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Delicious Distraction
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Hunger is a very powerful force. A starving person may degrade themselves for a scrap of food; a hedonist will do so for a teaspoon of cous cous. Mmm... delicious cous cous. Even a person with a full stomach may have a hard time resisting a marvelously mouthwatering meal or morsel. Much like characters with Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!, these characters are distracted by something delicious, like a freshly baked, moist, sweet delectable apple pie cooling on a window sill... *drools* *cough* Yeah. Like that. This can be used as a "soft" Achilles' Heel against gluttonous characters (or anyone, provided the bait dessert is good enough) that can distract or completely sidetrack a given character for up to an hour (or more, if the tempter is a cook with a fully stocked kitchen). In cartoons, this may be enough to stop a predator/enemy in their tracks, in other media, the sleeping dust/amnesia powder sprinkled over the glazing does the trick. May happen just by looking at it, smelling it, and in powerful instances from mere memory or having it be described... like that time I had this delicious just-baked and still warm pineapple empanada, with a gold crust that was still crisp yet unburnt, and the filling with small chunks of pineapple still discernible when you chewed... *drools* A Supreme Chef can easily invoke this trope. Intimately related to Food Porn, which is about distracting the audience with the yummies. Compare Food as Bribe which is for getting a service for a supply of food. Also closely related to Meat-O-Vision, Obsessed with Food and Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere, diet edition. Don't confuse with another related trope, Delicious Daydream. |
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In The Thief of Always, the Master of Illusion uses food to make the heroes forget about the real world and their goal of defeating him. | |
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In the "Lost Session" teaser for Cowboy Bebop (2021), Spike seemingly bails on the bounty to grab some food. | |
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Angel & Faith has Faith break up a fight between Nadira and some Arsenal football fans she attacked by revealing her b...eer. She immediately muses that she could very easily have revealed something else. | |
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Heralds of Valdemar: At one point in Take a Thief, Skif bypasses some guard dogs with a cross between this trope and Slipping a Mickey. He mixes chopped meat with bread crumbs soaked in poppy juice, stuffs the concoction into sausage casings, and tosses them over the wall. | |
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In episode 94b of Tamagotchi, Spacytchi and Akaspetchi set up a grill with food cooked on it to distract the racers in the Tama-Pet race so that Pipospetchi (who is posing as a Tama-Pet) can win the event. However, Pipospetchi himself falls for the trap, as does Kuchipatchi who is outright not participating in the race. | |
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In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Toad looks as though he's about to attack the guards protecting Princess Peach's castle with his frying pan... only to use his frying pan to cook vegetables for them. They're enthralled by his cooking enough that they don't notice Mario going into the castle. | |
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In Munchkin, you can acquire an item called "Rat on a Stick" which you can use to distract monsters and avoid fighting them. | |
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Chrononauts, the card game of time travel, includes an artifact from the 1939' Berlin World's Fair: a delicious slice of German Cake. You can use it during another player's turn to distract them and cancel whatever it is they were about to do. | |
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In the Monster Hunter series, one can leave a piece of meat on the ground, which might entice a large monster into snacking on it, leaving them open to attacks while they eat and also possibly paralyzing them, poisoning them, or putting them to sleep if you combined it with something beforehand. Exactly how effective it is varies from monster to monster, some of them being cautious and only doing so while no hunters are in sight, while others will go for it even if they're being attacked. | |
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In the Tyranny of Dragons module, it's possible to divert the attention of some ambush drakes in the Cult of the Dragon's camp by throwing slabs of meat at them. There's a cavern made into a butchery within the camp itself to make this easy. | |
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Jimmy from Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical starts ranting at his drug dealer about how he's done smoking pot, and nothing can change his mind, but gets sidetracked shortly after the dealer offers him a brownie. Admittedly, it was a pot brownie, but Jimmy didn't know that before he dropped his argument to eat it. | |
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In the spin-off Angel, Cordelia Chase has just rescued her Bound and Gagged friends from being executed. She stretches out her arms for a Group Hug, only for them to rush past her and tuck into the food. | |
