Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: Difference between revisions

== Commercials ==

* A TV commercial announced that, on Mondays, a DVD with episodes of a British crime show would be included when you bought the Swedish evening paper ''Expressen''. In the commercial, a British woman is preparing tea for herself and her husband, and secretly pours poison into his cup.

'''Wife''': "Bury him with the others, James." }}

 

* An episode of ''[[CSI]]'' does this, with peanut butter. (The intended victim was highly allergic.) The murderer changes her mind and takes the 'poisoned' cup but the victim ends up with it anyway. {{spoiler|Just as well that what actually ended up killing him was a bee sting.}}

* On ''[[Scrubs]]'', Turk informs Dr. Kelso he's giving Carla regular coffee instead of decaf, due to her proclamation that the two of them will be going to bed at the same time, ''early''. Dr. Kelso listens sympathetically, being an old hand at drugging one's spouse himself. Then, when Turk looks away, he switches Turk's decaf for Carla's caffeinated. Cut to: Turk awake all night as Carla slumbers.

* On ''[[I Love Lucy]]'', Ricky tries to slip Lucy a sedative to calm her down, but Lucy thinks he's trying to poison and kill her, which leads to...

'''Ricky:''' I know you did. I ''switched'' them back. }}

* ''[[Get Smart]]''. Max is dining out with a female KAOS agent. She is trying to give him a knockout pill, while Max is attempting to spike her drink with truth serum. Both of them keep pointing out things to look at behind the other's back, so they can switch drinks. It ends with Max telling everything he knows to the KAOS agent, who is fast asleep.

* Chespirito has done it as the Chapulin Colorado and in historical or mythical sketches

* On ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'', a reporter had to be [[Killed to Uphold the Masquerade]]. Dick poured two cups of brandy ("No thanks, I'm driving.", "Oh, this is special driving brandy.") and poisoned one of them. Then Dick dramatically switched the cups around a number of times. After a [[Beat]]:

* A variation occurred in ''[[Boy Meets World]]''. Sean and Corey decide to mess with Dingus's meal by placing a ton of salt and a huge amount of cream sauce inside Dingus's burger while he left the table. Dingus was apparently [[Genre Savvy]] enough to suspect that the did it when he returned to the table, and then told them to look elsewhere while he lifted the plates up and down. Corey and Sean likewise suspect he switched the plates, and do the same method to get it back to him, only to realize that Dingus had in fact faked them out, and that they ended up getting the messed with meal that was intended to be for Dingus.

 

== Web Comics ==

* The [[James Bond]] parody in ''[[Concession]]'' mocked this trope:

* In ''[[Oglaf]]'', the obviously gay Xoan ambassador who is friends with the Apprentice's Mistress offers the Apprentice poisoned food claiming it's all the rage and pours the antidote over his penis in hopes that the apprentice will have to suck it off. The Apprentice says he's going to his room to write a letter to the Mistress saying the Xoan ambassador murdered him. However, when the Ambassador tries to turn it into a mystery drama, including offering a locket with the ambassador's picture inside (which he has a bag of), the apprentice says he doesn't believe it was poison. Later the Mistress calls the Apprentice in to punish him for being in the room that the ambassador had called him to; only for him to collapse from poison causing the ambassador to yell "He's been poisoned!". Later still, when he's sent to be cured in an painfully disturbing way, the ambassador reveals the Apprentice made a smart move because the antidote was poison as well.