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Cake — the ultimate reward. Seriously, it seems like in games one of the standard rewards you can give someone, other than gold, XP or power stars, is cake. It's sweet, it's lovely, it's something you normally only get at birthdays and weddings [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|and it]] [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]. The perfect way to shrug off the stresses and worries of saving the world — cake.

 

<small>Warning: Stress relieving properties of cake are stated for dramatic purposes only. Overconsumption of cake may lead to obesity, increased likelihood of cardiovascular disease, Type-2 diabetes, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|the accumulation of pink frosting on the tip of your nose.]]</small>

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== Advertising ==

* One rather dark ad for Chips Ahoy showed a talking, child-sized cookie at a child's birthday party, wearing a pointy hat, singing and everything. He asks where the cake is. She tells him there is no cake. [[Nightmare Fuel|Oh.]]

* Around 2000, AOL was running ads touting how improved the service was. In one ad, an AOL user brings a homemade cake into a cubicle-style office to thank the person responsible. The whole office becomes suddenly awake, with one woman peering from behind a wall saying "I smell cake!"

 

* In the ''[[K-On!]]!'' manga/anime, many of the club members or the teacher in charge of them are bought off or motivated by cake.

* When [[Yotsubato|Yotsuba]] attends Fuka's school's festival, she is told they'll have cake. There ''is'' cake, but Yotsuba is far from impressed on learning it's '''pound''' cake. Attempts to rectify this by giving her a crepe are only partially successful.

* ''[[Madoka Magica]]'': When Madoka can't think of anything to use her wish on, [[If We Get Through This|Mami suggests cake.]]

 

* 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):

{{quote|"Excuse us...but we heard...we heard there was cake, and, well...what unfortunate day's events are not made gladder by cake?"}}

 

== Film ==

* In the [[So Bad It's Good]] Hulk Hogan vehicle ''[[Suburban Commando]]'', intergalactic bounty hunter Shep Ramsay adapts to the suburban lifestyle with a mix of grievous bodily harm and property damage...but it's all against assholes, and is thus rewarded with cake. Shep is initially confused that Earthlings eat the stuff, but then tastes it and promptly wolfs it down.

* In ''[[Office Space]]'', Milton claims that at a previous birthday party (at which there was cake, but at which he did not receive cake), he was told that he would receive cake at the next party. That party occurs in the movie, and there is cake, but Milton does not receive any cake.

 

== Literature ==

* In the children's book ''Big Max'' by Kin Platt, the King of Pooka Pooka offers Big Max a room full of rubies, a room full of emeralds, or a room full of gold for finding Jumbo, his prize elephant. When Jumbo is found, though (he was at his birthday party), all Big Max asks for is a piece of the birthday cake.

* Cake was the reward in ''The Poky Little Puppy'', too.

 

== Live Action Television ==

* On ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'', a flashback to Ray and Debra's dating years has Marie learning that they plan to have sex, so she lures the family priest to Debra's apartment by promising him lasagna. When it becomes clear what's going on, he snaps "Is there even a lasagna here?"

* On the ''[[Community]]'' [[Christmas Episode]] "Abed's Uncontrolable Christmas", the only reason Pierce takes part in Abed's therapy session is because they're serving cookies.

 

== Music ==

* "If I knew you were coming, I'd have baked a cake, baked a cake, baked a cake..."

* "MacArthur Park", written by Jimmy Webb and Adrian Drover, sung by... lots of people:

* Cibo Matto's "Birthday Cake"

 

* [[Eddie Izzard]]'s "Cake or Death" routine.

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

{{quote|"I will go anywhere if you say the phrase 'there might be cake.' Not even a definite... there *might* be cake, and I'm there. I would go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, register somebody else's boat in Spanish, a language I do not speak, without ID -- for cake."

"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!" }}

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* The card game ''Chrononauts'' features fabulous [http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Chrononauts/Mysteries.html#1 German Black Forest Cake] from the 1939 New York World's Fair. (Germany was invited but [[World War II|was kinda busy at the time]].) The cake is distractingly tasty.

 

== Video Games ==

* The [[Hyperbole and a Half]] entry "The God of Cake".

* In Brazil, one meme is "[http://ficavaiterbolo.com/ Fica, vai ter bolo]" ("[http://ficavaiterbolo.com/photo/1280/5546298690/1/tumblr_ll9sqjBWqa1qh498x Stay,]{{Dead link}} [http://ficavaiterbolo.com/photo/1280/4983841745/1/tumblr_lkb7lhgeXW1qh498x there]{{Dead link}} [http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lky6wsDBIQ1qh498xo1_500.jpg will] [http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkbwl0qRzN1qh498xo1_500.png be] [http://ficavaiterbolo.com/photo/1280/4510326197/1/tumblr_ljc7xwsm0m1qh498x cake]{{Dead link}}", riffing on the usual quip to someone leaving a birthday party early), sometimes over tragedies or downright disturbing images.

 

== Western Animation ==

* The ''[[Regular Show]]'' episode "Free Cake" is all about Mordecai and Rigby trying to get chocolate cake. They finally convince Benson to throw a birthday party for Skips, but in trying to get Skips {{spoiler|they inadvertedly interrupt a ritual that Skips needs to perform to live forever. When [[The Powers That Be]] threaten to drain away Skips' lifeforce, Mordecai is forced to give them the chocolate cake in exchange for letting Skips live.}} In the end, they get cake, {{spoiler|only it's vanilla.}}

* In the ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "Band Geeks", Squidward organizes a band by setting up fliers all over town, promising free refreshments. At the first meeting, Mr. Krabs asks "When do we get to the free food?", making it clear that was the only reason he came.

 

== Real Life ==