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[[caption-width-right:328:The original portable music device.]]

* In Film/TheLittleRascals short ''Film/BoredOfEducation'', Alfalfa's already HollywoodToneDeaf singing is made even worse when he swallows a stopper valve. When he sings his song every line is punctuated by a high whistle.
* And comic El Brendel does this with a small harmonica in 1931's ''Film/MrLemonOfOrange''.

* A variant of this occurred in the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie, where Bumblebee's damaged vocal processors force him to communicate with radio clips.

** In "WesternAnimation/MouseTrouble" he accidentally swallowed a robotic female mouse programmed only to say "Come up and see me sometime." It becomes a RunningGag throughout the rest of the short that every time Tom hiccups you hear the same female voice saying "Come up and see me sometime."

* WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'': In "The Laugh Box", Oggy has been watching old sitcoms. Joey records some of the laughter, then tags behind the cat, hitting play when Oggy does the slightest move. Joey then makes Oggy swallow the tape recorder, and makes it look like Oggy is laughing by a remote connected to the tape. The whole neighborhood now thinks Oggy is rude, because he laughs when he's not supposed to.

* ComicBook/{{Lobo}} once swallows a harmonica during a fistfight without noticing. His subsequent wheezing and the dark spot that shows up on the X-ray chart ends up being mistaken for lung cancer and promptly PlayedForLaughs as a desperate Lobo tries to quit smoking.

* [[ComicBook/{{Batwoman}} Kate Kane]] has a variant of the dental filling version. Before becoming Batwoman, she suffered a serious head wound during her aimless years that was stitched closed with gold thread. It gives her the ability to detect electromagnetic fields from a short distance, though she can only sense them, not decipher them at all.
* There is a ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' short where White tricks Black into swallowing a miniature speaker, then shouts profanities through the speaker when Black is in the presence of his boss. The boss thinks Black is cussing him out and has him executed.

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* Happened in ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' when Goofy tries to make the baby smile in a photo room with a rubber duck squeaker. He accidentally swallowed the squeaker making only squeaking noises out of his mouth and made the baby smile.
* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' does a variation of this trope. Stitch doesn't swallow Lilo's record player. But if you put his claw on the record, it works as a needle, and if you open his mouth, he becomes a phonograph.

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** And comic El Brendel does this with a small harmonica in 1931's ''Mr Lemon of Orange''.
* A variant of this occurred in the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie, where Bumblebee's damaged vocal processors force him to communicate with radio clips.
* Brutally done in ''Film/CabinFever'' where at a party a guy playing a harmonica gets it shoved down his throat after getting smashed in the face with a guitar. Cue to falling to the ground gasping for air complete with harmonica sounds.
* Played straight in ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' short ''Disorder in the Court'', where Moe accidentally swallows a harmonica and Larry and Curly respond by making him play "Ach Du Lieber Augustine" by pumping his arm and squeezing his stomach.

* The 1912 SilentMovie ''Arthème avale sa clarinette'' ''([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Artheme Swallows His Clarinet]])''.

* ''Singenpoo'', a series of Australian children's books about a cat so named because it ate a radio.
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/SoulMusic'', mention is made of a kid with a penny-whistle whom the Musician's Guild "dealt with" for playing unlicensed music, who now plays a chord whenever he hiccups.

* There's a Paul Jennings short story that combines this with a little bit of BodyHorror when a boy gets a haunted harmonica stuck in his mouth.

* Occurred in the classic ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' short ''"Disorder In The Court"'' where after doing a demonstration of the previous night's musical entertainment, Moe accidentally swallows the harmonica he was playing. Upon hearing how he now "speaks" music, Larry and Curly proceed to use his belly like a bellow, and crank his arm to play different notes.

* ''Series/TheGoesWrongShow'': In "There Is No Escape", Sandra Wilkinson swallows a harmonica after being bumped by Annie Twilloil. She is forced to continue to speak her lines, accompanied by the instrument for the remainder of the play. The harmonica plays over the end credits also.
--> "You said it, Mick!"

* The 1943 Music/ColePorter musical ''Something for the Boys'', originally starring Ethel Merman, had the heroine picking up military radio signal with her fillings.

* Late in the Creator/VanBeurenStudios "Rainbow Parade" short "Bird Scouts", the cat that's attacking the birds ends up getting one of their bugles stuck in its throat, which unintentionally rallies the young scouts against it.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' have several occasions of this happening.
** One occasion has Tom changing the station on the radio he swallowed every time he hiccoughs.
** In "WesternAnimation/MouseTrouble" he accidentally swallowed a robotic female mouse programmed only to say "Come up and see me sometime." It becomes a RunningGag throughout the rest of the short that every time Tom hiccups you hear the same female voice saying "Come up and see me sometime."
* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' episode "Dark Harvest", Zim replaces one of Dib's organs with a mooing can, with expected results.

