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* A Carl's Jr. commercial had a man in a convenience store eat a really hot burger and chug some mouthwash to cool down the intense heat; the disclaimer read "Dramatization. Do not attempt. Mouthwash fatal if swallowed.". Nevertheless, they re-shot it later so that the man rinses his mouth out with it instead.
* Averted with one refrigerator ad where a woman attempts to defrost her open freezer with a ''flame-thrower''. You'd think there'd be some sort of caption with a disclaimer warning people not to try such a stunt at home, but apparently they forgot.
== Anime and Manga ==
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* A shot in [[Sankarea]] that shows Chihiro's grandfather eating hydrangea leaves includes a warning to the viewer that hydrangea leaves are poisonous, and that the grandfather's acts should not be imitated.
== Comic Books ==
== Comics ==▼
* [[Squirrel Girl]] likes to take advantage of her fourth wall breaking recap pages by warning us kids that we should not replicate the questionable acts done made during the issues. She especially warns us against downloading stuff free of the Internet.
** But then this was subverted in the very first issue of ''[[Great Lakes Avengers|G.L.A. Misassembled]]'' when Grasshopper hops in and announces that there are no kids who read comic books, [[You Bastard|only overweight thirty-year-old men who still live with their parents]], so he encourages readers to [[Too Dumb to Live|try these very questionable acts]] and do the human gene pool a favor. And then this trope is subverted yet again when he dies during his very next appearance.
* One ''[[The Far Side]]'', showing a kid sticking his head in a missile silo, had the following caption:▼
{{quote|Don't ever, ''ever'' do this.}}▼
* Spoofed in one ''Rubes'' strip that showed a man's gravestone with the epitaph "He tried it at home". The widow viewing the grave says "I told him not to".▼
* Cliff Steele of the [[Doom Patrol]], to goggle-eyed youths with skateboards following one incident: "And remember kids, don't walk through plate-glass windows!"
* [[Fantastic Aesop|Parodied]] ([[Poe's Law|we hope]]) in [[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Archie Sonic]], which [http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0fs3rlKqg1r2tdnt.png advises you] to not try vibrating your molecules fast enough to slip past an energy barrier.
* In the first chapter of ''[[
== Fan Works ==
* A ''[[Vocaloid]]'' [[Fan Vid]] advises children not to try any of the things featured in the video at home... in ''three'' languages: Traditional Japanese, English, and then Kansai. Considering that it involves [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mDdtMdGT3c Miku juggling balls while Akita's trying to chop her head off], it's pretty well advised.
** The "Kansai language" is a dialect of Japanese, which is why Miku just looks confused. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZx5QtxSbaU See for yourself.]
** Although it stretches the definition of "English" pretty thin...
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QOF2A2yMOs Another] video of the same author advises, in much the same manner, not trying to juggle a soccer ball while walking the tightrope between two skyscrapers.
▲== Films ==
* In ''[[Stay Tuned]]'', Helen, in cartoon form, says "Kids, don't try this at home", as she and Roy are dumping a handheld hair dryer (still plugged in!) into a bathtub filled with water to disable Robo-Cat.
* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'', in the film, remarks to [[Robot Buddy|Goddard]], "Don't try that at home" after shooting a communications <s> toaster</s> satellite into orbit ''by hand''. The important question: why say this, when 99% of households do not contain the materials to produce an upper-atmosphere rocket large enough for two human children and a robot dog?
** The remaining 1% doesn't either, for the record...
* At the end of ''[[The Men Who Stare at Goats]]'' a note includes that people shouldn't try several of the attempted psychic abilities at home, including mind control and cloudbursting while driving. {{spoiler|But invisibility's okay. And note that [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|they specifically said "while driving"]].}}
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* At the beginning of ''[[Beerfest]]'', a movie that (unsurprisingly) involves inhuman amounts of beer ingestion, the viewer is warned that "if you attempt to drink this much...You will die."
* The protagonist of the second [[The Crow|Crow movie]] says this before taking a mook's gun and [[Ate His Gun|shooting himself in the mouth.]]
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* ''[[Ice Age]]'' had a TV spot for its home video release that showed comic violence throughout the spot over an announcer admonishing "Don't try this at home... or this... or this... or this... [[Overly Long Gag|or this]]..."
* The 2012 ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' film ends with one of these disclaimers, featuring the directors [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] and demonstrating how much of the physical humor was done with rubber props (the sound effects make it sound realistic) and with safety being the top priority for the production. Seeing that the target audience for the film happens to be children, this is very useful for a film of its type.
