History Main / FakeRabies

* Creator/BillCosby's stand-up routine "Roland and the Rollercoaster" deals with his crazy friend Roland, who used to do things like keep soap chips in his mouth. When people think Roland's head has been turned around by the roller coaster (due to Roland wearing his clothes backwards), there is a throwaway line from someone seeing Roland: "And he's got the rabies!" It's a good Brick Joke as it usually takes the audience a few moments to remember the soap chips in the mouth (which was mentioned early on in a fairly long story).

* One comic strip in ''{{Viz}}'' ran a story about the then recent opening of the Channel Tunnel. An apparently rabid French dog emerged on the English side, and the main character exclaims "Oh no! In a [[MillionToOneChance million to one scenario]], a rabid French dog has made it through the Channel Tunnel!" The dog is shortly followed by its owner who explains that far from being rabid, it ate some soap, which it had mistaken for cheese because [[DirtyForeigner we do not have soap in France]].

* In the the [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts classic Disney short]] "The Mad Dog", [[PlutoThePup Pluto]] escapes while MickeyMouse is washing him with soap, causing panic throughout the neighborhood.

* In ''Film/OverTheHedge'', R.J. uses whipped cream on Hammy to scare off some Girl Scouts and get their cookies.

* In the the [[ClassicDisneyShorts classic Disney short]] "The Mad Dog", [[PlutoThePup Pluto]] escapes while MickeyMouse is washing him with soap, causing panic throughout the neighborhood.

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* In one episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', Tom and Crow find Mike passed out with foam around his mouth and begin treating him for rabies (the movie they'd been watching had to this point entirely been about the main character seeming to contract rabies). It turns out Mike simply fell asleep while eating a creampuff.

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* Creator/BillCosby's stand-up routine "Roland and the Rollercoaster" deals with his crazy friend Roland, who used to do things like keep soap chips in his mouth. When people think Roland's head has been turned around by the roller coaster (due to Roland wearing his clothes backwards), there is a throwaway line from someone seeing Roland: "And he's got the rabies!" It's a good Brick Joke as it usually takes the audience a few moments to remember the soap chips in the mouth (which was mentioned early on in a fairly long story).

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* Alka-Seltzer tablets were used this way for the purpose of "intimidation" in ''LittleGiants''.
* Pee-Wee Herman makes fun of this while brushing his teeth in ''PeeWeesBigAdventure''.

* In another ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short, "Porky's Party", PorkyPig's dog Black Fury uses shaving cream to get rid of the hair that grew as a result of his getting into the hair tonic. When Black Fury comes out of the bathroom, everyone panics and runs away from him.

* One comic strip in {{Viz}} ran a story about the then recent opening of the Channel Tunnel. An apparently rabid French dog emerged on the English side, and the main character exclaims "Oh no! In a [[MillionToOneChance million to one scenario]], a rabid French dog has made it through the Channel Tunnel!" The dog is shortly followed by its owner who explains that far from being rabid, it ate some soap, which it had mistaken for cheese because [[DirtyForeigner we do not have soap in France]].

* Creator/BusterKeaton runs frantically from a dog that ate a cream pie in "The Scarecrow."

* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short "The Waggily Tale", when Junior dreams he is a dog, his owner brushes his teeth with shaving soap, causing him to be mistaken for a mad dog.

* In WebVideo/WWESlamCity, Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio does this to Wrestling/DamienSandow with a foamer.

* In ''[[{{Peanuts}} It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown'', Snoopy brushes his teeth in the house. Sally knocks on the bathroom door and naturally he opens it. Sally rushes off screaming.

* BusterKeaton runs frantically from a dog that ate a cream pie in "The Scarecrow."

* In "FeedTheKitty", Marc Anthony pretends to be rabid to scare off his owner in order to save Pussyfoot, but she just scolds him for wasting her whipped cream.

* Roy Neary pretends to do this in ''CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''. He's brushing his teeth knowing his kids are behind him with a paddle and a polaroid camera. When the kids whap him in the ass he whirls around with a mouth full of toothpaste froth and growls "ARRGH," and they get the perfect shot.

* BillCosby's stand-up routine "Roland and the Rollercoaster" deals with his crazy friend Roland, who used to do things like keep soap chips in his mouth. When people think Roland's head has been turned around by the roller coaster (due to Roland wearing his clothes backwards), there is a throwaway line from someone seeing Roland: "And he's got the rabies!" It's a good Brick Joke as it usually takes the audience a few moments to remember the soap chips in the mouth (which was mentioned early on in a fairly long story).

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* In the the [[ClassicDisneyShorts classic Disney short]] "The Mad Dog", Pluto escapes while Mickey is brushing his teeth, causing panic throughout the neighborhood.

* In the {{Droopy}} short "Wags to Riches," Spike puts shaving cream on a sleeping Droopy and phones in a report of a mad dog, but a fan blows the foam onto Spike's face just as the dog catcher arrives.

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin made a couple of attempts to fool people into thinking he was rabid. The first time, he tried toothpaste foam; the second time, Hobbes pointed out that Calvin's dad would probably be peeved that Calvin had wasted all his shaving cream.
* In ''ComicStrip/OverTheHedge'', R.J. uses whipped cream on Hammy to scare off some Girl Scouts and get their cookies.

* On ''KimPossible'', Ron makes himself a mascot costume for the Middleton Mad Dogs, complete with foam dispensers hidden in the head. "Mad Dog foams at the mouth!"
* On ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', the penguins decide WeNeedADistraction when their friend Max the cat is being chased by Officer X of Animal Control, and use cream and fake ears to disguise Mort the mouse lemur as a rabid chihuahua. It works fine until he eats the cream. "[[CloudCuckooLander I like diseases!]]"

* On ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', Ron makes himself a mascot costume for the Middleton Mad Dogs, complete with foam dispensers hidden in the head. "Mad Dog foams at the mouth!"
* On ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', the penguins decide WeNeedADistraction when their friend Max the cat is being chased by Officer X of Animal Control, and use cream and fake ears to disguise Mort the mouse lemur as a rabid chihuahua. It works fine until he eats the cream. "[[CloudCuckooLander I like diseases!]]"

* {{Garfield}} and Odie have had fun with [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1992/ga920916.gif Jon's shaving cream.]]
* [[CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] made a couple of attempts to fool people into thinking he was rabid. The first time, he tried toothpaste foam; the second time, Hobbes pointed out that Calvin's dad would probably be peeved that Calvin had wasted all his shaving cream.
* In ''OverTheHedge'', R.J. uses whipped cream on Hammy to scare off some Girl Scouts and get their cookies.

* In one episode of ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', Tom and Crow find Mike passed out with foam around his mouth and begin treating him for rabies (the movie they'd been watching had to this point entirely been about the main character seeming to contract rabies). It turns out Mike simply fell asleep while eating a creampuff.

* In ''ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', Fat Cat gets Plato out of the way at one point by spraying his mouth with whipped cream and stuffing a visitor's lapdog into the middle of the mess.
* Subverted by {{Freakazoid}}'s dog Foamy, who really is rabid but Freakazoid doesn't seem to notice.
* On ''KimPossible'', Ron makes himself a mascot costume for the Middleton Mad Dogs, complete with foam dispensers hidden in the head. "Mad Dog foams at the mouth!"
* On ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', the penguins decide WeNeedADistraction when their friend Max the cat is being chased by Officer X of Animal Control, and use cream and fake ears to disguise Mort the mouse lemur as a rabid chihuahua. It works fine until he eats the cream. "[[CloudCuckooLander I like diseases!]]"