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** The murder victim in "[[spoiler: Montreal]]" found out that [[spoiler: someone at his toy company was smuggling drugs in the same kind of dolls his late dog liked to chew on and went undercover at his warehouse to find who it was, leading to his murder]].
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* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsPhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' has [[spoiler:dolls of police mascot P.C. Badger being used to smuggle stolen jewels in the first case, with the crime (assault) being committed to stop the victim from discovering the scheme.]]
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* In the ''Franchise/EvilliousChronicles'', the Clockworker's Doll (the vessel of the Sin of Sloth) has a compartment inside of its stomach that can be used to store and hide small objects. Unsurprisingly given [[CrapsackWorld what kind of place Evillious is]], it's been used for this purpose at least once.
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* Mentioned in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode where Brian becomes a drug sniffing dog. Although not seen directly, one day when he comes home from work and is asked how his day went, he is furious about the fact that he caught a man hiding drugs in his daughter's doll.
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-->'''Brian:''' My day? Un-freakin-believable. First we nail this bastard who had the gall to hide his stuff in his daughter's doll-her doll, for God's sake!
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-->'''Brian:''' My day? Un-freakin-believable. First we nail this bastard who had the gall to hide his stuff in his daughter's doll-her doll, for God's sake!
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-->'''Lois:'''How So... how was your day?
-->'''Brian:''' My day?Un-freakin-believable. First Un-''freakin'''-believable! F-First, we nail this bastard who had the gall to hide his stuff in his daughter's doll-her doll, doll--''her DOLL, for God's sake! sake!'' ''(takes a smoke)'' Oh, were's the line anymore? Well, I have news for you! I-I-It's not even on the radar screen! The days of decency and virtue are ''gone'', honey! BAM! Freakin' evaporated like a dingy, stinkin' mud puddle! O-One day, y-you s-s-you see your reflection in it, and the next day, i-it's a... it's a damn oil spot on your cracked driveway, staring back at you, ''mocking'' you -- ''blah, blah, blah'' -- knowing the perverted truth will rot in the pit of your soul! ''That's'' how my freakin' day was!
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-->'''Brian:''' My day?
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'''Scott:''' In a very safe place, alright? Don't worry.\\
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* ''Series/TheBoys2019''. In "Cherry", Starlight and The Deep bust drug dealers smuggling fentanyl in Homelander Junior Seven Kuddle Buddiez. Apart from yet another detail of how Vought makes money from merchandising their superheroes, it's also for RuleOfSymbolism given the later revelations about [[SuperSerum Compound V]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'': In the four-part pilot episode, "Plunder and Lightning", Don Karnage steals a stone that can conduct electricity from Shere Khan Industries, and Kit Cloudkicker steals it from him. When Kit reveals the stone to Baloo, they decide to turn it in to Khan for a reward of $50,000 so Baloo can buy the Sea Duck back from Rebecca, who acquired Baloo's Air Service when Baloo was unable to pay his bills. Before paying a visit to Khan Industries, Baloo and Kit hide the stone in Lucy, Molly's doll. When Baloo and Kit find out that Khan is willing to pay $100,000 for the return of the stone, they intend to return with the stone, but their mission is compromised when Karnage kidnaps Rebecca and Molly, holding them for ransom in exchange for the stone.
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* ''Film/RevengeOfTheNinja'': Part of the MO of the BigBad and the FalseFriend of [[TheHero Cho Osaki]], is by smuggling heroin through porcelain dolls sold by Cho's antiques store. Cho is ''not'' amused.
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* On ''Series/{{Blindspot}}'' the team discusses this when they seize a bunch of dolls from the hideout of a notorious smuggler. They run tests on the dolls to determine if there is anything hidden inside and then start testing the material the dolls are made off. Unfortunately, it turns out that [[spoiler: the dolls contain a deadly bioweapon that kills the person doing the testing]].
