History Main / MonkeyMoralityPose

* The Monkeys from ''Banana Sunday'' ARE the original Wise Monkeys.
* in Creator/DonRosa's ''ComicBook/EscapeFromForbiddenValley'', Huey, Dewey and Louie do this as Scrooge [=McDuck=] starts ranting about all the ways he can profit from the titular's valley's dinosaur population.
* The MAX version of the ComicBook/{{Foolkiller}} arranges his victims' bodies into 'artistic' displays. The first example seen: three disemboweled men in this pose on a park bench.
* The "War of the Green Lanterns" arc of ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' had Hal Jordan create constructs of three Guardians where one covered his ears, another his eyes and the last one his mouth when he confronts the rogue Guardian Krona and expresses his disbelief that Krona retained his emotions.
* When Sun Wukong is born in a 4-panel comic abridged version of ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', several of the strips reference these monkeys.
* Alluded to in the “[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaRockOfAges Rock of Ages]]” arc of Creator/GrantMorrison’s run on ''ComicBook/JLA1997''. In the BadFuture where Darkseid has conquered Earth, humans are herded into a “zombie factory” and emerge with masks shaped like three pairs of hands covering their eyes, ears, and mouths. To drive the point home, the words “WISE MONKEYS” can be seen over the exit.
* Played with in an issue of Jason Aaron's run on ''Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX'', where Elektra walks into a mob meeting and slices some goombahs up. One loses his ears, the other his tongue, and the third his eyes, and they put their hands to where the wounds are.
* One publicity shot for ''Comicbook/TankGirl'' shows Tank Girl, Jet Girl and Sub Girl with, respecively, headphones, shades and tape over her mouth.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'', three of the marmosets [[http://iskonno.ru/three_monkeys/i/rio_three_marmosets.jpg do this]] after Nigel tosses their leader, Mauro up and then catches him after he [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou falls for a long distance]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': Some of the movie posters evoke this especially "Speak No Evil".

* Very subtly referenced on the cover of ''Check Your Head'' by the Music/BeastieBoys -- Ad-Rock is wearing sunglasses, MCA is covering his mouth, and Mike D is wearing a woolen cap.

* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' has several pins from the Gatito brand that only work when used together. One set, with the Irregular Note psych, has the Gatito logo (a skull) performing Monkey Morality Poses: ''Swift as the Wind'' is covering its eye sockets, ''Hushed as the Wood'' is covering its jaw, ''Fierce as the Flame'' is covering its ear cavities. The "Do No Evil" pin, ''Stalwart as the Mount'', has its hands [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers covering its entire face]] rather than recreating the traditional pose.

* Alluded to in the “Rock of Ages” arc of Grant Morrison’s run on ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica''. In the BadFuture where Darkseid has conquered Earth, humans are herded into a “zombie factory” and emerge with masks shaped like three pairs of hands covering their eyes, ears, and mouths. To drive the point home, the words “WISE MONKEYS” can be seen over the exit.

* On ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', Rocko brings [[TheAllegedCar his car]] to a repair shop. The mechanics are all monkeys (a pun on "grease monkey," and three of them do this pose while laughing. Subverted in that they are laughing ''at'' Rocko for wanting to repair his old car and have it compete in a race against their muscle cars.

Not to be confused with SeeNoEvilHearNoEvil, which is about the sound of something being withheld if we can't see it. May turn up in shows with {{Silly Simian}}s.

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* In the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' movie, when Mort nervously says that Alex is "going savage", there are three lemurs behind him playing this trope.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Shrek 2}}'':

* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'':

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "Revenge of the Cybermen", the Cybermen's hostages (including the Doctor) [[http://iskonno.ru/three_monkeys/i/doctor_who_three_monkeys.jpg assume this pose]] while sitting against the wall, holding their faces in pain.

* The 1970 adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'' has the Wickersham Brothers take up the poses during their VillainSong.

