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Snipe Hunt

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Snipe Hunt	comment	A common hazing ritual in real life, a Snipe Hunt consists of sending the Butt-Monkey, NaÃ¯ve Newcomer, or a Bumbling Sidekick out on an impossible or imaginary task to get them out of the way or humiliate them. Oftentimes used in comedy as a B-Plot to the main action, and a common ending involves the getter finding what they were sent out to get (even if it was, say, a unicorn) or finding the wrong thing and having hilarity ensue. Bonus points if the finder locates the imaginary item or accomplishes the Impossible Task right away. Named after a common practical joke that involves sending a newcomer out to catch a snipe, a real-life marsh-dwelling bird that riflemen find extremely difficult to get a piece of (hence the term "sniper", implying that the marksman has enough skill to consistently bring down that same tricky bird), in a bag. The victim is left there "holding the bag" as part of the humiliation. Also commonly referred to as a fool's errand, and may overlap with You, Get Me Coffee. (Interestingly enough, the term "snipe hunt" is so much more well known than the actual bird that many people are surprised to find out that there really is a bird called a snipe.) The fictional version of the snipe is often described as a rather horrific creature. Usually something akin to a werewolf, or mutant bird. Fictional snipes are usually described as being all black with glowing red eyes. On occasion, someone who sends a new-hire on a Snipe Hunt will have dramatically underestimated his target's intelligence; one semi-famous example is that of a new Navy recruit being sent to the engine room to get a 'bucket of steam', only to return ten minutes later with a pail full of dry ice! If it was supposed to be a genuinely Impossible Task, such an act of We Do the Impossible can set a character up as either a genius, a badass, or at least a master of lateral thinking. In a real-life work situation, Snipe Hunts are met with a variety of responses depending on the nature of the workplace — while a less 'formal' atmosphere, like your local FutureShop, might just shake their heads and bear the tradition, a lawyer's office is much more structured, and a Snipe Hunt means that you're holding up someone's (possibly time-critical) files in order to play a useless prank. Oftentimes, the character returns only to be sent out again, to fulfill a more specific version of the demand, e.g.: "I wanted a red flower" Or, "Get me DIET Soda". And sometimes, the person actually wasn't meant to go on a snipe hunt but takes a joke literally. Akin to: "Go jump off a cliff." "Okay!" The deadly version is The Uriah Gambit when someone is sent on a dangerous mission by a "friendly" party who secretly wants them dead. See also Privacy by Distraction, "Shaggy Dog" Story and Wild Goose Chase. See also Windmill Crusader, where the participant fails to complete the search. Can result in Seeking the Intangible.
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Snipe Hunt / int_1215a23d	comment	Genshin Impact: During the Liyue archon quests, one happens completely by accident when Qiqi requests that the Traveler's party find a "legendary adeptibeast" called a "cocogoat". When they ultimately return to her empty-handed after having no luck finding the thing, they discover that it never existed, as Qiqi mistakenly believed it to be the source of her favorite drink... coconut milk.
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Snipe Hunt / int_1363b6e1	comment	In the fourth Noob novel, the protagonist Player Party end up with two things: a passed-out Non-Player Character that could mean a nice quest reward if bought to the right place and a bunch of other players that they don't want to see getting part of the reward for various reasons. Gaea tells the latter to go get a defibrillator from another Non-Player Character allegedly called Dr. Maison (House in French, the language in which the novel is written). It works on everyone except her own guildmates, who know she's a Manipulative Bitch.
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Snipe Hunt / int_1484a16e	comment	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Played with, when Harry tells Uncle Vernon that he has to catch the school train from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. Uncle Vernon takes him to the station, points out platforms nine and ten, tells him that the one he wants is somewhere in the middle, and cheerfully leaves Harry to find it, saying "have a good term". Malfoy challenges Harry to a midnight duel, telling him to come to an empty classroom. However, Malfoy does not appear, and only told Harry this to get him into trouble for being out of bed at night.
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Snipe Hunt / int_14cb9f30	comment	The premise of A Bug's Life. Princess Atta sends Flik out to find some bugs to fight Hopper, not expecting him to actually find anybody willing to defend an ant colony. Subverted that Flik actually finds what he's looking for...after a fashion.
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Snipe Hunt / int_1646abde	comment	The entire plot of SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge is Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy trying to keep SpongeBob (who wants an autograph from them to give to Patrick as a birthday present) away from them with several Snipe Hunts. Naturally, he keeps succeeding.
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Snipe Hunt / int_1b386512	comment	This was utilized against a pathetic yet persistently annoying suitor in the Ranma Â½ story, Girl Days, when the only way he would be allowed to court Ranma was to find a cask of the Fabled Nannichuan, the horde of the demon Happosai, and a Phoenix's tooth. The first would have cured Ranma of his Gender Bender curse, thus resolving the issue, the second was just a bunch of stolen undergarments, and of course, Phoenixes, being birds, don't have teeth. Cologne even lampshades it, by saying if that he could pull off the last, she'd give him his choice of women in her village.
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Snipe Hunt / int_1dcc121d	comment	The Lotus War: A variation in Stormdancer. Everyone except the Shogun thinks the hunt for the thunder tiger is one of these. Then the protagonists find one.
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Snipe Hunt / int_1f58bf72	comment	Pawn Stars: The Old Man tries to send Chumlee on one, asking for (among other things) a bucket of steam, a glass hammer, and a left-handed coffee mug. Chumlee realizes this and brings back a steaming bucket of dry ice and a full cup of coffee, telling the old man that it's written on the bottom that it's left handed. The Old Man lifts it up to check, and spills coffee all over his shirt. Corey and Rick have no sympathy.
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Snipe Hunt / int_1f76648	comment	A Certain Magical Index: Accelerator sends Index to fetch replacement batteries for the collar that lets him use his powers. Accelerator then muses that there are no replacement batteries and he did that to keep her out of harm's way while he goes to rescue Last Order. Motoharu somehow knocks Touma out and smuggles him into the girl's locker room. When Touma wakes up, Motoharu calls and tells him an evil wizard has sneaked into the women's dorms and will kill everyone if Touma doesn't stop him in time. Touma runs himself ragged trying to find the wizard and evade the enraged girls before he eventually realizes he's being tricked, then catches up to Motoharu in time to stop him from torturing and killing a guy.
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Snipe Hunt / int_212000b2	comment	Rescue Me: The firemen send new probie Damian on a search for a "universal hose coupler". Damian is smart enough to know that he's probably being messed with but powerless to do anything about it.
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Snipe Hunt / int_213742cf	comment	Provides one of the few lighthearted moments in the war film Flags of Our Fathers. A higher-ranking soldier asks the others in his group if they have their Masturbation Papers in order, and when one soldier (presumably the one who isn't in on the joke) says he doesn't, he's told to run and ask for them, because if he doesn't get them he can't ship out.
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Snipe Hunt / int_2350acad	comment	Cheers: One episode revolved around Frasier being sent on a Snipe Hunt, though he later gets back at the others by agreeing to go on another and abandoning them in the cold.
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Snipe Hunt / int_23d2ea71	comment	One episode of Donkey Kong Country has multiple snipe hunts...all surrounding the same trinket.
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Snipe Hunt / int_23e4da53	comment	Transcendence (Avatar): Luz was never meant to actually find the Avatar; those who sent her off were hoping that her travels would force her to mature and start taking things more seriously.
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Snipe Hunt / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "Homer Goes To College", during a safety audit, Homer and two other less-gifted employees are put in a room out of the way and given the task of guarding a bee in a jar. The other two question it but Homer, thinking himself brighter than the other two, boasts of his position as "head bee guy". He then immediately breaks the jar, releasing the bee, and gets discovered by the inspectors.
