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Line 2: In animation, seeing a tall, skinny tree anywhere is a sure sign that someone is about to go flying. In the world of cartoons, any sufficiently tall, flexible tree can be transformed into a [['''Tree Buchet]]'''. The formula is generally as follows: # Have the villain chase the hero through a forest, tree farm, or any other sufficiently wooded area. Line 10: # We have a [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress\|few seconds]] to register the [[Oh Crap\|look of terror]] on the villain's face before the tree, freed of the excess weight, snaps back up. ''Thwwwwpp!'' The villain goes flying. A frequent variation is for a character to use a tree ~~snare--a~~snare—a tree purposefully bent low, with a trap tied to one end. Usually done in an attempt to [[Catch That Pigeon]]. Usually, the hunter will find himself either riding the tree out of town, or thrown back and forth after they get [[Hoist by His Own Petard\|caught in his own trap]]. Another variation is the villain ''choosing'' to catapult himself with a tree, either to reach something higher or to jump over a wall. The effect varies from catapulting directly into the ground to missing the target by one inch. Line 16: Yet ''another'' variation is the hero using it to launch himself. This works, [[Spoiled by the Format\|unless it's too early in the story for success]]. Tree Buchets are named after ''[[wikipedia:Trebuchet\|trebuchets]]'' (pronounced 'treh-byu-shay'). Note that the classic [['''Tree Buchet]]''' is ''not'' an [[Siege Engines\|actual trebuchet]]: trebuchets work using a lever with heavy counterweights. Tree Buchets work because [[You Fail Biology Forever\|trees are apparently perfectly elastic]]. Compare [[Catapult to Glory]], where this is done with an actual catapult, and [[Caught in a Snare]], which to catch a man-sized target needs similarly elastic trees. {{examples}} Line 64: == Live Action TV == * ''[[~~Myth Busters~~MythBusters]]'' tested this trope in one episode, and found that the right sort of evergreen tree, stripped of its limbs and bent over to the breaking point, could toss [[Butt Monkey\|Buster the]] [[Chew Toy\|test dummy]] about hundred yards. However, it still failed to clear a "castle wall" and this trope was deemed "busted". * A slightly more realistic version is used in the ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode "The Road Not Taken". When he needs to throw off some pursuers in the jungle, [[MacGyver]] builds a tree-based catapult to throw stones, and puts a light-based fuse on it. First he pulls four flimsy trees together and bends them down to the ground. He routes them under a solid tree branch and ties them together with a thin vine. Then he sets down his friend's rosary to refract sunlight onto the thin vine, creating a fuse. He stakes the thin vine into the ground with a good knot on a pointed stick, and attaches the pockets from his jacket (filled with rocks) to the tree trunks. Line 110: [[Category:Comedy Tropes]] [[Category:Just for Pun]] [[Category:Tree Buchet]]▼ [[Category:Tropes Examined by the Mythbusters]] [[Category:Tree Tropes]] ▲[[Category:~~Tree Buchet~~{{PAGENAME}}]]