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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the OEL ''[[I Luv Halloween]]'', the first house the main characters go to gives them an apple, and after that all the houses give them Hostess Snack-like treats. They attempt to break the 'curse' by hiding a razor blade in the apple and giving it to the chief of police, who has the old lady who gave it to them arrested.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
== Card Games ==▼
* While there is a ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]'' card with this name, it refers to a treasure chest rather than Halloween. Still counts. (Oddly, the rock can come in extremely handy to break a tie or instantly smash the Glass Jaw).▼
* Also a card name in the [[Too Good to Last]] CCG ''[[Net Runner]]'', where the "Rock" in question was a mass driver launch from orbit which the corp could launch at the runner. A tough card to deploy, but if you could get it off, it squashed the runner flat.▼
== Comics ==▼
* A ''[[Looney Tunes (comics)|Looney Tunes]]'' comic had [[Bugs Bunny]] and [[Daffy Duck]] trick or treating. Daffy gets only charcoal and rocks. On the other hand, Bugs gets candy and money, but is annoyed he didn't get carrots.
* In an issue of the ''[[Incredible Hulk]]'' (the intelligent) Hulk studies his officially licensed [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers]] action figure. He comments that while everybody else has some cool accessory ([[Captain America (comics)]]'s shield, etc.), "I got a rock."
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged]]'', the neighborhood watch committee warns about this when trick or treating at houses with old people.▼
* The original line was parodied in an early ''[[I'm a
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Spaced Invaders]]'' has C.W. Clembecker giving cigarettes to the kids. One of them mentions that he's given them dead rats in years past.
* Max Goldman gives out ''office supplies'' to the kids in ''[[Grumpy Old Men]]''.
* [[Adam Sandler]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS7I7inPSZw&feature=fvsr gets a guy to hand out items] in ''[[Big Daddy]].''
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Goosebumps]]'' book "The Haunted Mask", Carly Beth gets apples. Since [[Evil Feels Good]] with the mask on, she throws it at the house.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[That '70s Show]]'', Kitty decides to give out raisins. Eggs are promptly thrown at the windows.
{{quote|'''Kitty''': "Raisins are nature's candy!"
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* In the [[Christmas Special]] ''[[A Muppet Family Christmas]]'', there's not only a rock, it's a ''regifted'' rock—and getting it is regarded as a good thing. The "nice yellow pebble" has been circulated as a gift among the Fraggles thirty-seven times, then is given to Robin the Frog, who gives it to Grover.
* In an episode of ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'', Frank runs out of candy, but starts giving out what he thinks are chocolate coins to keep the neighborhood kids from egging the house. Angry parents soon start to arrive to find out why their kids are being given condoms.
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] [[In Name Only|ECW]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0qxyaBrzO4 Guess what the Boogeyman gives out on Halloween.]
▲== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[FoxTrot]]'' has Andy giving out health foods.
** ''FoxTrot'' also had a comic where Jason and Marcus went to each house in the neighborhood to get a sample of what they'd be giving out on Halloween so that they could avoid this. Of course, everyone gave them lame foods so that they wouldn't come back.
** While watching the [[Trope Namer]], Jason concocts a scheme were Charlie Brown would eat the rocks, get surgery for his intestines and sue the pants off the people who gave him rocks, for not telling him they weren't candy.
▲* While there is a ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]'' card with this name, it refers to a treasure chest rather than Halloween. Still counts. (Oddly, the rock can come in extremely handy to break a tie or instantly smash the Glass Jaw).
▲* Also a card name in the [[Too Good to Last]] CCG ''[[Net Runner]]'', where the "Rock" in question was a mass driver launch from orbit which the corp could launch at the runner. A tough card to deploy, but if you could get it off, it squashed the runner flat.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[City of Heroes]]'', the Halloween event includes a [[Mini Game]] in which you can "trick or treat" for Halloween-themed items or temporary abilities. One of these is a rock (ranged weapon, minor damage).
** It's common in-game for a player to announce "I got a rock" and for the rest of the team to congratulate that player.
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* Early on in ''[[Costume Quest]]'', when the siblings Wren and Reynold go trick-or-treating, the adult in the very first house they visit is so repulsed by their costumes that all they give them is some old marzipan they dug up from their couch.
