History Main / NoAnimalsWereHarmed

* Spoofed in one trailer for ''Film/NinjaAssassin'': "Only one ninja was harmed in the making of this movie. [[KillEmAll The rest were killed.]]"

* In one episode of ''Series/TwoPointFourChildren'', Ben tries to put the kettle on but accidentally turns on the blender and liquidizes David's goldfish, which had been put in there when the goldfish bowl got broken. In TheStinger to the episode, in order to demonstrate that the goldfish wasn't harmed, they show how the scene was "really" filmed. Just before Ben turns on the blender, a stage hand pours the fish into a bowl and replaces it with an artificial one. They then try to shoot the scene, but the bowl is in shot. The director asks Ben to hide it - Ben looks around and puts the bowl in the microwave. They start filming - and Ben accidentally [[MicrowaveThePet turns on the microwave]] instead of the blender.

* In one episode of ''Series/TwoPointFourChildren'', Ben tries to put the kettle on but accidentally turns on the blender and liquidizes David's goldfish, which had been put in there when the goldfish bowl got broken. In TheStinger to the episdoe, in order to demonstrate that the goldfish wasn't harmed, they show how the scene was "really" filmed. Just before Ben turns on the blender, a stage hand pours the fish into a bowl and replaces it with an artificial one. They then try to shoot the scene, but the bowl is in shot. The director asks Ben to hide it - Ben looks around and puts the bowl in the microwave. They start filming - and Ben accidentally turns on the microwave instead of the blender.

-->Animal interaction was monitored by the American Humane Association with on set supervision by the Toronto Humane Society. No animal was harmed in the making of this film.
-->Human interaction was monitored by the Inter Planetary Psychiatric Association. The body count was high, the casualties are heavy.

-->'''Maya''': "Remember that thing in movies where they say "No animals were harmed in the making of this film? Well..."

---> '''Puppet goldfish:''' Don't worry, goldfish-lovers everywhere. I am, in fact, a ''stunt'' goldfish. In fact, by the time this programme airs, I will be doing the new Franchise/JamesBond film. So there's no need to write in.
---> '''Puppet hunk of food:''' They never read the letters anyway.

-->"No sheep were harmed in the making of this game. For the most part. The one that was had it coming."

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones & WWE: Stone Age Smackdown'': "No dinosaurs or hopparoos were harmed in the animation of this cartoon."

* Spoofed awesomely in one trailer for ''Film/NinjaAssassin'': "Only one ninja was harmed in the making of this movie. [[KillEmAll The rest were killed.]]"

* An advertisement for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game on the Nintendo Gamecube said, "No turtles were harmed in the making of this game (that part comes when you play it)".

* During the filming of horse race scenes for the series ''Series/{{Luck}}'' two horses were hurt and had to be euthanized. The production crew was cleared of charges of mistreating the horses and the deaths were attributed to the standard dangers faced by thoroughbred horses during racing. The series premiere even included a (fake) scene where a racehorse breaks a leg during a race and is euthanized on the track. The series does not use the "No animals were harmed" message in its credits. After another horse died during the filming of season two, Creator/{{HBO}} decided to simply cancel the series due to the bad publicity (and lower than desired ratings).

* At one point in the UK, IKEA sold a special version of their hot dogs called "corgi dogs", which was the basic hot dog in a corgi-shaped wrapper. Any physical advertisements featuring them had some small print stating that "no corgi's were harmed".

In particular, according to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Humane_Association The Other Wiki]], a scene in the 1939 film ''Jesse James'', wherein a blindfolded horse was ridden off a cliff to its death, is the direct cause of the founding of the American Humane Association (the trademark holder on the phrase "no animals were harmed"), and the "No animals were harmed" language dates directly to the controversy over that movie.

