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May I Borrow a Cup of Sugar?
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A character comes over to borrow a cup of sugar, or something else like flour, a hedge trimmer, or whatever from their neighbor, and this is used to set up a plot thread of some sort: As a Meet Cute; When something is happening that really needs to be kept secret and the neighbor honestly needs to borrow something but has epically bad timing; Like the above, but with the neighbor intentionally barging into their business because they suspect something odd is going on and they are a Nosy Neighbor; A new character has arrived in the neighbourhood, and this is the means of introducing them to the rest of the cast; The neighbor has just stumbled onto the home of a serial killer and this is the last we'll see of them alive; To set up the plot in some other way. Please note this is not just a list of instances of neighbors borrowing things in fiction as this has no meaning in itself; it has to at least set up a plot thread or joke of some sort. |
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In Funny Games, two guys come over to a family's lake house to borrow some eggs. Then they return them broken, and ask for more. It gets downhill from there. | |
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In the pilot of Desperate Housewives, Susan uses this as an excuse to break into Edie's house to spy on her and Mike. She ends up (accidentally) burning the house down, and leaving the cup behind. | |
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Parodied in the Gilmore Girls episode "Luke Can See Her Face" | |
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Inverted by Danny's neighbor on CSI: NY. After they had a brief Sex For Solace fling following the death of her 10-yr old son, she brings him a dish of sugar as a thank-you for being "a sweet man" and tells him she's moving from their building in order to avoid the memories. | |
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The Simpsons: Homer Simpson tends to permanently borrow or outright steal things from Ned Flanders. | |
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Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny short "Shishkabugs". In Duck, Rabbit, Duck!, Daffy asks Bugs for a cup of blackstrap molasses as an excuse for Bugs to come out and get shot by Elmer. The shot punctures the cup instead, and Bugs comments that "I didn't think molasses would flow in January." |
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Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future episode "The Intruder" | |
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In To the Manor Born, Mrs. Polouvicka uses borrowing a cup of sugar as an excuse to meet her new neighbor — who, unknown to her, is none other than Audrey Forbes-Hamilton. At the end of their encounter, she confesses that she didn't need the sugar, and tips it back into Audrey's bowl with a grandiloquent "Keep it — with the compliments of Cavendish Foods!" | |
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Arabian Nights: Almost the same thing happens in the story of Ali Baba, when his wife borrows a scale, also for coins. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: The usual order of events is inverted in the June 3, 1990 strip (with the joke coming first), in which Suzie Derkins goes over to Calvin's house and finds him caught up in one of his "Stupendous Man" fantasies, deciding to just leave after he runs off to continue it. It's not until the last panel shows her coming home that we find out it's this trope, when her mother asks "Did they have an egg you could borrow?", and Suzie claims nobody was home. | |
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In Earthworm Jim episode Day of the Fish, Jim decides to visit the nearest planet to get a cup of sugar for the Galactic Hero League's coffee. Unfortunately, the nearest planet is ruled by Bob the Killer Goldfish. | |
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The scenario described under "Jokes" appears in an early Sesame Street skit, when Ernie is outside Herbert Birdsfoot's door, hoping to borrow his vacuum cleaner. Just before he knocks, he wonders if Herbert is in the bath, and if he'll be annoyed that he had to get out of the bath, and will not only not lend him the vacuum cleaner but will tell everyone to never lend Ernie anything. He finally does knock, but just to say "Oh, yeah? Well, if that's the way you feel about it, you can just keep your rotten old vacuum cleaner! So there!" and storms off. Herbert, who shows no signs of even having been in the bath in the first place, is bewildered. | |
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In the Ready Jet Go! episode "Solar-System Bake Off!", Mitchell goes to Jet's house and asks for a cup of sugar, but really, he wants to gather information about his (speculated) crush Mindy's baking contest entry. | |
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On one Donald Duck cartoon, Donald's new neighbor Pete asks to borrow some ice cubes... and while he's at it, he also borrows a cube of butter, some cucumbers, and on and on until he empties Don's fridge. | |
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In Not Going Out this appears to be a Meet Cute, but turns out to be the excuse version of sorts when a girl who thinks she is Lee's daughter appears (of course she isn't; it's a sitcom). When a guy shows up at the end of the episode asking to borrow some milk Lee tells him there's a Tesco nearby and shuts the door on him. | |
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On The Dick Van Dyke Show Millie would often pop over to borrow a cup of sugar from Laura. Laura was more likely to call Millie to ask if she had some sugar that she could borrow, making Millie come to her. | |
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The Young Ones : On one episode, when they are freezing in their unheated house in winter, Vivien keeps borrowing cups of sugar from the neighbour, who comments that she would like her cups back at some point. It turns out Vivien is burning the cups to keep warm. In a complete Big-Lipped Alligator Moment (even by Young Ones standards), some random bloke appears and tell us that he's just been round his neighbour's house to borrow a drill. But the neighbour wasn't in, so the bloke broke in and ate the neighbour's fish tank, and he wasn't even hungry. |
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The Chifladitos Sketch in Chespirito had a neighbor of Lucas and Chaparron who was constantly asking them for a cup of sugar. In El Chavo del ocho, shortly after moving to the vecindad, Gloria knocks on Don Ramón's door for a cup of sugar. Doña Cleotile was not pleased about that. |
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In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, after being cut in half by his own attack, Freeza asks Goku if he can borrow "a cup of energy". | |
