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The stereotypical way to smuggle escape tools into a prison is by hiding them in a cake and giving them to the prisoner. Usually, a file is the item hidden inside, although files can't actually cut through iron bars in real life. A common parody is for the nature of the cake to be plainly obvious, such as having the file (or something even larger, like a saw) visibly sticking out of the cake which the guards naturally fail to notice. Other variations include: the prisoner digging through a cake he received expecting to find a file inside, only to be disappointed when it turns out to just be a regular cake given in an attempt to cheer them up (by someone who is most likely extremely hurt after watching the prisoner destroy their nice gift right in front of them); as well as the complete opposite scenario, where the prisoner assumes it is a regular cake and eats the whole thing only to be informed afterwards that there was a file inside (or a key). Fun random fact: In French the word for a file and a lime (the citrus) are the same (Lime) so it's a common joke to have a character ask for a file only to receive a lime instead. Not to be confused with Jailbait, which may facilitate the need for a Jail Bake if you're not careful. May be a part of a Prisoner's Last Meal. Compare Pet Gets the Keys, for another way of getting implements of escape to prisoners, and Bedsheet Ladder, another stereotypical part of a Great Escape. For examples out of prison intended to actually hurt unsuspecting people, see Razor Apples. |
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El Chapulín Colorado did it once with a woman placing a gun inside the cake for his husband on prison. A doctor comes later with an X-Ray machine and shows that the husband ate the whole cake, GUN INCLUDED. | |
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The Syrena Legacy: In Of Triton, Galen and Grom give Nalia, who is being held prisoner in the Ice Caverns, a codfish that has a lionfish spike hidden inside. | |
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Bigfoot Bill: When Bill is put in a cell, Chupa gives him a taco and has to point out the nail file that's inside. Bill's not sure what to do with it. | |
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In LEGO City Undercover, Chase at one point encounters an old prison inmate named Blue who specializes in smuggling various items into the prison via giant cakes. He's even managed to get full-sized cars past security this way. | |
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Batman (1966): the Penguin's lackeys break him out of prison by baking a cake. The guard states that the police know about the metal file trick and the prison guards have orders to use a metal detector on all packages. The metal detector sets off an electromagnet that stuns the guard. The lackeys praise the Penguin's plan of using the regulations to his advantage. | |
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Subverted in an episode of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, where Snoopy and Woodstock ends up in a "Jack and the Beanstalk" story. Woodstock gets captured by the giant and put in a cage, so Snoopy goes and bakes a cake, putting a file inside. However, when he hands the cake to the Giant, he simply slams the cake to the cage, causing the file to fall to the floor in the process. | |
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Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The "Tales of the Hidden City" arc ends with Mikey and Splinter breaking everyone out of prison by sneaking Leo's odachi inside a giant cake under the guise of being their lawyers. | |
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In the South Korean blockbuster A Taxi Driver, Kim and Peter smuggle footage of the Gwangju massacre into cookie boxes so that Peter won't run into any trouble at the Gimpo Airport when he flies back to Japan. | |
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Arrow. An Enemy Civil War within the League of Assassins is started by Mesi Natifah bringing a captive Nyssa al-Ghul a pepper with a small knife hidden inside—all she needs to cut the guard's throat and take his sword. | |
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In Psych, after Gus accidentally tampers with a crime scene, Shawn promises to bring him a cake with a gun in it. | |
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Spoofed in Fresno, when a guard inspected pudding for such things, and a woman just gave her husband tools directly while the guard wasn't looking. | |
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Inverted in The Secret of Monkey Island. You need to get a file in order to steal a MacGuffin. It's in a piece of carrot cake a prisoner has. He gives it to you because he doesn't like carrot cake. | |
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A The Kids in the Hall skit made use of this trope, and adds dramatic tension with the guard asking if he can have a piece, while the prisoner sweats, hoping the guard's knife doesn't touch the saw. Of course the tension is then taken to ridiculous heights with the guard eating most of the cake without finding the saw, leaving an obvious saw-shaped piece of the middle of the cake. The guard looks full and is about to give the cake to the prisoner, but then he decides to have one more piece... *clink* | |
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In the original version of Carmen, the spoken dialogue in Act II reveals that after Don José was sent to prison for letting Carmen escape, Carmen sent him a bread roll containing a file so he could escape. José didn't use it, though, but served his sentence to retain his honor as a soldier, and later editions of the opera with sung recitatives instead of dialogue cut this detail altogether. | |