* ''Series/IditarodTheToughestRaceOnEarth'': In light of recent outcries by animal rights groups about the well-being of Iditarod sled dogs, the series emphasizes how well the dogs are treated. The mushers know their dogs inside and out, and put their safety above all else. All dogs given a close physical check-up before the race; if a dog is sick or injured, they are pulled out and flown to Anchorage for medical treatment. The racers are not allowed to give their dogs injury-masking drugs of any kind. Each team is required to rest a full 24 hours, as well as take two eight-hour rests. Additionally, the race has 40 vets to take care of the dogs — but only one doctor to take care of the humans.

* Parodied/Inverted in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo&feature=player_embedded recent video about Google Chrome OS and it's laptop]]: "25 computers were harmed in the making of this video."

* A few years ago, 7-Eleven would have smoking ID plaques that said "18 in Dog Years doesn't count" with the picture of a dog wearing sunglasses and holding a (fake) cigarette in its mouth. The fine print at the bottom read "No Dogs were harmed in the making of this image. One however, got a little crunk."

Note that the phrase refers to animals specifically in the colloquial "non-sapient beings" sense. "No human beings were harmed in the making of this film" is a phrase you will never see outside of this sentence.[[note]]Well, it was a CouchGag in the Futurama episode where Fry dates a robot, but you get our point.[[/note]] Human actors (or crew for that matter) applied of their own free will, they should at least in theory know what they were getting into, and they have their own organizations (such as OSHA and the Screen Actors Guild) to watchdog their safety concerns.

* The 1943 flick ''Captive Wild Woman'' features a genuine fight between a circus tiger and lion, which is broken up by turning a real fire hose on the tussling big cats.

* When ''Series/InsomniacWithDaveAttell'' was in New Orelans, hey rode along with the NOPD as they we exterminating Nutria. He finished the bit with the disclaimer, "Just in case you are wondering, a lot of animals were hurt during the shooting of this."

[[caption-width-right:350:But many were hanged during the ''playing'' of this game]]

* ''VideoGame/FightOfAnimals'' has the following disclaimer, in {{Engrish}}:

* Greyhound racing is dogged by allegations that aging or surplus dogs are un-necessarily routinely put down, not always humanely; dog-racing maintains that old greyhounds do not make suitable family pets and cannot be re-homed when their racing days are over. Animal rights groups dispute this.

* In the movie ''Film/{{Oldboy 2003}}'', the main character eats a live octopus. (The scene was shot in four takes, meaning that four octopi died.) For added irony, Cho Min-sik -- the actor playing the character -- is a vegetarian. He's also a devout Buddhist, and he prayed for forgiveness before filming each take.

* The exploitation film ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'' is infamous for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Holocaust#Animal_cruelty scenes of gratuitous animal death]], among other things.

* In ''Dracula: Prisoner Of Frankenstein'', there is a scene where a real bat is in a jar and blood starts being poured into the jar. At first the bat seems to enjoy it, happily lapping up the blood, but then they start pouring in too much and it panics as it starts to drown in it. It's not known whether the bat drowned or not.

** According to ''Website/{{Cracked}}.com'''s article: [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_817_23-outrageous-marketing-lies-you-see-every-day 23 Outrageous Marketing Lies You See Every Day]] explains that those 27 animals died from dehydration, exhaustion, and drowning during a break in the filming of the movie. The American Humane Association claims that they monitored all the "Significant animal action", and that no animals were harmed during the ''[[ExactWords actual filming]].''

* ''WebComics/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': In [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-02-28 strip for 2013-02-28]]: "No animals were harmed in making the food in this can." [[ExactWords Of course,]] that says nothing about a MadScientist harming koalas and dolphins to make the can itself.

* The back of a carton of Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey ice cream states that no monkeys were harmed in the making of this product, although a few bananas may have been roughed up a little... This might have to do with an incident where the flavor sold poorly when it was first released in Japan, despite positive response from focus groups, due to the name [[BlindIdiotTranlation being mistranslated]] to mean "Chunks of Monkey".

* The back of a carton of Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey ice cream states that no monkeys were harmed in the making of this product, although a few bananas may have been roughed up a little...