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* Subverted in a commercial for painkillers: An elderly inmate's wife comes in for a visit with a basket full of goodies, one of which is a pie. She nods significantly at him and he nods back. Later, he opens the basket, rummages through the pie... and finds some painkillers, which he then uses to alleviate the pain of sawing through the bars with a file.

* In [[Buster Keaton]]'s ''[[Steamboat Bill, Jr.]].'' the title character attempts to smuggle tools to his jailed father in a loaf of bread.

 

* There's an old joke that goes:

{{quote|Mom: I couldn't find that file you asked for, so I baked in some nail clippers and a pumice stone instead!

* [[Mark Twain]] parodies this (and possibly other early uses) in ''[[Huckleberry Finn]]'', where this is a part of Tom Sawyer's [[Rule of Cool]] plan to free Jim.

* [[Tom Holt]] inverts this in ''Falling Sideways'': Someone hides a cake in a file. As in, a file folder. It was entirely for the sake of the pun.

{{quote|Well here's a thing yore ole Mum doin Time in prison again, Im a old lag, youll have to send me a cake with a phial in it...}}

 

* In ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', Olive bakes a gun into a pie for Ned. For protection.

* Spoofed in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' when a very nervous Quark shows up with a ''hasperat'' souffle to give to some prisoners; the guard digs around it as Quark squirms leading everyone to expect the discovery of a technobabble-esque file, [[Kansas City Shuffle|but it's a distraction while someone else uses a hypospray on him]].

** In ''Super DuckTales'', when Scrooge gets arrested and thrown into jail, Mrs. Beakley smuggles in a grenade in a cake so that he can blow up the walls and get out. It...doesn't go to plan, and Huey, Dewey and Louie have to call on Gizmo Duck to break him out.

** One particularly amusing variation has the ''cake itself'' be the tool. It contains nothing but actual cake, but the cake gives one of the Beagle Boys a case of the hiccups so bad his brothers are able to ''use him as a jackhammer'' to dig out.

* A ''[[House of Mouse]]'' cartoon has Mickey ask Goofy to do this after Mickey is locked in jail. The guard notices; and he and Goofy end up having a long discussion on how this wouldn't really work and what tools should have been used, ending with the guard concluding that the easiest way to escape would be to knock him out. The guard then proceeds to do so to himself.

* In ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', Phantom Limb sends his regards to King Gorilla by baking a "Tarzan" into a cake. [[Squick]].

* This trope is subverted in the [[Hanna-Barbera]] cartoon ''The Good, the Bad and [[Huckleberry Hound]]'', when one of the Dalton Brothers (Stinky, I think) is in jail and Huck eats a cake Stinky received from one of the other Daltons in disguise. This was so Huck could check for a file, and there wasn't one. The reason it's a subversion is that it's obviously one of the other Daltons and you'd expect the cake to have a file, but then it doesn't (so far as I remember).

** That's because while he was busy eating the cake, the Dalton was handing ''jackhammers'' to his boys from out of his purse.

** In another episode (Adopt-A-Con), Darkwing is thrown in Jail (Again), and Gos comes by with a cake..that has a chainsaw in it. It then keeps going, getting more random each time.

* Subverted in ''[[CatDog]]'': A bunch of immates receive a file, but Shriek uses it on her fingernails and then uses said fingernails to pick the lock.

* ''[[Beany and Cecil]]'' - jailbird Dishonest John gets a tool-filled birthday cake from Mom - unfortunately for him, the guard makes him eat it all up while he watches.

* One portrayal (along [[Fractured Fairy Tale]]s lines) of the story of Daedalus and Icarus had "Icky" come into the prison and bake the cake right there in front of "Dad." No way he could've smuggled anything inside the cake, right? Except that when Daedalus bit into it, he nearly broke a few teeth on the file his son '''somehow''' slipped in.

 

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