History Main / IWasToldThereWouldBeCake

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation treats this a little differently with [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-871 SCP-871]] -- if you eat the cake, and eat it well enough, your reward is more cake ''and'' [[Creator/EddieIzzard not-death.]] It is important to eat the cake, [[GreyGoo lest it overwhelm the world with its deliciousness.]] In addition, there is [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-157 SCP-157]], where the cake really is a lie. At the SCP Foundation, the cake eats you...

[-''[[PromotionalConsideration This Trope page was supported by the]] [[Wiki/SCPFoundation Society For Cake Promotion]]''-]

* ''Game Dev Tycoon'' gives you a slice of cake as an achievement if you include exploding red barrels in one successful game. The person paying you to do so is Dave Johnson, a reference to ''Portal'''s Cave Johnson.

* 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.

* One rather dark ad for Chips Ahoy showed a talking, child-sized cookie at a child's birthday party, wearing a pointy hat, singing and everything. He asks where the cake is. She tells him there is no cake. Oh.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unrgBTWjM_U And here it is.]] If it is removed, just look up "Chips Ahoy Commercial Birthday" (without quotes).

* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat2'', Kitana's Friendship finisher is her handing her opponent a cake with candles.
* In ''VideoGame/StardewValley'', the Junimo spirits reward the player for giving them various sets ("bundles") of items. Completing one of the Vault bundles results in three elaborate chocolate cakes spontaneously appearing in the player's inventory.

-> '''Sign''': [[TitleDrop I WAS TOLD THERE WOULD BE 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.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': When Madoka can't think of anything to use her wish on, [[IfWeGetThroughThis Mami suggests cake.]]
* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Bibidi is only able to control Buu by giving him cake.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'': The kids tell people that people who join LaResistance receive pie and punch.[[note]][[TheCakeIsALie There isn't any.]][[/note]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Lisa convinces Homer to go talk to Marge by telling him she's made a cake. It's actually just to lure Homer in to talk about his massive weight gain (the episode revolves around Homer becoming even more overweight to scam Mr Burns out of disability). Afterwards, he still has to be told there is no cake.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''
** Cake is the focus of a string of related episodes, including the pilot episode, 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. Ironically, the main characters never actually managed to get the cake, in most of the episodes it ends up being ruined in the process, and in one of the last episodes, the villains outright get away with it. The GrandFinale revolves around the cake being stolen by a third faction, and put up for grabs in a scavenger hunt. [[spoiler: It's actually just a cover to test Numbuh One in preparation for his acceptance into the Galactic Kids Next Door]]
** 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 immediately had him thrown in detention upon winning).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''

* 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 inadvertently 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.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'', the title character is promised some cake if he goes to a party. When he doesn't get any, he says [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} "The cake was a lie!"]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/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.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', there's a episode where Didi's younger brother, Ben, is getting married, the Finster family and both Pickles families are attending the wedding (Angelica's even acting as the flower girl). Tommy and Chuckie assume that a wedding is just a big party with a giant cake, and they spend most of the episode wandering around looking for said cake.

* This turns out to be the central theme in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek''. The episode is entitled "The Invitation." During it, Craig and friends are invited to a fancy tea party by three children. They are promised cake provided that everyone is on their best behavior and exhibits excellent table manners. It turns out that those hosting the party [[spoiler: are just FauxAffablyEvil jerks who purposely invite children they know don't get along so they can watch them fight and ask them to leave.]] Craig catches on quickly and decides to tough it out but as might be expected [[spoiler:TheCakeIsALie. It was nothing but a decorative centerpiece]].

** In ''VideoGame/PaperMario'', [[PunnyName Tayce T.]] gives you a cake for returning her frying pan. You also have to bake a cake for an extremely fat Shy Guy. Or you could use the cake she gives you to the Shy Guy, but all to the same effect.

* ''[='=]VideoGame/SplosionMan'' has a cake hidden in every non-boss level. 47 cakes in all. Getting every last one them nets you the achievement "[[BlatantLies Not a Portal Reference]]".

* In ''VideoGame/MegamanZX'', if you speak to a certain NPC on your birthday (which is recorded in the DS' system memory), she'll give you a cake. It's an expendable item in your inventory that recovers about 8-10 bars of life.

* In Brazil, one meme is "Fica, vai ter bolo" ("Stay, there will be cake"), is a riff on the usual quip to someone leaving a birthday party early), sometimes over tragedies or downright disturbing images.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'': The kids tell people that people who join LaResistance receive pie and punch.[[note]]There isn't any.[[/note]]

[-[[caption-width-right:350:[[BlatantLies You are on the wrong page]]. This is actually [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas Hot Coffee]]!]]-]

[[quoteright:350:[[Webcomic/NerfNow https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Cake_9097.jpg]]]]

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* [[http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/7/7d/Doublenigger.jpg "Where is the cake, Eggman?"]]
* ''Webcomic/NerfNow'', [[http://nerfnow.com/comic/380 The Cake]]

* A characteristically off-color Website/FourChan meme ([[http://encyclopediadramatica.se/Double_nigger view at your own risk]]) uses a similar line.
* Another meme from Website/FourChan, [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-the-cake "delicious cake"]], involves a drawing of "you", "delicious cake", and some obstacle keeping you from it. Repliers are expected to draw in a solution using UsefulNotes/MSPaint. The release of ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' complicated these threads somewhat...
* The ''Webcomic/HyperboleAndAHalf'' entry "The God of Cake".

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'': The kids' lure (punch and pie) to get people to join LaResistance.

* From the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/NightWatch'': [[AC:There is no more time, even for cake. For you the cake is over. You have reached the end of cake.]]

* The classic Hostess comic book ads taught a generation of readers that [[FantasticAesop any supervillain can be distracted and immobilized by tossing them some yummy Hostess brand snack cakes.]] It's surprising the heroes don't use this useful trick more often! See also, the DeliciousFruitPies page.

A subtrope of FoodAsBribe, which is all food bribes that aren't cake. If someone stole your cakes, then [[AndThatsTerrible That's Terrible]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The kids' lure to get people to join LaResistance.

* NewspaperComics/HagarTheHorrible and Lucky Eddie raid the royal wedding in [[http://hagarthehorrible.com/comics/february-24-2016/ this strip]]; the best part of the loot? The cake.

* Namedropped by Flo of Progressive Insurance, when she states that getting car insurance through Progressive is a piece of cake, but instead of cake, there's a pie. "I was told there would be cake."

** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'': Mario saves the Princess for what must be the billionth time and what does he get? A bag of gold? [[Theatre/{{Chess}} 2^64-1 grains of rice]]? Grotesque sexual favors? No, cake. Cake that he was already going to get before saving the Princess... but that's enough. Apparently it's also enough for [[VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine being framed for a crime you didn't commit]] and then saving the Princess. (Naturally, Webcomic/VGCats [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=245 has something to say about that.]])

-->'''Elmer:''' And something to stop my boil from controlling my thoughts!
-->'''Elmer's boil:''' ''Silence, you fool!''

* In ThePenguinsOfMadagascar , as part of King Julien's Day's festivities, there's a baking contest to make the official cake for the party. As Julien himself says, even if they can have the party without the cake, it wouldn't feel right.

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