History Main / CowTipping

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''. Mater invites Lightning to go "tractor tipping" ([[FantasticFaunaCounterpart tractors being the car world's analog of cows]]). He honks his horn, startling the tractor into driving forward and rearing back, which ends with it aiming straight up until it's fully awake enough to right itself. Lightning, who doesn't have a horn, gives it a try... by revving his engine, which is loud enough to startle the ''entire pasture''.

# Unless injured, cows are perfectly able to lie down and regain their footing whenever they want.
# You will probably make the cow angry, and it will try to defend itself, [[JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs possibly]] ''[[JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs killing]]'' [[JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs anyone who attempts this]].

--> '''Rolf:''' Never again will Rolf store his keys in his trouser pockets.

* [[https://garfield.com/comic/1996/06/16 The 06/15/96 strip]] of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' has Jon mention that he once went out cow tipping with some friends when he turned eighteen, which [[CatsAreMean inspires Garfield]] to tip over [[DogsAreDumb Odie]].

# You will probably make the cow angry, and it will try to defend itself, [[TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs possibly]] ''[[TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs killing]]'' [[TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs anyone who attempts this]].

# You will probably make the cow angry, and it will try to defend itself, [[DontTryThisAtHome possibly]] ''[[DontTryThisAtHome killing]]'' [[DontTryThisAtHome anyone who attempts this]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}''. After Snotty Boy cowtips an innocent cow along with his friends, Otis and the Jersey Cows turn the tables.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}''. After a boy tries cowtips an innocent cow along with his friends, Otis and the Jersey Cows turn the tables.
-->'''Otis''': [[IronicEcho That's called "boy tipping"! HA, HA, HA!]]

* Referenced in a ''Advertising/GotMilk'' ad featuring ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'' characters. The Gangreen Gang invade Pokey Oaks and steal the kindergartner's chocolate milk. Ace calls it "better than cow tipping".

# Cows don't sleep standing up.

* Referenced in a ''Advertising/GotMilk'' ad featuring ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' characters. The Gangreen Gang invade Pokey Oaks and steal the kindergartner's chocolate milk. Ace calls it "better than cow tipping".

* The invention exchange for ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode ''Film/AlienFromLA'' had Mike install "Fridge Utters" into a refridgerator to dispense varieties of milk (and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick crushed ice]]). Crow suggests getting drunk and "going fridge-tipping" later, and he's later shown to have tried, flattened under the fridge.

* As a subtle in-joke in ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'' said when the [[EverythingsBetterWithCows Friendly Bartender]] card is played.

* The 2005 MadeForTVMovie, ''Film/{{Larva}}'' starts with four teenagers going cow tipping in a Missouri field and after they push one of them over, they find out that it was already dead on its feet. As the teens are running away, laughing at what they had done, the parasites start chewing their way out of carcass.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Ben 10}}'': Three boys sneak onto a farm to tip cows at the start of the "Under Wraps" episode. Todd's attempt on a bull fails to move it even an inch and instead manages to greatly enrage it.

* Variant in ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': while the Eds are chasing a balloon, they bump into a cow, which then falls on Rolf.

* In one special of ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' where the kids go to a farm, Susie tries to do this, but the cow keeps laying down before she can. Eventually, the boy on the farm tells her cowtipping is just a myth, to which Susie says it's like {{Sewer Gator}}s, much to the boy's disappointment.

* ''Film/ILoveYouBethCooper'': Rich, Cammy, and Treece come across a field of cows while drunk and decide to tip one of them. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs when all three of them pushing together on the cow does not do anything other than starting a stampede that chases them out of the field]].