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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Even her uvula is angry.]]
3	A trope predominately occurring in animation, a character might be screaming, shocked, or making a goofy facial expression that causes their mouth to be wide open. It's entirely possible that their uvula (the dangly thing at the back of the mouth) might be making the same facial expression.
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5	Alternatively, the uvula might have a mind of its own.
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7	Often accompanied by either a {{Mouthscreen}} or EatTheCamera. Compare EyesDoNotBelongThere.
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9	!!Examples:
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14	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIiKm5dFiwA This PSA]] has a man's uvula scolding him for lying to a police officer after driving under the influence.
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18	* In the first episode of ''Anime/BattleAthletes Daiundoukai [=ReSTART!=]'', Kanata's uvula adopts her facial expression while she's running in one scene.
19	%%* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'': This happened to the titular character, both in the first opening and the first episode. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
20	* ''Manga/BocchiTheRock'': When Kita begs Bocchi to teach her the guitar, the camera briefly shows her uvula with the same anxious expression Bocchi is making.
21	%%* ''Manga/CellsAtWork'': Frequently seen on Red Blood Cell [=AE3803=] when she screams in fear/surprise, especially when she runs into an infectious bacteria. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
22	* At the beginning of the ''Anime/KillLaKill'' episode "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head", Barazo's uvula screams with him as he takes a look inside one of the COVERS.
23	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': In the OVA "Hidden Leaf Village Grand Sports Festival!"[[note]]Also known as "Konoha Annual Sports Festival"[[/note]], Naruto [[PottyEmergency has to use the bathroom so badly]] that it motivates him to win a race and he yells, "I gotta go!" as there are several EatTheCamera shots of his uvula that has a screaming face on it.
24	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon'': One episode has Ash's uvula [[https://i.imgur.com/5puGQyo.png?1 scream alongside him]].
25	* In ''Anime/SailorMoonSuperSTheMovie'', after Usagi makes cookies, she laughs after they turn out great. Her uvula laughs right alongside her.
26	%%* ''Anime/YoKaiWatch'': Happens to Whisper in one of the episodes. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
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30	* ''Film/ForbiddenZone'': After getting captured by Squeezit, the princess of the Sixth Dimension is being held hostage by the Devil and The Mystic Knights of the Ooingo Boingo. She screams as the camera zooms into her mouth, [[JumpScare showing her uvula has the face of the devil on it]].
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34	* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': The final phase of the Captain Brineybeard boss fight involves [[AnimateInanimateObject his ship]] opening its mouth, sending the captain flying. While the whole ship is sentient, it's his uvula that you've got to attack, who's seemingly his own being, as he's got a [[PerpetualFrowner perpetually angry expression]] and can either spit fire, or [[SuperScream scream out a laser beam]] for you to dodge.
35	* In ''VideoGame/WanderingHamster'', the last obstacle in Bob's escape from Jormungandling is the giant snake's own uvula, which has a toothy maw of its own.
36	* Dark Lord Hum Gree from ''VideoGame/WarioWareGold'' has a rather bulbous uvula that has a smiley face on it. [[spoiler:This is, in fact, his true face.]]
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40	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': A variant: In “The Big Candy Store”, a nun asks Mr. Flaxseed if he’d be willing to donate some candy to her orphanage. He laughs so uproariously, the camera moves into his mouth, past his uvula to show his tonsils -—with matching hairpieces!—- laughing at her. He then [[HaHaHaNo snaps "No!"]] and [[KickTheDog literally kicks her]] out of his candy store. [[https://youtu.be/qLbwl2oVv3c Here’s a clip.]]
41	* The second intro to the ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' cartoon has the eponymous character rising out of the grave, laughing maniacally as the screen zooms in on his face. For a brief moment, his uvula dons a face before panning back to his face, saying his catchphrase, "It's Showtime!!!"
42	* ''WesternAnimation/DeadEndParanormalPark'': During the "Put Me in the Driver Seat" musical number in the episode "The Phantom of the Theme Park", the camera zooms into Pugsley's uvula, showing a face on it while he's singing.
43	* In ''Series/TheDoodleBops'' AnimatedAdaptation theme song, the camera zooms in on Deedee's uvula to show that it's singing too. It happens when she sings "AND YOU KNOW IIIIIIIIIIIII"
44	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Madballs}}'': "Escape from Orb" at one point has Aargh yell at Slobulus for being a bit slow on the uptake in regards to finding a piece they need to finish the spaceship they're working on, during which Aargh's mouth opens to reveal that he has a mouth on his uvula.
45	* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Cabin Fever", at the end of Ed Bighead's [[MushroomSamba hallucination]], [[EatTheCamera zooms down his throat]]. At that point, his uvula dons Heffer's face and asks him if he's okay.
46	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': in "Family Reunion", Angelica lies to Tommy, stating that people in a family reunion will want to take you home with them away from your real family. From then on, he's haunted by Angelica's words which come in the form of her head in place of the adult's uvula repeating those same words. Even Angelica herself interprets her own lie this way [[LaserGuidedKarma when she ends up in the same boat]].
47	-->'''Angelica:''' And you'll never see your mom or your dad or your dumb-old dog ever again!!! (laughs maniacally)
48	* ''WesternAnimation/ScaryGodmother'': At the film's climax, when Katie takes Mr. Pettibone's hand and he falls to pieces, all four of the older kids scream (as the 3 older boys [[JumpScare scream at the]] camera with bugged-out eyes), [[JumpScare but it zooms in on Katie's uvula to show ''it'' screaming, too]].
49	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow episode "Ghost Ain't Real", the trio of ghost scare Cuphead and Mugman which causes the latter to scream their heads off only for the [[EatTheCamera camera to zoom-in]] showing screaming faces on their uvulas.
50	* ''WesternAnimation/ZigAndSharko'' In the episode "Song of the Siren" Marina angrily sings back at a siren to disrupt her voice from seducing Sharko. The camera cuts to a closeup of her shaking uvula that grows a mouth and screams into a mini megaphone held by Marina's tongue to help combat the siren.
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