History Main / JumpingOutOfACake

* In the 1943 German film ''Münchhausen'', one of the highlights of a state banquet given by UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat is a giant pie which, when cut open, reveals a dwarf playing on a miniature piano.
* ''Film/TheMilkOfSorrow'': Mixed with DisturbedDoves, for Maxima's wedding. At the reception, the lid to the cake is removed, and a bunch of doves fly out from inside

'''Gomez:''' ...''C'est la vie!''

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': In ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'', the Koopalings hide in a cake to kidnap Peach.

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* In ''Anime/TurnAGundam'', during a party held to try and make a move towards peace between the Earth Race and Moon Race, a large cake made to look like the earth and moon is rolled out. Several soldiers then jump out from under the cake and attempt to assassinate the queen of the moon, Dianna Soriel, though they fail and are forced to escape instead. At first the Earth Race is blamed, but the Moon Race discontinue accusations when [[spoiler: it is discovered that the would be assassins were members of the Moon Race. This is the first hint in the series that the moon has internal conflict and that not everyone from the moon is happy about moving back to Earth.]]

* One episode of ''Anime/LupinIIIPart1'' had the titular thief sneaking into a wedding inside the cake. Unlike most examples, he had no intention of revealing himself, he just needed a vantage point he could spy and [[FiveFingerDiscount snatch]] from.

* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'':
** In ''Dalton City'', a saloon dancer is concealed inside a giant cake, but the homemade pastry is so tough that, by the time she manages to get out of it, the party, the fight and pretty much the story are over. Tough enough to withstand ''gunfire'', actually. Averell Dalton is [[LethalChef that bad of a cook]].
** The book cover shows Luke himself bursting out of a cake, surprising the Daltons. It's also in the opening of one AnimatedAdaptation.

* In ''ComicBook/SecretSix'', the rest of the Six hire a stripper dressed as Scandal Savage's dead girlfriend Knockout to hide in a cake and give her a lap dance on her birthday to cheer her up, but Scandal is too drunk to really realize what's going on (plus Knockout seems to possess the stripper for a moment to tell her to be happy). However, later Scandal meets Liana (the stripper) in a supermarket and they start dating.
* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'':
** One wordless strip has a gang boss hearing the noise of someone within his cake and machine-gunning it, visualizing a gunman hiding within a la ''Film/SomeLikeItHot''. The second panel shows him blushing as they carry the stripper off in a stretcher.
** A Don Martin comic had a lab-coated scientist who built an automatic cake machine. Its robot arms picked up the various ingredients (milk, eggs, flour) -- then grabbed the scientist. After the finished cake emerged from the machine, the confused scientist jumped out (or was bounced out) in [[FanDisservice stripper wear.]]
* One of the final issues of ''ComicBook/{{Excalibur}}'' has a supervillain hiding inside of the cake at a bachelor party (after replacing the stripper inside and leaving her bound and gagged in a closet) so he can assassinate the unsuspecting partygoers.

* Inverted in a scene from ''ComicBook/DeathsHead'' first solo title. A big cake is brought into a mobster's birthday party, so of course he assumes a gunman is inside it. He has his goons 'cut' the cake by blowing it to bits with blaster fire. Only it really is just a cake, which ends up splattered all over him. He then sits down to a slice of birthday cake, which explodes when he sticks his fork in it. Deaths Head set the whole thing up.
* One ''Little Annie Fanny'' comic in ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' had someone hire Annie to do this for someone's surprise birthday party (she was told). In a twist on the theme, it was ''her'' surprise party.
* In the first issue of the four-issue miniseres that started ''ComicBook/TheMuppetShowComicBook'', one of the attempts the other Muppets make at cheering up a homesick Kermit the Frog involves Miss Piggy jumping out of a cake.

-->'''Mouse''': Happy birthday, big guy!\\
'''Garfield''': I'm not eating that.

-->'''Mouse 1''': He's not looking very happy.\\
'''Mouse 3''': Neither is Shirley.
* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''ComicStrip/CloseToHome'', much to the [[RuleOfFunny confusion and near-panic of the people in the cake]]. The model, meanwhile, looks quite satisfied.
* Averted by Creator/CharlesAddams: The cake really is a giant cake, and everyone except the guest of honor looks rather disappointed at the gigantic slices they get served.

* One ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' Sunday strip has Pig carry on a conversation with a stripper inside the cake.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1983103/1/Good-Bunny Good Bunny]]'' Hermione makes Lucius jump out of a cake while wearing a bunny suit at Harry's 25th birthday party.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3997375/1/A-Birthday-Surprise A Birthday Surprise]]'' Snape comes out of an ''exploding'' cake at Harry's 18th birthday party.

* In ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'', Stella the skunk explodes out of a real birthday cake during the montage of the animals stealing food (among other things) from the neighborhood homes.

