History Main / CakeToppers

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In the b-plot of "Murder Sings the Blues," the head of the bride from a wedding cake topper is found lodged in the victim's throat.

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* In ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive,'' [[TokenWholesome Vanessa]] has the odd habit of dressing up as a {{Kaiju}} for everyday activities. When she and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Davan]] get married, he wears his own version and they have little Gozilla cake toppers, seen [[http://somethingpositive.net/sp01072014.shtml here]].

* Along with same-sex and interracial cake toppers, there are now ones where one half of the couple is being forcibly dragged by the other. Or shackled to them.

* [[spoiler:The Perfect Ending in ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'' shows custom cake toppers in the wedding between the protagonist and the title character.]]

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', Princess Fiona is being forced to marry Lord Farquaad, a man who is [[BlatantLies absolutely not]] CompensatingForSomething. When she looks at their wedding cake toppers, she smushes his down into the cake to more accurately show his height. At the end of the movie, after Farquaad has been disposed of, the Gingerbread Man is seen smushing the figurine even further into the cake until it's completely hidden. He then dances with the Fiona cake topper.

* ''VideoGame/{{Octodad}}'': In the sequel's level "Wedding Bells", the second section of the level has the cake with Octodad and Scarlet figurines on it.

* ''It All Started with Columbus'':

* The Creator/LarryNiven short story "What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?" is set in part at a divorce party, where a couple is splitting up, but friendly. A black frosted divorce cake has the toppers facing away from each other.

* In an episode of ''Series/FraggleRock'', Junior bakes a wedding cake for his parents' 513th anniversary. The toppers are actually PVC toys made in Germany by Schleich.

* One Swedish Chef sketch on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' has him making an onion cake which has Miss Piggy and Kermit as bride and groom. The cake sinks the moment he puts on the Miss Piggy figure.

* ''VideoGame/Octodad'': In the sequel's level "Wedding Bells", the second section of the level has the cake with Octodad and Scarlet figurines on it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', Princess Fiona is being forced to marry Lord Farquaad, a man who is [[BlatantLies absolutely not]] CompensatingForSomething. When she looks at their wedding cake toppers, she smushes his down into the cake to more accurately show his height. At the end of the movie, after Farquaad has been disposed of, the Gingerbread Man is seen smushing the figurine even further into the cake until it's completely hidden.

* There was a joke on ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' where Turk made a huge deal about the cake place not having Black/Latina cake-topper couples. The offer to touch them up with chocolate icing... [[{{Blackface}} didn't go over well]].

* There was a joke on ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' where Turk made a huge deal about the cake place not having Black/Latina cake-topper couples. The offer to touch them up with chocolate icing... didn't go over well.

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* Creator/MelBrooks parodied this in ''Film/SilentMovie'', where he and Bernadette Peters see a wedding cake in a shop window. They then fantasy-segue into a gown-and-tails dance number on a wedding cake, struggling as they go as the icing gets deeper and deeper. At the end, the scene fades back to Mel and Bernadette, gazing soulfully at each other, not noticing the bride and groom figures are now splattered with icing.
* At the end of ''Film/SweetHomeAlabama'', the happy couple has an impromptu wedding reception at the local bar/hangout. Since the original cake toppers [[DisposableFiance no longer fit]], one of their friends grabs a pair of [[SlapSlapKiss Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots]] as a substitute.

* In ''Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer,'' [[RubberMan Reed]] and [[{{Invisibility}} Sue]]'s wedding has a transparent bride with a groom wrapped around her.

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* The Creator/LarryNiven short story "What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?" is set in part at a divorce party, where a couple is splitting up, but friendly. A black frosted divorce cake has the toppers facing away from each other.

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* There was a joke on ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' where Turk made a huge deal about the cake place not having Black/Latina cake-topper couples. The offer to touch them up with chocolate icing... didn't go over well.
* One of the intros to ''Series/PennAndTellerBullshit'' includes a scene where a Bride and Groom are placed on the top tier of a cake... then two Grooms on the next tier, two Brides on another, and finally Three Brides and Two Grooms.
* When Daphne left Donny on ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', he took the male half of the cake topper back to his office and talked to it about how they'd both been abandoned. He even names it "Mr. Chump" and [[CompanionCube insists Frasier treat it as if it were alive]].
--> '''Title Card:''' Guess who's short, wears a tuxedo, and has frosting all over his feet?

