History Main / StuffedIntoATrashCan

* Gelman does this to Gus in an episode of ''{{Recess}}''

By the way, just so things are clear, [[SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]] is not related to this trope at ALL (unless if he was actually shoved into that thing by some other evil puppet [[ObviouslyEvil * COUGH* Elmo* COUGH* ]] and ended up getting stuck, making him immobile and thus forcing him to call the trashcan his new home and turning him into the grumpy green guy (no, not [[IncredibleHulk THAT grumpy green guy]]) he is today).

* When Archie was told to clean the garage by his father, he disappeared with the father being angered that he'd disappear when chores are even suggested, and eventually finds Archie hiding in a trash can. Ironically, he found Archie when he himself planned on using the trash can to hide from his wife when she's suggesting he do some chores.

* ''HeyArnold'' had a whole episode about this. It was a yearly tradition for the fifth graders to stuff the fourth graders into trash cans on "Trash Can Day," and Arnold and Gerald worked together to figure out a way to get home safely without being canned.

* ''SandraAndWoo'' has its own subversion as well when [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2009/04/06/0048-immoral-insight/ Cloud does this to Ralph]], TheBully, after he beat another student. Done a second time by Sandra to Larisa [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2010/02/08/0136-theres-still-hope/ after one biting remark too many]].

* I've never watched the animated show ''{{Recess}}'' enough personally, but I've been told that this has also happened in that show.
** In ''{{Recess}}'' they were never stuffed in, but at least one episode had a sport which consisted of (voluntarily) entering one and rolling down a hill.

* In ''TheNeverendingStory'' (the film), Bastian gets his lunch money stolen and tossed into a dumpster. At the end, he gets his revenge when [[spoiler:he terrifies the bullies by pursuing them on a flying luckdragon and they hide in the dumpster themselves]].

* In ''TheNeverendingStory'', Bastian mentions that kids once did this to him, when he tried to respond their insults.

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* This has been done to Ozy from the ''OzyAndMillie'' webcomic countless times by the school's JerkJock, Jeremy.

* In the video game, ''{{Bully}}'', you get to stuff other people into trashcans if close enough; the beating is optional. This has acted as slight VideoGameCrueltyPunishment in that sometimes you want to beat the victim, not stuff him.

* In TheGarbagePailKidsMovie, to prevent Dodger from interfering with the fashion show, the bullies toss him into a dumpster. Only problem with this plan? He could just as easily get out of the dumpster, which he does.

* It is somewhat subverted in the 1982 musical, ''[[{{Little Orphan Annie}} Annie]]'', when the titular character does this to a bully instead of the other way around.

* Also happens to Roger in ''TheWhiteboard'', though often he deserved it. Seriously you'd think a guy who makes railguns in his free time would know not to play pranks on a polar bear.

* It happens in a Peruvian series that must be the most stupid series ever made in Peru called "Esta Sociedad", what's stupid about it is that Peruvians aint into this practice, we are above it...

* ''SandraAndWoo'' has its own subversion as well when Cloud does this to Ralph, TheBully, after he threatens another student.

* This is one of the humiliations suffered by the protagonist of ''TheEighteenthEmergency'' by Betsy Byars.
* In a related joke, one of the protagonists of ''ThePlantThatAteDirtySocks'' attempts to clean out his room, and through an unfortunate chain of events winds up face-down inside the box of items to throw away.

* A recurring theme in the Australian newspaper comic, ''GingerMeggs''.

* ''HeyArnold'' had a whole episode about this. It was a yearly tradition for the fifth graders to stuff the fourth graders into trash cans on "Trash Can Day," and Arnold and his friend worked together to figure out a way to get home safely without being canned.)

A related trope would be StuffedIntoALocker.

* In TheGarbagePailKidsMovie, to prevent Dodger from interfering with the fashion show, the bullies toss him into a dumpster. TheNostalgiaCritic points out he could just as easily get out of the dumpster, which he does.

By the way, just so things are clear, [[SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]] is not related to this trope at ALL (unless if he was actually shoved into that thing by some other evil puppet [[ObviouslyEvil * COUCH* Elmo* COUGH* ]] and ended up getting stuck, making him immobile and thus forcing him to call the trashcan his new home and turning him into the grumpy green guy (no, not [[IncredibleHulk THAT grumpy green guy]]) he is today).

** In an early episode, Bart was stuffed into a trashcan by Nelson and his [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome now missing cronies]] two or three times and rolled down a hill.

* In the video game, ''{{Bully}}'', you get to stuff other people into trashcans after you beat them up enough.