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* On ''Best. Worst. Weekend. Ever.'', teen hacker Patches hid a USB drive containing a pirated video game in his "Pit People Mushroom" plushie. While away at juvie, his brother Zed sold the plushie in a garage sale, so after breaking out to retrieve and sell the game, Patches forces Zed to track it down.
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' online has one scene for one of the heists where the players deliver a tuck of action figures with cocaine inside them to... surprise! Trevor; one of the main anti-heroes from the campaign. [[{{PsychopathicManChild}} Naturally]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7RsVC_yYDo&feature=youtu.be&t=477 he plays with them.]]
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** Lupin himself does this in ''Farewell to Nostradamus'', hiding a diamond he stole in a dolly that later gets taken itself by a bratty little girl on an airplane. Taking things UpToEleven, then the girl gets kidnapped with the doll, so Lupin is forced getting involved with a larger plot to rescue both.
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* A wholesome version of this trope happens in Karen Ackerman’s ''The Night Crossing''. It is 1938 and a Jewish family is fleeing Nazi-occupied Austria for Switzerland. Since they are pretending to be Swiss citizens returning from a holiday (visiting Austrian relatives), they have to pack light so as to not to arouse suspicion. It is their young daughter’s idea to hide their two silver, heirloom Sabbath candlesticks inside of her pair of straw-stuffed dolls.
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** Given a ContinuityNod in Finance And Felony, where pills of drugs are often hidden in figurines as product and you can get one of them as a souvenir in your CEO Office, and another one the Bikers Update, where if you upgrade the equipment, and take the time to watch your workers process the cocaine... You see them cut a figurine in half, stuff it with cocaine, and pressing it back once again.
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* In on episode of ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'', a smuggling ring is taking advantage of a costume party to hand over a doll stuffed with stolen jewelry, and Chapulin is asked for help to figure out who are the criminals, and stop them.
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* In ''Film/AntmanAndTheWasp'', Scott's daughter Cassie buys him a "World's Best Grandma" trophy for her father as a symbol of innocence and love. Scott genuinely loves it, but decides to hide the original Ant-Man shrinking suit inside the base to prevent it from being found by the feds while he's under house arrest. However, the need to recover the suit comes up when Cassie takes the trophy to school for show and tell day.
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Dolls and stuffed animals are often used as a symbol of childhood innocence, at least when they're not [[CreepyDoll being creepy]]. So, who would suspect that the innocent little dolly, often in the hands of a child, has something less than savory in it that someone wants to slip under the watchful eyes of a higher authority? It might be stolen gems, illegal drugs, spy information, or other secrets that someone hopes everyone else will overlook; after all, what could possibly be dangerous about a cuddly teddy bear?
There's something rather insidious and reprehensible about using such a strong symbol of childhood to get things under the radar. Often, using a doll to smuggle something demonstrates or emphasizes the person committing the crime is highly unethical. At the least, they're corrupting a child's innocent toy, and at most they're willing to put an actual child with said toy at risk by using them to achieve their goals. Sometimes, a doll will be found with the goods, but the actual child long gone, implying a less than happy fate for the tot. Sometimes, the doll is an OrphansPlotTrinket, where a lonely child who took simple comfort in a doll finds out it has actually been used to hide something valuable for all these years. And in the most extreme examples, the very doll ''itself'' will be made of an illicit substance or stolen material.
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* Seen in this PublicServiceAnnouncement [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9i0MSSx9pA "Soft Toy"]], cautioning against taking anything into or out of a country for someone else.
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* In ''Manga/FinderSeries'', the key to a storage locker is hidden in a stuffed animal belonging to a child the triad boss is fostering.
* The ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' episode "Red Data" features Motoko unintentionally getting involved with a kid in Taiwan who shows her that he's making toy animal figurines out of pressure-molded cocaine. As long as they paint the figurines correctly, they can pass off for the official toys.
* In ''Anime/LupinIIIOperationReturnTheTreasure'', Lupin's rival Mark hides a stolen diamond in a teddy bear he gives to the orphaned Anita, turning it into an Orphan's Plot Trinket years later.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'', diamond smugglers trick the Chipmunks and Chipettes into bringing their stolen goods by disguising it as a hot-air balloon race around the world, using the dolls meant as markers for each leg of the race to hide the diamonds.
