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* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom:'' Indy and Short Round are going to get crushed to death in the trap full of bugs because Willie doesn't want to stick her hand in the dark hole to release the trap. It's a subversion, though, because it's not the dark hole that she's squicked by. It's the fact that the hole is literally crawling with bugs of all types.

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* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom:'' Indy and Short Round are going to get crushed to death in the trap full of bugs because Willie doesn't want to stick her hand in the dark hole to release the trap. It's In a subversion, though, because it's not the dark hole that she's squicked by. It's the fact that the hole is literally crawling with bugs of all types.

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* This happens accidentally to a hotel maid in ''Literature/TheWitches''. When the hero is turned into a mouse, he hides in a shoe when he sees the maid coming. The maid picks the shoe up, and puts her hand inside; and the hero instinctively bites her, causing the maid to scream and drop the shoe.



* ''Series/FortBoyard'': "The Jars of Fear" challenge, in which a contestant has to hunt for the key by putting their arm deep into a jar containing something unpleasant, such as worms, rats, or slime.

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"The Jars of Fear" challenge, in which a contestant has to hunt for the key by putting their arm deep into a jar containing something unpleasant, such as worms, rats, or slime.slime.
** Played with if the team decides to sacrifice a player for an extra clue. The player has to put their hand in a tiger's mouth to find the clue, but they are then manacled to the tiger's head.
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* ''Series/FortBoyard'': "The Jars of Fear" challenge, in which a contestant has to hunt for the key by putting their arm deep into a jar containing something unpleasant, such as worms, rats, or slime.
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* There's a book in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]], ''The Cestus Deception'', which is not dissimilar to the above. Obi-Wan has to prove his goodwill by reaching into a basket with something moving inside. He wonders if it's something venomous and this is a test, but although there's something alive and moving and wet inside, it doesn't hurt him. [[spoiler: It's one of the native Force-Sensitives testing his intent.]]

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* There's a book in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]], ''The Cestus Deception'', which is not dissimilar to the above. Obi-Wan has to prove his goodwill by reaching into a basket with something moving inside. He wonders if it's something venomous and this is a test, but although there's something alive and moving and wet inside, it doesn't hurt him. [[spoiler: It's [[spoiler:It's one of the native Force-Sensitives testing his intent.]]



* In the ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "Get a Clue", Castle and Beckett follows the clues to a church and a mural with a hole inside the mouth of a figure. Castle slip his hand in the hole to find the mechanism of a secret passage. Of course, he can't resist yelping to scare off Beckett.

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* In the ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' episode "Get a Clue", Castle and Beckett follows the clues to a church and a mural with a hole inside the mouth of a figure. Castle slip his hand in the hole to find the mechanism of a secret passage. Of course, he can't resist yelping to scare off Beckett.
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(Note that in Japanese media, many of these are direct [[ShoutOut shout-outs]] to ''Film/RomanHoliday'', which remains an icon of pop-culture.)
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* In ''Film/TheBlob1988'', a cook reaches into a plugged up sink and gets gooey pink stuff on his hand. The Blob reaches out and pulls him down the sink head first.

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* In ''Film/TheBlob1988'', a cook reaches into a plugged up sink and gets gooey pink stuff on his hand. The Blob reaches out and [[FoldSpindleMutilation pulls him down the sink head first.first]].
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* In ''VideoGame/TheDig'', a character puts his hand through a crack in the wall, trying to reach a life crystal in the hole. It doesn't end well: The rock shifts as he does so, and his hand becomes stuck in the rock, requiring the player to [[spoiler:use a jagged-toothed alien jawbone to ''saw his hand off'', without any kind of anesthetic to boot]]. Parodied in ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', if you have your character put his hand through a similar crack. "Aaah! My hand's stuck! You'll have to cut off my arm.... Just kidding."

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* In ''VideoGame/TheDig'', ''VideoGame/{{The Dig|1995}}'', a character puts his hand through a crack in the wall, trying to reach a life crystal in the hole. It doesn't end well: The rock shifts as he does so, and his hand becomes stuck in the rock, requiring the player to [[spoiler:use a jagged-toothed alien jawbone to ''saw his hand off'', without any kind of anesthetic to boot]]. Parodied in ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', if you have your character put his hand through a similar crack. "Aaah! My hand's stuck! You'll have to cut off my arm.... Just kidding."
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* A little rhyme once heard at an aquarium, regarding certain eels: "Stick your hand in a crack and you don't get it back, that's a moray."

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* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SezOrE0zRFo little rhyme rhyme]] once heard at an aquarium, regarding certain eels: "Stick your hand in a crack and you don't get it back, that's a moray."

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