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[[File:20JockQuestions_2585.png|link=Ozy and Millie (Webcomic)|frame|Damn fifth question gets me all the time, too!]]
[[File:20JockQuestions_2585.png|link=Ozy and Millie|frame|Damn fifth question gets me all the time, too!]]




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== [[Film]] ==
== [[Film]] ==
* It is somewhat subverted in the 1982 musical, ''[[Annie (Theatre)|Annie]]'', when the title character does this to a bully instead of the other way around.
* It is somewhat subverted in the 1982 musical, ''[[Annie]]'', when the title character does this to a bully instead of the other way around.
* The Turtles do this to Keno, the pizza guy in ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Film)|TMNT 2]]'', but it's for his own good.
* The Turtles do this to Keno, the pizza guy in ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|TMNT 2]]'', but it's for his own good.
* In ''[[The Neverending Story (Film)|The Neverending Story]]'' (the film), Bastian gets his lunch money stolen and tossed into a dumpster. At the end, he gets his revenge when {{spoiler|he terrifies the bullies by pursuing them on a flying luckdragon and they hide in the dumpster themselves}}.
* In ''[[The Neverending Story (film)|The Neverending Story]]'' (the film), Bastian gets his lunch money stolen and tossed into a dumpster. At the end, he gets his revenge when {{spoiler|he terrifies the bullies by pursuing them on a flying luckdragon and they hide in the dumpster themselves}}.
* In [[The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (Film)|The Garbage Pail Kids Movie]], to prevent Dodger from interfering with the fashion show, the bullies toss him into a dumpster. Only problem with this plan? He could just as easily get out of the dumpster, which he does.
* In [[The Garbage Pail Kids Movie]], to prevent Dodger from interfering with the fashion show, the bullies toss him into a dumpster. Only problem with this plan? He could just as easily get out of the dumpster, which he does.
* In ''Shorts'', this is what the main character has to endure ''every day'': stuffed head first in a trash can. It gets better though, as the girl who does it to him becomes his girlfriend.
* In ''Shorts'', this is what the main character has to endure ''every day'': stuffed head first in a trash can. It gets better though, as the girl who does it to him becomes his girlfriend.


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* This is one of the humiliations suffered by the protagonist of ''The Eighteenth Emergency'' by Betsy Byars.
* This is one of the humiliations suffered by the protagonist of ''The Eighteenth Emergency'' by Betsy Byars.
* In a related joke, one of the protagonists of ''The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks'' attempts to clean out his room, and through an unfortunate chain of events winds up face-down inside the box of items to throw away.
* In a related joke, one of the protagonists of ''The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks'' attempts to clean out his room, and through an unfortunate chain of events winds up face-down inside the box of items to throw away.
* In ''[[The Neverending Story (Literature)|The Neverending Story]]'', Bastian mentions that kids once did this to him, when he tried to respond their insults.
* In ''[[The Neverending Story (novel)|The Neverending Story]]'', Bastian mentions that kids once did this to him, when he tried to respond their insults.


== [[Live Action TV]] ==
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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** Early in the series the [[Jerk Jock|Jerk Jocks]] trapped Artie in a porta-john and tipped it over onto the door side. He wasn't found until the next day. Note that in [[Real Life]] [[Fridge Horror|this would have serious health ramifications for Artie]] and criminal charges for the guys who did it.
** Early in the series the [[Jerk Jock|Jerk Jocks]] trapped Artie in a porta-john and tipped it over onto the door side. He wasn't found until the next day. Note that in [[Real Life]] [[Fridge Horror|this would have serious health ramifications for Artie]] and criminal charges for the guys who did it.
* It happens in the Peruvian series ''Esta Sociedad''.
* It happens in the Peruvian series ''Esta Sociedad''.
* Gibby on ''[[I Carly]]''.
* Gibby on ''[[ICarly]]''.
* They did this to Rick on ''[[Degrassi]]''.
* They did this to Rick on ''[[Degrassi]]''.


