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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Kids (and cats) covet boxes while ignoring the (presumably valuable) contents inside. Many parents learn this the hard way — little Cindy's birthday is coming up soon, and unsuspecting Alice and Bob want it to be super-special for her, so they search high and low for a super-special ultra-rare highly-expensive toy as her present. As the birthday approaches, the two of them bubble over with excitement as they imagine how vivacious she'll be when she finally receives it. So the party is held, cake gets eaten, and Cindy goes through her gifts. At the end, she opens Alice and Bob's present, yelps with glee... then carelessly tosses it aside while she trills at the most awesome cardboard box it came in! Just imagine the possibilities! A common gag in comedies with small children, and a case of Truth in Television for a lot of parents. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Also see Mundane Object Amazement, My New Gift Is Lame, Unwanted Gift Plot and Worthless Yellow Rocks. Compare Blanket Fort. Examples: |
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The Far Side: One cartoon has two scientists squabbling over who gets the cardboard box the Polaris missile came in (it says so on the box). | |
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Both played straight and inverted in the Good Luck Charlie episode, "Charlie 4, Toby 1", where Amy just gives Toby an empty box for a toy train for his first birthday. While Toby is having a lot of fun playing with the empty box, P.J. asks Amy if she still has the toy train for him to play with. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Rosebud", Homer attempts to persuade Maggie to give up Mr Burns' beloved teddy bear by giving her a box to play with instead. However, Homer becomes enthralled with the box and keeps it for himself despite Maggie's enthusiasm for it. In "Rome-Old and Julie-Eh", Bart and Lisa build an amazing castle out of cardboard boxes in their garden, and they defend it against an army of delivery-truck workers. In a flashback scene in "Hardly Kirk-ing", a toddler Bart and baby Lisa are seen watching the Baby Poindexter DVD boxset. While Bart is occupied watching the DVD, Lisa quickly turns to building a castle from the box (with a dumbfounded Bart's drool as the moat). |
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Dangerverse Living with Danger hangs a lampshade: | |
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In the Full House episode "Little Shop of Sweaters", Michelle got a cute little Valentine's shirt from her family but she was more interested in the box. In "A Very Tanner Christmas," Nicky and Alex play in a pair of boxes on Christmas morning and Joey gives them a ride by pulling the boxes across the living room. |
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Roseanne hangs a lampshade on this trope in the season 9 Christmas episode: "You kids have a big day tomorrow of ignoring all your toys and playing with the boxes they came in!" | |
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In "Franklin's Big Box" from Franklin and Friends, Franklin's Aunt T tries to invoke this by sending Franklin a large decorated box in the mail with nothing in it. At first, Franklin and his friends think maybe she just forgot to put in a gift and decide to go visit her place to ask her about it. Along the way, however, they have fun with the box, and by the time they've reached Aunt T's, Franklin's decided to thank her for just sending the empty box. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: A story arc had Calvin sending away for a motorized propeller beanie. When it finally arrives, he's disappointed that it doesn't let him fly around town as he had imagined, and kicks it away in frustration. Fortunately, it came in a cool cardboard box, and he and Hobbes begin to make plans for the fun they'll have with it. Calvin regularly utilized a large cardboard box turned different ways as a transmogrifier (opening on the bottom), time machine (opening on the top) and duplicator (opening on the side.) |
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Garfield gets presented one of these by Jon...and was not impressed. Jon says that cats like playing in empty boxes, which Garfield responds to with "Get an empty cat!" Similarly, one strip has Garfield climbing into a paper grocery bag, with Jon chuckling and remarking on how much cats love doing that. Garfield's thoughts: "Darn, no food." For Garfield's diet, Jon brings a box of fat-free, unsalted pretzel sticks. Garfield would rather eat the box than the sticks. |
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Played with on Sesame Street: The shifty salesman Lefty tries to sell Ernie an empty box, telling him that at least it doesn't have worms in it, and that he could put jellybeans or a pet mouse in it. But Ernie doesn't have any money on him, prompting Lefty to walk away in disgust. Immediately afterward, Bert comes by with a box full of donuts — and Ernie promptly dumps out the donuts and takes the box, saying that now he'll be ready when jellybeans start raining from the sky. | |
