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Trapped In a Tanning Bed

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Trapped In a Tanning Bed	comment	Going tanning can get you that nice, bronze look, but can also be dangerous if you're not prepared. In fiction, the risk of things like skin cancer and sunburns are still risks, but either not as immediate to get drama out of, or too common to match an exaggerated scenario. That's why you'll sometimes see characters get trapped in a tanning bed for way longer than they're supposed to, either because the person who was supposed to free them neglected to, because they fell asleep, or because it's an intentional effort to harm or kill them. In comedic scenarios, the character will emerge with serious burns or skin damage, but it will be Played for Laughs as dark comedy with no real consequences other than something similar to an Embarrassingly Painful Sunburn. In more realistic scenarios, it's played far more seriously, and may even result in death, similar to tropes like Sauna of Death and Cooked to Death. After all, the amount of heat exposure would be deadly in real life due to factors like dehydration and the aforementioned skin damage and burning... ...So it's lucky that, in reality, tanning beds are heavily regulated worldwide to ensure the safety of the people using them. Though this scenario is common in fiction, things like heat timers, lightweight doors, and an inability to lock, means that while there's still a risk associated with the act of going tanning, you don't need to worry about this trope occurring in real life. It hasn't stopped this trope and urban legends about deadly tanning accidents from circulating, though. Compare Sauna of Death, and contrast Locked in a Freezer.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_22211d68	comment	A woman is found liquified in one in Bones "The Bikini in the Soup". Cam pressures everyone to solve the case fast so she can have her Valentine’s date.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_22d87fc9	comment	In an episode of That '70s Show, Donna and Jackie decide to get tans and fall asleep under a tanning lamp; the two end up getting sunburned as a result.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII", this is one of the methods of death that Lisa writes down, and subsequently makes happen, in the Death Note parody segment.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_27b0262b	comment	The MythBusters tested a different variation of this trope, where it is stated that after spending a certain amount of time in a tanning bed, a woman ended up cooking her organs, and her lifespan afterward was reduced to just over a week. The myth was tested by placing a raw chicken in a tanning bed, but the device barely heated the bird enough for it to be considered significant, leading to the myth being declared as busted.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_446b6bcd	type	Trapped In a Tanning Bed
Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_446b6bcd	comment	In I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, The Fisherman attempts to fry Julie while she's using a tanning bed by tying it shut with a zip-tie and cranking up the intensity. Luckily, rescue arrives quickly.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_492240cf	comment	MADtv (1995): One skit had a Caucasian man walk into a tanning salon run by two "very tanned people" who convince him their operation is legit with the help of a "satisfied customer". The salon turns out to be the back end of a barbeque restaurant that cooks gullible people like him by strapping the tanning bed shut and turning the power up dangerously high.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_5ba6595e	comment	Reno 911!: In "The Tanning Booth Incident," Dangle oversleeps in a tanning bed and ends up sunburned so deep he's stuck in the hospital and unable to speak from the pain.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_7884ec15	comment	Seinfeld: The episode "The Wife" has Kramer (who's unable to sleep) go into a tanning bed to impress the family of his girlfriend Anna (who are all African-American). But he falls asleep while in the tanning bed. Later on, when Kramer meets Anna's family, they are all not impressed. Seeing how dark he's gotten, they all think he's doing blackface.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_7cdef00a	comment	In the climax of Death Spa, Laura is tied to a tanning bed bathed in pink light. Catherine lets Michael know that she is working on her tan:
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_8e7a4da8	comment	Urban Legends: Bloody Mary: One of the students, Roger, is killed by being locked in a tanning bed set very high. By the time they get it open, he's reduced to a charred skeletal corpse.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_8fc868f5	comment	The Brittas Empire: In "The Boss", Colin traps a woman in a sunbed in an attempt to assist in the ridiculously extreme hypothetical situations that Brittas was putting Gavin through as part of his management training. Due to this, however, Brittas dismisses Colin's warnings that she doesn't look too good under it under the belief that this was a hypothetical situation too until the woman eventually shows up looking extremely red and sunburnt near the end of the episode.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_9098c901	comment	Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island: In one episode, Mr. Greenrind is just trying to have a relaxing day while Fred insists on making him the guest of honor at his new resort and theme park. As a result, he has Fred following him around and ruining everything, including Fred falling asleep at one point when Mr. Greenrind is in a tanning bed, resulting in him being in there long enough to be in burning, screaming pain.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_9d7264f	comment	CSI: Miami has an episode ("Last Straw") where a killer takes out one of their victims by padlocking her in a tanning bed once she's lying there with her eyes closed and earbuds in, thus cooking her to death.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_ad436a58	comment	In Killer Workout, Valerie is seemingly burned to death when a tanning bed malfunctions. She returns five years later to extract vengeance against the club where it happened.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_b5761a41	comment	Final Destination 3: Due to being Enemies with Death, Ashley and Ashlyn suffer a series of unlikely "coincidences" that lead to both of their tanning beds being jammed shut, catching fire, and burning them to death.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Sun Bleached", SpongeBob and Patrick are trying to get tan enough to join a party only very tanned fish can go to, so they visit a tanning bed. Patrick goes first and gets perfectly tanned, but he leaves SpongeBob in the bed for two hours, resulting in SpongeBob being completely bleached by the light. He tries to cover this up by slathering himself in caramel, but when the caramel dries off and breaks, his sun-bleached form is revealed — and it actually amazes everyone, as he's considered the most hardcore tanner of them all.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_d78241e7	comment	Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels: Our first introduction to Big Chris, Hatchet Harry's debt collector, is when he captures John, a late debt-payer, using a tanning bed, and starts interrogating him by repeatedly lifting the sunbeam and slamming it onto John's face when he says things Big Chris doesn't like- such as addressing Chris' boss as "Harry" instead of "Mr Harry", or swearing and blaspheming in front of Big Chris' son Little Chris. Later on in the film, Big Chris meets John on the way to Harry's office, and he has visible burn marks on his skin.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: In "The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou", Stewie gets a tan and becomes addicted to the "tan" lifestyle, even getting a tanning bed to maintain it. He tells Brian to let him out after 15 minutes, but Brian falls asleep on the couch and, by the time he wakes up, Stewie is badly burned.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_f7c1b2d3	comment	In the Only Fools and Horses episode "Tea For Three" this is played for comedy when brothers Del-Boy and Rodney are fighting over a girl they both like. Rodney goes to use their at-home solarium to try and get a tan but falls asleep in it and Del-Boy turns up the timer leaving Rodney with bad sunburn in an attempt to make Rodney look less appealing.
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Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_fb2679d9	comment	9-1-1: An Asshole Victim who ran a gym died when he used his own tanning bed (which he kept insisting wasn't broken and refused to fix) and couldn't open it when he was done. It was Death by Irony because the day before, he left his dog in the car with the windows rolled up.
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Final Destination 3 / int_4a3e270b	type	Trapped In a Tanning Bed
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels / int_4a3e270b	type	Trapped In a Tanning Bed
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary / int_4a3e270b	type	Trapped In a Tanning Bed
CSI: Miami / int_4a3e270b	type	Trapped In a Tanning Bed
MADtv (1995) / int_4a3e270b	type	Trapped In a Tanning Bed
9-1-1 / int_4a3e270b	type	Trapped In a Tanning Bed
That '70s Show / int_4a3e270b	type	Trapped In a Tanning Bed
Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island / int_4a3e270b	type	Trapped In a Tanning Bed

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