== Literature ==
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* After describing the aftermath of a kitchen grease fire in ''Maggody and the Moonbeams'', Arly warns readers not to set off fire extinguishers indoors to find out if her description is accurate, or they'll be sorry.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The Nickoloden game show Guts had a disclaimer from host Mike O Malley:
{{quote|Remember, all these events are made with our players safety in mind. They will be wearing safety equipment and will have stunt spotters and stunt coordinators with them at all times. So please, do not try this at home.}}
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* In ''[[Beakman's World]]'', one particularly dangerous demonstration involving ammonia and strong acids has a comical quick cut beforehand of all the characters turning in place with klaxons blaring and rotating red lights flashing before cutting a particularly urgent "Don't try this..." warning.
** On the whole, however, this trope is actually avoided, as with careful following of the instructions and parental supervision, you could do most of the experiments shown at home. The "safe" stunts had their own warning: "Experiments should be performed only with adult supervision, and all appropriate safety precautions should be taken. All directions should be followed exactly, and no substitutions should be used."
* ''[[That's Incredible]]'' was famous in the early 1980s for the use of this phrase to disclaim its many stunts, which was understandable considering how many real stuntmen were injured appearing on the show. However, they lampshaded themselves in a story on how a young girl spent a $5 bill containing a birthday inscription from her grandfather, and then received the same bill many years later as change for a purchase. The odds they gave (completely ignoring any multiplicity effects) for receiving that exact bill were something like six quintillion to one. The number is so high to count that they exhorted viewers '''Don't Try This At Home'''.
* In the Spike series ''[[1000 Ways to Die]]'', the disclaimer is probably the one that gets the most to the point: "Do not attempt to try any of the actions depicted! YOU WILL DIE!"
** In bloody red letters to boot (no pun intended).
* On a ''[[Farscape]]'' transcript Ben Browder tells people not attempt Unity, a special alien mental bond. Since the closest anyone could come to it is banging their heads together and hoping for the best this probably wasn't necessary. [[Viewers are Morons|Probably.]]
* There was a programme on ITV with the title ''Don't Try This At Home''. It featured numerous dangerous acts including climbing up very high cliffs in awful weather and doing the tightrope inside a building.
* At the end of every [[Gladiators]] episode.
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** When Buddy was asked to make a fire-breathing cake, he invoked this trope by name during a test run.
* [[Dick And Dom Go Wild]] open each show with a reminder that they're working with trained animal handlers and kids shouldn't approach wild animals on their own, and repeat it if they do anything particularly dangerous (or cute, like feeding fawns.) And when Dick did the notorious cow pregnancy test:<ref>Yes, the one where you stick your arm up the cow's arse to feel the condition of its uterus</ref> "This probably doesn't need saying, but don't try this yourselves."
== Music ==
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* [[Songs to Wear Pants To]]'s "[http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/songs/i-am-the-reason-why-girls-are-hot/ I am The Reason Why Girls Are Hot]" ends with "Yo I got a flamethrower and a microwave \ bring any girl to me and I'll make her real hot \ Don't try this at home, kids... bring her to ''my'' house".
* "Hellbent" by Self includes the line "I've been trying things at home that I saw on television, and I'm doin' 'em wrong!
== [[New Media]] ==
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE This] video starring the Swedish Chef of [[The Muppets]] fame warns at the beginning "The Swedish Chef is a trained professional. (Sort of) Do not try this at home. (Seriously) Thanks. (Really)"
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* One ''[[The Far Side]]'', showing a kid sticking his head in a missile silo, had the following caption:
▲{{quote|Don't ever, ''ever'' do this.}}
▲* Spoofed in one ''Rubes'' strip that showed a man's gravestone with the epitaph "He tried it at home". The widow viewing the grave says "I told him not to".
== Professional Wrestling ==
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** And recently they've been having wrestlers tell the viewers not to try any stunts at home about three times per two-hour episode, probably due to [[Executive Meddling]] caused by WWE now trying to pander to children as their main audience.
*** Now they've gone one further with their PSAs, saying "Don't try this." No at home. Don't try it '''anywhere'''. Someone probably used [[Exact Words]] and tried it somewhere other than at home.
* From Kaiju Big Battel's PSA: "[http://www.heavy.com/video/dont-try-this-at-home-10909 'Danger Can Happen... So, please- no matter how well you know the mayor- EVEN IF YOU'RE FRIENDS WITH JACK BAUER- Please, don't try this at home.' (Text: Seriously, Don't Try This At Home.)
== Radio ==
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[Hello Cheeky]]''. The gang present kung fu on radio, followed by about fifteen seconds of exaggerated yelling. This is followed by "Children are warned not to do what we have just done, because you feel a right ''berk''."
== Tabletop Games ==
* There is a rather hilarious "disclaimer" in ''[[Exalted]]'' first edition rulebook that goes "Exalted is not really the secret history of the world. You cannot really cast spells. You should not hit your friends or loved ones with swords. This game is not intended to be played by people who can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality."
** Of course, given how detailed and immersive the setting is, this might be helpful actually...
* A review of the notoriously panned ''[[FATAL]]'', which can be found [http://web.archive.org/web/20080208091645/http://atrocities.primaryerror.net/fatal.html here] ('''DANGER: LANGUAGE USED IS DECIDEDLY [[NSFW]]'''), features the memorable line from Jason Sartin, "Remember, folks, Darren's a professional, and we're reviewing on a closed course. Don't projectile vomit blood at home!"
* Many fantasy roleplaying games have a disclaimer in which the authors basically tell the reader not to become involved in the occult simply because the game world postulates that magic actually works. (The disclaimer in C. J. Carella's ''Witchcraft'' is particularly humorous in this regard.) Weis and Hickman's ''Darksword Adventures'' contains the rules for Phantasia, a roleplaying game set in the Darksword novels' world of Thimhallan. One of the book's conceits is that it was written by a character in the fictional world for Earth humans (a future advanced spacefaring culture, who refer to the planet as "Kinsky-3"), and that the game is actually played in the fictional world. In Thimhallan, magic is Life and Technology, or Death is considered Evil, and so the "author" cautions readers against playing characters who have no ability to use magic, and expresses reservations about discussing the "Dark Arts" of technology within the rules.
== Theatre ==
* Near the end of ''[[The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)||The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)]]'', the actors caution the audience 'do not try this at home,' and one adds as an aside, 'yeah, go over to a friend's house and do it!'
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Escape from Monkey Island]]'', just before he does a false alarm prank with a fire alarm on a school, Guybrush turns [[No Fourth Wall|to the player]] and says that you should never, ever do this in [[Real Life]].
** Also used in [[The Curse of Monkey Island|the previous game]], where Guybrush makes a similar disclaimer, with plenty of [[No Fourth Wall|fourth wall breaking]], right before cheerfully ingesting a spiked drink.
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* Both [[Jet Set Radio]] games have the following disclaimer at the start of the game.
{{quote|"Graffiti is art. However, graffiti as an act of vandalism is a crime. Every state/province has vandalism laws that apply to graffiti, and local entities such as cities and counties have anti-graffiti ordinances. Violation of these laws can result in a fine, probation, or a jail sentence. [[Sega]] does not condone the real life act of vandalism in any form."}}
== Web Comics ==
* [[Irregular Webcomic]]: In the annotations of [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2568.html this comic.]
{{quote|And do not, under any circumstances, attempt to emulate Kyros. He is a trained idiot.}}
* Used seriously in ''[[Collar 6]]'', which has warnings that it's a fantasy world, ''NOT'' a guide to BDSM safety.
* ''[[Amazing Super Powers]]'' did it in [http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2008/05/watercooler/ the strip about the watercooler] (see [[Alt Text]]).
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' warns you: [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-08-24 Put away that linear accelerator RIGHT NOW or I'm telling your mom.]
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{{quote|'''Igor:''' Kids, do '''''NOT''''' try this at home!!!}}
* Episode 4 of ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man (animation)|Ultimate Spider Man]] begins with Spidey riding the Spider-Cycle in a subway tunnel. He looks at the audience, in the way he often does on the show, and says, "No, I'm not allowed to do this. And neither are you."
== Real Life ==
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* At one of his concerts, [[Meat Loaf]] noticed some young children in the audience. He told them "Kids, don't talk like I do when you get home." (Meat Loaf tends to use swear words on stage.) And adds "Wait 'till you get to school!"
* One psychology textbook talks about neurosurgeons a half century ago discovering that stimulating different areas on the exposed motor cortex caused different parts of the body to respond. In parentheses, the book adds, "Kids, don't try this without parental supervision."
* In an interesting subversion, scientist Theodore Gray's rather awesome book ''Mad Science: Experiments you can do at home...but probably shouldn't'' contains fifty-odd experiments that go from making your own 1-volt batteries, casting zinc, anodising titanium and making copper penny foils, to an experiment with 30 pounds of mercury and making your own salt using chlorine and sodium!! In the front of the book Gray talks about how 'don't try this at home' is stifling the inquisitive natures required for tomorrow's chemists. Instead, he says that if you promise to protect your hands and eyes (especially eyes; he has nightmares about the mother of a child blinded doing his experiments telling him off) and use common sense, he will tell you what the real dangers are for each gnarly experiment. To this end, some of the actually doable experiments which have an element of danger are lacking somewhat in the instructions, meaning one will need a basic knowledge of the chemistry behind the experiment before it will work.
* ''Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities'' illustrates parity by describing a con-trick, requiring "three cups and [[The Mark|one mug]]". Stewart adds "Do not try this at home or anywhere else ... or if you do, keep me out of it."
* A live stage show at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, on Horror Movie Make-Up, warns children not to try this at home. "That's right. Try it at a friend's house."
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