History Main / TongueOnTheFlagpole

* Even well past age 20, ComicStrip/{{Nemi}} still does this.

* During a parody of ''Film/TheExorcist'' in ''Film/ScaryMovie'' 2, the priest played by Andy Ritchter enters the room with the possessed girl inside and complains about how cold the room is. He then kisses the small metal cross he has with him, only for his lips to get stuck to it.

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* This happens to one of the frogs in ''Film/ItsAVeryMerryMuppetChristmasMovie''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' :

* ''The Watsons Go to Birmingham'' had a scene like this too. Specifically, one of the boys was kissing a mirror, so he got his lips stuck. Unable to use hot water to get him off, his mother rips him off the mirror. He keeps his lips, but is incredibly sore and has to cover them with Vaseline for a few days.

* A Pop-Tarts ad plays this trope straight. Strawberry Milkshake is tricked into licking the North Pole, with predicable results- thanks to those mad children.

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheFastAndTheFurry'' has Biff and Buzz dare Gorthan to do this when he's the first to reach Antarctica. [[spoiler: This becomes a factor in his elimination, since he wasn't able to remove it when the ice he's standing on floats away.]]

* ''Film/DumbAndDumber''. Happens on a ski lift, and Harry doesn't need any goading or triple-dog dares; he just says "Oh look, frost!" and sticks his tongue on it.

* ''Webcomic/HamletoTheHamster'': Happens to Hamleto with [[http://www.hamletothehamster.com/2009/07/heat-is-on-part-one.html a bottle of ice-cold water.]]

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* [[https://twitter.com/BillSpooks/status/1641470891967098882 This]] fanmade [[UndergroundMonkey regional variant]] of [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Lickitung]] is based entirely off of this trope, even being an Ice-type. Instead of becoming [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Lickilicky]], it [[DivergentCharacterEvolution evolves into]] Lickisled, whose absolutely enormous tongue is now almost entirely iced over, [[MundaneUtility allowing it to be used as a sled]]!

* One Creator/PaulJennings story features a boy kissing an ice sculpture of a girl. The inevitable happens, inevitably, so he goes into a pool of water to melt it off.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': In [[Machinima/RedVsBlueSeason14 season 14]]'s "The 'Mission'", after finding the base on the ice planet, Iowa says that he touched it with his tongue to check if it was real and got stuck until he breathed hot air onto it.

** Foop gets his tongue stuck to a flagpole after Poof grows gigantic enough to block out the sun and freeze the Earth in "The Terrible Twosome".

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Snow Bound", Timmy sticks his tongue to a frozen fishbowl and then proceeds to pull himself out of a pit he was stuck in using his tongue as a lasso.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': In "Monster Bash", Star tries to cool a punch bowl with one of her spells and accidentally freezes it in a block of ice, then gets her tongue stuck to the ice.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' "[[Recap/MonsterBash]]" the main character Star gets her tongue stuck to a frozen punch by one of her spells.

* In ''WestenAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' "[[Recap/MonsterBash]]" the main character Star gets her tongue stuck to a frozen punch by one of her spells.

* In ''WestenAnimation/Starvstheforcesofevil'' "[[Recap/MonsterBash]]" the main character Star gets her tongue stuck to a frozen punch by one of her spells.

* ''Series/IttleDew'': In one cutscene, Ittle is shown having her tongue stuck on the Ice Wand. It's just for show, though.

* ''Film/DumbAndDumber''. Happens on a ski lift, and Harry doesn't need any goading or triple-dog dares; he just says [[WhatAnIdiot "Oh look, frost!" and sticks his tongue on it]].

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': In [[Machinima/RedVsBlueSeason14 season 14]]'s "The 'Mission'", Iowa says he touched the base with his tongue to check if it was real and got stuck until he breathed hot air onto it.

* WebAnimation/SimonsCat briefly gets his tongue stuck trying to get to a fish in a frozen pond in "Icecapades".

* ''The Head'' (2020 miniseries). One character has to strip down to fit through an AirVentPassageway; the problem is it's an Antarctic research station in the middle of winter, so she's heard screaming in agony as her bare skin touches the freezing metal as she squeezes through the gap.

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* ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama World Tour]]'':
** In the Yukon episode, Bridgette gets her tongue stuck to a flagpole thanks to [[ManipulativeBastard Alejandro]]. Then Chris forces her to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmHB2UwgVAg sing]] about it (With Gwen Courtney and Heather as backup), made even funnier considering that her voice is slurred as she tries to speak, and it's the only song to have visible lyrics to make it more understandable.
** In an exclusive clip, Heather is sent to the Yukon after she is eliminated, and gets her tongue stuck to a pole as a reference back to the episode.

* A level in the second ''WebAnimation/DumbWaysToDie'' game asks you [[SchmuckBait not to lick a pole.]]

* In the teaser trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', Sven gets his tongue stuck on a frozen lake during a quarrel with Olaf over a carrot.

* Happens in ''Film/EpicMovie'', also with tongue-tearing results. In the unrated cut of the film, her tongue stretches to an insane length and she attempts to cut free with a knife and axe.

* In the teaser trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', the reindeer character Sven gets his tongue stuck on a frozen lake during a quarrel over a carrot with the snowman Olaf.