Spitty Speaker

Tommy: What's gotten into you?
Gus: Nothing's gotten into me. You think something's inside me? You're crazy!
Lola: Stop spitting on my food, Gus!

— Robotboy, "Tummy Trouble"

A character sprays spit from their mouth when they talk. Sometimes they're just careless and don't realize what they're doing. Other times, they're spitefully doing it on purpose, or just don't care. Either way, it serves to establish the character as rude or uncouth.

Usually, the spit will be sprayed in the face of whoever the spit-sprayer is talking to, but on rarer occasions it could end up in food or just making a mess. This may be played for its grossout value, and/or for the entertainment value of seeing the spittee's angry reaction.

Most spit-sprayers are male, as Guys are Slobs. Many of them are also loudmouths, which goes hand-in-hand with spraying spit for two reasons: not only is it easier to end up doing it while talking loudly, but someone who doesn't care if they're talking too loudly is less likely to care about the grossness of spraying spit.

Compare Drool Deluge and Ocular Gushers.

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Examples:

Comic Books

• The Adventures of Tintin: In Explorers on the Moon, when the captured Colonel Jorgen asks Haddock to stop spluttering in his face, Haddock becomes offended and splutters even harder when he complains about this to Tintin and Calculus. When Haddock then turns towards Thompson and Thomson, the latter two pull out an umbrella to shield themselves.

Films — Animation

• Aladdin: After successfully taking over Agrabah and becoming the most powerful sorcerer in the world, Jafar casually eats an apple whilst trying to tempt Princess Jasmine — now subject to Go-Go Enslavement — into marrying him, casually spitting a lump of apple on her cheek while he says this. Needless to say, she's not interested.
• The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: At one point Victor Quartermaine corners Wallace and confronts him about their shared feelings for Lady Tottington, stressing that he is not going to let "some puddle-headed peasant poach her from me", with each p-word sending droplets of spit in Wallace's face.
• The LEGO Movie: Some of MetalBeard's spit drips on Emmet's face when he berates him for planning to infiltrate the Octan Tower after detailing how his attempt backfired and cost him his body.
• Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf: Crunch of the Hunch Bunch (a pair of hunchbacks) has a tendency to do this when he speaks, even spraying his boss Dracula when they're talking via a radio or video screen. Dracula is not pleased by this, and lampshades it at one point:
  Vanna Pira: "There there, Dracky honey, your face is getting flushed!"
  Dracula: "How can I help it? Every time he talks, he flushes everything!"
  Vanna Pira: "Oh, it's not his fault. After all, he's a monster."
  Dracula: "Sure he's a monster, but that's no excuse for being a wet schnook!"
• In Treasure Island (1988), Captain Smollet is portrayed as a loudmouth and a blowhard. He has a Verbal Tic where he overenunciates his Ps, resulting in him spraying spit whenever he yells or gives out orders.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit: When Roger, who has a tendency to sputter his Ps, asks Eddie "Is there nothing that can permeate your impervious puss?", Eddie wipes the spittle from his face.

Films — Live-Action

• Sgt. Neidermeyer of Animal House seemingly makes a point of spraying out the words "A PLEDGE PIN?!" when he sees what Flounder is wearing on his lapel.
• Cool World: A nameless patron in a bar where Lonette works has a huge overbite, a dedicated lisp, and cannot speak a sentence without saliva galore. He at first demands more service, and when told to be patient, asks for a kiss from Lonette. Her response is, "Say it, don't spray it." This boorish 'toon bugs out when Detective Harris shows up.
• Dune (1984): Baron Harkonnen hams it up so much during his expository speech to Feyd and Rabban that you can see a thick bit of spittle go flying off of him when he says "doom."
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Tim the Enchanter goes on an explosive shouty speech about the danger posed by the Killer Rabbit, whilst spitting a lot towards Arthur and his knights. In this case, the spitting serves more to emphasize his Large Ham status rather than any jerkass qualities he may have.
• Space Jam: When Michael Jordan asks for a volunteer to retrieve his North Carolina shorts and Nike sneakers from his home, Daffy Duck is aghast. "To your houthe?" he asks with his usual moist lisp. "In three-D land?" liberally applying saliva to the camera lens.
• The Three Stooges:
  • "Nutty But Nice": The Stooges cheer up a sick kid by dressing up as little girls. Curly tells a nursery rhyme while spitting on Moe's face when he said petunia.
  • "Dizzy Pilots": Attempting to get Moe down after inflating his rubber covered suit with hot air, Larry and Curly uses a rope to get him down. Curly asked Larry what comes after one when they're about pull Moe down on the count of three. Larry responded by saying two and spat in Curly's face. Curly is counting to three and spat Larry in the face when he said two.
• Hot Shots!: Admiral Benson is drinking what appears to be coffee when Block comes into his office. But then Benson offers something else instead. "Pudding?" And Block gets globs of pudding sprayed across his face.

