History Main / VaudevilleHook

-->- '''Kid holding the Hampton plush:''' And don't forget about Hampton!
-->- '''Kid holding the Dizzy Devil plush:''' Pig, YUMMY!
-->- '''Kid holding the Hampton plush:''' Get the hook!
--> ''(Kid holding the Dizzy Devil plush gets dragged away!)''

[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Garfield sometimes gets the hook when he's doing his fence act. Once, when he gave a ChristmasSpecial, a candy cane was used.
* One ''Farley'' strip, when Bruin Hilda was running for mayor of San Francisco, had the beaver sing a campaign song (to the tune of "[[Music/TheBeatles I Saw Her Standing There]]"). Hilda is thinking "Get the hook".

* In ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'''s [[DisneyAcidSequence "If I Didn't Have You"]] song, there's a part where a line of eggs with dragon feet sticking out dance across the screen. They are promptly yanked off-screen.
* Doesn't actually happen in ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'', but during Tamatoa's VillainSong, while he's fighting Maui, he quips "Ouch! What a terrible performance! Get the hook!" It's also a pun, since Maui's weapon is in fact a giant hook.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'', where a gnome reads out a "long boring prologue". Two hooks come in at different times on both sides of the stage, but he notices. He then falls through a trap-door.

* Used in one of Hal Roach's ''[[Film/TheLittleRascals Our Gang]]'' comedies, ''Beginner's Luck'', in which one of the stage mothers tried to drag her son, Spanky, offstage with the hook... but she kept missing him, first popping a couple of stage lights, then giving herself a really bad shock when the metal crook got caught in the live socket.
* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', this happens to WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck in the Ink-n-Paint Club. After several minutes of trying to sabotage one another's piano playing, Donald [[RefugeInAudacity fires a cannon at Daffy's piano]], flooring his own and destroying Daffy's. Both of them, along with their pianos, are dragged off-stage with hooks.
* Early in ''Film/SinginInTheRain,'' Don has a flashback to his vaudeville days with Cosmo that includes the two of them getting pulled of the stage by a long hook.
* In ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' the Grinch grabs an unfortunate yodeler off his mountain with one and steals his outfit.

-->'''Narrator''': After five scintillating years on the air, ''The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show'' is abruptly cancelled.
-->'''Rocky and Bullwinkle''': ''[[OhCrap CANCELLED!?]]''
-->(YANK!)
-->'''Narrator''': Uh, sorry about that, boys.

* The cover illustration of the ''Literature/ExtremeMonsters Joke Book'' depicts Val telling jokes on the stage as a cane is about to yank him away.

* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'': Brought up in the Big Chapter Book ''The Berenstain Bears' Media Madness'', where Bear Country School gets its own in-school TV station. During the auditions for various roles on [=BTV=] (as the station becomes known), Too-Tall and his gang work security, but when he brings up the idea of using a hook (made from a window pole and a bent coat hanger) to pull any obvious screw-ups off the stage, Teacher Bob quickly vetoes it.

* ''Series/TheGongShow'': One of several methods for ejecting horrendously bad acts from the stage. These were, of course, non-scoring, comedy relief acts that performed in between scoring acts.

* ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' (the American version) has a slight RunningGag of Colin Mochrie carrying a joke for "Scenes from a Hat" [[OverlyLongGag a little too long]] (generally because Drew "forgets" to [[DropTheCow buzz him out]]), at which point Ryan Stiles, or occasionally Brad Sherwood, will come over and gently usher him off center stage.

* ''Series/Legion2017'': A rather strange example (which is par for the course for the show), Division 3's strike team deployed a "tactical hook" which was a candy-cane-looking hook that yanked away an unsuspecting lookout, leaving his tea cup spinning in air.

* In ''Film/TheMuppets2011'', one of these is used to grab most of the other Muppets during the montage.

* In ''VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack: Movies'', if a player answers a question wrong, their number is yanked offscreen by a cane.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' [[AnimatedMusicVideo PMV]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmJ2Bkx2C5A "Beat It"]] features one in the post-music video part, when Animated James's OC asks Flash Sentry if he doesn't mind not being included in the video, because... nobody likes him. Cue Flash struck speechless, and a vaudeville hook slowly reaches for the pegasus before pulling him offstage. Then Ms. Harshwhinny walks in, carrying the hook, and James gives her money.

* Happens to WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck in [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts shorts]] like "Orphans' Benefit" and ''WesternAnimation/MickeysAmateurs''.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "Make 'Em Laugh", a disguised [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]] shows up on stage and starts performing at a stand-up comedy competition -- right as the judges are about to announce the winner. He gets pulled off stage with one of these on the grounds that since he hadn't registered as a participant, he had no business being there. A year later, [[DisproportionateRetribution Joker steals some mind control chips from the Mad Hatter, uses them to turn the judges into third-rate supervillains, and arranges for himself to be the only contestant in that year's competition -- with his henchmen as the new judges]].
* Happens to Batman(!) in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' just when he's about to be caught and brought to "justice" for the crimes committed by [[spoiler:his evil alternate-Earth doppelganger]], courtesy of [[spoiler:the Joker]].
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', Wilt is making a spectacular mess of his introductory speech to a talent show, and gets pulled off in this manner when he's so flustered he can no longer even apologise for his mistakes coherently. Madame Foster then comments how he was much better than [[NoodleIncident last year]].

* A Creator/TexAvery short, ''The Flea Circus'' (1954), has a SadClown flea performer upset the audience and get yanked offstage by a ''full-sized'' hook.
* In an episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', Babs gets a couple of these trying to audition for a part in a stage performance for [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare William Shakespeare]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'': In "7 Continents for 7 Koopas", Luigi ends Hip's Koopathon by yanking him with a hook.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' special "Fairy Idol", the losers of the singing competition get this treatment. When Juandisimo was one of those disqualified, he cried out "No! I am too sexy for the stick!".
* One twist of this trope: In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', Luck o' the Ducks, at the end of a short chase scene, Scrooge says "Here! Let me give your act the hook!" before pulling Farderek from his horse.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' Season 2 episode ''The Voice Thief'', the exhausted-looking Sadida singer drops down in a heap mid-song during his performance and is then dragged offscreen by a hook.

* In the music video for "[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Do the Bartman]]", Principal Skinner tries to pull Bart off the stage with one of these, but Bart dodges it.