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* One of the best remembered segments in ''SongOfTheSouth'' is about the Tar Baby.

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* [[LooneyTunes Wile E. Coyote]] has used glue on various occasions, with [[EpicFail predictably disastrous results]].
* Happens in the classic {{Disney}} short "Playful Pluto", when Pluto gets stuck on a sheet of fly paper and has a hard time getting it off. (This scene is used prominently in ''SullivansTravels'', inspiring the main character's epiphany about the power of laughter.)

* Not learning from PPP's failure, Mr Stone, one half of a B-List merc team in {{Spiderman}} tried to slow down the wall-crawler by using his SwissArmyWeapon to coat the entire floor in glue so as to give his life-draining partner Mr. Styx a chance to use his touch of death. Spiderman easily leaped out of his boots onto the ceiling.
* Proving there's more than one way [[IncrediblyLamePun to take a girl out]], [[GreenArrow Green Arrow's]] first use of his glue arrow was in a battle against future wife Black Canary.
* {{Empowered}} features Sistah Spooky coming upon the aftermath of the title character's disastrous encounter with Glue Gun Gil, considered to be the all-time lamest villain in the city next to Ladder Master.

* FattyArbuckle's short "The Butcher Boy" gets a lot of mileage from a pail of molasses.
* CharlieChaplin's "A Day's Pleasure" features fresh asphalt.

** He absentmindedly dips his hand in glue in "TheHauntedHouse." ItGetsWorse.

* IIRC one of the GIs in ''SavingPrivateRyan'' gets a sticky bomb stuck to his hand just before it's about to detonate. YMMV on how funny that is.

* The third NightmareOnElmStreet had a girl deathly afraid of roaches start to turn into one, which led to her walking into a giant roach motel. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Most definitely not played for laughs]] ([[ForTheEvulz unless you're Freddy]]).

* The SailorMoon anime had several villains employ this as an attack, including one in the second season seemingly made of goo, Eudial in season 3, and the Amazoness Quartet in four. Strangely, they never seem to have trouble cleaning it out of their hair.
* One Lupin III movie had the title character using a bazooka loaded with a sticky bomb to immobilize several pursuing ships (gluing them to each-other, not the water).
* Ranma1/2 had a story where Principle Kuno tried to force the students to prostrate themselves before him. One of his tricks was to coat the floor with glue, leaving several of the cast stuck on their hands and knees. Ranma, rather than let himself be humiliated in such a way, [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower ripped the entire floor out of the ground]].
* The TenchiMuyo manga had a pair of alien criminals breaking into the Masaki houehold to steal a priceless artifact nobody knew was valuable, easily bypassing [[MadScientist Washu's]] most ingenious security traps. When they try again the next day, she's augmented them with [[RockBeatsLaser tiger pit traps, swinging spiked balls, and a floor coated in glue, none of which the pair had gadgets to deal with]]. This is all in the Masaki's ''living room''.

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* ''ILoveLucy'': In the episode "The Moustache," when Ricky grows a mustache that Lucy dislikes, she dons a false beard in protest. It's accidentally attached with Bulldog Cement ("Holds fast forever. Will not let go. Can only be removed with Bulldog Cement Remover Number Three") instead of spirit gum.
* An episode of ''The Captain and Tennille'' (a 70's variety show) had a superglue salesman demonstrating his product then accidentally getting his hand stuck to the hand of a pretty housewife. Then her husband came home and his hands got stuck around the salesman's neck.
* ''TheMuppetShow'': In the Gilda Radner episode, Dr. Honeydew's superglue spills all over the stage and characters keep getting glued to everything. By the end of the show, everyone is stuck in one big ball.
* Deputy Andy Brennan runs afoul of a roll of Scotch tape in ''TwinPeaks.''
* Done with a zombie mask on ''{{Victorious}}'', when Tori's ditzy friend uses the wrong glue. She is supposed to be the lead in the play that night, and ends up performing her entire (serious) part wearing the zombie mask. With the author of the play in the audience.

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* TotallySpies used this trope several times, involving everything from glue guns to a human sized roach-motel when one of the girls became an insect hybrid.
* {{Animaniacs}} had a character recounting an incident where the Warner Kids made a movie themselves where they use the flypaper gag, which the person admitted was funny, but ran ''[[OverlyLongGag several hours]]'' too long.

* The TenchiMuyo manga had a pair of alien criminals breaking into the Masaki houehold to steal a priceless artifact nobody knew was valuable, easily bypassing [[MadScientist Washu's]] most ingenious security traps. When they try again the next day, she's augmented them with tiger pit traps, swinging spiked balls, and a floor coated in glue, none of which the pair had gadgets to deal with. This is all in the Masaki's ''living room''.

* Proving there's more than one way to catch a girl, [[GreenArrow Green Arrow's]] first use of his glue arrow was in a battle against future wife Black Canary.

* The StickyBomb was a real ally weapon in WW2. It resembled a German stick grenade but with the end coated in glue, to be tossed on the weak-parts on enemy tanks. Pulling the pin would pop the end off, revealing the sticky end and arm the device, and having one where the glue leaked onto the handle was a ''very'' real possibility.

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* ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit''" Judge Doom punches a container of glue and gets it on his fist. He then accidentally hits a steam roller and gets stuck to it. He steps in the glue and when he tries to push off the steamroller with his foot, gets that stuck to it as well. He's eventually run over by the steamroller, but he survives because he's a toon. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVCtlYxD0XE here, starting at 1:40.]]

* In the ''SquirrelBoy'' episode "The Rod Squad," an escalating situation involving sticky buns ends up with most of the cast stuck together in a huge ball.

* In ''TheSimpsons Movie'', Homer's hand gets stuck to his pants with super glue during a BadassBoast.

A classic ComedyTrope: someone comes in contact something sticky (flypaper, glue, gum, molasses, tape, tar, wallpaper paste, etc.) and HilarityEnsues (unless it's a StickyBomb, in which case YourMileageMayVary). If it's not actually [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin superglue]], the substance tends to act as a far stronger adhesive than it is in reality.

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-->''"Now, that was what I call a sticky situation."''
--->-- '''Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny''', ''SouthPark''

* Wile E. Coyote has used glue on various occasions, with [[EpicFail predictably disastrous results]].
* Happens in the classic Disney short "Playful Pluto", when Pluto gets stuck on a sheet of fly paper and has a hard time getting it off. (This scene is used prominently in ''SullivansTravels'', inspiring the main character's epiphany about the power of laughter.)

* Wile E. Coyote has used glue on various occasions, with predictably disastrous results.

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** In ''SherlockJr.'' he runs afoul of a sheet of flypaper.

--->-- '''Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny''', ''SouthPark''

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A classic gag: someone comes in contact something sticky (flypaper, glue, gum, molasses, tape, tar, wallpaper paste, etc.) and HilarityEnsues (unless it's a StickyBomb, in which case YourMileageMayVary). If it's not actually [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin superglue]], the substance tends to act as a far stronger adhesive than it is in reality.

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