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* ''SecondhandLions'' does this with a gang of thugs whomHub beats up mere hours after getting out of the hospital for a heart attack. When he later comes by to collect the meat scraps, he invites them all to stay for dinner.

* In the Astaire/Rogers musical ''Film/TopHat'' Horace gets a black eye. Astaire recommends a raw steak, so the man tells his servant to order one from the hotel kitchen. Too bad miscommunication results in a cooked steak with all the fixings being delivered instead. What a shock to get one of those on the eye!

* In GangsofNewYork, Amsterdam gets a nice bloody slab slapped on his eye wound after a dust up with Bill's right-hand man. Appropriate enough, given it happens in a butcher shop.

* In the Astaire/Rogers musical ''TopHat'' a man gets a black eye. Astaire recommends a raw steak, so the man tells his servant to order one from the hotel kitchen. Too bad miscommunication results in a cooked steak with all the fixings being delivered instead. What a shock to get one of those on the eye!

* Used in {{Dumbo}) by one of the elephants after the tent collapse.

* Used in {{Dumbo}} after the tent collapse.

TruthInTelevision, although [[DontTryThisAtHome it isn't really recommended that you try it]], unless the steak is frozen and sealed inside plastic wrap. Cow blood seeping into one of the most absorbent parts of your body (the eye) usually isn't good for you. You're probably better off with an ice pack. The reason behind using a steak was the fact that steak in general is kind of flexible and would form to the contour of your eye socket. (Bags of frozen peas are sometimes used for the same purpose.) Nowadays, most people simply recommend a washcloth soaked in cold water.

*** And ''keeps it on'' even after it's been in [[{{Squick}} Fang's mouth and on the floor of his cabin.]]

TruthInTelevision, although [[DontTryThisAtHome it isn't really recommended that you try it]], unless the steak is frozen and sealed inside plastic wrap. Cow blood seeping into one of the most absorbent parts of your body (the eye) usually isn't good for you. You're probably better off with an ice pack. The reason behind using a steak was the fact that steak in general in kind of flexible and would form to the contour of your eye socket. (Bags of frozen peas are sometimes used for the same purpose.) Nowadays, most people simply recommend a washcloth soaked in cold water.

* In {{GangsofNewYork}, Amsterdam gets a nice bloody slab slapped on his eye wound after a dust up with Bill's right-hand man. Appropriate enough, given it happens in a butcher shop.

* In a Christmas episode of "Bewitched", the Stevens' and their neighbors, the Kravitz's each decide to temporarily adopt an orphan for the holidays. Said kids get into a fistfight over the existance of Santa Claus. Mrs. Kravitz suggests that they buy steak for the resulting shiner; Mr. Kravitz wonders why they can't just use cold cuts.

* In an episode of "Bewitched" in a Christmas episode. The Stevens' and their neighbors, the Kravitz's each decide to temporarily adopt an orphan for the holidays. Said kids get into a fistfight over the existance of Santa Claus. Mrs. Kravitz suggests that they buy steak for the resulting shiner; Mr. Kravitz wonders why they can't just use cold cuts.

* In an episode of ''HomeImprovement'', Tim has a black eye because Jill accidentally hit him. George Foreman, who is guest-starring on ''Tool Time'',
recommends that he put a thick steak on it. Al says he thought you were supposed to put ice on a black eye, to which Foreman says, "But when you're done with ice, you can't barbecue it."
* Alluded to in an episode of "Bewitched" in a Christmas episode. The Stevens' and their neighbors, the Kravitz's each decide to temporarily adopt an orphan for the holidays. Said kids get into a fistfight over the existance of Santa Claus. Mrs. Kravitz suggests that they buy steak for the resulting shiner; Mr. Kravitz wonders why they can't just use cold cuts.

* In an episode of ''HomeImprovement'', Tim has a black eye because Jill accidentally hit him. George Foreman, who is guest-starring on ''Tool Time'', recommends that he put a thick steak on it. Al says he thought you were supposed to put ice on a black eye, to which Foreman says, "But when you're done with ice, you can't barbecue it."
* Done in an episode of "Bewitched" in a Christmas episode. Two kids get in a fight over the existance of Santa Claus, and the adults resolve to buy steak for the resulting blackeye, to which an adult asks why they can't just use cold-cuts.

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*** And ''keeps it on'' even after it's been in [[{{Squick}} Fang's mouth and on the floor of his cabin.

** Except he does it with DRAGON steak

TruthInTelevision, although [[DontTryThisAtHome it isn't really recommended that you try it]], unless the steak is frozen and sealed inside plastic wrap. Cow blood seeping into one of the most absorbent parts of your body (the eye) usually isn't good for you. You're probably better off with an ice pack. The reason behind using a steak was the fact that steak in general in kind of flexible and would form to the contour of your eye socket. Nowadays, most people simply recommend a washcloth soaked in cold water.

TruthInTelevision, although [[DontTryThisAtHome it isn't really recommended that you try it]], unless the steak is frozen and sealed inside plastic wrap. Cow blood seeping into one of the most absorbent parts of your body (the eye) usually isn't good for you. You're probably better off with an ice pack.