History Main / RakeTake

** [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2010/ga101107.gif One strip]] has John being victim of two of these.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'': ''The Black Island'' has this happening to Tintin during a chase on Dr. Mueller's estate; this also has a rare instance of someone ''weaponizing'' the trope, as the bad guys think Tintin is knocked out when he's just PlayingPossum, and he deliberately steps the rake into the face of the first {{Mook}} who approaches.

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* A variation happens in ''Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation'', when Clark keeps stepping on loose floorboards in the attic.
* In ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'', Dreyfus, while trying to avoid Clouseau, steps on one, causing him to fall over in the water.

* One of the hapless teens (Jason Buuck) in ''Hobgoblins 2'' steps on a rake after being distracted by a girl pretending to flash him, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l2LDyLQMfA leaving him a bit dazed]].

* On ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'', one young woman who gardened as a hobby died of suffocation by stepping on a hoe with a zucchini in her mouth as she prepared for a date.
* In ''Series/TheLateShow with Creator/DavidLetterman'''s Top Ten List of the most dangerous toys (from November 1997), Number 8 was "'Ouch!' The Step-On-A-Rake Game".
* It's a common gag on ''Series/TheBennyHillShow'', usually coupled with GroinAttack with a shorter rake.
* In an episode of ''Series/MysteryHunters'', Doubting Dave hits himself with a rake a few times when discussing about fairies.
* Jane Curtin closes Series/SaturdayNightLive's Angora Bouquet[[note]]A drug-laced facial cleanse[[/note]] commercial by giving Creator/BillMurray a rake in the face.

* ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime'' has loose planks on the pirate ship level that smack the player character whenever they step on them. It's the same gag.
** Brought back in ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesShreddersRevenge'', this time making an appearance on the Coney Island boardwalk.

* A rare level hazard in ''[[VideoGame/TinyToonAdventuresBustersHiddenTreasure Buster's Hidden Treasure]]'', a ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' game for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis. Stepping on one will briefly stun Buster, and in some levels, enemies can attack him while he is incapacitated.
* One of the rake-type traps is present in ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' in Isafdar forest. However, this trap has something else than just a stick at the end of the rake.

* In ''Delicious 9: Emily's Honeymoon Cruise'' the title character has a fight with her husband while on a Greek beach and after she storms off he steps on a rake and gets knocked out.
* Stepping on a rake is a minor hazard in ''VideoGame/SunsetRiders'' that causes comical effects (a big vertical indention on the face for Billy, Steve and Bob, while Cormano ends up taking [[GroinAttack a shot to the junk]]).
* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Skylanders}} Skylanders: SuperChargers]]'', Cloudbreather's Crag has rakes that will hit your Skylander if they step on them, though otherwise they're harmless. Outside of the level, you can buy one as a Legendary Treasure for use at Skylanders Academy.
* ''VideoGame/LakeviewCabinCollection'' feature rakes in ''Part III'' that the players can step on, being whacked with enough force to knock them off their feet. Which can also be weaponized against the killers.
* In ''VideoGame/Hitman2'', you can set this up in the Whittleton Creek level by placing rakes down on the ground. If anyone walks into them, they'll get smacked on the face and get knocked out. ''VideoGame/Hitman3'' allows you to do the same in Mendoza.
* In ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsWrestling'', Groundskeeper Willie can drop an assortment of gardening tools (including rakes) that knock down the opponent when stepped on. It's possible to continually drop them on downed enemies as a taunt, stopping them from getting up or regaining health but [[GetItOverWith not actually damaging them]].
* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame'' has [[spoiler:Sideshow Bob]] inexplicably show up inside [[spoiler:Kang and Kodos' ship]] ''just'' so he can (equally inexplicably) step on a rake and get knocked out. ''Again''.
-->'''[[spoiler:Kang]]''': I ''told'' you to pick up your [[spoiler:space-]]rake!

* After completing the main storyline of ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'', any of Zagreus' subsequent escapes from the Underworld no longer serve as plot advancement, and so upon defeating the final boss the player will simply be treated to the narrator giving a brief statement of the manner in which Zagreus ends up inevitably dying and returning to the House of Hades again. Do this enough times, and the [[LemonyNarrator narrator's tales start becoming more and more silly]] as he scrambles to find new means of death for the prince, including the "Tool" ending:
-->'''Narrator:''' As he explores the wonders of the world, Prince Zagreus discovers a quaint farm, in which he carelessly trespasses, stepping on a farming-tool, which swoops up and strikes him in the forehead, fatally.

* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' uses it on [[https://shortpacked.com/comic/batman-is-comedy-gold Batman]], relying on his intelligence for extra humor.

* In the 1949 WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} short "Tennis Racquet", due to the amount of gardening going on during the tennis match, one of the Goofys ended up doing a backwards version of this, stepping on the rake while walking backwards and getting hit in the back.