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Redwall: Characters will reminisce rhapsodically about food whenever they aren't actually sitting down to a sumptuous feast, but the robin from Mossflower has to take the cake for this trope because he operated solely on food-based bribery. The hares are also notorious big eaters, wot. |
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Occurs in Psych when Gus keeps distracting Shawn with Snickers bars in "Ferry Tale". Shawn also uses a giant bowl of Skittles in "Shawn Interrupted" to keep Bernie Bethel from noticing that the plant on the table is bugged. Of course, considering Shawn couldn't find the bugged plant himself, he may not have needed to. |
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The Lamput episode "Dr. Lamput" sees Lamput pretending to be one of the scientists chasing after him after he winds up with a Coincidental Accidental Disguise of gray paint making him look similar to them. The docs are mapping out a plan to capture Lamput, who then suggests a new plan to replace the old one - set up a trail of candy for Lamput to follow that leads to a jar to imprison him in. | |
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Deadpool: The Musical: Deadpool gets distracted mid-singing in a bar brawl when he sees a chimichanga and gives its would-be eater a fork-impaled palm to steal it. | |
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The Simpsons: Subverted when Homer tries to distract an Angry Guard Dog chasing Bart with a steak. The dog eats the steak in one bite and doesn't slow down at all. "Treehouse of Horror V": Subverted when Homer is being chased by Ned Flanders' guard dogs. (It Makes Sense in Context) He pulls out a large string of sausages — and then eats them himself to give himself "quick energy" for escaping the dogs. "Homer the Vigilante": Played straight and parodied during the Cat's burglary spree. Santa's Little Helper growls at the intruder, who quiets him with a string of sausages. In comes a sleepwalking Homer, who also growls at the Cat... who also quiets him with another string of sausages. "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy": Played straight with a brief gag. Homer tries to start a serious talk with his kids, but loses his train of thought thanks to Bart's candy bar. "In Marge We Trust": Marge becomes the church's "listen lady", offering advice for people in trouble. Lenny asks for help since he lied to his friend Carl about being married; Marge says that whenever she has to give bad news to Homer she does it after preparing him a delicious dinner so he doesn't care what she says. "Brawl in the Family": The family throws their sandwiches to a gang of wolves and cougars, but it only energizes them and makes them jump higher. Homer instead throws them beer, which causes them to get drunk and faint. |
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Cake Boss: Buddy Valastro gave Cookie Monster a large cookie cake, because he loves him. As a bonus, it kept Cookie away from Buddy's main project: a 40th anniversary Sesame Street cake. | |
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In chapter twenty-two / seventh episode of Asteroid in Love, the Earth Science Club works as volunteer instructors for a children's stargazing event. Since the children are not listening to their teachings, Suzu and Megu give them cookies to quiet them down. | |
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Saves the day in the first interlude for Cucumber Quest, when Carrot and Nautilus give into the temptation of the train's huge breakfast cart while searching for a bomb... that turns out to be underneath it. | |
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If you're being chased by a predator in The Long Dark and have a piece of meat on you, you can drop it as a decoy and make your escape. This doesn't work on moose, for obvious reasons. | |
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Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1: "Lasagna" has Master Shake distract Carl (who is under house arrest after a hooker bit his tongue) with the eponymous pasta. | |
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Can be invoked by the protagonist of Double Homework depending on player choice. At one point, he has an option to distract Henry from embarrassing them both by telling him about an unopened bag of Cheetos in the cafeteria. It doesn’t work. | |
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In 1776, John Adams is briefly distracted from haranguing Big Eater Samuel Chase for a vote on independence by the contents of his plate. | |
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Not Always Learning: A police dog goes into full alert mode ... over a ham sandwich in a student's locker. To be fair to the dog, he hadn't been given any orders (it was a lockdown drill, not an actual lockdown) so he wasn't in "work mode". | |
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In one episode of Married... with Children Bud spends most of the episode trying to get past a hotel doorman to see an old high-school flame, who's now a celebrity, but keeps getting thrown him out. On one attempt, a fat, middle-aged woman from another room sees and grabs him. (What happens off-screen is best left to the imagination.) Later, Bud gets an idea; he gets rid of the doorman by luring him next to the same woman's room using a table with a hamburger, making sure that she grabs him. (Unfortunately, while he manages to talk to his old flame for a few minutes, the guard is 'very'' angry when he comes out.) | |