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Snipe Hunt / int_28959135	comment	In the app SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off, in Chapter 1, Squidward tries to get SpongeBob and Patrick to leave him alone by participating in a seemingly nonexistent jellyfishing contest; however, only Patrick can do it because SpongeBob has to work the pancake stand. As it turns out, there really was a jellyfishing contest, and Patrick shows the trophy he won to prove it.
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Snipe Hunt / int_28c6afce	comment	Thomas & Friends; "Timothy and the Rainbow Truck": Bill and Ben convince Timothy that he needs to find a rainbow-colored truck. He travels a long way before realizing he's been had, but Salty helps him get back at the twins - by giving them a smelly, old, garbage-filled truck splattered with multiple colors of paint.
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Snipe Hunt / int_29b7b686	comment	Shakedown Shenanigans borrows a couple of US military classics. Somebody got Crewman Apprentice Miqâ€™doh Drohhl to do an "echo check"note The schmuck is told that if he yells at the engine just right, it'll resonate. on the impulse engine when Bynam was test-firing it, and Eleya refers to a Noodle Incident from when she was in the Militia where a corporal tried to get her to "blow the DCA".note The schmuck is told that the DCA is a kind of air horn that you're supposed to blow before the ship leaves port. The DCA, or Damage Control Assistant, is a junior officer.
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Snipe Hunt / int_2acb12c5	comment	Newbie players on the X-Universe forums are sometimes told about an elusive UFO base that sells every item and ship in the game dirt-cheap. Supposedly, it's the home of the flying saucers that appear in the game as an Easter Egg. The UFO Base does actually exist—but only in X: Beyond the Frontier.
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Snipe Hunt / int_2b82b95f	comment	iCarly: Annoying fan Mandy is sent off to get "fladoodles", which, of course, don't exist. She comes back an hour later, claiming she had to go to some store in a different state, and then she is told: "No, we wanted fat free". Guess what else is in the bag.
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Snipe Hunt / int_2c651d33	comment	"The Elf Maiden": When they are about to leave an island, the main character's rival asks him to go back to the hut and pick a knife which he dropped carelessly. When the main character gets to the hut, he looks back and sees his so-called "friend's" boat has sailed.
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Snipe Hunt / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto Shippuden: In the Six Tails filler arc, Utakata promises to accept Hotaru as a student if she fulfills tasks that he thinks are impossible for her (for example, mastering a water jutsu that is impossible to do without water-nature chakra), since he doesn't believe that he can truly give her what she wants. Contrary to what he expects, she manages to accomplish each task.
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Snipe Hunt / int_3294f686	comment	Wagnaria!!: In episode 8 of season 2, Souma sends Aoi on an errand to find "shanbalileh" to hide her while her brother is looking for her.
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Snipe Hunt / int_331e00a	comment	In Borderlands 3 in the "Guns, Love & Tentacles" DLC, Gaige sends Claptrap to find a Pearl of Ineffable Knowledge for Alistair Hammerlock and Wainright Jakobs' wedding. Throughout the story, Claptrap gives updates on his offscreen adventures, as well as the Vault Hunter saving him from Frozen. Just before charging into the final level, he presents the actual Pearl of Ineffable Knowledge, which is a Legendary-class Artifact that increases damage with each shot done to enemies.
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Snipe Hunt / int_334120fc	comment	In 8-Bit Theater, after fetching three of the Elemental Orbs for Sarda, Black Mage starts to feel like the orbs are just a Snipe Hunt. When told to find the Orb of Air, he says "Oh, sure. The Orb of Air. And after that maybe we'll get the 'Orb of Headlight Fluid' and then the 'Orb of Elbow Grease' too, right?" Once, to get Fighter inside a room rather than outside, Black Mage uses an old trick: a paper with "There is a map to Swordtown on the other side of this note" on both sides. Somehow, he found it. Or, for some of you who won't believe it, he got into the Real Light Warriors' supplies. Also, when the Warriors wanted to take over the town Mafia, they got the well-meaning Fighter out of the way by sending him off to play in a Drownball tournament (a parody of Final Fantasy X's Blitzball), where the rules are, apparently, that you have to drown in order to win. And it's unclear where the ball comes in. Incidentally, Fighter won the tournament by default, since he was the only player who failed to drown, on account of his brain using less oxygen. That's perfectly logical.
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Snipe Hunt / int_33af528f	comment	In Cadance of Cloudsdale, Sergeant Thunderous sends Shining Armor to deliver a parcel to Princess Cadance "with Harmony level clearance". However, nobody is permitted to disturb her during dinnertime, and the Harmony clearance level is apparently so new that the Royal Guardsman don't even know about it. Naturally, it turns out that Harmony level clearance never existed in the first place.
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Snipe Hunt / int_37a6e77b	comment	Camp Lazlo has all the campers on a literal snipe hunt, but the animal described sounds more like Bigfoot. Edward's brothers' past hunts lead him to conclude snipes aren't real. The others mistake Lumpus for a snipe. Then two real snipes hatch from eggs that had fallen into Lumpus's throat at the end of the episode.
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Snipe Hunt / int_3c18c35f	comment	Things I Am Not Allowed to Do at the PPC: Rule 22 forbids hazing new recruits via giving them good fanfiction and instructing them to find the Mary Sue. Rule 1869 is about not asking new agents to retrieve electricity powder from the Building Maintenance department. Its addendum suggests electricity powder is something that actually exists, but people still aren't allowed to get it from Building Maintenance.
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Snipe Hunt / int_3e11eae6	comment	In Call of the Sea, the entire hunt for Harry turns out to be one big Snipe Hunt. He's long left the island by the time Norah arrives on it.
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Snipe Hunt / int_3fbd173e	comment	Freefall has a rather nice summary of the concept here.
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Snipe Hunt / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: Unsurprisingly, since Harry Dresden is something of a Phillip Marlowe expy in the earlier books, the same trick gets pulled on him several times with villains setting up an intentional Red Herring or two to get him out of the way while they work. The first occurrence is Victor Sells pointing Harry at his daughter's case, but it happens two or three times in any given novel, being a staple of the genre.
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Snipe Hunt / int_455e3038	comment	An episode of King of the Hill involves Bobby and his friends being sent out to hunt snipes and accidentally injuring an endangered whooping crane instead. Oops. Hank and his friends had it pulled on them in the backstory and don't seem to know even as adults that the snipe is a real bird and think it's some kind of imaginary animal. The description is similar to the conventional fictitious description of a "snipe" for the purposes of snipe hunting. So that part is Truth in Television. The use of the snipe hunt itself tends to lead people to believe that the snipe is a fictional creature, rather than an actual bird.
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Snipe Hunt / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: A variation appears in a number of Watch novels. Nobby and Colon are sent on these by Vimes to prevent them from interfering with actual police work but often stumble upon important clues which are vital to solving a case. Also played with in that Colon occasionally sends himself on such errands, such as making sure a bridge or the opera house isn't stolen, so he doesn't have to do any real work. No major landmark has yet been stolen — except the University, but that was a student prank. This is no mean feat, seeing as how many of the city's major landmarks are less than a foot tall, courtesy of "Bloody Stupid" Johnson's bloody stupidity. In Maskerade, Mrs. Plinge mentions how other young men pick on her son Walter, including sending him out on Snipe Hunts to the market for non-existent things, e.g. transparent paint or a packet of holes.
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Snipe Hunt / int_479f38d7	comment	Shining Song Starnova: In one route, Kamijou sends one of his Idol Singers, the twelve-year-old Mako Yoshino, to buy an SD card from a specific retailer on the other side of Tokyo. He sends her on this errand right before her idol unit undergoes an inspection, knowing that she will miss it. He does this to protect her, as the inspector, Oda, is a pedophile.
