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Done something unspeakable with something edible? Then there's only one way to destroy the evidence: eat it, or at least make someone else do it. Eating Solves Everything after all. Often played for laughs, especially if the evidence is something that no-one would normally consider edible. If the evidence is a human body, things become rather more morally awkward, and may result in the body being Fed to Pigs instead. Sister-trope to Swallow the Key. May induce I Ate WHAT?! afterward. Not to be confused with Feed the Mole. |
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In Watchmen, when a kidnapper realizes he abducted the wrong little girl and her parents won't be able to pay the ransom, he kills her and feeds her remains to his German shepherds to get rid of the evidence. When Rorschach realizes this, he snaps and burns the kidnapper alive. It was a defining moment in his life, and he never recovered from the psychological trauma. | |
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When a car full of college kids gets pulled over in Super Troopers, one of them is forced to eat a bag of pot before the cops get close enough to see it. And then a bag of shrooms. | |
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At the beginning of The Eiger Sanction a courier eats the microfilm he's carrying when he realises he's being followed. The opposition murders him so they can cut his stomach open to get it back. | |
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In the Nancy Drew game Resorting To Danger, Mr. Mingles eats one hard-sought piece of evidence, and Nancy has to chase the little dog around a mazelike garden to retrieve some documents before he swallows them, too. | |
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One episode of COPS (1989) shows a suspect trying to eat a stash of marijuana he's hiding in his car. However, the police catch him before he can finish his impromptu meal. | |
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Ranma ½: When Kodachi gets a photo of a Not What It Looks Like scene between her and Ranma, she makes hundreds of copies and scatters them everywhere. Ranma proceeds to catch and eat them all. But the ultimate example is the "Ukyo's Secret Sauce" story where, when confessing that he (accidentally) ruined Ukyo's personal sauce that she has been aging for ten years failed to cause the whole mess to subside (Ukyo jumped to the conclusion that Akane forced Ranma to claim it, so it made things worse), Ranma gulps down the whole cask, and almost dies from it. Note that this was less to hide how terrible it tasted from her (she was the first person to find out), but more from desperation to return things to the way they were, so that he wouldn't have to reveal whether he loved Akane or Ukyo better. Before that, he devoured every okonomiyaki that Ukyo made with it, but that was to protect her from eating them out of pride, and potentially making herself terribly sick. |
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In Jeff Smith's Bone, Phoney Bone eats a slice from the pie set aside for Gran'ma Ben. When Thorn approaches, he stuffs the entire rest of the pie into Fone Bone's mouth. | |
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One chapter of Franken Fran had a man attempt to serve his murdered daughter to the guests at her birthday dinner. Unfortunately, Fran instantly recognized the human meat for what it was, being a surgeon. | |
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In Journey into Mystery (Gillen), Big Eater Volstagg facetiously suggests that he could eat kid Loki. "There would be no evidence. A perfect crime!" | |
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Family Guy Fanon has - while Lois gives the family a Long List of chores in "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" - Chris show the rest of the family a picture he drew of Lois while she's talking that portrays her as a naggy bitch. The family laughs at this until Lois gets suspicious and Chris does the trope to avoid getting in trouble. | |
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In The Body (2012), when the toilet doesn't flush to dispose the torn pieces of a compromising dinner card �lex is forced to fish them out from the bowl and stuff them into his mouth. | |
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Apparently he was amused enough to cameo in Alvin And The Chipmunks The Road Chip. | |
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The Doctor Blake Mysteries: In "The Call of the Void", a chef uses a frozen leg of lamb to murder the Victim of the Week, then cooks the lamb and serves it as that night's special. | |
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Changeling: The Dreaming: The Redcap Kith has a proclivity for this, given their rebellious/pugnacious temperament and their Dark Appetite Birthright, allowing them to literally eat anything. | |
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In one episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Mac eats Dee's contract certifying that she owns all proceeds from sales of Paddy's Pub merchandise, allowing him and the other members of the Gang to make money from Paddy's Pub products. At the end of the episode, after the Gang gets tricked by the Lawyer into signing a restraining order, Mac eats the order, but the Lawyer is wise to his tricks and has made hundreds of copies of the document. | |
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The Simpsons: Bart attempts this in the short "Shoplifting" when he's caught trying to steal a literal pantsload of candy bars and the security guard leaves him alone with the goods. When the guard returns, Bart claims he can't be held accountable without evidence — then sees himself in a mirror and realizes there's chocolate smeared over his face and hands. The episode "Tales from the Public Domain" has the kids being read various historical stories. When they get to the end of the tale of Joan of Arc, Marge interrupts just before the burning, makes up a Happily Ever After ending, then tears out the last page and eats it, remarking "It's easier to swallow than that Bambi tape." In "Bart Vs Australia", a diplomat accidentally shows the Simpsons a slide about the US government's plan B for Cuba. Realizing his mistake, the diplomat eats the slide. |
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Near the end of the book version of The Name of the Rose (by Umberto Eco), the villain tries to eat a unique book rather than let the protagonists have it. Bonus points because he had already poisoned the book. | |
