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Britain started all this in the 1960s with ''Not Only But Also'' and the festival of anarchy that was ''[[Tiswas]]''. Slightly later on, America got into it as well thanks to the Canadians with the sketch show ''[[You Can't Do That On Television]]''. In general, American game shows tended to use slime as an obstacle or even reward, while the British, with their typical mastery of villainy, treated it more as a sort of ritual punishment with various elaborate and spectacular gungings being dealt out to celebrities or the general public courtesy of the [[The BBC|BBC]].

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

* More or less the entire Idea behind the Discovery Kids show ''[[Grossology]]''.

* ''[[All That]]'', being a [[Nickelodeon]] comedy, embraced this repeatedly, but particularly memorable was a combined [[Lampshade]]/ [[Subverted Trope|double subversion]]: A baker has sent the cast a roomful of cream pies, far more than they could possibly eat, in appreciation of the show. Several cast members ask pointedly what to do with the excess pies, when their [[Butt Monkey]] stage manager walks in. Someone decides to bring the extra pies to the zoo for the zebras. Stage manager calls them on it, and one explains that the baker had also sent over a large cake explicitly for throwing at him.

** A special mention for whoever decided [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=klm7VgQnrFA to give them champagne.]

** What of the time Colin is holding a cream pie Ryan is dressed as a clown and Drew [[Cream Pie in The Face|slams the pie in Ryan's face during the game.]]

* [[Red Dwarf (TV)|"His head burst..."]]

* In an episode of ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' after representing Lily in teen court (and proving to everyone's satisfaction that she was to blame for Lily's current predicament), Miley gets "served" some justice, and ends up covered in pasta and sauce.

* Late Night with Jimmy Fallon has [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Models and Buckets]]. It's basically a Nickelodeon show with Models and Buckets. Occasionally leads to [[I Taste Delicious]].

* ''[[Dick and Dom In Da Bungalow (TV)|Dick and Dom In Da Bungalow]]'' lived for gunge; all the contestants tended to get mushy peas, tomatoes, rice pudding, and other substances including the sinister Dirty Norris thrown over them during the show, and then the loser would have to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M_hd85jZ8M&t=0m07s sit under a gunge tank] for good measure. Possibly the only show to buy custard powder by the tonne.

* ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' did this a few times, covering several characters in demon slime. And Angel's car keys in one ep.

{{quote| '''Cordy to Doyle:''' "Do you think that tentacle spew comes out with dry cleaning?"}}

* In a [[Monty Python]] sketch at an Army Recruiting office, an applicant (Eric Idle) protests that he hasn't gotten any funny lines - the recruiting officer (Graham Chapman) offers to start a new sketch to let him be funny - where the officer becomes a fast-talking music hall burlesque comic who gets all the funny lines again. The sketch further degenerates into a circus setting where the officer is a clown, dumping water on Idle, dropping a large fish down his trousers, upending a bucket of whitewash on him, and shoving a pie into his face, all the time telling him "It's your laugh, mate, not mine!"

* ''[[I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here (TV)|I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here]]'' is mostly made of opportunities to do this to celebrities.

* Traditional British [[Pantomime|pantomimes]] often feature a slosh scene at the end of the first act, in which two or more comic relief characters start a completely innocent activity such as baking a cake or putting up wallpaper, and inevitably end up covered in whatever messy stuff they're using.

* ''[[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!"

 

 

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