History Main / BeachBury

* In ''Film/TheReturnOfTheTallBlondMan'', the two {{professional killer}}s sent after François Perrin (Creator/PierreRichard) in Brazil shoot with their suppressed guns at what they believe is him buried in sand in lying-down position (his charentaises shoes stick out the other end and a straw hat covers his face) on a beach, then they run away. When his girlfriend Christine comes out of the sea, she removes the charentaises thinking it was his feet, and it turns out he made her a prank and was buried vertically, with only his head sticking out (also unwittingly saving his own life from an AssassinationAttempt) under the straw hat. He was lucky they didn't shoot at his head.

* In ''Film/TheReturnOfTheTallBlondMan'', the two {{professional killer}}s sent after François Perrin (Creator/PierreRichard) in Brazil shoot with their suppressed guns at what they believe is him buried in sand in lying-down position (his charentaises shoes stick out the other hand and a straw hat covers his face) on a beach, then they run away. When his girlfriend Christine comes out of the sea, she removes the charentaises thinking it was his feet, and it turns out he made her a prank and was buried vertically, with only his head sticking out (also unwittingly saving his own life from an AssassinationAttempt) under the straw hat. He was lucky they didn't shoot at his head.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats|1991}}'': In "[[Recap/RugratsS2E9NoBonesAboutItBeachBlanketBabies Beach Blanket Babies]]", Chaz is covered up to his neck in sand by Angelica while he's taking a nap. When Chuckie sees him in his and Tommy's attempt to liberate their sea monkeys, Chuckie freaks out and [[LosingYourHead proclaims]] that he's been "[[{{Malaproper}} decaffeinated]]."

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials'': In one scene of ''Garfield in Paradise'', Garfield buries Odie in the sand, up to his ankles... and upside down (in a scene reminiscent of [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1980/08/14 an August 1980 strip]]).

It's the BeachEpisode! WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong Well, for one, {{Genre Blind|ness}} characters will let themselves be buried in the sand, Hilarity ensues when the gravediggers [[SomethingWeForgot forget they're supposed to dig him out as well, or they forget where he is]], or angry crabs pass by, or something prevents them from finding him again, or… well, you get the idea.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', you can do this with Regal if he comes along with you to the beach event.

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!!Examples

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTFkZ4PCYak In one Butterfinger commercial, Bart Simpson buries Homer in the sand at the beach so firmly that Homer can't move.]] Bart takes this opportunity to steal Homer's candy bar, while in the background Homer is being menaced by crabs... and then the tide starts coming in...

* Happens in an episode of ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka''... to the title character, in revenge for taking his students on a treasure hunt they wanted no part of. This was inland from the beach, though.

* In the BeachEpisode of ''Anime/ZoidsNewCentury'', the Blitz Team leaves Jamie buried vertically, then a crab wanders by...
* In the [[BeachEpisode Beach Chapter]] of ''Manga/FreeCollarsKingdom'', this is done to Amesho, complete with a sand body...of a ''woman''. But [[DirtyOldMan seeing who it is]], he doesn't seem to mind.

* Anime/GundamBuildFighters has Mr. Ral getting buried in sand. [[MythologyGag Naturally]], the sand covering him is sculpted into a Gouf.
* In the manga of ''Manga/LuckyStar'', Minami has the "sand body" version done to her. The sand on her chest makes her look busty, but a wave comes along and reveals [[UsefulNotes/{{Pettanko}} the truth]].
* In ''Manga/NonNonBiyori'', Natsume managed to convince her brother Suguru to have his head buried in the sand and forgot about him until they all went home.
* In ''[[Anime/FLCLProgressiveAndAlternative FLCL Progressive]]'', Haruko exploits this trope in the BeachEpisode to incapacitate Jinyu by mixing the sand she's burying her in with concrete, leaving Jinyu stuck in a concrete cocoon while Haruko kidnaps Hidomi.
* ''Manga/StoryOfADumbPrefectAndHighSchoolGirlWithInappropriateSkirtLength'': [[ButtMonkey Tsukishima]] is subjected to one in the BeachEpisode. Of course, at the end of the chapter [[SomethingWeForgot they forget he's still there...]]
* In Chapter 110 of ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'', Shinomi completely buries Eikichi in sand after he gropes Nagisa.
* ''Anime/CyberTeamInAkihabara'': During the BeachEpisode, Tsubame traps Petit Ange in a sand pyramid, then lies down on the sand and falls asleep. Hibari, Tsugumi and Suzume come across her and decide to bury her making a sphinx, and she's left trapped there even late into the night.
* In the ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'' Beta manga, Chitose buries Forte in the sand making a giant octopus.

