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A character is about to receive or take something. Maybe it's money or food. Either way a small fraction of the entirety is divided from the whole. This small fraction is what could be considered a normal portion. The character in question then proceeds to take the larger portion, leaving the small fraction behind.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Skip Beat!]]'', Kyoko cuts a normal slice of cake for her and then grandly presents the rest of the cake to the famous actor she's temporarily working for. He's touched she's learned his eating habits so well.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* A [[Deleted Scene]] of ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit'' was to have Wallace about to eat a wheel of cheese, but tells Gromit to make the slice smaller than usual. He, of course, eats the bigger part instead.
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* ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' describes how the loafers handle chewing tobacco (Chapter XXI):
{{quote|Store tobacco is flat black plug, but these fellows mostly chaws the natural leaf twisted. When they borrow a chaw they don’t generly cut it off with a knife, but set the plug in between their teeth, and gnaw with their teeth and tug at the plug with their hands till they get it in two; then sometimes the one that owns the tobacco looks mournful at it when it’s handed back, and says, sarcastic:
“Here, gimme the ''chaw'', and you take the ''plug''.”}}
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* A variation in ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', Lister carefully measures out a spoonful of curry powder, [[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce|throws the rest of the can into his mix]], and dumps the spoonful back into the can.
* Bernard Black does a similar thing when making coffee in [[Black Books]]: he takes a spoonful of coffee from a full jar, then pours boiling water into the jar and drinks from that.
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* This gag was a staple on ''[[The Electric Company]]'', the ''slightly'' more mature companion series to ''[[Sesame Street]]'' from the 1970s. When it was used in a live segment, the character doing so remarked that he'd "learned this from the Spellbinder" (Letterman's animated foe).
* In an episode of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'', depressed Blanche puts a normal serving of lasagna on a plate, then leaves the plate on the counter and begins eating the rest from the casserole dish.
* ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'': During an extended sketch parodying ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]'' Benny (as Butch) and Jackie Wright (as Sundance) are enjoying a stolen picnic dinner. Benny offers to cut a slice of cheese from a large - like 2 feet long - cube. Sundance makes him move the blade so the slice is thinner, and thinner, and thinner until it's practically a paper thin slice; after Butch cuts the thin slice, Sundance picks up the rest of the cheese and starts to eat it. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130401080753/http://stagevu.com/video/ksbumicuhrlc (Seen here starting about 2 minutes in.)]
* In ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]'', this was done on more than one occasion by Geraldine, the titular vicar. She would cut a slice of cake and eat the rest, or break off a piece from a chocolate bar and then eat the rest, or one example when she poured a glass of wine, then downed the rest of the bottle in one continuous gulp.
* On an episode of ''[[Family Ties]]'' Alex's uncle asks for a beer. He takes most of the six pack and hands one back.
* On one episode of ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'', one of the students from Tim's shop class does this with Jill's cake when Tim has then over for dinner.
== [[Music]] ==▼
* "Taxman", by [[The Beatles]], seems to fit this trope well:▼
{{quote|Let me tell you how it will be/There's one for you, nineteen for me/'Cause I'm the taxman,/Yeah, I'm the taxman▼
Should five percent appear too small/Be thankful I don't take it all/'Cause I'm the taxman,/Yeah, I'm the taxman }}▼
** This was [[Truth in Television]]. When the Beatles recorded this song, 95% was indeed the tax rate in Britain at the top tax bracket, which the Beatles' earnings put them in.▼
*** Actually, at one point in the 1960s, the top rate on some earnings ''exceeded 100%'' due to sloppy surcharges. This also happened during WWII, but that case might well have been intentional.▼
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Seen in ''[[Garfield]]''.
** Indeed, in one episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', Garfield hesitates about taking the cake, realizing that Jon and Odie should have some. So he cuts a small slice, eats the rest, and says [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|to the audience]], "[[Lampshade Hanging|You knew I was gonna do that.]]" Then he takes the slice and eats it too, commenting "You knew I was gonna do that too."
* Also used in ''[[FoxTrot]]'', where Roger noted that Peter had taken a normal-sliced piece of pizza and asked if he was feeling all right. While saying, "Sure, why do you ask?" he took the remaining seven-eighths and started munching on it, leaving the plate with the small slice in its place. This let Roger know that his son was still his gluttonous self.
** He had the audacity to suggest that for one holiday dinner, the portions should be thus: a slice each for Roger, Jason, Andy, and Paige, and the rest of the turkey (or was it ham?) for himself.
