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Trampolines are usually viewed as fun places to play in the backyard. They're used for stunts, slam dunks, and a guaranteed submission to Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos. Sometimes, however, in both RealLife and fiction, trampolines are used for a much more serious purpose. These fall into two main categories: a character is depressed and tries to commit suicide, or a character is in peril and needs to jump to safety.

* At the beginning of ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry: Love For Sail'', Larry jumps into one of these to escape a burning condo. He bounces out and ricochets around the scene before finally ending up on a cactus.

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* ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' has a charming use of this trope at the end of the film. After Kiki saves Tombo, firefighters rush a safety tramp below the kids as they slowly descend, just as a safety precaution considering the weight Kiki had to manage with her flight power.

* The main premise of the Creator/{{Nintendo}} VideoGame/GameAndWatch game ''Fire'' was to save people jumping out of a flaming building into a waiting ambulance with a trampoline.

* The main premise of the Creator/{{Nintendo}} GameAndWatch game ''Fire'' was to save people jumping out of a building with a trampoline.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', this is Mr. Game and Watch's recovery move.
** It's based off an old Game and Watch scenario involving bouncing people jumping from a flaming building into a waiting ambulance.

* In ''SuperSmashBros.'', this is Mr. Game and Watch's recovery move.

* ''PhineasAndFerb'', "One Good Scare Ought to Do It!": The Fireside Girls save Phineas in this manner with an improvised trampoline made from their sashes when he falls out of the haunted house being lifted into the air.

* In ''RockyAndBullwinkle''. Boris Badenov persuades Bullwinkle to jump into a firemen's net (twice!) as a publicity stunt. The second time, the net is lying on the ground with no one holding it.
* One episode of ''RenAndStimpy'' involved the two working at a fire station. They end up manning the trampoline; Ren ends up getting crushed by everyone who jumps.

* In ''MonstersVsAliens'', a trampoline is provided to catch Derek when he's dropped by the newly giant Susan. He bounces off it and hits the ground.

* ''KikisDeliveryService'' has a charming use of this trope at the end of the film. After Kiki saves Tombo, firefighters rush a safety tramp below the kids as they slowly descend, just as a safety precaution considering the weight Kiki had to manage with her flight power.

* The main premise of the {{Nintendo}} GameAndWatch game ''Fire'' was to save people jumping out of a building with a trampoline.

See also InterruptedSuicide, HeroicFireRescue and BurningBuildingRescue. In a comic setting, can be subverted with TheNotCatch.

* In ''WinnieThePooh'', Christopher Robin improvises one of these using his jacket to help Roo jump down from a tree. Tigger, on the other hand, is unwilling to use it.
** In one episode of ''The New Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh'', a fire drill fails when Pooh is not there to help hold up the trampoline.

* In ''WinnieThePooh'', Christopher Robin improvises one of these using his jacket to help Roo jump down from a tree. Tigger, on the other hand, is unwilling to use it.
** In one episode of ''The New Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh'', a fire drill fails when Pooh is not there to help hold up the trampoline.

* The clown firemen routine in ''Disney/{{Dumbo}}'' ends with the clowns catching Dumbo with a trampoline, but he falls through it and into a vat of whitewash.
* Used by ScrewySquirrel in one of his cartoons. At the last second he pulls it away, because that's just the way he is.
* In ''MonstersVsAliens'', a trampoline is provided to catch Derek when he's dropped by the newly giant Susan. He bounces off it and hits the ground.
* ''PhineasAndFerb'', "One Good Scare Ought to Do It!": The Fireside Girls save Phineas in this manner with an improvised trampoline made from their sashes when he falls out of the haunted house being lifted into the air.
* The main premise of the {{Nintendo}} GameAndWatch game ''Fire'' was to save people jumping out of a building with a trampoline.
* In the Music/{{Rammstein}} MusicVideo for "Benzin", the other band members (as firefighters) try saving Flake as he jumps off a building, using a trampoline. [[spoiler:It rips.]]
* In ''TheSimpsons'', Ned throws Homer from the second-story window of a burning building onto a mattress. When he lands, the mattress bounces him back into the house through the ground floor window.
* In ''RockyAndBullwinkle''. Boris Badenov persuades Bullwinkle to jump into a firemen's net (twice!) as a publicity stunt. The second time, the net is lying on the ground with no one holding it.
* In ''SuperSmashBros.'', this is Mr. Game and Watch's recovery move.
** It's based off an old Game and Watch scenario involving bouncing people jumping from a flaming building into a waiting ambulance.
* One episode of ''RenAndStimpy'' involved the two working at a fire station. They end up manning the trampoline; Ren ends up getting crushed by everyone who jumps.
* At the beginning of ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry: Love For Sail'', Larry jumps into one of these to escape a burning condo. He bounces out and ricochets around the scene before finally ending up on a cactus.

* At the beginning of ''LeisureSuitLarry: Love For Sail'', Larry jumps into one of these to escape a burning condo. He bounces out and ricochets around the scene before finally ending up on a cactus.

* In ''PhineasAndFerb'', the Fireside Girls save Phineas in this manner with an improvised trampoline made from their sashes when he falls out of the haunted house being lifted into the air.

See also InterruptedSuicide, HeroicFireRescue and BurningBuildingRescue.

* The clown firemen routine in ''{{Dumbo}}'' ends with the clowns catching Dumbo with a trampoline, but he falls through it and into a vat of whitewash.

See also InterruptedSuicide and BurningBuildingRescue.

Trampolines are usually viewed as fun places to play in the backyard. They're used for stunts, slam dunks, and a guaranteed submission to [[{{ptitlec4t5pd4m}} America's Funniest Home Videos]]. Sometimes, however, in both RealLife and fiction, trampolines are used for a much more serious purpose. These fall into two main categories: a character is depressed and tries to commit suicide, or a character is in peril and needs to jump to safety.

* The video of [[{{Rammstein}} Benzin]]... which misses completely.

* In the {{Rammstein}} MusicVideo ''Benzin'', the other band members (as firefighters) try saving Flake as he jumps off a building, using a trampoline. [[spoiler:It rips.]]

Trampolines are usually viewed as fun places to play in the backyard. They're used for stunts, slam dunks, and a guarateed submission to [[{{ptitlec4t5pd4m}} America's Funniest Home Videos]]. Sometimes, however, in both RealLife and fiction, trampolines are used fur a much more serieous purpose. These fall into two main categories: a character is depressed and tries to commit suicide, or a character is in peril and needs to jump to safety.

Bob is depressed, so depressed that he decides to climb to the top of a 10-story building and jump. The fire department is called in; searchlights are brought to the scene. Inevitably, an important piece of equipment in his rescue will be a large white trampoline with a red dot in the center, usually carried by firefighters. If none is available, one can be improvised using a bedsheet or a coat.

The trampoline can also be used to save someone from a burning building. Usually accompanied by cries of "jump!" from the crowd.

* ''KikisDeliveryService'' has a charming use of this trope at the end of the film. After Kiki's saves Tombo, firefighters rush a safety tramp below the kids as they slowly descend, just as a safety precaution considering the weight Kiki had to manage with her flight power.