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Discworld: In Thief of Time, chocolate proves itself to be a Deadly Delicious Distraction, for Auditors that are new to having human bodies or taste buds. At one point, the mere scent of a single piece of high-end chocolate candy sets a mob of them to fighting one another, and the sole survivor's body disintegrates from sheer bliss upon eating it. In Unseen Academicals, Glenda uses scrumptious pies to bribe her way past Lord Vetinari's security guards. Subverted in that Vetinari'd ordered the guards to accept any bribes regardless of their value or quality; played with in that he scolds his aide for having the pies disposed of, uneaten: he knew Glenda's grandmother from her time as a cook at the Assassin's Guild, and neither she nor her granddaughter would dream of fouling a recipe with poison. |
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A couple of guys trying to distract the lookout in Doomsday Arcade successfully distract him by using a 'Free Sandwiches' sign. | |
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Infested: To distract the slime, you have to throw a packet of blood at it. Well, the game did say it has a taste for blood. | |
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WoW-based comedy series Illegal Danish involves the characters Rasi and Basutei traveling to Ashenvale for apparently nothing but a vending machine. Rasi is annoyed, but Basutei is overjoyed, and launches into his own little commercial when he sees the machine is stocked with "Goblin Cakes." He then breaks open the machine and starts stuffing his face until Rasi throws the machine off the tower. | |
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In the Golden Sun series, the stoves and ovens in various towns can be examined for short, appetizing descriptions of their contents; every oven is unique. Some of the descriptions also include reaction lines, apparently by the Heroic Mime player character (Isaac in the first game, Felix in the second, Matthew in the third), suggesting they have an interest in food. Which would explain why they're stopping to check out every oven in all the towns... | |
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Freakazoid!: Freakazoid defeats Candle Jack by distracting him with pie. | |
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An Eggo Waffle commercial in the mid 90s promoting the film adaptation of Harriet the Spy has Harriet sneaking into Agatha Plumber's kitchen to take her Eggo. A Pomeranian runs after her, but Harriet is prepared and hands it a rawhide bone. | |
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Samurai Champloo. Mugen is chatting up a couple of women they've met on the road and seems likely to score, but they're eating rice balls on a stick which he eventually snatches off them as he's very hungry. The outraged women disappear amid a torrent of verbal abuse. | |
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Penumbra: Overture: You can find packets of beef jerky. Toss them at zombified dogs before they see you and they'll be too busy eating to notice you around, allowing you to either kill them in a Sneak Attack or simply run away while they're distracted. | |
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Digimon Adventure: Metalseadramon's henchman Scorpiomon loves clams, so much that it distracts him long enough for Togemon and Ikkakumon to digivolve and finish him off. | |
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Angel's Friends: This often gets Gas into trouble because of his eating habits due to him being Obsessed with Food. | |
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In Babushka: the Movie (and the actual game of Among Us that inspired it), the streamers Fuslie and Disguised Toast spend the entire game distracted putting together a take-out order from a fancy sushi restaurant, blissfully unaware that the impostors are slaughtering their way through the rest of the crew one by one until the impostors just need one more kill to win the game and find their hiding spot... | |
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In Dragon Age: Origins, the templar charged with making sure no one visits the Abomination infested Circle Tower can be bribed with cookies provided by Sten. Cookies that Sten stole from a fat slovenly child — for his own good, of course. | |
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Goku in Dragon Ball Z Abridged has this crop up frequently while he's in the middle of a fight. | |
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Molly of Denali: In "Mystery in the Night Sky," Molly is sure that she won't get distracted while looking for a supposed UFO. Cue Walter arriving with mugs of hot chocolate. | |
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In Unseen Academicals, Glenda uses scrumptious pies to bribe her way past Lord Vetinari's security guards. Subverted in that Vetinari'd ordered the guards to accept any bribes regardless of their value or quality; played with in that he scolds his aide for having the pies disposed of, uneaten: he knew Glenda's grandmother from her time as a cook at the Assassin's Guild, and neither she nor her granddaughter would dream of fouling a recipe with poison. | |
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In Tik Tak Tail, Tik frequently uses carrots to distract Tail, who seems to consider them his favorite food, often causing problems for both him and Tak, to whom he's directly attached. | |