* In ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'', Jeremy and Sara bury Pierce on the beach, giving him a sand suit and tie and just about driving him into shock.

* In ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor'', Mo's friends stage a political "intervention" for her -- they bury her in sand, then force her to listen to Lois live from the RNC protests, telling her not to vote for Nader again.

* Australian comic ''Da'n'Dill'' once had them bury the resident ButtMonkey up to his neck in the sand, then wander off. Before long a cooler is placed over his head, which at least manages to go through the bottom, with his cries drowned out by loud music; shortly after he's scared them off by accident and been immersed by the melting ice, Da and Dill come back, use the abandoned cooler as a wicket for beach cricket, and let the water out again.

[[folder:FanWorks]]

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]

* The last the viewer sees of the eponymous corpse in ''Film/WeekendAtBernies'', [[spoiler:he's just "agreed" to let a little kid bury him in this fashion]].

* In ''Film/ConeyIsland'', Creator/FattyArbuckle does this to himself to escape his nagging wife.

* In ''Film/BedtimeStory1964'', one of Lawrence's phony therapies is the warm sand treatment, which involves leaving Freddy buried up to his neck for several hours while seagulls harass him.
* In ''[[Film/TheTallBlondManWithOneBlackShoe The Return of the Tall Blond Man]]'', the two {{professional killer}}s sent after François Perrin (Creator/PierreRichard) in Brazil shoot with their suppressed guns at what they believe is him buried in sand in lying-down position (his charentaises shoes stick out the other hand and a straw hat covers his face) on a beach, then they run away. When his girlfriend Christine comes out of the sea, she removes the charentaises thinking it was his feet, and it turns out he made her a prank and was buried vertically, with only his head sticking out (also unwittingly saving his own life from an AssassinationAttempt) under the straw hat. He was lucky they didn't shoot at his head.

* In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresTheAlsoPeople The Also People]]'', there's an epilogue in which the Doctor and his companions manage to grab an uninterrupted day at the beach. The Doctor dozes off, and wakes to find himself buried up to the neck. He remains trapped for four pages; the first passerby is an alien who doesn't recognise his predicament, the next pair claim to believe that he got himself buried deliberately as part of some Cunning Plan, and finally his companion Benny makes it clear that she knows he wants to be dug out and that she's not going to until he gives her a proper explanation of the kind that he always claims [[NoTimeToExplain there's no time for]].

* On ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', the gang goes to the beach. Lisa has buried Screech entirely in the sand to the point where he's breathing through a straw.
* There are several gags about this on the BeachEpisode of ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho''.

* On ''Series/CougarTown'', this is Bobby's favorite thing, since it lets him imagine that he's just a head on a beach. Jules and Grayson use this to their advantage, since a buried Bobby won't run away when they tell him [[spoiler:that they are now a couple, leaving Bobby as the only single in the group]].
* On an episode of the short-lived FOX sitcom ''Series/{{Titus}}'', there is an ImagineSpot showing Titus and his dad Ken enjoying a day at the beach, which ends with Ken playfully burying Titus in the sand and putting a pirate hat on his head (it was a fantasy Titus had when, after Ken congratulates him on designing his truck, Titus realized that maybe his dad does love him underneath all the {{deadpan snark|er}}ing and [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood hilarious abuse during his childhood]]). When Ken gets in trouble with the police over his car, Titus then has another ImagineSpot, showing Ken trying to drown Titus in the ocean (in the first fantasy, they were splashing each other playfully), Ken shoving ice cream cones in Titus's eyes (in the first fantasy, they were doing that intertwined arm share so they can lick each other's ice cream cones), and --in a perverse mirror of the first fantasy--Ken is shown burying Titus in the sand, only this time, Titus's is buried headfirst with his feet sticking out. Ken then puts the pirate hat on Titus's feet, sneers, and leaves Titus in the sand.

