Juggling Loaded Guns: Difference between revisions

** The air rifle gag is apparently based on a real-life incident - in the ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'' commentary, Edgar Wright claims that his brother once shot him in the leg with an air rifle.

* ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'': features a running argument between Ed and Shaun on whether or not The Winchester's namesake gun (mounted over the bar) has been deactivated:

'''Ed:''' "[[I Knew It!|I]] [[Precision F-Strike|fucking]] [[I Knew It!|knew it!]]" }}

* ''[[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:

* In the live-action film of ''[[George of the Jungle]]'', Lyle Van De Groot carries lighters that looked like guns. When he and the poachers Max and Thor head out to find Ursula and capture the "White Ape," Lyle mistakenly trades one of his lighters with an African guide for a real one. He plans to use the "lighter" to scare George away, but when George runs over to save Ape from being poached, a shot rings out, followed by a [[Big No]] both from Ape and Lyle (who realizes he accidentally traded his lighter for a real gun), and a [[Say My Name|Big GEORGE!!]] from Ursula. [[It Gets Better|Of course, George survives because he's the hero.]]

* ''[[Semi-Pro]]'': While playing poker, one guy pretends to threaten someone with a gun as a prank, and says it's not loaded. ''Everyone at the poker table'' takes turns pointing the gun and pulling the trigger at each other. Predictably, the gun ''does'' have one round left; the bullet ricochets around the room and hits a guy's arm (it's in a cast). ''It's still played for laughs'' even though the guy's arm is ''bleeding through the cast''.

== [[Live Action Television]] ==

* ''[[MASH|M*A*S*H]]'': used this a lot with gun fanatic Frank Burns. He frequently shot himself, and at one point, he accidentally shot BJ, for which he was relentlessly mocked.

'''Col. Potter:''' ''So, naturally you shot Captain Hunnicutt.'' }}

** One incident involved him shooting himself in the foot while attempting to steal a high-ranking officer's beautiful revolver, which leads to the [[Fridge Logic]] that not only did Frank assume it was unloaded, but that the man who had his gun stored left the bullets in. He also had a particularly entertaining scene where he pulled the pin on a grenade for no good reason, and about six seconds later realized he was waving around a live grenade. Cue frantic search for the dropped pin and fumbling attempt to return it to the grenade (it worked).

* ''[[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''.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Daleks in Manhattan", an actress threatens Martha and the Doctor with a gun, and handles it in an appallingly cavalier way, waving it around and even briefly pointing it at her own head. The Doctor suggests she should maybe put it down, and she shrugs and tosses it aside. The Doctor and Martha both flinch--

* ''[[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.

** His best part was when he tried to shoot a Wraith, and hit the magazine release instead...

* ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'': The episode "The Gang Cracks The Liberty Bell" has Frank and Charlie discovering one of the rifles they've purchased is defective when it fails to kill Dee. They check the rest by taking turns staring down the barrel of each gun while the other pulls the trigger.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': episode "End of Days", it is implied that Willow and Tara's cat, Miss Kitty Fantastico, met her demise in a tragic crossbow accident.

* ''[[The Three Stooges]]'': short "Disorder in the Court" introduces a gun as evidence. Curly is told to try to pull the incredibly rusty trigger, after being told "[[Tempting Fate|Never fear, it's not loaded.]] After one harmless click, he then accidentally shoots off the prosecutor's toupee when his finger gets stuck in the trigger guard.

** ''Any'' time the Stooges or someone around them insisted a gun wasn't loaded, it was. In "Even as I.O.U." Curly gives a baby a pacifier. When Moe sees that it's a revolver, he reaches in to get it, but is stopped by Larry, who warns that the kid might pull the trigger. Curly insists it isn't loaded, and seeks to prove it...by cocking the hammer and thoughtlessly discharging it in an enclosed space. Pretty much every rule of gun safety is blithely disregarded.

* ''[[Comic Jumper]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dor_v-7-DGg Captain Smiley accidentally shoots the cameraman during this ad].

* [[Too Dumb to Live|Captain Qwark]], in ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]: [[Ratchet and Clank A Crack In Time|A Crack In Time]]''.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Homer buys a gun and uses it for such things as opening a can of beer, and turning on his TV (complete with a Mook from a Western falling off a roof at that exact moment). This actually gets him kicked out of the local gun club. In the same episode, Marge gets annoyed when Homer plays with the gun at the breakfast table. Homer puts the safety on, but only manages to accidentally fire the gun, hitting a picture of Marge. He nervously comments that he accidentally turned the safety ''off'', and turns it ''on''... and the gun again discharges, hitting the picture of Marge. Freaked out by now, Homer puts the gun on the table -- and after a second, without being touched it fires again, this time hitting a knife which is sent flying into the picture of Marge, right between the eyes.

** In ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'', Chief Wiggum can't carry enough donuts, so he stacks them on the barrel of his gun, [[What an Idiot!|and]] [[Big Eater|then]] [[Artistic License Gun Safety|eats]] [[Idiot Ball|them]] [[Donut Mess with a Cop|straight]] [[Don't Try This At Home|off]] [[Too Dumb to Live|it]]. The gun goes off while he's between bites, blowing a hole through his hat. He says "Whoa, that was a close one!" and [[The Ditz|continues]] [[Refuge in Audacity|eating]]. Another episode, showing film of him when he was younger at a firing range, has him looking down the barrel after his gun stops and getting yelled at by his instructor ("What did I say about pointsy-twardsies?"). He then gives the instructor a back massage with the gun and it goes off and shoots the cameraman. He's later shown to have gotten the position of Chief by giving the Mayor a back massage with his gun. Another episode showed Wiggum cleaning his ears with the barrel of his gun, and yet another showed him firing at his TV after forgetting where he left the remote. It was in his gun holster.

** Yet ''another'' Wiggum example is a recent episode where he used two gun barrels as ''earplugs''.

** Also done in Homer The Vigilante:

'''Bart:''' [shoots] Sorry. }}

** From the episode "Simpsons Tall Tales":

** In another episode, Chief Wiggum is trying to shoot a fly with a gun:

** One comic book had Homer attend an "Arm The Elderly" rally. To the frustration and astonishment of the [[Grim Reaper]], everyone somehow survived.

* ''[[Superfriends]]'': Marvin manages to get the Villain of the Day's freeze weapon and threatens him with it. The villain smugly tells him to fire away because he (and the audience) can clearly see ''he's holding the weapon backward''. In order to demonstrate that he was just as stupid, Zan later did the same thing with a transformation gun.

* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'': Elmer Fudd, for an avid hunter, ignores pretty much every rule of gun safety while out hunting wabbits. Also, there's the scene from ''[[Rabbit Fire]]'', where Daffy looks down the barrel of Elmer's gun and finds out the hard way that there was [[One Buwwet Weft]].

* ''[[Duckman]]'':

'''Duckman:''' Before that! }}

* In ''[[King of the Hill]]'', Dale tells a story again to the gun club members how he assassinated a Central American dictator. He twirls his gun and accidentally drops and discharges it hitting the cash register. This panicked the others and ruins Dale's reputation as president.