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In the Dennis the Menace episode, "Gone to the Dogs", Dennis, Joey, and Ruff use a magical booth to travel to a dimension where dogs act like humans. While in this dimension, Ruff gains the abilities to stand upright and speak English. Unfortunately, the dogs in this dimension hate humans and have them imprisoned in pounds. When Dennis and Joey are imprisoned, Ruff disguises himself as an old lady and gives them a cake with a bone inside to saw their way out. Dennis asks Ruff why he couldn't have just brought a hacksaw instead, and Ruff tells him, "Never look a gift bone in the mouth!". Unfortunately, they all get caught by the guard and Ruff gets kicked out. | |
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On The Dukes of Hazzard, Bo, Luke, Roscoe and Boss Hogg are in jail. On visitors day, Lulu tries to smuggle tools to Boss hidden in a large sub sandwich. | |
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Darkwing Duck: Spoofed in an episode ("The Revenge of the Return of the Brainteasers, Too!"), where a criminal on a literal Planet of Hats is given a file (they eat metal) that has a cake inside, which he uses to incapacitate the guard. In another episode ("Adopt-A-Con"), Darkwing is thrown in Jail (Again), and Gos comes by with a cake..that has a chainsaw in it. It then keeps going, getting more random each time. |
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Subverted in Ariel (1988). Kasurinen gets a cake and a book on his "birthday". The cake is thoroughly examined by the prison guard. The file is between the pages of the book. | |
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The House of Mouse Mickey MouseWorks short "Big House Mickey" has Mickey ask Goofy to bring him a cake with a file in it after Mickey is locked in jail. The guard notices; and he and Goofy end up having a long discussion on how this wouldn't really work and what tools should have been used, ending with the guard concluding that the easiest way to escape would be to knock him out and take his keys. The guard then demonstrates and proceeds to do so to himself. Goofy however says he still doesn't understand the whole "knock out the guard" thing, so the guard has to use every other guard in jail as examples. As the guard then uses his own head again as example, Goofy grins to the audience holding the baton indicating Goofy was faking ignorance this whole time. | |
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Attempted in Doctor Who Magazine when the Doctor is the victim of a The Corpse Stops Here situation. But the prison has a scanner that detects the Sonic in the cake, so Izzy ends up being sentenced to “twelve months for attempted relocation of a felon”. | |
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Discussed by Nanny Ogg in one of her postcards home in Witches Abroad: | |
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One Spy vs. Spy strip has the imprisoned spy receiving a cake which contains both a file and a picture of some sawed-through bars, leading to an unconscious guard-spy and resulting Fakeout Escape. | |
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In the Cyanide and Happiness short Prison Pie combines this with Follow Your Nose when a prisoner is snuck in a good smelling pie to escape. | |
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One episode of The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. had a lawyer use this to break her client out of jail, with a twist: The guards were smart enough to destroy the cake to look for tools, then petty enough to eat it in front of the prisoner rather than give it to him. Then they discovered that the cake was drugged, allowing the lawyer to take the keys off the sleeping guards and let her client out. | |
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In Iron Man 2, Justin Hammer sends Ivan Vanko a meat-and-mashed-potatoes dinner...except the potatoes are actually plastic explosives, so Vanko can fake his death. | |
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Used by Glo Worm in Glo Friends. He delivers a cake shaped like himself to the other glo friends he helped the Molegans capture before they leave for Glo Land. The cake contains a saw for them to escape while Glo Worm leads the Molegans into a trap. | |
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Subverted in Madam & Eve when the Andersons are sent to prison. Eve sends them a cake with two files inside, and the elated ladies immediately use them... to work on their manicures.◊ | |
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In Kenan & Kel, Kel tries to get Kenan out of prison with a VERY obvious saw in a cake. It's also a classic wood saw, whereas the prison is concrete and metal. | |
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In The Grand Budapest Hotel, Zero's girlfriend Agatha, who works for renowned baker Mendl's, hides rock hammers and chisels in the ornate pastries sent to Gustave in prison, not even bothering to disguise their shape. Even then, the guard who cuts up all the other food sent to inmates can't bring himself to destroy exquisite Mendl's pastries. For further parody points, said rock hammers and chisels are the size of a thimble but used anyway. | |
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Used by the Beagle Boys in DuckTales: In the Five-Episode Pilot when "El Capitan" sends them a package of explosives disguised as chocolates. Burger, being the Big Eater of the group, thinks they are chocolates, and eats one, with rather unpleasant results. And even when they realize what they are, he asks for another later. Fortunately, they keep him from eating any more, and use them to escape. In Super DuckTales, when Scrooge gets arrested and thrown into jail, Mrs. Beakley smuggles in a grenade in a cake so that he can blow up the walls and get out. It... doesn't go according to plan (Scrooge refuses to take the cake and Mrs. Beakley gets fed up, resulting in Scrooge accidentally pulling the grenade pin out of the cake and Mrs. Beakley having to throw it away as it blows up), and Huey, Dewey and Louie have to call on Gizmo Duck to break both Scrooge and Mrs. Beakley out. One particularly amusing variation has the cake itself be the tool. By now, the guards have gotten wise to the Beagles using the trope and have an X-Ray machine installed. Surprisingly, it contains nothing but actual cake. However, the cake gives Burger Beagle a case of the hiccups so bad his brothers are able to use him as a jackhammer to dig out. |
