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Don't Try This at Home
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A mandatory disclaimer heard at least once, and often more times, during any show which presents outrageous stunts or death-defying acts of derring-do. Mandatory because there are more than a few morons out there with so little common sense that they will actually try these things without the proper training and then sue everybody in sight when they get hurt (or their family will do it for them when they get killed or forgot/don't know how to sue). Sometimes played for laughs within a show, as a character turns to the audience and says "Do not try this at home" before beginning the most comically dangerous part of the Zany Scheme. Compare Content Warnings, Do Not Attempt (both of which for less-than-realistic stunts) and Do Not Do This Cool Thing (when the warning rings hollow to the awesome thing being performed). Sister Trope to And Some Other Stuff, when key parts of a dangerous formula or device are obscured to prevent any attempt at replicating it from going horribly right. Contrast Never Be a Hero. See also Content Warnings, Life Imitates Art, Our Lawyers Advised This Trope, "Harmful to Pets" Reminder, and Television Is Trying to Kill Us. |
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Used seriously in Collar 6, which has warnings that it's a fantasy world, NOT a guide to BDSM safety. | |
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Girl vs. Monster opens with Skylar and Henry trying to fix a crooked banner. As they don't have a ladder, Skylar gets Henry to toss her up in the air, straightens the banner, and lands on her feet, unharmed. Henry immediately points out that it was a real "don't try this at home" moment. Sure enough, when Alpha Bitch Myra later attempts the same thing (rather than swallow her pride and ask Skylar to help), she breaks her neck. | |
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Jonny Fartpants in Viz once worked as a nail gun by having a load of nails inserted anally, which he the farted one-by-one at the relevant target. As the nails were funnelled into his bum, he pointedly warned readers to "be extremely careful when you try this at home". | |
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A Burp strip in Oink! was once driven to remind readers not to imitate its star by looking at the Sun through a telescope or binoculars. This was funny considering that Burp was standing on the surface of the Sun at the time. | |
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X-Men villain Mojo (essentially, a galactic reality show producer) sometimes includes this sort of disclaimer in his shows. For example, once when throwing an underling to his doom, he notes that his crew are trained professionals, and the viewers shouldn't try to do something like this without proper preparations. | |
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This is said a few times in Special Effects Show, before the hosts demonstrate stunts such as setting a man on fire. | |
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Cliff Steele of the Doom Patrol, to goggle-eyed youths with skateboards following one incident: "And remember kids, don't walk through plate-glass windows!" | |
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A Robotman and Monty strip has Monty on a camping trip spraying his entire body with bug spray, including his eyes, with the words "Cartoon Character. Don't Try At Home" on the bottom of the panel. | |
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JonTron: At the end of his Hercules Games episode, JonTron kills himself by swallowing a bottle of pills and a large swig of vodka, while displaying a sarcastic disclaimer: At a later date, he has plenty of fun with this trope in Waterproofing my life with FLEX TAPE during the last infomercial shown; the salesman has decided to demonstrate how good the product is at plugging holes by assaulting a bucket with a knife and a chainsaw, and the whole time a "Don't try this!" warning is onscreen (escalated to "Seriously don't try this!" when the chainsaw comes out): |
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Project X has a warning at the beginning that no one should attempt to re-create the events in the film; given that the film was inspired by events in real-life, this is useful -but hasn't stopped people from trying to emulate it though. | |
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In Taco-Man Plays a Video Game, scenes of Taco-Man performing such activities as smoking and pointing a gun towards his head get accompanied with reminders for kids not to do them. | |
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Near the start of the MythBusters storyline of Least I Could Do, this happens. While the Mythbusters DO use the trope's name for legal reasons, Rayne imagines them saying "Come on. Do it. Do it at home." "But do it bigger'" instead. | |
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In the Cooking with Dog episode about boiling a fresh octopus arm, Francis says that some people who live in coastal areas where octopus is caught will dedicate a particular washing machine at their local laundromat for cleaning the goo off of octopus arms, claiming that the machine does the job faster than the hand-rubbing with coarse salt method that Chef is doing while also tenderizing the meat. Without missing a beat, Francis gently warns not to try this at your local public laundry. | |
