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Does this need any explanation? People get covered in gunge (also known as slime). Another variant involves [[Carrying a Cake|a large cake]] and [[Rule of Funny|comedies]]: it is inevitable in such shows that someone will end up with their face in the cake. If the cake is big enough (as many wedding cakes are), they'll do a full-body dive into it.

Often an essential ingredient in a good [[Humiliation Conga]].

 

 

Not to be confused with something being [[Cover Version|Covered in]] [[Grunge]].

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== Game Shows ==

* Other Nickelodeon game shows from the same era that followed suit:

** ''[[Finders Keepers (TV series)|Finders Keepers]]'', to an extent - mainly if the Pastry Shop was one of the rooms in the house, or if they hid the clue or object in a bucket of slime; otherwise contestants merely got sprayed with or fell into water at most.

** ''[[Think Fast]]''.

** ''[[Wild and Crazy Kids]]'' - featured random teams of kids competing in various games, many of which involved gunge of some sort, especially toward the end of the series.

* Non-Nick shows from the same time period:

* The current Nickelodeon [[Game Show]] ''[[Brain Surge]]'': Either lose at any point and get sent down the "Brain Drain", a slide filled with "earwax" foam, or win the game and the [[Bonus Round]] and be subjected to the standard Nick green slime treatment.

* A recent Canadian talent show on YTV, ''Zoink'd!'', is pretty much what ''[[America's Got Talent]]'' (though, it plays more like ''[[The Gong Show]]'') would be like if it were judged by kids, and pressing their button dropped something on the performers, which progressed up to gunge of course.

 

* A ghoul splatters the students with what seems to be it's body fluids in episode 8 of ''[[Blue Exorcist]]''...

* In the sci-fi [[Hentai]] ''[[Alien from the Darkness]]'', the crew of a derelict ship are all found dead, with the women stripped naked and covered from head to toe in a thick, green, gooey substance. This is later revealed to be a byproduct of the titular alien's (nearly always fatal) [[Mars Needs Women|mating technique]].

* Happens in the [[Eiken]] OVA, in the infamous huge yogurt-slide... and then chocolate.

 

* [[Max Und Moritz]] by [[Wilhelm Busch]] are covered by dough after they break in a bakery. Their fault.

 

 

== Film ==

*** There's that ''and'' the fact that he was the male lead, and would be kissing the girl soon. Not very romantic kissing a man with as much marshmallow as the other Ghostbusters had on them.

** And in the sequel, after being hosed with the 'good vibrations' pink spooge, "Vy am I drippings vith goo?"

* In ''[[The Great Race]]'', due to a ''Prisoner Of Zenda''-like case of assumed identity, all of the main characters end up in a bakery throwing pies at each other. Throughout, the Great Leslie remains completely immaculate until the [[Action Girl]] feminist, blinded by the pie on her face, is spinning around with a pie in her hand and Leslie ducks a little too late.

* In ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'', the big fight scene at the end spills out of its set into another soundstage, then spreads into the studio commissary and escalates into a food fight. Hedley tries to evade it by ducking into a restroom, then emerges a second later with a faceful of pie.

* In ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]] 3'', cute [[Bridge Bunny]] Holly Little gets alien bug-goo splashed across her, prior to a giant penile-claw erupting from the ground between her splayed legs and almost being devoured by a ginormous [[Vagina Dentata]] with [[A God Am I|delusions of grandeur]].

* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'': The troopers at the beginning, J after getting puked on by the squidbaby, K after {{spoiler|blasting his way out of [[Just Eat Him|Edgar's stomach]]}}, and finally ''both'' of them after {{spoiler|L pops Edgar like a zit with J's weapon.}} In every occasion the gungee has to spit out some gunge before they can talk about how gross the experience was.

 

== Literature ==

* At the climax of [[Daniel Pinkwater]]'s ''Young Adult Novel'', the Wild Dada Ducks are assaulted in the Himmler High lunchroom by the other students with one thousand portions of extra soggy Grape-Nuts cereal.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' did this to Bulk and Skull REPEATEDLY. Cakes, usually, but just about anything could land on those two to end an episode...

** Bulk seems to have returned to his role as gunge magnet in ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]''.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' "The Sontaran Stratagem": Naked evil clone of Martha.

** Happens a lot in general to people fighting the [[Doctor Who|Slitheen]] {{spoiler|or [[The Sarah Jane Adventures|Slitheen-Blathereen]]}}. One splash of [[Weaksauce Weakness|vinegar]] and ''pop''.

 

== Theatre ==

* ''[[Usles]]'' pantomimes, while done on shoestring budgets, still include slosh scenes, although water, talcum powder and shaving foam tend to be substituted for gunge, being both cheap and easy to clean up. Often leads to characters [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] the inevitable mess with lines like, "Better put down this handy tarpaulin just to be on the safe side!"

* [[Martin McDonagh]] is fond of getting messy: he's got raw eggs to the head in ''The Cripple Of Inishmaan'', bone chips/dust in ''A Skull in Connemara'', torture with hot oil in ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'', and [[Gorn]] that drenches the [[Blood-Splattered Innocents|innocent]] and [[Blood Is the New Black|not-so-innocent]] alike in ''[[The Lieutenant of Inishmore]]''. It's like he does it ''just'' to torment the [[Cleanup Crew|stage management]] team!

* An item called Sticky Juice in ''[[Water Warfare]]'' will fill your water gun up with, well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|sticky juice,]] which will temporarily cover an enemy in yellow goo that slows them down (and changes your water's splashing animation and sound effects to huge, gloppy splats). The instruction manual calls this [[Standard Status Effect]] "soaked," but ''we'' know better.

* This is your entire ''means of combat'' in the obscure platformer ''[[SP Ray]]: Spirited Prince Ray.''

* Can you say [[Portal 2]]? Three varieties of colored gel involved in numerous puzzles... Unless a player is really careful, they're bound to get covered in the stuff at some point.

** Which is [[Toxic Phlebotinum|something of a worry]] given this recorded announcement:

* ''[[Industrial Zone]]'' at [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/iron-k FurAffinity] is a fictional game show series featuring this in vast quantities. Experience the uncomfortable feeling of not knowing whether you're reading porn or not.

* From ''[[The Onion]]'': [http://www.theonion.com/articles/exnickelodeon-stars-relate-horrors-of-green-slime,1174/ "Ex-Nickelodeon Stars Relate Horrors Of Green Slime Syndrome"].

 

== Western Animation ==

* Almost every episode of ''World of Quest'' features the Prince being covered in something. Usually three or more times.

* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' had this as the end of the first season and opening of the second.

* Dexter in ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' wound up repeatedly covered in mud, pies, whipped cream, etc. while competing against Dee Dee on a game show. Somehow his [[Nerd Glasses]] always remained clear so he could [[Expressive Mask|register his displeasure]].

 

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