History Main / MouseTrap

* Oh so many ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' shorts.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Phil sets multiple mouse traps in the guest room where his sister Mitzi (who is visiting for the week) is staying in to get her to leave the boarding house. However, Mitzi tricks Phil into falling for his own traps and...well you already know what happens from there.

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/MovingPictures'', there's an interlude involving a man who's devoted himself to building a better mouse trap. [[note]]Then he gets trampled by a herd of elephants[[/note]]
** In ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'', the Death of Rats collects a mouse that fell prey to one of these.
** In ''Discworld/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents'', the Trap Disposal Squad's byword is "Be like the second mouse". The first mouse, in this parable, is the one that gets the trap rather than the cheese.

* Played for Laughs in ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'' one of the deadly traps devised by the unseen "Enemy" is a comically oversized mouse trap, complete with block of cheese in place. [[TooDumbToLive And one of the soldiers doesn't see anything wrong with that.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'': In "Booby Traps", one of the booby traps that almost does for Snafu is a giant mousetrap.

[[caption-width-right:350:The lengths some mice will go to...]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', Grommit's put Wallace on a diet, and sets a mousetrap in Wallace's secret (he thinks) cheese cupboard.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold", Phil sets multiple mouse traps in the guest room where his sister Mitzi (who is visiting for the week) is staying in to get her to leave the boarding house. However, Mitzi tricks Phil into falling for his own traps and...well you already know what happens from there.

* On ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', Skipper tests the others by having them go through a minefield of mouse traps to get a fish. Rico simply walks straight through, oblivous to the traps snapping on his person.

* Inch High Private Eye goes into a mousehole and meets a mouse bigger than he is. He backs up and his trenchcoat trips a mousetrap; the mouse snickers at him.

* In ''Film/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', Grommit's put Wallace on a diet, and sets a mousetrap in Wallace's secret (he thinks) cheese cupboard.

** In ''Hogfather'', the Death of Rats collects a mouse that fell prey to one of these.

* In the original BBC version of the Borrowers, Pod carefully grabs a bit of cheese from one; the trap still snaps but he avoids getting hurt by swerving away.

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/MovingPictures'', there's an interlude involving a man who's devoted himself to building a better mouse trap.

* In the English ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_clJ5wDIw Walkers advert]]'' starring Gary Lineker, he tries to steal some crisps from his son (while being guided by his [[GoodAngelBadAngel angel and devil]]. When he attempts to he ends up [[ThatsGottaHurt getting a mouse trap instead]].

* On ''Series/ThreesCompany'', the trio had a mouse, and Jack switched beds with Janet until it got caught. (Since Chrissy was a

farmer's daughter, she had no problem being in the same room with a mouse.) After some hilarity ensued, Jack ended up with the mouse trap on his foot.

* On ''Series/ThreesCompany'', the trio had a mouse, and Jack switched beds with Janet until it got caught. (Since Chrissy was a farmer's daughter, she had no problem being in the same room with a mouse.) After some hilarity ensued, Jack ended up with the mouse trap on his foot.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "The Boy Who Knew Too Much", Bart tells that the incident where Freddy Quimby beat up a waiter was actually a result of the waiter's own clumsiness. When the waiter tries to tell everybody that he's not clumsy, he slips and falls out the window into a truck full of mousetraps.

* ''FIlm/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': Jessica's "[[VictoriasSecretCompartment booby]] [[IncrediblyLamePun trap]]" (fittingly, a larger rat-trap--it injures one of Doom's weasel lackeys.)

* In the first ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther Pink Panther]]'' short, "The Pink Phink", a painter sees the Panther's tracks and thinks he's dealing with a large mouse. So he gets a giant mousetrap, but the Panther sneaks up from behind and trips him, causing the trap to snap on the seat of his pants. As he walks away with the trap behind him, a mouse runs up and takes the cheese on the trap.

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* One of the stories about ''Emil of Lönneberga'' by {{Creator/Astrid Lindgren}} has Emil's father Anton getting his [[AgonyOfTheFeet toe]] stuck in a rat trap.

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* In ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'', Professor Jirafales buys many of these and tells Chavo to hide them everywhere to catch a mouse in Doña Florinda's restaurant. [[LiteralMinded El Chavo]] of course complies, but hides them in so many places that Doña Florinda and others accidentally find and activate them several times.

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