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Occasionally, the situation is reversed, in which all parties actually ''want'' the object in question, and constantly attack each other to grab it, or at least knock it out of the others' hands. For example, the [[Bouquet Toss|bridal bouquet at a wedding]], or [[Apple of Discord|a golden apple]].

 

 

Not to be confused with the [[Game Show]] ''[[Hot Potato (TV)|Hot Potato]]'', or with one of the earliest [[Ear Worm|ear worms]] by [[The Wiggles]].

 

See also [[Grenade Hot Potato]].

== [[Advertising]] ==

* A literal hot potato appears in a spot for public television. A young man throws a potato at a local board meeting. The board members toss it around, and the potato makes its way in and out of the hands of various corporate executives and politicians. Finally, a young man catches the potato, puts it into his pocket, and calmly walks into a public television station.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* Often used in ''[[The Three Stooges]]'', normally it was something explosive like a grenade or a stick of dynamite.

* The blutwurst in ''The Assassination Bureau''. Dragomiloff and von Pinck play hot potato until the wurst lands on Archduke Ferdinand's plate. Hungry, the Archduke cuts into the wurst. {{spoiler|[[Stuff Blowing Up|Ka-BOOM]]!!}}

* A special case in the ''[[Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'' episode ''Sorry, Wrong Ed'' involving [[Funny Foreigner|Rolf]]'s [[Artifact of Doom|cursed telephone]]. [[Ted Baxter|Eddy]] takes the phone off Rolf's hands, and gets cursed. After "testing" the phone, the Eds go back to Rolf's and try to give it back. [[Cloudcuckoolander|Ed]] says the trope's name, and then [[Teen Genius|Edd]] gets tossed around along with the phone.

* The reverse situation occurs in the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Vanessesary Roughness" between Perry the Platypus, Vanessa Doofenshmirtz and Ferb, Baljeet and Buford, and Candace to get a tube of "pizzazium infinionite".

** There was an interesting variation in a ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon, where a second item was introduced in this "game": a bowler hat which fell off the head of another cat (not Tom). Of course, eventually the bomb ended where the hat should be: on the second cat's head.

* On ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'', Skipper likes to play hot potato... with a live bomb.

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