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On My Name Is Earl, during Joy's trial, Darnell gave lemon squares to her lawyer and the lawyer's interpreter. The interpreter cut his tongue on a razor blade. Darnell had baked another batch of lemon squares as a thank-you gift, and that batch with the razor blade was for Joy...he got them mixed up. | |
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In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston, after being imprisoned, thinks that the Brotherhood might send him a razor blade hidden in his food, not to escape but to kill himself with. It doesn't happen. | |
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In Black Widow (2021), Natasha sends a package to Alexei, using baked sweets as distraction for the guards while an earpiece is hidden inside of a Red Guardian figure, which allows Alexei to know how he'll break out of prison. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Iron Man 2, Justin Hammer sends Ivan Vanko a meat-and-mashed-potatoes dinner...except the potatoes are actually plastic explosives, so Vanko can fake his death. In Black Widow (2021), Natasha sends a package to Alexei, using baked sweets as distraction for the guards while an earpiece is hidden inside of a Red Guardian figure, which allows Alexei to know how he'll break out of prison. |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Spoofed in a Scrooge McDuck story by Don Rosa. The Beagle Boys visit their grandfather in prison, to celebrate the birthday of their gang. They bring a huge elaborate cake, of which not much was left after the security removed all sort of tools hidden inside. Including a flamethrower. | |
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In The Venture Brothers, Phantom Limb sends his regards to King Gorilla by baking a "Tarzan" into a cake. | |
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Subverted in Jackie Chan Adventures. When Valmont and some of his henchmen intentionally get themselves locked up to get access to the inside of a prison to unlock a hidden demon gate, Valmont tore apart at a cake delivered to the prison hoping for some means of escape, only to get apprehended by guards for his behavior. The cake was for the warden. But another package discreetly opened by his henchmen contained the Pan Ku Box used to open the demon gate. | |
| Jail Bake / int_6eb4ca5c | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Jail Bake / int_6eb4ca5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackie Chan Adventures | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_6eb4ca5c | |
| Jail Bake / int_70c7b114 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_70c7b114 | comment |
On Gilligan's Island, Mr. Howell is in a jail cell (long story) and Mrs. Howell brings him a cake. Gilligan, the one who's guarding Mr. Howell, asks for a piece and just happens to take the piece with the file in it, leading Mrs. Howell to be arrested by Gilligan as well. | |
| Jail Bake / int_70c7b114 | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_70c7b114 | featureConfidence |
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| Gilligan's Island | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_70c7b114 | |
| Jail Bake / int_73d7930f | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_73d7930f | comment |
Subverted in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Sacrifice of Angels" when a very nervous Quark shows up with a hasperat soufflé to give to a group of prisoners that includes his brother Rom. The guard (and probably the audience) assumes it's this trope, but it's actually a decoy; while he's distracted inspecting the soufflé for contraband, Ziyal sneaks up behind him and hits him with an Instant Sedation hypospray, causing him to pass out face-first in the soufflé. | |
| Jail Bake / int_73d7930f | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Jail Bake / int_73d7930f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_73d7930f | |
| Jail Bake / int_76e1ae72 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_76e1ae72 | comment |
Subverted in CatDog: A bunch of inmates receive a file, but Shriek uses it on her fingernails and then uses said fingernails to pick the lock. | |
| Jail Bake / int_76e1ae72 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Jail Bake / int_76e1ae72 | featureConfidence |
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| CatDog | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_76e1ae72 | |
| Jail Bake / int_7aa5ebea | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_7aa5ebea | comment |
Played with on an episode of Squidbillies where Rusty tries to break his grandpa out of prison with cake shaped like a hacksaw that reads "Prison is tough, hope you can hack it", turns out there's a gun baked into it. Turns out, the gun isn't used and instead the cake is stuffed in Sheriff's face and causes an allergic reaction in Sheriff because he's allergic to gluten. | |
| Jail Bake / int_7aa5ebea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jail Bake / int_7aa5ebea | featureConfidence |
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| Squidbillies | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_7aa5ebea | |
| Jail Bake / int_7aaf9e41 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_7aaf9e41 | comment |
Batman: The Penguin pulls this trick in Detective Comics #59 when he delivers a cake to his accomplice Bignose Mike in jail, complete with a Sarcastic Confession that the cake contains a file. This makes the guard laugh so much that he doesn't bother searching it. Bignose Mike later uses the file hidden in the cake to escape. | |
| Jail Bake / int_7aaf9e41 | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_7aaf9e41 | featureConfidence |