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When Ling Ling Fat is demonstrating his gunpowder at the beginning of Forbidden City Cop, he reminds the audience that Fat Yun is highly trained for such feats and that children should never attempt detonating gunpowder in their mouths. | |
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Amazing Super Powers did it in the strip about the watercooler (see Alt Text). | |
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The H.Bomberguy video "Soy Boys: A Measured Response", he eats a mouthful of grass in defiance of EU regulations, only to immediately spit it back out. | |
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Life of Boris: Usually subverted. Boris usually recommends you not try his antics at home "unless you know what you are doing, in which case, go ahead". The one time this was played absolutely straight was in the "Cooking With Chainsaw"-video which proclaimed that Boris can do it only because he is a professional "debil" (idiot). | |
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Muppets Now: Bunsen and Beaker's segments are always preceded by a message from Kermit and Joe From Legal advising viewers not to try what they're about to see at home. | |
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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: "Captain Scarlet is indestructible. You are not. Remember this. Do not try to imitate him." | |
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Played with in the votey for a Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic about impressing your significant other with condom tricks. | |
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Matilda has a DVD bonus feature detailing the filming of the scene in which Matilda blows up the TV. In the end, Rhea Perlman (who portrayed Matilda's mother) warns viewers not to re-enact this at home, because then they'd have nothing to watch Matilda with. | |
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Variations of this trope are used in Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers, the most common being "Don't do drugs" (which is used in some bloopers such as "Ssenmodnar 2", "Super Happy Magical Fun Fun Island", and "Yoshrooms"). | |
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Cracked's list of 6 Death-Defying Stunts That Are Secretly Easy to Do repeatedly says "Seriously, don't try this yourself." | |
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In the Barney the Purple Dinosaur episode "Barney's Internet Adventure", Barney sees this warning as he watches the famous "Diet Coke + Mentos" video. He thinks they're taking a shower, so he decides to go take a shower using Diet Coke and Mentos in the outdoors. | |
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Garfield: Garfield readies himself for a 20-hour nap and tells the readers "Remember, I'm a professional. Don't try this at home." | |
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Highcraft: In "HIGHLIGHT FOREST", when Travis starts asking where his car keys are (in reference to doing cocaine), text appears on screen that says "HE'S JOKING DON'T DO THAT PLS". | |
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One The Far Side, showing a kid sticking his head in a missile silo. | |
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Averted with Joseph's Machines, a YouTube channel dedicated to building Rube Goldberg machines. | |
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In the climactic scene of Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, Big Bird is in the back of a truck, in a giant cage, doing about 30 on the interstate. Gordon and Susan have followed him in a Volkswagen Beetle that's had the trunk cover chewed off by Cookie Monster (keep in mind, Volkswagen Beetles have the trunk in the front of the car). Despite the vehement protestations of driver Susan, Gordon leaves the inside of the vehicle through a Cookie Monster-created hole in the roof and tries to get Big Bird to jump from the cage into the hood. | |
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Is It a Good Idea to Microwave This? used the simple text warning "Don't try this at home" in the earlier seasons. Later on, in the show's run, a stinger was placed first thing in the video that referenced the "We're what you call experts" disclaimer from Myth Busters. Late run episodes used a variant message in the stinger. If an episode's results were particularly dangerous, such as the fireworks and airbag, the message not to attempt the experiment yourself was heavily emphasized. | |
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Irregular Webcomic!: In the annotations of this comic. | |
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VG Myths: "Can You Beat Pokemon Without Getting Hit?" includes a warning at the end of the episode where Gamechamp usually puts a call to attempt the challenge. Justified as she started having actual nightmares about if imaginary damage counts as damage. | |
