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A character gets a [[Tap Onon the Head]], or receives something else that knocks them out.
 
The next thing they (or we) know is that they're in a cell, either tied to a chair or lying on bed. Either way, they're rudely awoken by a bucket of cold water in the face.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Samurai Champloo (Anime)|Samurai Champloo]]'': In the first episode, Mugen passes out while fighting Jin in a burning building. He wakes up to a bucket of water, and learns he's going to be tortured and executed for killing the Governor's son.
* This has been done at least once in ''[[Ranma ½ (Manga)|Ranma One Half]]'' when Akane found Shampoo sleeping with an oblivious Ranma (she'd crawled into his futon sometime during the night), Akane woke him up with a bucket of cold water which, thanks to his curse, also turned him into a girl. Added hilarity came from the fact that Shampoo didn't know about the curse and was trying to kill "Girl-Type Ranma".
 
 
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** Again in the sequel, when Jack finds Gibbs asleep on the end of the pier-a pier notably short a ship. Gibbs is also found clutching a stuffed animal, and takes a second to comprehend the followup question regarding the absence of the ''Pearl''.
* In ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'', Bart and Jim do this to wake up the now-securely bound-with-chains Mongo. Mongo casually breaks loose while ''yawning''. (Fortunately, Mongo's in a good mood, considering.)
* In ''[[The Princess Bride (Filmfilm)|The Princess Bride]]'', Fezzick revives Inigo from a drunken stupor by shoving his head into buckets of cold and hot water.
* In ''[[Talladega Nights: theThe Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Film)|Talladega Nights the Ballad of Ricky Bobby]]'', Ricky Bobby's father throws a bucket on him to wake him up... then throws another on him because he filled up two.
* In ''[[Camp Rock]]'', Shane Grey gets the comedic version from his uncle after refusing to wake up twice.
 
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== Live-Action TV ==
* A flashback in the ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' episode "Fragments". {{spoiler|With Captain Jack and a "couple" of Victorian-era Torchwood members.}}
* ''[[The Twilight Zone (TV)|The Twilight Zone]]'' TOS episode "Two". After the man knocks out the woman, he wakes her up by dumping water on her.
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''
** In the final episode, chapter 3, Ando {{spoiler|gives himself the ability to amplify other abilities after injecting himself with the serum}}. This causes him to black out, and he is subsequently awoken by Matt, who pours a glass of water on his face.
** Early on in Season 2, The [[Fetish Fuel|half-naked, bloodied, tied-to-a-chair]] Peter is awoken with a bucket of the wet stuff to the face by the Irish gangsters who are holding him captive.
* ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]]''. Major Winters uses this to wake up his alcoholic friend Captain Nixon. Unfortunately it turns out that Nixon had used the "water" jug for toilet purposes during the night (yes, that did happen in [[Real Life]] as well).
* In ''[[El Chavo Del Ocho]]'', each time the title character gets scared he immediately paralyzes -- after adopting an awkward pose nicknamed "la garrotera". The only way to snap off from this is by splashing water on him. Normally a small splash in his face works, but meaner-spirited characters often empty whole buckets on the poor kid.
* This happened to Fraser on ''[[Due South]]'' in the Season 2 episode "Red, White or Blue".
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== Web Comics ==
* ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'' has O-Chul being woken up by a bucket of water for his daily torture.
* Beeman is awakened this way in his background story in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''.
* In ''[[Gastrophobia (Webcomic)|Gastrophobia]]'', Gastro wakes up his mother Phobia this way... because he can't sleep and want her to tell him a story. She's understandably ticked off, and gives him first a good spanking.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* On ''[[Jimmy Two -Shoes]]'', Samy tries this on Heloise, but it only succeeds in causing her to dream about being a mermaid.
* Done in ''[[Beavis and Butthead (Animation)|Beavis and Butthead]]: Do America'' when Muddy threw water at the two boys who passed out in the desert after the [[Disney Acid Sequence]].
* Subverted at the end of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' where Esmeralda's [[Disney Death]] was brought forth by Quasimodo attempting to make her drink water with a spoon after she has passed out, but she does not drink it.
* In ''[[The Perils of Penelope Pitstop]]'' episode "The Boardwalk Booby Trap", Pockets throws water on Snoozy when the latter is driving Chugga-Boom erratically.
 
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