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Snipe Hunt / int_483a069c	comment	In the Spanish movie Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure, the main characters are told by their superior to go and find the Holy Grail (which they confuse with the Davis Cup) as a way to have them away from the real missions. At the end of the movie, Mortadelo is about to die, and FilemÃ³n gives him a sip of water from a trophy cup. It instantly heals Mortadelo, FilemÃ³n is amazed and declares he has found the Davis Cup.
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Snipe Hunt / int_4a94a5fc	comment	In Maskerade, Mrs. Plinge mentions how other young men pick on her son Walter, including sending him out on Snipe Hunts to the market for non-existent things, e.g. transparent paint or a packet of holes.
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Snipe Hunt / int_50a9ace1	comment	In Thimble Theatre, during the storyline Popeye makes his debut, Castor Oyl and Ham Gravy are about to leave on another adventure, and in order to ditch Olive, who insists on coming along to keep an eye on her boyfriend (Ham), they tell her to fetch a 'dimes worth of longitude'. Olive naturally gets laughed at. When Popeye tells her what longitude is, she gives Castor a good thrashing.
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Snipe Hunt / int_526815a8	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_526815a8	comment	Terminal Lance has a guest strip in which Abe actually manages to find many of the mythical items listed under Real Life, including the ever-elusive Schmuckatelli.
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Snipe Hunt / int_538833a4	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_538833a4	comment	In Retail, one of the pranks Cooper plays on new employees is asking for them to go and search around for a "wall stretcher". Once, he's stunned to find one of the newbies doesn't move an inch. She just says she 'wasn't born yesterday'. He notes that this employee has potential to go far. Cooper himself ends up on the receiving end of this during his stint in the shoe department: when Alan asks Cooper to get the Brannock device, Cooper calls him out on sending him on a snipe hunt, only to find out it's a real thing (specifically, it's what stores use to measure a person's feet). Cooper is so embarrassed that he doesn't question it when Alan then tells him to go get the 'shoelace repair kit'.
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Snipe Hunt / int_541c3556	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_541c3556	comment	In Hearts of Ice, Cologne does this to herself. After being blackmailed by Nabiki into getting her sister out of the Kami Plane -where Cologne's magic had exiled Akane to- the old matriarch states she is going back to China to get an Amazon relic known as the Eye of Kami which will allow to overcome the blood spell. However, there is no such a relic. It was a ruse to buy time while the Kami Plane erased all memory of Akane Tendo.
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Snipe Hunt / int_5498bfdd	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_5498bfdd	comment	In Suburban Knights, The Nostalgia Critic prevents Ma-Ti from joining the quest with various snipe hunts. First, he tells Ma-Ti to stay back and guard the children and elderly... that don't exist (that's what makes the task so difficult). Then, when Nostalgia Chick "loses her contact lens", Ma-Ti must stay behind and search for it. He eventually finds someone's contact lens (exactly whose it is isn't made clear), but still can't join the group because Mickey has erectile dysfunction, which can only be cured by goat porn, which Ma-Ti must go forth and find. This gets to be so blatant that the last request is simply for Ma-Ti to get the Critic some coffee. After Ma-Ti sacrifices himself at the end of the quest, the Critic finds the coffee set on the hall table at his place.
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Snipe Hunt / int_56cb92c3	comment	A variation in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), where the quest is not impossible, but still bogus: Rocket Raccoon tells Starlord that his plan to escape prison involves some inmate's prosthetic leg. When Starlord returns with said leg (having spent a significant amount of money on it), Rocket tells him he was just kidding.
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Snipe Hunt / int_5755b96a	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick has the main characters sent on a wild goose chase to find some "Star metal" to repair Roy's sword (which was shattered in the previous arc). There actually was some where they were headed at some point in time; however, the Linear Guild assumed that it would have been claimed by other adventurers by now, not to mention it wasn't even needed to repair the sword. They do find it, though; however, it turns out to be a chunk about the size of a pebble—but later, it turns out that that chunk is actually enough to reforge Roy's sword with a +5 bonus and undead slaying abilities. Durkon has technically been in a Snipe Hunt since before the start of the comic: a prophecy foretold that Durkon's return to his home would cause the destruction of the dwarven homelands. Therefore, his superiors sent an unknowing Durkon to the human lands and told him not to return until they called him back. Another Oracle foretold that Durkon eventually WILL return...posthumously. Now that Durkon has become a vampire...
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Snipe Hunt / int_57a3683f	comment	Not Always Right: This anecdote involves someone being sent to find a 120-volt flux capacitor. Not Always Working has an example of a snipe hunt that went wrong, since the "snipe" turned out to be a very real (and very expensive) specialty item which the manager pulling the prank might have plausibly wanted. And another instance of this kind of prank backfiring. In this case, the "victim" realized almost immediately that he was being set up and, instead of playing along by looking for the snipe, just went home to slack off until his prankster boss actually needed him back. Another flux capacitor example. In this case, the pranksters were fascinated to hear their co-worker outright lying to a supposed customer, rather than admit he didn't know what one was.
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Snipe Hunt / int_59c939c6	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_59c939c6	comment	In Nodwick, adventurers distract their naive cleric when they're about to abuse the henchman...by using him as an obvious distraction.
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Snipe Hunt / int_5cb7cb01	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_5cb7cb01	comment	"The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs": When the king asks where he found enough gold coins to fill several saddlebags, the main character tricks him into believing the shores beyond the river bordering the Devil's kingdom are covered with gold instead of sand. The king leaves to satisfy his greed, and never returns.
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Snipe Hunt / int_5fa3003c	comment	Lola and Mr. Wrinkles: Mr. Wrinkles gets Lola to stop eating his food by happening to mention his spaceship in the backyard. She runs outside to look for it, leaving the satisfied cat sitting by the dish.
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Snipe Hunt / int_6096b44e	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_6096b44e	comment	GTO: The Early Years: Eikichi ditches his annoying "elite guard" of first-year delinquents by ordering them to make it so he won't have to take extra classes to graduate. They decide the best course of action is to burn all the report cards, which nearly burns down the school.
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Snipe Hunt / int_60f02ddb	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_60f02ddb	comment	In the American Dad! episode "American Dad Graffito", when Stan plans to reinvigorate interest in The '50s to prevent his favorite '50s-themed diner from closing, he tries to get Klaus out of the way by asking him to retrieve a bronze statue of the Fonz. At the episode's climax, Klaus is shown to have succeeded.
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Snipe Hunt / int_63053ca	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_63053ca	comment	In TwoKinds, exiled Basitins are allowed to return to the Basidian Islands on the condition that they complete an "impossible" task. Keith, for example, had to return with Trace, the ruler of the Humans at the time. If that doesn't sound too bad, we should probably mention that Trace was one of the most powerful Mages in the setting... and a tyrant with an ax to grind against anyone non-human. Fortunately for Keith, a fight with a goddesses before the start of the story had hit the "Reset" button in Trace's memory, and the now Nice Guy Trace saw no reason not to let Keith take him to Basitin.
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Snipe Hunt / int_67ce5a04	comment	Fire Emblem Fates: Prince Leo reveals to his retainer, Odin, that the first few missions he sent him on were essentially requests for things made up on the spot (e.g. "find a lodestone imbued with the essence of darkness") or thought to be impossible ("defeat the spirits that slept in the Woods of the Forlorn"). Despite this, Odin was actually able to accomplish all of Leo's bogus demands.
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Snipe Hunt / int_6a0fbfc2	comment	Chronicle of the Annoying Quest actually began as a Snipe Hunt. Ellers wanted to drink with his fellow paladins (and pick up chicks), but they told him Only the Worthy May Pass and sent him to kill a Black Dragon, knowing it would likely just kill him.
