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Sickbed Smuggling
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It's always nice to visit a hospitalized person. Unfortunately, due to hospital rules (including but not limited to germs, protocol, diet, or the like), certain things are not allowed in. Why not smuggle it in? Maybe it's something as simple as a candy bar that isn't allowed in due to the patient's dietary restrictions or just being frowned upon by doctors. Maybe it's a pleasure or vice of theirs that is certainly banned like a cigarette or a cigar (in spite of the fact that plenty of doctors smoke --albeit they do it outside). Maybe it's a furry friend who wants to cheer up the convalescent, although if the dog is too big and/or noisy, the jig is likely up. Also worth noting that if the person who does the smuggling is caught, then they could either have the object confiscated or they could be kicked out, if not banned altogether. The patient themselves sneaking in or having the forbidden item delivered to them isn't underheard of, either (i.e., take-out food). Compare with Jail Bake (the jail/prison equivalent) and Snacksploitation (the movie theater equivalent). See also Coat Full of Contraband, Trojan Horse, or False Flag Operation. If it's a pet, it might be because there are No Animals Allowed. Since this trope is usually done with compassionate intentions, it's unlikely to end in a Sickbed Slaying. |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: In the season seven episode "Raw'', Fin sneaks in Munch's favorite food, a fig shake, while Munch is hospitalized after being shot. | |
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: At the end of the book when Harry is in the hospital wing, Dumbledore reveals Fred and George Weasley attempted to give Harry a toilet seat as a get-well gift (calling back to when Harry overheard their mother warn them not to blow up a toilet at the beginning of the school year). Madame Pomfrey caught them and refused to allow it for hygiene reasons. | |
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Subverted in The Simpsons "So It's Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show". After an April's Fools prank by Bart lands Homer in the hospital, Moe sneaks him in a can of Duff beer. Since beer was the cause of his hospitalization, he rejects it in fright, which causes Barney to "suffocate" Homer with a pillow to end his pain and he then uses a water fountain to "escape" from the premises to Homer and Moe's confusion. | |
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Scrubs: When JD and Turk spend the night keeping a dying man company, he complains that the nurse won't let him have a cigar, wondering what harm it could do since he's already terminal. JD explains to the patient that he's on an oxygen tank and smoking a cigar could cause a giant explosion. But JD and Turk do grant his request for a beer. | |
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A Chicken Soup For The Teenage Soul story had a high school girl sneak a box of cherry cordials to her best male friend, who was terminally ill in the cardiac ward and forced to eat "mushy-looking food". | |
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In Love, Lies and Murder, David sneaks in fast food to his hospitalized daughter, Cinnamon, who unsuccessfully tried to kill herself after killing her stepmother under his demands. | |
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My 600 Lb Life: Relatives of morbidly obese hospital patients will often sneak in forbidden, high-calorie food to them to Dr. Now (and the audience's) immense chagrin. Subverted with Steven Assanti. Although a news report states that the primary reason he was kicked out of a previous inpatient weight loss in Delaware was that he had ordered a pizza to his room, the main reason was his utterly abusive treatment of the hospital staff. |
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In Jem and the Holograms (IDW) after Pizzazz's car accident, the rest of The Misfits manage to smuggle in while visiting her in the hospital her beloved Siamese cat Madmartigan, to her joy. | |
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A Case Closed story has a hospital visitor smuggles in a pistol while visiting their father... but the gun isn't for the father. They are forced to kill off another patient staying in the same ward using that pistol. | |
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Played with in Hard to Kill. Andy is a nurse herself who sneaks in a small kitten to a comatose Storm (with the joke being "Would you like a little pussy today?") | |
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Doc: An example of the animal variant occurs in one episode, wherein kid character Elliot ends up with life-threatening complications after a routine surgery. His friends Justin and Raul try and fail to get Elliot's beloved dog certified as a therapy animal so he can visit him in the hospital. Finally, as Elliot's condition worsens, Dr. Cassidy carries the dog into the room in spite of regulations. Elliot improves after the visit. | |
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St. Vincent (2014): While Vincent is in the hospital after his stroke, Maggie and Oliver smuggle his cat into his room to keep him company. | |
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