* In a non-festive example, during the climax of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'', the Mane Six and Capper use a giant cake to smuggle the pirates into Canterlot. When they get discovered the pirates jump out of the cake.
* ''WesternAnimation/OlafsFrozenAdventure'' opens with Olaf, restless for Elsa and Anna's surprise Christmas party to start, jumping out at and surprising random servants in the castle. On Anna, he jumps out of a kransekake (a Norwegian layer cake) on the buffet table, with some of the lower layers getting stuck around his mid and lower sections while his head ends up in Anna's hands. A bemused Anna has to put Olaf's head back on while Elsa sets him straight.

* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'': When Aladdin goes to his old hovel to get something he needs for his and Jasmine's wedding, Genie believes that he forgot to give Al a bachelor party, and he immediately conjures up a cake and pops out of it dressed like a busty stripper.

* A gunman hidden in a cake is a pivotal part of the plot at the climax of ''Film/SomeLikeItHot''.
* A topless Erika Eleniak jumps out of a cake at the beginning of ''Film/UnderSiege'' and promptly gets dragged into [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on a battleship]].
* Kathy in ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' comes out of a cake at a Hollywood party. This after she gave Don a lot of grief about how she was a stage actress, as opposed to doing "just a lot of dumb shows" on films.
-->'''Don''': [[SarcasmMode Well, if it isn't]] Creator/EthelBarrymore.
* In ''Film/HowToMurderYourWife'', avowed bachelor Stanley Ford meets the future Mrs. Ford this way. She later says it was the only job she could get after someone stole all her clothes.

* The 2000 live-action ''Film/OneHundredAndTwoDalmatians'' has a clever inversion in the climax, where Cruella is apprehended by ''trapping'' her inside a cake.

* ''Film/DrDolittle'' 2: During Charisse's 16th birthday, she's about to blow out her cake's candles. But then a couple of rats popped out by messing with it.

* In ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'', "Homicidal" Lord Winder has his guards stab the giant cake at a party to check for assassins inside (several times at different levels, in case it's a dwarf or someone kneeling down). [[spoiler:He does get assassinated later at that same party, but it has nothing to do with cake.]]
* In ''The Magic of [[Literature/LandOfOz Oz]]'' Dorothy and the Wizard get some monkeys to agree to be shrunk and put into a pie, to jump out and perform at Ozma's birthday party.
* In ''Literature/TheSecretOfPlatform13'', the hotel Mrs. Trottle and Raymond hide at has a dinner entertainment act where a girl jumps out of a fake cake and does a dance of seven veils. [[spoiler:When the rescuers go to get Raymond from the hotel, one of the ways to get in close is to pay off the regular dancing girl and have Gertrude replace her.]]
* A children's book from (probably) TheEighties has a front cover picture of a girl in a bikini jumping out of a cake at a boy's birthday party.

* In "The Hour that Never Was", an episode of ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'', Steed reminisces about an officer's birthday cake during the war that had a showgirl inside. Unfortunately the icing was so thick that it cut off her air supply and she nearly asphyxiated, which Steed [[DissonantLaughter chuckles]] about.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]], the Eleventh Doctor jumps out of a cake at Rory's bachelor party.

* In a ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971'' "Spidey Super Stories" sketch the Birthday Bandit decides that Spiderman is hiding in a kid's birthday cake. Spiderman comes up behind him while he's busy smashing it with a mallet.

* ''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.

* The Mads' Invention Exchange for the ''I Accuse My Parents'' episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' is "Cake & Shake", a cake mix with a real exotic dancer included. Frank thought he was being clever by folding the dancer into the mix before baking, thus saving a step. Dr. Forrester was incredulous, and they spend the whole experiment digging him out. Fortunately for them, Rodney (the dancer) was no worse for the wear.

* In ''Series/SpecialUnit2'', Carl gets one of these for his birthday, only for it to contain an angry ex-girlfriend, who punches him out.

* There's a Franchise/{{LEGO}} set exclusive to LEGO stores, which consists of a small birthday cake with a lever on the back. When this is pressed, a jester attached to the end pushes open the lid and pops up.

* In ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'', the Koopalings hide in a cake to kidnap Peach.
* 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.

* 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.
* In the intro to ''VideoGame/ConkersPocketTales'', the [[BigBad Evil Acorn]] jumps out of Conker's birthday cake [[EyePop much to his and Berri's surprise]] and steals her and his presents.

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* ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'': [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/miggs/ "Miggs"]] uses the "mafia hitman" variant to BloodyHilarious effect.

* ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'': Used for the [[http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb323.html second anniversary strip,]] although Doc's plan to use a cutting laser to cut the cake threatens the survival of the unseen woman inside.