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In A Brother's Price, when Jerin's toddler sisters are inconsolable about his going away to get married, he distracts (and comforts) them by suggesting they bake a cake and make ice cream. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons There is a spell called "Illusory Feast" that creates a feast that seems to have their favorite foods and is real as far as natural senses can tell. Causes foes that aren't actively involved in fighting to drop what they're doing and indulge. Foes that are fighting are slightly dazed. In the Tyranny of Dragons module, it's possible to divert the attention of some ambush drakes in the Cult of the Dragon's camp by throwing slabs of meat at them. There's a cavern made into a butchery within the camp itself to make this easy. |
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In Fushigi Yuugi, this is used against Miaka by the bad guys (and Taiitsukun) more than once. It works every time, because Miaka literally cannot control herself around food. | |
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In The Great Muppet Caper, the Muppets need to sneak into a gallery to stop some jewel thieves from stealing a large and valuable diamond, but have trouble getting past the guard dogs. The solution was to feed them pizza as they sneak in. It only works for so long before the dogs are back on their trail. | |
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In Thief of Time, chocolate proves itself to be a Deadly Delicious Distraction, for Auditors that are new to having human bodies or taste buds. At one point, the mere scent of a single piece of high-end chocolate candy sets a mob of them to fighting one another, and the sole survivor's body disintegrates from sheer bliss upon eating it. | |
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In one issue of Pinky and the Brain, the titular duo need to steal lemons from a private garden as part of their scheme to Take Over the World. It's guarded by Angry Guard Dogs, but Brain has a bag full of steaks handy. The problem is that there are more dogs than steaks. | |
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Basingstoke: There are various foods in the game, such as sausage rolls and kebabs, that you can throw. When you do, the zombies will shambles in its direction. | |
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Garfield and Friends: "Five-Minute Warning" has Jon bet Garfield that he can't go five minutes without eating. The fat cat tries to get his mind off food, but repeatedly runs into things like an ice cream trunk, a picnicking family, and the Buddy Bears, who have prepared an enormous feast for him as a token of friendship. Garfield does manage to win the bet, though, chowing down on a banana just as the timer runs out. | |
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In one Batman story, Bruce Wayne is being guarded by federal agents because of a threat against his life. Alfred distracts the agents by cooking a delicious (and delicious-smelling) roast beef dinner for them, allowing Bruce to sneak off and become Batman. | |
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Kaeloo: Quack Quack is obsessed with yogurt, which is a G-Rated Drug in this universe, so he can easily be distracted by offering it to him. | |
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On those occasions on Hogan's Heroes when Schultz does not know nothing, he can be bribed with food to know nothing. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: During the extended version opening of the movie (well, second opening; during the Concerning Hobbits scene), a hobbit-maid is about to kiss her hobbit-lover, who is distracted by a basket of muffins going around and eats it instead. At the exact same moment, Bilbo narrates that "a Hobbit's only true love is for food." | |
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The Lion King (1994): Simba, Nala, Timon, and Pumbaa have to get past Scar's hyenas who are very hungry from food shortage in order to sneak back in the Pride Lands, they use Timon and Pumbaa to distract them with Timon dressed as a hula dancer and Pumbaa as a roasted pig on a plate. | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "Terminal Provocations", a rogue isolinear core is rampaging through the ship and absorbing technology into itself. When they can't force it into the airlock, Mariner chucks her tricorder into the airlock so it will go in willingly to get the delicious tech. | |
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Kim Possible: An indirect version shows up in "The Golden Years": Drakken and Shego are operating out of an ice cream truck, and at one point Shego tries to get Kim off their tail by tossing out a batch of ice cream bars to attract a crowd of kids. | |
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Ax from Animorphs. Oh, Ax from Animorphs. Andalites don't have mouths or tongues, so Ax in human morph is positively overwhelmed by the sense of taste. Do NOT get between Ax and a cinnamon roll. You will bleed. Every Andalite who adopts a human morph. By the end of the series, Andalite tour groups visit Earth just to sample human cuisine. |
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One of the (many) side-quests in The Legend of Tian-ding have you attempting to infiltrate an embassy which has a number of fierce guard dogs in it's front compound. You'll need to collect ribs and leftovers from the local butcher and use them to distract the dogs so you can break in without raising alarms. | |
