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Possibly the second most frequent kind of [[America's Funniest Home Videos|Funny Home Video]], after [[Groin Attack|testicular calamity]].

 

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* In the [[Goosebumps]] book ''The Cuckoo Clock of Doom'', the main character Michael is carrying his own birthday cake, when his bratty sister [[Enfant Terrible|Tara]] trips him, causing him to land face first in it. When he starts going backwards in time, he tries to prevent the tripping, but it still happens anyway.

** This trope is actually both used and averted in the same story. When Michael relives his birthday a third time at the end of the story ({{spoiler|after accidentally erasing Tara from existence}}) he manages to carry the cake to the table without incident.

** He winds up in an unfilled swimming pool, but a passing skateboarder decides to do him a favor...

* Done with a twist in ''[[Practical Magic]]'' (the book that inspired the film). Younger sister Kylie makes a cake as a peace offering for older sister Antonia, with whom she had a fight. While she's carrying the cake to where she knows she can find her sister, she gets [[Attempted Rape|assaulted by a strange man]]. Though she escapes to safety, she's covered in the cake, which she sort of used as a defensive weapon. It still achieves the desired objective, though; she reaches Antonia, who helps her clean up, and the incident heals the breach between them.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Hell on Earth 2006", Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacy have to deliver a cake shaped like a life-sized Ferrari to Satan for his Halloween Party. They end up accidentally destroying the cake and killing each other whilst they try to bake a new one.

* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''

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