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Two Best Friends Play kicked off their RustleMania event (in which they played a bunch of wrestling videogames) with a parody of the PSA's from WWE's home videos (see Professional Wrestling, above). Matt, Pat, and Woolie explained the serious injuries to their reputations that they've sustained—and that one gaming session that left Pat's thumb really, really sore—and they urged their viewers against Lets Playing at home. | |
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Most of WWE's video and DVD releases have a 30-second PSA, which you can't skip, at the beginning which features wrestlers talking about the various serious injuries they've suffered, ending with an announcer saying, "Please, don't try this at home." And they've been having wrestlers tell the viewers not to try any stunts at home about three times per two-hour episode, probably due to Executive Meddling caused by WWE trying to pander to children as their main audience. Later PSAs went one further, saying "Don't try this." No at home. Don't try it anywhere, because kids used Exact Words and tried it outside of their homes. | |
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Schlock Mercenary warns you: "...but in truth, it is Something You Kids Should Not Be Trying At Home. (I mean it. Put away that linear accelerator RIGHT NOW or I'm telling your mom.)" | |
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There is a rather hilarious "disclaimer" in Exalted first edition rulebook that goes "Exalted is not really the secret history of the world. You cannot really cast spells. You should not hit your friends or loved ones with swords. This game is not intended to be played by people who can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality." Of course, given how detailed and immersive the setting is, this might be helpful actually... This is pretty common for White Wolf; both Vampire games have disclaimers that amount to "Remember: this is a game. You are not a vampire. If you start thinking you are one, please seek help." Considering that White Wolf was one of the companies hit hardest by the moral panic surrounding tabletop RPGs in the early nineties, these disclaimers were probably more for the benefit of the Moral Guardians than anyone actually intending to play the games in question. |
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Let's Game It Out: In one of his playthroughs of Cooking Simulator, Josh discovers that you can pick up a knife by the blade end, but expresses relief that you can't cut anything with it that way, since he would hate for anyone to watch his video and think that's the correct way to use a knife. However, considering the rest of the video has him gleefully ignoring any attempt at realistic safety practices (including sticking his head in the deep fryer to see how the steak is cooking), this is clearly played for Hypocritical Humor. | |
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xkcd strip #620 "Wings" title-text: "Please do not try any of this and die or get arrested." | |
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Episode 1 of Inanimate Insanity opens with the following disclaimer, based off the one from Total Drama: "The following cartoon contains scenes of actual stupidity, some of the stunts which you are about to see were performed by animated objects! Do not try any of what you see here at home! Seriously, you could get really messed up!" | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: I Love Wolffy 2: The text "Dangerous action! Do not imitate!" appears on-screen when Wolffy bites on some electric wires to electrocute the cannibals. | |
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Commercials for superhero-themed roleplay items (such as Captain America's shield or Spider-Man's web shooter) have a disclaimer stating "professional stunt - do not imitate", even when the most dangerous stunts shown in the commercials are cartwheels and leaps beyond one foot-tall walls. | |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: Jimmy Neutron, in the film, remarks to Goddard, "Don't try that at home" after shooting a communications toaster satellite into orbit by hand. The important question: Why say this, when 99% of households do not contain the materials to produce an upper-atmosphere rocket large enough for two human children and a robot dog? The remaining 1% doesn't either, for the record. Parodied in one trailer for the film that had Jimmy asking his parents where he could find raw plutonium. This is quickly followed up by a screen that reads, "Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon do not advocate the pre-teen use of plutonium." |
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Randall Munroe says this a number of times in his science blog What If?. One of the more amusing examples comes from the entry "Lightning":note The second book starts with a similarly-worded disclaimer, this time in third person | |
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Played for laughs in the Area 11 skit "Monopoly", in which Kogie makes Parv chew his Monopoly houses for failing to bail him out yet again. He then tells him to swallow them, at which point the sketch pauses to a mock announcement from InTheLittleWood telling people not to do this at home since they will probably die. After he's finished, this exchange happens: | |
