History Main / SodaCanShakeup

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E18SoItsComeToThisASimpsonsClipShow So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show]]", Bart's April Fools prank for Homer involves him shaking a can of Duff with a paint-mixer and planting it in the fridge. What follows is a fizz-explosion of epic proportions, enough to [[EverythingMakesAMushroom make a mushroom cloud]] and [[PrankGoneTooFar leave Homer hospitalized]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'', Eliza tries to do this to her cousin, Tyler, as an April Fools prank. He quickly catches on and switches their cans when she's not looking, causing Eliza to get squirt in the face instead.

Compare UnscrewedSaltShaker.

* In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', a minion is shopping for a new toy for Agnes, but shakes up a cola bottle and it explodes all over the place.

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* ''Literature/AngelaNicely'': In “The Big Bike Ride!”, the girls try to shake up a bottle of their homemade lemonade to make it fizzier, but it ends up spurting everywhere.

* ''Film/TheFlash''. While getting a beer for Iris West, Barry Allen opens his apartment fridge and sees a [[EmptyFridgeEmptyLife handful of disgusting, expired food items and no beer]]. His solution is to covertly [[MundaneUtility phase through the wall]] and steal beer from his neighbor. Only when he opens the beer it squirts all over him, as doing this trick requires him to super-vibrate to a molecular level.

* ''WebVideo/StarWarsDownunder''. Caught without his lightsaber, Jedi knight Merve Bushwacker summons a can of beer using the Force, shakes it up and squirts the contents at a charging [[YowiesAndBunyipsAndDropBearsOhMy unyip]].

* Played with on ''Series/BetterCallSaul'', as Howard Hamlin demonstrates to an HHM intern how to open a shaken can of soda so as to avoid the usual explosive results. (Place it on a flat surface and rotate it to get the bubbles to cling to the sides of the can.)

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kipper}}'': At the end of "The Picnic", when Pig and Arnold ate up his and Kipper's remaining picnic food, Tiger got even by shaking up a can and offering it to Pig.

* Near the end of the ''WesternAnimation/Kipper'' "The Picnic", when Pig and Arnold ate up his and Kipper's remaining picnic food, Tiger got even by shaking up a can and offering it to Pig.

* ''WesternAnimation/Kipper'': At the end of "The Picnic", when Pig and Arnold ate up his and Kipper's remaining picnic food, Tiger got even by shaking up a can and offering it to Pig.

* ''ComicBook/BouleEtBill'':

* In ''DC Showcase: ComicBook/BlueBeetle'', Doctor Spectro has used a MindControl soda to gain control of Captain Atom and Nightshade. ComicBook/TheQuestion [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight convinces Captain Atom]] to uses his powers to change the soda into an antidote and drink it, while The Question squirts another bottle of antidote at Nightshade.

* In Chapter 3 of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21447313/chapters/51141202 Final Stand of Death]]'', WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch fic, Spur gets covered in lemon-line soda while trying to open the bottle, which exploded instead. United and Hawk had thought about telling Spur that the bottle was a twist-top, while Hornet and Redd were business with Frankenstein's monster.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "[[TheSimpsonsS4E18SoItsComeToThisASimpsonsClipShow So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show]]", Bart's April Fools prank for Homer involves him shaking a can of Duff with a paint-mixer and planting it in the fridge. What follows is a fizz-explosion of epic proportions, enough to [[EverythingMakesAMushroom make a mushroom cloud]] and [[PrankGoneTooFar leave Homer hospitalized]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show", Bart's April Fools prank for Homer involves him shaking a can of Duff with a paint-mixer and planting it in the fridge. What follows is a fizz-explosion of epic proportions, enough to [[EverythingMakesAMushroom make a mushroom cloud]] and [[PrankGoneTooFar leave Homer hospitalized]].

* ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut'': Soda cans were an ImprovisedWeapon for the rescue team during the final battle.