"Rosebud..."
This is when a person's mouth and lips are pretty much all showing on the screen. Potentially, it can be a sign of mystery, used to hide the identity of the person speaking. Otherwise, it can just be to emphasize the mouth such as showing a pretty girl putting on lipstick.
This is a sister tropes of Eyedscreen, which features a screen shot of a pair of eyes. Compare Eat the Camera and Mouth Cam.
Examples:
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Advertising
- The "Remarkable Mouth" radio station commercials featuring numerous female models such as this one featuring Mark Harmon's younger sister Kelly.
- 2025 Quip ads heavily feature a sentient female talking mouth or "spokesmouth" such as this one: .
- An 1980s child abuse PSA, one of the first against verbal abuse, features a series of mouths shouting harmful insults at children.
- This Blistex commercial :
- This Coors Light commercial from 1997.
- Diet Pepsi: This commercial from 1984 is an example: and another example
- This IBM AT commercial from 1986 showcasing their experimental voice recognition.
- Any commercial hawking teeth whitening (like Lumineers for example) or toothpaste is prone to this.
- Twizzlers had a bunch of commercials with a claymation mouth advertising the product.
- Chinese actress Yang Mi practices carefully pronouncing the brand name Loewe in this ad by said brand: [1]
Anime & Manga
- In nearly every Case Closed episode, there is a point where we get a closeup of a character's mouth talking ominous like. Sometimes making their debut or when they're saying something important.
- The same thing can be true with Dragon Ball Z, more specifically in the Frieza and Garlic Jr. sagas.
- In Devilman Lady, the titular character gets this in some episodes.
- The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity episode “Self-Loathing / I Love You!" has an extreme intense tight close-up of Subaru Hoshina’s mouth when she tells Kaoruko, “You can’t die!”
- It happened in a few episodes of Hamtaro as well. Case in point, here with Maxwell.
- Jujutsu Kaisen:
- Did this with Nobara Kugisaki in episode “Kyoto Sister School Exchange Event Group Battle 3“ when she says this line and cut to her mouth:
“I love myself when I'm [mouth-shot] KICKING ASS!”- In the film Jujutsu Kaisen 0, we get a close-up shot of Satoru Gojo’s mouth when telling Yuta: “You’re a descendant of Suguwara Michizane!”
- Lady Jewelpet did a closeup of Luea's mouth in Episode 22.
- Mewkledreamy did this with the main villain, Yuni.
- Robot Girls Z A closeup of Baron Ashura's mouth, with a chibi man in her throat hitting her uvula with a hammer.
Asian Animation
- Baby Shark's Big Show!:
- In "Baby Tooth", a close up of Baby Shark's mouth was seen twice. When his tooth first became loose and after his tooth came out.
- At the beginning of "Live From the Shark House", we see the camera zoom up to Baby Shark's mouth, revealing that he has kelp in his teeth.
- In "Best Fin-Ship Day", as Baby Shark is calling out to the clams, there's a close up shot of his mouth as he says, "Fly".
- In "Buds at First Bite", as Goldie is telling Penny what she can count to, she mentioned that Penny can count the times she says coral, and there's a close up shot of Goldie's mouth when she says, "Coral".
- In Season 7 episode 50 of Happy Friends, when Kalo says "Goodbye to you all" as he is about to self-destruct himself to destroy invading spaceships, the shot is a close-up of the character's mouth.
- In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Joys of Seasons episode 44, Wolffy sees the goats through his telescope, and as he tells Wolnie they're having goats to eat, the camera is zoomed up to his mouth. When he finishes talking, one of his fangs shows a brief twinkle.
Films — Animation
- In Back to the Outback, the camera briefly zooms in on Dolores' mouth when she screams after Jackie jumps in front of her and scares her.
- The Boss Baby sometimes has a closeup of Ted's Mouth, Tim's Mouth, and Baby's mouth.
- The Little Mermaid (1989): "What I want from you is...your voice." The last two words feature a very dark and unsettling extreme sideview closeup of Ursula's mouth which the viewer is forced to stay on until she finishes a long drawn-out hiss.
- In Monsters vs. Aliens, during his speech, we have General Monger say this line and cut to his mouth:
Monger: President Prime, we need a Hail Mary pass! We need raw power! we need… [cue his mouth] MONSTERS.