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| Batman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_7aaf9e41 | |
| Jail Bake / int_7db5e90f | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_7db5e90f | comment |
Often happens in Lucky Luke. In one story it is even inverted: The file in the cake is such a low quality that it is cut through by the bars it is attempting to file, but when Averell — resident Big Eater extraordinaire — says that "mom's cooking hasn't improved either." It dawns on his brothers that the cake is so rock-hard, it can be used as a file. In another, the wardens need a file, so they go through Tricky Jack's mail. "Why me?" "Your family is always sending you useful presents." |
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| Jail Bake / int_7db5e90f | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_7db5e90f | featureConfidence |
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| Lucky Luke (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_7db5e90f | |
| Jail Bake / int_84199095 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_84199095 | comment |
Rancho Notorious: The crooked sheriff of Gunsight attempts to smuggle a lockpick to his cronies in jail by hiding it inside a bottle of whisky. Due to a mix-up, the bottle winds up in Vern's hands instead. | |
| Jail Bake / int_84199095 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jail Bake / int_84199095 | featureConfidence |
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| Rancho Notorious | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_84199095 | |
| Jail Bake / int_882f1fdb | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_882f1fdb | comment |
Played with in the Bugs Bunny cartoon Big House Bunny. Prison guard Yosemite Sam is mistakenly locked inside a jail cell and Bugs, disguised as a crooked guard, hands him what appears to be a loaf of bread. It turns out to be a bread-shaped "Ajax Escape Kit", which zips open and contains digging tools and a map. | |
| Jail Bake / int_882f1fdb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jail Bake / int_882f1fdb | featureConfidence |
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| Bugs Bunny | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_882f1fdb | |
| Jail Bake / int_88ccb90a | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_88ccb90a | comment |
Beany and Cecil - In "Grime Doesn't Pay," jailbird Dishonest John gets a tool-filled birthday cake from his Mom - unfortunately for him, he guard who brings it forces DJ to eat the whole thing while he watches. | |
| Jail Bake / int_88ccb90a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jail Bake / int_88ccb90a | featureConfidence |
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| Beany and Cecil | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_88ccb90a | |
| Jail Bake / int_8f36f969 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_8f36f969 | comment |
At the end of The Loud House episode, "Rita Her Rights", Lisa walks into the jail center with a cake that obviously includes a file to try to break Rita out. | |
| Jail Bake / int_8f36f969 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jail Bake / int_8f36f969 | featureConfidence |
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| The Loud House | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_8f36f969 | |
| Jail Bake / int_8f3b1f15 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_8f3b1f15 | comment |
The first Fantozzi movie has a strange example in which the prisoner tricks the wardens into this: Fantozzi had entered a slimming hospital only to be locked in a cell with no food during the day and the personnel selling ridiculously overpriced food by night, even having pre-made promissory notes for the patients that have ran out of cash, and Fantozzi, after a few days, orders a portion of Montecristo spaghetti (paid with invalid notes, as he gave the wrong data), pulls out a file from it, and uses it to escape. | |
| Jail Bake / int_8f3b1f15 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jail Bake / int_8f3b1f15 | featureConfidence |
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| Fantozzi | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_8f3b1f15 | |
| Jail Bake / int_8f6d81a3 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_8f6d81a3 | comment |
A rather funny variation occurs in the "Putt-Putt Pink" episode of The Pink Panther. At the end of the episode, the Pink Panther is caught by a cop who puts him in jail for all the problems he caused with his home-made motorbikes (which usually ended with the same cop on the receiving end of the Amusing Injuries). While in jail, The Pink Panther gets a cake decorated with a tiny motorbike on top that reads "For Pink Panther From Mother". The Pink Panther proceeds to ride the tiny motorbike to break the jail's metal door (squashing the cop in the process) and drives away. | |
| Jail Bake / int_8f6d81a3 | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_8f6d81a3 | featureConfidence |
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| The Pink Panther | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_8f6d81a3 | |
| Jail Bake / int_923dd091 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_923dd091 | comment |
In CollegeHumor's video "ShamWow Guy In Jail", Vince pitches various items to the other inmates. One of them is a cake slightly smaller than a football with a hacksaw hidden inside. | |
| Jail Bake / int_923dd091 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jail Bake / int_923dd091 | featureConfidence |
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| CollegeHumor | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_923dd091 | |
| Jail Bake / int_95f7353a | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_95f7353a | comment |
The earpiece smuggled into prison was also used in The Lone Gunmen, but Yves smuggled Jimmy the earpiece in a bag of Cheetoes. | |
| Jail Bake / int_95f7353a | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_95f7353a | featureConfidence |
