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* In ''[[Ocean's Eleven|Ocean's 11]]'', Rusty sends a detective out to "Go find Griggs," as a distraction while he's recruiting Basher in the guise of an FBI agent. This is also an example of the [[Bavarian Fire Drill]], as Rusty brazenly walks into the police crime scene and walks off with their bombing suspect.
* The premise of ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]''. Princess Atta sends Flik out to find some bugs to fight Hopper, not expecting him to actually find anybody willing to defend an ant colony.
* ''[[Up (animation)|Up]]'' features a literal example. Carl sends Russell away on one to get him to stop annoying him. {{spoiler|Eventually, he actually finds one, although it's a bit bigger than he expected.}} Alpha sent Dug away on a literal Snipe Hunt as well, due to the fact that Dug's foolishness was viewed a burden on the pack. {{spoiler|True to this trope, he finds the bird.}} The bird becomes a principal character of the film!
** What makes it even funnier is that Carl truly believed that it was impossible because he didn't know that there is such a bird as a snipe.
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* ''[[The Wire]]'': The detectives at Homicide make the newbie call the zoo about a "Methane Probe for Mr. Lyon".
* In the ''[[Father Ted]]'' episode "Escape From Victory", Ted gives [[The Ditz|Dougal]] the task of guarding the corner flags from theft during a football game. Predictably, he struggles with this.
* ''[[The Office (2005 TV series)|The Office]]'' when the whole group is on an evening cruise, the captain assigns Dwight the task of piloting the ship which Dwight eagerly accepts. Turns out Dwight is put in front of a prop steering wheel to get him out of the Captain's hair. Even Michael can tell it's fake.
* ''[[The Bill]]'': The repercussions of Snipe Hunts are seen when to catch a serial graffiti artist, someone really does have to keep a wall under surveillance. Assuming it to be a joke, the policeman watching the wall wanders off.
* In ''[[iCarly]]'', annoying fan Mandy is sent off to get "fladoodles," which of course don't exist. She comes back an hour later, claiming she had to go to some store in a different state, and then she is told "No, we wanted fat free". Guess what else is in the bag.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Fallout]]'': The Glow Quest in the first game is little more than an extended Snipe Hunt—one that's expected to kill the questant, no less.. Like many examples, the place is filled with great loot (and good info on the backstory) if you buff {{spoiler|your radiation resist}} beforehand.
* And of course, ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' has the dreaded line ''"Thank You, Mario! But [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle|Our Princess Is In Another Castle]]"'', which while not technically a Snipe Hunt can certainly ''feel'' like one after navigating an entire castle and finding out she's not there.
* [[Heroes of Might and Magic]] 4 has a passing mention of a coming of age ritual called "Snark Hunting", which basically comes down to this. It's then subverted when it turns out the heroes' quest was not one of these.
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** Also, when the Warriors wanted to take over the town Mafia, they got the [[Good Is Dumb|well-meaning]] Fighter out of the way by sending him off to play in a Drownball tournament (a parody of [[Final Fantasy|Final Fantasy 10's]] Blitzball), where the rules are, apparently, that you have to drown in order to win. And it's unclear where the ball comes in.
*** Incidentally, Fighter won the tournament by default, since he was the only player who failed to drown, on account of his brain using less oxygen. That's perfectly logical.
* In ''[[Nodwick]]'' adventurers distract their naive cleric when they're about to abuse the henchman. [http://comic.nodwick.com/?comic=2009-10-09
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* In ''[[Nip and Tuck]]'', [[Genre Savvy|Tagger Beaver]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130801175515/http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00086.html gets rid of the protesters by sending them off to interfere with the snipe hunt.]
* ''[[Dilbert]]'' had the intern pranked [https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-03-20 here].
{{quote|''' Alice''': Today young Asok learns that life is NOT like 'Star Trek.' }}
** Dilbert made [[Pointy-Haired Boss|the Boss]] search for [https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-05-02 the lost token] from token ring network, that supposedly "fell out"
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' has [https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-03-05 one] from SETI. {{spoiler|Subverted in the hidden panel.}}
== Western Animation ==
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** Monogram didn't expect the goose to be ever found. He was just afraid [[Phineas and Ferb]] were working for Doofenshmirtz so he got Perry out of the way during the investigations. The Moon was among the places Monogram told Perry to go while searching for Agent G.
* ''The Talented Mr. Bixby'': [[Lampshaded]] in one episode, in which Mr Bixby sends the students of the auto repair class he is substituting to get some "blinker fluid" to avoid having to write a ridiculous paper. As the students leave the room, they pass a sign that says "There is no such thing as Blinker Fluid". They come across an ''identical'' sign at the auto parts store, and stare blankly at it.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': During a safety audit, Homer Simpson and two other less-gifted employees are put in a room out of the way and given the task of guarding a bee in a jar. The other two question it but Homer, thinking himself brighter than the other two, boasts of his position as "head bee guy".
** After Marge accident cut of Homer's thumb in one episode, she phones the emergency services, but when it becomes clear that Wiggum intends to arrest her for this, she gives the address as "123... Fake... Street". Later on it Wiggum bursts into an actual house with that address to find Bart and Milhouse trying to hide illegal fireworks stolen from the mob... [[It Makes Sense in Context|It's a long story.]]
* In an episode of ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]],'' Numbah 4 is ordered by Numbuh 86 to guard a random flower in a garden, in order to prevent him from following her. Four places the flower in a pot and takes it with him.
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* Another famous one is sending them out to look for [[Polka Dot Paint|tartan paint]].
* In Spain, Portugal and Cuba the equivalent of a snipe hunt is hunting "gamusinos", an even more jerkish version since (unlike the snipe) the gamusino does not even exist. The term ultimately comes from the Provençal word gambozi, meaning "lie".
* Many a new employ at Microsoft have been sent to a meeting at [http://
* [http://notalwaysright.com/someones-about-to-get-smacked-to-the-future/1698 This anecdote.]
* It's an initiation ceremony in German military as well. Among weird stuff to find (like a key for the supply room which in German military is a part of the battle field rather than an actual room) noobs are sent all about the base with an open container of 'highly dangerous battery fluid', which is usually simple juice consumed finally by some superior.
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