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If This Goes On—. John Lyle, the rather naïve protagonist, receives a note from a Virgin sister being held incommunicado. Unfortunately his reaction to receiving the note is an Out-of-Character Alert that will have tipped off his superiors, as his worldly-wise friend Zeb points out. Lyle promises to eat the note, but Zeb makes sure to give him an identical piece of paper, this one with a gambling system written on it, as the complete disappearance of the note would have been doubly suspicious. | |
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The Looney Tunes cartoon "Bunny and Claude: We Rob Carrot Patches" provides an accidental example. The sheriff lectures the titular Rascally Rabbits instead of arresting them immediately — which gives his horse time to eat the stolen carrots he'd planned to use as evidence. | |
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This is word for word what a washed-up Hollywood movie director commands the demonic servants he's recently acquired to do with the body of their latest victim in an old issue of Vampirella. | |
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Not quite evidence, but in an old episode of Police Story (1973), a patrol officer, dealing with a motorist he pulled over ranting that he played golf with the Lt. Mayor and would have his job, walked over to his patrol car, pulled out his lunch box's jar of peanut butter, spread some on the motorist's (then just paper) licence, and ate it, challenging the motorist to tell the Lt. Mayor that. At the end of the episode, his sergeant is laughingly telling the officer about this call he got from the Lt. Mayor's office. | |
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Teen Titans Go!: In "Laundry Day", Robin disposes of the roster that proves it is his turn to do the laundry by putting it into a blender, turning it into a smoothie and drinking it. He later burps it back up. | |
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In Jekyll, Jackman forces his best friend (working for the Government Conspiracy) into eating a key when he feels his transformation starting. Hyde is almost fooled but then sees that his friend's mouth is a little wet, and puts two and two together. ("Did my daddy make you dribble...?") | |
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There's one episode of The Dukes of Hazzard where the secondary antagonist has made Boss Hogg sign a contract that he's having second thoughts about. Boss tries to eat it, and the guy smugly asks if he'd like seconds. Naturally, he made copies. | |
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The InBESTigators: After damaging Esther's painting with a thrown cookie in "The Case of the Perplexing Painting", Caitlin joins the search for the missile, picks up the cookie and then eats under a chair while pretending to continue to search. | |
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Also, in episode 2 of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, the King of Town eats Strong Bad's map from the first game to keep him from using it to escape house arrest. | |
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In Community episode "Cooperative Calligraphy", Troy suggests this is the reason the pen disappeared. The others are incredulous to this theory. | |
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The Captain. When he realizes that he is about to be arrested by the German authorities, Willi Herold jumps out of bed and begins hastily chewing his soldier ID. The real Herold did tear his ID into pieces and secretly ate it during his confinement. Apparently, it tasted like white bread without butter. | |
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In Peep Show, Jez runs over the dog which belongs to a woman who has expressed an interest in Mark. Rather than admit it, which would ruin Mark's chances of getting a job with her father, they try to burn it, only to find dog doesn't burn well. When caught by the love interest, they claim it's barbecued turkey, and eat it to prove it. Unfortunately, they can't eat the metal dog tag, which gives it away. | |
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A 1994 sequence in For Better or for Worse involved some friends of Elizabeth trying to get her hooked up with Anthony (who liked her but was too shy to say so) by writing a fake note that claimed to be from Elizabeth to Anthony. When the note was discovered by a teacher, taken away and then returned to Anthony at the end of the class (still unread), one of the friends, Dawn, grabbed the note and ate it to avoid embarrassment for everybody involved. Elizabeth and Anthony still ended up getting together, and many years later (after various intervening twists and turns) got married. | |
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In the first case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations, unable to accept the fact that his girlfriend is a serial killer, a suspect eats a small glass bottle that had been used for carrying poison that is the evidence implicating her. He also ate the large gold necklace it was attached to. It was too big to swallow, so he chewed it up into pieces first. Thankfully, he survives, because this is Feeny we're talking about. | |
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In season three of Arrested Development, Michael’s new girlfriend Rita (who the viewer is lead to believe is involved with some shady people) receives a note from a mysterious man. As soon as Michael arrives she shoves the note into her mouth and eats it. It’s actually foreshadowing the fact that Rita is not a spy; she is just mentally challenged. | |
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In one Dilbert strip, Mordack the Denier eats Wally's requisition form for a new computer (in front of him) and says "We lost the paperwork." Wally responds by holding up a giant stack and saying "Good thing I made 75 more copies." | |
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In an episode of Ugly Betty, Wilhelmina finds panicked employees printing resumes, since they're uncertain about the future of Mode. When they notice she's there, Amanda starts eating her resume. | |
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In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin occasionally likes to pretend he is a forcibly detained space captain while at school. Upon being sent to the principal's office in one strip, he eats his hall pass since it is considered "evidence" in his imaginary world. | |