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| The Lone Gunmen | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_95f7353a | |
| Jail Bake / int_976efc02 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_976efc02 | comment |
In an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 where Mike is on trial for destroying several planets, Crow and Servo bake a torte for him. It basically has a plug-in Sawzall much larger than the torte itself on top of it. Crow thinks the illusion is nearly complete and that it just needs "a little more almond paste around the motor housing". Gypsy, however, is fooled. | |
| Jail Bake / int_976efc02 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jail Bake / int_976efc02 | featureConfidence |
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| Mystery Science Theater 3000 | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_976efc02 | |
| Jail Bake / int_97abe183 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_97abe183 | comment |
Subverted in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episode "Who Framed Jimmy Neutron". Jimmy, in jail, tries to tell Sheen to bring him escape tools indirectly by telling Sheen to bring a book they read in class named "Drills, Hacksaws, and Shovels." Sheen shows up with a cake, and Carl pops out. When asked by Jimmy where the tools are, Sheen produces a book named "Book of Drills, Hacksaws, and Shovels." Carl and Sheen are then jailed with Jimmy for trying to break Jimmy out. | |
| Jail Bake / int_97abe183 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Jail Bake / int_97abe183 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_97abe183 | |
| Jail Bake / int_9815435d | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_9815435d | comment |
In Zorro (1957), Diego de la Vega is once arrested by Sergeant García (because of a bad joke from an old friend of Diego). Bernardo tries bringing him a file inside a large sausage, but the subterfuge doesn't resist García's appetite. The Sergeant just glares at Bernardo and lets him go, though. | |
| Jail Bake / int_9815435d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jail Bake / int_9815435d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Zorro (1957) | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_9815435d | |
| Jail Bake / int_999e1a82 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_999e1a82 | comment |
Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal (2022): After Ziggy and Silly are sent to prison, Ziggy's mom sends him a cake with several files inside. Silly eats them. | |
| Jail Bake / int_999e1a82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jail Bake / int_999e1a82 | featureConfidence |
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| Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal (2022) (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_999e1a82 | |
| Jail Bake / int_9b530c26 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_9b530c26 | comment |
Subverted with one Archie Comics alternate-universe story which puts the gang in a Conan the Barbarian-type setting—Archie, Jughead, and Reggie have been imprisoned and are set to be executed at dawn, so Betty and Veronica attempt to sneak a cake to them, ostensibly as their last meal, with the intention that the boys will use the iron cutter hidden inside the cake to cut their way to freedom. Unfortunately, Betty forgot to put the iron cutter in the cake...but that becomes a moot point when the boys turn up free anyway, with the explanation that the cake was hard enough for them to use it to beat the guard senseless. | |
| Jail Bake / int_9b530c26 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Jail Bake / int_9b530c26 | featureConfidence |
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| Archie Comics (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_9b530c26 | |
| Jail Bake / int_9c608bbc | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_9c608bbc | comment |
Bewitched has a case where the cake was magically conjured by accident. | |
| Jail Bake / int_9c608bbc | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_9c608bbc | featureConfidence |
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| Bewitched | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_9c608bbc | |
| Jail Bake / int_9f2812d6 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_9f2812d6 | comment |
In Brink of Consciousness: Dorian Gray Syndrome, after you find a hacksaw inside a chocolate cake in the dining room of the villain's mansion, he comments over the loudspeaker system that it's "just like in jail." | |
| Jail Bake / int_9f2812d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jail Bake / int_9f2812d6 | featureConfidence |
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| Brink of Consciousness: Dorian Gray Syndrome (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_9f2812d6 | |
| Jail Bake / int_9fa025d | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_9fa025d | comment |
In Mother 3, Flint is locked up in prison after getting knocked out upon blindly attacking the villagers, so his son Claus sneaks him a nail file disguised in an apple. | |
| Jail Bake / int_9fa025d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jail Bake / int_9fa025d | featureConfidence |
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| Mother 3 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_9fa025d | |
| Jail Bake / int_a183d57f | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_a183d57f | comment |
Futurama: In "The Beast With A Billion Backs", when the Professor and Wernstrom are locked up, Leela smuggles them a cake which is actually the Professor's smellascope disguised as a cake. | |
| Jail Bake / int_a183d57f | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_a183d57f | featureConfidence |
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| Futurama | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_a183d57f | |
