History Main / TheyHaveTheScent

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': "The Night of the Stag" opens with a PursuedProtagonist being chased through an orchard at night by armed men with hounds.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} episode, "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E9HellIsOtherRobots Hell Is Other Robots]]", when Bender is dragged to Robot Hell, Nibbler is able to track him down when he picks up his sent (vodka and motor oil).

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'': {{Defied}}.

** Sniffy seemed like a good police dog until Wiggum told him to get Homer's scent via his underwear in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E25NaturalBornKissers Natural Born Kissers]]". Poor Sniffy.

* ''Series/TheTenthKingdom.'' Tony has asked Prince to sniff for clues. Prince instantly responds that (since they're in a farming village) it's mostly excrement at ground level, and there are hundreds of minor scents. Tony then flatters Prince by saying that a master hunter like himself should be able to find the scent they want instinctively. Prince says, "Correct," and off they go.

* In the WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} ''The Chain Gang'', MickeyMouse is pursued by a pair of bloodhounds after he escapes from prison. The bloodhounds are generally regarded as being the forerunners of WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup.

* In Creator/DanAbnett's ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novel ''Traitor General'', Landerson recognizes the sound and tells Gaunt that the dogs the Chaos forces are using have their scent.

Because They Have the Scent. And someone will say so. In these words, or others. It's sometimes "They've picked up the scent." or "They've picked up the trail." The second may also be used when the ScarilyCompetentTracker is clearly following.

* Played with in the ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode "Metalhead". The protagonist uses a stream to temporarily dodge the KillerRobot [[RobotDog Dog]] that's hunting her, but by placing a TrackingDevice inside a bottle and floating it downstream. However it quickly regains her trail using its electronic sensors.

* The eponymous hero in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSerie''s. With his (bat?)scanner, he can extract separate essences (like tobacco stains or alcohol vapors) and then pinpoint them in the surroundings to track the smoker/drinker. For example in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' Bats has to find Frank Boles, an Arkham security guard, by the alcohol on his breath [[spoiler: which Joker knew about and used Boles' corpse as bait.]]

If the dogs are hunting people, they are loud enough to be heard by the pursued, who may be the ones who say this. It indicates that TheChase is about to begin in earnest, and that evasion will not be feasible or require throwing the dogs off. Generally a grim point. And the pursuee will almost always go to water or roll in something disgusting to throw the animals off the scent. (This ''always'' works on television. [[RealityIsUnrealistic Contrary to what most people expect]], [[JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs it does not work in real life]].)

* A couple ''{{Series/CSI}}'' episodes use scent dogs. They lose the scent in one case. Another involved Nick’s dog Sam, who he adopted after it was proven Sam didn’t kill his police partner. Sam finds what they’re after that time.

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