--> '''Spike''': I don't like him. He's insipid. Clearly human.
--> '''Buffy''': Ah ha! We can smear a little red paint on the lips. The blood of the innocent...
--> '''Spike''': That's my girl!
* in ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'', Claude and Phyllida Erskine-Brown's topper at the end of "Rumpole and the Course of True Love" features the groom in a barrister's gown and clerical bands and the bride in a wedding dress--and both in barristers' wigs. Later, when Sam Ballard got married to "Matey" (the Matron of the Old Bailey nurses), the topper had a man in a barrister's wig and a woman with a nurse's hat.
* The '90s anthology series ''The Hitchhiker'' had an episode, "Shattered Vows", where a ceramic figurine of a couple ends up having voodoo-doll properties: we first find out when it's used as a cake topper and the heat of the candles makes the real couple break out in fevers.
* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'':
** Joy and Darnell had an interracial couple on top of their cake (because they are). Oh, and the "cake" was made out of alternating layers of Twinkies and Hostess Cupcakes.
** When Joy was married to Earl, they didn't have a real wedding cake (due to their wedding being a drunken {{Elopement}} in Las Vegas), but Earl ''did'' put on a hairnet and infiltrate a bakery when they got back to Camden, and [[FiveFingerDiscount brought home the top layer of somebody's wedding cake for Joy]], complete with generic wedding-cake topper. [[spoiler: The cake gets eaten by Randy when he's drunk and placed on a mound of cat turds, much to the amusement of Earl and the ire of Joy.]]
* In ''Series/ModernFamily'', Cam's dad made a topper for his wedding with Mitchell. Mitchell is not fond of it because of the way he is portrayed (he's FootPopping, for one thing) and tries to get rid of it.
* Series/OneDayAtATime2017: Penelope recalls how her mother Lydia put a figurine of HERSELF on her daughter’s wedding cake. [[BrickJoke In the same episode, Lydia reveals that she planned to do the same to her grandson’s wedding cake, too.]]
* On one episode of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', Will is pretending to be the voice of a Barbie doll-sized bride cake topper who says she'll marry Carlton... who he then places on the table and is the actual size of a normal male sized groom cake topper, all to mock his height.
* In the "December Bride" episode of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'', Roseanne explains to Leon, who is getting married to his longtime boyfriend Scott and whose wedding she organized, that since she couldn't find two grooms, that she broke off the bride from a usual man and woman topper and replaced her with a male action figure from the movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''.

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* In the Concrete Blonde song "Carry Me Away":
--> And any promise we make is as easy to break
--> As the plastic people on the wedding cake

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' module I6 ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'': On the day Sergei was to marry Tatyana, Strahd murdered Sergei so he could have Tatyana for himself. The wedding cake is in a room in Strahd's castle: Tatyana's figurine is still on top of the cake, but Sergei's has been cast to the floor (presumably by Strahd).

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* In ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive,'' [[TokenWholesome Vanessa]] has the odd habit of dressing up as a {{Kaiju}} for everyday activities. When she and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Davan]] get married, he wears his own version and they have little Gozilla cake toppers, seen [[http://somethingpositive.net/sp01072014.shtml here]].

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Leela was engaged to a fellow Cyclops [[spoiler:[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot shapeshifting grasshopper]]]] and the top of the wedding cake shows the bride on her knees polishing the groom's shoes. [[JerkAss It more or less defines the way he treated her]].
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Peter sets up Meg for a ShotgunWedding, after she believes that she's pregnant. While planning the wedding, Peter says that the store was all out of little cake figurines, so instead he got a toy version of ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' and one of those courtroom rag dolls where they ask the children just where the suspect touched them.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': During "A Canterlot Wedding", we see that Equestrian weddings use the little cake toppers as well. Spike can't stop playing with Shining Armor and Cadence's.
* When ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'' decides to marry his ReallyGetsAround girlfriend Gina (AKA Comet Girl from the original show), the cake has one bride and about 6 grooms because Gina is ''also'' marrying her other boyfriends, including Phil Ken Sebben, Peanut, and the Zen Bear.
* On ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'''s ThanksgivingEpisode, the [[WizardsFromOuterSpace Gems]], [[HumansThroughAlienEyes who don't really understand human customs]], try to combine a bunch of different Earth celebrations together, including a wedding. Pearl declares that the whole group will "marry each other," taking out a cake with solitary brides and grooms stuck haphazardly all over.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'''s first episode, Zog (father of the [[ArrangedMarriage unwilling]] bride), doesn't seem to understand the point of these:
-->"And neither of these looks [[ItsAllAboutMe like me]]. Make them both look like me, then get rid of one!"

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There is a tradition of putting little bride and groom figurines on top of the wedding cake. At some point, there became a film tradition of using a shot of the figurines to tell us about the wedding. This occurs particularly if there is something unusual about the bride and groom that they can show in the figurines; e.g., a gay or lesbian wedding, an interracial marriage, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers or that the groom is a huge Packers fan]]. Just as often, it can be a commentary or joke on the wedding or the marriage or sometimes just to establish the scene at the reception, with the amount of damage to the cake indicating time passed.

* One Swedish Chef sketch on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' has him making an onion cake which has Miss Piggy and Kermit as bride and groom. The cake sinks the moment he puts on the Miss Piggy figure.

* ''Series/Charmed1998'': In [[ClipShow "Cat House"]] Phoebe, Paige and the Villain of the Week get magically sucked into Piper and Leo's memories where the Villain accidentally destroys the cake toppers at their wedding. Once the spell is broken and everything appears to have been set right the camera cuts to a now empty shelf where the figures used to be displayed. At the end of the season Piper and Leo are forced apart when he's [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence promoted to an Elder]].

* In the "December Bride" episode of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'', Roseanne explains to Leon, who is getting married to his longtime boyfriend Scott and whose wedding she organized, that since she couldn't find two grooms, that she broke off the bride from a usual man and woman topper and replaced her with a male action figure from the movie ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}''.

* On one episode of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', Will is pretending to be the voice of a Barbie doll-sized bride cake topper who says she'll marry Carlton... who he then places on the table and is [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments the actual size of a normal male sized groom cake topper, all to mock his height.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Disechantment}}'''s first episode, Zog (father of the [[ArrangedMarriage unwilling]] bride), doesn't seem to understand the point of these: