Cat Scare: Difference between revisions

* Parodied in the ''[[Scary Movie]]'' films.

** In the first one, the victim is investigating a noise in a closed garage and finds a cat. Then a dog. Then a horse.{{spoiler|... Then the killer. The dog and cat vacate through a doggie door. The horse gets out via a larger opening. The victim? Follows the cat out. Did we mention she's slightly overweight?}}

* Parodied repeatedly and beaten to death with a stick in the horror movie parody film ''[[Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth]]'', where characters keep being scared by cats with tell tale names, like "Cheap Shot" and "Lame Gag". The final cat annoys a cast member so much that he tries to hit it, only to be told "No, don't beat [[Dead Horse Trope]]."

* Played straight in ''[[Tears of the Sun]]''—the team's point man at the river crossing calls for everyone to stop and get to cover because he hears something approaching through the foliage. Upon seeing that it's just a wild pig, he calls away "all clear" and stands up... right in time to eat a sniper's bullet from across the river.

* Played with hillariously in ''[[Horrible Bosses]]'', when the protagonists are breaking into the home of one of the titles bosses (the one labelled as the "Psycho" by the previews). The boss's cat startles the protagonists ''several'' times, but the audience always sees the cat long before they do... sitting extremely still waiting for the perfect moment to suddenly jump out and startle them, as if this trope is that cat's favorite thing in the world. The description here really doesn't do the gag justice, though.

* ''[[Below]]'' is set on a WWII submarine, and pulls off a ''manta ray'' scare on a repair-crew of divers.

 

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