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In one The Simpsons story, Bart, while pursing someone he finds suspicious, grabs the bumper of a car and uses it to pull himself along on his skateboard. In the next panel, Professor Frink appears to warn the reader that they should not copy Bart, and shows two possible consequences of doing so (A - Bart slams into the back of the car when it stops, B - Bart goes flying when the car suddenly swerves). | |
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Discussed in Paranatural, when Max talks about his Parkour idol Shred Eagle: | |
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In Part Four of With Pearl and Ruby Glowing, the Late Night Show features a couple of commercials that end with the disclaimer "Do not use [product/service] for sexual purposes", including pizza. One chapter also warns against attempting unsafe abortion as depicted in-fic and explains how to obtain a safe one. | |
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Ice Age had a TV spot for its home video release that showed comic violence throughout the spot over an announcer admonishing, "Don't try this at home... or this... or this..." over and over again as the characters do dangerous things to "Orpheus in the Underworld". | |
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One commercial for the Game Boy version of Paperboy showed the Paperboy doing destructive and dumb things while he was trying to deliver the papers. The commercial said that the actions were "irresponsible, immature, and very foolish", then recommends you "try it at home...on your Game Boy". | |
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PLEASE BE ADVISED—>THE FOLLOWING VIDEO CONTAINSSTRONG LANGUAGE AND SUGGESTIVE GESTURES.Ring of Honor DOES NOT CONDONE EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION,GUN PLAY OR MISUSE OF FARM EQUIPMENT.THESE STUNTS ARE PERFORMED BY TRAINED "PROFESSIONALS".DO NOT TRY AT HOME.ENJOY! | |
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In Universal's Horror Make-Up Show, the hosts say this disclaimer to the kids in the audience, before they begin to demonstrate how various gore effects are done. "That's right. Try it at a friend's house." | |
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Outside Xbox sometimes make cocktails from video games. Some go better than others. After misreading the recipe for a cocktail led to putting a handful of nutmeg into the cocktail shaker - which is a legitimately toxic amount of nutmeg to put into anything - a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen stated "Spoiler: This is a dangerous amount of nutmeg. Like seriously, a dangerous amount. Do not eat this much nutmeg ever." Their video of the Dragon Flame cocktail from Hitman 2 included the "don't try this at home" warning because it is vile: it includes chili and raw egg. |
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The video for Madness's "It Must Be Love" features guitarist Chris Foreman and saxophonist Lee Thompson playing their instruments underwater, and opens with Foreman warning the viewers not to try this themselves. | |
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Big Clive: Clive does a lot of rather dangerous things, often with very little warning other than "this is very dangerous", with a notable exception being the time that he decided to put 240v mains current across his chest arm to armnote Suffice to say this is ridiculously dangerous and carried a severe risk of death; it was a genuinely extremely risky thing for him to do to the point that many commenters simply told him to never do anything like it ever again and was spurred to add a very long content warning at the start of the video. "Wood fracking" or "fractal burning" is the process of using electricity to make pretty patterns on pieces of wood. "The Most Dangerous Project on the Internet" is about the extreme dangers of using microwave oven transformers as a power source: Clive says that over 30 people in the USA are known to have been killed by them, and compares the power output to overhead power lines and the electric chair. The thumbnail shows Clive holding an MOT, with the text THIS WILL KILL YOU. |
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Played for laughs in The Gmod Idiot Box episode 8, where, in a parody of Will It Blend?, the Engineer tries to blend three revolvers. | |
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The Nintoaster Instructional Video repeatedly hammers in the point that one should not try any of what's shown in the video at home unless they know what they're doing (and for good reason, given it involves sensitive electrical equipment). | |
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The Dinosaurs Image Song "I'm the Baby (Gotta Love Me)" tells the listeners not to stick peoples' fingers in sockets and light them up. | |
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The Sure Thing: Gib is teaching Alison to shotgun a beer. He looks into an imaginary camera: | |
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Darths & Droids: At the climax of the Battle of Yavin, Pete has Corey roll an apparently explosive die. The usual annotation is a disclaimer: Played more seriously in The Rant for strip #968: |
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Certain airings of Motu Patlu will sometimes feature a "don't do this at home" warning for when characters do actions that could be considered violent. | |
