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Unraveled Entanglement
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A character needs to do something with an object, and instead manages to entangle himself in said object. Not just make a hopeless mess, but making himself part of the hopeless mess. The classical version is for Comedy and uses celluloid meant for a film projector, where it was a Stock Joke, but other long, narrow, flexible and possibly sticky objects are also possible to use, such as cassette tape, bandages, duct tape, or just a long string. This is a comedy trope where the above will happen to the unfortunate victim, be it a Butt-Monkey or The Chew Toy. Contrast All Cloth Unravels. Examples |
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In House of Mouse short "The Phone Company", Donald is trying to reconnect some cords at the phone company and ends up tangled up in the middle of them. | |
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Animaniacs: In the first Slappy Squirrel cartoon, Slappy "accidentally" gets a dog wrapped up in a videocassette's tape. When she rewinds the tape to get it back in the cassette, the dog ends up Trapped in TV Land. | |
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The fairy tale The Golden Goose has a goose made of gold found by it Idiot Hero protagonist. He goes to an inn where a servant tries to pull a golden feather out but finds herself stuck to the goose. Her mother tries to pull her away and is stuck as well, the father tries to pull them apart and is stuck, the valet joins in, the village parson tries to help, etc. The massive conga line happens to pass near the castle, where lived a princess who'd never laughed in her life. She starts laughing at the sight so hard that she starts crying, and the king marries her to the hero. | |
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Milo Murphy's Law shows this happening to a young Milo (then later the present day version of himself and his friends) with shoelaces—the reason why he wears loafers. | |
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In The Night of Wishes, Maurizio and Jacob wants to toss a piece of pergament with a spell on it into the fire. The pergament becomes animate and starts to strangle the two like a python. | |
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In the Simple Samosa episode "Jalebi's Birthday", Jalebi helps Dhokla to untangle himself from a bunch of LED lights he somehow tangled himself in, leaving him stuck on the wall. | |
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Kim Possible: While Kim is trying to fix up the hand-me-down car her dad gave her, Ron keeps finding himself entangled in wires for no particular reason — even when he tries to stay well clear. | |
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Happens in the first act of the Mr. Bogus episode "Class Clown Bogus", where Tommy's teacher is the poor victim of this trope when the tape gets unraveled while in the VCR. | |
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In an episode of Thunderbirds, International Rescue erases a television videotape with a remote magnetic pulse device in order to protect their secrets. When the cameraman unloads the (now smoking) tape from the truck-mounted camera, the tape starts to unravel all over the announcer standing below. | |
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Die Sendung mit der Maus: The fold-out beach chair (pat. pend.) is a surefire way to run into this trope. Even the otherwise very apt Mouse gets into trouble. | |
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In The Three Caballeros, Donald is watching a film about birds; when it ends, he finds the film has unspooled off the projector and is now wrapped around his feet. | |
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VeggieTales: In "Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler", Sheerluck ends up getting tangled up in a roll of police tape, due to his bumbling around while at Buckingham Palace. | |
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Ctrl+Alt+Del: Ethan somehow manages to do this to himself with duct tape. Even Lucas, who is pretty thoroughly desensitized to his roommate's misadventures, is a bit perturbed by this. | |
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Super Friends 1973/74 episode "Dr. Pelagian's War". While Miss Caraway is checking stock market reports on a ticker tape machine, Dr. Pelagian takes control of it and makes it spew out yards of ticker tape that entangles her. | |
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At the end of the Roger Rabbit Short "Roller Coaster Rabbit", Roger crashes into the camera and is tangled up in film. | |
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Done without a film reel in the Peanuts animated special She’s a Good Skate, Charlie Brown. When Snoopy is trying to get the music ready for Peppermint Patty's skating session, the cassette tape breaks with the celluloid getting everywhere and all over Snoopy. | |
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One very early FoxTrot arc had Roger, in the beginning of his life as a Hopeless with Tech Walking Tech Bane, end up wrapped in printer paper while trying to use a computer. We don't see what happened. | |
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At the end of the lost episode of Sponge Bob Square Pants, Patchy the pirate tries to replay the VHS tape of the lost episode, but the film becomes unraveled while the tape is still in the VCR, and Patchy gets tangled up in the film. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In episode "Party Pooped", Applejack and Rainbow Dash try to set up a party without Pinkie Pie's help. It results in Rainbow Dash getting hopelessly entangled in a banner and hanging from the ceiling by ribbons after bouncing a bit. | |
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In The Muppet Movie, the Swedish Chef has the role of operating the film projector, which goes about as well as you would expect. When the film suddenly stops playing and Kermit inquires what happened, the Chef shows up tangled in film and says, "Derversh de flim go flipflipflipflip!" | |
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In The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson, this happens to Bean Bunny when he tries to run a film of Henson's early years, possibly as an Internal Homage to The Muppet Movie. | |
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