It is based on the old idea of the Three Wise Monkeys, whose example good people should follow to live their lives: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil with hands over eyes, ears, and mouth, respectively. [[OneExtraMember A fourth monkey]], Do No Evil, keeps his hands in his lap -- but since that could be interpreted in [[ADateWithRosiePalms at least one]] [[SexIsEvil unfortunate way]], it may explain why the fourth monkey is not so well-known. According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_wise_monkeys the Other Wiki]], the saying [[OlderThanFeudalism dates back to Confucius]]. When translated to Japanese, it becomes "Mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru" (literally, "Don't see, don't hear, don't say"). Since ''-zaru'' sounds like ''saru'' (which means "monkey") it became known as the Three Wise Monkeys.

** A later episode has the three sisters cursed with this. One sister is struck blind, another deaf, and the third mute.
*** Leading to an amusing moment where Piper does a FacePalm (covering her eyes), Paige covers her mouth in surprise, and Phoebe (deaf and uncertain what they're doing) assumes they're striking this pose and covers her ears. And Leo figures out right away what the problem is.

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty9'' has a bonus event on the DK board where you try and stop statues of Diddy in this pose to get bananas.

* Music/{{Genesis|Band}}: The sleeve artwork for the single release of [[Music/{{Abacab}} "Keep It Dark"]] depicts a statuette of the "say no evil, see no evil, hear no evil" monkeys in that order. The music video additionally features the band members striking the pose in the same order, with Mike Rutherford covering his mouth, Music/PhilCollins covering his eyes, and Music/TonyBanks covering his ears and grimacing.

* ''VideoGame/CultOfTheLamb'': When he was imprisoned, the One Who Waits inflicted a wound on each of the Bishops creating the four monkey version: Leshy lost his eyes (See); Kallamar lost her ears (Hear); Heket's throat was torn out (Speak); and Shamura's skull was cracked (Think).

** ''VideoGame/NeoTheWorldEndsWithYou'' establishes the trope as a motif for the FatalFlaw of each protagonist in the series. Neku was a misanthrope who wore headphones to block out the world around him, while Rindo wears a facemask and stays quiet so he can avoid responsibility and making decisions. Both of them wear clothing from the Jupiter of the Monkey brand. Unintentionally, Neku’s design might follow Rindo’s as well because his first outfit has a big turtle neck that obscured his mouth often and [[spoiler:in this game, his new outfit doesn’t obscure his mouth whatsoever]]. Like Rindo, Neku also didn’t want to speak or be spoken to. Rindo intentionally or unintentionally fulfills the last 1/3 of the pose because of his preoccupation with his phone. Unlike the other characters, Rindo holds his phone all the way up to his face to the point his eyes are nearly obscured. This represents Rindo hiding himself behind social media and viewing the world behind the comfort of his phone for the same reason he covers his face. [[spoiler:The ending has Rindo put away his phone and reach out to his online friend Shoka physically to symbolize his CharacterDevelopment.]]

* Referenced in ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', where Shaka, who seems fixated on monkeys, once faced three enemies ([[spoiler:Camus, Shura and Saga]]) and left one without his senses (with the loss of taste [[TheVoiceless rendering the victim mute]], due to paralizing the tongue) except his sight, one without senses but his hearing, and one without senses except taste. [[ActuallyPrettyFunny They caught the reference and laughed at it]].

* The Monkeys from "Banana Sunday" ARE the original Wise Monkeys.
* Alluded to in the “Rock of Ages” arc of Grant Morrison’s run on ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica''. In the BadFuture where Darkseid has conquered Earth, humans are herded into a “zombie factory” and emerge with masks shaped like three pairs of hands covering their eyes, ears, and mouths. To drive the point home, the words “WISE MONKEYS” can be seen over the exit.
* When Sun Wukong is born in a 4-panel comic abridged version of ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', several of the strips reference these monkeys.
* The MAX version of the ComicBook/{{Foolkiller}} arranges his victims' bodies into 'artistic' displays. The first example seen: three disemboweled men in this pose on a park bench.

* In ''Film/Ultraviolet2006'', three vampiric goons receive wounds causing them to [[http://iskonno.ru/three_monkeys/i/ultraviolet_three_monkeys_2.jpg adopt this pose]] before they collapse.

* Used as a very creepy symbolism in ''Film/ThePeopleUnderTheStairs'': the Psycho Couple that are the main antagonists of the film have a statue of such monkeys in their house. It turns out [[spoiler:they cut the parts of their adoptive children each time they do something wrong.]]
* In ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'', a tiny sculpture of this can be briefly seen [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/File:MFS_three_wise_monkeys.jpg during a transition to another scene.]]

* A poster for ''Film/AWedding1978'' depicts three winged cherubs posing in this manner.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Two examples:
** In "The Loaded Custodian", Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton and Walter Denton mime the three wise monkeys when caught looking for hidden treasure in Mr. Barlow's office.
** In "Wild Goose", again Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton and Walter Denton mime the three wise monkeys when asked by Mr. Conklin who had tricked him into thinking he had won a free television set.

* Series/KamenRiderGhost has this as the FinishingMove for [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Sanzo]] Damashii.
* Briefly referenced in a Halloween episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}''. A trio of pranksters wearing monkey masks discover the corpse ''du jour'' at the beginning of the episode. They're listed in the credits as "See," "Speak," and "Hear."
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', when Ross announces he has to give up Marcel (his pet monkey), he, Chandler and Joey take this pose for a moment.

* ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' has one game called "Animals", where the players attempt to act out a generic drama scene while behaving like predetermined animals -- [[RunningGag any game that has them acting like primates will end in this fashion.]]
* In one episode of ''Series/GilligansIsland'', one of Gilligan's monkey friends terrorized the castaways with objects made of plastic explosives. At the end of the episode, thinking he had one left, Skipper, the Professor, and Gilligan did this just before he threw it. Fortunately, it turned out to be a regular plate.
* This is the logo for the production company of ''Series/{{Sliders}}''.
* In an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', the villain of the week spray-painted these monkeys as part of his trail for the police.
* The ''Series/{{Haven}}'' two-parter "See No Evil" and "Speak No Evil" has the Barrow family. They have monkey dolls in this pose, and their Trouble causes people to get their eyes, ears, and [[MouthStitchedShut mouth sewn shut]] when they deliver bad news.

* In an [[Main/CelebrityEdition All-Star]] [[Series/FamilyFeud Family Feud]] special, the cast of Series/TheWaltons featured this pose--Jon Walmsley covered Judy [=Norton-Taylor's=] ears, Eric Scott covered Mary [=McDonough's=] mouth, and Kami Cotler covered her eyes.
* In the SickEpisode of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' "The Flu", at one point the girls are lined up on the couch mimicking this. Blanche is rubbing her eyes, Dorothy is holding her head with her hands over her ears, and Rose is blowing her nose with her hands over her mouth.

* Very subtly referenced on the cover of ''Check Your Head'' by the Music/BeastieBoys -- Ad-Rock is wearing sunglasses, MCA is covering his mouth, and Mike D is wearing a woolen cap.
* The back cover photo of the Music/MotleyCrue record ''Theatre Of Pain'' has a take on this, where the hands doing the covering are coming from behind them. It's also a rare instance with all four poses: See No Evil (Mick Mars), Hear No Evil (Tommy Lee), Say No Evil (Nikki Sixx) and Do No Evil (Vince Neil).
* Referenced verbally in the Music/{{Marillion}} song "Holidays in Eden" that uses the phrase "See no speak no hear no evil" in the choruses.
* The album cover for Music/SinShakeSin's "Lunatics and Slaves" depicts three sheep with their respective ears, eyes and mouth stuffed with money. Quite fitting, as the album's theme is a criticism against the society's tendency to simply accept everything they see/hear from the media at face value without having a thought on their own.

