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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
* 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 [[
* 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 ==
* ''[[
** Considering Crowley's a demon too, it would be pretty stupid of him not to treat it like a bomb.
* ''[[Discworld
** In the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld
** In ''[[Discworld
* In one of [[
* In a ''[[
* In [[
* 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 ''[[
* Originally, the ending of the ''[[
* On ''[[
* In a rare turning of the tables, Frank Burns does this to Hawkeye in the ''[[M*A*S*H
* In ''[[
* 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:
* 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:
* 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 ''[[
** [[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 ==
* ''[[
* ''[[
* 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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