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Archie Comics: An old issue showed the gang as cave people, given presents by Santa: Modern clothes in the sorts of boxes high end stores once used. They find the modern clothes useless, but thank the strange red guy for the wonderful gifts - the immensely useful boxes. Betty makes paintings, and one is finally bought by a man raving about how it was just what he needed. He then tosses the painting away as he leaves, continuing to rave about the frame. |
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Referenced in Littlest Pet Shop (2012): Pepper gets a new prop in the mail. The second after she takes it out, the other pets enthusiastically start playing with the box. | |
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Similar to the Archie Comics example, one episode of Kenan & Kel had the two sell one of Kel's paintings for $5 - only for the buyer to throw away the painting and keep the ornate frame. | |
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In Sinfest, Monique also prefers bubble wrap. | |
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The Pod, your base in LittleBigPlanet, is made of a cardboard box. It fits with the game's "handmade" style. | |
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On Peppa Pig's Christmas Episode, George got a fancy electronic toy racing car as his gift, but ended up playing with the box instead after his parents took too long to get it set up. | |
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A Cathy strip describes all the beautiful, expensive, educational toys that Andrea has bought for baby Zenith. The last panel shows that Zenith's favorite toy is an empty toilet paper tube. | |
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In Frazz, Caulfield thinks it's great that while he has broken half his toys, he still has all these empty boxes for his cat. Indeed, he spent most of Christmas vacation juggling the cat from box to box. | |
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Batman and Sons: Terry shows what his favorite thing is in this. | |
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MAD: A comic feature drawn by Dave Berg includes a gag where a mom and dad give their little boy an expensive toy fire engine (big enough for the child to ride on) — and the last panel shows the kid sitting in the empty box it came in, yelling "CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!" | |
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One Sherman's Lagoon Sunday strip has Sherman give his son Herman an expensive robot toy, and goes on about how 'Santa' waited hours in line to get one. When he sees Herman playing with the box, he's understandably upset. | |
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Shortpacked!: Seen in a strip, except instead of a "kid" it's Shattered Glass-Ravage (an excitable, Yatter-obsessed robot cat). | |
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Arthur: In the prologue to the episode, "Read and Flumberghast", as Arthur shows the features of his family's new refrigerator to the viewers, D.W. shows the viewers the many things the box the refrigerator was shipped in could be, including an elevator, a rocket ship, a mobile home for birds, a motorboat, and a submarine. Being older than her, Arthur doesn't get what D.W. sees in the box. In the actual episode, David builds an office for D.W. from the box, which is what sets the episode's main plot in motion. In the episode, "Some Assembly Required", the Read Family orders a new playground for D.W. to play in. While David and Jane assemble the playground, D.W. goes on an imaginary adventure with Emily and Bud, pretending the box it was shipped in is a rocket ship. |
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Nintendo Labo is devoted to marrying Nintendo's family-friendly video games with the joys and imagination of cutting up cardboard boxes and fashioning them into toys and playsets. | |
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Raccoons Prefer Bubble Wrap: Sandra from Sandra and Woo gives her pet raccoon Woo a cardboard box full of bubble wrap as a gift. | |
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Johnny and the Sprites has a variation on this. When the Sprites, who aren't familiar with the Christmas gift-giving tradition, see Johnny and Gwen exchanging fancily decorated gift boxes, they decide they want to participate too. They make a very fancy box for Johnny... with nothing inside. They didn't know there was supposed to be anything inside, they thought the entire point was giving the fancy box. Of course, Johnny is happy to get their gift, since, as any show like this will tell you, the point is the act of giving and the love and appreciation that was shown. | |
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The Daily Derp: Derpy orders a package simply for sake of playing in the foam peanuts. | |
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There's an episode of Garfield and Friends where Garfield wants an expensive cat bed, then sleeps in the box it came in. Jon, not willing to let all the money he spent on the bed go to waste, crawls into the cat bed himself. | |
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This is deliberately used in Anna Dewdney's Nelly Gnu and Daddy Too picture book (a spin-off from the Llama Llama series featuring Llama Llama's best friend) in which Nelly and her Daddy Gnu build a box fort and then decorate it with floral patterns. | |
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WALL•E did that with a diamond ring; he chose the ringbox. No infant would fault his logic. It opens and shuts and makes a clicky noise! | |