Literature

• Big Nate: Nick Blonsky is said to be a "huge jerk and a total liar", and is noted to have a tendency to spit every time he pronounces the letter P.
• Discworld: Igors tend to spray everything in their immediate vicinity with spit whenever they have to pronounce the letter S. This isn't because they are rude, but because they purposefully speak with a lisp.
• Dear Dumb Diary features a side character who garners the nickname "Spitty Elizabeth" from the narrator, Jamie. Elizabeth, who tries out for a band Jamie's setting up (which doubles as tryouts for Jamie to find a new friend to balance the dynamic in her group) is described as spraying saliva when she speaks and Jamie worries about her soaking a concert audience were she to actually join their band.
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy: Melonhead is said to be one of the most annoying students Ordinary Boy knows, and he spits seeds every time he speaks (it's his power, though he's very proud of it anyway).
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Vernon Dursley yells at his nephew Harry Potter after receiving a phone call from Ron Weasley, covering the poor boy's face in with spit.
• James and the Giant Peach: One of James' abusive aunts, Aunt Spiker, starts spitting whenever she talks really loud.
• A Song of Ice and Fire: Vargo Hoat, a sellsword that fights through the Riverlands during the War of the Five Kings, slobbers when he speaks.

Live-Action TV

• 'Allo 'Allo! has the waitress Maria in the first three series. One of her running gags was that her french accent was so ridiculously pronounced even compared to the others in the series that she sprays spit in the face of whomever she talks to, resulting in them recoiling and wiping their faces afterwards.
• Fawlty Towers: Basil Fawlty behaves like an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist all the time, but one of his rudest moments is when he finds out that Mr. Hutchinson, the stuffy, pompous, demanding Northerner who he's spent most of the episode pandering to his whims under the impression that he's a hotel inspector, is actually a spoon salesman.
  Basil: Spoons, eh?
  Mr. Hutchinson: I beg your pardon?
  Basil: (leaning towards him and sticking his tongue out) S-(blows a raspberry twice)-oons!
  Mr. Hutchinson: (pausing to wipe the spit out of his eye) I'm sorry?
  Basil: I understand you're in the spoon trade?
  Mr. Hutchinson: Oh, I am, yes.
  Basil: Fascinating. How absorbing for you. So much more interesting than being a hotel inspector!
• Friends: Joey gets a big role in a World War I movie, only to discover that his co-star (played by Gary Oldman) spits when delivering his lines. When Joey confronts him about it, the co-star explains that he's doing it deliberately as part of an acting technique for better enunciation. Thus, Joey decides to do it himself and their next scene sees the two of them soaked with spit as they congratulate each other on the great take they just filmed.
• Short Ribbs: In the "Patita Childsize" talk show sketch, the Michael Keaton expy spits popcorn when he answers the host's questions.
• On Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Colin sometimes gets pretty spit-ty when he plays the irate Hollywood Director, which he lampshades every time.
• In That's So Raven, the school principal spits whenever he pronounces the letter "p". Unfortunately for everyone, his vocabulary mostly consists of words that contain it.

Puppet Shows

• Spitting Image features a caricature of Roy Hattersley, the then-deputy leader of Labour Party who spits with every word due to his lisp.

Video Games

• In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, the Zombie Pirate LeChuck sprays a lot of spit every time he talks. Having only recently become a zombie, he likely doesn't have very good control over his mouth.
• Przygody Reksia: Al Chomik cares more about making a profit than helping anyone and he spits terribly even when he isn't talking. His huge buck teeth cause him to lisp and hence to spit a lot.

Web Animation

• Homestar Runner: According to one Strong Bad Email, the coolness of an explosion is measured by how much spit you release when you describe it. Strong bad sprays so much while imitating the sound that Coach Z uses it to shower. When Strong Sad tries it, he only fires a single, pathetic drop.

Web Comics

• Cursed Princess Club: When Princess Aurelia is loudly and angrily berating Gwendolyn for relying so much on the charity of the Cursed Princess Club when she's not even cursed herself, spit is visibly flying out of her mouth. The fact that Aurelia's Curse makes her saliva acidic makes this far less humorous than most other examples, though thankfully it doesn't hit anyone or anything important.

Web Original

• One Adnan Mansoor vine, title "When People Spit While Talking" features two people in a conversation. The first man is unintelligible due to how much he is spitting while speaking and the other man interrupts, yelling "Did I ask for a goddamn shower!?". The first man is taken aback by the outburst.

Western Animation

• Bunsen Is a Beast: Amanda Killman regularly invokes this. In her very first scene alone, her villainous rant toward Mikey leaves him covered in spit.
• Family Guy: In the Cutaway Gag "Dinner with Martin Landau", Stewie is in a restaurant and sat across from Martin, who spits a piece of food onto Stewie's face every time he says a word beginning with "P".
• Jorel's Brother has Roberto Perdigoto (which is a term in portuguese for this very trope) who, in his very first apperance as a tv presenter, covered the camera lens in spit droplets and fingerprints.
• Looney Tunes has Daffy Duck who is famously portrayed as either a zany pest or a narcissistic glory hound. The one thing that remains consistent across his appearances is a tendency to spit when he speaks. To a lesser extent is Sylvester the Cat, who has a similar speech impediment and is usually portrayed as a crude antagonistic foil to Tweety Bird. Tasmanian Devil is also prone to spitting while he talks (well, screeches) and often makes it worse by Blowing a Raspberry at the end of his sentences.
• The Loud House: Downplayed for Lisa. Due to her lateral lisp, she spits when she talks. However, the spit only flies in someone's face on occasion, and she's not that obnoxious (only occasionally lapsing into Insufferable Genius territory).
• SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Wet Painters", Mr. Krabs laughs so much at SpongeBob and Patrick's expense that his spit undoes the entire paint job on his house. The paint comes off with saliva, and he lied about it being permanent just to screw with the two.
• Tiny Toon Adventures has one episode featuring Sylvester as a color commentator for a sports game. He releases so much spit that Porky can row a boat in it.

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