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** It's an instance of playing with a trope, [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v01/c001/33.html since he lets it happen] to preserve [[The Masquerade]].
* Attempted in the anime ''[[Prétear]]'' by Mayune. Just after she finishes putting up the trap (with some help from Tanaka the butler), Himeno, for whom the trap was intended, comes out of the room ''through the wrong side of the door'', leading to Mayune becoming the victim of her own joke. Himeno doesn't even notice this.
* Satoko does this to Keiichi a few times in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]''. In one instance, Keiichi spots the bucket and moves it out of the way. However, this makes him walk straight into another trap Satoko set up; she intentionally made the first trap obvious for that purpose.
* Done in ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' to the new Mr. Hanawa: he steps on a floor-waxing pad, slides across the classroom and up a tilted platform, backflips and kicks a bucket out of a student's hands, sticks his landing, only to have the bucket fall on his head. The students are so impressed with the routine, the clap and compliment him.
* A more complex form than is necessary is set up ''twice'' in a ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' omake. It never hits its intended target.
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== Card Games ==
* There's actually a ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' card called "[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Trap_of_Board_Eraser Trap of Board Eraser]" that shows a bunch of goblins doing this.
 
 
== Comic Books ==
* As seen in the above picture, Jimmy Olsen once did this to [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] by rigging the bucket ''over a wall'', correctly predicting that Superman would burst through it, [[There Was a Door|à la Kool-Aid Man]].
* The first Superman/[[Spider-Man]] team-up comic, made back in the 1970s, had [[Jerkass|Steve Lombard]] trying to pull this gag on Clark Kent. However, Clark ([[Clark Kenting|a.k.a. You-Know-Who]]) used his [[Super Breath]] to prevent the bucket from falling. When Steve checked out the gag, he got drenched.
* Superman's foe the Prankster once rigged up a lethal variant involving a water tank holding several hundred gallons of water suspended above an aircraft hangar door. If his kidnap victim, Perry White, managed to escape, opening the door would release the tank.
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Good Omens (Literature)|Good Omens]]'' has Crowley do this with Holy Water, and uses it to kill a Duke of Hell. Notably, the bucket of Holy Water was treated like a bomb.
** Considering Crowley's a demon too, it would be pretty stupid of him not to treat it like a bomb.
* ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]'' featured a Holy Water [[Bucket Booby Trap]] as well, this time used against vampires.
** In the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Making Money|Making Money]]'', Lord Vetinari subverts this trope, being wise enough to expect this from the Fools' Guild. A similar thing happens when the City Watch visit the Guild in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]''.
** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Sourcery|Sourcery]]'', a bucket of long dried-up whitewash is part of the not-exactly-a-[[Death Course]] created by a king with an odd sense of humour.
* In one of [[PGP. G. Wodehouse (Creator)|PG Wodehouse]]'s [[Jeeves and Wooster (Literaturenovel)|Jeeves and Wooster]] stories, Bertie Wooster was trying to help a friend gain confidence by seeing a bag of flour fall on the head of his boss. Jeeves came up with a much better solution, but Bertie forgot to take the bag of flour down, and [[Powder Gag|wound up covered in the stuff]].
* In a ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' novel, this happens to Worf at Starfleet Academy. The prankster got to spend some time in the infirmary.
* In [[Michael Jackson (Music)|Michael Jackson]]'s autobiography, ''Moonwalk'', he mentions that he and his brothers loved this prank and would set up buckets of water over the hotel room door all the time while on tour, trying to soak each other or anybody else who might come to see them. He says this even continued through the Jacksons' last tour, the Victory Tour in 1984, when Michael would have been ''twenty-six'' years old.
* Regularly attempted in the [[Billy Bunter]] stories, usually with the bucket containing a noxious mixture of ink, soot and gum. Rarely was the trap sprung by the intended victim: usually the form master Mr. Quelch ended up drenched, and always seemed to know who was responsible.
 
