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Throw the Pin

142 statements
26 feature instances
13 referencing feature instances

Throw the Pin	type	FeatureClass
Throw the Pin	label	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin	page	ThrowThePin
Throw the Pin	comment	A character pulls the pin off a grenade and proceeds to throw ... the pin, and keeps the grenade in hand. Very common in cartoons. This one often comes about due to a misinterpretation of the instruction "pull the pin and throw it." Can be considered a form of Explosive Stupidity, though examples need not involve the grenade detonating (especially in works that know the pin is a safety and the plunger lights the fuse). Likely to result in Boom in the Hand. Related to Hoist by His Own Petard. See also Pineapple Surprise. One should be careful not to combine this with Pin-Pulling Teeth, otherwise they may end up with an Ash Face at best or Your Head A-Splode at worse.
Throw the Pin	fetched	2023-07-19T04:31:46Z
Throw the Pin	parsed	2023-07-19T04:31:46Z
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Throw the Pin	isPartOf	DBTropes
Throw the Pin / int_276c5428	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_276c5428	comment	There's a variation in the obscure British sketch show The Steam Video Company, where a soldier pulls the pin on a grenade then opens a can of Coke, throws the can and puts the grenade to his mouth.
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Throw the Pin / int_2abd5315	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_2abd5315	comment	Whose Line Is It Anyway?: This gif sums it nicely.
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Throw the Pin / int_307db9c7	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_307db9c7	comment	Bones (Pauly Shore) does this during grenade training in In The Army Now.
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Throw the Pin / int_331e009	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_331e009	comment	A variation: in Borderlands 2, an enemy Bandit might be confused by a Nomad's order to toss grenades. "Pull the pin, then throw, right?"
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Borderlands 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Throw the Pin / int_331e009
Throw the Pin / int_367f632a	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_367f632a	comment	Invoked in Dawn of War when Orks say "Hold on to the pin. Throw the other part."
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Throw the Pin / int_36ee2abe	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_36ee2abe	comment	Paranoia occasionally has grenades where the pin is the part that explodes. Hell, it probably has some where they both do, because that would make them, from The Computer's point of view, foolproof.
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Paranoia (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Throw the Pin / int_36ee2abe
Throw the Pin / int_426a7572	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_426a7572	comment	There's a short in Animaniacs where the Warners are being put through military training, and their sergeant is instructing them about grenades, with the above line. Wakko, naturally, throws the pin.
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Animaniacs	hasFeature	Throw the Pin / int_426a7572
Throw the Pin / int_49ad83ee	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft's Mists of Pandaria expansion, one bit of hozen wisdom contains something akin to this trope:
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Throw the Pin / int_4ada408f	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_4ada408f	comment	Alan Ford: One-shot villain Laszlo. In a last attempt to kill the hated nemesis Number One and his agents, he decides to use a grenade... but he accidentally holds the grenade in his mouth, removes and toss the pin and swallows the grenade with predictable results.
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Throw the Pin / int_4afc2089	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_4afc2089	comment	Daffy Duck does it while hunting Speedy Gonzales in Speedy Ghost To Town.
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Throw the Pin / int_4d30cecb	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_4d30cecb	comment	This occasionally happens to Wile E. Coyote in the Looney Tunes cartoons when he tries to use a grenade to blow up the Road Runner. One notable instance in "Zipping Along" combined this with another trope. Or sometimes, the pin explodes. In one, he correctly drops the grenade down a cliff, but it's bounced back at him. He then drops the pin... and another grenade is bounced back at him.
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Throw the Pin / int_5c897f4a	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: "Maxim 65: After the toss, be the one with the pin, not the one with the grenade". While it's mostly a lesson about initiative and striking first, it doubles as a handy warning not to do this.
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Throw the Pin / int_642de4e1	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_642de4e1	comment	In the "Bloodsuckers Are Not Sexy" arc of Fafnir The Dragon, one of the vampires is an expert with grenades... only he wound up throwing the pins at Vlad the Impaler. It ends exactly how you'd expect.
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Throw the Pin / int_692882cc	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_692882cc	comment	Subverted in Aaahh!!! Real Monsters. Simon the Monster Hunter throws a pin at Bigfoot, has a brief Oh, Crap! moment, and then throws the gas grenade just in time.
