History Main / IWasToldThereWouldBeCake

* ''TheOffice'': While temporarily in charge, Jim decides to celebrate all the office birthdays for the year on one day to cut down on expenses. The plan unravels when everyone demands their own favorite type/flavor of cake for "their" birthday portion. Except for Creed, who wants cobbler instead.

** At the very beginning of ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'', the Koopalings kidnap Peach by [[TrojanHorse ambushing her from within a huge cake]] and then trapping her with it.

Cake -- the ultimate reward. Seriously, it seems like in games one of the standard rewards you can give someone, other than gold, XP or power stars, is cake. It's sweet, it's lovely, it's something you normally only get at birthdays and weddings [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and it]] TastesLikeDiabetes. The perfect way to shrug off the stresses and worries of saving the world -- cake.

Cake -- the ultimate reward. Seriously, it seems like in games one of the standard rewards you can give someone, other than gold, XP or power stars, is cake. It's sweet, it's lovely, it's something you normally only get at birthdays and weddings [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and it]] TastesLikeDiabetes. The perfect way to shrug off the stresses and worries of saving the world — cake.

* Sort of the TropeNamer: ''I Was Told There'd Be Cake'' -- the chronicles of one woman's attempts to meet various unmet expectations, petty annoyances, imponderables and absurdities with only the occasional promise of cake at a wedding or somesuch.

** In another episode, the Delightfuls became Fourth Grade presidents by promising Woodrow Wilson, the kid in charge of counting the votes, a slice of their cake. However, the episode wasn't about the cake, which was only mentioned when Wilson confessed his wrongdoing to Numbuh One (the Delightfuls immediatly had him thrown in detention upon winning).

* The ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Free Cake" is all about Mordecai and Rigby trying to get chocolate cake. They finally convince Benson to throw a birthday party for Skips, but in trying to get Skips [[spoiler:they inadvertedly interrupt a ritual that Skips needs to perform to live forever. When ThePowersThatBe threaten to drain away Skips' lifeforce, Mordecai is forced to give them the chocolate cake in exchange for letting Skips live.]] In the end, they get cake, [[spoiler:only it's vanilla.]]

-->'''[[{{WesternAnimation/Arthur}} Mr. Ratburn]]:''' I was just dropping by to make a few edits and- Oh, are you having cake?

* In ''ClassOfTheTitans,'' presumably taking a nod from an actual [[Myth/GreekMythology Greek myth,]] one of the only ways to distract Cerberus is with cake. He loves cake. The heroes are amazed to learn this.

** There's a popular restaurant called Cake 'N' [[BaconAddiction Bacon]].

* In ''Franchise/{{Atelier}}'' games, cakes usually have very rewarding cost-to-profit ratio (not to mention being a good recovery item by itself). In ''Atelier [[UnfortunateNames Viorate]]'', you can fill your [[AnEntrepreneurIsYou shop]] with cakes and then go adventuring without much worries about your finance.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', when convincing her father to talk to her mother, Lisa lies and tells Homer that Marge has made cake for him. And Homer still had to be told in the end there's no cake.

** Cake is the focus of a string of related episodes, wherein the KND enact various absurd plots to secure the Delightful Children from Down the Lane's lavish birthday cake -- which the Delightfuls not only refuse to share with any other children, but cruelly torture them by forcing everyone to watch them eat it.
** In another episode, the Delightfuls became Fourth Grade presidents by promising Woodrow Wilson, the kid in charge of counting the votes, a slice of their cake. However, the episode wasn't about the cake, which was only mentioned when Wilson confessed his wrongdoing to Numbuh One.

** For a real scare, listen but don't watch, and imagine it's a person and not a cookie.

* In ''[[Machinima/FreemansMind Chell's Mind]]'', Chell decides that GLaDOS/Hallie is lying to her immediately after being told about the [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} title cake]], but still fantasizes about Black Forest cake many times.

** In the episode where Timmy Turner decided to run for President of the Student Council, Co-Presidents Tad and Chad offered a huge cake to [[FoodAsBribe sway the voters into their side]]. It backfired on them as everyone who ate of the cake became too sick to attend school during voting day. The only people at school that day were Timmy and Principal Waxelplax, the latter of whom said she was only there because she's frosting intolerant.

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', there is a hard-to-get recipe for "Delicious Chocolate Cake". Getting the recipe and baking the cake earns the achievement "The Cake Is Not A Lie".

* In ''Film/Deadpool2016'' the eponymous antihero spends the entire movie pursuing the villainous Ajax, who told Deadpool that he could heal the [[BodyHorror results of his mutation]].

* On ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', when Sylar kills a woman who can detect lies on her birthday, her colleagues enter her office with presents to find Sylar with blood all over his hands and a delightful smile on his face as he asks [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "Cake?"]]

** Even [[spoiler:Bowser]] himself gets one at the end of ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]''. A bit of a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming for the game.

* The card game ''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'' features fabulous [[http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Chrononauts/Mysteries.html#1 German Black Forest Cake]] from the 1939 New York World's Fair. (Germany was invited but [[WorldWarII was kinda busy at the time]].) The cake is distractingly tasty.

* In the SoBadItsGood Hulk Hogan vehicle ''Film/SuburbanCommando'', intergalactic bounty hunter Shep Ramsay adapts to the suburban lifestyle with a mix of grievous bodily harm and property damage... but it's all against assholes, and is thus rewarded with cake. Shep is initially confused that Earthlings eat the stuff, but then tastes it and promptly wolfs it down.

* In ''Film/Deadpool'' the titular antihero spends the entire movie pursuing the villainous Ajax, who told Deadpool that he could heal the [[BodyHorror results of his mutation]].

* In RugRats , the babies think a wedding is just a big party with a giant cake. In one episode, when Tommy and Chuckie's families get invited to a place where several weddings and receptions are being held at once, the kids spend most of the episode wandering around looking for the cake.

* ''Series/Stitchers'' [='=] Detective Fisher invoked this Trope in the 8th episode.