History Main / StuffedIntoATrashCan

Sometimes, the person deliberately hides in a trashcan in order to avoid being caught by people wanting to exact revenge, or sometimes for more mundane reasons such as avoiding chores, or even just to spy on people.

Compare GarbageHideout, where a character voluntarily enters a garbage can or dumpster in order to hide.

* When Archie from ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'':
** Gelman does this to Gus in an episode.
** Hiding in a Trash-Can is actually one of Randall's favorite spots to spy on people and then rat them out. Unfortunately, if someone's going to take out the trash, he'll sometimes have the trash dumped on him.
** In "Parents Night" Mikey hides in the trashcan outside of Spinelli's house and gets caught because it was her turn to take out the trash.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In ''Naughty Nautical Neighbors'', Squidward himself hides in his own trashcan outside to escape from [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's bickering inside his house and to lament on his situation.
** In ''The Bully'', [=SpongeBob=] hides in the trashcan to avoid Flatts the Flounder who wants to kick his butt. Unfortunately, Flatts finds him with his Garbage truck.

* In ''Film/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]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWrongTrousers'': Gromit stuffs himself in a trashcan in the streets after he left Wallace's house upon seeing Wallace and Feathers McGraw having a good time together.

* Happens in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JJaklYpcLM this PIF]] from Tidy Britain Group where a guy who just littered in front of the Tidy-man, ends up learning the hard way by being grabbed and shoved in a bin by the Tidy-man.

By the way, just so things are clear, [[Series/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).

A related trope would be StuffedIntoALocker, although this happens ''much'' more.

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* When Archie from ''WesternAnimation/ArchieComics'' 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.

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* Puck throws Kurt in a dumpster in the Pilot of ''Series/{{Glee}}''.
** Happens fairly frequently in ''Series/{{Glee}}''.

* Gibby on ''Series/ICarly''.

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* The infamous comic cat, ''{{Garfield}}'', has done this at least once to his gray kitten friend, Nermal.

* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'' offers some variants, with Sarge playing the part of the bully to Beetle or Beetle hiding in the trashcan from him.

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* This happened on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' a couple of times.

** Barney Gumble was once stuffed into a trashcan by boxer Smokin' Joe Frazier.
*** [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally]] it was supposed to be ''Joe Frazier'' who was to be stuffed into a trashcan by ''Barney''. However, it was changed under the advice of Joe Frazier's son. [[RuleOfFunny It was also funnier this way.]]

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

* BettyAndVeronica actually does this to Archie in ''WesternAnimation/ArchiesWeirdMysteries'' after Reggie coaxes them on with the idea that Archie was stringing them along.

* In high school, Courtney from ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' goes from being the most popular girl in school to a bully victim. One episode involved somme older girls flushing ''both'' of her cellphones, banning her from the girl's bathroom, and stuffing her in a garbage can.

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* In ''Webcomic/JoyToTheWorld'' this repeatedly happens to Joy, when she picks fights with the [[RedheadedBully school bully]].

* The Turtles do this to Keno, the pizza guy in ''[[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles TMNT 2]]'', but it's for his own good.

* In Film/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.

* In the GameOver sequence of the ArcadeGame ''APB'', the other cops beat you up and dump you into a trashcan.

* In an issue of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', a guy on the street tells SheHulk that he loves her "green body paint" and [[CasanovaWannabe asks if she needs any help removing it]]. Maybe he was drunk and didn't also notice that she was [[BullyingADragon almost seven feet tall]]; nonetheless, Jen responds by stuffing him into the nearest trashcan.

* 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.

* BettyAndVeronica actually does this to Archie in ''ArchiesWeirdMysteries'' after Reggie coaxes them on with the idea that Archie was stringing them along.

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).

* Variation, in {{garbage wrestling}} matches, it's common to stuff a trash can over the head of the opponent, as it both blinds them and restricts their arms. Sure, it also ''protects'' their upper torso but banging on the can't be good for the ears.

* {{Masked luchador}}a Tsunami is infamous for beating her opponents to bloody pulps and then then dumping them in trash cans after they are defeated.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirll}}'', Beowulf has a special grapple attack where he shoves his opponent into a trash can and kicks them away. The move functions as a [[SwitchOutMove snapback]].

* In a ''PennyAndAggie'' [[WholeEpisodeFlashback flashback]], teenage Lynda does this to her future husband Rob after one too many flirtatious pranks on his part.

* In ''{{Shorts}}'', this is what the main character has to endure ''every day'': stuffed head first in a trash can. It gets better though, as the girl who does it to him becomes his girlfriend.
* In ''MaxKeeblesBigMove'' the poor kid is thrown into a ''dumpster''.

* In the ''{{Illuminatus}}'' prequel, ''The Historical Illuminatus:The widow's Son'', Irish fisherman Seamus Muadhen is tortured this way by British soldiers in Dublin Castle. A large bucket is placed over his head and it is pounded with rifle butts, causing injuries, excruciating pain and burst eardrums. As Seamus said, the Brits who tortured him have converted a mere fisherman into an Irish Republican who will seek vengeance, so go and eat shit, Englishman. Seamus gets his revenge years later as commanding officer of an Irish Legion in the American War of Independence.

* Puck throws Kurt in a dumpster in the Pilot of ''{{Glee}}''.
** Happens fairly frequently in ''{{Glee}}''.

* Gibby on ''ICarly''.

* Happened in ''LoisAndClark''. Clark (disguised as a barkeep) ejected Lois from a mob-controlled club, carefully using his x-ray vision to toss her into the dumpster full of spoiled vegetables -- and ''not'' the dumpster full of harmless paper shreddings. Superdickery, indeed.

* Solid Snake in ''MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' will sometimes use a dumpster as a hiding spot.

* Variation, in {{garbage wrestling}} matches, it's common to stuff a trash can over the head of the opponent, as it both blinds them and restricts their arms.

* Variation, in {{garbage wrestling}} matches, it's common to stuff a trash can over the head of the opponent, as it both blinds them and pins their arms.

* {{Masked luchador}}a Tsunami is infamous for beating her opponents to bloody pulps after defeating them and then dumping them in trash cans.