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Throw the Pin / int_8d814070	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_8d814070	comment	In one episode of MAS*H, Frank Burns, trying to prove himself "tough", pulls out the pin of a grenade with his teeth and spits it out. A moment later, he realizes, with no small amount of panic, what he just did. Thankfully, he fixes the problem before anyone is hurt.
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Throw the Pin / int_a54eef52	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_a54eef52	comment	Hetalia: Axis Powers features both the Italy brothers doing this in quick succession.
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Throw the Pin / int_b5a087d7	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_b5a087d7	comment	Seen from the outside in Robot Chicken; two GIs sitting in a foxhole with a bunker in the background. One is hit on the helmet with a pin, looks at it quizzically, someone in the bunker shouts "Oh, you idiot!", then the bunker explodes.
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Throw the Pin / int_b91fac15	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_b91fac15	comment	Played for drama in The Thin Red Line when Sergeant Keck grabs a grenade hanging on his webbing, only to realise to his horror that he's only holding the pin. The grenade explodes before he has a chance to correct his mistake.
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Throw the Pin / int_bcadd7cb	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Ork Stikkbommaz are noted for being above average intelligence for Orks, as they know that stikkbommz are the bit you throw, not the pin... Then again, the ork will probably throw the pin too for the hell of it.
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Throw the Pin / int_c00034c2	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_c00034c2	comment	Zero from Beetle Bailey once did this, giving Sergeant Snorkel a major Oh, Crap! moment.
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Throw the Pin / int_c9831b2f	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_c9831b2f	comment	In the music video for Twisted Sister's "I Wanna Rock", The Neidermeyer teacher tries to stop the band by throwing a grenade at them, but he ends up throwing the pin, and the grenade gets stuck on his hand, so he jumps into the school swimming pool to try defusing it, but ends up getting blasted upward, hitting his head on the diving board.
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Throw the Pin / int_d5f03f8d	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_d5f03f8d	comment	Worms 2 demonstrates this trope quite clearly in one of the intro videos, where a worm is very puzzled to be hit in the head by a pin, but shrugs and moves on, while the worm who threw it chuckles evilly to itself until it realises (a moment too late) that it's holding the grenade.
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Throw the Pin / int_d803ecde	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_d803ecde	comment	In the Ben 10: Omniverse episode "O Mother, Where Art Thou?", the Vreedle Brothers get blown up when Rhomboid does this, then they're later cloned with their memories intact.
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Throw the Pin / int_e278316b	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_e278316b	comment	There's a variation in The Prisoner (1967) episode "The Girl Who Was Death" which turned out to be a children's bedtime story where Number Six tampers with the bad guys' old-timey WWI-era grenades (the ones with a baton-like handle used to hurl a can-shaped charge) so the explosives ended up in the handles.
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Throw the Pin / int_f72ec4f4	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_f72ec4f4	comment	Bananas pulls this gag twice in the course of a montage. Woody Allen's character is training with the rebels, and he tries throwing a grenade. Predictably, he throws the pin, having just enough time to make an exasperated face before the grenade explodes in his hand. Later, he tries again, and successfully throws the grenade. The pin explodes in his hand.
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Throw the Pin / int_fbaae8b9	type	Throw the Pin
Throw the Pin / int_fbaae8b9	comment	In one episode of Gosei Sentai Dairanger, Major Zydos attempts to make himself grow. The method of doing so this season was taking a bomb, pulling the pin and tossing the bomb on the ground (the explosion caused by the bomb would reverse, as if the being throwing it was absorbing the energy of the bomb to enlarge themselves). Zydos pulls the pin and throws it on the ground; he promptly realizes his mistake, tosses the bomb, and then grows.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Throw the Pin	processingCategory2	Comedy Tropes
Throw the Pin	processingCategory2	Index Failure
Ah Boys to Men / int_179ca2e5	type	Throw the Pin
Bananas / int_179ca2e5	type	Throw the Pin
In The Army Now / int_179ca2e5	type	Throw the Pin
The Steam Video Company / int_179ca2e5	type	Throw the Pin
Dawn of War (Video Game) / int_179ca2e5	type	Throw the Pin
Worms (Video Game) / int_179ca2e5	type	Throw the Pin
Darwin Awards (Website) / int_179ca2e5	type	Throw the Pin
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters / int_179ca2e5	type	Throw the Pin
Ben 10: Omniverse / int_179ca2e5	type	Throw the Pin
Daffy Duck / int_179ca2e5	type	Throw the Pin
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_179ca2e5	type	Throw the Pin

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