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Thumbtack on the Chair

163 statements
30 feature instances
18 referencing feature instances

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Thumbtack on the Chair	comment	A prank that has been done lots of times throughout the years, this is when a character places a thumbtack in a chair, and when another character sits down, what results after that is a pained jump due to the sharpness of the tack. In cartoons, this may sometimes result in a Pain-Powered Leap. Also the rare prank that women (usually schoolteachers) tend to be the victims of more than men. Related to the Whoopee Cushion, but much more painful. May be just as embarrassing. Compare Butt Biter and Rump Roast. Subtrope of Pain to the Ass, as it results in a literal pain in the butt.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_14f9297e	comment	Parodied in The Far Side in a strip titled "The hazards of teaching young Neanderthals", in which the tail of a Stegosaurus has been placed on the chair of a prehistoric teacher.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_1e2b8b3c	comment	In The Little Rascals short "Readin' and Writin'", one of Brisbane's pranks is to put tacks on all of the other students' chairs. Miss Crabtree has everyone sit down on her count, leading to a chorus of yells.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_1f72b18d	comment	A memorable Tom and Jerry short involves Tom trying to keep quiet to avoid waking up a sleeping king. One of the methods that Jerry and Nibbles makes this difficult for Tom is by placing a pin under Tom just as he's about to take a seat.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons when Marge becomes Bart's substitute teacher, he didn't know his mother would be teaching him beforehand and quickly rushes to remove the tack he placed on her chair. He then has to rush back there again when he remembers the other booby trap he put there: a giant swinging log on a chain.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_2a787959	comment	A variant in the live-action Dennis the Menace film. Instead of placing a tack in a chair, the babysitter's boyfriend places a tack on the doorbell, not knowing that it was Dennis who was ringing the doorbell. Before Dennis can ring the doorbell again, Mr. Wilson shows up, prompting Dennis to come back in through the pet door so Mr. Wilson ends up the victim of the thumbtack prank instead.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_3cd31075	comment	GunBuster: One of the many bullying moments endured by Noriko involves having a thumbtack placed on the seat of her Humongous Mecha.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in an early◊ Garfield strip.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_4a3437ef	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
Thumbtack on the Chair / int_4a3437ef	comment	Magical Diary: Luke, who has a notably juvenile sense of humor, can propose putting tacks on Professor Grabiner's chair during one detention.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_4c119570	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
Thumbtack on the Chair / int_4c119570	comment	Neighbours From Hell: A recurring prank in the second season is to put drawing pins on Rottweiler's chair.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_58808436	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
Thumbtack on the Chair / int_58808436	comment	Higurashi: When They Cry: This is one of the pranks Satoko did to Keiichi on his first day at Hinamizawa's school. Satako pulled a variant of this prank involving taping a bunch of tacks to the door in Watanagashi-hen. Target was the same.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_72a84021	comment	Hitler Rants: One episode of Viva la Fegel has Fegelein do this to Hitler, among other antics.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_731da009	comment	Defied in Allen the Alien; Bonnie thinks about doing this to RR-TWTTW, but decides "it'd be too messy".
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_75110adb	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
Thumbtack on the Chair / int_75110adb	comment	According to Osipko Khripunov's biography from The Newest Plutarch, Ivan the Terrible, when a senior nobleman once complained that he's supposed to sit by the Czar's side, told him to do just that... while putting a needle in the seat. Khripunov has then gained the Czar's favor by asking to sit on that chair despite the needle.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_755cbdcf	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
Thumbtack on the Chair / int_755cbdcf	comment	Implied in Precocious, the school supply store sells tack-proof pants for teachers.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_8529459f	comment	El Chavo del ocho had an accidental example in the episode "El Alacrán". When Quico shows Doña Florinda the scorpion Professor Jirafales lent him, she gets scared and scatters a box of needles all over the living room, a few of which land on the armchairs and couch. Hilarity Ensues when everyone starts thinking the scorpion's around stinging them.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_880cfa15	comment	Once in Hogan's Heroes, Hogan puts Klink's spiked helmet on his chair.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_90f42a9b	comment	In the second-to-last The Wheel of Time book, Elayne is about to sit on the throne of Cairhien for the first time, but Birgitte insists on checking it, to her annoyance and embarrassment. This disappears when Birgitte finds a poisoned needle on the seat.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_a241b678	comment	Little Audrey: The opening credits to "Butterscotch and Soda", "The Lost Dream" and "Song of the Birds" depicted a slide of Audrey waiting for a classmate to sit on a thumbtack she placed on a chair.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_a6477841	comment	The Simpsons: Team L.A.S.H.: In "First Day of Cruel", Liv puts five thumbtacks on Mrs. Gunderson's chair. However, Simon catches her in the act, and she ends up getting sent to Principal Skinner's office.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_ad41ee71	comment	In the SuperMarioLogan episode, "Substitute Teacher!", Bowser Junior and Joseph dare Cody to put thumbtacks on Jackie Chu's chair to prank the substitute teacher, which Cody reluctantly does. Cue an "Oh, shit!" from Cody when he finds out that Judy is the substitute teacher.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_b0fc9724	comment	One Saturday Night Live sketch circa the early 90s has a character caught between this trope and drinking bad milk (or something bad).