* In the WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}} cartoon "The Three Little Pups", the laconic dogcatcher wolf tries to catch the dogs by sucking them into an enormous soda straw, but instead swallows the tv they're watching. He lifts his shirt to see the live-action Western still playing through his stomach, and switches it off via a button on his pants, drawling "Doggone - I seen that one last week!"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** One episode has a bit where Santa's Little Helper eats the remote and changes the channel by barking.
** Also, Mr. Burns swallowed a cell phone, apparently mistaking it for a lemon drop. It's set to vibrate.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** Inverted in "Band Geeks": Patrick's head gets stuck through a trombone, essentially giving him a long brass neck and causing him to make trombone sounds with every step he takes.
--->'''Patrick:''' Whoever's the owner of the white sedan, you left your lights on.
** In "Squidtastic Voyage", Squidward accidentally swallows his clarinet and starts making clarinet noises.
** In "Squeaky Boots", Mr. Krabs eats Spongebob's boots because he couldn't stand the constant squeaking. This backfires at the end of the episode when he gets the hiccups and makes the same squeaky noises.
* A variation happens on ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'': Astro swallows Elroy's anti-gravity toy and everybody believes Astro can fly. In the same episode, after they get him to cough up the toy, Astro swallows Elroy's handheld speaking computer, leading Mr. Spacely to believe the dog is a genius.
* In the third Mickey Mouse cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'', a goat eats Minnie's guitar and sheet music. Turning its tail like a crank caused it to play "Turkey in the Straw" (pictured above).

* One [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Disney cartoon short]] had WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck come into possession of an ostrich. The ostrich swallows a radio and begins playing music.

* On an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Peter is talking on his cellphone while driving when his car hits a pothole. The impact knocks the phone out of his hand and he accidentally swallows it while fumbling to recover it. It stays in him for the rest of the episode and he operates it by punching himself in the gut. In one scene, he gets put on hold and Lois tells him to open his mouth so she could hear the song that was playing.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': In one episode, Joan of Arc's retainer picks up a Christian radio station, leading her to believe that she is finally hearing God [[LamarckWasRight like the original Joan of Arc]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has an odd variation; Finn accidentally swallowed a computer, so when he tries to sing, he (almost) always sounds auto-tuned.
* In the short [[Creator/DepatieFrelengEnterprises "Transistorized Shark"]], Misterjaw accidentally swallows a portable radio belonging to one of his victims and really freaks out Freddie the Shark Hunter when it broadcasts at terribly inopportune moments.
* Happened to Sylvester in ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'' when he swallowed a portable radio, and a broadcast of a police drama scared crooks Rocky and Mugsy, who had kidnapped him, into thinking their getaway shack were surrounded by cops.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode "Squeakerboxxxxxxx", Bloo wins his friends another squeaky elephant, but accidentally swallows it. All of his friends then take turns squeezing Bloo, which makes him make the squeaking sounds.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' episode "On the Air and Out to Sea" Trina's braces picks up radio frequencies from her little brother's radio station.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' episode "Johnny Goes Viral", the titular character has a chip implanted in his brain that allows him to access the internet at all times. Guess what happens when he tries to download some mp3s.
* In the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon ''Rival Romeos'', like his successor, Mickey Mouse, a goat eats Oswald's guitar and music sheets, so Oswald turns the goat into a phonograph.
* The trope was parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' where Quack Quack the duck, [[TheUnintelligible who can only say the word "quack"]], accidentally swallows a spoon and gets the ability to sing actual words in a marvelous voice with no explanation of how that works.
* ''WesternAnimation/ItsGotMeAgain'': The cat eats the cuckoo from the cuckoo clock. This backfires when he hiccups cuckoo noises, alerting the mice to his presence.

* ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'': One episode's Main Event takes place between Music/CourtneyLove and Music/DaveGrohl (and, technically, [[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Billy Corgan]]) inside the Dome of Devastation. The dome is lined with various musical instruments and, during the fight, Love manages to force an entire electric keyboard down Grohl's throat. Grohl's voice briefly turns into a distorted mess of garbled keyboard noises while Love remarks that this is why "Kurt never let you open your mouth."
* Episode 5 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Baymax}}'' features the titular robot attempting to help a stray cat that swallowed a wireless earbud while stealing its owner's sushi. It keeps trying to escape, but Baymax keeps tracking it when the bud activates, often with a song or commercial all too fitting for its situation or emotional state.

* ''Series/GreenAcres'': A cow swallows the transistor radio right before one of the characters is listening in for his chance to win on a radio show. The station changes whenever the cow burps and HilarityEnsues.

