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[[File:girlscouts.jpg|frame|[[Wanton Cruelty to Thethe Common Comma|The comma strikes back]]!]]
 
 
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'''Pugsley:''' Yes.<br />
'''Girl Scout:''' Well, I'll tell you what. I'll buy a cup if you buy a box of my delicious Girl Scout cookies. Do we have a deal?<br />
'''Wednesday:''' [[Trope Namer|Are they made from real Girl Scouts]]?|''[[The Addams Family (TV)|The Addams Family]]''}}
 
Sometimes it really ''is'' [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]], only it really shouldn't be. This is when you find out that innocuously named product is in fact [[Powered Byby a Forsaken Child]], or the strange man who just [[Drink Order|ordered a Black Russian in a bar]] is a vampire with very specific tastes. See also [[Human Resources]]. Most commonly played for [[Squick|horror]] or a kind of [[Dead Baby Comedy|shock-comedy]]. The basic joke plays on the double meaning of words, making it a non-sexual [[Double Entendre]]. The term comes from a children's joke popular around the girl scouts/bake sale/fund-raising circuit.
 
See also [[Having a Heart]]. For actual cannibalism, see [[I'm a Humanitarian]]. The title of [[To Serve Man]] invokes it, but is not related. A subtrope of [[Literal Metaphor]].
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== Comics ==
* Linkara's review of ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' #1 in ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Atop the Fourth Wall]]''. His comment on Nightwing's monologue, specifically.
{{quote| '''Nightwing:''' There's these Cuban meat sandwiches at a dump called Ibano's.<br />
'''Linkara:''' Admittedly, it's hard to get the Cubans to go into the meat grinder, but.... }}
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== Films -- Animation ==
* A mild example appears in ''[[A Bug's Life (Animation)|A Bugs Life]]'', where a mosquito at an insect bar orders a "Bloody Mary, O-Positive." A moment later the waiter produces a big red drop of blood...
* In ''[[Rugrats in Paris]]'', Coco LaBouche's boss tells her that the person he wants running his theme parks must have the mind of a child. Coco mutters (too quietly for him to hear - but Angelica hears it) that she thinks she has one in a jar somewhere...
 
 
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* The trope first entered the mass media in the ''[[The Addams Family (TV)|Addams Family]]'' movie, in a gag involving Girl Scout cookies.
* In ''[[Sky High]]'', the students' gym class involves a game called "Save the Citizen", which involves saving a mannequin that's being dropped into a shredder. Mr. Boy offers this reminiscence to Mr. Medulla: "Remember when we used to use real citizens?"
* Part of a [[Fridge Brilliance]] moment in ''[[Trick R'r Treat (Film)|Trick R Treat]]''.
{{quote| "I ate some bad Mexican."}}
** The exact same joke occurs in ''[[Vampire in Brooklyn]]''.
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{{quote| '''Malcolm Tucker:''' ...be gentle with them.<br />
'''Jamie MacDonald:''' Oh, you know me, Malc. Kid gloves... but made from real kids. }}
** An example (no doubt unintentional) of [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]], since kid gloves ARE, or historically were, made from real kid: the leather from young goats, which is very soft.
 
 
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** Actually, [[It Makes Sense in Context]].
* A futuristic reality-TV fashion show in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' features a face-off section. No, it's not a section comparing how well two different people carry off the same outfit, it's when they move from clothes into plastic surgery.
* The ''Dooper'' chain of concession stands in ''[[The Amanda Show]]'' serves snacks that are [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|exactly what they say on the tin]] -- including Electric Zaps and Oatmeal [[Fire-Breathing Diner|Del Fuego]].
* In the short-lived series ''Cafe Americain'', one of the regulars is the widow of a deposed third-world dictator, constantly scheming for money with which to raise an army and retake her country. One of her plots involves getting into the ice cream business. She tries a number of disgusting flavor combinations before hitting on one everyone likes: Mint Chocolate Chip. Offhandedly, she mentions that it's made from all natural ingredients: mint, chocolate, and Chip.
{{quote| '''Diner:''' Wait a minute. Who's Chip?}}
* Joked about in an episode of ''[[Home Improvement]]'' when Jill was trying to cheer up Mark: "Would you like a piece of angel food cake? I made it myself... It was real hard to find fresh angels this time of year."
* A wardrobe variant in an episode of ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]''. Artode, a demon guest at Wolfram & Hart's Halloween party is wearing what appears to be a green leather jacket.
{{quote| '''Lorne:''' Love the jacket, by the way.<br />
'''Artode:''' It's Pylean.<br />
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*** The defictionalized Every Flavour Beans (made by candy mad scientists Jelly Belly) delivered on many fronts as well. Some flavors were surprisingly good (spinach, black pepper, grass, ''sardine''); some (dirt, vomit) were even worse than they sounded. That's right, fans, the vomit-flavored jelly beans were ''worse'' than expected.
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** From the novel ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', a conversation between a teetotaler and a vampire:
{{quote| '''Margolotta:''' Do you fancy a Bull's Blood?<br />
'''Vimes:''' Is that the drink with the vodka? Because--<br />
'''Margolotta:''' No. This, I'm afraid, is the other kind. }}
** Similar to a line from ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'':
{{quote| Biers was where the undead drank. And when Igor the barman was asked for a Bloody Mary, he didn't mix a metaphor.}}
* Similarly, in ''[[Nightside]]'':
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== Tabletop Games ==
* The ''[[Munchkin (Tabletop Gamegame)|Munchkin]] Cthulhu'' expansion ''The Unspeakable Vault'' has a Cultist T-Shirt item, made from the skin of an actual cultist.
** The original ''Munchkin'' game (or one of its expansions, at least) had the item "Baby Oil", depicted as [[Dead Baby Comedy|a baby in a blender]].
 