- Shrek
- Shrek 1:
- The iconic bird song where Fiona sings a high note with the camera focusing on her vibrating uvula.
- The last shot of Shrek drawn out scream, shows his mouth roaring before it was finished.
- Shrek Forever After: Played for Laughs. When the ogres serve Donkey a bowl of eyeballs, he makes two of them come out of his nose and we get a close-up of his mouth.
- Shrek 1:
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: When SpongeBob and Patrick arrive in Shell City, they're happy to see other sea creatures until they realize they're dead. We get a close-up on SpongeBob's mouth when he says "dead".
- In The Tale of Despereaux:
- There is a close-up of Queen Rosemary’s mouth as she eats the soup.
- Done this with Princess Pea as she frighteningly says, “It’s a rat!”
- Another mouth close-up of Princess Pea’s mouth as she tells Mig that she looks ridiculous.
- In Turning Red, this is used to show Grandma Wu putting on lipstick as she talks to Ming.
Films — Live-Action
- Cuts of the Czech Alice that have the mouth shots used them extensively, for her "Said X" lines.
- Always Crashing in the Same Car features several close-ups of Paul McGann's mouth.
- The Amazing Mr. Blunden: When Lucy begins to travel back to her own time, she pleads not to go back without Jamie. The camera quickly zooms onto Lucy's mouth as she says this over and over again, cutting between her talking mouth and the burning building for nearly a minute.
- The Arrival of Joachim Stiller (1976) has some mouth closeups of Simone talking early in the film.
- Linnea Quigley starred in two horror-comedy flicks. The first was called Assault of the Party Nerds. At one point in the movie while she screams, we are treated to an extreme closeup of her mouth. This closeup of Linnea's mouth is recycled in Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout.
- Barbie (2023): After Stereotypical Barbie becomes human, her mouth is the only thing that can be seen aside from the background. She then lets out a breath.
- Batman And Robin: When Poison Ivy is seducing Robin in her lair, there is a brief close up shot of her lips as she whispers "for luck" when requesting a kiss from him, and lingers for a bit afterwards as she smiles. It is implied that this is a brief POV shot from Robin's perspective, with him staring at Ivy's lips and unable to resist from kissing them anymore.
- Beauty and the Beast (2014):
- As Belle narrates the tale, we get many side-view closeups of her mouth. We see her blow a ladybug away.
- During the main tale, we get 3/4 straight on mouth closeups of Belle talking back to the Beast.
- Black Narcissus: We get a striking technicolor closeup of Ruth's lips as she applies red lipstick onto them.
- Bonnie and Clyde: After a couple photographs and text about the main characters, we fade into an extreme closeup of Bonnie's mouth as she licks her lips.
- Carry On Up the Khyber. The British have been thrown into an Afghan prison, so Brother Belcher demands to be let out as he's a priest.
Brother Belcher: Let me out! You can't do this to me! I'm a man of the cloth!
[Afghan guard charges up so close we can only see his blackened teeth]
Guard: What do you want, Engleesh PEEG?!
Brother Belcher: Err, I was going to ask you for the name of a good dentist, but I don't think I'll bother. - Catch Me If You Can: When Carl realizes Frank has "no one else to call", we get a close-up of Carl's mouth.
- Chaplin: This biopic of Charlie Chaplin features a closeup of Mildred Harris's mouth speaking and then putting on rouge lipstick.
- One of the most iconic examples is in Citizen Kane (pictured above). The first we see of the title character is a close up of his lips as he says his last words: "Rosebud"
- Dad's Army (1971): When Sergeant Major Dawkins dismisses the men on the training weekend, the camera does an extreme zoom onto his mouth as he bellows, "DIS-missed!".
- Delta of Venus features two closeups of Elena Martin's mouth.
- In David Lynch's Dune (1984), Doctor Yueh's mouth is shown in a closeup flashback reminding Duke Leto about the poison gas tooth intended to kill Baron Harkonnen.
- The Florida Project has this serve as the final shot of Halley, as she screams, "FUUUUUUCCCCCKKKK YOOOOOUUUUUU!!!!" to Child Services, who believe she isn't fit to take care of her daughter.
- From Russia with Love: Tatiana tells Bond that she thinks her mouth is too big. Bond replies it's just the right size. Then we get a closeup of Tatiana's mouth with her tongue moving inside.
