History Main / CoveredinGunge

** ''BrainSurge'': Either lose at any point and get sent down the "Brain Drain", a slide filled with "earwax" foam, or win the game and the BonusRound and be subjected to the standard Nick green slime treatment.

->"He... ''slimed'' me!"
-->--'''Venkman''', ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}''

Britain started all this in the 1960s with ''Not Only But Also'' and the festival of anarchy that was ''{{Tiswas}}''. Slightly later on, America got into it as well thanks to the Canadians with the sketch show ''YouCantDoThatOnTelevision''. In general, American game shows tended to use slime as an obstacle or even reward, while the British, with their typical mastery of villainy, treated it more as a sort of ritual punishment with various elaborate and spectacular gungings being dealt out to celebrities or the general public courtesy of the [[TheBBC BBC]].

* ''{{Tiswas}}'': There's an interesting example vis buckets of water. One time, the band Rainbow were in the cage (along with some other people). One of them- Tarrant still refuses to say who- lit up a joint live on national TV. Tarrant threw a bucket of water over him (and the spliff) pretty much immediately.

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* At the climax of DanielPinkwater's ''Young Adult Novel'', the Wild Dada Ducks are assaulted in the Himmler High lunchroom by the other students with one thousand portions of extra soggy Grape-Nuts cereal.

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* In {{Spider-Men}}, Peter's webs are rendered pretty realistically, so that when he web-yanks Mysterio by the face, it's covered in gooey little driblets of web.

->'''Host:''' ''What do we do?''
->'''Audience:''' '''''CRANK 'EM UP!'''''
-->-- ''Get Your Own Back''

** ''FigureItOut'': Any panelist who triggered the "Secret Slime Action" got to see why that weird pipe was hanging ominously over his or her head. Turned UpToEleven in the current revival, as the slime from the Secret Slime Action can come from ''anywhere'', and clues are often delivered by spraying massive amounts of some kind of related liquid into the panelists' faces. The ''contestant'' can get slimed as well if a panelist guesses the "Word of Honor", the word in the puzzle most critical to guessing the player's secret.

* This happens in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' when Calvin uses the [[TimeStandsStill Time Pauser]] to dump the gooey school lunches on every kid's head.

* In ''The Incredible Shrinking Woman'', [[IncredibleShrinkingMan the increasingly tiny]] housewife Pat falls into a garbage disposal. It gets worse when the maid, who is oblivious to the situation because she's listening to a radio very loudly, starts scraping off the plates into the disposal.

* Throughout the ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'' episode "Baby Cakes", Pinkie dumps a bag of flour on herself numerous times to amuse a pair of baby twins. At one point she gets sprayed with water first, turning the flour into sloppy dough.

* In one episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'', while trying to amuse a pair of baby twins, Pinkie Pie gets wet and then dumps a bag of flour on herself, covering her in sloppy dough.

*** We are all with Sam on that one, especially if that certain ghost hunter is [[spoiler: Jack Fenton]].

* {{Nickelodeon}}'s ''[[DoubleDare1986 Double Dare]]'' set the standard for gungy game shows in the US with their branded green slime "Gak." Raised [[UpToEleven up to 11]] when it became ''Super Sloppy Double Dare'' and the show never looked back. ''Double Dare 2000'' introduced "Goooze".

** ''FunHouse'', arguably the most successful, both in the US and the UK. Whole lot of fun, Prizes to be won. While gunge is chucked about liberally.

* [[DannyPhantom Tucker]] was a victim when ghost hunters attacked him when he was dressing up as a ghost. We earn this gem:

Also notable for the RuleThirtyFour version -- WAM (Wet And Messy) fetishism. Technically (at least borderline) RuleThirtyFour but arguably less gross, are depictions of characters covered in chocolate, especially if the chocolate is actively being poured on top of them. Common in Japanese Valentine's Day FanService.

* Happens in the {{Eiken}} OVA, in the infamous huge yogurt-slide... and then chocolate.

* In ''TheAdrianMoleDiaries'', the adult Adrian is invited onto what he thinks is a straightforward chat show to talk about his cookery book. As he begins talking about ''Cooking With Offal'', a tank overhead opens and deluges him with unexpected, and humiliating, gunge.

[[caption-width-right:300:You'd think IndianaJones would have seen that trap coming.]]

** What of the time Colin is holding a cream pie Ryan is dressed as a clown and Drew [[CreamPieInTheFace slams the pie in Ryan's face during the game.]]

* Redwood Games put out two educational platforming titles, ''Word Rescue'' and "Math Rescue'' where this trope would be used in lieu of dispatching enemy Gruzzles with violent weaponry. The player character would simply point at the Gruzzle and Benny Bookworm/Butterfly would instantly drop a bucket of pink slime on them. ''Math Rescue'' justified this trope by explaining the slime was stink mud, and the Gruzzles slimed by it would teleport to their spaceships to take baths and not return.