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Snipe Hunt / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: A sourcebook called Relics mentions a very stupid ogre king who was told by a mage he will gain respect if he'll slay a dreaded weresnipe living in a nearby cave. The king was lucky enough to stumble upon an artifact which enhanced his mind. Mentioned in one of the sample dragon entries from the Draconomicom—one particular green dragon gets his kicks by capturing adventuring parties and holding their equipment hostage until they bring him back some rare or hard-to-acquire item. Whenever they come back, they find that the chimera pelt or whatever is the wrong size or wrong color and get sent out again. The game ends either when the adventurers wise up, decide it's better to just let the dragon keep the equipment than keep getting put on wild goose chases, and don't return; or when the dragon grows bored and just eats them.
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Snipe Hunt / int_6bd59db7	comment	Blue Collar TV: In one episode, an attractive model tells Jeff Foxworthy she's been invited on a snipe hunt, and that she hopes she can catch one. He's about to warn her about the ruse when she reveals they told her she needs to wear a bikini, after which he responds "y'know, those snipe are good eating, I think I'll join you".
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Snipe Hunt / int_6c1d09b1	comment	Fallout: The Glow Quest is little more than an extended Snipe Hunt—one that's expected to kill the questant, no less. Like many examples, the place is filled with great loot (and good info on the backstory) if you buff your radiation resist beforehand.
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Snipe Hunt / int_6d6ccc60	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_6d6ccc60	comment	Moongobble and Me: In book 1, Fazwad the Mighty assigns Moongobble the first of three Mighty Tasks, to retrieve the Golden Acorns of Alcoona... which Fazward had personally retrieved from the Dragon of Doom seven years before. Since Moongobble befriended the dragon and learned where the Acorns were though, it counts as successfully completing the Task. In book 5, the Old Woman of the Forest of Night sends the group to retrieve some toad spit from the Temple of Toadliness. It's really just an effort to get them all killed, because she knows the toads there are angry at her and will kill anyone she sends to them; fortunately for Moongobble and his friends, they escape and, in the end, help break her curse anyway.
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Snipe Hunt / int_72262aee	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_72262aee	comment	In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zuko's task of finding the Avatar, who had been thought dead for a century, was essentially just this. All this is courtesy of his Evil Overlord father Ozai, who personally scarred and banished his own son. Ozai never believed the Avatar was dead or has disappeared from existence—he was that hard to find; if he, his father and grandfather tried and failed, what chance would his own son have? To drive the point home, Zhao, acting with the full authority of the Fire Nation, moves to keep Zuko from continuing his hunt when it becomes clear that the Avatar actually has returned.
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Snipe Hunt / int_722ce24d	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_722ce24d	comment	The Inbetweeners: The mechanics at Will's work experience try to send him on one. He sees through it and calls them out on it, which just reinforces their opinion that he's an annoying smart-ass.
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Snipe Hunt / int_727259ac	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_727259ac	comment	Stimpy of The Ren & Stimpy Show is sent on a snipe hunt in the woods to prove his worth after the duo joins a Girl Scouts offshoot. When a skeptical Ren opens Stimpy's bag, he gets mauled by the big, hairy, bug-eyed monster that emerges.
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Snipe Hunt / int_74a4c713	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_74a4c713	comment	The 2018 Summer Adventure event for Kingdom Hearts χ opens with the silver-haired red-bandana wearing wielder assigning the pink frog-headed wielder, the moogle-head wielder and your player character to find and defeat a Hermit Pretender heartless, which the moogle-head wielder says is "impossible to find." Given that you never do find one, it is apparently either especially rare or non-existent. Later your party discovers that keyblade wielders have been disappearing all around Daybreak Town and begins investigating this. After the silver-haired wielder finds out, she reveals that she assigned you a fake mission specifically to try to prevent you from stumbling onto this, because those who have been investigating it have been disappearing as well, and she didn't want this to happen to you. Possibly subverted though at the end of the event when she tells you that even though the mission was a diversion, it was nevertheless also still homework and that you're not getting your ice cream until you complete it.
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Snipe Hunt / int_74fb542e	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_74fb542e	comment	That Mitchell and Webb Sound: One sketch has the jerkass employees of Brown's Orthapaedic Supplies sending the work experience kid off on one of these... through the Stargate they've got in the supply cupboard. Their boss says that while it is mildly funny, no-one's seen or heard from the kid in three days. We never do learn what happened to him.
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Snipe Hunt / int_7832b74c	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_7832b74c	comment	In Steven Universe, the Ruby squad comes to Earth searching for Jasper. By the time they get there, Jasper is not exactly in a state where Steven wants her to be found, so he tells them that Jasper went to Neptune. As these Rubies are Super Gullible, they immediately head off to Neptune. However, it only works temporarily: they return later in the season, as they somehow conduct what they feel to be a thorough search of not only Neptune but every planet in the solar system save Earth, without finding Jasper.
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Snipe Hunt / int_7aaf9e41	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: A Golden Age issue has Robin going undercover as a gofer with a construction crew stringing power cables. He is subjected to the traditional hazing by being to sent to fetch a 'brass magnet' and 'light bulb oil'.
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Snipe Hunt / int_7c038c18	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: In the episode "Undercover Carl", Monogram sends Perry on a mission to find a goose that has gone missing for years, after mistakenly thinking Perry's owners were in league with Doofenshmirtz. At the end of the episode, Perry actually finds the goose (who was on vacation). In "Great Balls of Water", Candace is briefly shown on an actual snipe hunt during her "Extraordinary" musical number.
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Snipe Hunt / int_7d8c61a2	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_7d8c61a2	comment	Happens twice to the Bounty Hunter in Star Wars: The Old Republic during their class storyline. After becoming a great hunt champion the others haze them by sending them after Jicoln Cadera and Reneget Vause, who were considered uncatchable. Subverted when the player character catches them both.
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Snipe Hunt / int_7ddbc888	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_7ddbc888	comment	Eureka Seven: The crew of the Gekko State did this to Renton in the episode "Absolute Defeat". Renton was sent to deliver a package of "highly-explosive" ramen noodles in a stupid costume and told that his contact would be a man bearing a tattoo of a "legendary and mythical beast". Moondoggie (the previous New Meat of the Gekko State) gets sent out to videotape Renton making a fool of himself, but suspects that he's actually on a meta-snipe hunt when Renton takes the job unnaturally seriously. When Moondoggie finally snaps and starts beating Renton up, the boy was saved by a man with a tattoo of Holland on his back; Renton immediately decides that he's found his contact. Hilarity Ensues — on both sides of the screen. The guys back on the Gekko watching it all were laughing their asses off, almost to the point of literally rolling on the floor.
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Snipe Hunt / int_7e0c9e18	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_7e0c9e18	comment	In Superman/Supergirl: Maelstrom, Darkseid orders the titular villain to go and behead Superman, so he has an excuse to banish her from Apokolips forever when she inevitably fails.
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Snipe Hunt / int_7f8cd665	comment	In The Internship, because the protagonists were annoying them, the younger Google candidates send them to find Professor Charles Xavier, at Stanford. Unfortunately, since the candidates based their description of him off the actual fictional character, when they find a professor who looks a little like Charles Xavier, he assumes they're making fun of him, and promptly hits them in the nards.