- Gossip:
- The gossiping sequence has several talking mouth closeups in quick succession or close to one another ending with a mouth chattering their teeth. A similar sequence was featured in the trailer. It is difficult to match credits with mouths, but the first mouth leading things off belongs to a character named Louise (according the dvd captions).
- Near the beginning of the film there is a mouth closeup of Cathy Jones putting makeup on her lips.
- Done several times in the film, Greener Grass, featuring kissing mouths, talking mouths, or even simply a smiling mouth over the entire opening credits.
- Near the beginning of the film, the viewer is treated to an extremely intense mouth closeup. As Jill says the word "enjoy" we cut to a closeup of her talking mouth. When her mouth finishes saying the word, she continues to smile over the entire opening credits of the film, the camera gradually zooming in until her lips are touching the top, bottom, left, and right edges of the frame. Her lips are constantly twitching and we can hear squishing sounds. This lasts an entire minute. When the credits finish, the closeup of Jill's smiling mouth lasts another few seconds.
- A scene starts immediately with an extreme closeup of Lisa's mouth in a giant mirror as she slowly rubs off lipstick. The camera slowly zooms out but we are still very close when Lisa's mouth speaks and asks an entire question. Even as the camera turns away from the mirror, the mirror is still only showing Lisa's mouth.
- Late in the film, Jill parks her golf cart far away, and in the mirror we see a closeup of her mouth, and then her hand and pliers reaching up to her mouth. A few more extreme closeups of Jill's mouth occur soon after.
- The 1980 film "Inferno (1980)" features two mouth closeups.
- The first features a mysterious music student. She begins moving her lips as if to speak but does not, and we are treated to a sudden closeup of her moving lips.
- The second is of Elise. A portion of her dialogue has a closeup of her talking mouth.
- The theatrical poster to Inside Deep Throat depicts a woman's mouth with the movie title in between the half-open lips.
- Kung Pow! Enter the Fist: As Chosen One confronts Betty with "Black Betty" playing on the stereo.
"You killed my family." [mouth-shot] "And I don't LIKE that kind of thing."
- Les Femmes: The opening and ending credits play over a shot of a woman's mouth.
- In David Lynch's Lost Highway, there are several closeups of the mouth and red lips of Patricia Arquette talking on the phone. She portrays more than one character during the course of the film. We get to see a closeup of both characters' mouths talking on the phone.
- Mr. Nobody:
- In the Angels of Oblivion scene, little Nemo's Mother gets a close-up shot of her mouth as the angel tapped her upper lip.
- We did a close-up of Nemo's Mother’s mouth as she sings Eeny, meeny, miny, moe to her little son.
- Nemo's Mother gets another close-up of her mouth as she puts her lipstick on.
- The first shot in Original Sin (2001) is Angelina Jolie's lips. There are many such closeups in the film.
- Canadian artist and filmmaker Joyce Wieland's film Pierre Vallières consists entirely of one long closeup shot of the mouth of the titular radical Quebec separatist and writer as he discusses his opinions. An assistant had to hold Vallières's head still as he spoke.
- The French film Redoubtable, a biopic of Jean-Luc Godard, has a brief black and white closeup of Anne Wiazemsky's mouth biting her lip.
- William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: "Julieeeeeeet!!!!" yells Lady Capulet's mouth in a close-up.
- A closeup of Magenta's mouth lip-syncing to "Science Fiction Double Feature" is used for the opening credits of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
- Savages: Elena has a few very intense talking mouth closeups.
- See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989): When someone calls the deaf protagonist David a "fucking idiot", we get a close-up of his mouth.
- Status Update has a few shots of this when Kyle performs an operatic solo.
- The teaser trailer for the 1995 film Strange Days briefly shows a shot of Ralph Fiennes' mouth.
- Stutterer opens with a tight closeup of Greenwood's lips. Greenwood has a severe stutter, and at that moment he is trying but failing to get out a question regarding his Internet bill, to the customer service rep on the other end of the line.
- The Substance:
- The camera is on Sue's mouth closeup as she reveals her name to the casting directors (and the audience). It then reveals Sue's good taste in tropes by zooming out into Sue watching multiple screens where that shot is repeatedly rewound and played back. Reminiscent of the Videodrome example below, except with 45 screens instead of just one.
- Earlier, Elisabeth Sparkle gets her own mouth closeup while ordering the Substance over the phone.
