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* ''Series/{{MASH}}''. In the episode "Rally 'Round the Flagg Boys", Colonel Flagg recruits Charles into spying on Hawkeye, to dig up proof that he's a Communist sympathizer. For their covert rendezvous Flagg takes cover in a garbage can, leading to plenty of {{Deadpan Snarker}}y from Charles. "I'm going to talk to Colonel Potter about getting you better quarters." After Charles leaves, a corpsman leaves the mess tent and empties his tray of food into it.

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* ''Series/{{MASH}}''. In the episode "Rally "[[Recap/MashS7E21RallyRoundTheFlaggBoys Rally 'Round the Flagg Boys", Boys]]", Colonel Flagg recruits Charles into spying on Hawkeye, to dig up proof that he's a Communist sympathizer. For their covert rendezvous Flagg takes cover in a garbage can, leading to plenty of {{Deadpan Snarker}}y from Charles. "I'm going to talk to Colonel Potter about getting you better quarters." After Charles leaves, a corpsman leaves the mess tent and empties his tray of food into it.
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* RecycledInSpace in the ''Series/DeepSpaceNine'' episode "The Siege", when Starfleet personnel hide in empty hazardous waste disposal containers to ambush a squad of Bajoran soldiers. Presumably they had been decontaminated first!

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* RecycledInSpace in the ''Series/DeepSpaceNine'' episode "The Siege", "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E03TheSiege The Siege]]", when Starfleet personnel hide in empty hazardous waste disposal containers to ambush a squad of Bajoran soldiers. Presumably they had been decontaminated first!
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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. In the season 6 episode "Irreconcilable Differences", Team Arrow infiltrates ARGUS by having Renee and Curtis dress up as custodians and sneak Felicity in by rolling her in inside a trash can so that she can access and disable the closed circuit, landline security system to allow Oliver entry.

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. In the season 6 episode "Irreconcilable Differences", "[[Recap/ArrowS6E9IrreconcilableDifferences Irreconcilable Differences]]", Team Arrow infiltrates ARGUS by having Renee and Curtis dress up as custodians and sneak Felicity in by rolling her in inside a trash can so that she can access and disable the closed circuit, landline security system to allow Oliver entry.

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'''Agent 13:''' ''[hiding in a trash can]'' Because I didn't sleep a wink last night, that's why. Every time I dozed off somebody dropped garbage on me.
* ''Series/TheGoodies'': In "Scoutrageous", Graeme and Bill hide in a pair of dustbins as they are tailing Tim to his mysterious appointment. Unfortunately for Graeme, someone comes out and empties a bucket of food scraps into his.

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'''Agent 13:''' ''[hiding in a trash can]'' Because I didn't sleep a wink last night, that's why. why! Every time I dozed off somebody dropped garbage on me.
* ''Series/TheGoodies'': ''Series/TheGoodies''
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In "Scoutrageous", Graeme and Bill hide in a pair of dustbins as they are tailing Tim to his mysterious appointment. Unfortunately for Graeme, someone comes out and empties a bucket of food scraps into his.his.
** In "The Goodies Rule -- OK", Tim is fleeing the puppets and stops for a rest, only for a giant green puppet to emerge from a rubbish skip and pull Tim inside. We hear sounds of munching and a belch come from within... and Tim emerges with a bit of green felt at the edge of his mouth.
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* A variation in the ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' story ''Palmero Round-Up'' when Petra hides in a laundry bin, only to get a pair of sweaty jocks thrown onto her face.
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** ''Film/ANewHope''. When Imperial troops cut off their escape route, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo and Chewbacca are stuck shooting it out in the Death Star's cell bay. Leia takes a blaster from Luke, and obliterates a waste grate. "Into the garbage chute, flyboy." This move gets the party out of harm's way for a while. Then the Imperials start the trash compactor. Uh-oh.
** ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''. The Millenium Falcon had been hiding from capture by clinging to the blindside of an Imperial cruiser's bridge section. When the Imperial cruiser dumps its garbage before going to lightspeed, Captain Solo releases the landing claw, and poses as one more hunk of junk. The cruiser departs, none the wiser. Unfortunately a certain bounty hunter was not so easily fooled...

