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Food and Animal Attraction

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22 feature instances
20 referencing feature instances

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Food and Animal Attraction	page	FoodAndAnimalAttraction
Food and Animal Attraction	comment	A character has some sort of food hidden in their clothing or on their person. It ends up attracting an animal or animals, much to the misfortune of the character. This can lead to an embarrassing situation in some cases, such as getting past a drug-smelling dog at an airport. The character that hides the food in his clothes may lack common sense, sometimes bordering on Too Dumb to Live, or another character is The Prankster who thinks it would be funny to hide food in the first character's clothes without them knowing. Expect this trope to show up in comedies and animated shows. In most cases this trope is what causes Squirrels in My Pants. Often crosses over with Stock Animal Diet, since the hidden food will generally be the stereotypical one for the animal attracted. This trope can also happen if dogs see a passing Dinnermobile. Anyone who's ever been walking home carrying some takeout boxes and passed someone who was walking their dog will tell you this can be Truth in Television. Examples
Food and Animal Attraction	fetched	2023-07-05T13:13:14Z
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Food and Animal Attraction	isPartOf	DBTropes
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_1640f921	comment	In Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), the kids prank the eldest sister's boyfriend by dipping his underclothes in meat and setting the family dog on him.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_249b3519	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_249b3519	comment	Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle: A cheetah finds Harold's beef jerky.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_29516906	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_29516906	comment	Variation in Dragnet where a detective had pocketed a bag of marijuana at a scene and hadn't yet checked it into evidence. Ginger, the pot-sniffing dog, smelled it and kept nosing at the guy's pocket until Friday pulled out the bag.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_36676a96	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_36676a96	comment	One Green Manor story has a man followed by dogs after being cursed by a gypsy and finding a dog-headed skeleton in the family crypt, all of which are apparently caused by his impending marriage. The skeleton is a fake and the man was unknowingly carrying around the scent of a female in heat, a method described as used by medieval wolf tamers against their enemies. The entire thing was set up by the man's mother, who wanted her abusive husband's line to end with her son.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_41b0198a	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_41b0198a	comment	Happens in The Dresden Files when Harry meets Injun Joe for the first time in Summer Knight and his pet raccoon goes immediately for the half of a chocolate bar in Harry's pocket.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_4e45b093	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_4e45b093	comment	In one episode of The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon is chased by a vicious dog because it can smell the hot dogs Sheldon was hiding in his pants.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_5ab01893	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_5ab01893	comment	Cream Heroes has a Halloween Episode where Claire dresses as a zombie and attaches an extra long sausage to her front to act as an intestine. Naturally, her cats start following her wherever she goes to get a bite of the sausage. (Except Chuchu, who's too scared.)
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_60f02ddb	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_60f02ddb	comment	On American Dad!, Steve tries to make his junk look bigger by stuffing a bunch of sausages down his pants. Unfortunately, this just leads to further humiliation at school with a drug dog smells them and tears his pants out. Steve goes through this again only this time he's trying to make his butt look bigger with ham, a plan ruined by Barry instead of a dog.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_6355244d	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_6355244d	comment	This showed up in the 1960 Disney version of The Swiss Family Robinson, using a banana and the family's pet monkey.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_6ad790d3	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_6ad790d3	comment	In the Top Gear (UK) Africa Special, Hammond and Clarkson try to invoke this trope deliberately against May by planting huge chunks inside the bodywork and engine compartments of May's car as they approached a game reserve, hoping to attract lions to him. They failed.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_72262aee	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_72262aee	comment	In an episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender, whilst traveling with two feuding tribes across a grand canyon, everyone is told not to bring food because it will attract vicious giant insects. Both tribes sneak food hidden in their clothes, assuming that the other tribe would also do so.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_7c038c18	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_7c038c18	comment	In Phineas and Ferb, there's an entire song where this happens. Candace gets acorns in her pants, and of course, squirrels follow...
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_9a7088bc	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series pilot episode "The Cage". During one of the illusions the Talosians create for Captain Pike, a horse starts nuzzling his jacket pocket in search of the sugar therein.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_9df58474	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_9df58474	comment	Fancy Nancy: In "Frenchy, Mon Amor", Nancy is jealous when her dog Frenchy constantly keeps following around Jojo; the final scene reveals the reason why he did that was because he was attracted to an old sandwich in the pocket of Jojo's overalls.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_bc848d30	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants has an example of this when Gary the snail gets really affectionate towards Patrick over the cookies in his pocket.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_c95e9d87	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_c95e9d87	comment	Up has Kevin the bird appear because Russell has a chocolate bar in his pocket.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_cac1f772	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_cac1f772	comment	Exploited in an episode of CSI; a woman going through a messy divorce wipes bacon grease on her hands to spite her husband after agreeing that his beloved dog would live with whomever it "chose". He then proceeds to attempt to sneak in and replace the dog with another, so she shoots him. The sound of the gunshot causes the replacement dog to go berserk and tear her throat out.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_d117a53a	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_d117a53a	comment	In Dude, What Would Happen?, one of the guys dresses as a carrot to lure a horse.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_e3d4c5f4	comment	This is one of the tactics used in Episode 12 of the Little Lulu anime to get rid of the mean butler that replaced Wilbur's butler. While the mean butler was drying off his clothes after sinking in the lake and trying to dry off while standing in nothing but his Goofy Print Underwear, Tubby snuck around from behind in the bushes and placed a few handfuls of dog food in the butler's coat pockets. Later, when Lulu and the others followed by the butler return to town, the smell of the dog food in his coat pockets have attracted a small band of dogs that immediately begin chasing him to get at the dog food that he had in his coat.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_e4732abc	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_e4732abc	comment	In Stargate Atlantis, Sheppard discovers a planet inhabited by glowing dots that are attracted to his power-bars. Since they also register strongly on Lantean life-signs detectors, he ends up exploiting this to kill a Wraith: he attracts a bunch of the creatures, tosses the power-bar to the wraith, and then radios his orbital backup, telling them to attack the strongest life sign they see.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_ea4f62db	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_ea4f62db	comment	In an episode of Family Guy, Brian & Stewie visit a petting zoo. Brian places some animal feed in Stewie's pocket when he has his back turned, and this causes all the animals to chase after Stewie.
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Food and Animal Attraction / int_ff9ab17f	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Food and Animal Attraction / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In one episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data is trying to teach Spot to not jump up on his table, and asks Geordi how his sister trained her cat to jump into her arms on command in the hopes of modifying the process to suit his purpose. Geordi says that she kept fresh tuna in a pocket of her blouse for a week.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation	hasFeature	Food and Animal Attraction / int_ff9ab17f

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Stargate Atlantis / int_c73b7db7	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Murder in the Alps (Video Game) / int_c73b7db7	type	Food and Animal Attraction
PokÃ©mon Snap (Video Game) / int_c73b7db7	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Fancy Nancy / int_c73b7db7	type	Food and Animal Attraction
Up / int_c73b7db7	type	Food and Animal Attraction

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