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The Blood Rules sees the main villain about to escape, scot-free after betraying all the heroes, until he passes a tofu stall, the "nostalgic smell" of his youth. Getting off his armored car, the villain then stops by the stall to place an order, only for the hat-wearing vendor to look up and reveal himself as the last protagonist alive. Who then shoots the villain on the spot, roll credits. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: The Rykorns manage to distract Etta from their highly suspect behavior with food. | |
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Bob's Burgers: At the climax of "Best Burger", Gene rushes through the food festival to get his dad Bob the black garlic he needs for a burger-making contest. He ends up having to run past a number of stands offering free samples and, while it's a struggle, he manages not to "Gene out" for once. | |
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The promo film for "Happy Jack" by The Who has the band as a gang of Blatant Burglars who sneak into an apartment and start trying to break into the safe... only to be quickly distracted when their lookout discovers a lovely cake. | |
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The easiest way to get B.A. Baracus in The A-Team to calm down and stay out of your hair is to give him a plate of Murdock's coconut curry tapenade. Just don't forget the toasties. | |
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie: Subverted in "Masked Mouse: The Ultimate Challenge". Dog is playing superhero as "Dog In a Cape" and is trying to save Mouse, who has been blown away on a kite. He rides a skateboard, but then spots a man with a tasty donut. Then, he remembers Superhero Rule #3 — "Focus. No distractions." | |
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Futurama: When Bender comes across an angry guard dog he pulls out a huge steak... he then proceeds to knock the dog unconscious with it and eats the steak himself. | |
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In Hetalia: Axis Powers Canada at one point (during the American Revolution, no less!) attaches a note that reads "There is food inside" to a package in an effort to trick America into opening it. The last panel of the comic shows America desperately trying to restrain himself. There's also a comic where Rome is shown daydreaming about food and women while bored during a meeting. |
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Scooby-Doo and Scooby Snacks. Though Shaggy and Scooby are afraid of their own shadow, all it takes is a little bribery with the snacks to get them to agree to do something scary Once per Episode. | |
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In 3×3 Eyes, at one point Galga takes Pai out of commission by showing her an illusion of lots and lots of sweets falling around her, causing her to be stunned. | |
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In Burgle Bros. the Donut tool can be played on a guard, and that guard will not move the next time he is supposed to move. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Link can use this tactic during the stealth infiltration of the Yiga Clan, by dropping their Trademark Favorite Food (Mighty Bananas) on the ground to lure guards away from their posts. This also works on Maz Koshia at the end of "The Champions' Ballad" DLC, though only once. | |
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In Beverly Hills Cop, Axel Foley successfully distracts a pair of cops on a long stakeout by sending over a lavish dinner, and uses the opportunity to sabotage their car so they can't follow him later. He does it again against the two protagonist cops, but this time only uses the distraction to introduce himself. | |
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In the film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Hermione decides to try knocking out Crabbe and Goyle by leaving sedative-laced muffins floating in mid air in a hallway. It works perfectly. In the original novel, they didn't have an excess special effects budget to be showing off, so they just set them on the banisters by the stairs, to exactly the same effect. At least that's only mildly stupid. | |
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In Pleasant Goat Fun Class: The Earth Carnival episode 17, during the river race, Wolffy throws a slice of cake to the edge of the river to distract Paddi and move ahead of him. This being the food-obsessed Paddi, he falls for the trick and gets his boat stuck as a result. | |
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In Live and Let Die, James Bond gets stranded in an alligator infested swamp. He finds a bucket of chicken meat and throws them at the approaching gators, but soon runs out and has to escape them. | |
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When fighting The Fear in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, his stealth camo will drain his stamina extremely fast. When it gets low, he'll shoot down some convenient fruit, gobble it down, and continue the fight. He is very vulnerable during this time, but can't actually be stopped from eating the fruit (he'll keep moving no matter what you shoot him with). However, you can throw your own food, some of which may be poisoned, and he'll go for that instead, as it is more convenient. | |
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In The Rock, Sean Connery's character has the hotel room service deliver a full spread of snacks to distract the FBI agents that are supposed to be keeping an eye on him while he enacts his scheme to escape and meet up with his daughter. | |
