Bucket Booby Trap: Difference between revisions

 

This trope is subverted about as often as it works properly. Frequently, the intended victim will spot the trap, or come in by another way, or an unintended victim will be the one to enter (often the original prankster).

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* 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 ''[[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.

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Monkey Island 2 Le Chucks Revenge (Video Game)|Monkey Island 2 Le Chucks Revenge]]'' has you do this as part of a puzzle.

* 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.)