Juggling Loaded Guns: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|'''Rocko Dillon:''' ''[[Firing in The Air A Lot|[fires a gunshot into the air to silence the audience]]]'' Freeze, and nobody gets hurt!<br />

'''Shaun:''' "Ed, for the last time..."<br />

''Shaun squeezes the trigger of the gun, and it fires''<br />

* ''[[Pink Panther|The Return of the Pink Panther]]'': Chief Inspector Dreyfus keeps in his office desk both a real gun and a lighter that ''looks just like'' said gun. [[Hilarity Ensues]] with predictably violent results, such as when his assistant Francois, hearing a gunshot, bursts in the office to see the top half of Dreyfus' face looking up at him from behind his desk:

{{quote| '''Dreyfus:''' Don't just stand there, idiot — call a doctor. ''And then help me find my nose!''}}

* [[Stephen Colbert]]: Stephen thinks of [[I Call It Vera|Sweetness]] as [[Companion Cube|more of a lover than a weapon]] and so doesn't pay too much attention to gun safety when he's with her. His bad habit of waving the loaded gun around [[Artistic License Gun Safety|with his finger on the trigger]] [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/211989/december-02-2008/the-word---a-man-named-plaxico eventually comes back to bite him in the ass.] Well, not the ''ass'' exactly... {{spoiler|Don't worry - he's fine. The bullet [[Superman|ricocheted off his balls]].}}

* ''[[The IT Crowd]]'': Douglas opening a random drawer and finding a loaded revolver. Whilst attempting to conceal it, he accidentally shoots himself in the leg, and spends the rest of the episode trying to hide his injury from his staff. Amusingly, that happens after he checks if it's loaded by ''putting the gun to his head and pulling the trigger five times.'' He is supposed to be [[Too Dumb to Live]], but ''damn''.

{{quote| '''Actress:''' Hunh? [realizes she has gun] Oh, sure. [tosses gun to a chair] Oh, c'mon. It's not real. It's just a prop. It was either that or a spear.}}

* ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'' does it pretty much every time Rodney McKay fires a gun. Justified since he has no military experience and no training with firearms. In one episode, he frantically asks someone else what the hell he's supposed to do when ''[[Too Dumb to Live|his gun runs out of bullets]]''. Why he hasn't sought out proper instruction on ''how'' to use weapons beyond "bullets come out of this end" by now is part of his many many flaws.

* ''[[Girly]]'': [http://girlyyy.com/go/483 Lampshaded].

* ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'': Sarah is scared of [[Shapeshifting]] and holds a grudge against Tedd after his "just ''[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-12-02 joking around]''" with supposedly "not charged" [[Transformation Ray]].

* ''[[Lackadaisy]]'': [http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=19 In a background extra strip], Rocky shoots himself in the ear when [[Reckless Gun Usage|waving around his pistol]], giving him the hole in the ear seen in the regular strip.

* Brilliantly subverted in [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/all-safe/ this] ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' strip. Monica makes absolutely sure her vintage revolver is unloaded, and then manages to knock herself out with it.

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