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* Mel Brooks 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.

* 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]].

* ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'': Dick Dastardly once lured Peter Perfect and Penelope Pitstop into a bakery where he somehow managed to put them into the top of a wedding cake and dressed like bride and groom.

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* ''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.

* In one of the ''Literature/BabysittersClub'' books, Mary Anne's classmate mentions bride and groom cake toppers during a social studies class, "or maybe you could have a giant plastic wedding bell, right ..."

* In ''{{Shrek}}'', Fiona and Farquaad's cake shows them of about equal height even though Farquaad [[TheNapoleon really isn't]]. Fiona sarcastically pushes his halfway down into the cake for a more realistic portrayal.
* One Swedish Chef sketch on ''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.
* The DVD cover of ''Gay Weddings'' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gaywedbravo.jpg here]].
* Gahan Wilson drew a cartoon where two chefs are looking at a wedding cake with two guys on it. One chef doesn't look too happy, but the second tells him, "Times change."
* In the ''GeorgeOfTheJungle'' movie, the little figures BreakTheFourthWall and shriek in terror just before George smashes them into bits.
* A wedding cake topper is used for SympatheticMagic in the Amicus anthology horror ''From Beyond the Grave'' (1973).

* An episode of ''TheSimpsons'' had Marge and Homer find their old wedding cake top with the figures still on it. Homer speculates that they have "wee little parties" at night, and then attempts to quickly open the freezer and catch them in the act. Another episode has Homer eat the couple on top of Apu and Mandula's cake, believing them to be made of icing.
* There was a joke on ''{{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.
* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' module I6 ''{{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).
* One of the intros to ''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.
* In {{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]].
* LEGO Artist Eric Harshbarger has created many wedding items out of LEGO bricks, including cake toppers. Read about them [[http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/wedding_cake.html here]], see the cake [[http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/images/wedding_cake/cake_3.jpg here]], and see a closeup of the LEGO cake topper [[http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/images/wedding_cake/cake_0.jpg here]].

* When Daphne left Donny on ''{{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.
* Oh, "Something Blue" from BuffyTheVampireSlayer...
--> '''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 one of the ''BabysittersClub'' books, Mary Anne's classmate mentions bride and groom cake toppers during a social studies class, "or maybe you could have a giant plastic wedding bell, right ..."
* An ECComics story was based around a conman using bride and groom voodoo dolls to bewitch a wealthy old woman to marry him so he could have her money. He is eventually killed by the bride doll, which had maintained its power after the woman's death, and was being kept as a cake topper on a leftover piece of their wedding cake.
* In one episode of FamilyGuy, Peter sets up Meg for a shotgun wedding, 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 TheIronGiant and one of those courtroom rag dolls where they ask the children just where the suspect touched them.
* ''WackyRaces'': Dick Dastardly once lured Peter Perfect and Penelope Pitstop into a bakery where he somehow managed to put them into the top of a wedding cake and dressed like bride and groom.

* Mel Brooks parodied this in ''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.

--> '''Buffy''': Ah ha! We can smear a little red pain on the lips. The blood of the innocent...

--> ''Spike'': "I don't like him. He's insipid. Clearly human."
--> ''Buffy'': "Ah ha! We can smear a little red pain on the lips. The blood of the innocent..."
--> ''Spike'': "That's my girl!"

Nothing to do with ChristmasCake, CakeEater or TheCakeIsALie.

* At least the trailer for an old horror (maybe a HammerHorror) film where the bride is about to cut the cake and the knife comes down on the groom figure, causing the real groom to start bleeding from the head.

* LEGO artist Eric Harshbarger has made a cake topper out of his medium of choice. See it [[http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/images/wedding_cake/topper_0.jpg here]], and as a bonus see the entire LEGO wedding cake [[http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/images/wedding_cake/cake_3.jpg here]].

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[[caption-width:320:The best cake topper to ever exist.]]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, 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.

* In {{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 {{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 {{Futurama}} Leela was engaged to a fellow Cyclops [[spoiler: Shapeshifting grasshopper]] and the top of the wedding cake shows the bride on her knees polishing the groom's shoes.

* In ''{{Shrek}}'', Fiona pushes the groom down into the cake to show how short Lord Farquadd is.

* An episode of ''TheSimpsons'' had Marge and Homer find their old wedding cake top with the figures still on it. Homer speculates that they have "wee little parties" at night, and then attempts to catch them having such a party. Another episode has Homer eat the couple on top of Apu and Mandula's cake, believing them to be made of icing.