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** The first version of ''Pictionary''. The [[Bonus Round]] that made it to air involved kids simply getting wet in the "Water Works", although clips of the pilot shown on the commercials showed them playing a game with [[Pie in the Face|pies]].
** Hanna-Barbera produced one called ''[[Skedaddle]]'', basically a "hot potato"-style game played in an [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]. This was the standard penalty for wrong answers, throwing the object out of bounds, running out of time, etc.
* ''Crackerjack!''. In the later era, hosted by Stu Francis, the original finale game of "Double or Drop" was dropped in favour of a new game called "Take A Chance". Here the two celebrities would compete against Stu for extra points for the child contestant by picking a "Joker" colour. Two slats above two booths would appear stating the points available and what the tank above them contained, "The Points to be won, or the penalties to pay". The celeb would sit in one and Stu in the other. One of the assistants would ask a question and the winner received the points for their child contestant. The loser received the contents of the tank above. The ladies (not always) usually got away with it but the male celebrities were always gunged along with Francis, who copped it every week.
* ''Noel's House Party'', a UK Saturday evening entertainment show from the 90s, is probably the biggest example of this for shows aimed at adults (as much as you could describe it as 'grown-up' at all). Gunge was a staple of the programme, and it featured throughout its lifetime:
** ''Gunge Tank'': Simply, a clear booth with a seat and a reservoir of gunge on the top. In its first form, on a precursor to House Party called Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow, a member of the audience would play a word game, with Noel and the celebrity of the week assisting them. The answers to separate clues would combine loosely to form a larger phrase, and the contestant would have to bet on how many of these phrases they could get in 90 seconds - if they failed to reach their number, the gunge was released.
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** ''Stop the Snot'' was the last variant, where the show added a whopping great model nose to the front of the tank. This was similar to the very first game, except a celebrity was quizzed for a minute with the rule that they could never say "Yes" or "No", with results that should be obvious by now should they ever do so.
* Canadian game show Uh Oh!, which is played with teams of two. There were a few mini-games chosen by a wheel. The titular Uh Oh! space challenged the player who landed on it with a question. If the player got it right, the team got points, but getting it wrong results in slime being dumped... on their partner.
** During the final round, there was a category called "Double Uh Oh!" which [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|(as you can guess)]] resulted in double points, or double sliming.
** And then, there was the premium option of "Uh Oh! Deluxe", which was the same. Except it was worth more points, or your partner got ''metallic'' coloured gunge dropped on them.
** Not even the audience was safe in this show. The Punisher would dunk a kid in a kiddie pool, or spray the audience with a water gun during the opening, some games had the contestants tossing slime-filled water balloons at some kind of target or bucket (held by audience members)
** And the last-place team ''always'' got slimed at the end of the show.
* ''Hangar 17'' was a children's magazine-type show that had a couple of sections of this - the first was a talent/variety show section where three acts were judged by a panel of kids while seated underneath giant prop ice cream cones - only the highest scorer was let off. The second section was called ''Teacher on the Hotseat'', where a teacher nominated by some of the audience had to sit inside a futuristic cockpit-like booth and answer three questions on the subject they taught, only being told if they had got the answers right (and therefore escaped) at the end. Only one teacher ever escaped the gunging, which was fairly vicious even by British standards, with the stuff being sprayed from all sides of the device before they were finished off with a torrent from above - when this happened, they let him out and put the girl who had nominated him in instead.
** There was something similar in the Italian show ''"[[Disney|Disney Club]]"'', where the last segment was the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|aptly-titled]] '''"Teacher torture"'''. If that episode's teacher wasn't able to answer the question... well, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|do the math]].
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* ''[[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.
** ''[[The Legend of Dick and Dom]]'', their follow-up show, has lots of gunge-covered [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to Da Bungalow, like the heroes being put in the stocks and having tomatoes flung at them.
* ''[[I'm a Celebrity
* Nickelodeon's ''[[Figure It Out]]'': Any panelist who triggered the "Secret Slime Action" got to see why that weird pipe was hanging ominously over his or her head.
* 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.
* [[Whammy (TV series)|Whammy! The All-New Press Your Luck]] had this in the form of the "Double [[Whammy]]," where, in addition to losing all your current winnings, you also got covered in gunge related to the Whammy Animation shown.
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* ''[[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''.
*** This became something of a running joke in [[The Sarah Jane Adventures]] with Clyde ''always'' seeming to get Raxacoricofalapatorian gunge all over him. Or any other kind of gunge, actually.
* 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.
* The "Helping Hands" game on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' (player A is the straight player; player B (Ryan) has his arms behind his back and player C (Colin) substitutes his own arms for Player B) would often ends with Ryan covered in whatever foodstuffs were being used as props, usually as a result of Colin's blind attempts to feed 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.]]
* Jim Cramer of ''Mad Money'' throws banana cream pies at company CEOs. [[The Daily Show|Or so I heard]].
* This tended to happen to people a lot on ''[[Maid Marian and Her Merry Men]]''.
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* 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.
* ''[[The Day of the Triffids]]'' (2009). The bodies of those killed by the [[Man-Eating Plant|Man Eating Plants]] are covered in triffid venom.
* 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]]'' 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.
** Plenty of [[Shout-Out|ShoutOuts]] to this in ''[[The Legend of Dick and Dom]]'', too: whenever the leads can be made to fall into the mud or fight in a tub of custard, they are.
* ''[[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?"}}
* ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'' - Jenna is at a 'Kid's Choice' awards show, where Best Actress winner Helen Mirren (or at least someone playing her) gets slimed at the podium. She chuckles "Ohh, you got me!"
* 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
* In the ''Frasier'' episode "Are you being served?" Niles is in the restroom when Martin's Hot&Foamy shaving lather heater explodes. He comes out covered from head to toe and says "I'm all right, just a little hot. And foamy."
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