* ''Disney/TheRescuers'' has Madam Medusa eventually stealing orphan Penny's teddy bear, seemingly to use as a hostage, but ostensibly to use it to smuggle the Devil's Eye, an enormous diamond, away for her own gain.
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* In ''Film/AntmanAndTheWasp'', Scott's daughter Cassie buys him a "World's Best Grandma" trophy for her father as a symbol of innocence and love. Scott genuinely loves it, but decides to hide the original Ant-Man shrinking suit inside the base to prevent it from being found by the feds while he's under house arrest. However, the need to recover the suit comes up when Cassie takes the trophy to school for show and tell day.
* In ''Film/BatmanBegins'', TheMafia under Carmine Falcone are shown to be using stuffed animals to import street drugs [[spoiler:and the League of Shadows' hallucinogens]], with different types of animals going to different dealers.
* In ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'', the stolen money that the villain spends the film seeking is used to stuff a little girl's rag doll.
* ''Film/{{Traffic}}'' takes this to the logical extreme when the drug lord's wife, left running the empire after the drug lord is arrested, hits on a clever way of smuggling cocaine across the border: ''make dolls out of cocaine''.
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* Creator/AgathaChristie's ''By The Pricking of My Thumbs'' has [[Literature/TommyAndTuppence Tuppence]] discover a battered, dirty doll in the long unused fireplace of an abandoned house. Later in the book, she inspects the doll more closely and finds it is full of uncut diamonds.
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* On ''Series/{{Blindspot}}'' the team discusses this when they seize a bunch of dolls from the hideout of a notorious smuggler. They run tests on the dolls to determine if there is anything hidden inside and then start testing the material the dolls are made off. Unfortunately, it turns out that [[spoiler: the dolls contain a deadly bioweapon that kills the person doing the testing]].
* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': The team realizes that their BodyOfTheWeek hid evidence inside a collectible doll they found when Castle bought the contents of her storage unit at auction and gifted to Captain Gates. Cue Castle [[DestructiveSavior bursting into Gates's office and smashing the doll]]... and finding nothing, because it was ''Gates's'' doll that she brought from home. So he smashes the other doll, too, and finds a USB drive.
* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'', Mr. Eko's drug ring smuggles heroin inside tiny doll-sized statues of the Virgin Mary.
* A variant in the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk and the Astronaut." The titular astronaut uses a doll equipped with an automatic garage door opener as part of his plan to murder his ex. At the end, he steals the doll from the little girl who had gotten it with the idea of dropping it out of the airplane he was testing while it was in flight, getting rid of the evidence.
* In one of the cons showcased in an episode of ''Series/TheRealHustle'', the con artists befriend some tourists on vacation and trick the tourists into becoming drug mules by asking them to deliver a stuffed animal full of drugs to one of their "relatives" when they return to the UK.
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* In the ''Franchise/EvilliousChronicles'', the Clockworker's Doll (the vessel of the Sin of Sloth) has a compartment inside of its stomach that can be used to store and hide small objects. Unsurprisingly given [[CrapsackWorld what kind of place Evillious is]], it's been used for this purpose at least once.
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* Accidentally {{Invoked}} with the WesternAnimation/{{Popples}} dolls from the Eighties. The doll ''came with'' a hidden interior pouch. In theory, it was to be used to fold the plushie into a little ball. In practice, Popples dolls made ''great'' contraband storage.
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* ''Theatre/WaitUntilDark'': A woman is smuggling heroin in a doll. She's trying to leave an airport with the doll when she gets spooked about cops and talks a strange man into taking the doll for her. The man, who has no idea what's in the doll, takes it home to his wife, who is blind. The wife then becomes the target of the gangsters.