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In the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "World Wide Wabbit", the gang tries to keep Mr. Herriman from knowing of his status as an Internet celebrity. At one point, he tries to fetch the newspaper, but because it has his picture on the front page, the gang takes it and plays Keep Away with it until it lands in Eduardo's hands; when Herriman demands that Ed gives him the paper, he swallows it. | |
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Supernatural: This is apparently a favored tactic of Bobby's old friend Rufus. | |
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The Longest Day in Chang'an: Liu Lang ate a document containing important information before he was killed. Xiao Jing has to cut his corpse open to retrieve it. | |
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Discworld: Parodied in Feet of Clay: Vimes claims he'll have to "eat the evidence" when a group of civic leaders find a packet of "arsenic" in his desk and does so. Of course, he's actually making the point that it isn't arsenic; it's sugar. Played with in Monstrous Regiment: The regiment encounters some spies, one of whom tries to eat the codebook to destroy it. It turns out the codebook was poisoned, so that by eating it not only would the codebook be kept out of enemy hands, but so would the spy. |
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An episode of Elementary had a pickpocket who ate a bag of white powder he had stolen when the police picked him up. Unfortunately for him, it wasn't cocaine, but anthrax. | |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Played for very dark laughs with Caleb. He's a cannibal serial killer who is responsible for a bunch more crimes that the cops can't pin on him since he ate all the evidence. Which is to say, the people. Oh, and they were all children. | |
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In a mystery-style sketch on The Muppet Show, Fielding the Butler, played by Gorgon Heap, ate the evidence that he killed Lord Bottomley — including the detectives investigating the murder. | |
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In The Three Musketeers, Athos forces his servant Grimaud to eat an incriminating letter, to make sure the Cardinal won't ever find it. | |
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In The Hot Rock (and also the novel the film is based on), Greenberg is trapped in the museum with the diamond the gang was attempting to steal. He swallows the diamond before the police arrive. Leads to this brilliant exchange later (when Amusa learns that Greenberg has hidden the gem in the police station): | |
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Vyvyan of The Young Ones ate the TV on one occasion, in order to avoid paying the compulsory British television licence fee. "It's a toaster." And apparently he's not the first, as the TV licensing inspector called it "The old trick, eh?" |
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The Army Game: In "The Take-Over Bid", Dooley is typing up a letter from Hut 29's fake company offering to buy the camp for 3 million pounds (It Makes Sense in Context) when Snudge enters. Dooley hurriedly rips the paper from the typewriter and stuffs it in his mouth. Although he doesn't manage to swallow it, the fact it is now slobbered on, combined with Dooley's explanation that it was a racy love letter to his girlfriend, persuades Snudge he doesn't want to read it. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: Sergeant Schlock's preferred method of dealing with dead enemies is to eat them. While this isn't always done to hide evidence (sometimes he's just hungry) he's not opposed to it. Examples here and here. | |
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An episode of Red Dwarf involves Lister and Rimmer having to finish off two huge jugs of moonshine in 10 minutes. | |
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Squad: The pack disposes of most of the evidence by well, eating it, though it remains unseen how they dispose of clothes. | |
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In one episode of American Dad!, Stan gets a secret order. He promptly eats the file - then he's informed that it will self-destruct in ten seconds. | |
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A suspect in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "The Unblinking Eye" stole the engagement ring of a shooting victim's boyfriend and swallowed it offscreen. When the detectives located him, he admitted to consuming it, but ultimately was proven not to be guilty of the murder. The boyfriend was the real killer and the ring he bought on a loan plan so he could return it. | |
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The Man with the Golden Gun: James Bond accidentally swallows Francisco Scaramanga's bullet (in the belly button of a belly dancer) thanks to a heavy-handed thug. Later Bond quips: "You've no idea what that went through to get here." | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In "Knock It Off", when the girls confront Dick Hardly about using Chemical X to make knockoff Powerpuff Girls for profit, he tries to hide the bottle in his hand by swallowing it whole. And then... | |
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When the protagonists of Friday the 13th Part III spot two police cars with blaring sirens and all behind them, they promptly start eating their drug stash. After pulling over, the police just keep driving onward, much to their dismay. | |
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House of Traps is a kung-fu film about a group of kung-fu fighters trying to bypass the titular house's various traps to find a scroll on it's top. Towards the end of the film, two bands of fighters, one on the side of good and one on the opposing side, both managed to reach the top, only for the last good fighter obtaining the scroll to uncover an Awful Truth that will spell doom to the entire nation, where the then rips the paper apart and swallow it whole, right before he succumbs. The film just ends without further elaboration at that point. | |