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* As a gag item popular among doctors who treat sexually transmitted infections, there's sometimes a statue of a fourth monkey covering his crotch with the phrase "Spread no evil."
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA8IFMyTmZg St. Clare Entertainment]] logo.
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* Three characters from ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}'' are based on (and named after) this trope. Iwazaru (who hangs from the ceiling in a gimp suit and makes the "shush" hand sign) gives you important information, Mizaru (who wears bondage gear and covers her eyes) points out obstacles Kaede can remove, and Kikazaru (who wears all white, is completely silent, clings to walls and ceilings, and disappears when you draw near) indicates the presence of Soul Shells.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Pansage, Pansear, and Panpour, as well as their evolutions all appear to be based off this trope, but each is actually based on a Japanese delinquent subculture that inverts their corresponding pose.
** Darmanitan's Zen Mode appeared to evoke all three at once, as its eyes are blank, it appears to be covering its ears (despite having no visible ones), and its mouth is closed.
* ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' does this. The three monkeys are actually found ingame, with the original names. There is a whole quest centered around them, even! A short version of the story is like this: [[spoiler:Monkeys have once lived on the desert. The clash of two gods, Amascut, goddess of destruction, and Apmeken, goddess of friendship and sociability and monkeys, caused Apmeken to lose and lose her three senses -- and so did the desert monkeys. Out of the stolen senses, three monsters were forged, and killed off the debilitated monkey population -- except for Mizaru, Iwazaru, and Kikazaru, which escaped to a monkey island (no, not that one), by helping each other and filling out for their respective lackings. Also due to Apmeken's loss, people of the desert turned hostile and started wars. In the quest, the player establishes a new monkey colony on the desert and defeats those three monsters, restoring Apmeken's senses, and is spoken to by the goddess... and also does a lot of other funnier things.]] Talking to the three monkeys is a rather comedic routine if one can't talk back and one doesn't hear you.

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty9'' has a bonus event on the DK board where you try and stop statues of Diddy in this pose to get bananas.
* A variation of this occurs with the three head shrines in the ''VideoGame/{{Gretel and Hansel}}'' as one of the puzzles needed for Gretel to progress through the game. To activate them and get the remaining stone pieces to fit into the statues near the ravine, Gretel must commit an evil act related to the three senses in front of each head including: (1) killing a fawn with an arrow, (2) chanting {{Black Speech}} from a book of spells from the stickman's kitchen, and (3) carrying a screaming mandrake after watering it near the bridge. Doing so will cause the heads to cover their eyes, mouth and ears, opening their compartments and allowing Gretel to take the pieces.

* ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice'' has an unconventional boss fight against the Folding Screen Monkeys, whom you must defeat by stealth instead of direct combat. The monkeys correspond to the proverb, but act inversely from their original roles. Instead of covering his eyes, "the seeing monkey" sees far with his glasses; instead of covering his mouth, the "speaking monkey" shouts loudly and bangs a gong; and instead of covering his ears, the "hearing monkey" listens intently with a straw collar acting as an amplifier. [[spoiler:There's also an unnamed fourth monkey that's invisible, which is a play on the "Do no evil" monkey who is almost always left out of the references.]]
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' promotional material "The Sound of Medicine", Pyro (covering [[AmbiguousGender their]] eyes), Scout (covering his mouth), Heavy (covering his ears) and Soldier (covering his [[GroinAttack crotch]]) recreate the four poses.

