History Main / AmbulanceCut

Can also be PlayedForDrama, but usually without the SmashCut associated with the comic usage. Compare HospitalGurneyScene.

* The ''Series/CornerGas'' Christmas episode "Merry Gasmas" uses this trope four different times. The first three are flashbacks to previous Christmases. Emma tells Oscar to be careful with the sharp carving knives, cut to an ambulance. Emma says her eggnog tastes off and Oscar tells her to drink it anyway, cut to an ambulance. Emma again tells Oscar to be careful with the knives, so Oscar gives them to a very young Brent, cut to an ambulance. At the end of the episode, Brent climbs onto a shaky ladder to take down some mistletoe, time for another ambulance cut. Emma watches the ambulance pull away and says, "Same damn thing every year."

** In an episode, Mr. Krabs is about to take a bite of a Krabby Patty that, if it were any more disgusting, would require EPA financial assistance. Immediately cut to an ambulance with the siren blaring. [[SubvertedTrope Cut back to Mr. Krabs, remarking "Oh, look, an ambulance."]] Then, [[DoubleSubversion he eats the burger and is rushed to the hospital.]]
** There's another episode where Squidward tries a Krabby Patty for the first time and becomes addicted. At the end, he breaks into the Patty Vault and eats all of the burgers. After [=SpongeBob=] remarks that they'll [[BreadEggsMilkSquick go right to his thighs...and then blow up]], we see an explosion, and then a cut to the ambulance, with Squidward blown to pieces, all of his tentacles in a bucket.
** Immediately after [=SpongeBob=] is finally admitted into the Salty Spittoon, there is a cut to the ambulance and it is revealed he slipped on an ice cube and got covered in boo-boos.

** Also, in the season eight episode "Lisa's Date with Density", Lisa asks Milhouse if he can deliver a note to Nelson Muntz. The note reads "Guess who likes you?", Nelson looks back and sees Milhouse wiggling his eyebrows. Jump cut to Milhouse being wheeled out of the school on a gurney with everyone in the school watching.

Can also be PlayedForDrama, but usually without the SmashCut associated with the comic usage.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Eggscellent", Rigby goes to a restaurant to eat an enormous omelette in order to win a promotional hat. The moment he orders the omelette it cuts to him in an ambulance because apparently he was allergic to eggs.

* From ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Homer and Apu" (in season five), Homer buys a pack of ham that expired in 1989 (it was 1994 at the time this episode aired). The first time he eats it, Homer gets a horrible stomachache (but keeps eating!), then it cuts to the ambulance. After Homer spends some time at the hospital, he returns to the store and complains to Apu that the ham made him sick. Apu then bribes Homer with ten pounds worth of bad shrimp, which is then followed by a jump cut back to the same footage of the ambulance. (The ambulance itself is StockFootage for the show. It was used when Mr. Burns went to the hospital in the season two episode "Blood Feud", and in "Homer's Triple Bypass" after Homer passes out from a heart attack after Mr. Burns yells at him for being a lazy, incompetent worker.)

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Mr. Krabs is about to take a bite of a Krabby Patty that, if it were any more disgusting, would require EPA financial assistance. Immediately cut to an ambulance with the siren blaring. [[SubvertedTrope Cut back to Mr. Krabs, remarking "Oh, look, an ambulance."]] Then, [[DoubleSubversion he eats the burger and is rushed to the hospital.]]

* In ''TheHairBearBunch'' episode "Love Bug Bungle," two policeman radio for an ambulance after Botch tells them that he and Peevly were chasing three bears on an invisible motorcycle.

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* ''Film/TheresSomethingAboutMary'':
-->''"We got a bleeder!"''

* ''HancocksHalfHour'': In the classic episode "The Blood Donor", our hero has just given "[[MemeticMutation very nearly an armful]]" of blood and discovered that he belongs to a rare blood group. Back home, fretting that his rare blood might not go to "the right sort of person", he decides to sharpen a bread knife. Cue StockFootage of ambulance, and guess who needs the blood.

* ''SteptoeAndSon'' used a variation featuring a fire engine instead of an ambulance.

* Done in ''LastOfTheSummerWine'' where Nora and Ivy joke about showing off their "Flapper" outfits to Compo (who had a thing for Nora), cut to an Ambulance and then a hospital waiting room. This is because prior to filming that episode Bill Owen who played Compo passed away, and [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim they wrote Compo out with a heart attack]].

* In ''Film/TheNiceGuys'', March wraps his hand in cloth to punch through a window to unlock a door and immediately cuts his wrist open. Cut to the ambulance.

* The music video for Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Cold Shot" has three of them, each time as a result of his wife assaulting him for focusing more on guitar playing than on her.

* ''BlackBooks'', after Manny swallows ''The Little Book Of Calm.''

* In ''Manga/{{Gintama}}", the Yorozuya trio helps dispose Otose's supply of crabs that gone bad due to a broken refrigerator. When Otose warns them to not eat them because they'll get food poisoning, they assure her that they won't eat them because they are not that poor and desperate to do that. We cut to the amublance and them being carted into it while they are in agony.

* The ''{{Bottom}}'' episode "Accident" has not one, but two of these.

* Naturally enough given its premise, ''LondonsBurning'' used a variation on the theme at least OnceAnEpisode, cutting from this week's fire or accident to Blue Watch being dispatched from Blackwall. ''Not'' PlayedForLaughs, however.

* The ''Series/CornerGas'' Christmas episode "Merry Gasmas" uses this trope four different times. The first three are flashbacks to previous Christmases. Emma tells Oscar to be careful with the sharp carving knives, cut to an ambulance.Emma says her eggnog tastes off and Oscar tells her to drink it anyway, cut to an ambulance. Emma again tells Oscar to be careful with the knives, so Oscar gives them to a very young Brent, cut to an ambulance. At the end of the episode, Brent climbs onto a shaky ladder to take down some mistletoe, time for another ambulance cut. Emma watches the ambulance pull away and says, "Same damn thing every year."

* In ''Series/FatherTed'', Jack accidentally ends up at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Some time later, a member of the group spots him in a pub and attempts to intervene with his drinking, resulting in an ambulance cut.

* ''TheresSomethingAboutMary'':

* Played straight in ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'', leading RiffTrax to comment "did he die or just rent an ambulance?"

* ''NewsRadio'': Bill tries chewing his nicotine patch. Three guesses what happens next.

* {{Newgrounds}} short ''Cooking Sama'' (a parody of ''VideoGame/CookingMama'') has this happen twice as the result of {{Epic Fail}}s at basic cooking.