History Main / GarbageHideout

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. In the season 6 episode "Irreconcilable Differences", Team Arrow infiltrates ARGUS by having Renee and Curtis dress up as custodians and sneak Felicity in by rolling her in inside a trash can so that she can access and disable the closed circuit, landline security system to allow Oliver entry.

* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': In the episode "Alien Invasion", Drake and Josh prank Megan into thinking there is alien activity by tampering with the equipment she's been using to pick it up. The two hide in trash cans to spy on her and hear her buying the prank, much to their pleasure. However, their dad Walter comes out to empty the trash and disposes it in Josh's can. Drake remains safe, though.
* ''Series/TheGoodies'': In "Scoutrageous", Graeme and Bill hide in a pair of dustbins as they are tailing Tim to his mysterious appointment. Unfortunately for Graeme, someone comes out and empties a bucket of food scraps into his.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': At the start of the "Crime and Punishment" mission, Niko finds Roman hiding in a dumpster to escape some criminals following him. He is abducted by Andrei moments later.

** In "Strife of the Party", Lana goes into a trashcan to cry after finding out that Lola sabotaged her birthday party plans. This apparently wasn't hare first time she'd done so, Lola called it her "sad can".

* In the American remake of ''13 Tzameti'', the protagonist is going to be questioned by the police, so he hides the fortune he won in the illegal DeadlyGame inside a garbage can, leading to an OhCrap moment when he returns to find the garbage has been collected. Fortunately the garbage bags have only been piled nearby for the garbage truck to pick up, and he's able to find the right one.

** In "Tedere Tronica", the same thing happens to Jerom when he's hiding in a trash can to keep an eye on Professor Barabas (who is being targeted by criminals because of a his latest invention).

* ''Series/{{MASH}}''. In the episode "Rally 'Round the Flagg Boys", Colonel Flagg recruits Charles into spying on Hawkeye, to dig up proof that he's a Communist sympathizer. For their covert rendezvous Flagg takes cover in a garbage can, leading to plenty of {{Deadpan Snarker}}y from Charles. "I'm going to talk to Colonel Potter now, about getting you better quarters." After Charles leaves, a corpsman leaves the mess tent and empties his tray of food into it.

* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "Runner", Bodie is running down a lowlife only for him to do a StealthHiBye. Bodie looks frustrated for a moment, then sees a cul-de-sac full of industrial bins. He topples one of them, spilling out the man he was chasing amid a load of rubbish.

* In the American remake of ''13 Tzameti'', the protagonist is going to be questioned by the police, so he hides the fortune he won in the illegal DeadlyGame inside a garbage can, leading to an OhCrap moment when he returns to find the garbage has been collected. Fortunately all the garbage bags have only been piled nearby for the garbage truck to pick up, and he's able to find the right one.

* In the American remake of ''13 Tzameti'', the protagonist is going to be questioned by the police, so he hides the fortune he won in the illegal DeadlyGame inside a garbage can, leading to an OhCrap moment when he returns to find the garbage has been collected. Fortunately all the garbage bags have been piled nearby for collection, and he's able to find the right one.

* ''Series/{{MASH}}''. In the episode "Rally 'Round the Flagg Boys", Colonel Flagg tries to persuade Charles into spying on Hawkeye for him to dig up proof that he's a Communist sympathizer. For their covert rendezvous Flagg takes cover in a garbage can, leading to plenty of {{Deadpan Snarker}}y from Charles. "I'm going to talk to Colonel Potter now, about getting you better quarters." After Charles leaves, a corpsman leaves the mess tent and empties his tray of food into it.

* RecycledInSpace in the ''Series/DeepSpaceNine'' episode "The Siege", when Starfleet personnel hide in empty hazardous waste disposal containers to ambush a squad of Bajoran soldiers.

* ''Series/TheGoodies'': In "Scoutrageous", Graeme and Bill hide in a pair of dustbins as they tailing Tim to his mysterious appointment. Unfortunately for Graeme, someone comes out and empties a bucket of food scraps into his.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In "Schooled", Lincoln hides in a trash can to avoid Lynn Jr., who has been promoted to hall monitor and enforces the school rules with iron fist.

** Hiding in a Trash-Can is actually one of Randall's favorite spots to spy on people and then rat them out. Unfortunately, if someone's going to take out the trash, he'll sometimes have the trash dumped on him.

-->-- '''Charles Winchester''', ''Series/{{MASH}}'', "Rally Round The Flagg, Boys"

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* ''Series/{{MASH}}''. In the episode "Rally 'Round the Flagg Boys", Colonel Flagg tries to persuade Charles into spying on Hawkeye for him to dig up proof that he's a Communist sympathizer. At one point Flagg takes cover in a garbage can, just before a corpsman leaves the mess tent and empties his tray of food into it.

* RecycledInSpace in the ''Series/DeepSpaceNine'' episode "The Siege", when Starfleet personnel hide in plastic waste disposal containers in a cargo bay to ambush a squad of Bajoran soldiers.

** ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''. The Millenium Falcon had been hiding from capture by clinging to the blindside of an Imperial cruiser's bridge section. When the Imperial cruiser dumps its garbage before going to lightspeed, Captain Solo releases the landing claw, and poses as one more hunk of junk. The cruiser departs, none the wiser.

* In the season 6 episode "Irreconcilable Differences" of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', Team Arrow infiltrates ARGUS by having Renee and Curtis dress up as custodians and sneaking Felicity in by rolling her in inside a trash can so that she can access and disable the closed circuit, landline security system to allow Oliver entry.

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* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': In the episode "Alien Invasion", Drake and Josh prank Megan into thinking there is alien activity by tampering with the equipment she's been using to pick it up. The two hide in trash cans to spy on her, adn hear her buying the prank, much to their pleasure. However, their dad Walter comes out to empty the trash and disposes it in Josh's can. Drake remains safe, though.

* A campaign for Advertising/{{GEICO}} has [[WildlifeCommentarySpoof a wildlife expert stalking the gecko mascot]]. In one ad, the expert hides in a garbage can to watch the gecko, then gets taken away by a garbage truck.