History Main / RunsWithScissors

* From ''{{Bionicle}}'':

* An episode of ''TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' Zack and Cody are looking to find the food critic who constantly wears disguises. They find an asian man with a grey beard and assume he is the critic, so they try to vacuum the beard off, but after discovering the beard's real and the vacuum can't be turned off, Cody goes to get the scissors and starts walking. Zack tells him to hurry, but Cody says he can't because mom said not to run with scissors.

* The studio that developed 'VideoGame/'{{Postal}}'' and sequels is called ''Running with Scissors''.

* ''TheFarSide'': In one cartoon, a new employee at a scissors factory is curious about an elderly woman watching over the production line from an elevated chair. An older employee says: "You must be new here. That's Miss Crutchfield, and she's there to make sure nobody runs with scissors."

* SoulCalibur references this with one of Voldo's attacks, where he steps forward three times while clashing his claw-weapons together.

* ''TheSims2'' had a downloadable object that was a large pair of scissors. If you forced the Sim to run with them, he would be killed.

* The studio that developed ''{{Postal}}'' and sequels is called ''Running with Scissors''.

'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Something without which no [[RibbonCuttingCeremony ribbon-cutting ceremony]] could proceed: the ceremonial oversized scissors.\\

* The music video for Music/GreenDay's "Warning" depicts a young man who spends his entire day defying "conventional wisdoms" of various types. Towards the start of the video, he runs down a hallway, picks up a pair of scissors that are hanging up on a peg on the way and sets them back down on another peg at the end of the hall.

* In ''Manga/{{Mirai Nikki}}'', [[TykeBomb Reisuke]] attempts to kill Yuno this way and make it look like an accident. Lucky she had a pillow handy.

* In ''Manga/{{Mirai Nikki}}'', [[TykeBomb Reisuke]] attempts to kill Yuno this way. Lucky she had a pillow handy.

* In ''Manga/{{Mirai Nikki}}'', [[CreepyChild Reisuke]] attempts to kill Yuno this way. Lucky she had a pillow handy.

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* In ''Happy Endings'', Charley has a scar on his chest from when he ran with scissors at age six.

* In ''{{Mirai Nikki}}'', [[CreepyChild Reisuke]] attempts to kill Yuno this way. Lucky she had a pillow handy.

* An episode of ''OliverBeene'' had a boy with one testicle. Guess how he lost it.

* Hairdresser Octopus from ParappaTheRapper flails around giant scissors when in his red hypnotized state

* In ''CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', while fleeing from a [[ItMakesSenseInContext giant runaway fishbowl]], Brent, carrying [[RibbonCuttingCeremony ceremonial scissors]], comments, "I really shouldn't be running with these!"

* Billy Bones's FinalSpeech in ''MuppetTreasureIsland'':

* The music video for Green Day's "Warning" depicts a young man who spends his entire day defying "conventional wisdoms" of various types. Towards the start of the video, he runs down a hallway, picks up a pair of scissors that are hanging up on a peg on the way and sets them back down on another peg at the end of the hall.

* The regular villain of ''Dog City'' challenged a DarkerAndEdgier villain to a "Senseless Showdown" to determine who would take the title of Dog City's crime boss. Running with scissors was one of the regular's "senseless" moves.

* In a series of ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' strips, Sam swipes the giant scissors from a RibbonCuttingCeremony and run off with them. The mayor, who was about to open the museum, recommends they [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1300/fc01268.htm shoot him before he hurts himself]].

DoNotTryThisAtHome, obviously. ''Please''. ShearMenace is using scissors as WeaponOfChoice.

DoNotTryThisAtHome, obviously. ''Please''.

* A very old edition of Dave Letterman had him and Paul Schaffer using this gag to explain how Paul's band "The World's Most Dangerous Band" got their name... basically they cut to a shot of Paul running with a pair of scissors.

* The dragon Scissor Runner in ''FairyTail'' is based on this concept, being very dangerous and having a head that looks like a pair of serrated scissors.

* In ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'', Susan yells at the Death of Rats that there's no running with ''scythes''. It's an obvious reference to this trope, as she's a schoolteacher who expects her young students to treat scissors like some sort of doomsday device.

* In ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'', Susan yells at the Death of Rats that there's no running with ''scythes'' in the classroom. It's an obvious reference to this trope.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', [[spoiler:Dean Venture]] is shown to have died by running with scissors and tripping.
** [[spoiler: The death montage shows that they are so much death prone that even ridiculously safe activities like flying a kite has killed both Hank and Dean at least once.]]
* In the PilotMovie of ''FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', Frankie admonishes one friend about running with Scissors — Scissors being another imaginary friend.

* In ''Freakazoid!'', the "Hall of Nifty Things to Know" contains a pedestal-mounted statue of the Freak not running with scissors. Nifty!