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In Albert the Muffin-Maker, a book from a children's educational picture book series called Mouse Math, Albert is making muffins. However, he quickly finds that he doesn't have the ingredients he needs, so he borrows pretty much everything from neighbors because he's been told that "it's nice to share," his bemused sister Wanda forcing him to stop borrowing from one particular neighbor, Mrs. Nibble, after he borrows no less than four different ingredients from her. Once the muffins are done, she has him take a muffin to each of the ten individuals he borrowed stuff from, leaving them with two to each have one. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "When It Rains..." | |
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The Jack Benny Program, like many sitcoms, had a Running Gag of the Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist borrowing things from his long-suffering neighbor (in this case, Ronald Colman) and not returning them. In the March 19, 1948 broadcast, Jack borrows Colman's Oscar award; when Colman's wife asks why he let Jack borrow it, he snaps, "It might as well be with the rest of my things!" As Jack walks home, the Oscar is stolen by a mugger in probably the most famous bit in the program's history. | |
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In Paper Towns, Margo says she asked a neighbor to borrow a cup of sugar so she could find out more about a man who committed suicide. | |
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In El Chavo del ocho, shortly after moving to the vecindad, Gloria knocks on Don Ramón's door for a cup of sugar. Doña Cleotile was not pleased about that. | |
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Played for laughs in Bad Boys (1995). | |
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Bugs Bunny short "Shishkabugs". | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: Pod People. Little Tommy walks into a cave that's glowing bright red, while holding the cup he normally uses to collect specimens. Crow jumps to conclusions: | |
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In Ojamajo Doremi, for a long time, Aiko was under the impression that her mother had remarried after seeing her with a baby. This gives her the push to convince her father to do the same when he gets set up on a date with his boss' daughter. Later, when Aiko spies on her mother again, she sees a neighbor of her mother visiting her to borrow MSG (sugar in the dub version) and finds out that the baby was actually the neighbor's. | |
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The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, a retelling of the classic fairy tale features this. The wolf was only trying to borrow sugar from the three pigs but as he had a bad cold and the pigs had poorly constructed houses he kept sneezing the houses down - and the dead pigs? He's still a wolf, waste not want not. | |
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This literally happened in The Room (2003). Like so many things in the movie, it contributes nothing to the plot and is never mentioned again | |
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Played with in one Winnie the Pooh comic, where Pooh accompanies Piglet around the Hundred Acre Wood in order to borrow a cup of sugar. They visit all their friends, and are invited in for breakfast, tea, lunch and snacks, but never actually get the sugar Piglet wants. At the end of the story it turns out that Pooh has sugar at home, but didn't mention it because he thought Piglet was just using the sugar as an excuse to go visit everyone. | |
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In one Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark collection (Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill your Bones), the story "Such Things Happen" has this as a plot point. A witch tries to borrow a cup of sugar from the protagonist in an attempt to break the power of a ritual he is performing that causes her agony as long as she is hexing him. | |
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In a "News From Lake Wobegon" segment from A Prairie Home Companion Garrison Keillor tells a fictional account of how his mother got addicted to the Tournament of Roses Parade. At the time they didn't have a television set, but she had gone to a neighbor's house for a cup of flour. The neighbors were watching the Parade on television, and she was so mesmerized that she watched the whole thing standing with the cup of flour in her hand. | |
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On an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob wants Squidward to come visit, but Squidward doesn't want to. So SpongeBob borrows his vacuum to give Squidward an excuse to go over to SpongeBob's house. | |
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In Freaky Friday (1976) Annabel calls the neighbor boy she has a crush on to borrow a cup of kibble as an excuse to get him to come over. She went with kibble because she figured that sugar was too corny. | |
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Lucky Number Slevin: Lindsay is introduced to the main character in this fashion. For a little twist, she borrows not only the sugar, but also the cup to carry it in. Lampshaded as being like a classic Meet Cute out of an old sitcom or movie. | |
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In The First Four Years, one of the last books in the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, newlyweds Laura and Almanzo have a neighbor who is constantly borrowing things and neglecting to return them. When butchering time comes, the neighbor inevitably asks to borrow the various tools needed to do the job, one by one. Laura lends them, and grimly remarks to herself that "if he came next to borrow their fat hog to kill she would let him have it." Thankfully he didn't take it that far. | |
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Homestar Runner: In a now-hidden toon from when Strong Bad's laptop was Lappynapped, he receives a few strange messages on his answering machine. | |
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Before he was Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Anthony Head was best recognized from a series of Nestle Gold Blend (in the UK) / Nescafe Tasters Choice (in the US) commercials about a couple flirting while borrowing coffee from each other. Immaculately parodied on Comic Relief one year, where the guy kept trying to direct her to a nearby shop and turned the eventual request down. "Nafcafé Gold Bland. If you like it that much, get your own bloody jar!" | |
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And in Family Guy, Mort has borrowed so many things from the Griffins without returning them that Peter once put an Adolf Hitler scarecrow in the yard. | |
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This would often be a way for Lucy and Ethel to meet on I Love Lucy. | |
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On Friends, Ross once borrowed an egg from a neighbor. Later the guys convince him to start a conversation with her by giving her an egg back. | |
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