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The second Jackass movie has one too, saying the stunts were done by professionals and "neither you nor your dumb little buddies should try these at home." | |
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The excessively violent exploitation film, Killers on Wheels, ends with the hero killing everybody from a hostile bike gang with all kinds of excessive, violent methods, with plenty of Gorn and blood thrown in to boot. It then ends with this announcement from the filmakers (it is in all caps in the film itself): | |
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The 2012 The Three Stooges film ends with one of these disclaimers, featuring the directors (actually actors portraying the directors) Breaking the Fourth Wall and demonstrating how much of the physical humor was done with rubber props (the sound effects make it sound realistic) and with safety being the top priority for the production. This may look completely pointless, seeing as how the movie was primarily targeted toward the adults who grew up on the B&W shorts, and they would easily know that all of the slapstick was faked. But to be on the safe side, they are addressing kids; even though some of the content in the movie was not even suitable for kids at all (the movie had lion testicles, and a guy from Jersey Shore getting his head stuck in a microwave, for starters), they know that some parents will let the kids watch. In the end, they're maintaining a tradition, as the actual Three Stooges would do this during personal appearances as well, to show the kids how they kept from being seriously injured doing their slapstick. | |
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Near the end of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), the actors caution the audience 'do not try this at home,' and one adds as an aside, 'yeah, go to a friend's house. The furniture's cheaper!' | |
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The WrestleCrap entry for Mr. America mentions how after Hulk Hogan beat Vince McMahon at WrestleMania XIX, Vince was so angry he told Hogan he never wanted to see him again and would pay him to stay at home. | |
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The Great Yokai War: At one point, Tadashi and his youkai friends are clinging on to the wing of a Boeing 747, screaming in terror, the action freezes and a message appears on screen in Japanese and English: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME, KIDS! | |
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Rocked, in the episode on Buckcherry's 15, one of the Shower of Angst cases that Luke does because the lyrics make him feel dirty has him taking a bottle of bleach to wash himself and his mouth. The Stinger has him showing the bottle had water, while warning first the trope name then "Don't try anything you see at Regretting the Past! Including bleach and hearing awful music!" | |
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One Pinky and the Brain comic has Brain creating a magnet out of an iron bar wrapped in copper wire and shoving the ends on lemon juice. A Note from Ed. follows with "Do not try this at home and electrocute yourself. Our laywers will deny everything." | |
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At the beginning of Beerfest, a movie that (unsurprisingly) involves inhuman amounts of beer ingestion, the viewer is warned that "if you attempt to drink this much... You will die." | |
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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities illustrates parity by describing a con-trick, requiring "three cups and one mug". Stewart adds, "Do not try this at home or anywhere else ... or if you do, keep me out of it." | |
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In the Curious George movie, to save George being shipped to Africa, Ted proceeds to use a nearby ramp to reach the ship, all while telling the audience to never do something like this. Except, he doesn't realize how bad this idea is until halfway through. | |
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One The TRY Channel episode (trying strong American alcohols), has one of the liquors be Clear Spring Grain Alcohol- at 95% (190 Proof). Leather Jacket Guy and John, before taking their shot, state that while they're "trained professionals", "don't try" doing it yourself.note Alcohol at any percentage causes some damage to the body, especially the lining of the mouth. Lower percentages are easier to recover from, even if you drink 4-6 at a setting. 190 proof is (assuming 5% per can) the equivalent of 19 cans of beer at once. | |
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The music video for "We Are Your Friends" by Justice vs. Simian, which shows people doing stunts in a flat, has a warning like this at the start. | |
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The protagonist of The Crow: City of Angels says this before taking a mook's gun and shooting himself in the mouth. | |
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At the end of The Men Who Stare at Goats a note includes that people shouldn't try several of the attempted psychic abilities at home, including mind control and cloudbursting while driving. But invisibility's okay. And note that they specifically said "while driving". Well, yeah; cloudbursting while not driving is just staring up at the sky. Elvis used to do it. | |