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: In the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode, "Super Robotnik", Scratch hangs up a picture in Robotnik's office and one of the nails accidentally falls on Robotnik's chair. Since Robotnik's butt was the only thing that wasn't affected by the Superpower formula Coconuts inadvertently created, it wasn't invulnerable like the rest of his body. Thus, he is in genuine pain when he sits on the nail.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_b4fe32c9	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
Thumbtack on the Chair / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Invader Zim pulled the seat tack prank on Dib. Dib believes that Zim's prank is pathetic, even for Zim, until he realizes that the tack contained mutagenic contamination that was slowly turning him into bologna.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_ba3d2748	comment	In The Incredibles, it was implied that Dash did this to his teacher at school. The teacher claims that he caught him on camera, but when the tape plays, Dash moves too fast to actually be seen, which allows Dash to get off easy. Frame-advance actually does catch Dash mid-placement of tack, for the curious. In fact, it is possible to watch the split-second moment occur in regular speed.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_bc274933	comment	In the 3-2-1 Penguins! episode "Practical Hoax", Baron von Cavitus' first minion places a Tell-a-Liar (a dart-like alien) on Midgel's chair.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_bf6a1a95	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
Thumbtack on the Chair / int_bf6a1a95	comment	In The Circle Opens, Daja has the displeasure of experiencing a serial arsonist's crime through her magic, and compares his emotions to "a nasty little boy putting a nail on his sister's chair."
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_df2122ef	comment	Little House on the Prairie: In Little Town on the Prairie, a schoolboy in Laura's class is the victim of this prank (with a bent pin), causing the Sadist Teacher to have him stand in the corner for making a scene in class. (She was going to hit his palm with her ruler, but couldn't find it in her desk.) Later, when the boy recounts the incident to the school board, he glibly remarks, "I was not punished for sitting on it, but for getting up off it." The board has a hard time stifling their laughter, and has to admit it's Actually Pretty Funny.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_e25322af	comment	In the Homestar Runner short The Interview, Strong Bad tells Homestar that he wants to "get down to brass tacks". Homestar seems to think he's talking about actual tacks and replies "Oh, I didn't bring any."
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_e5c6748d	comment	This was a common gag on The Three Stooges, though normally it'd be something even more sharp and painful than thumbtacks. One instance where thumbtacks were used came when the Stooges infiltrated the office of a high-ranking Nazi officer, and placed a map with thumbtacks in it on his chair.
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Thumbtack on the Chair / int_f406bc87	comment	On the Gerald McBoing-Boing short "How Now, McBoing-Boing", Professor Joyce, an expert on human speech, is brought in to try and cure Gerald, who can only communicate through sound effects. One of the methods he tries is to make him sit on a tack, in the hope that this will cause him to let out an reflexive "Ouch!" Instead, Gerald makes a sound like a car tire blowing out, then gives Prof. Joyce a Death Glare.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Thumbtack on the Chair	processingCategory2	Comedy Tropes
Thumbtack on the Chair	processingCategory2	Furniture Tropes
Thumbtack on the Chair	processingCategory2	Practical Joke
Thumbtack on the Chair	processingCategory2	Seated Tropes
Thumbtack on the Chair	processingCategory2	Zany Cartoon
The Simpsons: Team L.A.S.H. (Fanfic) / int_49fb5699	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
The Three Stooges / int_49fb5699	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
Little House on the Prairie / int_49fb5699	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
Lumbanico The Cubic Planet / int_49fb5699	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great / int_49fb5699	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
Neighbours From Hell (Video Game) / int_49fb5699	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
Precocious / Web Comic / int_49fb5699	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
Hitler Rants (Web Video) / int_49fb5699	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog / int_49fb5699	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
Gerald McBoing-Boing / int_49fb5699	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
The Incredibles / int_49fb5699	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
The Incredibles / int_49fb5699	type	Thumbtack on the Chair
The Ren & Stimpy Show / int_49fb5699	type	Thumbtack on the Chair

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