Obviously TruthInTelevision for anyone who tried that. In real life, however, it usually results in a nosebleed or, if bad enough, a trip to the emergency room or the dentist -- WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes jokes notwithstanding. And if an actual rake ''fails'' to rise and smack you, it may instead [[AgonyOfTheFeet hurt your foot]], [[LittleGirlsKickShins smack you in the shin]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and/or break the rake.]]

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* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': In "Sleepwalking", a sleepwalking Slim Doc steps towards a rake on the ground. Lamput shapeshifts into a helmet to protect Slim Doc, leading to Lamput getting hurt by the rake when it's stepped on.
* Near the end of ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 37, when he comes home from trying to catch Paddi, Wolffy steps on and is hit by a rake as one of the many unlucky things he is subjected to because of his unlucky doll.
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* Happens to Jack a couple of times on ''Series/ThreesCompany''.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' allows you to buy a rake for your lawn that kills the first zombie that it encounters; [[note]]buying time to collect Sun and skip early inexpensive plants in favor of better ones[[/note]] it lasts three levels, after which you can buy a new one.

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-->'''Torg:''' [Thinking] ''Alone, surrounded by vampires. My only hope is to dive for the rake by my feet, breaking the shaft into a wooden stake. But how am I going to find it in this mist?''\\
* WAP!*

* [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] described his initial experience with ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' as being like "walking into a dark shed full of rakes: immediately treading on one and getting blatted in the face". He also uses it to describe the failure of ''VideoGame/{{Brink}}'''s CharacterCustomization, where in spite of some substantial modification options for the time, "every character looks exactly the bloody same" and describing it as "failing to a new level... like standing on a rake, and the end of the rake has a grenade taped to it."

''' Sideshow Bob:''' I have a life outside of ''you'', Bart.

* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'', Sid the sloth walks on ''something'' in the abandoned human camp and gets whacked in the face.

* This can happen to Pac-Man in ''[[VideoGame/PacMan Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures]]'' at the farm.

-> '''Yahtzee:''' Last chance -- I'll just keep tanking the rakes and maybe I'll somehow become really psychotically into being rake-faced just in time to be prepared for [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsII the sequel]]. And ''I'll be blatted in the face with a rake if that isn't kind of what happened!''
-->-- '''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''' review of ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''

* In ''Franchise/TheSimpsons Wrestling'', Groundskeeper Willie can drop an assortment of gardening tools (including rakes) that knock down the opponent when stepped on. It's possible to continually drop them on downed enemies as a taunt, stopping them from getting up or regaining health but [[GetItOverWith not actually damaging them]].

* [[https://imgur.com/7t0a5RC These]] Capybara do it with metal trays.

Obviously TruthInTelevision for anyone who tried that. In real life, however, it usually results in a nosebleed or, if bad enough, a trip to the emergency room or the dentist -- WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes jokes notwithstanding. And if an actual rake ''fails'' to rise and smack you, it may instead [[AgonyOfTheFeet hurt your foot]] and/or break the rake.

* A rare level hazard in ''[[VideoGame/TinyToonAdventuresBustersHiddenTreasure Buster's Hidden Treasure]]'', a ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' game for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis. In some levels, enemies can attack you while the rake has incapacitated you.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' allows you to buy a rake for your lawn that kills the first zombie that it encounters; it lasts three levels, after which you can buy a new one.

* On ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'', one young woman who gardened as a hobby died of suffocation by stepping on a rake with a zucchini in her mouth as she prepared for a date.

* This happens to Sideshow Bob a lot in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', particularly in the "Cape Feare" story where he [[OverlyLongGag repeatedly stepped on a bunch of rakes in a row]]. Hanging onto the bottom of a car after it went through a bunch of cacti apparently left him too out of it to even notice how they were all there completely littering the ground. In the DVD commentary, the creators admit they were [[{{Padding}} filling for time]]. Once Sideshow Bob actually gets on the boat Bart is on, he's decked by one last rake. Sideshow Bob is so mad by this point that he chucks the rake overboard. It becomes a RunningGag or possibly even a BrickJoke in later episodes.

* In the climax of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'', this happens to Emporio Alniño with a mop, as he flees from [[BigBad Enrico Pucci]].

* The probes in ''[[WebOriginal/SeventeenThousandSevenHundredSeventySix 17776]]'' lament this tropes aversion via nanorobotics that protect humans from injury.

** Before that, [[http://garfield.com/comic/1985-05-18 Garfield himself was subjected to one]] in a 1985 strip.
** [[https://garfield.com/comic/2015/04/12 One of the bad things happening to Jon in this strip.]]

* Stepping on a rake is a minor hazard in ''VideoGame/{{Sunsetriders}}'' that causes comical effects (a big vertical indention on the face for Billy, Steve and Bob, while Cormano ends up taking [[GroinAttack a shot to the junk]]).

** In ''Yankee Doodle Bugs'', WesternAnimation/BugsBunny does this, and the resulting [[CirclingBirdies stars circling his head]] are what give Betsy Ross the idea of putting them on the U.S. flag. Or that's [[ArtisticLicenseHistory how he explains it to his nephew Clyde, anyway]].