History Main / JumpingOutOfACake

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' once terrified their obnoxiously big sister Candace with a gorilla in her 14th birthday cake.

* In [[Recap/CheersS5E18 one episode]] of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', Diane Chambers is hidden inside a cake at Sam Malone's bachelor party, when the two were getting married. When Sam says something unintentionally offensive regarding the marriage-to-come, she pops out--dressed in a {{Stripperific}} MsFanservice costume--and is angry at him. ([[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Woody]], who was assigned the job of getting the stripper, had asked Diane to be the "beautiful girl" who pops out of the cake. Woody didn't get that the stripper was supposed to be someone ''other than'' the bride-to-be. Diane agreed to it because she was offended that Sam would even have a bachelor party with a stripper; she covers her chagrin at the prospect with laughter, verbally treating it like a practical joke.)

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': In "The Big Job", Junior begins to explain that he sprung Shego from prison because his father's birthday is coming up. Shego cuts him off with "I don't do cakes, okay? I don't ''bake'' 'em, and I don't ''jump out of'' 'em!" [[{{Surprisingly Lenient Censor}} The writers were surprised the line passed censors.]]

Sometimes played for drama (or [[GallowsHumor really dark comedy]]) if the man of the hour is TooDumbToLive and thinks the novelty cake is a real one (and cuts it, either injuring or killing the girl inside), [[Film/SomeLikeItHot if a Mafia hitman is inside the cake and shoots everyone at the party]] (though it can be [[RefugeInAudacity softened up to being funny if the hitman is dressed in outrageous and obvious drag]]), or if the stripper dies of suffocation inside the cake and no one realizes this until it's too late.

* Chuck Norris ate a whole cake before his friends could tell him there was a stripper in it.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Butters' Bottom Bitch" has an undercover cop posing as a hooker in one of these.

* Reportedly, Czar Peter the Great of Russia amused his friends by hiding a naked woman in a cake at a party. Hardly out of character for that hard-partying monarch.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'' Whole Cake Island Arc, the focal point is a Tea Party held by Big Mom. For her, sweets and parties are SeriousBusiness, so she has a ''gigantic'' cake made to be eaten at the height of the party. When Luffy crashes the party, he does so by using a captured Devil Fruit user to burst from the cake...along with a small army of dopplegangers!

* ''Series/ICarly'': Attempted to be inovked in Carly's BirthdayEpisode by having Gibby jumping out of a giant pie, however, Gibby comes out of the pie before he is told to do so because he couldn't breathe, courtesy of Spencer who forgot to give Gibby something so he could breathe.

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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Deadwood}}'', the film "Jesse James: Man of Action" has scene 14: Best Friend's Wedding, with a role requiring you to leap out of a cake. (Every other role involves getting shot, since this is a bad Western.) An earlier scene, 8: Birthday Party, requires an actor leaping ''into'' a cake. (Again, supporting roles get shot.)

** The book cover shows Luke himself bursting out of a cake, surprising the Daltons. It's also in the opening of one AnimatedAdaptation.

-->'''Crow:''' Oh, it's [[IncrediblyLamePun beefcake]]!

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' were bringing a frog as a birthday gift for Didi, but later it jumped out of her chosen birthday cake in surprise.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken's'' ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' parody, "Voltron Got Served!", when the Lions are called for, the blue lion bursts out of a cake at a bachelor party.

** The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E4Rosebud Rosebud]]" has a scene where Smithers [[ImagineSpot imagines]] the one thing he really wants for his birthday: Mr. Burns, clad in only a sash, popping out of a cake.

* In ''VideoGame/TheSims'', you can buy a giant cake to have a dancer come out and dance. Of course you have to keep children out of the room. The dancer can be of either gender (and you can hire both with two cakes). Rarely, a gag dancer, like a person in a monkey suit, will come out instead.

When a giant cake (actually a cake shell) has a person (usually a bachelor party stripper) hidden inside, so he or she can jump out of it for dramatic effect.

Mostly PlayedForLaughs, especially if the cake is at an unexpected (and inappropriate) place (like a child's birthday party) or the stripper inside is replaced with someone else (such as a cop, an AbhorrentAdmirer who crashed the party to get her object of desire, an angry fiancée or wife who suspects that her husband will have ''too'' good of a time at his buddy's bachelor party, a DirtyOldWoman who used to be an adult entertainer when she was young and is still entertaining in her autumn years, a cross-dressing CampGay man who decided to come out of the cake — and the closet — all in one night, or a heterosexual man who was dressed in drag and put in the cake as a cruel joke). In more cartoonish works, the cake might be an actual one, causing the party-goers to be splattered with frosting and cake bits when the person inside jumps out.

** In a later episode, after failing to kill Bart yet again, Sideshow Bob [[ImagineSpot imagines]] jumping out of a cake the Simpsons are celebrating with and killing them all.

* An old ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' newspaper strip had Monica and an adult woman having the exact same idea for a surprise, but the cakes got switched. As a result, Monica ends up in a room full of adult men whereas the woman shows up scantily clad on a child's birthday party. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids Yup, that's was pretty common for the franchise back then.]]

* An old [[ComicBook/MonicasGang]] newspaper strip had Monica and an adult woman having the exact same idea for a surprise, but the cakes got switched. As a result, Monica ends up in a room full of adult men whereas the woman shows up scantily clad on a child's birthday party. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids Yup, that's was pretty common for the franchise back then.]]

Mostly PlayedForLaughs, especially if the cake is at an unexpected (and inappropriate) place (like a child's birthday party) or the stripper inside is replaced with someone else (a cop, an AbhorrentAdmirer who crashed the party to get her object of desire, an angry fiancée or wife who suspects that her husband will have ''too'' good of a time at his buddy's bachelor party, a DirtyOldWoman who used to be an adult entertainer when she was young and is still entertaining in her autumn years, a cross-dressing CampGay man who decided to come out of the cake — and the closet — all in one night, or a heterosexual man who was dressed in drag and put in the cake as a cruel joke). In more cartoonish works, the cake might be an actual one, causing the party-goers to be splattered with frosting and cake bits when the person inside jumps out.

** In a {{Stripperific}} twist, Harley herself does this in a slinky, sexy way in the episode "Beware the Creeper", only she does it with a giant cream pie while singing Happy Birthday to the Joker. As a showtune. [[IgnoreTheFanservice Not that it fazes him at all]]; he just orders her to track down the Creeper and tosses her out into an alley.

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', apparently Donut does this for Sarge's birthday while wearing his "Officer Hotpants" uniform.

* In ''Hiddenverse: Witch's Tales 2'' [[BalefulPolymorph Prince Percydal]]'s fiancee Rapunzel is terrified of frogs, so Alice decides to hide him in a cake, in the hope that when he jumps out and surprise-kisses Rapunzel the curse will be broken.