Bucket Booby Trap: Difference between revisions

== Film ==

* Subverted in ''[[Horror of Party Beach]]'', when the victim turned out to be a bunch of slime monsters.

* This was a common place gag in many of [[The Three Stooges]] shorts.

* ''[[Carrie]]'' has the titular protagonist getting a bucket of pig blood dumped on her head after she is named prom queen. [[Beware the Nice Ones|It does]] [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|not end]] [[It Got Worse|well]].

* 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 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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