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Ozzy & Drix: Bacteria-themed villains can't resist anything sweet, and can be led into a trap rather easily by mere pastry. Even the criminal mastermind Strepfinger is apprehended after Maria lured him out of his office with a pie. (After she knocked him out, she said, "You know, for an evil genius, you're pretty dumb.") | |
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One issue of her own series has Harley Quinn parachute into Gotham to bust Ivy out of Arkham, only to land in a pizza place, deciding to stop for a few minutes to chow down. Later she uses the pizza she brings along to distract the guard dogs at the Asylum. | |
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In Team Fortress 2, Heavy Weapons Guy's Sandvich, Dalokohs Bar/Fishcake, Buffalo Steak and Battle Banana prove to be this. To use those items, the Heavy stops to eat for four seconds, during which all he can do is bite and chew at his food, and the player is kicked to a third-person view and unable to do anything but look around. Plus, his chewing is LOUD. As this makes Misha especially vulnerable to Spies and Snipers, it's important to know not only when, but where to stop for a snack break. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: "The Return of Harmony, Part 1": Pinkie Pie is inclined to let Discord take over the world and bathe it in chaos because that means it's going to rain chocolate. "Rarity Investigates!": The pony responsible for framing Rainbow Dash uses a cake to distract the guards long enough to let them plant the evidence against Rainbow. |
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Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor often had a bag of Jelly Babies with him, and more than once, he used it to distract a guard who was sitting in a hover car. What he'd do was he'd leave a trail of the candies going away from the guard's vehicle, then throw the bag onto the car's hood to get the guard's attention and get him to follow the trail. Then, while the guard was distracted following the candies, the Doctor and his companion would get in the hover car and fly it away. Played With, in that no one was expecting the guard to actually eat any Jelly Babies, just to follow the trail. "The End of the World": In the last scene, Rose is about to make a decision as to whether or not she's going to stay a companion when she smells fresh chips and decides they should get some. The Doctor agrees. |
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Tested and confirmed on Mythbusters, in regards to distracting an Angry Guard Dog with meat. However, it was noted that it is possible (though not easy) to train a guard dog to ignore such distractions. A drug-sniffer dog is harder to fool, however; they tried hiding (legal, if that makes any sense) contraband in a false bottom of a suitcase filled with food, with the assumption that, if the dog signaled to his handler that the bag was suspicious, the handler would see the food but no contraband and assume a false positive. It didn't work; the handler discovered the false bottom no sweat, and it was noted that a sniffer dog could be trained to disregard food. |
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Pushing Daisies has this happen to the aunts, when their niece custom-bakes them a cheese-coated pie. And of course, it had mood elevating drugs baked in. | |
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Ben and Me: During the mission to defeat the aristocrats and rescue Sophia's children, the peasant mice see the luscious French food on the table and abandon the fight to eat it. | |
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In Dishonored, you can distract rats by throwing corpses at them. That way, they won't attack you until they finish eating. | |
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In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Joys of Seasons episode 95, a flashback shows Wolnie saying to Wolffy she'll give him fried rice to eat if he catches goats for her. Wolffy promises he'll capture some goats, but gets distracted by Wolnie's pan of fried rice as soon as she holds it in front of him. Wolffy spends a few seconds contemplating his two options - fried rice, or getting hit with a bigger frying pan than Wolnie usually hits him with. | |
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Ron, from Season 18 of The Amazing Race. Several times he lost his concentration, even mid-task, and tried to get his daughter to stop to get food. | |
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Appears on Top Gear's Polar Special (the three presenters' attempt to reach the magnetic north pole). After a particularly stressful day, James May distracts Jeremy Clarkson with various gourmet foods and (awesomely) a bottle of Chablis, all of which he has somehow brought along without his friend noticing. | |
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South Park: In "Fat Camp" Cartman and the other fat camp members plan to break out of the fat camp, only to be deterred by an ice cream truck showing up. | |
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In Amnesia: The Dark Descent, you can buy time from the invisible monster in the water by tossing body parts for it to devour instead. Preferably as far away from where you need to be as possible. | |
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The Book of Boba Fett. Grogu should be meditating with Luke Skywalker, but instead uses the Force to float a frog over to his mouth, until Luke opens his eyes and sees what he's up to. After stopping Grogu with a mild Disapproving Look, Luke then levitates a whole bunch of frogs to show Grogu what he could do if he concentrated! | |
