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A corrective action in three parts: 1. * Take open palm. 2. * Apply directly to the back of the skull. 3. * Optional: Ask some variant of "What are you, stupid or something?" The Dope Slap is a lighthearted slap (or knuckle tap) to the back of the skull that is intended as a disciplinary move by one character when another character does, says, or even thinks something that is uniformly stupid, or just to shut them up. The slap is almost always in some way played for laughs; think of it as an attempt at Percussive Maintenance on somebody's brain, and thus occasionally overlaps with Get a Hold of Yourself, Man! Another variation is a "shut up" poke to the ribs with the elbow.

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  • A corrective action in three parts: 1. * Take open palm. 2. * Apply directly to the back of the skull. 3. * Optional: Ask some variant of "What are you, stupid or something?" The Dope Slap is a lighthearted slap (or knuckle tap) to the back of the skull that is intended as a disciplinary move by one character when another character does, says, or even thinks something that is uniformly stupid, or just to shut them up. The slap is almost always in some way played for laughs; think of it as an attempt at Percussive Maintenance on somebody's brain, and thus occasionally overlaps with Get a Hold of Yourself, Man! Another variation is a "shut up" poke to the ribs with the elbow.
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  • A corrective action in three parts: 1. * Take open palm. 2. * Apply directly to the back of the skull. 3. * Optional: Ask some variant of "What are you, stupid or something?" The Dope Slap is a lighthearted slap (or knuckle tap) to the back of the skull that is intended as a disciplinary move by one character when another character does, says, or even thinks something that is uniformly stupid, or just to shut them up. The slap is almost always in some way played for laughs; think of it as an attempt at Percussive Maintenance on somebody's brain, and thus occasionally overlaps with Get a Hold of Yourself, Man! Another variation is a "shut up" poke to the ribs with the elbow. It could be considered a subtrope of Slapstick. In a Boke and Tsukkomi Routine, it's most often done with a Paper Fan of Doom. Also known as a Gerber Slap, since, when properly applied, the recipient's expression should resemble the "goo-goo" face on the eponymous brand of baby food; and the Gibbs Slap, in honor of the NCIS character having a propensity to do this. Not to be confused with a Pimp/Bitch slap, which is a hard, either-handed (both backhand and front) slap directly applied to the cheeks in order to assert one's Authoritah. Truth in Television, obviously. Which one of us hasn't been on the giving or receiving end of this at least once? The complete inverse of Face Palm. See also Percussive Prevention. Examples of Dope Slap include:
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