| Jail Bake / int_a53dfb59 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_a53dfb59 | comment |
In an episode of Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Taotie extorts his son, Bian Zao's help in escaping Chorh-Gom prison in exchange for some "father-son" time. Bian Zao and Po bake a whole series of cakes, and with each one, Bian Zao sneaks in pieces of the Iron Claws of Doom for Taotie to reconstruct. When Bian Zao stops himself from making the final delivery out of guilt, Po does it for him, unaware of Taotie's plan. | |
| Jail Bake / int_a53dfb59 | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_a53dfb59 | featureConfidence |
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| Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_a53dfb59 | |
| Jail Bake / int_a70289b3 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_a70289b3 | comment |
Spoofed in Secret Agent Clank. Clank can send weapons he finds to Ratchet in jail, the "cake" being nothing but a gun with icing and a few candles on top. Since Clank keeps sending him weapons, the Warden wonders just how many birthdays Ratchet has. | |
| Jail Bake / int_a70289b3 | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_a70289b3 | featureConfidence |
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| Secret Agent Clank (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_a70289b3 | |
| Jail Bake / int_a8729c90 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_a8729c90 | comment |
The Fairly OddParents! episode "Anti-Poof" has Anti-Cosmo give his son Foop a cake with a file in it after the Anti-Fairy baby is locked up in a playpen-like cell at Abracatraz, which Foop then uses to trim his nails. | |
| Jail Bake / int_a8729c90 | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_a8729c90 | featureConfidence |
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| The Fairly OddParents! | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_a8729c90 | |
| Jail Bake / int_a9ad40a8 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_a9ad40a8 | comment |
The Commish: Tony (the eponymous Commish) has been jailed for Contempt of Court by a judge he suspects is on the take. He moves his office down to the cells and conducts business as usual. His wife comes by to check up on him and gives him a cake. She baked a file into it as a joke. | |
| Jail Bake / int_a9ad40a8 | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_a9ad40a8 | featureConfidence |
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Jail Bake / int_a9ad40a8 | |
| Jail Bake / int_ab42c63a | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_ab42c63a | comment |
Get Smart: 99 bakes dentist tools that into a cake in the "The Whole Tooth and..." episode so Max can retrieve nuclear power plant plans hidden in the tooth cap of a prisoner. | |
| Jail Bake / int_ab42c63a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jail Bake / int_ab42c63a | featureConfidence |
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| Get Smart | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_ab42c63a | |
| Jail Bake / int_b0329377 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_b0329377 | comment |
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode "Super Koopa" has Toad bring a birthday cake, containing a Brick Block, to Mario and Luigi after Bowser throws them in the Bastille. The Block contains a Super Leaf that grants Raccoon Power to Mario, which he uses to break out of the Bastille. | |
| Jail Bake / int_b0329377 | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_b0329377 | featureConfidence |
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| The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_b0329377 | |
| Jail Bake / int_b20e1bfb | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_b20e1bfb | comment |
Spoofed in a Lupo Alberto story, where the main character was arrested due him looking like a fearsome criminal and the criminal's accomplices, not knowing their boss is still out, send him a cake hidden inside a file and a cake hidden inside a bigger cake, and were about to send him a file hidden inside a bigger file when their boss tracked them down. As the director puts it, the accomplices had "very good brains, like new. Never used. Two morons". | |
| Jail Bake / int_b20e1bfb | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_b20e1bfb | featureConfidence |
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| Lupo Alberto (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_b20e1bfb | |
| Jail Bake / int_b4963c9f | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_b4963c9f | comment |
One episode of Good Eats has B.A. ask his brother Alton for a cake with "a little something special inside", clearly expecting this trope. Alton, naturally, misses the point, thinking B.A. wants cream filling or the like. | |
| Jail Bake / int_b4963c9f | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_b4963c9f | featureConfidence |
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| Good Eats | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_b4963c9f | |
| Jail Bake / int_b712435c | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_b712435c | comment |
In the Leverage episode "The Jailhouse Job", the team sends Nate a kielbasa with an earpiece hidden inside it. Another prisoner sees him tear apart the kielbasa and stick something into his ear and is suitably grossed out. | |
| Jail Bake / int_b712435c | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_b712435c | featureConfidence |
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| Leverage | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_b712435c | |
| Jail Bake / int_b89bf586 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_b89bf586 | comment |
In Ninjago, the ninja get arrested after Nadakahn frames them for various crimes. When Dareth (who's become their manager) comes to visit them, they ask him to get them out (presumably through legal means), and he tells them he baked tools into the cake he sent them. Most of them didn't even know they'd received a cake, because Cole ate it right away, tools and all (he was a ghost at the time, which is probably how he managed to digest them). | |
