I Was Told There Would Be Cake: Difference between revisions

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** Even {{spoiler|Bowser}} himself gets one at the end of ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]''. A bit of a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] for the game.

** In ''[[Super Mario RPG]]: Legend of the Seven Stars'' the cake is a two-part boss that tries to stop your party as they are ready to leave Marrymore. And then Booster comes and eats the boss cake just as the battle winds down because "you have to eat cake at a party".

** In ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'', [[Punny Name|Tayce T.]] gives you a cake for returning her frying pan. You also have to bake a cake for an extremely fat Shy Guy.

* ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' uses the big contrast between the hell that Chell is expected to perform through and the pettiness of the reward of Cake as humor. It exaggerates this pettiness with the {{spoiler|[[Room Full of Crazy]]'s}} over-dramatic exclamation of "[[The Cake Is a Lie]]", and sends up the concept of video games rewards in general.

* [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Cake Cake] was added to ''[[Minecraft]]'' in Beta update 1.2 to celebrate the game winning [http://www.indiedb.com/games/minecraft Indie of the year]. It's the most complicated food recipe<ref>1) Collect wood. 2) Build workbench. 3) Craft wooden pickaxe. 4) Mine stone. 5) Craft stone pickaxe. 6) Mine iron ore. 7) Build furnace out of cobblestone. 8) Collect fuel for the furnace. 9) Smelt iron ore into iron ingots. 10) Use nine ingots to craft three buckets. 11) Use buckets to collect milk from cows. 12) Craft hoe. 13) Use hoe on grass to collect seeds. 14) Use seeds on tilled soil near water. 15) Wait for seeds to grow into wheat. 16) Gather three units of wheat. 17) Find chicken. 18) Follow chicken around until it randomly lays an egg. 19) Find sugarcane. 20) Collect two units of sugarcane. 21) Convert into sugar. 22) Combine 3 milk, 2 sugar, 1 egg, and 3 wheat to create 1 cake.</ref> in the game, but the resulting cake can heal [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Category:Food 90% of your health bar], and you can eat one-sixth of it at a time so you don't need to wait until you're on the verge of dying to ensure that you don't waste any of its healing potential.

** When beta 1.8 was released, a [[Hunger Meter]] was added and all food items affected that instead of health. Each slice of cake restored 1 point of hunger, up to 6 in total. Cake became a bit impractical because of it.

 

 

{{quote|"Oh. Are you having cake?"}}

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

** In the episode where Timmy Turner decided to run for President of the Student Council, Co-Presidents Tad and Chad offered a huge cake to [[Food as Bribe|sway the voters into their side]]. It backfired on them as everyone who ate of the cake became too sick to attend school during voting day. The only people at school that day were Timmy and Principal Waxelplax, the latter of whom said she was only there because she's frosting intolerant.

* 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.}}

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