- There is a brief moment where we get a closeup of Sue's mouth drinking from a can of diet coke. Two cuts later we return to her mouth looking satisfied and seeing something drip off her lip. We then cut to her putting on lipstick (very tight even for this sort of thing).
- Later in the film, Sue gets another mouth closeup yelling "Con! Trol! Your! Selllf!"
- Superman (1978): When Zod says "your heirs", we get a close-up of his mouth.
- In the experimental Russian film Tinnitus, a sequence nearly 4 minutes long is entirely a closeup of a woman's mouth talking in Russian throughout which is white noise (but the woman's voice can still clearly be heard). One must be cautioned that the hard subtitles reveal to non-Russian speakers that she is telling a very violent story. There is a trailer of about a minute of this sequence with hard Russian subtitles. The other clip of the film easily found online is just the entire talking mouth closeup sequence.
- Videodrome has a scene where Max, in a surreal moment which may or may not be a hallucination, sees his lover Nicki in a television broadcast begging for him sexually, and early on the view zooms in on just her gasping lips, making the scene even more uncomfortable and Max's state of mind that much more suspect.
- In the 1972 film Virgin Witch, we are treated to two very intense talking mouth closeups. First Sybil's mouth hesitating and then saying she will think about it. We immediately cut to Christine's mouth responding that Sybil will not regret it.
- Weird Science (1985): In a scene in which Gary and Wyatt are having a conversation in the shower stall during a party, we get shots of their mouths.
- In the 2013 film Young & Beautiful we get a closeup of Isabelle's talking mouth. This was heavily featured in thumbnails and trailers.
- The 1995 suspense film "The Net" does this with both Sandra Bullock and Jeremy Northam.
Live-Action TV
- The Black Narcissus miniseries features a closeup of Ruth applying red lipstick to her lips.
- Season 1 episode 3 of the TV series Friday the 13th, entitled Cupid's Arrow, features several talking mouth closeups of two women.
- A 1990's documentary on Australian gun culture called Guns had an excess of shots like this, causing a writer to viewer reaction program BackChat to quip that it should have been titled Gums instead.
- Done in several episodes of Legacies, including in the first three episodes. Usually featuring Hope's mouth casting a spell, sometimes in 3/4 and sometimes straight on. Also some featuring Josie's mouth casting a spell. Episode 2 has close-ups of Hope's mouth, Josie's mouth, and Lizzie's mouth.
- In Season 4, the camera cuts to a closeup of Hope's mouth smiling for a second and then she orders a drink with the camera still closeup to Hope's mouth.
- Another episode of Season 4 has 2 closeups of Josie's mouth in rapid succession.
- In an early episode of M*A*S*H, they do this with Margaret complaining to Col. Blake about something, and Blake completely hung over while she's ranting.
- Mimpi Metropolitan: Mami Bibir's first scene is back-and-forth between a close up on her lips reprimanding Prima and Over the Shoulder shots, hiding her full face and foreshadowing her name (bibir is Indonesian for lips).
- In an extremely minimalist production by the BBC of Samuel Beckett's play Not I, this is all that can be seen of actress Billie Whitelaw as she performs the extended monologue, of a woman on the brink of insanity describing her life. The camera never moves from a full-screen shot of her lips and moving mouth.
- There is a newer version of this. After a brief introduction of Julianne Moore getting into position, the rest of the film is an extreme closeup of her talking mouth, cutting between different angles but always a closeup of Julianne Moore's talking mouth.
- In an episode of Red Dwarf, Lister and the Cat desperately try to con a human-hating genocidal killer into thinking they are an uninteresting alien species. They rig a telecommunications camera so all it can see is an upside-down shot of their lower faces, with false eyes glued to their chins. They conduct their side of the dialogue as disembodied alien mouths. The killer Simulant is not deceived and teleports over anyway.
- The First Series finale also features a sendup of Citizen Kane.
Rimmer: Gazpacho soup...
- The First Series finale also features a sendup of Citizen Kane.
- Done extensively in Season 2 episode 2 of the show Stitchers every time Ellie's mouth talks. Some eyedscreen as well.
- In David Lynch's Twin Peaks — specifically Season 2 Episode 9 "Arbitrary Law" — as Donna Hayward is reading something to Agent Cooper, the camera quickly zooms in extremely close to her talking mouth and stays extremely zoomed in until after she is done turning her head to Agent Cooper.