| Jail Bake / int_b89bf586 | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_b89bf586 | featureConfidence |
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| Ninjago | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_b89bf586 | |
| Jail Bake / int_bc848d30 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_bc848d30 | comment |
In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Jailbreak", Karen visits Plankton in jail and brings him a cake, and he quietly asks her if she put a file in the cake. She just laughs it off, asking who would put a file in a cake. Later, Plankton gets eaten by another prisoner who has a slice of cake and a file in his stomach. | |
| Jail Bake / int_bc848d30 | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_bc848d30 | featureConfidence |
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Jail Bake / int_bc848d30 | |
| Jail Bake / int_bd3b42ed | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_bd3b42ed | comment |
A recurring gag in The Wizard of Id involves the Spook's mother attempting to send him a cake with a file in it (or, in one strip, a crosscut saw). In one case it fails because he wears out the teeth of the saw by trying to cut the cake with it. | |
| Jail Bake / int_bd3b42ed | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_bd3b42ed | featureConfidence |
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| The Wizard of Id (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_bd3b42ed | |
| Jail Bake / int_bdfdcd4f | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_bdfdcd4f | comment |
Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa: In the episode "A Snake in Cow's Clothing", smooth-talking conman Jacques LeBeef is framed and arrested by Mayor Bulloney and his lackeys. The ladies Jacques charmed throughout the episode show up at the jail with food for Jacques, but Sheriff Terri-Bull, no stranger to dirty tricks, checks each fruit basket first. He is more than a little annoyed to find tools hidden in each gift. Discussed by Bat Blastagun's henchman Sid in "How the West was Shrunk" when Miss Lily tries to sneak in the shrunken C.O.W.-Boys by having them hide in one of her honeycakes. Sid warns Bat that there could be a file hidden in the cake. |
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| Jail Bake / int_bdfdcd4f | featureApplicability |
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Jail Bake / int_bdfdcd4f | |
| Jail Bake / int_c0d295c4 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_c0d295c4 | comment |
Subverted in a Team Fortress 2 comic focusing on Scout and Spy in Teufort's prison. The mayor delivers an apple pie with a file in it, but it's only a joke since the cell has six-inch thick Plexiglas instead of bars. | |
| Jail Bake / int_c0d295c4 | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_c0d295c4 | featureConfidence |
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| Team Fortress 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_c0d295c4 | |
| Jail Bake / int_c1c2f3de | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_c1c2f3de | comment |
Escape at Dannemora: Tilly smuggles hacksaw blades into prison by putting them in a container of ground beef and asking a guard to deliver it for her. | |
| Jail Bake / int_c1c2f3de | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_c1c2f3de | featureConfidence |
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| Escape at Dannemora | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_c1c2f3de | |
| Jail Bake / int_c7cca04f | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_c7cca04f | comment |
In Pushing Daisies, Olive bakes a gun into a pie for Ned. For protection. The outline of the gun (and individual bullets) are clearly visible through the crust. | |
| Jail Bake / int_c7cca04f | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_c7cca04f | featureConfidence |
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Jail Bake / int_c7cca04f | |
| Jail Bake / int_cac22084 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_cac22084 | comment |
Used for a gag gift in Mom, at Regina's going-away party before she goes to prison Christy gives her a cupcake with a large file stuck through the middle. | |
| Jail Bake / int_cac22084 | featureApplicability |
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| Jail Bake / int_cac22084 | featureConfidence |
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| Mom | hasFeature |
Jail Bake / int_cac22084 | |
| Jail Bake / int_cb32d0d5 | type |
Jail Bake | |
| Jail Bake / int_cb32d0d5 | comment |
In Disenchantment episode "You're the Bean", Trixy brings Elfo a cake that she claims contains something that will help him escape captivity. However, she meant mentally escape, as the thing in the cake is a nude drawing of her. | |
| Jail Bake / int_cb32d0d5 | featureApplicability |
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Men in Black 3 has an alien symbiont (nicknamed "Weasel" in the Blu-ray disc commentary) creature smuggled inside a cake. A metal detector fails to catch it. | |
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In the Sandokan – The Tiger of Malaysia, Sandokan and crew have been arrested by a local noble who sentences them to death, but nonetheless has his personal cook prepare a sumptuous Last Meal for them, including a huge cake. Sandokan's still-free ally visits the cook, and once the latter's back is turned, discreetly inserts a pair of files and a message in the cake. | |
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Reese is sent to a Beyond Scared Straight-like program in one episode of Malcolm in the Middle. When an inmate yells at him, he suggests that the inmate get someone to smuggle him some mouthwash in a cake because he has bad breath. | |
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On The Looney Tunes Show, Porky brings an incarcerated Daffy a cake. Daffy instantly tears it apart looking for a file, and screams at Porky for not putting one in... within the guard's earshot. | |
