A Dog Ate My Homework: Difference between revisions

** In another Discworld book it's mentioned that at Unseen University, your homework could eat the dog.

* A ''[[Peanuts]]'' picture book has a literal version. Snoopy was playing [[WW 1]] Flying Ace and pretended Sally's book report was sensitive papers. She chased him and he swallowed the report. So she takes him to school the next day and takes him up in front of the class.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* On ''[[FoxTrot]]'', Jason's iguana has eaten his homework. In some cases, Jason's iguana also ate his siblings homework, causing them to either force Jason to fix up their homework (and it is also implied in the final panel that they were actually feeding the iguana their homework), or tell Jason off for feeding the iguana the wrong homework assignment.

* A 1995 ''[[Peanuts]]'' strip has this variation:

'''Snoopy:''' Write your homework on a doughnut, and I'll eat it. }}

* In ''[[Dilbert]]'', a kid tries to [[Invoked Trope|invoke]] [http://www.dilbert.com/fast/1991-03-27/ this with Dogbert.] It ends badly.

* ''[[Garfield]]:''

** In [http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2009/ga090818.gif this strip] Garfield passes by a dog, who holds a sign saying: "Will eat homework for food".

** In [http://garfield.nfshost.com/1992/09/10/ another strip], Jon goes to a class reunion, and meets his old English teacher, Mrs. Fronzak:

'''Garfield:''' Leave me out of this! }}

** Garfield [http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=2012&addr=120202 also finds out] that this is actually a very lucrative business for dogs.

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'':

** In one episode the dog really did eat Bart's homework just before he left for school. Naturally, his teacher didn't believe him.

** When the family dog, Santa's Little Helper, starts working for the police, Bart has no choice but to eat his own homework.

** In an episode where Bart's teacher starts dating Ned Flanders and saw Santa's Little Helper, she asked Bart if that's the dog that eats his homework. Trying to convince her by giving the dog a homework for him to eat. The dog refuses. Bart then covers the homework with dog food. The dog ate the food, cleaned the paper and signaled the answer of a math question.

* One short in [[What a Cartoon Show]] has a cowboy telling his teacher his dog ate his homework. Obviously she doesn't believe him, but he tries to prove it by pulling out a dog chewing on a piece of loose-leaf paper. The teacher responds by lecturing him on bringing pets to class.

* ''[[The Emperor's New School|The Emperors New School]]'' has a variant where Yzma plans on forcing Kuzco to give this excuse.

'''Yzma''': Exactly! It's so old, no one will believe him. }}

* An episode of [[Cat Dog]] was entirely devoted to the citizens of Nearburg making Dog eat their homework, which Cat exploits for their money. However, when the big one comes where Dog must eat the Mayor's written speech before he speaks up front, he becomes sick from eating too much homework, and Cat is forced to eat it himself. This turns out to be a bad decision as the entire crowd finds the idea of a cat eating homework ludicrous and boo the Mayor off the stage (and into the clowning business).

* In one episode of ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'', the Brain deliberately flouts several superstitions to show there is nothing in them, then has a terrible streak of bad luck, including having a dog eat his homework, which causes him extra distress because he knows how the report will be received.

* In ''[[Animaniacs]]'', this is a joke waiting to happen when the Warners attend school. Even when it was their first day. Turned out the dog was ''Wakko''.

'''Wakko:''' Grrrr... }}

* In ''[[Recess]]'', TJ managed to have his teacher believe this showing his homework shredded and drooled (which was done by him and never started the assignment). She didn't believe it since he still had a scrap of paper on his lip.