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* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': In "Bloo Done It" Bloo gets tucked into his bed tight enough to restrain him, so he starts hopping the entire bunk bed around to move. This happened twice, the first time was just around the bedroom and the second he managed to hop the bed downstairs; Eduado was fast asleep in the top bunk both times.

* ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior'': Max leaves the Gyro Captain chained to a log. He later catches up with him dragging the log across the desert back to his autogyro. Max uncuffs him from the log and makes him carry his fuel instead.
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': Max is held prisoner by the Warboys, and chained to Nux (who's leukemic) to administer blood. When Nux crashes his car with Max aboard, Max is unable to break the chain binding them (and a car door) together and settles for carrying them with him.

* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'', Jack Sparrow is lashed to a roasting spit by cannibals. He manages to jounce the spit off its props to escape being cooked but has to run away with it still tied to his back.

* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': One "Muppet Melodrama" skit sees Miss Piggy being ChainedToARailway by Uncle Deadly. When Wayne, who's supposed to be resucing 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 for writing the sketch in the first place.

* ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior''. Max leaves the Gyro Captain chained to a log. He later catches up with him dragging the log across the desert back to his autogyro. Max uncuffs him from the log and makes him carry his fuel instead.

* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': Max is held prisoner by the Warboys, and tied to Nux (who's leukemic) to administer blood. When Nux crashes his car with Max aboard, Max is unable to break the chain tying them (and a car door) together and settles for carrying them with him.

* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'': One of the playable characters, Kuroda Kanbei, has his hands tied and chained to a huge ball as he's a prisoner of war. Nevertheless, he's strong enough to carry it around and weaponize it.

* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': In "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS4E1NotAGoodDay Not a Good Day...]]", thanks to a mix-up involving a young boy, [[PoliticianGuestStar Sebastian Coe]] is chained to a stair railing and promptly forgotten when the leisure centre is besieged by WarReenactors. At the end, he manages to free himself and is last seen fleeing from the centre with the stair ceiling still attached to his leg.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': After all the destruction Ed causes in "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS2E19RentAEd Rent A Ed]]", Eddy and Double D tie him to a beam and use him as a towel rack for the Chez La Sweat scam. Unfortunately, when Eddy tells Rolf to put his towel back on after the latter ends up naked from turning up the heat, Ed busts through the wall, still tied to the beam, to offer towel rack services. Even worse, [[FromBadToWorse it was the support beam for Johnny's house]], causing it to collapse.

''[everyone screams as Johnny's house collapses]''

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': After all the destruction Ed causes in "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS2E19RentAEd Rent A Ed]]", Eddy and Double D tie him to a beam and use him as a towel rack for the Chez La Sweat scam. Unfortunately, when Eddy tells Rolf to put a towel on, Ed busts through the wall, still tied to the beam, to offer towel rack services. Even worse, [[FromBadToWorse it was the support beam for Johnny's house]], causing it to collapse.

** "WesternAnimation/{{Cock-A-Doodle-Dog}}" has Spike the bulldog dealing with an annoying rooster constantly doing its morning crow while trying to sleep during the day. Spike takes the rooster out to the mountains far away from the farm and ties it to a tree, ensuring he can't disturb him. The rooster returns to the farm, still tied to the tree, crowing away.

'''Ed:''' What's a support beam?
'''Edd:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck This has been]] ''[[ThisIsGonnaSuck quite]]'' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck a day]].

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': After all the destruction Ed causes in "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS2E19RentAEd Rent A Ed]]", Eddy and Double D tie him to a beam and use him as a towel rack for the Chez La Sweat scam. Unfortunately, when Eddy tells Rolf to put a towel on, Ed busts through the wall, still tied to the beam, to offer towel rack services. Even worse, [[FromBadToWorse it was the support beam for Johnny's house]].

* In the Skypeia arc of ''Manga/OnePiece'', Luffy's first fight with God Eneru ends with Eneru throwing Luffy off his airship with a giant gold ball attached to his arm. That ball stays on Luffy's am for nearly the entire rest of the arc. It's broken off of Luffy's arm and smashed to pieces in the course of the final attack against Eneru.