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In the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard, Caretaker receives Megget's spikes (and implicitly all of the other items he procures for other inmates) in this manner. | |
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At the end of the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Eds-aggerate", Johnny gives the trio (who have been trapped in cement as retribution for a hoax they pulled) a cake with a hammer in it. Ed tries to eat the cake by himself, and the hammer gets stuck to the side of his face. | |
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Referenced on The Golden Girls. Rose, Dorothy, and Blanche are mistaken for prostitutes and arrested, and a while later Sophia shows up. | |
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South Park: In the episode "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime", the boys visit an imprisoned Cartman with a cake with a file in it so he can bust out and participate in their sled race. Cartman is too dumb to understand Kyle explaining the plan to him in Pig Latin but it's moot anyway because it turns out he's not allowed to bring food back to his cell, most likely because of situations like this. This trope is lampshaded by Stan, who claims to have seen it happen in a movie. In "Credigree Weed St. Patrick's Day Special", the boys sneak Randy's weed to him in jail by baking it into a St. Patrick's Day cake. At first, he doesn't realize it and lashes out at Stan until he finally gets the hint. |
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The T.U.F.F. Puppy episode "Tattle Tale" had a variant where, rather than prison, Dudley and Kitty were sent to T.U.F.F. Detention after F.L.O.P.P. tattled on them for sleeping on the job (in Kitty's case, she was actually knocked unconscious from being forced to lug around a heavy piano by the Chief). When Dudley and Kitty are needed to stop F.L.O.P.P. from using an earthquake generator to destroy Petropolis, Keswick helps them escape the robot keeping them there by providing a cake that turns out to have a mallet inside. We're led to believe that Dudley will use the mallet to destroy the robot, but instead he injures himself and Kitty so that the robot will let them out of detention to see the nurse. | |
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In an episode of Mork & Mindy, Mindy is jailed for not revealing her source for a story. Mork bakes her a cake shaped like a saw, containing a hacksaw blade. | |
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At the start of the second season of Mission Top Secret, the security of the prison Big Bad Neville Savage is about to escape is demonstrated by having the guards screen all incoming mail with an X-ray machine. The lead guard then triumphantly pulls a file out of a cake. | |
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In the Homestar Runner cartoon Strong Bad is in Jail, Strong Mad baked a cake with a jackhammer in it for Strong Bad and The Cheat. It ended up being unnecessary, since they were being held in a literal Cardboard Prison. | |
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Henry Stickmin Series: Escaping the Prison starts with the titular Henry Stickmin in prison receiving a cake with various items hidden in it; one of these is a file, but Henry can also use a phone, a drill, a teleporter, a NRG drink, or even a rocket launcher (note only three of the items will actually help Henry escape, the rest are the just the start of The Many Deaths of You). Also noteworthy is that Dave Panpa, one of the prison guards, was supposed to check the cake beforehand but clearly forgot to do so (and when he realizes he forgot when Rupert Price briefly mentions it to him, he tries to save face with bluster, not realizing there was something in the cake).note The next game, Stealing the Diamond, shows that Dave got fired over the incident after Henry escaped (his mention of the events provides the page quote). The Omega Ending of Completing the Mission reveals that the package was sent by someone from the Center for Chaos Containment as part of a "multiverse defragmentation" operation. | |
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In Awesomenauts, the icon for Vinnie and Spike's upgrade Chrome File (which increases the damage of Spike Dive) is a cake going through an x-ray machine with a file inside of it. | |
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In Watchmen (2019), due to a bug in his mental programming or whatever, Phillips keeps offering Veidt a horseshoe with his cake. In Episode 8, Veidt notices the horseshoe has been baked into his annual cake and gleefully uses it to start digging himself out of his cell. | |
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In Olive, the Other Reindeer, Martini the penguin says that this was one of his jobs at the zoo. | |
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In Bad Piggies, feeding the King Pig cakes causes him to belch out random points upgrades or power-ups, as well as some useless items, which include a file. | |
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure. When the film chronicling Pee-wee's journey is playing at the end, the criminal named Mickey who Pee-wee had met is invited to the premiere, but he's being kept under police supervision. Pee-wee tries none-too-subtly to sneak Mickey a file by putting it in his foot-long hot dog; the policeman confiscates it. | |
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In Superbad, Seth rambles to Evan that this trope won't help break Fogell out of jail. | |
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In the Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers episode "Changeling," Shane has to infiltrate a prison. Zach jokes that if he isn't out in the allotted time-frame, the rest of the team will send a hacksaw inside a cake. | |
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