History Main / SausageStringSilliness

** In a ''Little Archie'' comic, the titular character and his friend assemble a kite in a supermarket. When they decide they need a tail for the kite, they acquire a string of franks from the butcher department. Little Archie's response: "I never [[{{Pun}} sausage]] a tail".

* The intro to the {{Edutainment}} show ''Cat's Eyes'' has the two puppet cats Jimmy and Juke steal an entire string of sausages that pizza chef [[ButtMonkey Alf]] left by his window. The rest of the intro is Alf chasing them down to get his sausages back.

Link sausages sold in strings are rarely seen as such anymore, at least in the USA, since there are far fewer butcher shops than there used to be. Most folks seem to buy their hot dogs/frankfurters/wieners/sausages in supermarkets, in sealed plastic packages with that gooey liquid (and, annoyingly, in packs of ten while the buns usually come in packs of eight). Still, most people seem to recognize the sausage strings enough to appreciate the gags. [[note]]British outlets, even supermarkets, still tend to sell sausages in linked strings; although in quantities of eight or ten and sealed into an outer wrap. There are still many regular butchers' shops who will sell you sausages in a string and these can be bought "loose" with minimal outer packaging. And in the Spanish (and Portuguese)-speaking world, you can find many varieties of sausage that almost always come in strings like these. This is a by-product of manufacture: sausage-making extrudes the meat mix into a continuous hollow tube of outer skin, and the "string" is created by twisting the filled tube at regular intervals. [[/note]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'': In ''The Shooting Star'', Snowy steals a whole string of sausages from the ship's galley, forcing the crew to have nothing but Sauerkraut for lunch.

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* In one ''Belvedere'' strip Belvedere uses one as a hula hoop while standing in a butcher shop.

* In one ''ComicStrip/FredBasset'' strip Fred runs down the street with a string in his mouth while a passerby laughs.
-->'''Fred:''' ''I'll bet Mr. Jackson won't be laughing when he arrives home and gets the news from Mrs. Jackson... These were meant for his supper...''
* An ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'' gag involves the eponymous Old Master Q defending himself from a knife-wielding thug by the expedient of grabbing a nearby string of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_sausage dried Chinese sausages]] from a street vendor and employing them in the manner of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_whip seven-sectioned whip]] to disarm, trip, and bash his pursuer. Q walks off celebrating his victory by [[EdibleBludgeon snacking on a sausage link]].

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* In the movie version of ''Film/{{Bewitched}}'', a character uses a string of sausages to attract the attention of an uncooperative canine actor. Since the sausages are competing with magic it doesn't work.
* In the movie ''Film/ForTheLoveOfBenji'', the titular dog steals a string of link sausages from a butcher shop.

* In the ''Film/TheLittleRascals'' short "The Kid from Borneo" a "wild man from Borneo" eats an entire string.
* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze'': Part of being LighterAndSofter than the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 first film]], the only turtle allowed to use his weapon was Donatello. Michelangelo had a psuedo-nunchuck moment in the opening scene using sausage links.

* In ''Literature/MovingPictures'', the click ''High Jinks at the Store'' involves a thief running off with a string of sausages. CMOT Dibbler's expression glazes slightly when telling Thomas Silverfish how much he enjoyed it.
* A cartoon in Will Eisner's ''Star Jaws'' depicts a gigantic spaceship which has a string of sausages coming out of a hole in the side.

* The last page of Creator/RichardScarry's ''Great Big Schoolhouse'' depicts the annual school picnic. As Mr. Bruno grilled the hot dogs, Nurse Nelly is shown singlehandedly carrying a huge bundle of maybe 100 franks strung together.

* On ''Series/{{Saturday Night Live}}'', there was a promo for a fictitious cop show featuring partnered females, one of whom was heavy-set. One scene in the promo has the smaller woman flashing a badge, causing her billfold to audibly unfold downward. A scene shortly after that has the larger woman also displaying a badge, but instead it's a string-of-franks that "unfolds".

* The intro to the [[{{Edutainment}} Edutainment]] show ''Cat's Eyes'' has the two puppet cats Jimmy and Juke steal an entire string of sausages that pizza chef [[ButtMonkey Alf]] left by his window. The rest of the intro is Alf chasing them down to get his sausages back.
* A classic challenge on reality TV shows to do with food is for the contestant to be shown how sausage-making is done. They are then invited to have a go to see how they do. HilarityEnsues as the novice can find it utterly impossible to co-ordinate all the manual actions necessary to fill a casing with sausage meat and then turn it into regularly shaped links, let alone knotting them for presentation and eventual sale in the butcher's shop. Sometimes a news journalist visiting a butchers' might be put on the spot and invited to give it a go. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYZenD0rZ7o This rarely ends well]], especially in front of a camera crew.

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* A traditional character in Theatre/PunchAndJudy performances is a sausage-stealing crocodile.

* In the WebAnimation/HomestarRunner toon "One Two, One Two", Bubs' contribution to the song is rhythmically stuffing things into a sausage maker and making sausage links out of them. Among the stuff he puts in is a tennis ball and a Chinese takeout container, and they both ''[[InsaneTrollLogic somehow]]'' manage to convert into sausages.

* A very darkly humorous anecdote in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' involves a Spark breaking through and making a multipurpose clank with a built in automatic sausage maker that converts the Spark and his family into strings of sausage before the Baron's men can shut it down.