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' online has one scene for one of the heists where the players deliver a tuck of action figures with cocaine inside them to... surprise! Trevor; one of the main anti-heroes from the campaign. [[{{PsychopathicManChild}} Naturally]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7RsVC_yYDo&feature=youtu.be&t=477 he plays with them.]]
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* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' sees Roger put on trial, with Stan as a juror, eager to see him finally put away after years of pulling a KarmaHoudini. During the trial, he tries to butter up the jury by showing he's a nice guy, and a woman comments how he gave her a stuffed bear for a birthday present. Stan convinces the jury to find him guilty, but Roger later escapes the prison bus and runs to the woman's home. He rips open the bear and takes out wads of cash stuffed inside. The woman can't believe it was there the whole time.
* There is a variant in ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', where a guy running a dart booth rigs it for rich kids to win, so that he can give them a teddy bear with his monkey sidekick hidden inside for burglary purposes.
* Mentioned in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode where Brian becomes a drug sniffing dog. Although not seen directly, one day when he comes home from work and is asked how his day went, he is furious about the fact that he caught a man hiding drugs in his daughter's doll.
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-->'''Brian:''' My day? Un-freakin-believable. First we nail this bastard who had the gall to hide his stuff in his daughter's doll-her doll, for God's sake!
* A short from ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' documented that Santa Claus from ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRednosedReindeer'' was a coke pusher, with his preferred method of hiding the coke inside toy bears.
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There's something rather insidious and reprehensible about using such a strong symbol of childhood to get things under the radar. Often, using a doll to smuggle something demonstrates or emphasizes the person committing the crime is highly unethical. At the least, they're corrupting a child's innocent toy, and at most they're willing to put an actual child with said toy at risk by using them to achieve their goals. Sometimes, a doll will be found with the goods, but the actual child long gone, implying a less than happy fate for the tot. Sometimes, the doll is an OrphansPlotTrinket, where a lonely child who took simple comfort in a doll finds out it has actually been used to hide something valuable for all these years. And in the most extreme examples, the very doll ''itself'' will be made of an illicit substance or stolen material.
Often TruthInTelevision.
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* In ''Manga/FinderSeries'', the key to a storage locker is hidden in a stuffed animal belonging to a child the triad boss is fostering.
* The ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' episode "Red Data" features Motoko unintentionally getting involved with a kid in Taiwan who shows her that he's making toy animal figurines out of pressure-molded cocaine. As long as they paint the figurines correctly, they can pass off for the official toys.
* In ''Anime/LupinIIIOperationReturnTheTreasure'', Lupin's rival Mark hides a stolen diamond in a teddy bear he gives to the orphaned Anita, turning it into an Orphan's Plot Trinket years later.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'', diamond smugglers trick the Chipmunks and Chipettes into bringing their stolen goods by disguising it as a hot-air balloon race around the world, using the dolls meant as markers for each leg of the race to hide the diamonds.
* ''Disney/TheRescuers'' has Madam Medusa eventually stealing orphan Penny's teddy bear, seemingly to use as a hostage, but ostensibly to use it to smuggle the Devil's Eye, an enormous diamond, away for her own gain.
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* In ''Film/AntmanAndTheWasp'', Scott's daughter Cassie buys him a "World's Best Grandma" trophy for her father as a symbol of innocence and love. Scott genuinely loves it, but decides to hide the original Ant-Man shrinking suit inside the base to prevent it from being found by the feds while he's under house arrest. However, the need to recover the suit comes up when Cassie takes the trophy to school for show and tell day.
* In ''Film/BatmanBegins'', TheMafia under Carmine Falcone are shown to be using stuffed animals to import street drugs [[spoiler:and the League of Shadows' hallucinogens]], with different types of animals going to different dealers.
* In ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'', the stolen money that the villain spends the film seeking is used to stuff a little girl's rag doll.
* ''Film/{{Traffic}}'' takes this to the logical extreme when the drug lord's wife, left running the empire after the drug lord is arrested, hits on a clever way of smuggling cocaine across the border: ''make dolls out of cocaine''.
