Edible Smelling Salts

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Wallace about be awakened by an unconventional alarm clock.

The smell of food wakes a character up.

Examples of Edible Smelling Salts include:

Anime and Manga

  • A very indirect version happens in Dragon Ball, during the first Tournament Arc. Master Roshi hypnotizes Goku to sleep, as a major desperate move. Later, Roshi claims that there is no stimulus to wake up Goku before he gives a proper sign, though Bulma realizes that there's one thing to get through to Goku, she announces its dinnertime, he immediately wakes up.
  • This trope was played in K-On! - The girls were trying to wake up Yui, by claiming that they bought her cake. But she went back to sleep when she notices that there's no actual cake.
  • One episode of Super GALS! has Miyu and Sayo wake up Ran by cooking some fried chicken and using fans to make sure the scent reached Ran's bedroom. It worked.

Film

Live-Action Television

New Media

  • In chapter 9.6 of Descendant of a Demon Lord, Celes wakes up by lowering a live mole attached to a string towards Lady Slaughter (who was sleeping in a crevice). Yes this counts. The player submission on what to do said to use the smell of food to wake Slaughter, and in the quest the mole was described as prey and Slaughter's yawn revealed bloody flesh in between her teeth.

Newspaper Comics

Video Games

  • This is used in the remake of the original game of the Neptunia series to get Neptune to eat an antidote to poison.

Web Animation

Western Animation

  • SpongeBob used a chocolate bar to wake up Patrick.
  • In Star vs. the Forces of Evil. The spider woke Ludo with a taco.
  • As seen in the page image, Wallace of Wallace and Gromit has a very unusual alarm clock.
  • Shaggy using this technique to wake up Scooby Doo in "A Night of Fright is No Delight," and too numerous episodes to list.