I Was Told There Would Be Cake: Difference between revisions

== Comics ==

* This line delivered by Volstagg in a ''[[The Mighty Thor|Thor]]'' comic, upon arriving with a handful of other Asgardians at the Broxton City Hall, shortly after Asgard was relocated there (it's even quoted in Marvel Database):

* While temporarily in charge of ''[[The Office]]'', Jim decides to celebrate all the office birthdays for the year on one day to cut down on expenses. The plan unravels when everyone demands their own favorite type/flavor of cake for "their" birthday portion. Except for Creed, who wants cobbler instead.

* ''[[Boy Meets World]]'': This is how Mr. Feeny and Cory convince Shawn to take the SATs.

(''cut to a scene later with everyone taking the test... with Shawn eating cake'') }}

* On ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', when Sylar kills a woman who can detect lies on her birthday, her colleagues enter her office with presents to find Sylar with blood all over his hands and a delightful smile on his face as he asks [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"Cake?"]]

* [[George Carlin]]'s "Refrigerator Man" routine, including the mystery of "meat cake".

* [[Jim Gaffigan]] has a whole sequence on the power of cake, how cake can bring enemies together, how pancakes are mysteriously considered wholesome breakfast food, etc.

"...well, I suppose I should stop by and at least say ''hi''..." }}

* Whereas for [[Bill Cosby]], even chocolate cake is a wholesome breakfast food.

* Swedish comedian [[wikipedia:Johan Glans|Johan Glans]] has a routine about how he's realised that he's getting old. One of the things that made him realise that was apparently that, when arriving at parties, he has started asking the host if there will be cake.

* [[Patton Oswalt]]'s "Sky Cake" bit.

* [[Mitch Hedberg]] wishes that long hair didn't connote "drug user", but something else, like "an extreme longing for cake".

* Greg Behernedt refers to his love of cake several times:

"I'm getting married in a couple weeks. Wanna know why? CAKE! There's a human sized cake at the end! Haven't you been listening? CAKE!" }}

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', there is a hard-to-get recipe for "Delicious Chocolate Cake". Getting the recipe and baking the cake earns the achievement "The Cake Is Not A Lie".

* Stated word for word by Sten during one of the possible endings of ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins''.

* Most ''[[Harvest Moon]]'' games have some sort of holiday that centers around handing out cake (or baked goods of some sort). In ''Magical Melody'', this occurs on Valentine's Day. Your character can give out pieces and you will be given pieces by people who like you enough.

* Each stage of ''[[Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards]]'' (except for boss battles) ends with the characters having a nice picnic, and you play a little minigame where [[Kirby]] can pick up some extra items. This includes a slice of cake that heals some of Kirby's health.

== Web Original ==

* In the [[Zero Punctuation]] [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1595-God-of-War-III review for God Of War III], he uses the victory cake to describe the end result of an easy win against Chronos.

** In his review of ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', he decides that "cake" must be a metaphor for sex, or Mario and Bowser wouldn't be so excited by the prospect of getting some from Peach.

* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', from Marzipan's Answering Machine: "[[Running Gag|You said you'd bake us a cake!]]"

** In one episode, the Delightfuls became Fourth Grade presidents by promising Woodrow Wilson, the kid in charge of counting the votes, a slice of their cake. However, the episode wasn't about the cake, which was only mentioned when Wilson confessed his wrongdoing to Numbuh 1.

* From ''[[South Park]]: [[The Movie|Bigger, Longer, and Uncut]]'':

'''Kyle''' (''typing''): "Punch and pie." }}

** And then later, two of the kids attending leave when they find out that there isn't any.

* In an episode of ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'', after the namesake character's father decided to make a cake for a theme party in his class, the resulting [[Foreign Queasine|unusual-looking cake]] turns out to be a hit with the class, especially Mr. Ratburn. As Arthur gets his dad to keep making cakes for various events in order to make himself more popular, a [[Running Gag]] occurs as Mr. Ratburn appears at wherever cake may be present with the pretense of bringing a reading list for students. It gets to the point that he randomly appears at Arthur's house unprompted just for a chance to eat cake.

* ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'': With pudding cups.

* In ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' there's a popular restaurant called Cake 'N' [[Bacon Addiction|Bacon]].