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The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: Bob has pacified more than one deadly threat by feeding them. Granted, this made perfect sense the time he was being hunted by a space monster that was hungry. | |
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The Man from the Window: One of the ways to buy yourself more time is to leave a box of donuts open, causing the titular man to stop and eat them. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In the episode "Earshot", while searching for a student that they suspect is about to enact a school shooting at Sunnydale High, Xander is distracted by some Jello while passing through the cafeteria. Which leads him to the person who's really planning to murder a bunch of students: the lunch lady, whom he catches dumping rat poison into the mulligan stew. In "The Zeppo" Giles gets miffed while preparing for The End of the World as We Know It because Buffy had eaten all the jelly donuts. In the spin-off Angel, Cordelia Chase has just rescued her Bound and Gagged friends from being executed. She stretches out her arms for a Group Hug, only for them to rush past her and tuck into the food. Angel & Faith has Faith break up a fight between Nadira and some Arsenal football fans she attacked by revealing her b...eer. She immediately muses that she could very easily have revealed something else. |
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Star Wars Legends: Galaxy of Fear: Eaten Alive: The better to tempt visitors to relax and stay, the Enzeen have a habit of providing all visitors with free food, lots of it, all very good. Most visitors immediately trust them, but this is subverted with Tash, whose latent Force-Sensitivity gives her a bad feeling about the whole thing. The food is actually just fine, simply used to help visitors feel at ease so they can be eaten themselves later with less fuss. | |
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Family Guy: It took a ton of Reese's Pieces to booby trap James Woods. | |
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In Dragon Ball Z, Goku and Vegeta are fighting evil clones of Piccolo, Gohan, and Gotenks. Majin Buu, however, comes across a store full of cakes at that exact moment... turning the clone fighters inside Buu into cake, letting Goku and Vegeta pass. | |
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In the Breaking Bad episode, "I See You", after Hank gets shot, Gus Fring uses a personal delivery of fried chicken to the hospital where Hank is recovering to distract the cops while Mike Ehrmantraut kills the surviving would-be-assassin to keep him from ratting Gus out to the police or to Juan Bolsa. | |
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The Goode Family: A darker version of this happens with Che, the family dog, hyper-focusing on any meat product in his line of sight and running off to hunt smaller animals on a dime. The Dude, Not Funny! part comes in when you remember that his owners are straw liberals (on top of being generally morons) who only feed him vegan food, and he's trying desperately to nourish himself since his owners refuse to do so.note Dogs can handle a bit of veg and grain every now and then, but most of their food should be meat-based, or they will suffer serious malnutrition. Cats have even stricter dietary requirements ... they're "obligate carnivores", meaning they must have certain nutrients that are not found in plant matter in order to live. (Note this doesn't mean they can't eat plants at all, just like it's not true that you can't eat sand ... they just don't get much nutritional benefit from them.) | |
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Revisioned: Tomb Raider Animated Series: In "Pre-Teen Raider", Lara whips out a raw steak and throws it to distract the Angry Guard Dogs when she breaks into the school after dark. | |
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In Friends when Joey's sister Dina told him she was pregnant, she (at Rachel's suggestion) got him a meatball sub to distract him in case he got angry. | |
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Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: Cheese is a ridiculously effective distraction for Monty, even when the one with the cheese is only doing so unwittingly. In "Mind Your Cheese and Qs", Rat Capone has Gadget tied to a conveyor belt with a chopping thing somewhere along the way, and distracts Monty from rescuing her by holding up Brie '86, his favorite cheese. He does end up rescuing her, but he really has a struggle. | |
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Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey: While on Aeaea, Wishbone snags a turkey leg and gives it to Circe's wolf to distract him, letting Wishbone go in and claim the moly herb from Circe's garden. | |
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Dexter's Laboratory features a short directly parodying the Hostess Fruit Pie ads. A villain called the Mathmagician starts kidnapping Dexter and other children; Major Glory can't just punch him out ("Ah ah ah! No violence in school!"), so instead he brings out an armful of "Justice Fruit Pies", which are so delicious that the villain surrenders just to have a bite. | |
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Subverted in Mr. Plinkett Reviews, when he starts talking about the frequent banther Obi-Wan and Anakin has about their off-screen adventures in Revenge of the Sith. | |
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