- Whenever The Voice from Trapped! is onscreen, only her mouth is seen. No one has ever seen what The Voice actually looks like.
- Done several times in The Vampire Diaries, usually of Elena's talking mouth. Elena's ancestor Katherine Pierce also gets mouth closeups.
- The first episode of Season 7 has three mouth closeups. First, Caroline's talking mouth. Then in a later intense scene, we are treated to two more talking mouth closeups.
Music
- Chicano Batman: "Black Lipstick"
- Rick Springfield: "Bop 'Til You Drop" featured a brief shot of Springfield's mouth singing the opening lyrics
- One of the many, many shots in "Dare to Be Stupid" is "Weird Al" Yankovic's head, upside down and with googly-eyes stuck on his chin, with the camera pulled up close to the mouth. There is also a brief shot of Yankovic's mouth saying "Let's go!"
- Freddie Mercury: "Don't Stop Me Now" have more than one close-up of Freddie Mercury's mouth singing to the tune filling up the entire frame.
- Played with in the videos from the Pink Floyd album, "The Final Cut". The videos show singer Roger Waters sitting in the dark except for a light on his mouth.
- LL Cool J: "Going Back To Cali"
- and this parody from Colin Quinn:
- A pair of lips sings the opening phrase in the video for Poison's "I Want Action".
- The introduction to Meghan Trainor's "Lips Are Movin'" shows a few screenshots like this.
- The lyric video for Lit's "Mouth Shut" is an up close shot of a woman's mouth as she lip syncs to the song. Much like the cover the album it's from, she has on glittery gold lipstick.
- "My First Kiss" by 3Oh!3 and Ke$ha makes use of several of these shots throughout the video, a lot of which focus on Ke$ha. At the end of the video, the camera pans out to reveal that the members of 3Oh!3 are inside Ke$ha's mouth. She then slams her mouth shut and eats them before smooching at the camera.
- Frank Zappa: "You Are What You Is" features several shots of Zappa's mouth [2]
- Selena Gomez: The lyric video for Fetish is closeup of her mouth singing the whole song.
- Steely Dan's Donald Fagen's video for his song "Snowbound" features a brief shot of his mouth as well as several shots of his eyes
- The video for Megadeth's "Peace Sells" features several shots of Dave Mustaine's mouth.
- The video for Colin Hay's (of Men at Work game) "Hold Me" featured a brief shot of his mouth.
- The video for Journey's "Separate Ways" featured a brief shot of Steve Perry's mouth.
- The video for Siouxie and the Banshees' "Peekaboo" featured several shots of Siouxie's mouth.
Pinball
- The Edutainment Game The Brain has a close-up of the mouth and tongue, to represent the sense of taste.
Video Games
- EBOLA 2 has an encounter with an NPC who's a cannibal-scavenger hiding behind a door, opening up a tiny slit when knocked to speak. Cutscenes depicting conversations shows the guy's entire mouth filling the screen (in live-action no less) and nothing else.
- The PC adventure videogame Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? (1997)'s opening cutscene has a very lengthy scene featuring a very intense closeup of the titular Carmen Sandiego's mouth explicating her dastardly scheme for nearly 20 seconds.
- Mortal Kombat 1: Mileena has a closeup of her mouth as her teeth sharpen.
- Myst (1993): In the Channelwood Age, one of Achenar's holographic speeches to the Tree-Dwellers is a closeup of his mouth. It also contains an Easter Egg when run backwards.
- Obsidian: Used to highlight the inhuman forms of the VidBots that you encounter in the Bureau Realm; Plus, this is used to also highlight how drone-ish each of the "workers" of the Bureau is, without a visual identity of their own.
- The PC adventure videogame Phantasmagoria has some closeups of Adrienne Delaney's mouth.
- In the first chapter, while trying trying to break through a bricked up fireplace, only her mouth is visible through the small opening in some shots.
- There are three closeups of her mouth chanting a spell.
- Sushi Ben: The first time Minami calls Ben "Sushiboy", there's a close-up manga panel of her mouth as she says it.
- Xenogears has several mouth closeups of Elly van Houten or hides her eyes behind her bangs in several anime cutscenes.