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Snipe Hunt / int_820330df	comment	In My Sister Eileen and its musical adaptation Wonderful Town, Chic Clark, Eileen's reporter friend, tells her that the city editor of his paper may have a job lined up for her sister Ruth, who is desperately hunting for a writing job. When Ruth gets the call and hears that the city editor wants her to cover a boatload of coffee millionaires from Brazil who have just landed on a Brooklyn pier, she rushes off in great excitement after a few hurried preparations. Soon after, Chic pays an unexpected visit to Eileen, but she remains concerned about her sister and tells him she has to change for a dinner date she has lined up. He objects: "Excuse ya? After I went and fixed it to get ya alone without that eagle-eyed sister of yours around!" Eileen then realizes that Chic, not his editor, called Ruth to lead her on a wild-goose chase and turns on him angrily. As it turns out, Ruth does find a bunch of Brazilian admirals in Brooklyn, but they speak no English and follow her all the way back to her apartment.
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Snipe Hunt / int_82439e64	comment	The Office (US): When the whole group is on an evening cruise, the captain assigns Dwight the task of piloting the ship, which Dwight eagerly accepts. Turns out Dwight is put in front of a prop steering wheel to get him out of the Captain's hair. Even Michael can tell it's fake.
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Snipe Hunt / int_85555ea3	comment	Day of the Tentacle featured a left-handed hammer, needed to solve a problem involving mirror image twins.
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Snipe Hunt / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: Agatha is sent on one. She actually manages to get the Silverodeon working again, though they'd given her the task just to keep her busy and weren't expecting her to succeed. At one point, an airship crewman gets told that he's now working for the heir to his boss; his reaction is to ask one of the others if he was just "sent out for a crate of balloon juice." Agatha herself sent Aedith to find a "hinge clacker" to keep her little clanks a secret. She succeeds in retrieving one, and Agatha admits she didn't need it after all. When Agatha arrives at Castle Heterodyne, she isn't sent on a snipe hunt—but Wilhelm tells her that "people will have you fetching devil dog chow and left-handed trilobite tighteners soon enough".
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Snipe Hunt / int_87db0fa	comment	In a later chapter of Invader Zim: The Series, Sue sends Zoburg out to hunt snipe so that she can get some time alone with Spork.
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Snipe Hunt / int_8b419fa5	comment	The "hatchet joke" in Lackadaisy. The Savoys make Mordecai Heller chop some...compromising evidence up with a hatchet. He is not happy when they tell him it was a joke. Boss Asa Sweet later asks him if the rather OCD Mordecai put the pieces in alphabetical order. After a moment of silence, Mordecai snarks, "A is for amygdala, Mr. Sweet".
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Snipe Hunt / int_8b657859	comment	Invoked in America (The Book), in which a new hire at the EPA is told to save the North American Gutter Snipe.
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Snipe Hunt / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS: The Victim of the Week in "16 Years" is found by two kids brought onto a snipe hunt by their fathers. Had they not found the body, it seems this prank would've later crossed over with the old "burning bag of poop" gag.
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Snipe Hunt / int_8d84363c	comment	Rome: The first episode had Vorenus and Pullo on a mission to search for the missing Caesar's eagle that could have been anywhere at that point. In reality, Caesar himself was pretty much banking on the eagle being stolen and missing and the mission existed only because it would be strange if nothing was done about the missing eagle. Vorenus decided to bring Pullo with him, knowing that they will fail and be disgraced since Pullo is already disgraced.
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Snipe Hunt / int_8dba224e	comment	In The Cleveland Show, Robert and Freight Train send Cleveland on one of these. Cleveland catches on when he realizes that he's literally chasing wild geese.
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Snipe Hunt / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue: In episode 3, the Red team send their rookie Pvt. Donut to go fetch some elbow grease and some headlight fluid from "the store". He returns with the Blue flag, thereby starting the plot proper. Made even funnier by the fact that he instantly caught on that they were sending him on a Snipe Hunt with the elbow grease. He is completely fooled by headlight fluid, though. And how did Donut even get the Blue Flag? Church and Tucker told their own rookie, Caboose, to watch their base's flag so they wouldn't have to talk to him. They justified their orders by claiming that a general might stop by for an inspection, with the vague description that the general's armor would be different from theirs. So, when Donut wanders into Blue Base thinking it's the alleged store he was sent to, Caboose happily gives him the flag, thinking that the general had arrived. When Gavin accidentally mentioned headlight fluid in a podcast (when meaning to say windshield-wiper fluid), it instantly became a case of Never Live It Down.
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Snipe Hunt / int_9096e12c	comment	CarnivÃ le: In an early episode, Ben gets sent off to "clear out the baggage trailer" on his first day of work as a roustabout; naturally, there's no such thing. He finds it anyway. (It's that kind of show.)
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Snipe Hunt / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible In "The Twin Factor", Drakken puts a Mind-Control Device on Shego and amuses himself by telling her to go find a dodo bird. This almost bites him in the butt when he doesn't notice Kim approaching his supervillain lair until she's almost there: In another episode, Warmonga is tricked into going away when one of the Tweebs, wearing a blue mascot outfit, convinces her that he (not Drakken) is the real "Great Blue" and that she should meet him on Pluto.
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Snipe Hunt / int_90feccf9	comment	In Latchkey Kingdom the whole kingdom of Hilla goes on a snipe hunt once a year. The fact that nobody has actually caught one (despite all the booze consumed) has yet to discourage them.
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Snipe Hunt / int_92916f5a	comment	The first Shrek movie contains an example where Donkey is sent off to find a blue flower with red thorns to keep him from distracting Fiona and Shrek while they dealt with the arrow in Shrek's behind. Not only does he find the flower, he wanders through a whole copse of them, complaining that his task would be infinitely easier if he wasn't colorblind, and he only brings back the right flower because he grabs one - any one - in a panic when he hears Shrek yell. The other characters don't even react, making it a relatively subtle sight gag.
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Snipe Hunt / int_932dba19	comment	In The Stalking Zuko Series, Toph, fed up with Haru pestering her to teach him metalbending, sends him to find metal around the temple, confident that he'll be hard-pressed to find it and will be occupied for a long time. Haru comes back with the spoons from the kitchen.
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Snipe Hunt / int_93e3f14e	comment	In Disney's Tarzan Terk sends Tarzan off to find a hair...of an elephant to get rid of him for some time. He succeeds— although in the process, he causes a stampede, and the panicking elephants almost crush a baby gorilla.
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Snipe Hunt / int_94aa987d	comment	Sunless Sea: The Gant Pole is a half-mythical place supposedly in the Unterzee, where old and wounded beasts supposedly go to die, and, according to the various snipe hunts captains set up for their newest recruits, home to a distressingly large amount of lost pocket watches. As the Zubmariner expansion reveals, the place exists, and everything said about it is true aside from the part about the pocket watches. Bringing in a port report about it is bound to get you laughed at, though at least they pay well for the laughs.
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Snipe Hunt / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000: In Fire Maidens of Outer Space, Joel and the robots imply that the monster wandering the woods was sent on a Snipe Hunt by his friends.
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Snipe Hunt / int_988629da	comment	In the Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan novelization, a trainee engineer calls Admiral Kirk out on his condescending behavior by offering him a 'left-handed spanner'.
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Snipe Hunt / int_9992c8b0	comment	In one Dennis the Menace (US) comic, Dennis's dad tells him how to catch a snipe as a joke. Somehow his instruction actually work, except the snipe Dennis brings back turns out to be a skunk, which sprays the unlucky dad.
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Snipe Hunt / int_999855bb	comment	Heroes of Might and Magic 4 has a passing mention of a coming of age ritual called "Snark Hunting", which basically comes down to this. It's then subverted when it turns out the heroes' quest was not one of these.