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* Think of a show with a [[Summer Campy|summer camp]]: this gag inevitably appears. It must be a rule, or something.
* An episode of ''[[Cheers]]'' had it as well.
* In the ''[[That 70s Show (TV)|That 70s Show]]'' episode "Prank Day" Eric tries to do this to Kelso. The bucket falls on Red instead.
* Originally, the ending of the ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' episode "Dimension Jump" involved Rimmer trying to do this to Ace with a pile of kippers. The gag was to backfire, with the last shot being a freezeframe of the kippers falling over Rimmer... but then someone realized the gag made no sense, since the kippers would fall ''through'' [[Virtual Ghost]] Rimmer. The scene was cut, one of the few times ''Red Dwarf'' worked to avoid [[Fridge Logic]].
* On ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]'', Harvey Kneeslapper once had a bucket of confetti triggered by a rope. A series of subversions followed.
* In a rare turning of the tables, Frank Burns does this to Hawkeye in the ''[[M*A*S*H (TV)|Mash]]'' episode "Showtime".
* In ''[[Parker Lewis Can't Lose (TV)|Parker Lewis Can't Lose]]'', Parker pulls this on his principal with a box full of popcorn in one episode, only to later save her from a similar trap using Jell-O. At the end of the episode, he finds [[Big Guy]] Kubiak munching away on the Jell-O, despite already having eaten several pizzas Parker had bribed him with for a previous favor. When asked about it, Kubiak simply says: "There's ''always'' room for Jell-O!"
* This also happened to Hannah Spearritt of the group and show ''[[S Club 7]]'', who received a bucket of green slime dumped on her head by her bandmates.
* A bucket of flour was dumped over Tsukushi's head to go along with her traditional first episode [[Produce Pelting]] in the Korean version of ''[[Boys Over Flowers]]''
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* The defunct French kids' show ''[[Les Mini-keums]]'' had the character Coco rig this while highlighting the rules for the prank actually working: There must be someone in the trapped room, the door must not be a sliding one, and you must use a bucket, not a plastic bowl. At the end of the short, he walks into the elevator... Only for a plastic bowl full of water to fall on him as he passes the sliding door.
* Referenced in an episode of ''[[Greg the Bunny]]'', when it's mentioned that Greg had a very bad reaction to a bucket prank. Greg points out that he got trapped under the bucket for several hours and almost suffocated.
* In an episode of ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'', Kirk remembered Finnagin, the [[Class Clown]] from his academy days. (Fight me, Jimmy!) It seems one of Finnagin's favorite pranks was the bucket over the door trick. One wonders how that was supposed to work with the sliding doors seen everywhere on Star Trek.
* In the pilot episode of ''[[Moonlighting]]'', David Addison has an empty bucket perched over his office door, apparently on general principles. When receptionist Agnes DiPesto falls victim to the prank, David remarks, "Ms. DiPesto, you're looking a little pail."
 
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Monkey Island 2: Le ChucksLeChuck's Revenge (Video Game)|Monkey Island 2 Le Chucks Revenge]]'' has you do this as part of a puzzle.
* Played straight in the ''[[Spy vs. Spy]]'' video game, where you could set up a bucket of something deadly (appears to be electrified water, complete with [[X-Ray Sparks]]) for your opponent...but if you forget which entrance it is in, you'd kill yourself.
* The "Tool Use" skill in ''[[Avernum]]'' is illustrated with a picture of an unfortunate individual about to spring a trap of this nature. The bucket is labeled "acid." (''Avernum'' does not take itself particularly seriously.)
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* [http://catenamanor.com/2007/09/10/bear-likes-his-scars This strip] of the [[Web Comic]] ''[[Catena]]'' using a shed tarantula skin.
* Subverted beautifully in [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=786 this strip] of the [[Web Comic]] ''[[Questionable Content]]''.
* [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003649 Occurs] in ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]''.
** [[Hilarity Ensues]] when [[Troll|Kanaya]] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004600 sees it], as buckets are involved in the Trolls' [[Bizarre Alien Reproduction]], and Trolls thus find them obscene.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'', "Just One Patty": Squidward discovers that the Krusty Krab's security system involves a bucket full of gasoline over the front door... and a lit match... [[Fridge Logic|underwater, somehow]]... For obvious reasons, this is sometimes cut out.
* ''[[FostersFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'': in "Squeeze the Day" Bloo and Mac are alone in the house and decide to put a bucket over the front door. Only the others would not be back for hours, and Bloo wants to see it ''now'', so they try to do it to themselves, with disastrous results.
* Occurs in ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Homer intends to play this prank on the dean of Springfield University, however, somebody got there first, and Homer ends up with a bucket glued to his head.
* Done fairly horrifically in ''[[Monkey Dust]]''. Noodles, a Bugs Bunny-esque cartoon rabbit, takes revenge on the scientists who perform experiments on him by propping an anvil on a door. Needless to say, the scientist doesn't spring back into shape two seconds later.
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