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Foyle's War. In "Bleak Midwinter", Sergeant Milner has to crack down on his own police officers when he catches them helping themselves to a table of Black Market food after arresting the suspects. There's also a Running Gag of Sam pining after a turkey in the evidence room. Eventually, Foyle talks a magistrate into allowing a photograph of the turkey to be accepted as evidence, so the turkey can be donated to a charity dinner for orphans... and Sam is welcome to help herself to a piece at the dinner table. | |
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Birds of Prey (2020): After being arrested, Cassandra swallows the diamond she stole off Victor Zsasz while she is in the back of the patrol car. | |
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In the film version of The Name of the Rose, the antagonist eats the pages of a rare book, denying the protagonist it, and both committing suicide and eliminating the evidence of the poisoned pages. . | |
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Chowder does this in "The Prank", eating the giant pie that squashed Mung. Endive then spends much of the episode trying to stop Chowder throwing the evidence up again. | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice in Case 4, "Turnabout Storyteller" after Geiru Toneido murders the victim by suffocating them with udon dough, she feeds it to a nearby dog since it had her blood on it. | |
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Dorothy Sayers did a similar plot thirty years earlier with Lord Peter Wimsey in "The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps That Ran", but in the Sayers' work, the weapon is a skewer for roasting chicken which would not be eaten but rather would have the blood evidence on it be destroyed while the chicken cooked. | |
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Subverted in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Improbable Cause", when Garak is leaving the station for a prolonged period of time, and he decides to toy with his friend, Doctor Bashir: | |
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X-Wing Series: When Mirax Terrik and Corran Horn share a Corellian ryshcate made by Mirax as a peace offering, she asks whether he's bothered by the fact that it was made from smuggled ingredients. He replies that that's all the more reason to eat all the evidence. | |
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In the predecessor of The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, serial killer and Hannibal Lecter Loony Fan Francis "The Tooth Fairy" Dolarhyde sends Lecter a fan letter (of sorts) written on toilet paper because, he says, "it will dissolve very quickly if you have to swallow it." | |
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Max Manus. While in hospital with guards outside his door, the title character gets a message from La Résistance indicating his escape is planned for that night. After reading the message he eats it at once. | |
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Played with in Monstrous Regiment: The regiment encounters some spies, one of whom tries to eat the codebook to destroy it. It turns out the codebook was poisoned, so that by eating it not only would the codebook be kept out of enemy hands, but so would the spy. | |
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Given a curious inversion in Steven Universe, where evidence is eaten so that it will be discovered. Fake evidence, to boot; Pink Diamond swallows some artificial diamond shards just before Faking the Dead, in order to make it look like she was shattered, rather than poofed. | |
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And then there's the 1980s movie (and the subsequent musical adaptation) Eating Raoul, which really needs no explanation beyond what's offered by the title. | |
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In Black Queen, Red King, the Earth Changelings eat their kin's dead bodies and those of the humans they kill in order to keep the police and other humans from finding them. The main character also eats his own severed arm to keep it from being foundnote and because he needed the nutrients. | |
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Drake & Josh tried to eat sushi instead of putting it in boxes because the conveyor belt was going too fast. Which was pretty much a perfect homage to the Chocolate Factory episode of I Love Lucy. |
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In the episode "Field Trip" of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Ned forges a signature on Cookie's parent permission slip so he can go on the school field trip. But when the vice principal tries to compare it to the real signature of Cookie's mother, Cookie quickly eats the permission slip. | |
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Slylock Fox for 2023-04-30 suggests this as the solution, with Cassandra Cat hospitalized after swallowing stolen gems. | |
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In The Garden of Sinners, when Araya Souren asks how Lio Shirazumi will hide the body of his first murder, he responds by EATING THE BODY IN THREE HOURS. | |
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Used or mentioned repeatedly for laughs, in Hogan's Heroes. If they need to dispose of a document, they'll usually just burn it, but occasionally someone will mention eating some secret papers to prevent them from falling into enemy hands. One even involves a planted secret document that they wanted the Germans to find. | |
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In The Incredible Hulk (2008), Bruce swallows the flash drive containing information he needs, not because he needs to conceal it, but because he knows he'll be Hulking Out in a matter of minutes and he needs to make sure he doesn't lose the drive. He throws it up later, good as new. | |
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In Saved by the Bell, Screech had tampered with the girls' oven to help Zack win a cooking contest by replacing a knob with a fake knob. Screech switched back the knobs after the contest and kept the fake knob. When the girls confronted Zack and Screech... | |
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In the manga of Death Note it's explained that Light eats the killer scrap of paper he used to kill Higuchi with. | |
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In an episode of Green Wing, Martin steals his girlfriend's phone out of her bag in order to erase a voice mail message. So that she doesn't see the phone, he decides to hide it...in his mouth. Somehow she fails to notice this and starts kissing him, causing him to swallow the phone whole. It's probably worth mentioning that the phone was not unusually small, and occupied most of the inside of his mouth. In another episode, Dr. Statham steals a patient's gallbladder on the operating table and ends up trying to eat it. This, of course, is normal behaviour for Dr. Statham. |