* In ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'', Allan handcuffs Carl to the door of his police car, then drives to store where Van Pelt has the others trapped. He leaves the car (and Carl) in the parking lot. Shortly after, Carl shows up in the store, still handcuffed to the now detached car door and looking for a hacksaw to cut the cuffs off.
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': Max is held prisoner by the Warboys, and tied to Nux (who's leukemic) to administer blood. When Nux crashes his car with Max aboard, Max is unable to break the chain tying them (and a car door) together, and settles for carrying them with him.
* In ''Film/ManiacCop'', Theresa gets arrested and is handcuffed to a cop who is taking her to the cells. But Cordell kills the cop and Theresa is forced to drag the cop's body with her as she escapes, until she has time to find the key and uncuff herself.
* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'', Jack Sparrow is lashed to a roasting-spit by cannibals. He manages to jounce the spit off its props to escape being cooked, but has to run away with it still tied to his back.
* ''Film/ThePredator'': Casey is handcuffed to chair while being interrogated in the barn. When she escapes, she takes the chair along with her, only have it get wrapped around a rail when she vaults off a balcony.

* ''Film/TheWarriors'': When Ajax gets handcuffed to a park bench by a decoy cop, he manages to drag the park bench several feet while attempting to reach her and get the handcuff key. He is prevented from going any further by the arrival of squad car full of cops.

* During one of the many times she's attacked in ''[[Literature/MarketOfMonsters Only Ashes Remain]]'', Nita stands up while still zip tied to a chair and knocks one of her captors into the wall with it.

* ''Series/GetSmart'': In "The Day They Raided Knights", 99 is tied to a surfboard by KAOS agents, but manages to escapes by waddling away still tied to the board and throwing herself on a conveyor belt. Later, she knocks out a female KAOS agent who has the drop on Max by hitting her with the surfboard, which is still tied to her back.
* ''Series/TheGoodies'': In "Goodies in the Nick", the Goodies escape from prison with iron balls still shackled to their ankles. The proceed to disguise the balls in a series of increasingly unlikely fashions; including as a ''balloon''.

* In the climax of ''Theatre/ThePlayThatGoesWrong'', Dennis - who is playing Perkins - is handcuffed to the chaise-lounge. He is supposed to be released when Perkins's innocence is established, but this being [[TheShowMustGoWrong the play that goes wrong]], they have lost the handcuff keys. Dennis struggles through the rest of the scene carrying the chaise-lounge.

* The trial of Thievery in ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'' ends with Fester Shinetop tying the stolen item, the Idol of Many Hands, to Guybrush Threepwood and dropping him in the bay. How does our hero get out of this? [[spoiler: Just pick up the Idol. You know, the one he was just carrying a few seconds ago.]] It should be noted this is the only part of the game in which Guybrush can die, if he fails to solve the problem within 10 minutes.

* ''Webcomic/MyFianceeIsAVampireHunter'': When Louis comes to after falling off a cliff with Maxie, Maxie's hunter companions are nearby. He tries to leg it, but he is tied to the still unconscious Maxie via her snare, so he picks her up and carries her as he runs.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Homer the Great", Homer is punished for ruining the Stonecutters' sacred parchment by being stripped naked and forced to pull the "stone of shame" all the way home. When the Stonecutters' notice a birthmark identifying Homer as TheChosenOne, they release him and instead make him pull the even larger "stone of triumph".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Slugterra}}'': In "Inheritance", Dana Por breaks into the Shane Gang's hideout, and webs Eli's arm to chair during a shootout. The chair is a rolling chair, and Eli spends the the rest of the fight scooting around on it with his arm still stuck to it.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': After all the destruction Ed causes in "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS2E19RentAEd Rent A Ed]]", Eddy and Double D tie him to a beam and use him as a towel rack for the Seiz La Sweat scam. Unfortunately, when Eddy tells Rolf to put a towel on, Ed busts through the wall, still tied to the beam, to offer towel rack services. Even worse, [[FromBadToWorse it was the support beam for the house]].

* The trial of Thievery in ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'' ends with Fester Shinetop tying the stolen item, the Idol of Many Hands, to Guybrush Threepwood and dropping him in the bay. How does our hero get out of this? [[spoiler: Just pick up the Idol. You know, the one he was just carrying a few seconds ago.]] It should be noted this is the only part of the game in which Guybrush can die.

* When Stephanie 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/RobinSeries 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.

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** In "Tire Trouble", WesternAnimation/PorkyPig's dog Flat Foot Flookie follows him to the tire factory where he works. Since dogs are not allowed inside, Porky ties Flookie to the bumper of a car. Flookie then burrows his way inside, dragging the entire car along with him.

* ''Film/ArmyOfFrankensteins'': When Ginny and the original Frankenstein are captured by the Confederates, they are ties to stakes driven into the ground. The enraged Frankenstein stands up, pulling the stake out of the ground still tied to his back.