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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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* 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 ''[[
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Luffy often forgets what he was doing and runs off if he smells food somewhere.
* Non-intentionally
== [[
* 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.
* 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.▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Parodied/inverted in ''[[The Young Ones]]'':
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'''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 (
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[Karate Bears]] [http://www.karatebears.com/2011/06/bbq.html can smell your BBQ]
* [
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Many, many ''[[
** 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 (
* On ''[[
** 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)|
* ''[[
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[[Category:Zany Cartoon Tropes]]
[[Category:Nose Tropes]]
[[Category:Food Tropes]]
[[Category:Follow Your Nose]]
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