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One episode of M*A*S*H had a wounded quartermaster official thank the doctors who saved his life by swapping the canned food the unit was supposed to get with the side of beef that was to be shipped to the headquarters of the general whose orders got the man wounded. When the general sends out MPs to track down the missing beef, they arrive at the camp just as the Colonel is about to start carving the roast. He deals with the MPs by inviting them to join the unit for dinner, after which they can honestly report back that there was no beef in the camp. In the episode "That Darn Kid", Klinger bought a goat, with the intention of making money by selling the goat's milk. During an OR session, the goat chewed through the rope it was tied to and ate the payroll money, for which Hawkeye (as that month's paymaster) was responsible. An investigator comes to look into the problem and refuses to believe their story - until he goes back to his tent to find the goat eating a report he was working on. In the first episode he appeared in, Col. Flagg revealed to Col. Blake that he doesn't know the phone number of his headquarters. The phone number is in a capsule he swallowed and he must regurgitate it in order to make the call. |
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Subverted and played for laughs on NCIS. Tony and Ziva act as Director Shepard's protection detail during a reception at a hotel, and Tony is hungry, but Ziva won't let him touch the food since they're there to protect the Director and not to eat. When a dead body shows up and the rest of Team Gibbs arrives to investigate, Tony takes the opportunity to sneak some bacon from the buffet table, leading to this exchange: | |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Todd and Mrs. Lovett are wondering how they'll dispose of their first victim. Then she gets an idea: she could use a source of fresh, inexpensive meat for her pie-making business. | |
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Lo attempts to do this in an episode of Stōked, but spits out the piece of paper she tried to eat because she didn't like the taste. | |
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Paper Chase: If you give the dean your transcript when he demands it, he crumples it up and eats it. | |
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A weird example that could only come from Kevin & Kell: the carnivore supremacy terrorist group N.O.P.E. hired termites to carve a warning message to the Interspecies Relationship support group, then sent the termites to Kevin and Kell's house, knowing that a pregnant insectivore would be babysitting. So yes, they tried to get someone else to Eat the Evidence for them. Unfortunately, Lindesfarne didn't eat all the evidence, meaning the sole remaining termite was able to expose N.O.P.E. | |
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In Alan Bennett's Talking Heads, Doris a woman with OCD finds a Cream Cracker under which she plans to use to expose her helper's failure to do what is needed, however, in confusion she eats the cracker and realises it afterwards. | |
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Happens in at least one instance during the second Lupin III series. A small time thief actually managed to steal a rare diamond, but was caught. Just before his capture, he swallowed the diamond so it couldn't be found. While the authorities searched for it, he... retrieved it and hid it in the cistern of the toilet in his prison cell, but never got a chance to take it with him from the high security prison before he was released. The elaborate scheme for the episode revolves around Lupin and company breaking into the prison to retrieve the gem themselves. | |
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The Good Place: In a flashback in "Flying", Eleanor cheats at a draw for designated driver by not putting a chit with her own name in the hat. When one of her coworkers asks her to prove the draw is not rigged by showing them the chit with her name on it, Eleanor responds by swallowing all of the chits. | |
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In an episode of Murder, She Wrote, the murder weapon was a frozen fish. The killer had grabbed the closest thing to defend herself in a restaurant kitchen, then left it there to be inevitably cooked and served. | |
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Zottornick has the hilariously stupid idea of eating a peace treaty that he doesn't want to happen in Princess Sissi. It turns out that it wasn't even the peace treaty, but a party guest list. | |
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At the end of an episode of The Men from the Ministry Mr. Lamb quickly eats the note for Ministry's library that Sir Gregory mistook for a death threat, and was going to take it to Scotland Yard for handwriting analysis. | |
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Thieves' World short story "Blood Brothers". After One-Thumb paralyzes a drug dealer, he slices him up and feeds him to his dogs. | |
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Defragmentation: In "Your credit rating is delicious", Pink catches Spamton riffling through their wallet. Spamton's response is to freeze up for a moment, then toss the wallet and credit card he was holding into his mouth. | |
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In the Futurama episode "Anthology of Interest I", Leela caps off her non-canon killing spree by taking out Zoidberg just before he can (finally) reveal her as the culprit. In the next scene, we see her enjoying a very familiar-looking lobster dinner. | |
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One episode of Jonathan Creek features the theft of a porcelain idol in front of about twenty people - it turns out that it had previously been switched with an edible duplicate and scoffed. Unfortunately for the thieves, the one who ate it happened to be allergic to one of the food colourings used on it. | |
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Strangers From Hell: Ms. Eom cuts up part of a victim's body and puts it in the fridge. Moon-jo eats it and gets Jong-woo to eat it too. | |
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In a variant, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy start out the feature-length Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island having just been dismissed from their jobs contraband-sniffing dog and handler at a local airport. That's because they ate an entire storage room full of contraband food items that Scooby had detected in people's luggage, not realizing it was needed as evidence against the criminals. | |
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The Magician: In "Lady in the Trap", the Girl of the Week grabs the piece of paper containing the location of the body and eats it as the Villain of the Week is trying to read it. | |
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Mouse (2021): Done accidentally when a police officer prepares coffee, unaware the coffee stick is evidence found at one of the murder scenes. | |
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Parodied in Feet of Clay: Vimes claims he'll have to "eat the evidence" when a group of civic leaders find a packet of "arsenic" in his desk and does so. Of course, he's actually making the point that it isn't arsenic; it's sugar. | |
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Peanuts In a series of strips, Snoopy imagines himself to be a spy and steals Sally's report which he imagines to be a secret document. When Sally catches him, he eats the paper, much to her anger. Yes, a dog really did eat her homework. In another Peanuts story arc, Charlie Brown sends Linus to scout another baseball team and tells him to make notes on a square of bubble gum so he can destroy them easily if necessary. Linus' scout report is a bubble gum bubble. |
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In an episode of Border Security, a man seeking entry into Canada is found with a baggie containing a white substance. He swallows the bag and goes into cardiac arrest, forcing CBSA officers to frantically search his car for any clues to what the substance was so he can be treated properly. | |
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In Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981) a policeman does this trick and doesn't get away with it. | |
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In the first Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, one of the Chipmunks is accused of defecating on a chair, but another eats the... evidence, claiming it's just a raisin while muttering "You owe me!". Squick. One wonders how John Waters felt, realizing that a coprophagy gag was now mainstream enough for what was ostensibly a children's movie. Apparently he was amused enough to cameo in Alvin And The Chipmunks The Road Chip. |
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Leverage: In "The Hot Potato Job", the team is stealing a "super-tuber" from a Big Ag company, but security in and out is tight and there's no way to sneak the full potato past inspections. Thus, the team instead just cuts off enough of the potato to regrow it and has a kid hide it in their cell phone case (since kids aren't searched), while the rest of the potato is tossed into the kitchen for the company cafeteria, where it's promptly made into fries and disposed of by the lunch crowd. | |
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In an episode of Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu, the mayor helps Jay and Nya escape then eats the map just before Nadakhan and his crew enter the room. | |
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All Hail King Julien: When Clover points out the berries that led her to LALA headquarters in "Viva Mort", Abner starts trying to eat all of the fruit in the HQ. Clover watches in disbelief and points out all the other evidence, like the posters, which Abner immediately tries to eat. | |
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In the Blackadder Goes Forth episode "Corporal Punishment", Blackadder shoots a carrier pigeon to avoid receiving orders to attack from his Commander. Unfortunately, it turns out the message the pigeon was carrying was that it is now a capital offence to kill a carrier pigeon, so Blackadder decides to eat the evidence for lunch. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Inspiration Manifestation", Spike does this when he finally gets a hold of the book that's been corrupting Rarity, hoping it'll break the spell. It doesn't. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Time Warrior": According to Bloodaxe, Sir Edward's squire attempted to eat the scroll he was carrying when he was captured. Given the size of the scroll, this was quite the heroic act on his part. In "Spyfall", an MI6 agent on an airplane, after photographing a piece of paper with a secret message she was just passed, eats the message... just before she is attacked by an alien entity. |
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The Great Greene Heist: In To Catch a Cheat, two kids who write test answers on their hands in invisible ink unsuccessfully try to lick it off their hands to destroy the evidence when Jackson installs infrared bulbs which let the teacher see the invisible ink. | |
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The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack: In "Candy Colleague", Flapjack disposes of the eponymous colleague by eating him while Doctor Barber is out of the room. | |
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In one episode of CSI, a suicide victim is found with a loan voucher from a casino in his stomach. Another episode had the owner of a barbecue restaurant murdered by his wife and cook. They disposed of the body by cutting it up, cooking it and serving it to the customers. Another episode had a woman chopping up her victims' organs in a blender and eating them. Yet another episode had a killer feed his victim to piranhas. The 300th episode had a burglar swallow a roll of film she and her accomplice were sent to steal. Unfortunately, her stomach acid reacts lethally with the chemicals of the film. |
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In an episode of Rev., Archdeacon Robert persuades a panicked Adam to eat a compromising document in case it's discovered by the Dean. It's just a prank to humiliate Adam and punish him for screwing up, though. | |