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== [[Video Games]] ==
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the video game, ''[[Bully (Video Game)|Bully]]'', you get to stuff other people into trashcans if close enough; the beating is optional. This has acted as slight [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]] in that sometimes you want to beat the victim, not stuff him.
* In the video game, ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]'', you get to stuff other people into trashcans if close enough; the beating is optional. This has acted as slight [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]] in that sometimes you want to beat the victim, not stuff him.
** Oddly, while victims are stuffed in and helpless, Jimmy can dive in voluntarily to hide, with no problems getting out once the heat is down and the prefects finish [[Failed a Spot Check|failing their Spot checks]]. Lockers work the same in both situations.
** Oddly, while victims are stuffed in and helpless, Jimmy can dive in voluntarily to hide, with no problems getting out once the heat is down and the prefects finish [[Failed a Spot Check|failing their Spot checks]]. Lockers work the same in both situations.
*** Well, it's probably because he shoves them in ass-first. If you've ever thought it would be a good idea to sit on something similar to a trashcan with an opening like that, chances are you'll need help getting out.
*** Well, it's probably because he shoves them in ass-first. If you've ever thought it would be a good idea to sit on something similar to a trashcan with an opening like that, chances are you'll need help getting out.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* This has been done to Ozy from the ''[[Ozy and Millie (Webcomic)|Ozy and Millie]]'' webcomic countless times by the school's [[Jerk Jock]], Jeremy.
* This has been done to Ozy from the ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'' webcomic countless times by the school's [[Jerk Jock]], Jeremy.
* In a ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'' [[Whole-Episode Flashback|flashback]], teenage Lynda does this to her future husband Rob after one too many flirtatious pranks on his part.
* In a ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'' [[Whole-Episode Flashback|flashback]], teenage Lynda does this to her future husband Rob after one too many flirtatious pranks on his part.
* Also happens to Roger in ''[[The Whiteboard (Webcomic)|The Whiteboard]]'', though often he deserved it. Seriously you'd think a guy who makes railguns in his free time would know not to play pranks on a polar bear.
* Also happens to Roger in ''[[The Whiteboard]]'', though often he deserved it. Seriously you'd think a guy who makes railguns in his free time would know not to play pranks on a polar bear.
* ''[[Sandra and Woo (Webcomic)|Sandra and Woo]]'' has its own subversion as well when [http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2009/04/06/0048-immoral-insight/ Cloud does this to Ralph], [[The Bully]], after he beat another student. Done a second time by Sandra to Larisa [http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2010/02/08/0136-theres-still-hope/ after one biting remark too many].
* ''[[Sandra and Woo]]'' has its own subversion as well when [http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2009/04/06/0048-immoral-insight/ Cloud does this to Ralph], [[The Bully]], after he beat another student. Done a second time by Sandra to Larisa [http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2010/02/08/0136-theres-still-hope/ after one biting remark too many].


== [[Western Animation]] ==
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** Barney Gumble was once stuffed into a trashcan by boxer Smokin' Joe Frazier.
** Barney Gumble was once stuffed into a trashcan by boxer Smokin' Joe Frazier.
*** [[What Could Have Been|Originally]] it was supposed to be ''Joe Frazier'' who was to be stuffed into a trashcan by ''Barney''. However, it was changed under the advice of Joe Frazier's son.
*** [[What Could Have Been|Originally]] it was supposed to be ''Joe Frazier'' who was to be stuffed into a trashcan by ''Barney''. However, it was changed under the advice of Joe Frazier's son.
** In the parody of ''[[Twenty Four]]'', Bart jams a trashcan on Nelson's head and pounds on the can to [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|get Nelson to talk]].
** In the parody of ''[[24]]'', Bart jams a trashcan on Nelson's head and pounds on the can to [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|get Nelson to talk]].
* ''[[Hey Arnold]]'' had a whole episode about this. It was a yearly tradition for the fifth graders to stuff the fourth graders into trash cans on "Trash Can Day," and Arnold and Gerald worked together to figure out a way to get home safely without being canned.
* ''[[Hey Arnold]]'' had a whole episode about this. It was a yearly tradition for the fifth graders to stuff the fourth graders into trash cans on "Trash Can Day," and Arnold and Gerald worked together to figure out a way to get home safely without being canned.
* Gelman does this to Gus in an episode of ''[[Recess]]''
* Gelman does this to Gus in an episode of ''[[Recess]]''
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