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** In ''[[Sherlock, Jr.]]'' he runs afoul of a sheet of flypaper.
* One of the best remembered segments in ''[[Song of the South]]'' is about the Tar Baby. ([[I Thought It Meant|You thought it meant something else?]])
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'': Judge Doom punches a container of glue and gets it on his fist. He then accidentally hits a steam roller and gets stuck to it. He steps in the glue and when he tries to push off the steamroller with his foot, gets that stuck to it as well. He's eventually run over by the steamroller, but he survives because he's a toon. Watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVCtlYxD0XE here, starting at 1:40.]
* In ''[[Dirty Rotten Scoundrels]]'', Jamieson delivers Freddy to a party of sailors on shore leave who Freddy had earlier attempted to deceive. The next morning, we see that he has apparently gotten along with them just fine, casually leaning with his hand against a doorframe as the last of them leaves the room. He then asks Jamieson to get his hand un-superglued from the door frame.
* In ''[[The Man With Two Brains]],'' Dr. Hfuhruhurr consults with his boss, who spends the conversation with his index fingers placed pensively against his upper lip. At the end of the conversation, the doctor asks when the operation to separate his fingers from his lip will happen, and notes that superglue is something you have to be careful with.
* In ''[[National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]],'' Clark and his wife go to bed after he just cut down a pine tree, coating his hands in sap.
* IIRC one of the GIs in ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' gets a sticky bomb stuck to his hand just before it's about to detonate. YMMV on how funny that is.
* ''[[American Pie]] 2'' has this with Jim's hand and a pornography tape.
** Actually, as Jim's mistaken superglue for lubricant, he's more worried about what his '''other''' hand is glued to... The tape is just an embarrassing bonus.
* In ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'', Homer's hand gets stuck to his pants with super glue during a [[Badass Boast]].
* Happens to [[The Three Stooges]] in the movie ''The Outlaws Is Coming''.
* In a promotional web short for ''[[Up]]'', Russell has problems handling Band-Aids, which keep getting stuck to his fingers.
* The third ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' had a girl deathly afraid of roaches start to turn into one, which led to her walking into a giant roach motel. Most definitely not played for laughs ([[For the Evulz|unless you're Freddy]]).
* Cactus Jack does this in ''[[The Villain]]'' (which is, in places, basically a live-action Roadrunner cartoon). He paints the railroad tracks with glue, and his targets roll over it in their wagon to no effect. Furious, he runs after them... only to be stuck in the glue and hit by a train.
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== Literature ==
* The title character of the [[Roald Dahl]] book ''[[Matilda (novel)|Matilda]]'' glues her father's hat to his head. She also mentions the boy down the road who got Superglue on his finger and then tried to pick his nose, with disastrous results.
* [[Adrian Mole]] ends up with a model aeroplane glued to his nose at one point, prompting accusations that he was trying to sniff it.
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* ''[[I Love Lucy]]'': In the episode "The Moustache," when Ricky grows a mustache that Lucy dislikes, she dons a false beard in protest. It's accidentally attached with Bulldog Cement ("Holds fast forever. Will not let go. Can only be removed with Bulldog Cement Remover Number Three") instead of spirit gum.
** In [[Lucille Ball]]'s later sitcom ''Life With Lucy'', her character ([[The Danza|yet again named Lucy]]) becomes stuck to Curtis after a mishap while trying to glue a lamp back together.
* An episode of ''The Captain and Tennille'' (a 70's variety show) had a superglue salesman demonstrating his product then accidentally getting his hand stuck to the hand of a pretty housewife. Then her husband came home and his hands got stuck around the salesman's neck.
* ''[[The Muppet Show]]'': In the Gilda Radner episode, Dr. Honeydew's superglue spills all over the stage and characters keep getting glued to everything. By the end of the show, everyone is stuck in one big ball.
* Deputy Andy Brennan runs afoul of a roll of Scotch tape in ''[[Twin Peaks]].''
* Done with a zombie mask on ''[[Victorious]]'', when Tori's ditzy friend uses the wrong glue. She is supposed to be the lead in the play that night, and ends up performing her entire (serious) part wearing the zombie mask. With the author of the play in the audience.
* Tim gets his head stuck to a board while demonstrating Binford's Miracle Glue on ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]''. In a different episode, he gets ''both'' of his hands stuck to a toilet tank's interior wall.
* Happens in an episode of ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'' when Chiaki and Ryuunosuke become glued together by the [[Monster of the Week]].
** Which naturally carried over into the ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'' version of the episode. Which, given ''[[Power Rangers]]''' predilection for puns, was naturally titled "A Sticky Situation".
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* In one ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' strip, when trying to assemble a plastic model Calvin got glue on his hands while Hobbes obliviously mused about the tri-lingual instructions.
* A week long arc in ''[[FoxTrot]]'' involved Paige and jason having their faces stuck together by experimental bubblegum.
* For their pranks, ''The Katzenjammer Kids'' tended to used an extremely effective superglue which would always get their victim stuck immediately and completely. However, the kids' [[Genre Savvy]] rival Rollo would often happen to be nearby with a kettle of hot water.
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons
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== Western Animation ==
* There was an episode of ''[[The Flintstones]]'' (and every other cartoon in existence, I'm sure) dealing with Fred's attempt to invent a new, unbreakable superglue, and getting stuck to Barney (as I recall) in the process. In the end it turns out the secret ingredient was {{spoiler|superglue}}.
* In ''[[Family Guy]]'' Stewie and Bryan spent [[wikipedia:Stuck Together, Torn Apart|most of an episode glued together.]]
* In the ''[[Tale Spin]]'' episode "Stuck on You", Baloo and Don Karnage are stuck together by an experimental superglue.
* In the ''[[Squirrel Boy]]'' episode "The Rod Squad," an escalating situation involving sticky buns ends up with most of the cast stuck together in a huge ball.
* One of many traps [[Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner|Wile E. Coyote has used to catch the Road Runner]].
* ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' used this trope several times, involving everything from glue guns to a human sized roach-motel when one of the girls became an insect hybrid.
* ''[[Animaniacs]]'' had a character recounting an incident where the Warner Kids made a movie themselves where they use the flypaper gag, which the person admitted was funny, but ran ''[[Overly Long Gag|several hours]]'' too long.
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' had a minor villain getting hold of some [[Reality Warper]] powers, and Raven, having been knocked into the ocean, discovered the hard way that the water had turned into glue.
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== Real Life ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZB7sO5ZoV8 This Krazy Glue ad] is not an illusion—but note the carefully prepared surfaces.
* Apparently, it's not unheard of for people to visit an emergency room after mistaking a tube of superglue for personal lubricant. (OW.)
* The [[Sticky Bomb]] was a real ally weapon in [[WW 2]]. It resembled a German stick grenade but with the end coated in glue, to be tossed on the weak-parts on enemy tanks. Pulling the pin would pop the end off, revealing the sticky end and arming the device, and having one where the glue leaked onto the handle was a ''very'' real possibility.
* Police have experimented with a sticky foam gun as a method of non-lethal urban pacification. Besides the obvious cleanup issue is the risk of accidentally (or not) shooting someone in the face.
* Velvet worms, soft-bodied primitive cousins of arthropods, hunt by spraying streams of glue at smaller invertebrates to stick them to the ground.
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