== [[Web Animation]] ==▼
* The ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' Halloween cartoon, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103182437/http://www.homestarrunner.com/halloween2001.html The House That Gave Sucky Treats], is a game where you hand out candy, and some of the treats are traditional "unpopular" treats or otherwise unsuitable. You can give [[Granola Girl|Marzipan]] (who is vegan) a steak, which causes her to complain "Is this a joke? It's not funny." (While Strong Bad slips several of them into her treat pail) You can give [[Butt Monkey|Strong Sad]] a can of Campbell's soup (he's dressed as [[Andy Warhol]]), Necco wafers or some Baker's chocolate. Also, you can give Mary Jane (a sort of cheap honey-flavored taffy) to Pom-Pom and the Poopsmith, prompting the Poopsmith to [[Talking with Signs|hold up a sign]] reading "Give us something good instead." Furthermore, Strong Bad will complain about any of the treats you can give him: a fun-size Butterfinger ("What's 'fun' about less candy?"), an apple ("What are you, a dentist? Or a hippie? Or some kind of hippie dentist?"), or a marshmallow bunny ("All you've got is old freakin' Easter candy?!"). Finally, you can give Homestar change, at which point he sarcastically thanks you for "adding a step to my Halloween process".▼
▲== Web Animation ==
▲* The ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' Halloween cartoon, [http://www.homestarrunner.com/halloween2001.html The House That Gave Sucky Treats], is a game where you hand out candy, and some of the treats are traditional "unpopular" treats or otherwise unsuitable. You can give [[Granola Girl|Marzipan]] (who is vegan) a steak, which causes her to complain "Is this a joke? It's not funny." (While Strong Bad slips several of them into her treat pail) You can give [[Butt Monkey|Strong Sad]] a can of Campbell's soup (he's dressed as [[Andy Warhol]]), Necco wafers or some Baker's chocolate. Also, you can give Mary Jane (a sort of cheap honey-flavored taffy) to Pom-Pom and the Poopsmith, prompting the Poopsmith to [[Talking with Signs|hold up a sign]] reading "Give us something good instead." Furthermore, Strong Bad will complain about any of the treats you can give him: a fun-size Butterfinger ("What's 'fun' about less candy?"), an apple ("What are you, a dentist? Or a hippie? Or some kind of hippie dentist?"), or a marshmallow bunny ("All you've got is old freakin' Easter candy?!"). Finally, you can give Homestar change, at which point he sarcastically thanks you for "adding a step to my Halloween process".
** When Strong Mad and The Cheat show up, a pile of rocks shows up as one of the treat choices. Give it to them, and [[Too Dumb to Live|Strong Mad]] will just eat the rocks like normal candy, and wash them down with cola. [[Your Head Asplode|Then The Cheat's head a'splodes.]]
*** If you give Homestar the Circus Peanuts instead, he'll start singing "Entry of the Gladiators" ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0 this bugger right here]) until you shut the door in his face. Then he'll knock again ''so he can keep singing at you''.
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* The [[Gag Dub]] "It's the Great Dolemite, Charlie Brown" has African-American Charlie Brown receive baked potatoes when he and his friends trick-or-treat in the white neighborhood.
* [http://www.joesparks.com/radiskull/episodes/e02/radiskull_episode_02.html Hella Weenie], the second episode of [http://www.joesparks.com/radiskull/index.html Radiskull & Devil Doll]. A neighbour who looks like a cross between Ned Flanders and Weird Al Yankovik has a bowl with supersized chocolate bars. When a kid comes to his house, the man reaches into the bowl and pulls out a hidden tangerine, to the kid's disappointment.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Bug Martini
* Inverted in ''[[Housepets]]'', since chocolate is toxic to cats and dogs alike:
{{quote|Marvin as pirate: I got a marble!
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'''Kid:''' No, sir! }}
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
▲* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged]]'', the neighborhood watch committee warns about this when trick or treating at houses with old people.
* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] shows an old video of himself trick-or-treating as [[Dick Tracy (comic strip)|Dick Tracy]], and mentions that he got a rock when he was (so he was not going to dress up like that for the review). Since the video is a real childhood home movie of [[James Rolfe]], this is also in [[Truth in Television]].
▲* The original line was parodied in an early ''[[I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC|I'm A Marvel... And I'm A DC]]'' episode. [[Spider-Man]] gets three supervillains to fight; [[Superman]] gets [[Kryptonite Factor|a rock]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the [[Trope Namer]], ''[[It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown]]'', all of the other kids get candy but Charlie Brown always gets a rock in his treat bag.
** If this were to happen in real life, the home-owner would run the risk of having the rock returned... through a window.
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* In ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'', Timmy's mom and dad give Chester and AJ advice for not having good costumes. Surprisingly, the children do nothing to the Turners' residence.
** Of course it's a [[Double Subversion]] when they go to the principal: she covers them in reflective tape without giving them anything, and threatens to have them held back a grade if they TP her house. However, Chester says he's ''already'' being held back.
* Billy gets a rock in his trick-or-treat bag in an episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
** In the [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]] ''Underfist'', Billy complains about getting pennies... because of how awful they taste.
* In one of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' Halloween specials Marge tries to serve fruit to the children. They boo her. When she reminds them [[Anvilicious|"Fruit is nature's candy!"]], they boo her even more.
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* On ''[[Family Guy]]'', [[Cloudcuckoolander|Adam West]] gives out cornish hens.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* Dentists:
** Good or nice dentists will give out toothbrushes, to the disappointment of the kids.
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*** The really odious fundies give those as tips at restaurants.
* During the 2008 election season, a woman made local news because she asked trick-or-treaters who their parents were voting for...and refused to give any candy to the kids who said, "Obama." [[Internet Counterattack|Then Anonymous struck]], and there was much rejoicing.
* A pediatrician who was offering money to the kids at her door, and asking that they give their loot to her. The newspaper however did not report if her trees/shrubbery got
* Apples and popcorn balls are commonly subject to this trope because unless the giver is a trusted friend, most parents will make their children throw them away.
* Those incredibly flimsy spider-shaped plastic rings that are supposed to glow in the dark but don't.
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