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* The Fenton family of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' knew how to put the frank back in Frankenstein when their experimental microwave oven brought them to life. Jack Fenton chose to keep them in the fridge and ordered them in serpentine formation to protect himself.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': Scrooge [=McDuck=] uses sausages on a string to tame a "ghost" dog in ''The Curse of Castle [=McDuck=]''.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. In "A Glass of Warm Ed", Ed starts sleep-eating and consumes just about everything in the refrigerator of almost every house in the cul-de-sac; one running gag throughout the episode is one of the things Ed keeps eating is chains of weenies, and in fact, Double D and Eddy, at one point, use this to their advantage to help track him down by following wherever a chain of weenies leads them.

* The ant train version appears in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/BallotBoxBunny", complete with one ant in front with a whip going "Ya, mule! Ya!"
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode, "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS1E18AprilFoolsRulesCerealOffender Cereal Offender]]", when Lincoln chases after a kid [[CostumeCopycat dressed in an outfit identical to his]] who took his box of Zombie Bran cereal, the kid tries to slow him down by spilling coffee beans on the floor. To get across them, Lincoln takes some linked sausages from the nearby deli and uses them like a rope to swing over the coffee beans.
* This also showed up in the second act of the ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS1E6BeachBlanketBogus Beach Blanket Bogus]]", when Bogus notices his younger cousin Brattus having a tug-of-war with a dog over some sausage links. Bogus goes over to help Brattus, but the two cousins wind up only getting one sausage while the dog eats the rest of them.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E6SlaveTheDayLosDosMojo Slave the Day]]", a villain known as the Salami Swami is a SnakeCharmer who uses his flute to control linked sausages. Big Billy (who [[IOweYouMyLife tries to help the girls after they save him from being run over by a subway train]]) eats the sausages when they try to attack him and the girls.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS1E10WeaningTommyIncidentInAisleSeven Incident in Aisle Seven]]", one of the things Lou gets on his shopping trip with Tommy is linked sausages. A few minutes later, as he is distracted with adding up the total cost of his groceries, Tommy uses them to lasso onto a nearby grocery cart so it will take him to the pyramid of Reptar Cereal boxes.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Homer the Vigilante" starts with the Springfield Cat Burglar sneaking into the Simpsons' home and being growled at by Santa's Little Helper. Being GenreSavvy enough to know this trope, he pulls out a chain of sausages to distract the animal. It gets PlayedForLaughs moments later when Homer sleep-walks in, and is also stopped by being given sausages.
** The ''Time and Punishment'' segment in "Treehouse of Horror V" has Homer taking out a sausage chain while being chased by vicious dogs. [[BaitAndSwitch Rather than what you'd expect]], he eats them himself in hopes of gaining strength to outrun the dogs... ''which he actually achieves''.
* At one point in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Club [=SpongeBob=]", Squidward sees some smoked sausages (which he claims to be his favorite) in the banquet that [[ItMakesSenseInContext fell out of the sky]], and starts smelling them. Meanwhile, Patrick is sucking the sausages into his mouth, and since Squidward's nose is shaped like a sausage...
* ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'': in the episode "Pasteur's Packs O' Punch", Larry had been suffering from glitches that effect his personality and sense of judgment. One such personality change occurs during a gala to celebrate Louis Pasteur's scientific contributions; Larry gets up on a table, wearing a table cloth as a cape, a fruit display as a crown and a chain of sausages draped on his arms like a fancy feather boa while proclaiming that he's "The Queen of France" and drunkenly sings "La Marseillaise" in front of a mortified crowd consisting of the French elite and the Time Squad.

* In the WebAnimation/HomestarRunner toon "One Two, One Two", Bubs' contribution to the song is rhythmically stuffing things into a sausage maker and making sausage links out of them. Among the stuff he puts in are a tennis ball and a Chinese takeout container, and they both ''[[InsaneTrollLogic somehow]]'' manage to convert into sausages.

* The ''WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}}'' monster [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/bratwurm.htm Bratwurm]] is basically an animated [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever killer sausage string]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'': "Camping Chaos" is about the sheep messing with a camper who's squatting at the farm. Among the things they find in his backpack is a string of sausages, which they promptly start playing a game of jump rope with. The Pigs, watching this over a fence, [[BlackComedy respond by]] {{fainting}}.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' has the sheep rummage through the bag of a camper who's squatting at the farm. Among the things they find is a string of sausages, which they promptly start playing a game of jump rope with. The Pigs, watching this over a fence, [[BlackComedy respond by]] {{fainting}}.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' had the sheep rummage through the bag of a camper who was squatting at the farm. Among the things they find is a string of sausages, which they promptly start playing with. The Pigs, who are watching this over a fence, [[BlackComedy respond by]] {{fainting}}.

** In a ''Little Archie'' comic, the titular character and his friend assemble a kite in a supermarket. When they decide they need a tail for the kite, they acquire a string of franks from the butcher department. Little Archie says (incredibly lame pun warning), "I never sausage a tail".

* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' crosses this with BlackComedy in the [[DownloadableContent Delicious Last Course]] boss fight, "High Noon Hoopla". [[EverythingsBetterWithCows Esther Winchester]] gets sucked into her own vacuum gun at the start of the third phase of her boss fight, which cooks her into a [[LivingFood living string of sausages]] for her third phase. Her fourth phase goes further by having her straight-up stuffed into a grocery tin, before she shoots two endless strings of sausages at you.

In many animations and comics, but sometimes in live action as well, hot dogs are sold in "strings", convenient for playing for comedy. The most common of these gags involves a dog at a picnic grabbing one frank and running off with the whole string (and consequently, the lunch from several people). Another example might be a team of StrongAnts hauling the franks away like a train.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Balto'', Steele tries to woo Jenna into a SpaghettiKiss with a string of sausages he stole from the butcher. It doesn't work, but he pins the theft on Balto afterwards when the man comes looking and gets rewarded with it anyway for catching the "thief".