* Happened in ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' when Goofy tries to make the baby smile in a photo room with a rubber duck squeaker. He accidentally swallowed the squeaker making only squeaking noises out of his mouth and made the baby smile.

The iSophagus is any instance where, by swallowing a musical device or instrument, the swallower no longer speaks but emits music. Sometimes the person who swallows said item can magically control what is coming out of his/her mouth. Barring that solution, the person must inflict bodily harm to him/herself to "change the channel." Oddly enough, all that is required to make no noise is to shut his/her mouth. It stays in the person until it is expelled by either a cough, hiccup, belch, sneeze, or pretty much anything [[NobodyPoops except going out the back door]]. Otherwise it's simply forgotten about.

Additionally, a character may receive radio transmissions on his or her dental fillings, often citing that the vibrations from the sound wave vibrate the skull and ear drum. However, this is based on the misconception that radio waves, a form of light, work in any way whatsoever like sound waves. They don't. It also only picks up one frequency, effectively giving the afflicted the ability to listen to one perfectly tuned radio station. Again, this is often brought on by some grievous injury to start or stop it, and to change the frequency.

* Peter Griffin of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' once swallowed his phone and dialed by punching himself in the gut. He was put on hold and Lois told him to open his mouth so she could hear the song that was playing.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' was actually about Bluey accidentally swallowing his phone, and instead of pressing his abdomen to make it work, he actually ''uses his stomach muscles to move the rotary dial.''

* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'': In "The Escape", Laszlo Cravensworth swallows a harmonica after failing to lure The Sire with its sweet tunes. Every time he speaks for the rest of the episode, the harmonica also plays.

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* Episode 5 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Baymax}}'' features the titular robot attempting to help a stray cat that swallowed an earbud while stealing its owner's sushi. It keeps trying to escape, but Baymax keeps tracking it when the bud activates, often with a song or commercial all too fitting for its situation or emotional state.

* Episode 5 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Baymax}}'' features the titular robot attempting to help a stray cat that swallowed an earbud while stealing its owner's sushi.

* One cell phone commercial shows a man at the vet with his dog, the dog having swallowed his phone. However, the phone is still on, and he's being charged by the call (which the vet hears through the dog's stomach via a stethoscope). The man then [[GloveSnap snaps on a glove]], saying "I'm going in!". Cut to the dog whimpering.

* Peter Griffin of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' once swallowed his phone and dialed by punching himself in the gut. He was once put on hold and Lois told him to open his mouth so she could hear the song that was playing.

[[caption-width-right:328:The original portable music device]]

* SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}} once swallows a harmonica during a fistfight without noticing. His subsequent wheezing and the dark spot that shows up on the X-ray chart ends up being mistaken for lung cancer and promptly PlayedForLaughs as a desperate Lobo tries to quit smoking.

** In "Band Geeks", Patrick's head gets stuck through a trombone, essentially giving him a long brass neck and causing him to make trombone sounds with every step he takes.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has a bit where Santa's Little Helper eats the remote and changes the channel by barking.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has this example when Patrick's head gets stuck through a trombone, essentially giving him a long brass neck and causing him to make trombone sounds with every step he takes.
-->'''Patrick:''' Whoever's the owner of the white sedan, you left your lights on.
** It's later played straight with Squidward when he accidentally swallows his clarinet reed.
*** And earlier when he accidentally swallows his entire ''clarinet''.
** Mr. Krabs eats Spongebob's squeaky boots because he couldn't stand the constant squeaking. This later backfires because he starts to make the same squeaks whenever he hiccuped.
* A variation happens on ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'': Astro swallows Elroy's anti-gravity toy and everybody believes Astro can fly.
** In the same episode, after they get him to cough up the toy, Astro swallows Elroy's handheld speaking computer, leading Mr. Spacely to believe the dog is a genius.

* In the short [[Creator/DepatieFrelengEnterprises "Transistorized Shark"]], Misterjaw accidentally swallows a portable radio belonging to one of his victim and really freaks out Freddie the Shark Hunter when it broadcasts at terribly inopportune moments.

* In Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, ''Rival Romeos'', like his successor, Mickey Mouse, a goat eats Oswald's guitar and music sheets, so Oswald turns the goat into a phonograph.

The iSophagus is any instance where, by swallowing a musical device or instrument, the swallower no longer speaks but emits music. Sometimes the person who swallows said item can magically control what is coming out of his/her mouth. Barring that solution the person must inflict bodily harm to him/herself to "change the channel." Oddly enough, all that is required to make no noise is to shut his/her mouth. It stays in the person until it is expelled by either a cough, hiccup, belch, sneeze, or pretty much anything [[NobodyPoops except going out the back door]]. Otherwise it's simply forgotten about.