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** ''Film/ANewHope''. ''Film/ANewHope'': When Imperial troops cut off their escape route, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo and Chewbacca are stuck shooting it out in the Death Star's cell bay. Leia takes a blaster from Luke, and obliterates a waste grate. "Into the garbage chute, flyboy." This move gets the party out of harm's way for a while. Then the Imperials start the trash compactor. Uh-oh.
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** ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''. ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'': The Millenium Falcon had been hiding from capture by clinging to the blindside of an Imperial cruiser's bridge section. When the Imperial cruiser dumps its garbage before going to lightspeed, Captain Solo releases the landing claw, and poses as one more hunk of junk. The cruiser departs, none the wiser. Unfortunately a certain bounty hunter was not so easily fooled...
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Garbage cans also make perfect hideouts for more mundane reasons, like wanting to spy on someone. However, this hiding spot comes with the risk of trash being dumped on the person hiding inside, or worse, getting tossed in the dump.

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Garbage cans also make perfect hideouts for more mundane reasons, like wanting to spy on someone. However, this hiding spot comes with the risk of trash being dumped on the person hiding inside, or worse, getting tossed in the dump.
dump. And there's the smell, naturally...



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* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In the episode "Suspended", Harold finds that his suspension isn't fun like he had hoped, and in both boredom and desperation, tries to sneak back into school, at one point, hiding in a dumpster in the playground, only to have a janitor toss a barrel of spoiled, melted cheese into it, covering Harold in rotten cheese.
-->'''Harold''': Stupid cheese!
** The episode "The Longest Monday" had the fifth graders throwing fourth graders into full trash cans as part of a school tradition after classes are over. Stinky ends up choosing an empty trash can as his hiding place, and the irony is not lost on him.


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* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In the episode "Suspended", Harold finds that his suspension isn't fun like he had hoped, and in both boredom and desperation, tries to sneak back into school, at one point, hiding in a dumpster in the playground, only to have a janitor toss a barrel of spoiled, melted cheese into it, covering Harold in rotten cheese.
-->'''Harold''': Stupid cheese!
** The episode "The Longest Monday" had the fifth graders throwing fourth graders into full trash cans as part of a school tradition after classes are over. Stinky ends up choosing an empty trash can as his hiding place, and the irony is not lost on him.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' In [[Recap/DannyPhantomS2E10SecretWeapons Secret Weapons]], Danny hid himself in a trash can in the janitor's closet in order to get away from Jazz. It fails because Danny realized Jazz hacked into his ghost files and revealed himself. Unfortunately, this leads to [[RageBreakingPoint Danny exploding]] on Jazz.
--> '''Danny:''' Hide me! [''Dives into a trash can and pokes his head out. Jazz enters the janitor's closet and shows Sam and Tucker what is on screen. Danny ducks back into the trash can.'']
--> '''Jazz:''' Cool secret meeting place. So I've pieced it all together. Ghost X is clearly using the technology he stole to build some kind of [''Danny pops his head up again.''] super weapon. So, I compiled a list of his known associates.
--> '''Danny:''' [''Stands up in the trash can.''] Wait. Where'd you get this?

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* When Archie from ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' was told to clean the garage by his father, he disappeared with the father being angered that he'd disappear when chores are even suggested, and eventually finds Archie hiding in a trash can. Ironically, he found Archie when he himself planned on using the trash can to hide from his wife when she's suggesting he do some chores.
* In ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' story "The Reporter Smurf", the titular character hides himself in a garbage barrel while spying on Smurfette in order to get the story on who her "secret lover" is. Of course, he didn't know that the barrel he was hiding in was used for garbage until another Smurf dumped some trash into it while he was still inside!



* When Archie from ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' was told to clean the garage by his father, he disappeared with the father being angered that he'd disappear when chores are even suggested, and eventually finds Archie hiding in a trash can. Ironically, he found Archie when he himself planned on using the trash can to hide from his wife when she's suggesting he do some chores.
* In ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' story "The Reporter Smurf", the titular character hides himself in a garbage barrel while spying on Smurfette in order to get the story on who her "secret lover" is. Of course, he didn't know that the barrel he was hiding in was used for garbage until another Smurf dumped some trash into it while he was still inside!



* ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'': Jason pulls a prank on Paige and hides in a full trashcan, figuring she won't look for him in there. When Peter finds him, he explains his logic, leading to Peter later asking Paige "Isn't it great the way our brother punishes himself for us?".



* ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'': Jason pulls a prank on Paige and hides in a full trashcan, figuring she won't look for him in there. When Peter finds him, he explains his logic, leading to Peter later asking Paige "Isn't it great the way our brother punishes himself for us?".



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* In ''Film/EdenLake'', Jenny hides from Brett and Cooper in a dumpster half full of rotting and garbage and stagnant water, and submerges herself below the surface when Brett opens the lid. The stench is so bad it makes Brett gag and he fails to notice her.



* In the AnimatedCreditsOpening of ''Film/MoonZeroTwo'', the US and Soviet astronauts do this on discovering the U.N. SpaceBase is a SpaceWestern tourist trap. They are then sucked into a garbage disposal vehicle and dumped on the Moon's surface (fortunately they're still in their spacesuits).



* ''Film/Red2010''. A waiter is shown taking out the garbage to an industrial bin when he's suddenly yanked into it by persons unknown, later revealed to be [[MuggedForDisguise one of the team]].



* In the AnimatedCreditsOpening of ''Film/MoonZeroTwo'', the US and Soviet astronauts do this on discovering the U.N. SpaceBase is a SpaceWestern tourist trap. They are then sucked into a garbage disposal vehicle and dumped on the Moon's surface (fortunately they're still in their spacesuits).
* ''Film/Red2010''. A waiter is shown taking out the garbage to an industrial bin when he's suddenly yanked into it by persons unknown, later revealed to be [[MuggedForDisguise one of the team]].



* ''Series/GetSmart'': In "The Decoy", Agent 13 (the agent who is always stationed inside unlikely objects) is hiding inside a trash can;
-->'''Maxwell Smart:''' What are you so grouchy about today?\\
'''Agent 13:''' ''[hiding in a trash can]'' Because I didn't sleep a wink last night, that's why. Every time I dozed off somebody dropped garbage on me.



* The 2007 revival series of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'' has Dougal occasionally hiding in a dustbin in most episodes. One example is "Dougal's Bad Smell Day" as he hides in a rubbish bin as an attempt to hide from everyone so that he won't get a bath.
* ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'': In "Halloween Tricksters", Cameron hides in a trash can after being scared by Luna Girl.



* ''WesternAnimation/TopCat'' lives in a garbage can. It may be squalor, but with his method of thinking and conniving, it's practically a mansion.



* ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'': In "Halloween Tricksters", Cameron hides in a trash can after being scared by Luna Girl.
* WesternAnimation/TopCat lives in a garbage can. It may be squalor, but with his method of thinking and conniving, it's practically a mansion.
* The 2007 revival series of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'' has Dougal occasionally hiding in a dustbin in most episodes. One example is "Dougal's Bad Smell Day" as he hides in a rubbish bin as an attempt to hide from everyone so that he won't get a bath.
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* ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'': Early in the game a scientist can briefly be seen poking his head out of a dumpster before ducking back inside.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'': Dumpsters can be used as a hiding spot or as a place to stuff the bodies of enemy guards out of sight.
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* In ''Film/LeftBehindRiseOfTheAntichrist'', investigative reporter Buck Williams hides himself and the computer he's trying to protect from a couple of hitmen who are trying to find him inside a dumpster. The hitmen fire into the dumpster to make sure he's dead. Buck survives, but the computer gets a bullet lodged inside its case and is rendered useless.

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* In ''Film/LeftBehindRiseOfTheAntichrist'', investigative reporter Buck Williams hides himself and inside the dumpster with the computer he's trying to protect from a couple of hitmen who are trying to find him inside a dumpster.and kill him. The hitmen fire into the dumpster to make sure he's dead. Buck survives, but the computer gets a bullet lodged inside its case and is rendered useless.
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* In ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' story "The Reporter Smurf", the titular character hides himself in a garbage barrel while spying on Smurfette in order to get the story on who her "secret lover" is.

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* In ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' story "The Reporter Smurf", the titular character hides himself in a garbage barrel while spying on Smurfette in order to get the story on who her "secret lover" is. Of course, he didn't know that the barrel he was hiding in was used for garbage until another Smurf dumped some trash into it while he was still inside!
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* In ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' story "The Reporter Smurf", the titular character hides himself in a garbage barrel while spying on Smurfette in order to get the story on who her "secret lover" is.

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