Clutching Hand Trap: Difference between revisions

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This is a [[Comedy]] trope in which when you grab the contents of a jar, your hand winds up getting stuck, because of the way you have a grip on it.

The difference between this and [[Hand in The Hole]] is with [[Clutching Hand Trap]], the victim does it on their will, since they both want what's inside, and know what's inside. Example, when [[Bratty Half Pint]] wants a cookie from the cookie jar. [[Hand in The Hole]] is when the victim is being an [[What an Idiot|idiot]] and has no idea what's in there but is inserting their hand anyway.

The difference between this and [[Hand in The Hole]] is with [[Clutching Hand Trap]], the victim does it on their will, since they both want what's inside, and know what's inside. Example, when [[Bratty Half Pint]] wants a cookie from the cookie jar. [[Hand in The Hole]] is when the victim is being an [[What an Idiot!|idiot]] and has no idea what's in there but is inserting their hand anyway.

This trope can come with [[An Aesop]] about greediness if the character is unable to get their hand out of the jar because they're holding too much food.

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== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* In ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]'' Turk has gotten his hand stuck in an ice dispensing machine (during Carla's labor), apparently this latter also happened to Leonard the [[Fridge Horror|Hook-Handed]] Security Guard. Another time, he got stuck in a candy machine because he wouldn't let go of the candy. When Carla asked why JD wasn't mocking him, he revealed that he also had his hand stuck, in a glass coffee pot [[What an Idiot|(because he dropped a penny inside)]].

* In ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]'' Turk has gotten his hand stuck in an ice dispensing machine (during Carla's labor), apparently this latter also happened to Leonard the [[Fridge Horror|Hook-Handed]] Security Guard. Another time, he got stuck in a candy machine because he wouldn't let go of the candy. When Carla asked why JD wasn't mocking him, he revealed that he also had his hand stuck, in a glass coffee pot [[What an Idiot!|(because he dropped a penny inside)]].

* One iteration of [[Saturday Night Live|Celebrity Jeopardy]] featured Tom Hanks, flanderizing himself into a bumbling idiot, fall to this trap while trying to get a pickle out of a jar that came from...[[Hammerspace|somewhere]].

{{quote| '''[[Will Ferrell|"Alex Trebek"]]''': "Just let go of the pickle."<br />