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Related to [[Food as Bribe]] and [[X on a Stick]]. Will often involve a [[Trademark Favorite Food]], or something from the [[Stock Animal Diet]].
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== Anime
* In ''[[Sasami: Magical Girls Club]]'', while riding on a cart pulled by an ox-like creature, Anri complains about how slow it is, so Washu pulls out an "Acceleration Device" that turns out to be a bundle of hay hanging from a stick. The ox takes off like a rocket and catches the hay once they reach their destination, with the quick stop flinging everyone out of the cart.
* The ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime episode "Pokemon Food Fight": Ash and his friends plan to lure a sleepy Snorlax into moving up and over a mountain by luring it with an apple attached to the end of a pole with a string. [[Subverted Trope|It wakes up just enough to eat the apple, then goes back to sleep before they could get it to move.]]
== Comic Books ==
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** In another story, a variant is used to motivate to run faster for the track team. Jughead is outfitted with a special harness with a mirror in front that's positioned to let him see the photo mounted in back, so it looks like his [[Abhorrent Admirer]] is always right behind him.
== Film ==
* A very common [[Political Cartoon]] metaphor, for whatever the artist wants to lampoon.▼
* In ''[[Mulan]]'', the title character uses a dog and bone to feed the chickens. The bone-on-a-stick is tied to the dog's back so the bone is always in front of the dog, and the dog runs around with a feedbag leaking grain behind him.
* One of the ''[[Mad Max]]'' films used this with the hero being sent into exile on a donkey with a small jar of water hanging in front of its head.
* ''[[Honey, I Shrunk the Kids]]'' did this with an ant and a piece of the discarded food the kids found.
* In ''[[The Boondock Saints]]'', Detective Greenley humorously suggests that the only way they're going to catch the MacManus brothers is by "...dangling a potato on a string"
== Literature ==
* In [[Jack Vance]]'s novel ''[[Dying Earth (novel)|Cugel's Saga]]'', ships are powered by large wormlike sea creatures bound to either side of the vessel. Bait is hung in front of the ship to make them move.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* In one short in ''[[The Little Rascals]]'' series, the boys had a "taxi" that was powered by a mule/donkey pushing from the back and a carrot on a stick in front of it was used to make it push.
* ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'': In a sketch, Benny is at a weight-loss camp and is jogging. Three girls show up in front of him and flash their breasts at him, so he speed up. He gets tired and slows down; they flash him again and he speed up again, etc.
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* A very common [[Political Cartoon]] metaphor, for whatever the artist wants to lampoon.
== Video Games ==
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* ''[[Scribblenauts]]'' allows you to set this up using a "plank", "glue" and something the character wants.
* In ''[[Zettai Hero Kaizou Keikaku]]'', the Appetite Engine accessory is a carrot on a stick worn on the player's head. It reduces EN consumption by 50% while equipped, and can be eaten to restore EN in a pinch.
== Web Comics ==
* In one strip of ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', Roy does this with a spice-infused Belkar to [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0689.html use a sandworm as transport].
* A variation with a treadmill and a sign which read "plot" was used to keep Karn occupied in one strip of ''[[Adventurers!]]''.
* The Devil does this to several characters at once in ''[[Sinfest]]'', tempting each of them with their most precious vice.
* Sam, the [[Cthulhumanoid]] protagonist of ''[[Freefall]]'', has done this with one of his own tentacles in order to ride an emu. (He's edible to most Earth species, including herbivores.)
* Used in [http://equestria.fadri.org/017-screw-aerodynamics this] strip of ''And That's How Equestria Was Made!!''
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' has [https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=35#2003-07-18 beer can on kayak's bow] variation in flashback.
== Western Animation ==
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* ''Yogi's Gang'' and ''Yogi's Ark Lark'': The Ark was powered by [[Magilla Gorilla]] pursuing a banana while running on a treadmill, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S4f03j-VQg as seen here at 2:25]. Note that he occasionally ate the banana.
* In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "He's Too Sexy for His Fat", Peter gets Chris to run on a treadmill by sticking a plumber's helper to his forehead with a twinkie hanging from it. Chris eventually figures out how to the get twinkie.
** In "Road to the North Pole", Brian and Stewie use a mutant elf's arm to make the mutant reindeer fly pulling Santa's sleigh.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' does this on the episode "The Great Divide", where the heroes use it to ride fearsome creatures up a cliff.
* In ''[[Kick Buttowski]]'', Garth's backside is used as the carrot on the stick to get the crazy little dog to chase him and thereby pull the sled to rescue the schoolbus full of kids from a snow-filled gully.
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