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Snipe Hunt / int_99c27703	comment	In an episode of Zigby (a preschool-age series broadcast in Canada and Australia, but also available on DVD, about a zebra), Zigby stages a scavenger hunt to help people clean up. A group of monkeys, who are keen on ducking work, decide to play a trick by pretending to be Zigby and telling a couple of Zigby's friends to go find a wild goose. Technically, that makes it a wild goose chase, but essentially, it's a snipe hunt.
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Snipe Hunt / int_9b530c26	comment	An Archie Comics story has Archie sending a Central City youth on a Snipe Hunt for a film supposedly showing the Riverside star player, Moose Mason, meeting with an underworld figure. The idea being to discredit Moose and have him thrown off the football (USA Gridiron) team so Central City has a better chance of winning against Riverside. When the youth finally shows the film to the Riverside coach (having not viewed it himself previously), it shows Moose delivering a lunch box to his father... who is a sewer engineer.
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Snipe Hunt / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Played with in A Song of Ice and Fire. Robert Baratheon sent his hapless squires off to Ser Aron Santagar for a (non-existent) "breastplate stretcher" when he discovered he'd gotten too fat to fit in his old armor. They hesitate, probably knowing there is no such thing, before scampering off at his insistent roaring. Robert laughs and hopes Ser Santagar will send them on to someone else. "We could keep them going all day."
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Snipe Hunt / int_9e202b7b	comment	In Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, Shiba sends Takeda on several of these before he'll take him on as a student. Takeda somehow manages to pull it off. Shiba takes this as a sign that fate wants him to train Takeda, and takes him on as a disciple.
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Snipe Hunt / int_a17bbe03	comment	The Last Airbender: Zuko's search for the Avatar is shown to be this, even more so in Zuko's Story than in canon. When Zuko was banished from the palace, he was left to live on the street, Ozai not even bothering to give him anything to help him, as opposed to canon, where he at least gave him a small ship and crew. Here, Zuko has to resort to trying to recruit a crew in bars, which fails, with one bar patron outright telling Zuko his quest to get the Avatar was just a way for his father to get rid of him. Zuko had to ask Azula to ask Ozai to give him a ship, but even then Ozai only gives Zuko the ship to get rid of Iroh. Upon arriving at the docks of a nondescript town celebrating the Fire Days festival, Commander Kanku refuses to produce any maps or intel on the surrounding region for the banished prince in fear of losing the Fire Lord's good favor. Basically, everyone can see that Zuko's quest for the Avatar for what it is except Zuko, because of his misplaced love and loyalty to his father and hope that capturing the Avatar can end his banishment.
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Snipe Hunt / int_a3a69c01	comment	Taylor Hebert, Medhall Intern: The senior janitorial staff mess with Greg by sending him for things like left-hand grease, elbow grease, striped spray paint, and a short weight. On Taylor's advice, when they try to do it the next day, Greg asks if he should get a DVD rewinder too, something that earns a laugh and stops the hazing.
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Snipe Hunt / int_a4db7d1	comment	Joe Pickett In Stone Cold, Game Warden Joe Pickett is in a neighboring district and encounters two hunters who he's been told are recurrent poachers, and when he asks what they've been hunting they answer "snipes" just to be snide. Joe comments that he was once sent on a snipe hunt by some older boys who really just left him out in the woods while they got beers in order to let the guys know that he won't put up with their bullshit as the usual game warden does.
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Snipe Hunt / int_a52d5113	comment	In "The Three Little Men in the Wood", the stepmother orders the main character to go out in the woods -in the dead of winter- and to not return without a basket of strawberries. Although her stepdaughter protests that there are no strawberries to be found in winter, the woman -who hopes the poor girl will freeze to death- ignores her cries and shoves her out of the door.
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Snipe Hunt / int_a55608da	comment	The Marvellous Land of Snergs: Mother Meldrum gets rid of Gorbo by sending him to gather mandragoras on the other side of the wood; meanwhile, she calls the ogre Golithos and offers to hand over the kids -whom Gorbo was protecting- to him in exchange for his help.
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Snipe Hunt / int_a7c9f8e9	comment	A Legend of the Five Rings supplement had a story about a Lion husband and Scorpion wife. The wife sends him on a Snipe Hunt for a left-handed widdershin oatmeal stick, which he dutifully goes looking for, day after day. On the day she invites over the ex she would have preferred to marry, but her husband barred from the house, an unscrupulous merchant sells him a left-handed widdershin oatmeal stick at a ridiculous price and he triumphantly returns...to find the guy who was barred from his house sitting in the living room. Hilarity and romance ensued.
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Snipe Hunt / int_a8729c90	comment	On The Fairly OddParents!, Timmy sends Wanda away so Cosmo can prepare for their anniversary. The task in question? Getting a cat trained.
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Snipe Hunt / int_ac4bd9bd	comment	Into the Looking Glass: In Vorpal Blade, an arrogant Marine non-com is sent looking for "ID Ten T" decontamination fluid (ID10T). However, it's legit-it's a flask of radioactive, corrosive liquid used to decontaminate radioactive spills through heterodyne interference. However, since it becomes safe enough to drink (and tastes delicious) once used, you look like an idiot for being so careful with it (but, then again, there's a similar prank detailed under the Real Life tab that involves giving a guy a glass of juice and telling him it's battery acid so everyone can see the horrified look on his face when the recipient drinks it in front of him).
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Snipe Hunt / int_acb92fd0	comment	Father Ted: In "Escape From Victory", Ted gives Dougal the task of guarding the corner flags from theft during a football game. Predictably, he struggles with this. Played with later, when Father Cyril does try to take one of the corner flags.
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Snipe Hunt / int_b0ff5776	comment	Young Sheldon: In "A Brisket, Voodoo, and Cannonball Run", Connie gives George what she says is her brisket recipe, but is really a fake that requires him to go to New Orleans for coffee and spices (including angelica under the name of "Holy Ghost Root" that he buys from a voodoo priestess), and cooking the whole thing continuously for fourteen hours. One taste, and he realizes he's been had. (Oh, and the coffee was for her, not the brisket.) In "Spock, Kirk, and Testicular Hernia", Sheldon gets Missy to leave so he could watch TV by telling her that there is buried treasure in Connie's backyard. In "A Lock-In, a Weather Girl and a Disgusting Habit", to get rid of Sheldon, Missy has him play Sardines, a hide-and-seek game where only one hides and the others look for him. Except that Missy has no intention of finding Sheldon. Even as an adult, Sheldon hasn't caught on and just thinks he's really good at Sardines.
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Snipe Hunt / int_b12e31c6	comment	Star Trek: Federation: Apparently while Picard was running around with Vash in "Captain's Holiday", Riker sent Data on one. Geordi also pulled one on Wesley Crusher.
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Snipe Hunt / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Robert Baratheon is too fat for his armor, so he sends Lancel Lannister to find the breastplate stretcher.
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Snipe Hunt / int_b3414986	comment	Lost Tapes: The main plot of "Southern Sasquatch" begins when two men send their future brother-in-law on a snipe hunt during a hunting trip. Everything just goes From Bad to Worse when the Fouke Monster shows up.
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Snipe Hunt / int_b40513b1	comment	Foxtrot: In an early strip, Peter asks Jason if he wants to go on a snipe hunt. Jason refuses and says only an idiot wouldn't know what a snipe hunt is. Cut to them asking their dad if he wants to go on a snipe hunt. Another strip had Peter and Paige again asking Jason if he wants to go on a snipe hunt.
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Snipe Hunt / int_b4963c9f	comment	Good Eats: Alton sends his sister Marsha out to buy a "left-handed sandwich press" to distract her while he cooks with his nephew, revealing later that he already has a(n ambidextrous) press and was just trying to get her out of the way. At the end of the episode she returns, and whatever she bought is apparently so large it needs all three of them to move into the house.