* During Gus and Geoff's "cake vs. pie" feud in ''Webcomic/RoosterTeethComics'', Gus cites this as a reason why he prefers cake when he gets one for his birthday. Then Geoff jumps out of the cake to deliver a PieInTheFace.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "Agony of a Witch", King bakes a hollow cake to jump out of as a surprise for Luz. He can barely breathe by the time he finally does it because Luz arrives a lot later than he had planned.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "Papa's Wedding Day", Balthazar does this when Flowerbell gets Papa Smurf alone in the forest with a big giant cake waiting there.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' did this. Endive cooks herself a "beefcake" -- which in the context of the show is a living food that looks like a man -- but gets the recipe wrong and he turns out ugly. She rejects him, but later finishes cooking him and he turns into his "true form"... a pink cake with a topless cowboy coming out of it.
* The ''WesternAnimation/ToxicCrusaders'' episode "A Sight for Sore Eyes" has Toxie's girlfriend Yvonne jump out of a cake prepared by Toxie's mother to celebrate the Toxic Crusaders getting new jobs.
* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterFarm'' had this trope spoofed in the episode "P.S I Love Ewwe", where Zombeef falls in love with Dr. Woolly's monstrous alter ego Mr. Ewwe and attempts to marry him. At Dr. Woolly's bachelor party, Jack presents the monster animals with a large cake. Count Cluckula expects a beautiful woman to pop out of the cake, but instead a scientist mixing chemicals who ends up blowing himself up comes out of the cake.
* 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' once terrified their obnoxiously big sister Candace with a gorilla in her 14th birthday cake.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers'', when Brandy is trying to subtly tell Mr. Whiskers that he isn't invited to her slumber party, he mistakes it for this.

->''"Hold it right there slick. I don't do cakes. I don't bake em, and I don't jump out of em."''

* In ''[[VideoGame/LegoAdaptationGame LEGO Harry Potter 2]]'', Bellatrix jumps out of a cake at Bill and Fleur's wedding. The achievement for finishing the level is called "[[ShoutOut Cake or Death Eater?]]"

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers'', when Brandy is trying to subtley tell Mr. Whiskers that he isn't invited to her slumber party, he mistakes it for this.

* On ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'', Joe's punishment was to get into a cake dressed as a sailor and strip for what he thought was a bachelorette party. When he jumped out with an enthusiastic "Hey ladies!", he discovered it was [[BaitAndSwitch an event for war veterans.]]

* Inversion in a scene from ''ComicBook/DeathsHead'' first solo title. A big cake is brought into a mobster's birthday party, so of course he assumes a gunman is inside it. He has his goons 'cut' the cake by blowing it to bits with blaster fire. Only it really is just a cake, which ends up splattered all over him. He then sits down to a slice of birthday cake, which explodes when he sticks his fork in it. Deaths Head set the whole thing up.

** In ''Hooty's Moving Hassle'', doing one of these is on Gus' bucket list.

** The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E4Rosebud Rosebud]]" had a part where Smithers [[ImagineSpot imagines]] his boss, clad in only a sash, popping out of a cake after Mr. Burns grumbles that he's not going to get what he truly wants for his birthday (with Smithers adding that no one ever does).

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Papa's Wedding Day", Balthazar does this when Flowerbell gets Papa Smurf alone in the forest with a big giant cake waiting there.

Girls have been jumping out of cakes since Evelyn Nesbit did it for millionaire playboy Stanford White in TheGayNineties, but the practice of enclosing a living creature inside a cake or pie shell goes back to medieval days. It's the origin of the nursery rhyme "Sing a song of sixpence", where live blackbirds are put in a pie shell for a king's feast.

* One episode of ''Anime/LupinIIIGreenJacket'' had the titular thief sneaking into a wedding inside the cake. Unlike most examples, he had no intention of revealing himself, he just needed a vantage point he could spy and [[FiveFingerDiscount snatch]] from.

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''ComicStrip/CloseToHome'', much to the [[RuleOfFunny confusion and near-panic of the people in the cake]]. The model, meanwhile, looked quite satisfied.

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27736435 Zero Context: Taking Out the Trash]]'', this is attempted by Circe's maids at her bachelorette party. However, the one they selected was so apathetic to the whole thing that she fell asleep inside the cake and failed to respond on cue, then dug her way out the side when she woke up. Circe was amused, but the maid's co-workers were not.

* In a non-festive example, during the climax of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'', the Mane Six and Capper use a giant cake to smuggle the pirates into Canterlot. When they get discovered the pirates jump out of he cake.

** The episode "Rosebud" [[note]]The one where Mr. Burns finds his long-lost teddy bear[[/note]] had a part where Smithers [[ImagineSpot imagines]] his boss, clad in only a sash, popping out of a cake after Mr. Burns grumbles that he's not going to get what he truly wants for his birthday (with Smithers adding that no one ever does).

* 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.

** The episode "Frantic City": The cake at the Water Buffalos' convention was supposed to have showgirls inside. It had their angry wives instead, [[RollingPinOfDoom rolling pins in hand]].