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The cat variant is used in Chi's Sweet Home, in one episode the family bought a bunch of new toys for Chi, but Chi ignored them and played with the plastic bag they came in instead. | |
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Short-lived, but Isaac of MOTHER 3 initially finds more use for the Happy Box's box than the Happy Box itself (the "Happy Box" is basically a television, not itself an example of this trope.) | |
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Rugrats: In "The Box", Stu orders a ridiculously complex play set called the "Kiddy Karnival" and spends the entire episode trying to simply build the damn thing. The set is never assembled. Angelica, of course, doesn't get why the babies are having so much fun with it and tries to ruin their fun. When she rips the box to pieces, the babies pause for a few moments, and then just pick up the various bits of cardboard and play with those, leading to Angelica, completely fed up, shouting the quote at the top of the page. Eventually, Stu decides (as a toy inventor) to give up on the Kiddy Karnival and market a line of cardboard boxes, after seeing how much fun the babies are having with it. In "Kid TV", Stu is struggling to invent a flying toy and is up-shown by a lavish commercial. In a rage, he throws his half-finished invention at the TV, destroying it. He then tries to look for the TV's box to return it under warranty, but the only box he can find is just barely too small. While he searches for another box, the babies cut a hole in the bottom and pretend it's a television, hosting their own shows as the others watch. A non-box variation of this trope appears in "Momma Trauma", where a man is trying to sell some toy robots, but the kids are only interested in the ball which comes as an accessory. |
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From Ask Fluffle Puff, the short ''All Boxed Up'' shows Fluffle Puff playing with a box after throwing away the book it contained, destined to Twilight (and with the mention "last copy ever, handle with care"). | |
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In an episode of Modern Family, Claire and Phil mention that their son Luke is like this. One year, they decided to just give him a box for his birthday. Unfortunately they put it in a nice bag and he spent all day playing with the bag. | |
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An episode of Jimmy Two-Shoes has Beezy bribe Heloise with a box of gold. She takes it, then dumps out the contents to play in the box. | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: In "A Boy and His Ed", the Eds hear that Kevin has a box of jawbreakers and ask him for some. Kevin replies that they are too late and tosses them the empty box, and Ed proceeds to crawl inside it ("Hey, free box!"). In "Urban Ed", the Eds build an entire city out of nothing but cardboard boxes, and even Kevin is impressed. |
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Referenced in Power Rangers Zeo. Sprocket begs his parents for a new toy, and Machina points out "But when we got you that lovely nuclear reactor, you only played with the box." | |
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Top Gear: Richard Hammond confessed during one news segment he still hasn't given this trope up; even as a grown-up, he still can't bring himself to throw away boxes because of the possibilities for fun. His co-presenters were baffled. | |
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In one of the RWBY Chibi shorts a variant occurs. Yang buys Blake (who is a cat girl) an expensive tea set to apologize for giving her a cat toy. Blake however ends up more interested in the human-sized box than the actual present. | |
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DragonFable: One of the game's Mascot Mook enemies are an entire Planet of Hats species of goblins called Sneevils, who make a point of stealing boxes and discarding any of their contents. It was heavily implied during Nythera's flashback that Sneevils used to be human children before being shifted into their goblin-like appearance to collect boxes for her boxfort.note It failed since they collected the boxes for themselves instead. Most of the children were reverted back to normal but the few who escaped became ancestors of the modern Sneevils seen today. |
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In Winnie-the-Pooh, Pooh intends to give Eeyore a jar of honey... and then absentmindedly eats the honey. Eeyore doesn't actually like honey, but he's very happy to be given the empty jar. | |
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The Spongebob Squarepants episode "Idiot Box" revolved around SpongeBob (who is an adult might we add) ordering a giant screen television... simply so that he and Patrick could have the box to play in. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas plays with this trope, as Jack is obsessed with the concept of a "present" (particularly in Kingdom Hearts II), but doesn't understand that the present is what's inside the pretty wrapped box with the bow. He clearly has some idea (or realizes later) that the box needs to have an item inside it, because the citizens of Halloween Town fill the boxes with scary toys rather than leaving them empty. | |
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