* One of the ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' "in the news this week" jokes had a close-up photograph of a boy buried up to his neck, with a line about [[OffWithHisHead unexpectedly sharp frisbees]].
* In an episode of ''Series/TheMunsters'', the family goes to the beach (yea, Grandpa was a vampire but, remember, ''OurVampiresAreDifferent'') and Lily forgets where she buried Grandpa. When they start to pack up, she gives Eddie a long barbecue fork and tells him to poke around in the sand until he finds Grandpa.
* Murr falls for this trick on the special episode of ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'' in Hawaii. Not only do the other guys humiliate him in between their turns, since he's buried in sand, he can't take his own turn and gets an automatic loss. [[HumiliationConga On top of that,]] this gives him the deciding point and makes him the big loser for the episode, which forces him to swim in a cage near sharks...as his friends detach the cage from their boat and sail away.

-->'''[[https://kabutoraiger.tumblr.com/post/183035032372/i-like-that-this-is-what-dana-ryan-choose-to-do Tumblr user kabutoraiger]]:''' I like that this is what Dana and Ryan choose to do with their day at the beach. “Bro, there’s like 15 years of dumb sibling shit we gotta make up for A.S.A.P.”

* Appears in the music video for Music/KatyPerry's song "California Gurls".
* In the music video for "If This Is It" by Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews, the second chorus features the News all buried in the sand while Huey lies behind them singing.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Brass dragons are loquacious, extroverted, and as they'll assure you, great conversationalists. They're ''so'' keen on engaging passersby in conversation, in fact, that some brasses will use their ''sleep'' gas BreathWeapon to knock out anyone who tries to leave before they're done talking, then bury them up to their necks in sand and, as soon as the gas wears off, continue talking as if they hadn't been interrupted. Their audience will be freed when the dragon decides they're done talking their ears off.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', you can do this with Regal if he comes along with you to the beach event.

[[folder:Web Comics]]

* In ''WebComic/KevinAndKell'', Kevin's family [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0610.html try to do this to him]]. They forgot, however, that he's a rabbit.
-->'''Kevin:''' [''three feet away''] Never try to pull that with a burrowing species.

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* Strong Sad straddles the line between this and BuriedAlive in the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' cartoon "Somber Vacation". In typical fashion, Strong Sad has a really depressing version of an average beach trip, which involves burying himself in the sand--entirely, including his head, and sculpting a gravestone on top.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Ned is buried like this and Homer parks his car on Ned's head.
--> '''Ned:''' Homer, is that my muffler?
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In the episode "Ripped Pants", a whale claims to be "the biggest loser on the beach" because his friends buried him in the sand and forgot about him.
** [=SpongeBob=] buries a beachgoer, Scooter, and then asks Bubble Buddy, his [[CompanionCube inanimate friend]], to unbury him before the tide rises. We later see him as an angel. Later, Bubble Buddy was shown to be both sentient and fully capable of movement, [[BlackComedy which implies he willingly let Scooter drown]].
%%* Happens once in ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower''.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'', Hilda had herself intentionally subjected to this, as her sand body was far more appealing than her regular self. She then asks for seaweed to simulate going through puberty.

%%* This is done in the WesternAnimation/YogiBear short "Gleesome Threesome".

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'''s [[BeachEpisode Beach Cold Open]] has the heroes burying Characters/{{Super|manConnerKent}}boy this way.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor:'' Numbuh Four prefers being buried in sand to swimming. He even sings a song about it and has the water in his pool replaced with sand.
-->"NUH NUH NUH NAH UH. BURIED IN. THE. SAND. NUH NUH NUH NAH UH. I'M BURIED IN THE, BURIED IN THE..."
* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991:'' In "[[Recap/RugratsS2E9NoBonesAboutItBeachBlanketBabies Beach Blanket Babies]]", Chaz is covered up to his neck in sand by Angelica while he's taking a nap. When Chuckie sees him in his and Tommy's attempt to liberate their sea monkeys, Chuckie freaks out and [[LosingYourHead proclaims]] that he's been "[[{{Malaproper}} decaffeinated]]."
* The 1940 [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Warner Bros.]] cartoon "Malibu Beach Party" has a scene where Ned Sparks resignedly lets Baby Snooks bury him in sand. She unloads a dump truck full of sand on him.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}:'' During a visit to the beach, Hermes and Bender do this. When Hermes runs off to bury himself, Bender promptly tosses the shovel and walks off, muttering "so long, pal".

* ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'': "Gonzo's Video Show" begins with the babies pretending they are enjoying a day out at the beach. Fozzie is shown buried in the sand, looking as if he is twice as tall as before, until it is revealed that [[TotemPoleTrench the feet sticking out from the bottom belong to Rowlf, who was buried beneath him]]. [[SmellyFeetGag Rowlf is disgusted by Fozzie's foot odor]], and asks him why he doesn't wear shoes. Fozzie tells him that even if he did, he'd still have [[{{Pun}} bear]] feet.
* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials'': In one scene of ''Garfield in Paradise'', Garfield buries Odie in the sand, up to his ankles... and upside down (in a scene reminiscent of [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1980/08/14 an August 1980 strip]]).

* The last the viewer sees of the eponymous corpse in ''Film/WeekendAtBernies'', [[spoiler: he's just "agreed" to let a little kid bury him in this fashion]].

* A Bud Light commercial features a girl burying a guy in the sand, then walking off with his six-pack of Bud Light.

* In ''[[Film/TheTallBlondManWithOneBlackShoe The Return of the Tall Blond Man]]'', the two {{professional killer}}s sent after François Perrin (Creator/PierreRichard) in Brazil shoot with their suppressed guns at what they believe is him buried in sand in lying-down position (his charentaises shoes stick out the other hand and a straw hat covers his face) on a beach, then they run away. When his girlfriend Christine comes out of the sea, she removes the charentaises thinking it was his feet, and it turns out he made her a prank and was buried vertically, with only his head sticking out (also unwittingly saving his own life from an AssassinationAttempt) under the straw hat.

* In ''[[Film/TheTallBlondManWithOneBlackShoe The Return of the Tall Blond Man]]'', the two {{professional killer}}s sent after François Perrin (Creator/PierreRichard) in Brazil shoot with their suppressed guns at what they believe is him buried in sand in lying-down position (his charentaises shoes stick out the other hand and a straw hat covers his face) on a beach, then they run away. When his girlfriend Christine comes out of the sea, she removes the charentaises thinking it was his feet, and it turns out he made her a prank was buried vertically, with only his head sticking out (also unwittingly saving his own life from an AssassinationAttempt).

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' Chaz is covered up to his neck in sand by Angelica while he's taking a nap. When Chuckie sees him in his and Tommy's attempt to liberate their sea monkeys, Chuckie freaks out and [[LosingYourHead proclaims]] that he's been "[[{{Malaproper}} decaffeinated]]."

* In ''Anime/FLCLProgressive'' Haruko exploits this trope during the BeachEpisode to incapacitate Jinyu by mixing the sand she's burying her in with concrete, leaving Jinyu stuck in a concrete cocoon while Haruko kidnaps Hidomi.

It's the BeachEpisode! WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong Well, for one, {{Genre Blind|ness}} characters will let themselves be buried in the sand, HilarityEnsues when the gravediggers [[SomethingWeForgot forget they're supposed to dig him out as well, or they forget where he is]], or angry crabs pass by, or something prevents them from finding him again, or… well, you get the idea.

* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} once [[LoopholeAbuse buried Odie]] [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1980/ga800814.gif up to his knees]]. He didn't specify which end of Odie he was starting with.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'''s [[BeachEpisode Beach Cold Open]] has the heroes burying ComicBook/{{Superboy}} this way.

It's the BeachEpisode! WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong Well, for one, GenreBlind characters will let themselves be buried in the sand, HilarityEnsues when the gravediggers [[SomethingWeForgot forget they're supposed to dig him out as well, or they forget where he is]], or angry crabs pass by, or something prevents them from finding him again, or… well, you get the idea.