Don't Try This At Home: Difference between revisions

** In the manga version, the chapter where Hayate defeats a robotic butler by {{spoiler|sticking silverware into its joints and shorting it out}} is actually titled something like "Good Little Kids Shouldn't Try This At Home! And Neither Should The Bad Ones!"

*** Good boys and girls should never {{spoiler|jump out of a moving train}}.

** Which is made more amusing by the fact that the tough delinquent characters hardly ever actually do anything dangerous or likely to get anyone in trouble.

* In the first episode of ''[[Sonic X]],'' Sonic jumps on top of an S-Team race car during a chase, causing the driver to protest that they don't want any kids copying him; Sonic duly warns the kids in the audience never to stand on moving cars.This is possibly a parodical [[Shout-Out]] to the original ''Sonic Sez'' segments of the first animated series.

* At the beginning of every episode of [[Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?]], we're helpfully reminded "Our protagonist is a zombie. Do not try this at home!"

* ''[[Star Driver]]'' holds up a notice, when a character rides the top of the bus to school, that only people who live on the fictional island the show is set is allowed to ride on the roof of a bus.

* In the [[Cooking Duel]] of ''[[Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya]] 2wei'', while Suzuka was wrapping up Tatsuko like a mummy to prevent her from further screwing up the cake they were baking, Nanami breaks the fourth wall to address the readers.

{{quote|'''Nanami:''' Kids, be good and don't imitate this please!}}

* When Walker uses an [[Aerosol Flamethrower]] in the sixth ''[[Durarara!!]]'' [[Light Novel]], the narration notes that this is, in fact, a ''terrible'' idea and more likely to set ''you'' on fire than your opponent. It then notes that Walker knows this and does it anyway, [[Cloudcuckoolander|because he's Walker.]]

* In the second ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' OAD, packaged with vol. 43 of the manga in September 2011, Keiichi does the old Mentos and Diet Coke eruption trick by holding the Mentos in his mouth and spitting them into a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke. An onscreen caption says "He is using it the wrong way. Children, don't do what he's doing." (Putting the Mentos in his mouth would probably make them less effective anyway, since the nucleation points on their surfaces would dissolve away.)

* The Nickoloden game show Guts had a disclaimer from host Mike O Malley:

{{quote|Remember, all these events are made with our players safety in mind. They will be wearing safety equipment and will have stunt spotters and stunt coordinators with them at all times. So please, do not try this at home.}}

{{quote|'''Adam:''' Please, don't try ''anything'' you're about to see us do at home.

'''Jamie:''' ''Ever!'' }}

== Theatre ==

*** In fact, he crushes a sea mine specifically labelled "Do not crush in Dad's vice".

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has Homer lecture Bart after taking him to see a UFC [[Expy]], telling him "Don't try this at home. Try it at school, somewhere where we can sue if you get hurt - and not ''just'' the school, but the county, the state, and that jackass Joe Biden!"

* In the [[Space Goofs]] [[Christmas Episode]], the aliens are trying to drive away Santa Claus by lighting explosives under the chimney:

{{quote|'''Etno''': "Remember folks, don't try this at home."

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