High Dive Hijinks: Difference between revisions

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A character wants to show off how brilliant and athletic they are without getting all sweaty and gross or joining a team? Platform diving is the best way to do it. Climb that ladder to the diving board or platform, throw the shoulders back, and let gravity do most of the work.

 

 

The trope is common in several different visual media, both live action and animated.

Oh, and the pool below? It may be a flat surface painted to look like a pool full of water. It may be filled with water. Or jello. Or [[Empty Swimming Pool Dive|not filled at all.]] It may be replaced by a glass of water. Or a damp sponge. Or the pool may be populated with sharks or crocodiles, leaving the diver to attempt to land safely with all that momentum, and without getting eaten or [[Amusing Injuries|toon damaged]]. Often results in the diver ending up bellyflopping into the water.

 

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken'' is about a [[A Boy and His X|a girl and her diving horse]].

* In ''[[The Right Stuff]]'', Washington bureaucrats are being shown a film of potential astronauts. One of them is a circus high diver, who dives into a pool of flaming water. The people showing the film say he might be a good candidate because of his "ease with flames, comfort at heights and agility in the splashdown phase."

* In ''Sabrina The Teenage Witch'' (there was a movie before the series) the [[Alpha Bitch]] tries pull this trope on Sabrina, but fails.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** Bugs was supposed to be the hapless diver in ''High Dive Hare'', but he turns the tables on Yosemite Sam.

** Bugs Bunny short "Big Top Bunny". Bugs and Bruno the bear compete to see who can make the most difficult high dive. Bruno wins by saying he'll dive 1,000 feet into a block of cement, and does. Watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=191DWbKHjv0#t=5m0s here].

** "Stage Door Cartoon". Bugs maneuvers Elmer Fudd into making a high dive into a glass of water. Watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4dUBMnuw4#t=4m20s here].

* The [[Tex Avery]] toons:

** "Daredevil Droopy" has Droopy successfully make a high dive into a bushel-sized container of water, much to the consternation of his antagonist, Spike.

* Disney:

** Uncle Scrooge has the high dive lead to a swimming pool filled with coins instead of water.

* ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' - One of the introduction sequences was Rocky preparing to jump from a very high diving board into a tub of water tended by Bullwinkle. However, Rocky is a flying squirrel, so he flies around the circus tent, while Bullwinkle chases after him carrying the tub. As Rocky lands safely, Bullwinkle tumbles into the tub.

* Most of [[The Flintstones|Fred Flintstone's]] attempts to show off in a pool result in him bellyflopping, sinking, and then needing to be rescued by Barney.

* In one [[Andy Panda]] cartoon, a circus performer attempts to dive into a tub, but an elephant drinks all the water just as he dives. Ringmaster Andy takes the tub to get refilled and rushes to put it back, but the diver, now aware of his predicament, starts running around in mid-air. The two go back and forth, knocking down the big top tent in the process. Andy finally catches the diver, only to realize the bottom has fallen off the tub long ago.

* In ''[[Fun and Fancy Free]]'', one of Bongo's circus acts was to dive a hundred feet into a damp sponge.

** Inverted: They have Perry the Platypus dive from a ''low'' platform into a small wading pool of water.

** "Last Train to Bustville": When Candace goes into the "Give Up!" song, a scared swimmer afraid to take the high dive is the second person to join her give up line up.

* ''[[Magilla Gorilla]]'' has a cartoon in which he runs off to join the circus. The first act he performs as "Magilla the Masked Gorilla" is jumping off a platform into a bucket of water.

 

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