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In the Criminal Minds episode “Lucky�, a young girl named Tracey goes missing after another girl is found brutally murdered, and nearly the entire town shows up to help search for her. Towards the end, more victims have been discovered and the killer is apprehended, but Tracey still hasn’t been found. The questioning of the unsub as to where she is leads to one of the biggest wham lines in any episode of the show: upon being told by a priest “God is in all of us�, the unsub responds “So is Tracey Lambert.� Turns out, the guy runs a barbecue restaurant and supplied food for the search party. The people searching for her had unknowingly eaten her, including her family. In the same episode, the killer feeds previous victims’ fingers to new victims before killing them and continuing the cycle. He himself has a cookbook full of human meat recipes such as “Kobe girl steak�, as well. |
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In series 12 episode 6 of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Susie Dent helped Jonathan Ross by giving him a piece of paper with a high-scoring word ("Sureties") written on it. When Jon Richardson pointed out what had happened, Johnny Vegas (Jonathan's teammate) tried to eat the paper. | |
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In Napoléon, the accusations against Napoléon Bonaparte and Joséphine are eaten by a couple of clerks who don't want to see them executed. | |
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In Invader Zim, Issue 13. As Dib escapes from Zim's base with the Humongoserum, he is abducted by aliens who want to steal it for their own purposes. As Dib is being lifted up, he swallows the Humongoserum vial. This later comes back to bite him as the vial breaks in his stomach, infusing him with a megadose of the serum, turning him into a hulking monster. | |
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In Nomine: In his thoughts on other Princes, Alaemon suggests using Haagenti as evidence disposal by cooking incriminating evidence into food and letting the Prince of Gluttony take care of it. | |
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In Dumbing of Age Walky gets a bout of Laser-Guided Karma when, after spending most of the strip cruising through with his Brilliant, but Lazy methodology while his twin sister Sal struggles, he gets an abysmal grade on a test and immediately does this. | |
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Top Gear: Richard Hammond (aka "Hamster") has eaten things to keep Jeremy Clarkson from getting his hands on them, including a cardboard picture of a car (intended for the Cool Wall) and a piece of paper with the points for that week's challenge (which would prove Richard won by more than just one point). | |
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In White Sands, the coroner finds a scrap of paper in Spencer's stomach with a phone number written on it. The paper is so tough and waxy that the numbers are still legible. | |
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In one episode of Barney Miller, recurring petty thief Marty tries to do this with a small bag of marijuana but fails. Then he tries to claim that he was hungry. | |
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In Skins (2017), when nearly caught stealing Laura's gems, Itziar sticks them in her mouth, only to swallow them, requiring her to wait until time passes enough for the evidence to do so. | |
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Utopia (2014): In "Tunnel Vision", Jim, who is currently paranoid about Chinese eavesdropping, writes a message to Tony on a Post-It note, shows it to him, and then immediately eats it. A bewildered Tony then asks "Did you just eat a Post-It note?" | |
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On Homestar Runner, at the end of Episode 10 of Teen Girl Squad, Strong Bad is caught trying to make out with a drawing of the "new hotness" version of The Ugly One, and tries to save face by claiming the picture is a piece of pizza and eating it. Strong Sad isn't fooled for a moment: "Uh, Strong Bad, were you just first-basin' it with that piece of loose-leaf?" Also, in episode 2 of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, the King of Town eats Strong Bad's map from the first game to keep him from using it to escape house arrest. |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "Doublemeat Palace", Buffy suspects that the fast-food chain's burgers are made from people. Unfortunately, she doesn't tell Xander the reason she left a hamburger on the table — she wanted Willow to analyze it — in time to stop him from eating it. Fortunately, he left enough crumbs behind for Willow to determine that the big secret behind the Doublemeat Palace is that all of their "meat" is cellulose-based — they're selling veggie burgers, with a little real meat flavouring. In "Dead Things", Warren kills a woman by accident, then suggests the Trio summon a demon large enough to devour her corpse. Andrew points out that the only thing he can think of that could do that would be uncontrollable, and go for them first. |
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The point of the "Cheat Sheet Tacos" sketch in Incredible Crew. | |
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Used in K-On! when the club is allowed to sell their teacher's guitar, Ritsu attempts to keep most of the money from the girls by telling her it sold for much less than what was paid. The teacher then asks for the receipt, which has the real amount on it. Ritsu tries to eat the receipt before finally handing it over. | |
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Upstart Crow: In "The Play's the Thing", Shakespeare and Bottom, fearing James VI of Scotland is about to ascend the English throne, hurriedly eat the manuscript of Shakespeare's stridently anti-Stuart play. | |
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Ace Attorney In the first case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations, unable to accept the fact that his girlfriend is a serial killer, a suspect eats a small glass bottle that had been used for carrying poison that is the evidence implicating her. He also ate the large gold necklace it was attached to. It was too big to swallow, so he chewed it up into pieces first. Thankfully, he survives, because this is Feeny we're talking about. In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice in Case 4, "Turnabout Storyteller" after Geiru Toneido murders the victim by suffocating them with udon dough, she feeds it to a nearby dog since it had her blood on it. |
