Carrying a Cake: Difference between revisions

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Sometimes, a plot involves or is centered around a character needing to carry a cake, pie, or some other food item toward a destination.

* ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'', "Gourmet Night": Basil spends a good part of the episode trying to get food from a restaurant to his hotel, only to have it destroyed at the last minute. Also "Basil the Rat", in which Basil covers a cut of meat with rat poison in order to poison Manuel's pet rat (also named Basil)...and then has trouble deducing whether or not the poisoned cut was served up to a visiting health inspector.

** With the first example, the main problem is that the cake isn't even what he ordered (duck). When he goes to pick up the replacement, one of the waiters accidentally switches it with a Bombe Surprise, which he digs through once he finds out in an attempt to somehow find the missing duck.

** Also, ''[[Ace of Cakes]]'', being a reality show about a bakery, can get into this sort of trouble. Truly serious disasters are thankfully rare (it helps if the cake isn't shaped like a tall building).

* A spectacular case of ''failing'' to carry a cake happened on ''[[Cake Boss]]'': a three-tiered birthday cake with handmade decorations had to be carried down the stairs, but first it had to be lifted over the banister. One of the guys wasn't ready, and in an instant about 30 pounds of cake ended up on the floor. Miraculously, Buddy & Co. were able to recreate the entire cake in ''[[Beyond the Impossible|one and a half hours.]]''