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{{quote|''"Wait. A pie with [[Hobos|hobo]]-lifting aroma? Who baked it?"''
|'''Bender''', ''[[Futurama]]'', "The 30% Iron Chef"}}
For humans sense of smell is one of the main ways we are drawn to food, so this naturally shows up a lot in fiction.
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Often an example of [[Editorial Synaesthesia]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* This is the main shtick of Toucan Sam in the Kellogg's Froot Loops commercials, hence the trope name.
* A Lowes commercial uses this with the smell of fresh cut grass signaling the start of spring.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In Miyazaki's ''[[Spirited Away]]'', Chihiro's parents find a spirit restaurant by following their noses and proceed to gorge themselves on the food. Only Chihiro resists eating it, and [[Transformation Trauma|good thing, too]].
* In ''[[
* After sniffing around for a while, Mikoto in ''[[
* Variation: In ''[[Wolf's Rain]]'' the wolves are drawn to Freeze City by the smell not of food but of lunar flowers. The scent ultimately leads them to the Flower Maiden Cheza, whom they hope will show them the way to Paradise.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Luffy often forgets what he was doing and runs off if he smells food somewhere.
* Non-intentionally
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==▼
* In a subversion, ''[[Garfield]]'' actually puts a hand to his ear and rushes up to Jon holding an icecream cone, to which Jon incredulously replies "How can you ''hear'' icecream??"▼
* This often happens to the dog Louie of ''Overboard'' when something is cooked on a barbecue.▼
* In ''[[Over the Hedge (comic strip)|Over the Hedge]]'', a woman had gone into labor (at home), but the baby just wouldn't come out. So the friendly neighborhood animals put their heads together: "If you had to pick ''one thing'' to convince the baby that ''life's worth living'', what would it be?" They cooked up a batch of chocolate chip cookies, used a fan to blow the scent in through the window, and the baby ''leaped'' out of his mother, sniffing eagerly at the aroma.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Who Cut the Cheese?]]'' by Stilton Jarlsberg, one of the rats in CheesyUniverse tells Ho that the rat found CheesyUniverse by following not the smell of cheese but another rat's scent: literal brown nosing.
== [[Live
* Parodied/inverted in ''[[The Young Ones]]'':
{{quote|'''Mr. Right Bleeding Bastard''': Where's your toilet?
'''Neil''': Oh, it's upstairs, just follow your nose. }}
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▲* In a subversion, ''[[Garfield]]'' actually puts a hand to his ear and rushes up to Jon holding an
▲* This often happens to the dog Louie of ''Overboard'' when something is cooked on a barbecue.
▲* In ''[[Over the Hedge (comic strip)|Over the Hedge]]'', a woman had gone into labor (at home), but the baby just wouldn't come out. So the friendly neighborhood animals put their heads together: "If you had to pick ''one thing'' to convince the baby that ''life's worth living'', what would it be?" They cooked up a batch of chocolate chip cookies, used a fan to blow the scent in through the window, and the baby ''leaped'' out of his mother, sniffing eagerly at the aroma.
* [[Karate Bears]] [http://www.karatebears.com/2011/06/bbq.html can smell your BBQ]
* [
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Many, many ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' shorts feature this, usually with Tom's use of cheese to ensnare Jerry.
** A sleepwalking Spike following a steak-on-a-pulley, squashing Jerry in the process.
* Early lampshading: in [[Mickey Mouse
* The page quote comes from the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode where Bender attempts to become a chef, and this trope is parodied by a couple of hobos who float off the ground thanks to jetpacks upon smelling <s>Yoda</s> Spargel's pie.
* Wilma's Yabba-dabba-dooberry pie on ''[[The Flintstones]]'' tended to have this effect on anyone who smelled it.
* Happened to [[Punny Name|Monterrey Jack]] on ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' whenever he smelled cheese. At least once, this was used to trap him.
* On ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', Uncle Scrooge would often parody this trope by having the same reaction to the smell of ''money''.
** One of Scrooge's Traps in his money bin uses food and has this effect on Burger Beagle.
* ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' often did this as well when he and Shaggy were anywhere near food.
* In ''[[A Pup Named Scooby
* In one episode of ''[[Freakazoid!]]'', a pumpkin pie is used as bait for [[Candle Jack]]. He floats anyway, but follows the scent lines to the trap [[Memetic Mutation|where]]
** Hey! Who left this pumpkin pie here?
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' somewhat invokes this trope on Squidward in "Just One Bite" where the scent of a Krabby Patty gently caresses his nose, flicks it and kisses it.
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[[Category:Zany Cartoon Tropes]]
[[Category:Nose Tropes]]
[[Category:Food Tropes]]
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