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In the Spielberg/Zemeckis movie 1941 (1979), the lost Japanese sailors capture an American merchant. When they discover a toy compass among his merchandise, and when he notices they are very much interested in that compass (because their own is broken), he eats it immediately. The Japanese then force-feed him a laxative. | |
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Girls in Love: When the girls are caught passing notes in Mr. Green's art class, Nadine eats the note rather than have to read it out to the class. | |
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When Daphne finds Shaggy doodling his name and Velma's on a napkin in Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster, he immediately eats the napkin. | |
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In an episode of Gasp!, Gasp and the other pets have to dispose of the enormous number of disgusting cupcakes (somewhere over 300) that Gasp had baked before the family gets home. They do this by eating them. | |
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The Art of War (Sun Tzu) has an anecdote about a spy who's given battle plans written in silk that's enclosed in a ball of wax. The spy is instructed to swallow the ball and proceed to a location, sneaking past the enemy; once there, the ball will pass through his digestive system and out the other end. The spy doesn't know it, but the plans are phony and his whereabouts are leaked to the enemy so they will capture him and think the phony plans are real. | |
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Kiwami Japan often makes knives out of food materials, so this sometimes comes up: The video on the knife made out of pasta quite literally ends on this trope: he cooks the knife and eats it. While we don't actually see it happen, the ending of the rice knife video implies this due to it ending on Kiwami putting it into a steamer. The Fake Egg knife video mentions at several points that you can eat the ingredients (a gel made from sodium alginate, beta carotene and food colouring, amongst others) at any point during the process, even once the knife is finished! The gelatin knife video ends with him melting down the knife and returning the gelatin to its single-serving pouches. |
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In Danish film The Green Butchers (De grønne slagtere) by Anders Thomas Jensen, two butchers accidentally kill a man and sell the meat to hide the evidence. It ends up being very popular... | |
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In the film, The Devil and Miss Jones two employees eat a list naming 400 employees who want to unionize since their mean store manager was going to use it against them to fire all those people. | |
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The Brokenwood Mysteries: In one episode, recipients of a letter (former patients of a Bedlam House with a tenuous grip on reality) are told to do this. They readily comply, much to the chagrin of the detectives who are left without physical evidence. | |
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Rated "A" for Awesome: In "ET Phone Noam", when Noam decides to leave with the aliens, Thera writes him a love letter confessing her feelings for him, telling him not to read it until he gets to his new home planet. When the aliens turn out to be evil and the group rescues Noam, he goes to read the letter, but Thera snatches it from him and gulps it down. | |
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Parodied in Kingdom of Loathing, upon decoding the Cobb's Knob map: | |
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Which was pretty much a perfect homage to the Chocolate Factory episode of I Love Lucy. | |
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In the story Eight Skilled Gentlemen by Barry Hughart, the heroes have killed a henchman of their enemy, but cannot get out of his castle to hide the body. They can get into the kitchen, however, so they cook every single part of him and put the food among that prepared for a banquet. Number Ten Ox is squicked by it all, but Master Li Kao gets really enthusiastic about making the food good (so the lord of the castle won't start asking questions to the kitchen staff), and we get a really good description of how to cook a man. | |
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In an episode of Frasier, after getting themselves involved with a black market dealer in caviar, Frasier and his brother Niles find themselves forced to eat five pounds of the fish eggs in order to avoid arrest by U.S. Customs. Turns out they don't actually care about the caviar, but about the pirate DVDs the mob is also smuggling. | |
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The excellent German short film Schwarzfahrer has an extremely racist old lady sitting next to a black guy on a tram. She goes on and on about how horrible blacks and others are ("...They should at least have their names changed when they come over here, or else you can't tell them apart at all. What's more, they smell awful. But there is no law against that!"). When the conductor comes to check tickets, the black man reaches over and eats hers. She's hysterical when the conductor arrives ("That nigger just ate my tickets"), and he naturally doesn't believe her obviously racist story ("That's the stupidest excuse I have ever heard!"), so he takes her off the tram. None of the other passengers, who were silently listening to her antics, intervene. | |
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In The Big Easy, when he realizes he's been caught accepting bribe money, Detective Remy McSwain tosses the cash to the crowd in the bar and eats the envelope it was given to him in. | |
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As mentioned above, the "Lamb to the Slaughter" episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. | |
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13 Tzameti. Having won a fortune playing the Deadly Game, the protagonist sends it off to his family by parcel post, then eats the receipt when he sees the police approaching him so it won't be tracked down and confiscated as evidence. In the 2010 American remake, he eats the receipts as he's dying after being shot. | |
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Dharma eats a court deposition in an episode of Dharma & Greg, but ends up in jail for destroying evidence. | |
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In Death Screams, Sheriff Avery runs into a bunch of youths smoking dope, and one of them eats the stuff so they won't get busted. | |
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