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* Creator/AgathaChristie's ''By The Pricking of My Thumbs'' has [[Literature/TommyAndTuppence Tuppence]] discover a battered, dirty doll in the long unused fireplace of an abandoned house. Later in the book, she inspects the doll more closely and finds it is full of uncut diamonds.
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* On ''Series/{{Blindspot}}'' the team discusses this when they seize a bunch of dolls from the hideout of a notorious smuggler. They run tests on the dolls to determine if there is anything hidden inside and then start testing the material the dolls are made off. Unfortunately, it turns out that [[spoiler: the dolls contain a deadly bioweapon that kills the person doing the testing]].
* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': The team realizes that their BodyOfTheWeek hid evidence inside a collectible doll they found when Castle bought the contents of her storage unit at auction and gifted to Captain Gates. Cue Castle [[DestructiveSavior bursting into Gates's office and smashing the doll]]... and finding nothing, because it was ''Gates's'' doll that she brought from home. So he smashes the other doll, too, and finds a USB drive.
* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'', Mr. Eko's drug ring smuggles heroin inside tiny doll-sized statues of the Virgin Mary.
* A variant in the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk and the Astronaut." The titular astronaut uses a doll equipped with an automatic garage door opener as part of his plan to murder his ex. At the end, he steals the doll from the little girl who had gotten it with the idea of dropping it out of the airplane he was testing while it was in flight, getting rid of the evidence.
* In one of the cons showcased in an episode of ''Series/TheRealHustle'', the con artists befriend some tourists on vacation and trick the tourists into becoming drug mules by asking them to deliver a stuffed animal full of drugs to one of their "relatives" when they return to the UK.
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* In the ''Franchise/EvilliousChronicles'', the Clockworker's Doll (the vessel of the Sin of Sloth) has a compartment inside of its stomach that can be used to store and hide small objects. Unsurprisingly given [[CrapsackWorld what kind of place Evillious is]], it's been used for this purpose at least once.
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* Accidentally {{Invoked}} with the WesternAnimation/{{Popples}} dolls from the Eighties. The doll ''came with'' a hidden interior pouch. In theory, it was to be used to fold the plushie into a little ball. In practice, Popples dolls made ''great'' contraband storage.
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* ''Theatre/WaitUntilDark'': A woman is smuggling heroin in a doll. She's trying to leave an airport with the doll when she gets spooked about cops and talks a strange man into taking the doll for her. The man, who has no idea what's in the doll, takes it home to his wife, who is blind. The wife then becomes the target of the gangsters.
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' online has one scene for one of the heists where the players deliver a tuck of action figures with cocaine inside them to... surprise! Trevor; one of the main anti-heroes from the campaign. [[{{PsychopathicManChild}} Naturally]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7RsVC_yYDo&feature=youtu.be&t=477 he plays with them.]]
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* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' sees Roger put on trial, with Stan as a juror, eager to see him finally put away after years of pulling a KarmaHoudini. During the trial, he tries to butter up the jury by showing he's a nice guy, and a woman comments how he gave her a stuffed bear for a birthday present. Stan convinces the jury to find him guilty, but Roger later escapes the prison bus and runs to the woman's home. He rips open the bear and takes out wads of cash stuffed inside. The woman can't believe it was there the whole time.
* There is a variant in ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', where a guy running a dart booth rigs it for rich kids to win, so that he can give them a teddy bear with his monkey sidekick hidden inside for burglary purposes.
* Mentioned in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode where Brian becomes a drug sniffing dog. Although not seen directly, one day when he comes home from work and is asked how his day went, he is furious about the fact that he caught a man hiding drugs in his daughter's doll.
-->'''Lois:''' How was your day?
-->'''Brian:''' My day? Un-freakin-believable. First we nail this bastard who had the gall to hide his stuff in his daughter's doll-her doll, for God's sake!
* A short from ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' documented that Santa Claus from ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRednosedReindeer'' was a coke pusher, with his preferred method of hiding the coke inside toy bears.
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