History Main / ScavengerHunt

* Creator/AgathaChristie used a variation called a murder hunt (following clues to various places leading to a staged murder scene) on the grounds of Nasse House in ''Dead Man's Folly''.

* ''Dead Scared'' (AKA ''The Hazing''). A group of men and women must participate in a scavenger hunt in order to join a fraternity and sorority, respectively. Trying to obtain one item gets them involved with a professor who's actually a satanic sorcerer.

* There's an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' where Burns loses all his goods after being defeated in a scavenger hunt.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Powerpuff Girls'', the girls encounter through the Amoeba Boys something which to them appears to be instructions for a scavenger hunt. As they soon learn it was in fact the blueprint for another of Mojo Jojo's greatest plans to destroy the Powerpuff Girls ever. It didn't work.
* There's a ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' episode where Burns loses all his goods after being defeated in a scavenger hunt.

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* On ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', Leslie sets up a scavenger hunt for Ben for Valentines Day. Ron, who helps Ben figure out the clues, claims to dislike riddles and other such nonsense, [[spoiler:but at the end confesses that he likes it and asks Leslie to prepare a hunt for him in an underhanded way.]]

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* From Website/IMDb: A [[http://www.imdb.com/keyword/scavenger-hunt list of films and TV episodes that include scavenger hunts]].

* In one episode of the [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Powerpuff Girls]], the girls encounter through the Amoeba Boys something which to them appears to be instructions for a scavenger hunt. As they soon learn it was in fact the blueprint for another of Mojo Jojo's greatest plans to destroy the Powerpuff Girls ever. It didn't work.

* ''WackyRaces'' issue #6 (Gold Key, April, 1972) had "The Scavenger Scramble," in which the racers had to gather specific items--a real-gone muffler, a drop of dirty motor oil on the driver's right palm, a strip of a worn-out tire, and a parking ticket. A big purse is up for grabs to the winner, and [[TeamRocketWins Dick Dastardly wins it]]. He wins a large, flowery woman's purse. (Penelope Pitstop was first at the finish line but she lost because for a "real gone muffler," she had a psychedelic scarf instead of a beat-up exhaust pipe.)

* ''WesternAnimation/TuffPuppy'': In "Lucky Duck", Dudley is selected by his TV idol, Quacky the Duck, to go on a scavenger hunt for various items, including 8 cases of pudding, a police radio, a map to Mexico, a missile and the network president in a sack. [[spoiler: It turns out to be part of Quacky's revenge against the president for canceling his show.]]

* A hunt of the "preprinted clues" variety is one plot in ''[[AuntDimity Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch]]''. A seventeenth-century vicar wrote an account of a woman reputed to be a witch and hid pages of it in locations in and around the village. Mrs. Amelia Thistle has the first page, left to her by her late brother, and comes to Finch to find the rest. Each page has a graphic clue to the location of the next, and Lori and other residents join in the search by deciphering the clues.

*** The second year, Chiyo has to find 'an idiot'. She retrieves Tomo.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', the Warners go into SherlockHolmes' appartment looking for items for a scavenger hunt, first prize being a walk-on on ''{{Baywatch}}''. Holmes realizes that some of the items have been stolen by Moriarty and theorizes that he is on the same scavenger hunt.
* ''ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'' episode "Game Of Peril" had Penelope involved in a scavenger hunt, with the Hooded Claw (of course) trying to do her in. The last item Penelope needed was the Claw's hat and cape. She seems to have lost the game until to everyone's surprise, Dum-Dum grabbed them during one of the Claw's quick changes (his alibi to the police that he was a quick-change artist).

* On a Halloween episode of Series/TheAddamsFamily, a couple comes to the Addams' home looking for a black bat. Gomez assumes they mean the animal.
* On ''ParksAndRecreation'', Leslie sets up a scavenger hunt for Ben for Valentines Day. Ron, who helps Ben figure out the clues, claims to dislike riddles and other such nonsense, [[spoiler:but at the end confesses that he likes it and asks Leslie to prepare a hunt for him in an underhanded way.]]

* ''Film/{{Sleepover}}'' had ''Film/[[SpyKids]] Alexa Vega'' and her friends, who are getting some objects for their romantic scavenger hunt, in the middle of the night, hoping to find her boyfriend in the end.

* ''Film/{{Sleepover}}'' had ''Film/{[SpyKids}} Alexa Vega'' and her friends, who are getting some objects for their romantic scavenger hunt, in the middle of the night, hoping to find her boyfriend in the end.

* ''Film/{{Sleepover}}'' had ''{{Film/SpyKids}} Alexa Vega'' and her friends, who are getting some objects for their romantic scavenger hunt, in the middle of the night, hoping to find her boyfriend in the end.

* ''Film/{{Sleepover}}'' had ''[[Film/SpyKids]] Alexa Vega'' and her friends, who are getting some objects for their romantic scavenger hunt, in the middle of the night, hoping to find her boyfriend in the end.

* ''Film/{{Sleepover}}'' had ''Film/SpyKids Alexa Vega'' and her friends, who are getting some objects for their romantic scavenger hunt, in the middle of the night, hoping to find her boyfriend in the end.

* ''Film/{{Sleepover}}'' had Alexa Vega and her friends, who are getting some objects for their romantic scavenger hunt, in the middle of the night, hoping to find her boyfriend in the end.

* ''Film/Sleepover'' had Alexa Vega and her friends, who are getting some objects for their romantic scavenger hunt, in the middle of the night, hoping to find her boyfriend in the end.

* ''[[Film/Sleepover2004 Sleepover (2004)]]'' had Alexa Vega and her friends, who are getting some objects for their romantic scavenger hunt, in the middle of the night, hoping to find her boyfriend in the end.

* ''Film/Sleepover'' had Alexa Vega and her friends, who are getting some objects for their romantic scavenger hunt, in the middle of the night, hoping to find her boyfriend in the end.

* ''[[Film/Sleepover2004 Sleepover (2004)]]'' had Alexa Vega and her friends, who are getting some objects for their romantic scavenger hunt, in the middle of the night, hoping to find her boyfriend in the end.

* ''Film/Sleepover'' (2004) had Alexa Vega and her friends, who are getting some objects for their romantic scavenger hunt, hoping to find her boyfriend in the end.