] (that have [[FingerlessHands no visible digits or fingers, mind you]]) before making a [[{{Pun}} lousy joke]] and entering inside Spongebob's head... only to get the living daylights battered and beaten out of him by the worms and is left crippled and gives up on the extermination, telling Spongebob that he's on his own to get rid of the worms.

* A rare non-clinical example happens in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh2sZ9K_VaM this French AIDS-awareness commercial]].
* Masculinity is so fragile it should be only touched while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHOjDZP2SWY wearing velvet gloves]].

* ''Film/{{Fletch}}''. A proctologist does this before giving Fletch an examination, as shown [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBsIcRZBh3A here]].

* ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' has used it for comedic affect, even more so in that it was the [[HollywoodNerd Geek]] that did the snapping.

* Cyborg does this once in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', on Beast Boy's suggestion that they "check" Robin to see if he's a robotic duplicate. He also [[AssShove sticks up one finger]]. Naturally, Robin's terrified and screams out that he's real.

* An interesting variant in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz9VmqYpiKc this]] ''[[WebVideo/FiveSecondFilms 5 Second Film]]'' in which the GloveSnap ''is'' the AssShove.

* The MadDoctor in ''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder'' does this. "All right, girls, let's [[{{Pun}} snap to it]]!" *snap* Oh! That smarts..."

When the MadDoctor is ready to "operate," this almost always includes shoving his hands into big latex gloves with a thrusting motion while tugging on the back of the glove with the other hand; then there's a loud snap at the end when the back of the glove is released. Usually done with the forearm facing upward, though downward-facing variations exist too. Pretty much a MadDoctor and [[TheMedic Medic]] staple, and also pretty common in cartoons. Usually meant to inspire fear or to startle; usually part of the CreepyPhysical.

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]

* The town doctor does this at one point in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'': In the first roll-call scene, Mrs Tweedy does this to intimidate the chickens.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* The infamous glove-snapping scene in ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''.

* ''Film/UndercoverBrother''. One of Mr. Feather's minions does this repeatedly, greatly to Mr. Feather's annoyance.
* ''Film/{{Fletch}}''. A proctologist does this before giving Fletch an examination, as shown [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBsIcRZBh3A here]].
* Jim Carrey's Count Olaf does this in his herpetologist disguise in ''Lemony Snicket's Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''

* Missing in ''Film/TheHandThatRocksTheCradle'' when the [[Creator/JohnDeLancie gynecologist]], right before performing a vaginal exam, holds his hand up high enough for the patient, already in the stirrups, to see him put on his glove. As he brings his hand down and out of view, he slips the glove off and pockets it, so he can do the exam with his bare hand. He was a bad man.
* ''Film/{{Polar}}''. Mr. Blut is torturing the protagonist every day for four days, and does this with latex gloves in the opening montage that begins every torture session. As we see him applying skin cream to his hands on several occasions, it would make sense that he would look after his hands.

* In ''Series/TheXFiles'', Mulder accuses Scully of enjoying doing this.

[[folder:Web Comics]]

* In ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', during the ''Professor Madblood and the Lovelace Affair'' storyline, Helen has quite a mad-sciencey one.

** In the episode "House Worming," after Prickles the worm and his residents start living in Spongebob's head and it gets him fired from his work, he meets Plankton who agrees to get rid of the worms in exchange of a deed (getting the Krabby Patty secret formula, of course). Spongebob agrees and Plankton pulls on a large glove that snaps to [[OneSizeFitsAll somehow fit his little stubby arms]] (that have [[FingerlessHands no visible digits or fingers, mind you]]) before making a lousy joke and entering inside Spongebob's head... only to get the living daylights battered and beaten out of him by the worms and is left crippled and gives up on the extermination, telling Spongebob that he's on his own to get rid of the worms.

** In the episode "House Worming," after Prickles the worm and his residents start living in Spongebob's head and it gets him fired from his work, he meets Plankton who agrees to get rid of the worms in exchange of a deed (getting the Krabby Patty secret formula, of course). Spongebob agrees and Plankton pulls on a large glove that snaps to [[OneSizeFitsAll somehow fit his little stubby arms]] ([[FingerlessHands that have no visible digits or fingers, mind you]]) before making a lousy joke and entering inside Spongebob's head... only to get the living daylights battered and beaten out of him by the worms and is left crippled and gives up on the extermination, telling Spongebob that he's on his own to get rid of the worms.

When the MadDoctor is ready to "operate", this almost always includes shoving his hands into big latex gloves with a thrusting motion while tugging on the back of the glove with the other hand; then there's a loud snap at the end when the back of the glove is released. Usually done with the forearm facing upward, though downward-facing variations exist too. Pretty much a MadDoctor and [[TheMedic Medic]] staple, and also pretty common in cartoons. Usually meant to inspire fear or to startle; usually part of the CreepyPhysical.

* Latex glove snap done by a fearsomely large nurse in ''Film/{{Armageddon}}''.

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': Judge Doom does this before putting a toon shoe in "the Dip."

* ''Film/{{Polar}}''. Mr Blut is torturing the protagonist every day for four days, and does this with latex gloves in the opening montage that begins every torture session. As we see him applying skin cream to his hands on several occasions, it would make sense that he would look after his hands.

* [[WebVideo/LazyGameReviews Clint Basinger]] happily does this in his review of ''VideoGame/LifeAndDeath'', cosplaying as a surgeon himself thanks to the mask and latex gloves that come in the game box.

When the MadDoctor is ready to "operate", this almost always includes shoving his hands into big latex gloves with a (usually upward) thrusting motion while tugging on the back of the glove with the other hand; then there's a loud snap at the end when the back of the glove is released. Pretty much a MadDoctor and [[TheMedic Medic]] staple, and also pretty common in cartoons. Usually meant to inspire [[AssShove fear]] or to startle; usually part of the CreepyPhysical.

** He also does it in the ''[[SupplementalMaterial/TeamFortress2 Meet the Medic]]'' video, before he and the Heavy return to the battlefield. Notably, what he had been doing previously -- open thoracic cavity surgery to implant an UberCharge module -- he did without benefit of gloves.

* In the ''WebVideo/SuperPowerBeatDown'' match "The Joker & Harley Quinn vs Deadpool & Domino", when Joker is about to finish off Deadpool with acid, he puts on rubber gloves and makes them snap.

-->"Anuhza successful procedure!"\\

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'' short "The Science of Magic" it is Downplayed, but Sunset does indeed snap a latex glove on her hand while explaining the experiments she has planned. While the gesture isn't too threatening, Applejack doesn't look overly confident.

[[folder:Web Original]]

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' Lincoln and his father had to go through the airport in their underwear after losing a bet. Three TSA agents then run up to them saying they broke about ten rules, then do this while saying they need to [[BlatantLies "talk"]] to them.

* Missing in ''Film/TheHandThatRocksTheCradle'' when the [[JohnDeLancie gynecologist]], right before performing a vaginal exam, holds his hand up high enough for the patient, already in the stirrups, to see him put on his glove. As he brings his hand down and out of view, he slips the glove off and pockets it, so he can do the exam with his bare hand. He was a bad man.

* Cyborg does this once in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', on Beast Boy's suggestion that they "check" Robin to see if he's a robotic duplicate. Naturally, Robin's terrified and screams out that he's real.