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Captain 20 decided to tell kids not to try to fly like Superman when he made this PSA about the difference between fantasy and reality. | |
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Ford had an ad spoofing The Twilight Saga where the vampire character jumped onto the back of the car carrying the female character and her current boyfriend. The disclaimer said "Stunt vampire. Do not attempt." | |
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In episode 7 of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, Wolffy repels a bunch of piranhas that are after him by peeing in the water. A message appears on-screen afterwards advising against doing what Wolffy just did. Due to an burnt injury based off the show happened back in 2013, the message warns peoples not to imitate dangerous actions were appeared in later seasons commonly often. However, that message was disappeared after a few more seasons. |
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Every episode of My Brother, My Brother and Me opens with announcer Bob Ball noting, "The McElroy Brothers are not experts, and their advice should never be followed." | |
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Chubbyemu features Dr. Bernard Hsu generally telling people that whatever ended them up in the ER was a stupid thing to do, and because of the dangerous Internet challenges popping up latelynote as of 2020, some of his videos even have the words "Don't do it". When a real M.D. is telling you not to do something, don't do it. As some of the videos show, even people who accidentally did those things may die. Just don't do it. | |
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In Little Busters!, if someone picks up fireworks when battling, a note from Kyousuke will appear saying 'It's actually dangerous to point fireworks at someone, don't try this at home.' | |
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The disclaimer for LifeSigns: Surgical Unit states in part "Furthermore, the examinations, operations and other behavior performed in this game differ from the real ones. Do not imitate them under any circumstance." | |
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In the same vein as its novel cousin, the Dresden Files RPG plays this for a Fantastic Aesop. In particular, the author Billy (an in-universe character) specifically disclaims any responsibility for the reader (or their characters) trying out the Shadowman's heart-exploding spell and "having [their] fool head chopped off by a Warden". | |
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Squirrel Girl likes to take advantage of her fourth-wall-breaking recap pages by warning us kids that we should not replicate the questionable acts done made during the issues. She especially warns us against downloading stuff free off the Internet. But then this was subverted in the very first issue of G.L.A. Misassembled when Grasshopper hops in and announces that there are no kids who read comic books, only overweight thirty-year-old men who still live with their parents, so he encourages readers to try these very questionable acts and do the human gene pool a favor. And then this trope is subverted yet again when he dies during his very next appearance. | |
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A review of the notoriously panned F.A.T.A.L., which can be found here (DANGER: LANGUAGE USED IS DECIDEDLY NSFW), features the memorable line from Jason Sartin, "Remember, folks, Darren's a professional, and we're reviewing on a closed course. Don't projectile vomit blood at home!" | |
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Parodied in an episode of Hello Cheeky. The gang present kung fu on radio, followed by about fifteen seconds of exaggerated yelling. This is followed by "Children are warned not to do what we have just done because you feel a right berk." | |
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=3 features Ray constantly telling people to not try things at home. One episode actually featured him telling off people for not listening to this trope: | |
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The beginning of the System Shock walkthrough by IT-HE Software, where the author explains that you shouldn't actually indulge in drugs, gleeful violence, or evil in real life. | |
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In Stay Tuned, Helen, in cartoon form, says "Kids, don't try this at home", as she and Roy are dumping a handheld hair dryer (still plugged in!) into a bathtub filled with water to disable Robo-Cat. Of course, Helen and Roy are trapped in a variety of demented TV shows, and their kids are watching this all play out on TV. | |
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Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life: Most of the lessons consist of rather simple "See this stuff we're doing? It's a bad idea. Don't do it." | |
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Season 8 episode 6 of Happy Heroes has Smart S. warn viewers not to hit people on the head since it hurts a lot. Since that season, in the logo at the end of the intro song, the message warns peoples not to imitate dangerous actions were appeared. |
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