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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"I don't understand it. I went trick-or-treating and all I got was a bag full of rocks."''|'''[[Peanuts
In [[Halloween Episode|Halloween Episodes]], some characters go trick-or-treating. They eagerly open their candy bags and ready themselves for the candy. The adult reaches into a bowl and grabs some ... fruit? This will typically make the children mad, usually resulting in the vandalizing of said adult's house.
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Note that the "treat" does not always have to be edible, or even a likely one, like the eponymous rock.
The [[Trope Namer]] is from the ''[[
Compare [[My New Gift Is Lame]]
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== Card Games ==
* While there is a ''[[Munchkin (
* Also a card name in the [[Too Good to Last]] CCG ''[[
== Comics ==
* A ''[[Looney Tunes (
* In an issue of the ''[[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|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]]'s shield, etc.), "I got a rock."
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== 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 ''[[
* [[Adam Sandler]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS7I7inPSZw&feature=fvsr gets a guy to hand out items] in ''[[Big Daddy]].''
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== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[
{{quote| '''Kitty''': "Raisins are nature's candy!"<br />
'''Red''': "And eggs are nature's hand grenade." }}
** From that same episode:
{{quote| '''Fez''': An apple? Where's my candy, you son of a bitch?!}}
* In a ''[[
** ''[[Saturday Night Live
## Mung (they didn't actually know what it was)
## Hurl (they did know what ''that'' was)
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## Pop Rocks (the old [[Urban Legends]])
## Pennies (self evident)
* In a ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]'' episode, Cindy Walsh gave out raisins, calling them "nature's candy".
* In an episode of ''[[Married...
* The Halloween episode of ''[[
* On his [[Character Blog]], Lassiter of ''[[Psych]]'' says to note down the people who do this and [http://twitter.com/Psych_Lassie/status/5295826161 he will arrest them].
* When [[
* On ''[[
* When [[
* In ''[[Do Over]]'', Joel's parents gave people energy bars.
* In an episode of ''[[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]]'' a depressed man gives young Frank Black a cigarette.
* 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 ''[[
* [[
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[
** ''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.
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[
** It's common in-game for a teammate to announce "I got a rock" and for the rest of the team to congratulate that player.
* In the early days of ''[[
* The name of this trope is a cheat code in ''[[Geneforge]]''. It [[Exactly What It Says
* Early on in ''[[
== Web Animation ==
* The ''[[
** 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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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Bug (
* Inverted in ''[[
{{quote| Marvin as pirate: I got a marble!<br />
Grape as devil: I got a piece of flint!<br />
Sasha as witch: I got a bone!<br />
Peanut with a blanket over him: I got a chocolate... }}
* A [[
{{quote| '''Kid:''' That's enough, Mister.<br />
'''Scott:''' Nonsense! There's no such thing as enough Mr. Pibb!<br />
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== Web Original ==
* 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 Marvel And
== Western Animation ==
* In the [[Trope Namer]], ''[[
** If this were to happen in real life, the home-owner would run the risk of having the rock returned... through a window.
** Parodied in ''[[
{{quote| '''Cleveland:''' I got a big tax refund. Uncle Sam sent me $500.<br />
'''Joe:''' I got $600!<br />
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'''[[The Cameo|Charlie Brown]]''': I got a rock. }}
** Bad Gods presents the [http://badgods.com/guitarsolocharliebrown.html remix].
** ''[[
** And parodied in the NSFW [[Gag Dub]] ''It's the Great [[Dolemite]], Charlie Brown!'': "I got another mothafuckin' POTATO!!"
* In ''[[
** 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 ''[[
** In the [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]] ''Underfist'', Billy complains about getting pennies... because of how awful they taste.
* In one of ''[[The Simpsons (
** In another Treehouse of Horror opening Bart complains that Flanders gave them toothpaste, in which Lisa complains about it being [[Comically Missing the Point|''mini'' toothpaste]] and another when Bart empties his trick or treat bag ''(While dressed as Charlie Brown).''
{{quote| '''Bart:''' Good grief! This candy's terrible. Circus peanuts, raisins, nicotine gum, a library card.}}
* ''[[
** Also, it was his own house.
* On ''[[
* On an episode of ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'', Mr. Van Dreesan offered the trick-or-treaters a choice between organic nut clusters and a bumper sticker that said "My other car's a bike." Beavis and Butt-Head took the stickers.
* In the ''[[
{{quote| '''Kyle:''' What's that?<br />
'''Stan:''' For shocking people who try to give us granola treats, or something.<br />
'''Cartman:''' Yeah, granola pisses me off. }}
* In a ''[[
* On ''[[
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