- In a rather intense anime cutscene early in the game, it suddenly begins with a closeup of Elly's yelling mouth. It looks like at least part of her eyes should be visible but there aren't any, then she adjusts herself so her mouth is more central. It is then revealed that Elly's mouth is yelling at herself (with her eyes hidden behind her bangs of course). We then get a view of Elly's yelling mouth from the side. The final view is in front of her mouth again.
- Much later in the game, there is another anime cutscene with a side closeup of Elly's talking mouth.
Web Animation
- Homestar Runner:
- The Strong Bad Email "from work" opens with a close-up on Strong Bad's mouth as he whispers his plans to check an email on his work computer.
- The Teen Girl Squad short "4 Gregs" has a close-up on Sci-Fi Greg's gross teeth and stubbly mustache.
- The Blubb-O's Commercial features a similarly gratuitous closeup of the name of their Thick 'n Nasty burger engraved on Peacey P's solid gold grill.
Western Animation
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episode "The Mighty Wheezers; there is a closeup of Carl's dad's mouth when he's singing a long note before the whole family sings that singing and sitting song.
- In the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode "The Last Resort", the camera becomes strangely fascinated with Robotnik's mouth when he comments that he loves sharing a "cozy, hot cup of lapsang souchong tea".
- Aloha, Scooby-Doo! During a water rapids scene, there are a couple frames in which there's a closeup of Daphne's mouth before she's dragged by the current(just barely misses the mark of being considered a reverse Eat the Camera shot). While her uvula is present in this, her palate shares the exact same color as her throat, with only a faded outline making her uvula noticeable.
- Batman: The Animated Series: the season one episode "Pretty Poison" includes a brief closeup of Poison Ivy's lips as she applies her lipstick, before whispering "with a kiss" afterwards.
- Care Bears: Unlock the Magic did this with Share Bear during viral video about an ice cream addiction.
- Clarence (2014) episode "Belson's Sleepover" when Belson announces his second phase in his plan for pranking everyone "The Reaping."
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends:
- "Mac Daddy" One time with Mac and Bloo when Bloo and Madame Foster acknowledge the pun on Mac and Cheese's names combined. And one more time when Cheese declares him and Bloo's names combined.
- "Destination Imagination" with Mac and Coco when they try to convince Frankie to come home from the magic toybox world.
- Lilo & Stitch: The Series: In "Sinker", when a lounging cruise guest gets a closeup look of Stitch after he uses his saliva as massage lotion for her, the camera briefly zooms into her mouth as she screams, her uvula ringing.
- Kim Possible: In "Hidden Talent", Kim is trying to master a high note. This trope comes into play when she finally masters it while trying to break a layer of ice (complete with a waggling uvula).
- Phineas and Ferb: "Nosebud..."
- Rugrats:
- The episode "Stu Gets a Job"; the episode starts with a closeup of Stu's mouth eating chips and drinking soda while watching TV with Tommy.
- The episode "Runaway Angelica" has a closeup of Drew's mouth shouting out Angelica's name after finding his home-office wrecked, at the beginning of the episode.
- The Simpsons
- In the episode "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"; with Homer while he's eating a piece of toast which he compliments to Marge about.
- Also happens in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Bart of the Jungle" when he screams "BAAART!!!" after finding him playing jungle in the backyard with his neckties.
- From "The Old Man and the Key": "You are never driving again! EVER!"
- SpongeBob SquarePants:
- "The Fry Cook Games" After Plankton and Mr. Krabs' give their speeches, SpongeBob and Patrick give off a war cry.
- "One Krabs Trash" with Mr. Krabs as he announces his plan to scare SpongeBob's #1 hat off of him.
- "Truth or Square" again with Mr. Krabs as he begins to tell SpongeBob the Krabby Patty formula.
- Combined with Medium-Shift Gag in "Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture", where we get a close-up of SpongeBob's live-action mouth saying "Actors.".
- Thomas & Friends has been using this often as of Season 20.
- Timon & Pumbaa episode "Beast of Eden"; the episode ends with Pumbaa showing he has one of the leader's teeth in his mouth.
- What's New, Scooby-Doo? At the start of Vampire Strikes Back, The Hex Girls film a music video that begins with Thorn rising from a coffin with an open fanged maw, as though she's attempting to either do a vampire bite or eat the camera, stopping before it enters her dark, cavernous mouth. (Same episode as three Eat the Camera moments on the villains and Daphne)
- Zig & Sharko 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.