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Unscrewed Salt Shaker
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An annoying prank in restaurants, wherein the top of a salt shaker is unscrewed and left loosely sitting on top. The next person to attempt to use it will unexpectedly get an entire jar-full of salt all over their food. On occasion, it might be done with a pepper shaker—causing a Pepper Sneeze. The combination of being a Discredited Trope and the harsh effect of ruining someone's entire meal for a cheap laugh means this prank usually doesn't get a very good reception, unless the target is particularly unpopular. It can also be used to establish that Evil Is Petty. |
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Done in an early Happy Days at Arnold's by Ralph Malph to some random extra. Ralph found this hilarious. Less than two minutes later, Ralph is eating and starts to shake some salt and gets a pile himself, presumably courtesy the same guy. | |
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Hello Kitty: Happy Party Pals: Tracy, Kitty's raccoon friend, apparently loosened the salt shaker lids in the Sushi restaurant. He tells Kitty not to use the salt shakers at the Sushi Restaurant because of this, and Kathy (the rabbit) had noticed, as well. | |
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The "Pepper" variant happens in an episode of Angela Anaconda. However, Angela accidentally gets herself with it. | |
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The Simpsons: In One episode, Homer pranks Moe with this, as everyone else is joking around, too (by lighting him on fire, or hiding a cobra in his till). He's banned for the rest of the episode for taking things too far.note And used to be the Trope Namer for that trope. In another episode, Bart pulls this prank on Homer during dinner. Homer doesn't want to give Bart the satisfaction, and tries to finish his meal with all the salt included. |
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On Fringe, September inflicts this trope on himself when he deliberately unscrews the top of the pepper shaker, and then proceeds to dump the contents onto his plate of food. Apparently the Observers have extremely dulled taste buds and iron cast stomachs. | |
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Garfield: In this comic, Garfield pulls a series of pranks on Jon during breakfast, including the old unscrew-the-salt-shaker trick, as well as the Soda Can Shakeup. | |
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Total Drama: Duncan unscrews both the salt shaker and the pepper shaker on the table of the Killer Grips in "Beach Blanket Bogus". Trent is the victim of both pranks, but he's less annoyed about his breakfast being ruined than he is about about being at risk to suffer bad luck. | |
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Undertale has Sans tampering with the ketchup bottle to prank you if you accept his offer of ketchup for your food at Grillby's. He's a good enough sport to give you his lunch after yours gets drenched in ketchup thanks to his prank. If you don't accept the initial offer, he just chugs the bottle of ketchup all in one go instead. | |
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In the Rotten Ralph animated series episode "Ralph's Rival", Ralph unscrews the salt shaker when Sarah's new friend Linda comes over for dinner. He watches with unabashed glee as Linda ends up spilling salt all over her food. | |
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Done with a pepper shaker in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, as a nervous Ichabod is sprinkling it on a hard-boiled egg. After he eats it, fire and smoke comes out of his mouth. | |
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Cragne Manor: A clipping near the library has a child saying that his uncle taught him to unscrew the salt shaker so people get too much salt on their food. The kid finds it amusing, so he starts putting laundry detergent and broken glass in the shaker instead. | |
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The sugar variation happens in The Brothers Bloom: Bloom tries to shake some sugar into his coffee and it won't pour. In disgust, he puts it back down on the table. The sugar jar is instantly picked up by Stephen, who taps it twice on the table, then pours sugar into his cup of coffee. Still disgusted, Bloom picks up the jar after Stephen puts it down and pours... and the entire jar of sugar pours into his coffee. | |
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Used to a lethal effect in the Polish comedy Kiler. The titular protagonist tries to salt his soup in the prison cafeteria, but the lid falls into the bowl. The prison bully, Uszat, promptly grabs the bowl and pours the entire contents into his mouth, then dies by choking on the lid. This promptly elevates Kiler to Living Legend status among the prisoners. | |
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Brawl in the Family: The "Revenge of Meta Knight" section of the Super Star Special involves Kirby becoming a victim of this prank, resulting in a huge mound of salt on his food, with the implication that it was Meta Knight who unscrewed the shaker. | |
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Powerpuff Girls #41's lead story, "Pizza My Heart," has Buttercup and a faulty garlic shaker, which pours a mound of garlic salt on her pizza slice. She proceeds to gross out Blossom and Bubbles by eating the slice, mound of garlic salt and all. | |
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In Daredevil, Matt's colleague is irritated with him and hands him the mustard instead of honey. Matt plays along, squirting the mustard into his cup, but promptly swaps them as soon as Franklin is looking elsewhere. | |
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Frasier: This happens to Niles with a sugar shaker while he's getting coffee. He notices some teenage girls sitting at the next table and laughing, so he loudly tells them off for being so childish. The girls then tell him they weren't the ones who unscrewed the cap, which is when a pair of middle-aged men at another table burst into laughter, indicating they played the prank. One of the girls asks if Niles is going to yell at them too, but Niles sheepishly claims the men probably heard him the first time. | |
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Done in one episode of The Sopranos to Tony by one of his girlfriends. | |
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