History Main / SchmuckBait

* In the music video for "Do Not Push", Music/{{Pamplamoose}}'s mashup of "Call Me Maybe" and "Someone That I Used To Know", a couple gets mailed a literal BigRedButton labeled "do not push."

* Even ''mentioning aloud'' the title of an EarWorm song in another person's presence may constitute this trope, as they may well start to hum or sing it, thus infecting the title-sayer with the EarWorm.

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* One former {{GEICO}} [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWD6EhA1pmY ad campaign]] featured a cartoon guy who brought the full brunt of some {{Obvious Trap}}s onto himself. [--But some of them look too good to resist!--]

See also BriarPatch, GenreBlindness, TooDumbToLive, IdiotBall, DistressBall, WhatDoesThisButtonDo, PressXToDie, ReversePsychology, WhoWouldBeStupidEnough, TheWindowOrTheStairs, DontTouchItYouIdiot and TemptingFate. If taking the bait doesn't hurt you, it's a FakeTrap. If taking it does something ''good'', it's ViolationOfCommonSense. If that something good is being able to progress, it's StupidityIsTheOnlyOption (TrapIsTheOnlyOption for the non-video game version). If someone fell into a Schmuck Bait one day but understandably didn't noise about it, he may be subject to {{Oblivious Mocker|y}}ies. Not to be mistaken for SnarkBait, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar nor for something that actually baits]] [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage your schmuck]].

See also GenreBlindness, TooDumbToLive, IdiotBall, DistressBall, WhatDoesThisButtonDo, PressXToDie, ReversePsychology, WhoWouldBeStupidEnough, TheWindowOrTheStairs, DontTouchItYouIdiot and TemptingFate. If taking the bait doesn't hurt you, it's a FakeTrap. If taking it does something ''good'', it's ViolationOfCommonSense. If that something good is being able to progress, it's StupidityIsTheOnlyOption (TrapIsTheOnlyOption for the non-video game version). If someone fell into a Schmuck Bait one day but understandably didn't noise about it, he may be subject to {{Oblivious Mocker|y}}ies. Not to be mistaken for SnarkBait, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar nor for something that actually baits]] [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage your schmuck]].

* JeffFoxworthy mentions such a scenario in one of his routines, where he and his family were standing in line at the movies and Jeff's mother forgot her hearing aid.

* In ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'', at one point in the story [[spoiler: you are given the chance to play the AB game while your opponent is sedated in the infirmary and you have only one BP remaining. You should pick Ally, right? '''Wrong.''']]

* ''[[Fanfic/TheWritingOnTheWall]]'' has a large, fortified, heavily built structure surrounded by metal spikes with warnings in dozens of languages written inside. Clearly, its builders were very concerned about deterring tomb robbers. [[spoiler: Too bad it isn't a tomb, and the warnings of danger were all too real.]] The structure in the story has never been built in real life precisely because of worries over it being schmuck bait.

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* SchmuckBait/{{Live-Action Films}}

* SchmuckBait/{{Live-Action TV}}

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See also GenreBlindness, TooDumbToLive, IdiotBall, DistressBall, WhatDoesThisButtonDo, PressXToDie, ReversePsychology, WhoWouldBeStupidEnough, DontTouchItYouIdiot and TemptingFate. If taking the bait doesn't hurt you, it's a FakeTrap. If taking it does something ''good'', it's ViolationOfCommonSense. If that something good is being able to progress, it's StupidityIsTheOnlyOption (TrapIsTheOnlyOption for the non-video game version). If someone fell into a Schmuck Bait one day but understandably didn't noise about it, he may be subject to {{Oblivious Mocker|y}}ies. Not to be mistaken for SnarkBait, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar nor for something that actually baits]] [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage your schmuck]].

[[spoiler:WAIT! DON'T GO! IT REALLY ''IS'' AN EMERGENCY! THE EDITORS ARE ALL IMBECILES!!!]]

* In ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'', the secret black operations Antarctica mission was explicitly said to be a secret mission because, if word ever got out that [[UnsafeHaven Mutant Dinos were invading Antarctica]] (not to mention that Shadow and Viper agreed to this mission behind Digger's back), the consequences would be dire. Unfortunately, Atton Rand was WrongGenreSavvy and believed that [=PeabodySam=] [[ReversePsychology wanted players to spread word about the mission]], and so with the help of newly-created [=NPCs=] Cam O'Cozy and French Fries, he let Zenna spread the news that there were Mutant Dinos in Antarctica and realists were going behind the backs of idealists. [[YouHaveBeenWarned Needless to say, dire consequences followed]].

See also GenreBlindness, TooDumbToLive, IdiotBall, DistressBall, WhatDoesThisButtonDo, PressXToDie, ReversePsychology, WhoWouldBeStupidEnough, DontTouchItYouIdiot, TemptingFate, and YouHaveBeenWarned. If taking the bait doesn't hurt you, it's a FakeTrap. If taking it does something ''good'', it's ViolationOfCommonSense. If that something good is being able to progress, it's StupidityIsTheOnlyOption (TrapIsTheOnlyOption for the non-video game version). If someone fell into a Schmuck Bait one day but understandably didn't noise about it, he may be subject to {{Oblivious Mocker|y}}ies. Not to be mistaken for SnarkBait, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar nor for something that actually baits]] [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage your schmuck]].

Highlight only in case of emergency: [[spoiler:Not now, you idiot! In case of emergency!]]

* One [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWD6EhA1pmY former GEICO ad campaign]] featured a cartoon guy who brought the full brunt of some {{Obvious Trap}}s onto himself. [--But some of them look too good to resist!--]