History Main / HelpHelpTrappedInTitleFactory

* The page image is from ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'', where a writer has been enslaved in his own home by a muse that's a BrawnHilda, emphasis on "Brawn".

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** In ''Literature/InterestingTimes'', the Silver Horde interrupt a tax collector in the Forbidden City, just as he's writing (in the traditional poetic form) that Seven Lucky Logs owes one pig and three measurements of rice. Before they take him along as a guide, Cohen dictates a replacement for that text, which reads "Roses are red, violets are blue. Seven Lucky Logs to be given one pig and all the rice he can carry because he is One Lucky Peasant. By order of Six Beneficient Winds, Collector of Revenues. Help. Help. If anyone reads this I am being held prisoner by an evil eunuch. Help."

* A message in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' is in a Christmas cracker and says "Help help help Ive fallen in the crakker machine I cant keep runin on this roller please get me ou-". Someone says it's the same old mottos as when they were kids.

* ''LightNovel/MySisterMyWriter'', an anime which was infamous for its frequent instances of OffModel, has one of the staff credited as 正直困太 ("Shoujiki Komatta"). That's not a real person's name - it instead translates to "We're in serious trouble", as in the anime's own TroubledProduction.

* Comes up in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' during a StoryArc where Linus's mom leaves him inspirational notes in his BrownBagLunch: [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1961/02/22 one reads]] "Help! I'm being held prisoner in a School Lunch factory!"

Someone is trapped, or forced to work against his will, in some kind of facility that produces publicly available goods (such as fortune cookie fortunes, or candybar wrappings). He proceeds to use them as a means of communicating with the outside world and asking for help.

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'': A writer has disappeared, though he continues to turn in manuscripts to his editors; however, Conan discovers that said manuscripts contain a coded message for help. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted, as the author was simply terminally ill and had faked his own kidnapping in hopes that one of his fans could solve the puzzle he'd devised before he passed away.]]

* Website/CollegeHumor: In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ce_954P20I photoshop tutorial video]], a guy who has been kidnapped by North Korea to edit their publicity photographs eventually tries to use the instructional video to give his co-ordinates to any possible rescuer, only to be beaten up by the guard.

-->'''Wilt:''' Who knows? First I've heard of it. Before this, he did funny sketches and songs like "My Evil Producer Has Kidnapped Me and Won't Let Me Go", the "Somebody Save Me" magic show, and "A Little Help from My Imaginary Fr--" ''(realization)'' I am so ''stupid!''

* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Animaniacs Game Pack]]'': One of the closing animations you get after quitting the game is Wakko yelling "Help! We're trapped in a software company!"

* A ''VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack The Lost Gold'' CouchGag reads: "Help! I'm being held hostage in a tagline factory!"

* In ''Help I Am Being Held Prisoner'', by Donald E. Westlake, the message "HELP I AM BEING HELD PRISONER" begins to appear in various kinds of goods produced in a prison soon after compulsive practical joker Harry arrives there. With every message that appears, Harry finds himself more trapped between the rock of the warden and the hard place of his fellow convicts. [[spoiler:Subverted: Harry wasn't sending the messages, it was the gardener who was about to be released and didn't want to leave.]]

* The rare "Buggre all this" edition of the Bible that Aziraphelle had in ''Literature/GoodOmens''.

** It happened again in [[https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/10/17953106/walmart-prison-note-china-factory 2017]] when a women bought a purse in Walmart, and the note details how prisoners are forced to work long hours to finish a quota, those that don't get a beating, and they are served little food because most of it is eaten by the guards.

* ''LightNovel/MySisterMyWriter'', an anime which was infamous for its frequent instance of OffModel, has one of the staff credited as 正直困太 ("Shoujiki Komatta"). That's not a real person's name - it instead translates to "We're in serious trouble", as in the anime's own TroubledProduction.

* A message in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' is in a Christmas cracker and says "Help help help Ive fallen in the crakker machine I cant keep runin on this roller please get me ou-". Someone says it's the same old mottos as when they were kids.

* ''LightNovel/OreGaSukiNanoWaImoutoDakedoImoutoJaNai'', an anime which was infamous for its frequent instance of OffModel, has one of the staff credited as 正直困太 ("Shoujiki Komatta"). That's not a real person's name - it instead translates to "We're in serious trouble", as in the anime's own TroubledProduction.

* An entirely straight variation, even with a Chinese factory: Tesco Halts Christmas Cards From China After 'Slave' Laborer In Prison Factory Begs For Help. A reporter who was previously a prisoner in the same prison investigated and says it's real, while the Chinese government says it's fake.

** It happened again in [[https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/10/17953106/walmart-prison-note-china-factory 2017]] when a women bought a purse in Walmart, and the note details how prisoners are forced to work long hours to finish a quota, those that don't get a beating, and they are served little food because most of it is eaten by the guards.An * * An entirely straight variation, even with a Chinese factory: Tesco Halts Christmas Cards From China After 'Slave' Laborer In Prison Factory Begs For Help. A reporter who was previously a prisoner in the same prison investigated and says it's real, while the Chinese government says it's fake.

** It happened again in [[https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/10/17953106/walmart-prison-note-china-factory 2017]] when a women bought a purse in Walmart, and the note details how prisoners are forced to work long hours to finish a quota, those that don't get a beating, and they are served little food because most of it is eaten by the guards.

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