History Main / HelpingGrannyCrossTheStreet

* In one ''LooneyTunes'' short, DaffyDuck goes on a ''CandidCamera''-type show where he tries to help an old lady cross the street. She hits him with her umbrella all the way.

''The'' quintessential example of DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp.

* {{Conversed}} and parodied in an arc of ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' where Andy bans Peter from playing violent video games and instead gives him a game called ''Nice City'' (as opposed to ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]''). At one point he scores points for helping an old lady across the street.

-->"I left the girl there," said Tanzan. "Are you still carrying her?"

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Rainbow Dash feels outshined by Mare Do Well, and unable to find anyone in need of rescuing, obstinately insists on "helping" Granny Smith cross the street even though she didn't want to cross it at all.

* The Russian show ''{{Yeralash}}'' has at least three cases.

* In TexAvery's ''Droopy's Good Deed'', rival Spike tries to thwart Boy Scout Droopy by dressing in old-lady drag, pulling this trope, and kicking Droopy into the path of a trolley. It backfires, of course.

* ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'': During the opening credits montage we see an old lady who is being helped across the street by a scout. Felix approaches them and offers to do it instead. He gets quite insistent; so the granny [[HandbagOfHurt hits him with her handbag]] to make him let go, and the scout slugs him too.

* In his [[ScoutOut Boyscoyt]] routine, Swedish comedian Martin Ljung noted that helping old women cross the street works on the Sometimes Principle: "Somtimes it works, sometimes it doesn't work ''[[BloodyHilarious at all]].''"

* In ''{{Mongrels}}'' Nelson the Fox helps an elderly chicken across the street. He takes the time to also ask the question of "Why did the chicken cross the road?"[[hottip:*:The answer is: she saw a black man walking along the street and thought he might mug her, turns out she was just a casual racist]]

* ''TheOddCouple'': During the opening credits montage we see an old lady who is being helped across the street by a scout. Felix approaches them and offers to do it instead. He gets quite insistent; so the granny [[HandbagOfHurt hits him with her handbag]] to make him let go, and the scout slugs him too.

* In ''Series/TheGoodies'' episode ''Silly Scouting'', Graeme and Bill, playing overage boy scouts, are trying to earn a proficiency badge for Helping Old Ladies Cross the Street. A sequence of madcap visual humour ensues, where Graeme is seen chalking a billiard cue and setting up trick shots involving Old Lady Number One with side-spin off the cushions into old Lady Number Two....

* Played straight in ''Webcomic/TheBullysBully'', to show the protagonist's kindness.

* ''TheSimpsons'': in a TreehouseOfHorror episode Homer is dead and needs to do one good deed to get into Heaven. Ghost!Homer sees Agnes Skinner who wants to cross the street, so he lifts her up and flies her across. She is panicked, not knowing that she's being helped by a ghost. She complains that everyone can see up her bustle, and then she starts struggling out of Ghost!Homer's arms and he accidentally drops her into oncoming traffic.

* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Rainbow Dash feels outshined by Mare Do Well, and unable to find anyone in need of rescuing, obstinately insists on "helping" Granny Smith cross the street even though she didn't want to cross it at all.

* An episode of ''TheFlintstones'' has an episode where they and the Rubbles end up camping with a group of Boy Scouts. In one scene, a pair of boys "help" (she didn't need it) walk Betty across the camp. When Betty tells the second boy he already walked her, he tells her she only counts half as much as an old lady.

->Tanzan and Ekido were once traveling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was still falling. Coming around a bend, they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and sash, unable to cross the intersection.

->"Come on, girl" said Tanzan at once. Lifting her in his arms, he carried her over the mud.

->Ekido did not speak again until that night when they reached a lodging temple. Then he no longer could restrain himself. "We monks don't go near females," he told Tanzan, "especially not young and lovely ones. It is dangerous. Why did you do that?"

->"I left the girl there," said Tanzan. "Are you still carrying her?"

This is ''the'' quintessential example of DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp -- it's almost kind of a SubTrope.

* An old Inland Revenue advert in the UK featured a man taking the old lady across the street. She then whacks the man and darts back across the street in order to catch the bus she was waiting for.

* Magazine/{{MAD}} Magazine had a series of comics based on this trope. The final one subverted it - the scout ignored the old lady in favor of a young attractive one, and an older scout master had to comfort the poor granny.

* ''TheSimpsons'': in a TreehouseOfHorror episode Homer is dead and needs to do one good deed to get into Heaven. Ghost!Homer sees Agnes Skinner who wants to cross the street, so he lifts her up and flies her across. She is paniced, not knowing that she's being helped by a ghost. She complains that everyone can see up her bustle, and then has a heart attack and dies after Homer lands her.