History Main / BringTheAnchorAlong

* ''Series/TheGoodies'': In "Goodies in the Nick", the Goodies escape from prison with iron balls still shackled to their ankles. They proceed to disguise the balls in a series of increasingly unlikely fashions; including as a ''balloon''.

* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'': BringTheAnchorAlong: Umbridge orders the brooms of Harry, Fred and George to be chained to the wall in her office. Later, Fred and George recover them with Summoning Charm, causing them to break away from the wall and bring the chains with them, which dangle dangerously as they ride their brooms away.

* ''[[Anime/{{Patlabor}} Patlabor 2]]''. Detective Matsui is caught snooping around the disguised base of the conspirators, so they knock him out and leave him handcuffed to a pipe while they carry out their plan. He wakes up to see their airships taking off; desperate to get to a phone, Matsui just detaches the pipe and carries it with him. The pipe comes in handy for [[HeroStoleMyBike forcibly stopping a passing car]] so he can use its carphone.

* Defied in one episode of ''Series/ILoveLucy''; when Lucy needs to board a ship bound for Europe, her skirt ends up getting caught in a bike and she can't get it free. Becoming desperate as the boat was preparing to leave, she attempts to board with the bike still stuck to her, but the owner refuses to let his bike be taken. As a last resort, she slipped her skirt off, but unfortunately by then, the gangplank had pulled back and ship started off.

* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': One "Muppet Melodrama" skit sees Miss Piggy being ChainedToARailway by Uncle Deadly. When Wayne, who's supposed to be rescuing her, starts chatting to Uncle Deadly, Piggy decides to rescue herself by sitting up and snapping off the section of tracks. She then marches backstage, still tied to the setpiece, and uses it to smack Kermit [[WhoWritesThisCrap for writing the sketch in the first place]].

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* The novel of ''Literature/BigTrouble'' has a cop and a jerkass handcuffed to a heavy metal entertainment unit, which they end up dragging to freedom.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': When Stephanie Brown is "kidnapped" and handcuffed to a bed to make it look as though her father is being coerced into working with his newest accomplices, she and ComicBook/{{Robin}} pick up and use the bed to plow through her captors and he only gets the cuffs and by extension bed off of her when they're out of the room she was being held in.

* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': In one ''Aesop and Son'' segment entitled "The Fox and the Hound", a dog who can fly when he's asleep is hired to star in a movie. Unfortunately, when he needs to be awake for the picture's most important scene, his agent and the film crew are unable to wake him up, with them eventually chaining him to sound stage's floor. Unfortunately, he ends up lifting up the entire building and everyone in it to incredible heights, with none of them ever seen or heard from again.

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'''Eddy:''' ''[[WhatTheHellHero Now look what you did!]]\\

'''Eddy:''' ''[[OhCrap Now]]'' [[OhCrap look what you did!]]\\
'''Edd:''' ''[uncovers his face after seeing Rolf naked to see the damage Ed did]'' [[SuddenlyShouting I can't bear to look. Has Rolf-- IS THAT THE SUPPORT BEAM TO THE HOUSE!?!]]\\

* The day Kaname first meets Sousuke in ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', she eventually gets tired of the military nut transfer student following her around all day and handcuffs him to a folding chair. Sousuke is forced to make his way back to his safehouse while still shackled to the chair.