History Main / StickySituation

* There is a hazard in nature called a predator trap, where animals can get hopelessly stuck in thick mud or sticky tar(or in some cases, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/QuicksandSucks quicksand]]. Their corpses attract the attention of predators, whom also get mired while feasting on them.

* There is a hazard in nature called a predator trap, where animals can get hopelessly stuck in thick mud or sticky tar(or in some cases, quicksand. Their corpses attract the attention of predators, whom also get mired while feasting on them. {{quicksandsucks}} is the trope for so-called "killer quicksand".

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* ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'' 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''.

* There is a hazard in nature called a predator trap, where animals can get hopelessly stuck in thick mud or sticky tar(or in some cases, {{QuicksandSucks quicksand}). Their corpses attract the attention of predators, whom also get mired while feasting on them. {{quicksandsucks}}

* ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'' 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''.

* There is a hazard in nature called a predator trap, where animals can get hopelessly stuck in thick mud or sticky tar(or in some cases, quicksand). Their corpses attract the attention of predators, whom also get mired while feasting on them. {{quicksandsucks}}

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* ''AmericanPie 2'' has this with Jim's hand and a pornography tape.
** Actually, as Jim's mistaken superglue for lubricant, he's more worried about what his '''other''' hand is glued to... The tape is just an embarrassing bonus.

* There is a hazard in nature called a predator trap, where animals can get hopelessly stuck in thick mud or sticky tar(or in some cases, {{quicksand/quicksandsucks}}). Their corpses attract the attention of predators, whom also get mired while feasting on them.

* There is a hazard in nature called a predator trap, where animals can get hopelessly stuck in thick mud or sticky tar(or in some cases, {{quicksand}}). Their corpses attract the attention of predators, whom also get mired while feasting on them.

* ''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.]]

* ''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 ''TheManWithTwoBrains,'' Dr. Hfuhruhurr consults with his boss, who spends the conversation with his index fingers placed pensively against his upper lip. At the end of the conversation, the doctor asks when the operation to separate his fingers from his lip will happen, and notes that superglue is something you have to be careful with.
* In ''NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation,'' Clark and his wife go to bed after he just cut down a pine tree, coating his hands in sap.
* 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.
* ''AmericanPie 2'' has this with Jim's hand and a pornography tape.

* Happens to TheThreeStooges in the movie ''The Outlaws Is Coming''.
* In a promotional web short for ''{{Up}}'', Russell has problems handling Band-Aids, which keep getting stuck to his fingers.

* The title character of the RoaldDahl book ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'' glues her father's hat to his head. She also mentions the boy down the road who got Superglue on his finger and then tried to pick his nose, with disastrous results.
* AdrianMole ends up with a model aeroplane glued to his nose at one point, prompting accusations that he was trying to sniff it.

* 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.

* In one ''CalvinAndHobbes'' strip, when trying to assemble a plastic model Calvin got glue on his hands while Hobbes obliviously mused about the tri-lingual instructions.
* A week long arc in ''FoxTrot'' involved Paige and jason having their faces stuck together by experimental bubblegum.
* For their pranks, ''The Katzenjammer Kids'' tended to used an extremely effective superglue which would always get their victim stuck immediately and completely. However, the kids' GenreSavvy rival Rollo would often happen to be nearby with a kettle of hot water.

* There was an episode of ''TheFlintstones'' (and every other cartoon in existence, I'm sure) dealing with Fred's attempt to invent a new, unbreakable superglue, and getting stuck to Barney (as I recall) in the process. In the end it turns out the secret ingredient was [[spoiler:superglue]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' Stewie and Bryan spent [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuck_Together,_Torn_Apart most of an episode glued together.]]

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZB7sO5ZoV8 This Krazy Glue ad]] is not an illusion -- but note the carefully prepared surfaces.

* 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 arming the device, and having one where the glue leaked onto the handle was a ''very'' real possibility.

[[caption-width-right:350:This will end well.[[hottip:*:[[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Just not for Wile.]]]]]]

* 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]]).

* In ''HoneyWeShrunkOurselves'', the direct-to-video sequel of ''HoneyIShrunkTheKids'', Wayne manages to accidentally shrink himself, his brother, and their wives to the size of cockroaches. Of course, they end up fleeing from a real cockroach into a Roach Motel-like glue trap. [[MadScientist Wayne]] has made a hobby of disassembling these traps for [[ForScience some reason]], and knows there's a clear path through which they can safely pass to the other side. His wife, [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel freaking out over being attacked by a giant cockroach]], manages to step in the glue and get stuck, with the cockroach biting at her, until [[BigDamnHeroes Wayne comes back and pulls her free]].

* Police have experimented with a sticky foam gun as a method of non-lethal urban pacification. Besides the obvious cleanup issue is the risk of accidentally (or not) [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel shooting someone in the face]].

* ''{{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.

** In ''[=~Sherlock Jr.~=]'' he runs afoul of a sheet of flypaper.

* The Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919, when a molasses tank burst and a wave of molasses traveling at 35 mph covered a large portion of the city, killing 21 people. It's rumored that to this day, when it gets particularly warm, some can still smell the molasses, 92 years after the disaster.

* Cactus Jack does this in TheVillain (which is, in places, basically a live-action Roadrunner cartoon). He paints the railroad tracks with glue, and his targets roll over it in their wagon to no effect. Furious, he runs after them... only to be stuck in the glue and hit by a train.

** In Lucille Ball's later sitcom ''Life With Lucy'', her character ([[TheDanza yet again named Lucy]]) becomes stuck to Curtis after a mishap while trying to glue a lamp back together.

[[caption-width-right:350:This will end well.[[hottip:*:[[RoadRunner Just not for Wile.]]]]]]

* One of many traps [[WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote has used to catch the Road Runner]].

[[quoteright:350:[[LooneyTunes http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/coyote-glue_8689.jpg]]]]

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

* In ''FamilyGuy'' Stewie and Bryan spent [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuck_Together,_Torn_Apart most of an episode glued together.]]
* In the ''TaleSpin'' episode "Stuck on You", Baloo and Don Karnage are stuck together by an experimental superglue.

* ''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.

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).

* ''{{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.

* 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.)

** In the episode [[BeautyContest "Beauty Is As Beauty Does"]] the group holds a beauty contest between the three women. During the talent portion Mary Ann is to perform a dance routine, and Mr. Howell tries to sabotage it by pouring glue onto the stage. Mary Ann, of course, [[CaptainOblivious steps right in it]], becoming instantly stuck and loses her shoe ([[BrickJoke which is still stuck in place in a later scene]])..