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Snipe Hunt / int_b4fe32c9	comment	In the first episode of Invader Zim, the Tallest assign Zim to a "mystery planet" on the edge of known space. In truth, they didn't even know if there was a planet out there (they pointed to a post-it note on the edge of their map that reads "Planet?"); they just wanted to get rid of him. Unfortunately for them, Zim stumbled upon Earth and continues to call them up with annoying reports about his "mission".
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Snipe Hunt / int_b5346b9f	comment	White Sheep (RWBY): Hazel Rainart takes up a drunken bet to find a Grimm Unicorn for his nieces, thus explaining why he isn't present for much of the story. This becomes a Brick Joke when, in the final chapter, he somehow managed to find one.
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Snipe Hunt / int_b5942ee6	comment	In one episode of Timon & Pumbaa, a pair of cheetahs trick the hyena trio on a literal "wild goose chase" so they won't get in the way of the cheetahs' hunting. The hyenas figure everything out at the end and are all set to eat the cheetahs — now rotund and helpless after all of their feasting — when suddenly a real wild goose appears asking for directions. Cue everyone, hyenas and cheetahs alike, chasing after the bird.
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Snipe Hunt / int_b5a2b326	comment	In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Mages Guild ArchmageTrebonius will give you a task of solving the mystery of the disappearance of the Dwemer if you ask him for work after you've been accepted into the Mage Guild. This is a mystery roughly 4000 years in the making and no one, not even the local deities, have any idea what happened to them. By finding the right items and talking to the right people, including the last living Dwemer, you come up with a very plausible theory.
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Snipe Hunt / int_b712435c	comment	Leverage pulled a con based on this in "The Hot Potato Job". The idea was to fake a mole in a high-security company in order to trigger a lockdown. While Sophie and Eliot focused on hunting down the fake mole and distracting company heads, Parker would steal the potato while the security is lax. Turn out, there was a mole after all - the janitor has been stealing money for years and has an account in the Cayman Islands. Once they found him out, Sophie had to convince the head of security that there was another mole who was higher up and protecting the janitor.
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Snipe Hunt / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants The pilot has Mr. Krabs and Squidward send SpongeBob on a fool's errand for "a hydrodynamic spatula with port and starboard attachments and turbo drive" to keep him from getting a job as fry cook at the Krusty Krab. Astoundingly enough, he shows up with one near the end of the episode. ("Can you believe they only had one in stock?") Lucky for Mr. Krabs and Squidward too, since SpongeBob uses it to save them from a pack of unruly anchovy customers. In "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost" when Squidward pretends to be a ghost and orders SpongeBob and Patrick around: In "Scavenger Pants", Squidward sends SpongeBob and Patrick on several errands of this nature to keep them busy so he has some alone time. When they succeed at every last one, he sends them on a seemingly impossible quest to find his long-lost brother, who doesn't exist, and they still technically succeed at that by becoming his adoptive brothers. In the app SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off, in Chapter 1, Squidward tries to get SpongeBob and Patrick to leave him alone by participating in a seemingly nonexistent jellyfishing contest; however, only Patrick can do it because SpongeBob has to work the pancake stand. As it turns out, there really was a jellyfishing contest, and Patrick shows the trophy he won to prove it.
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Snipe Hunt / int_bcadd7cb	comment	In the Warhammer 40,000 novel Innocence Proves Nothing, an elderly Inquisition librarian assumes a character has been sent on a snipe hunt when she asks for information on Demonic Possession of techpriests, something that was considered completely unprecedented when it occurred in the previous novel. It wasn't a Daemon, but another type of Warp entity.
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Snipe Hunt / int_be89642f	comment	In Catherine, Called Birdy, Catherine celebrates April Fools by asking three of the household servants to bring her pigeon's milk, striped paint, and hens' teeth. To her disappointment, the first two ignore her and the third reminds her that she tries the same trick every year and they haven't fallen for it yet. note Though, in fact, pigeon's milk does exist. It is a high-fat, high-protein secretion from the crop lining on which newly-hatched chicks are fed. It looks somewhat like pale yellow cottage cheese.
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Snipe Hunt / int_c4cacae2	comment	In Nip and Tuck, Tagger Beaver gets rid of the protesters by sending them off to interfere with the snipe hunt.
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Snipe Hunt / int_c5bf9810	comment	Legacy of the Aldenata: Inverted. When Thomas Sunday is sent to look for a tube of "Nannite Undercoating" as part of a newbie initiation routine, he returns with an entire case of KY Jelly. Having joined the 555th from another unit, he was already familiar with newbie initiations, so he turned the tables on his would-be tormentor.
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Snipe Hunt / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels: In "Fighter Flight", because Ezra and Zeb have been fighting, Hera sends them on a supply run to fetch needed items and a meiloorun fruit—a real item, but impossible to find on Lothal. Things get somewhat out of control after they try to steal some from the Empire, and accidentally end up stealing a TIE fighter instead. Ironically they lose the other supplies they'd been sent to get, but do return with a single meiloorun fruit.
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Snipe Hunt / int_c73f511c	comment	Boardwalk Empire: Eli Thompson tries to send his son to the neighbor on a snipe hunt while he deals with a corrupt ward boss trying to shake him down, but the neighbor apparently didn't understand. The son returns right back home saying the neighbor had never heard of the item.
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Snipe Hunt / int_c95e9d87	comment	Up features a literal example. Carl sends Russell away on one to get him to stop annoying him. Eventually, he actually finds one, although it's a bit bigger than he expected. Alpha sent Dug away on a literal Snipe Hunt as well, due to the fact that Dug's foolishness was viewed a burden on the pack. True to this trope, he finds the bird. The bird becomes a principal character of the film! What makes it even funnier is that, Carl truly believed that it was impossible because he didn't know that there is such a bird as a snipe, and also that the villain has been searching for this same bird for the past century.
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Snipe Hunt / int_c9fecd11	comment	The Bill: The repercussions of Snipe Hunts are seen when, to catch a serial graffiti artist, someone really does have to keep a wall under surveillance. Assuming it to be a joke, the policeman watching the wall wanders off.
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Snipe Hunt / int_ca08598f	comment	The Wire: The detectives at Homicide make the newbie call the zoo about a "Methane Probe for Mr. Lyon".
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Snipe Hunt / int_cb32d0d5	comment	Disenchantment: In episode 7, Bean sends the knights of Dreamland off to find Elfo's Girlfriend in Canada. The knights all know it's a Snipe Hunt, but figure they have to go anyway. Then they actually find someone matching Elfo's description.
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Snipe Hunt / int_ccc80720	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_ccc80720	comment	My Life as a Teenage Robot: In the episode, "Teen Idol," Jenny/XJ-9 accidentally crash-lands on an alien planet, which causes the inhabitants to treat her as a "Comet Goddess." They then follow her back to her school on Earth, much to her annoyance, but are willing to do anything she says. Jenny then asks them to find a grain of sand shaped exactly like (the head of) Abraham Lincoln. Not only do they accomplish said task, but they also manage to bring in an entire gymnasium's worth of "Lincoln sand."
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Snipe Hunt / int_ce258cf2	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_ce258cf2	comment	Yes, Dear: In "Won't Ask, Won't Tell", Christine finds out that Jimmy is deliberately ignoring her when he talks to Greg over the phone. Christine then teams up with Kim, tricking their husbands into picking up a non-existent lamp. When Greg and Jimmy find out that they were tricked into a wild goose chase, they go back home and leave their wives a package... that had an actual wild goose.
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Snipe Hunt / int_d050b6dc	comment	In Shadow of the Templar, Team Templar sends Dave on one of these when he's first assigned to the team: find a way to break into Rich's computers. Although they eventually accept him as one of their own, they forget to tell him to stop. And are therefore doubly shocked when he announces that he's succeeded.
