History Main / CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon

-->'''Thor:''' If you don't log off this game immediately, I'm gonna fly over to your house, find that basement you're hiding in, rip off your arms, and shove them up your butt!

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': When Lila is chosen to be Juliet for the school play with Arnold, Helga does everything talk her out of it, but eventually Lila manages to get Helga to confess the truth about ''why'' she wants to be Juliet so badly. Upon revealing this Helga threatens that if Lila ever told anyone she would pull out her tongue and wrap it around her neck.

* In the episode "Red October Sky" of the show ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Sergei, a retired communist spy who swore revenge against Stan, makes a odd threat against him at the end of the episode.

-->'''Dalia:''' You know what’s going to be painful? When my mother remarries your father and IÂ’m your new sister and Dad likes me best. And then we send you away to an all-girls boarding school where you find true love. And on visiting day I come up and steal your new girlfriend. ''(sips her drink)''The following spring we marry in a civil ceremony which you are forced to cater. And everyone hates your catering. And you get a bad review on Yelp, which pretty much sinks your organic lesbian catering venture.

* In ''Literature/TheWarlordChronicles'', at one point the main character finds himself [[TactfulTranslation translating between]] the leaders of the Britons following Myth/KingArthur and the Saxon [[WarriorPrince Warrior King]][=/=]BoisterousBruiser Aelle. When called upon to surrender, Aelle responds by leveling these sorts of threats at every prominent leader there, and some that are absent. What follows in only ''one'' of those. The [[Quotes/TactfulTranslation quotes page for Tactful Translation]] has more of the threats, although that's still considerably shorter than the entire passage.

* Angela of ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle Eragon]]'' wishes the following fate on Durza the Shade: "IÂ’d like to cut his heart out with a dull hairpin and feed it to a pig!"

** Also parodied in the Meg Ryan/Matthew Broderick vehicle ''Film/AddictedToLove'', when the aforementioned actors' characters play "[=MST3K=]" while observing their former loves via a optical-projection.

* In ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'', Duke homages ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' as he tells the second boss "I'll rip your head off and shit down your neck!" After you win the fight, Duke does exactly that. While reading the newspaper. [[ThemeTuneCameo And whistling the game's theme.]]

* The TropeNamer is ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'': "I'm gonna cut his heart out with a spoon!" Exclaimed by the Sheriff of Nottingham. The Sheriff's [[TheDragon Dragon]] Guy of Gisbourne [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the trope, asking why he doesn't use a more suitable implement. [[DontExplainTheJoke The Sheriff]] [[DiscussedTrope snaps]], "Because it's ''dull'', you twit! It'll ''hurt'' more!"

* The Trope Namer, from ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'': "I'm gonna cut his heart out with a spoon!" Exclaimed by the Sheriff of Nottingham. The Sheriff's [[TheDragon Dragon]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the trope, asking why he doesn't use a more suitable implement. [[DontExplainTheJoke The Sheriff]] [[DiscussedTrope snaps]], "Because it's ''dull'', you twit! It'll ''hurt'' more!"
** When he does kill the [[TheDragon Dragon]] (Guy of Gisborne) with a sword, the last words he says to him: "Well at least I didn't use a spoon."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tigtone}}'' The demon in the Caves of Peganone--who claims that the magic boots are his--delivers a series of descriptions of what he's going to do to Tigtone that falls flat at the end:

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee''; after beating up the demonic warlord Maret, June gave him a good one:
-->'''June:''' Now if you ''ever'' go near my family again, they're gonna need a 6th Level locator spell just to find what's left of you. Jerk.

** And of course, Saxton Hale has by far the best one

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In the episode where Mark made his debut, an episode of [[ShowWithinAShow Crash Nebula]] that Timmy, AJ and Chester were watching, had enemy aliens holding a bunch of astronauts hostage and threatening them that they'd suck out their brains with a straw. Later, Mark used the exact same threat against AJ and Chester when he kept them captive before Timmy came to the rescue.

*** In "Man From Jupiter:"
---->'''Malory:''' So help me god, if you drop that computer on the floor again, I will make sure you wake up in a mental ward with total amnesia under someone else's name.

* In Nick Cave's novel ''And The Ass Saw The Angel'', a man threatens to rip off Euchrid's head and shit down his neck, in what is probably a ''Full Metal Jacket'' allusion.

** Willow also once told Riley, "[[IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer If you hurt her]], I will beat you to death with a shovel. A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend."
** Dawn also had one in the episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E2BeneathYou Beneath You]]":

* Among lesser examples in the ''Series/{{Sharpe}}'' miniseries, in ''[[Recap/SharpeS2E1SharpesCompany Sharpe's Company]]'', Sgt. Patrick Harper and Sgt. Obadiah Hakeswill, who has tried to set a soldier up for undeserved punishment and is carrying a spontoon (a type of lance), have this hushed exchange:

* From the ''Series/FawltyTowers'' episode "Communication Problems":

** Within the first hour of play, when you accept the quest where you escort Claptrap towards his ship, Captain Flynt is going to have his minions Boom Bewm kill you, get paid by Handsome Jack, and play hopscotch on your chest cavity.

* In the Literature/{{Redwall}} prequel ''Martin the Warrior'', Captain Clogg throws a fit of rage when Badrang sets fire to his ship, and screams "I'll cut yer 'ead off an' throw it in yer face!" (Technically possible if one assumes he doesn't mean that head, but since this is a children's book it's unlikely that was the intended meaning. [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Then again ...]])

** And in Chapter 4, any threats that Judge Grindstump utters whenever Guybrush gets him angry turn into Funny Moments, like, for example:
--->'''Grindstump:''' The defendant will cease his inane histrionics, or the court will be forced to ''[growls a bit before he becomes Pox-enraged]'' [[LargeHam YANK OUT HIS TONGUE WITH A RUSTY SHRIMP FORK! ARRR!]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'' episode "He Ain't Scary, He's My Brother", a punk named Roadkill gets angry at Frankentyke and threatens to hear his head off and spit down his neck.

* In ''Series/{{Blackadder}},'' there was a bizarre one that was conducted in mime, that involved being dunked upside down in a vat of warm marmalade and having your goolies cut off with a scythe.
** Also, in ''Series/{{Blackadder}} the Third'', Mr. E. Blackadder issued this: "Baldrick, believe me; eternity in the company of Beelzebub -- and all his hellish instruments of torment -- will be a picnic compared to five minutes with me [[NoodleImplements and this pencil]]."
*** Or "Baldrick, does it ''have'' to be this way? Our [[BlatantLies valued friendship]] ending with me cutting you into long strips and telling the Prince that you walked over a very sharp cattle grid while wearing an extremely heavy hat?"

** In ''Blackadder II'''s "Potato," Edmund tells Baldrick to leave before "I cut off your head, scoop out the insides and give it to your mother as a vase."

** This, from "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIGunmnOfTheApocalypse Gunmen of the Apocalypse]]":