* Magazine ads for ''VideoGame/SkullMonkeys'' parodied this. The ad had 4 Skullmonkeys, the first three posed as "Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil". The fourth was being smashed by Klaymen dropping in from above with the caption "Smash evil with your butt."
* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' has several pins from the Gatito brand that only work when used together. One set, with the Irregular Note psych, has the Gatito logo (a skull) performing Monkey Morality Poses: ''Swift as the Wind'' is covering its eye sockets, ''Hushed as the Wood'' is covering its jaw, ''Fierce as the Flame'' is covering its ear cavities. The "Do No Evil" pin, ''Stalwart as the Mount'', has its hands [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers covering its entire face]] rather than recreating the traditional pose.
* ''VideoGame/NeoTheWorldEndsWithYou'' establishes the trope as a motif for the FatalFlaw of each protagonist in the series. Neku was a misanthrope who wore headphones to block out the world around him, while Rindo wears a facemask and stays quiet so he can avoid responsibility and making decisions. Both of them wear clothing from the Jupiter of the Monkey brand. Unintentionally, Neku’s design might follow Rindo’s as well because his first outfit has a big turtle neck that obscured his mouth often and [[spoiler:in this game, his new outfit doesn’t obscure his mouth whatsoever]]. Like Rindo, Neku also didn’t want to speak or be spoken to. Rindo intentionally or unintentionally fulfills the last 1/3 of the pose because of his preoccupation with his phone. Unlike the other characters, Rindo holds his phone all the way up to his face to the point his eyes are nearly obscured. This represents Rindo hiding himself behind social media and viewing the world behind the comfort of his phone for the same reason he covers his face. [[spoiler:The ending has Rindo put away his phone and reach out to his online friend Shoka physically to symbolize his CharacterDevelopment.]]
* The final scene in ''Jewel Match: Naturescapes'' has a statue of three frogs in the poses.

* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'': Towards the end of level 3-2: Button Bash there's a column of monkey statues doing these poses.
* The Season Pass promotion of ''VideoGame/FarCry6'' shows the primary villains of past games doing the poses: [[VideoGame/FarCry3 Vaas]] covers his ears, [[VideoGame/FarCry4 Min]] covers his eyes and [[VideoGame/FarCry5 Joseph]] has his hands together in front of his mouth.
* ''VideoGame/CultOfTheLamb'': When he was imprisoned, the One Who Waits inflicted a wound on each of the Bishops creating the four monkey version: Leshy lost his eyes (See); Kallamar lost her ears (Hear); Heket's throat was torn out (Speak); and Shamura's skull was cracked (Think).

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In the dining hall, Nora throwing food for Yang to catch with her mouth escalates until Nora accidentally hits Weiss in the face with a custard pie. Team JNPR is shown with Ren covering his eyes, Pyrrha covering her mouth and Jaune covering one of his ears. Nora, meanwhile, points at Ren, passing the buck in a parody of the fourth monkey, 'Do no Evil'.
* In ''WebAnimation/{{No Evil}}'': Ixtlilton, Xochipilli, and Xochiquetzal, who incidentally are depicted as spider monkeys, sacrificed their vision, hearing, and voice respectively to seal the Black Tezcatlipoca in [[http://betsydraws.com/No%20Evil/andtheravenbroughtfire.html And The Raven Brought Fire]]. They receive artifacts that cover their eyes, ears, and throat respectively.

* ''Webcomic/WalkingInTheDark'': [[http://www.leannegover.com/witd/?p=372 Third panel of this page.]]
* ''Webcomic/AvasDemon'' the TITAN propaganda poster in Gil's ship showing the order of cyborg implants in order to achieve "perfection".
* In one [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=94 strip]] of ''Webcomic/FlakyPastry'' Nitrine's three cousins are seen assuming this pose as they brace for an explosion. While covering eyes and ears in the face of an impending explosion is quite sensible, covering the mouth is slightly less so, and can be chalked up to the fact that goblins are rather stupid. The AltText reads "Hear no explosion... see no explosion... taste no explosion?"

* Music/{{Genesis|Band}} indulges in this in their music video for ''Keep It Dark''.

* In the play ''The Curious Savage'', three inmates at a sanitarium assume this pose on a couch for a while.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'', the titular girls are briefly [[http://iskonno.ru/three_monkeys/i/powerpuff_girls_in_monkeys_poses.jpg seen in this pose]] when hiding from their problems on an asteroid. They try to ignore the screams of the Townsfolk, which their super-hearing allows them to hear through space (somehow). Ironically, at the time, the town was being attacked by hordes of evil simians.
* In the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' movie, when Mort nervously says that Alex is "going savage", there are three lemurs behind him playing this trope.
* Spoofed at one point in ''WesternAnimation/ElArca'', where the third monkey puts his hands over his groin instead of his mouth.