 
== Theater ==
* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatretheatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'': Basically all of the song "A Little Priest" involves this trope, but most apropos is the reference to a [[I'm a Humanitarian|"humanitarian"]] treat of "shepherd's pie peppered with actual shepherd on top".
** Considering the ''entire song'' is pretty much a tribute to this, it would be more appropriate to link the [http://www.lyricsondemand.com/soundtracks/s/sweeneytoddlyrics/alittlepriestlyrics.html lyrics.]
** If you look carefully, there's some cleverly hidden [[Self-Deprecation]] in there.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]''. Vrishika describes the nature of the "Baby Oil" she's selling:
{{quote| '''Vrishika:''' Interested? It's the real thing, of course. Thousands of mewling, mortal babies went into the making of the stuff.}}
** Vrischka also sells a chocolate mephit, which is a real mephit magically transformed into pure chocolate.
* ''[[ADOM]]'' has hurthling (halfling/hobbit equivalent) cakes - cursed ones contain real hurthling and stun non-troll characters.
* Alluded to in [[Escape Fromfrom Monkey Island]]. Guybrush examines a bottle of "baby seal oil" and says "I'm assuming that this oil is meant to be '''used''' on baby seals, rather than..."
 
 
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'' has one of these in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0117.html strip #117]. See the page quote. This one gets made into a [[Brick Joke]] by the punchline to [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0549.html #549], also riffing on [[Eats Babies]].
* ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]''
** Elfland's defences in includes a giant cannon. It is loaded with [[Abnormal Ammo|actual giants]].
** And King Steve has slippers made from baby skin. Made fresh daily. That cry.
* Similarly, from the ''[[Walkyverse]]'', Monkey Master's guns shoot real monkeys. This is more effective than it sounds, unless he hasn't [[Forgot to Feed Thethe Monster|reloaded]] in a while.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', in Aylee's [[I Am a Humanitarian|earlier days]], had these kind of jokes by the boatfull.
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' has a brief interlude to introduce the character of Bee-Man, who uses a "[[Bee-Bee Gun|Bee Shooter]]" that is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]. Parodied, of course, with him forgetting [[Forgot to Feed Thethe Monster|how long it had been since he loaded it]].
* Butch from ''[[Chopping Block]]'' [http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20101220.html doesn't like] recipes of gingerbread men that inexplicably omit the obviously most important ingredient.
* Gigz from ''[[Dark Legacy Comics]]'' shows you how to make her [http://darklegacycomics.com/233.html Boiled Link Sausages], made from 100% real [[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|Link!]]
* ''[[Looking for Group]]'' had Richard wearing a [[http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/267/ kidney hat]].
 
== Web Original ==
* The main character of ''[[The Hooker Withwith a Heart of Gold]]'', while indeed a [[Hooker Withwith a Heart of Gold]], has also undergone an experimental surgical technique involving replacing her heart with one made of gold.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Futurama]]: Bender's Big Score'', "[[Manos: theThe Hands of Fate|Torgo's]] Executive Powder" is ground-up network executives. It's ''ever'' so useful...
* Inverted in an episode of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', where Elmyra thinks whale oil is made ''by'' whales rather than ''from'' whales.
* Referenced in ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]''. [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|Plankton]] is looking for the final ingredient to his Goo-goo Gas (which ''should'' make anyone a baby). He then finds baby powder in the shopping market. [[Hilarity Ensues|Guess what.]]
{{quote| '''Plankton:''' Excuse me, Miss? Is this made from real babies?}}
* One episode of ''[[Mission Hill]]'' has the gang trying to cut back on expenses, which includes buying discount dog food. The can's label is in a foreign language, but has a picture of a dog. Judging from their pet dog's reaction, the meat isn't so much intended for dogs as made from them.
* In a "[[Hansel and Gretel (Literature)|Hansel and Gretel]]" episode of [[Johnny Bravo]], Carl finds a cook book for German Chocolate Cake in the Witch's house. The recipe is chocolate, cake and Germans.
 
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