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{{quote|''[[Fantastic Aesop|CAVEAT: Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.]]''|''[[Good Omens]]'', by [[Terry Pratchett]] and [[Neil Gaiman]]}}
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== Advertising ==
* "Professional driver, closed course"
** Seen in one car commercial that parodied ''Field of Dreams,'' by having the character build a race track in his corn field. At the end it said "Professional driver on a closed cornfield." Later they changed it back to "closed course."
** In a particularly ludicrous case, a tire commercial displays this warning while showing ''astronauts driving a rover across the moon''.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The Anime series ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' parodies this
** 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}}.
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== Literature ==
* Every instance of someone climbing into the eponymous wardrobe in [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]]'s first ''[[Narnia]]'' book, ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,'' is accompanied by the narrator's remarks on how dangerous it is to close oneself into a wardrobe, how smart Lucy and Peter are to leave the door ajar, and how foolish Edmund is to close it on
** This becomes [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] as of the Walden Media movie adaptation: one of the outtakes has Edmund climbing into the wardrobe and closing the door behind him... and getting locked in.
* ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'': the second book, ''The Reptile Room'', warns the reader to never, ever, ever, ever, ever (continued for slightly more than a page) ''ever'' stick things in an electric socket. ''Ever''.
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* ''[[Brainiac: Science Abuse]]'' not only uses this a lot, but invariably reinforces it a few seconds later with "No, really -- Don't." Often associated with putting things in microwave ovens that cause them to explode.
** "No, really" was Richard Hammond's coda. When Vic Reeves took over, he changed it to "Don't try this at home -- or indeed any other place". This was probably because the producers realised that the phrase alone is so clichéd now that people don't actually register its meaning any more when they hear it.
* [[Penn & Teller]] produced a special entitled ''Don't Try This At Home!'' which subverted this by mostly containing stunts which were impossible to do at home anyway, such as enclosing themselves in a tent with a million bees, or counterweighting a truck with several tons of stage weights to drive it over Teller's chest. Further subverted for humourous effect later in the special, when they demonstrate the use of hydraulic squibs for producing blood effects by having Teller throw marshmallows at Penn's fake
* Back in the 1980s, on the David Letterman Show, Letterman would occasionally warn the viewers, "Don't try this at home." On at least one occasion, after witnessing an especially bizarre stunt, he looked at the camera and said, "Go to a friend's house instead."
** This punchline was also used by [[The Reduced Shakespeare Company]]. The guys are about to perform ''Hamlet'' really fast (as in the entire play in under a minute). They give a short disclaimer to the effect that props will be thrown about, etc., and the audience should not try this at home. Adam tosses back "go to a friend's house" as he assumes his position.
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* ''[[Cake Boss]]'' has needed to invoke this on occasion. When they made a cake for Grucci Fireworks (which included live fireworks), the episode opened with a safety warning. And then Buddy blew up a test cake trying to see how this was going to work; maybe ''he'' should have watched the safety warning.
** When Buddy was asked to make a fire-breathing cake, he invoked this trope by name during a test run.
* [[Dick And Dom Go Wild]] open each show with a reminder that they're working with trained animal handlers and kids shouldn't approach wild animals on their own, and repeat it if they do anything particularly dangerous (or cute, like feeding fawns.) And when Dick did the notorious cow pregnancy test
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** This is most likely a reference to a (in)famous scene the previous game, ''Maniac Mansion'', in which certain characters could blow up Weird Ed's hamster in the microwave. DOTT treat this event as canon: Ed is still traumatized by the loss of his hamster and has undergone several years of therapy. (Which makes it all the more amusing that the hamstersicle is also his pet).
*** Was it specifically for microwaving the hamster, or just intruders in his house stealing it? Because while you don't have to microwave the hamster in the course of the game, you ''do'' have to steal it to find the keycard that opens Dr. Fred's lab.
* "The skaters depicted in this game are either professionals, made-up, or just plain crazy."
* The ''[[Need for Speed]]'' series always included a short video disclaimer about safe driving, delivered by whomever was playing the hottie in the FMV cutscenes.
* Lampshaded in ''Ratchet: Deadlocked,'' which had Dallas, the male announcer spouting out random comments while you fight, say "Remember, don't try any of this at home. Go to a friend's house!"
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