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Snipe Hunt / int_d2d6de50	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_d2d6de50	comment	In Ocean's Eleven, Rusty sends a detective out to "Go find Griggs", as a distraction while he's recruiting Basher in the guise of an FBI agent. This is also an example of the Bavarian Fire Drill, as Rusty brazenly walks into the police crime scene and walks off with their bombing suspect.
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Snipe Hunt / int_d6778009	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_d6778009	comment	In Cabin Pressure, Arthur the steward is sent up onto the roof of the (stationary) plane to "adjust the aerial" so that the First Officer can listen to the Six Nations rugby final on the radio. In reality, he's getting him out of the way so he can steal a passenger's expensive whisky, while Arthur spends a rather long time getting increasingly mystified that he can't even find the aerial...
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Snipe Hunt / int_d69208d2	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_d69208d2	comment	In the "Operation: F.U.G.I.T.I.V.E." episode of Codename: Kids Next Door, Numbuhs 1, 2, and 4 are ordered by Numbuh 86 to guard a dandelion in the DCFDTL's garden from any adult's attacks to prevent them from following her and Numbuhs 3 and 5, since she thinks the boys will get in the way. When the boys decide to go after the fugitive to prove her wrong, Numbuh 4 places the flower in a pot and takes it with him. In "Operation F.A.S.T.F.O.O.D.", Numbuh 3 wants to lead a mission for her birthday. Because Numbuh 3 is The Ditz and a Cloudcuckoolander, Numbuh 1 tasks her with the duty of...getting a kids meal from a fast food place. Things get out of hand when they learn that the restaurant's proprietor is an old enemy of the KND and its most frequent customers are sharks.
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Snipe Hunt / int_d9c602eb	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_d9c602eb	comment	In an episode of South Park, Kyle wants to go to a rock concert. His parents agree to let him go only if he can accomplish a long list of tasks ending with "and bring democracy to Cuba". He actually manages to pull this off, only to be told he still can't go, as his parents admit they only made him the offer because they honestly didn't expect him to succeed.
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Snipe Hunt / int_db30cf92	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_db30cf92	comment	In the first Warrior Cats book, Graypaw hopes that Sandpaw and Dustpaw will be sent on one, commenting that he hopes their mentors will set them the task of hunting blue squirrels all day. Firepaw doesn't get the joke, confused because there are no blue squirrels.
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Snipe Hunt / int_df30373	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_df30373	comment	In the White Indian novel Renna, Renna's fiance is subjected to one...only for him to turn the tables on the pranksters instead.
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Snipe Hunt / int_e05a2543	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_e05a2543	comment	Hajime no Ippo: When Sendo arrives to spar with Miyata, Ippo isn't allowed to go watch because the gym had officially cut all ties to the Miyata family. In order to give Ippo an excuse to go watch the fight anyway, his gymmates send him to buy them some nonexistent products, including Pokarimin C drink, Tsuchinoko drink, Arowana Cola, Doctor Pappy, and next month's issue of a magazine. Surprisingly, he does find a Tsuchinoko drink.
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Snipe Hunt / int_e10d2c9	comment	Queens of Mewni: Venus, wanting to get rid of her Abhorrent Admirer Eric Flowers, tells him she will accept his love confession if he can bring her a Rainbow Flower, a rare flower only found in the most isolated dimension of the universe. She's stunned when, a little over 20 years later, he arrives at court and presents said flower to her. She's even more stunned when she used her wand-a Magic Mirror that shows a person's true intentions-and found he did it out of genuine love for her, and not because she was the queen or because she Really Gets Around. She would end up marrying him and remained loyal to him for their entire marriage.
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Snipe Hunt / int_e5c6748d	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_e5c6748d	comment	In The Three Stooges short "Tassels in the Air", the boys are painting a table. The owner offers his help, so Moe, to avoid dealing with a third idiot, sends him off to mix a batch of "spotted paint." He reappears a few times throughout the short, trying to mix the paint — at one point, he tries to create the spots by pouring the paint through a strainer.
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Snipe Hunt / int_e8091fc1	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_e8091fc1	comment	BattleTech: A random event aboard the Argo may see one of your MechWarriors asking Yang to install a "B A eleven hundred N" on their 'Mech, saying another MechWarrior told them it will greatly improve stability. Watch it play out, and Yang hands over the appropriate requisition form. The hapless MechWarrior gets halfway through the N in "BA1100N" before realizing they've been had.
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Snipe Hunt / int_ea4f62db	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: In "The Son Also Draws", when Peter — after Lois gambles away their car at a Native American casino — claims he has Native American blood, management has him go on a vision quest to prove it. Subverted, as Peter has a vision (or at least an insightful hallucination), even though his claim to Native American ancestry was a con and none of the actual Native Americans figured he would have one — and immediately start whining that they want a vision quest now. This actually plays off of the fact that vision quests and spirit guides are not exclusive to Native Americans. Tradition generally holds that everyone has a spirit guide and that anyone can go on a vision quest. In the episode where Chris becomes an artist in New York, his manager decides that his family is an embarrassment and decides to get rid of them for the afternoon so they don't cause trouble at a party. When Chris asks where they are, he tells him that they decided they would rather wander around Soho for hours looking for an address that doesn't exist. Chris chuckles and fondly replies "That's my dad!"
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Snipe Hunt / int_eb3f769d	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_eb3f769d	comment	Referenced in the Aubrey-Maturin series of books, specifically The Far Side of the World: after rescuing the crew of a whaler and de facto recruiting them (mainly because there's nowhere else to put them), the crew of the Surprise start having a bit of good-natured fun with the whalers, like having them ask the gunner for "a length of firing line". Works nicely because the civilian whalers and the naval crewmembers operate by two sets of discipline and two sets of jargon.
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Snipe Hunt / int_eba74bdd	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_eba74bdd	comment	Small Medium at Large: Raz's trip to Amity Park was meant to be one; the rest of the Psychonauts just wanted to distract him long enough for them to set up a surprise party. Unfortunately, none of them realized that the ghost sightings in Amity Park were the real deal...
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Snipe Hunt / int_ec25a849	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_ec25a849	comment	On Doug, the titular character's introduction to Bluffington involved being sent out to find the fictitious "Neematoad". He avoided any embarrassment when his dog, Porkchop, got covered in pond scum and the natives mistakenly believed he had succeeded in his impossible task. The nematode is actually quite real, but nothing like the creature described in the episode.
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Snipe Hunt / int_f75e3941	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_f75e3941	comment	The Masked Toon Singer: The Robot reveals that they were originally told that they were going to be going undercover on the show in hopes of catching a villain. However, they quickly realized they'd been lied to; the whole thing was a pretense to send them away for a while. Thankfully, they decided to just have fun with it.
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Snipe Hunt / int_fc2d494	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_fc2d494	comment	Not Always Working has an example of a snipe hunt that went wrong, since the "snipe" turned out to be a very real (and very expensive) specialty item which the manager pulling the prank might have plausibly wanted.
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Snipe Hunt / int_fdf7a632	type	Snipe Hunt
Snipe Hunt / int_fdf7a632	comment	Vampire: The Requiem has the Carnival bloodline in Bloodlines: The Legendary, who send prospective initiates to go find "the key to the midway" (an actual carny tradition). This is generally to keep the fledgling off their backs while they assess the fellow's worth. If the fledgling refuses, they can never join the bloodline... unless it's because they saw through the trick, in which case their odds of being allowed in shoot up. A similar trick is used to divert noisy vampires who might rat the Carnival out to the Prince.
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Love Esquire (Visual Novel) / int_4ce37dd1	type	Snipe Hunt
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