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* Subverted in a ''[[Kids in The Hall]]'' sketch: two policemen are eating in a diner when they recognize three other customers as wanted criminals, who realize that they've been spotted. They immediately start racing to finish their meals before beginning the chase.
* Subverted in a ''[[Kids in The Hall]]'' sketch: two policemen are eating in a diner when they recognize three other customers as wanted criminals, who realize that they've been spotted. They immediately start racing to finish their meals before beginning the chase.
* Happened a couple of times in ''[[Barbie and the Diamond Castle]]''. Especially annoying when the [[The Hero|heroines]] sing for their supper, supposedly starving, yet leave when mildly harassed by a pair of [[Lounge Lizard]] twins, without even touching their food.
* Happened a couple of times in ''[[Barbie and the Diamond Castle]]''. Especially annoying when the [[The Hero|heroines]] sing for their supper, supposedly starving, yet leave when mildly harassed by a pair of [[Lounge Lizard]] twins, without even touching their food.
* Occasionally happens in ''[[Code Lyoko]]''. Most notably, the heroes sometimes order coffee from the machine and end up throwing it away due to an emergency.
* Occasionally happens in ''[[Code Lyoko]]''. Most notably, the heroes sometimes order coffee from the machine and end up throwing it away due to an emergency. [[Big Eater|Odd, of course, doesn't like this]], though, and once spends a whole episode complaining that he didn't have time to eat.
** [[Big Eater|Odd doesn't like this]], though, and once spends a whole episode complaining that he didn't have time to eat.
* Happens in the Opening Credits of [[The Real Ghostbusters]]. Winston is shown about to enjoy a burger when the alarm rings, and he drops it to get to work, instead of, oh, I dunno, taking it with him? However, the burger doesn't go completely to waste: Slimer gobbles it up.
* Happens in the Opening Credits of [[The Real Ghostbusters]]. Winston is shown about to enjoy a burger when the alarm rings, and he drops it to get to work, instead of, oh, I dunno, taking it with him? However, the burger doesn't go completely to waste: Slimer gobbles it up.
** When the alarm rings, you drop ''whatever'' you're doing to answer it.
** When the alarm rings, you drop ''whatever'' you're doing to answer it.
* In [[Alvin and The Chipmunks|The Chipmunk Adventure]], a [[Running Gag]] has [[Big Eater|Theodore]] ordering food, only to be pulled away for some reason before he can eat it.
* In [[Alvin and The Chipmunks|The Chipmunk Adventure]], a [[Running Gag]] has [[Big Eater|Theodore]] ordering food, only to be pulled away for some reason before he can eat it.
* In ''[[Bob's Burgers]]'', Bob talks a bank robber down to giving himself up on the condition that he goes to Bob's restaurant across the street and tries one of his burgers. After awkwardly manoeuvring a huddle of hostages across the road, the guy has about one small bite of a burger, does a lot of talking, and then makes a run for it.
* In ''[[Bob's Burgers]]'', Bob talks a bank robber down to giving himself up on the condition that he goes to Bob's restaurant across the street and tries one of his burgers. After awkwardly maneuvering a huddle of hostages across the road, the guy has about one small bite of a burger, does a lot of talking, and then makes a run for it.
* ''[[Miraculous Ladybug]]'':
* In a ''[[Miraculous Ladybug]]'' episode set on Marinette's birthday, her dad ruins ''three'' cakes trying to hide them from her. A fourth is destroyed when the [[Villain of the Week]] appears.
** In an episode set on Marinette's birthday, her dad ruins ''three'' cakes trying to hide them from her. A fourth is destroyed when the [[Villain of the Week]] appears.
** This also happens a lot with Plagg, who is ''always'' eating, and often overlaps with his [[The Snack Is More Interesting]] attitude.
** This also happens a lot with Plagg, who is ''always'' eating, and often overlaps with his [[The Snack Is More Interesting]] attitude.
* Rather cruel example in the "Titans East" episode of ''[[Teen Titans]]''. Cyborg rewards his new team by making spaghetti with his ''delicious'' looking sauce made with beef, pork, and chicken. Unfortunately, Brother Blood chooses this exact moment to activate the latent [[Manchurian Agent]] programming he planted in them, forcing Cyborg to ''throw'' it aside in his attempt to restrain them.
* Rather cruel example in the "Titans East" episode of ''[[Teen Titans]]''. Cyborg rewards his new team by making spaghetti with his ''delicious'' looking sauce made with beef, pork, and chicken. Unfortunately, Brother Blood chooses this exact moment to activate the latent [[Manchurian Agent]] programming he planted in them, forcing Cyborg to ''throw'' it aside in his attempt to restrain them.
* Two harsh examples of wasting food occur in the ''[[Justice League]]'' episode "The Brave and the Bold". At the beginning of the episode, Flash is flirting with two girls, with enough food for ten people (given how high his metabolism is, he always eats like that). However, duty calls, and he has to leave it unfinished to stop a runaway truck. Later, he orders about twenty hamburgers from a vendor, but again is called to heroics when Solovar steals a car, leaving them uneaten.
* Two harsh examples of wasting food occur in the ''[[Justice League]]'' episode "The Brave and the Bold". At the beginning of the episode, Flash is flirting with two girls, with enough food for ten people (given how high his metabolism is, he always eats like that). However, duty calls, and he has to leave it unfinished to stop a runaway truck. Later, he orders about twenty hamburgers from a vendor, but again is called to heroics when Solovar steals a car, leaving them uneaten.
* Happens many times in all versions of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''; the heroes may love pizza, but that doesn't stop them from using it [[Improvised Weapon| as an impromptu weapon]] now and then. Raphael even [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You| throws one at the viewer]] in the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series)| 1987 version's]] opening credits.


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