** Roger also did this once with coffee. He pours a cup and leaves it on the counter while grabbing the pot.
*** Andy then notes that Roger really ''is'' cutting back as she takes the mug for herself
* In ''[[Hagar the Horrible]]'', Hagar was at a party and the hostess encouraged him to take a piece of cake. Despite the fact that there was still about seven-eighths of a whole cake left, Hagar demurred, "Oh, I don't like to take the last piece"
* ''[[Helluva Boss]]''. When Stolas' wife throws a "Not Divorced Party" simply to mock him but lets him attend, Stolas is understandably upset. He tells a servant to bring the strongest liquor they have; a different servant brings a bottle of absinthe (a spirit known for being ''very'' high-proof, mildly hallucinogenic, and borderline poisonous) and starts pouring it into a shot glass, but then Stolas grabs the whole bottle and starts to drink from ''that''.
* Played with in [[Ctrl+Alt+Del]], when Ethan attempts to create a web show based off of "Will It Blend", using rocket fuel on various objects to see if they launch. Ethan says that he cleverly calculated the amount of rocket fuel needed to test to see if a brick will shoot off, and holds up said amount. Zeke then points out that since what he's holding is the calculated amount, Ethan just used the ''rest'' of the fuel on the brick. Cue an [[Oh Crap]] face from Ethan and a brick through the wall.▼
* Done twice by BC Freedom team leader Marie in ''[[Girls und Panzer]] - Operation: More Love Love! Web Edition''. First, Marie [https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/4632132 slices a cake] for herself, Isabele, and Sofue; later, Isabele [https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/4041193 offers Marie a taste of her cake]. Both times, Isabele holds a grudge and refuses to follow Marie's orders during the next practice match.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Struggling with the madness of ''[[Highlander: The Source|Highlander the Source]]'', Spoony (of ''[[The Spoony Experiment]]'') goes to get a large bottle of "Crazy Pills", returns to the camera, pours a few pills into his hand, looks at them, and then proceeds to [https://web.archive.org/web/20130810031417/http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/12/06/highlander-the-source-review/ pour the rest of the bottle into his mouth.]▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]'': Beetle Juice once found a huge gold rock. A tax collector took a small piece of it and did like the taxman from the Barney Bear example above.
* In a [[Birthday Episode]], [[Scooby Doo]] cut a normal slice of his birthday cake and offered it to Shaggy, who told him the birthday boy should take the first slice. Well, since it's this trope and [[Big Eater|Scooby]] we're talking about, you must know what happened.
* As noted above, the evil Spellbinder did this in one of the animated segments of ''[[The Electric Company]]''. After turning a farmer's "rake" into a "snake", the hero (wearing his "C" shirt) swoops to the rescue and turns it into a "cake". Which the sneaky villain promptly swipes via this Trope while the hero and farmer are occupied eating it.
▲== Web Comics ==
▲* Played with in [[Ctrl+Alt+Del]], when Ethan attempts to create a web show based off of "Will It Blend", using rocket fuel on various objects to see if they launch. Ethan says that he cleverly calculated the amount of rocket fuel needed to test to see if a brick will shoot off, and holds up said amount. Zeke then points out that since what he's holding is the calculated amount, Ethan just used the ''rest'' of the fuel on the brick. Cue an [[Oh Crap]] face from Ethan and a brick through the wall.
▲== Web Original ==
▲* Struggling with the madness of ''[[Highlander: The Source|Highlander the Source]]'', Spoony (of ''[[The Spoony Experiment]]'') goes to get a large bottle of "Crazy Pills", returns to the camera, pours a few pills into his hand, looks at them, and then proceeds to [http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/12/06/highlander-the-source-review/ pour the rest of the bottle into his mouth.]
▲== Music ==
▲* "Taxman", by [[The Beatles]], seems to fit this trope well:
▲{{quote|Let me tell you how it will be/There's one for you, nineteen for me/'Cause I'm the taxman,/Yeah, I'm the taxman
▲Should five percent appear too small/Be thankful I don't take it all/'Cause I'm the taxman,/Yeah, I'm the taxman }}
▲** This was [[Truth in Television]]. When the Beatles recorded this song, 95% was indeed the tax rate in Britain at the top tax bracket, which the Beatles' earnings put them in.
▲*** Actually, at one point in the 1960s, the top rate on some earnings ''exceeded 100%'' due to sloppy surcharges. This also happened during WWII, but that case might well have been intentional.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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{{quote|So, dimly remembering that Indians use bread when they've overdone the chillies, I cut a slice, threw it away and ate what remained of the very expensive Daylesford loaf, like a dog. }}
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