LEGO Body Parts

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Say Alice and Bob teleport together but suddenly a random teleporting accident happens and Bob ends up with Alice's body, and Alice with Bob's. That's a Freaky Friday Flip. But if Alice and Bob each end up with part of the other's body, you get this trope.

LEGO Body Parts is when someone switches any body part(s) between two or more people. Making this an appendage equivalent to a Freaky Friday Flip. Mind you, this trope is not just limited to teleporting accidents. Meatgrinder Surgery is another way this can happen; also, just simply interchanging body parts, which is by far most common.

Examples of LEGO Body Parts include:

Advertising

  • Happens in a Bristol ad.
  • This trope happens multiple times in a commercial about Cefalex.
  • Happens in a commercial for BubbaPops Twice where a Cartoon Cat and a Teenage Boy switch heads after having the Bubbapop candy.
  • Two people actually go as far as to switch heads despite one being in somewhere in North or Central America while the other is in Japan the commercial can be seen here.
  • Happens in this advert for Renault Cars where 3 drivers swap heads.
  • Played Straight in this commercial for DJ Hero 2. Especially in the End where the White and Black DJ swap heads.


Anime and Manga


Films


Literature

  • in Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony, one of Artemis' eyes is swapped with one of Holly's eyes after they travel in time magically. Holly uses magic to adjust for resuling difference in size.
  • The novel Retief's War by Keith Laumer has a particularly literal version: the natives of the planet Quopp are all biological robots with interchangeable parts, which they frequently trade with or steal from each other.
  • Ozma of Oz has Princess Langwidere who switches heads like clothing putting on a different head every day.[1]


Live Action TV

  • Happens a lot in Eurotrash, where one guy constantly switches heads with girls.
  • Days of Our Lives subverts this when Sami fantasizes of Kate, Roman and Marlena being mannequins, and her removing Marlena's head, then removing Kate's head and placing Kate's head on Marlena's body, but subverted because both Marlena's head and Kate's body get nothing.
  • One of the gimmicks of Galidor was that characters were able to "Glinch", that is, swap various body parts and gain the abilities they provide.


Newspaper Comics

  • In Jon's Dream Sequence many characters heads get switched around; first his head with Garfield's, then Odie's with a Teddy Bear's, Then Odie's with Garfield's, then Garfield's with the Teddy Bear's, then back to the first one but now with Odie's head switched with the Teddy Bear's and lastly Him, Garfield and Odie's head switched around.


Toys

  • Though construction toy brand LEGO is the Trope Namer, it's actually not all that easy to rearrange parts of LEGO minifigures - aside from their legs and hat, they're intended to be pretty difficult to dismantle without really trying. Of course it can still be done, more so nowadays since they started packaging heads separate from bodies, but it's not as easy to accomplish as you'd think. LEGO Themes featuring larger constructed humanoid entities like Bionicle and Hero Factory play it straight with ease, and in many pre-Travellers Tales LEGO video games this is exactly how designing playable minifigure characters tends to work. Also, it's rare that this trope in its conventional meaning comes into play in any LEGO theme's Excuse Plot.
  • Mr. Potato Head.


Web Comics

  • 8-Bit Theater has Black Mage and Thief have their heads swap in here and here where both their heads get placed back to their original bodies.


Web Original


Western Animation

  • It... May have happened in the "With My X-Ray Eyes Song" in Phineas and Ferb episode "No More Bunny Buisness". Starting at 0:08 and ending at 0:10.
  • Happens in the Canadian show called Hoze Houndz where Squirt and Fontaine switch heads in a Teleportation Accident.
  • Back at the Barnyard has Peck and Freddie switch mouths in the episode "A Catfish Called Eddie" after chewing defective Pizza Gum, which explodes.
    • Otis and Pig switch heads in episode "Snotty and Snottier" after getting beaten up by "Phlegmy Boy".
  • In the CatDog episode "Dopes on Slopes" Dog and Rancid Rabbit switched heads under the Rule of Funny.
  • Cosmo and Wanda from Fairly Oddparents swap body parts (pictured above) in the episode "You-Doo".
  • Futurama has this happen once where Robot Devil trades his musician's hands with Fry.
  • Ren and Stimpy has this happen in the episode "Prehistoric Stimpy", where Ren saws off both his and Stimpy's heads and places them on each other's bodies.
  • In one episode of Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Prof. Nimnul invents a device that allows him to travel via phone lines. When Zipper lands on him as he's about to travel, they wind up with their heads on each other's bodies. Later, the same thing happens with Chip & Monterey Jack, and Dale with Gadget. In the end, they manage to get themselves back to normal, then Zipper uses Nimnul's device to send him to the police.
  • Johnny Bravo:
    • Johnny switched heads with a boy who has supernatural powers in one episode.
    • In another, Johnny switched heads with a fly.
  • Eustace, Muriel, and Courage accidentally swap heads in the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode "Windmill Vandals."
  • In the Adventure Time episode "The Great Bird Man", Xergiok is shown to be able to swap his limbs, first doing so to a bird whose leg was crushed by a rock, then switching the damaged leg with Jake's leg when he almost becomes a heel again.
  • In The Amazing World of Gumball, Gumball and Darwin make occasional use of this, such as in "The Pony" where they switch legs and "The Storm" where Gumball's head gets switched with Alan's body (Alan being a balloon).
  • In one episode of Beast Wars, Megatron and Inferno collide so hard with each other that their heads temporarily trade bodies. Megatron is furious, but Inferno seems to find it hilarious. How it actually happens is anyone's guess (outside Rule of Funny).
  • On The Wacky World of Tex Avery, Tex Avery and Sagebrush Sid swapped heads on "Fat and Fatter" in order to have the fattest body, Tex also does it to a wealthy boy near the end of the episode.
  • Buster and Babs Bunny swapped heads once on Tiny Toon Adventures.
  • On Happy Tree Friends, a zombie Flippy/Fliqpy steals a zombie Handy's lower torso for himself on "Remains to Be Seen".
  • Mandy and a fly swapped heads on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
  • Happened to Donkey and Puss in Boots near the end of Shrek the Third when their voices return to their rightful bodies by Merlin but have swapped tails.
  • Peter and Brian swapped heads on Family Guy.
  • Happened on Timon and Pumbaa where Timon and Pumbaa swapped heads in order to keep theirselves entertained while waiting inside a tree from a panther.
  • The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Jimmy and Carl's hamster swapped heads one time.
  • Happened on a Couch Gag on The Simpsons where the family's heads are misplaced on each other’s bodies and they swap their heads after sitting down.
    • This was also used on the Season 2 DVD box set.
  • Happened on Deputy Droopy where two bandits traded heads after Droopy tickles one of them.
  • This happened on the Schoolhouse Rock song, "The Four-Legged Zoo".

Real Life

  • Transplants of any body part subvert this trope because the donor gets nothing in return.
  • In stage magic, some variations of the Saw a Woman In Half trick play on this.
  1. ↑ Possibly Subverted like the above Mombi though due to the possibility of the headless body not getting anything in return.
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