History Main / MicrowaveTheDog

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* Used in ''Literature/{{Gone}}'' as part of Drake's backstory.
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* "Microwave Cat" by Feo Y Loco.

* Handwaved in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'' as the microwave's description (itself being VendorTrash in this game) regarding how cooking [[SapientEatSapient demon meat]] on them is guaranteed to make it explode. Other bits and pieces scattered along dialogue explain that, due to this, low-tech ways to prepare the meat, like open-fire-roasting, are encouraged.

* ''Series/{{Millennium}}'' uses this in its second episode. The killer traps a Millennium Group agent inside a giant industrial microwave, but Frank Black and [[BigDamnHeroes a battalion of San Francisco policemen arrive just in time]]. The old man still has to be treated for internal tissue damage.

->"''ANGELINA! DO NOT MICROWAVE THE GOLDFISH!''"
-->--'''Camillio''' babysitting his little sister, ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}''

* [[{{Jerkass}} Shake]] from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' spent the entire episode "Reedickyoulous" sticking Meatwad's cats in the microwave, resulting in ''the entire backyard being full of graves.'' When the pets are revived as zombies by radioactive poop, they try to put Shake in the microwave. Among them was a GORILLA of all things! [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToknow You’re better off not asking how Shake managed that...]].

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* One of the gremlins in ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' is killed in a microwave. (Yes, it's a pet.)

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* In ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', Chuck is forced into a microwave by a swarm of retaliating flies. Due to his invulnerability, he reforms after the resultant explosion.

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* In ''Film/UrbanLegend'', Hootie the dog gets microwaved by the killer in order to draw one of the victims out. As with all the other killings, this was a direct reference to an urban legend.

* In ''Film/AmericanVampire'', one of the vampires explodes the protagonist's dog in the microwave.
* An "[[YellowFace Asian]]" character in ''Hanger'' microwaves and eats puppies.
* ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'' had one of the flight attendants microwave a snake, causing it to explode. The microwave even had a ''[[RuleOfFunny snake preset.]]''
* ''Film/KickAss''. Mafia mooks take someone to a lumber yard to be interrogated, apparently with a ConveyorBeltODoom but they find it's gone and a giant microwave used for treating the wood has been installed instead. They lock the victim inside and set the timer, only he can't hear their questions inside the cabinet and ends up exploding instead. The mooks find this BloodyHilarious.

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* ''Series/{{Millennium}}'' uses this in its second episode. The killer traps a Millennium Group agent inside a giant industrial microwave, but Frank Black and [[BigDamnHeroes a battalion of San Francisco policemen arrive just in time]]. The old man still has to be treated for internal tissue damage.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Doctor's "timey-wimey detector" in "Blink" apparently does this ''at range''. "It can boil an egg at thirty paces. Don't use it around hens...It's not pretty when they blow."

* ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'': Ray's daughter's pet hamster is accidentally frozen, so Ray's father suggests that they try to revive it with a microwave.
* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'':
** In ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'', Episode 5, Hayden tricks Vivian into thinking she killed her dog in the microwave.
** In the seventh series, ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCult, Episode 3, a guinea pig, given as a gift to 10 year old Oz Mayfair-Richards, is murdered in the microwave by one of the Clown Killers. The gory splat is every bit as horrifying for the main characters as it is for the audience.

* In the sequel, ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'':
** The original incident is canon and the owner of the animal [[DeconstructedTrope needed years of therapy to overcome the trauma]].
** A puzzle is solved by really using a future microwave to dry a live hamster (yes, it does survive, and Laverne remarks out loud that kids trying to imitate the gesture would have bad things happen to them).
* A rather infamous EasterEgg from ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' is at the beginning of the game, when you can heat a casserole in the microwave and cause it to explode. The FanRemake ''VideoGame/BlackMesa'' also includes this, and then does one better by putting a ''headcrab'' in the same microwave after the resonance cascade, which you can make explode as well.

* The ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' add-on, ''BioShockInfinite/BurialAtSea'', has an audio log detailing a Bistro owner's experience with his new-fangled Radar Range (literally a microwave-emitting radar dish mounted to a rifle grip that functions like a RayGun) and how his son got ahold of it and tried it out on everything he could: apples, marshmallows, spoons. The fun stopped when the family's pekingese [[LudicrousGibs jumped in the way of the blast.]] When the player gets a hold of it, they can pull the same trick... [[PinkMist on]] [[HerdHittingAttack the]] [[MadeOfExplodium Splicers.]]

* [[{{Jerkass}} Shake]] from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' spent the entire episode "Reedickyoulous" sticking Meatwad's cats in the microwave, resulting in ''the entire backyard being full of graves.'' When the pets are revived as zombies by radioactive poop, they try to put Shake in the microwave. Among them was a GORILLA of all things! [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToknow You’re better off not asking how Shake managed that...]].
* {{Discussed|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. The anthropomorphic animals trick Elmyra into thinking she's in an alternate world where humans are the pets. One of the animals asks for Elmyra as its pet, but then the mother goes "no honey, you put the last one in the microwave." Elmyra, a notorious ChronicPetKiller ([[AndCallHimGeorge not that she ever realizes it]]), shrieks, freaks out, and flees in abject terror.

* In the prologue of ''The Willies'', an old woman tries to dry her poodle off in the microwave, and it explodes.
* In ''American Vampire'', one of the vampires explodes the protagonist's dog in the microwave.

* {{Discussed|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. The anthropomorphic animals trick Elmyra into thinking she's in an alternate world where humans are the pets. One of the animals asks for Elmyra as its pet, but then the mother goes "no honey, you put the last one in the microwave." Elmyra, a notorious ChronicPetKiller, [[InformedAttribute though actually treats pets pretty decently on-screen]], shrieks, freaks out, and flees in abject terror.

A form of MicrowaveMisuse. This can be a case of KickTheDog, or (as a popular UrbanLegend [[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/microwavedpet.asp has it]]) just some misguided old lady or child trying to dry the pet out after it got wet. Has nothing to do with INeedToGoIronMyDog.

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* The ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' add-on, ''Burial At Sea,'' has an audio log detailing a Bistro owner's experience with his new-fangled Radar Range (literally a microwave-emitting radar dish mounted to a rifle grip that functions like a RayGun) and how his son got ahold of it and tried it out on everything he could: apples, marshmallows, spoons. The fun stopped when the family's pekingese [[LudicrousGibs jumped in the way of the blast.]] When the player gets a hold of it, they can pull the same trick... [[PinkMist on]] [[HerdHittingAttack the]] [[MadeOfExplodium Splicers.]]

** ''Seth [=MacFarlane's=] Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy'' includes a skit about putting a dog in the microwave after giving them a tinfoil hat and chocolate. Earth explodes. (But seriously, in real life the tin foil would have caught fire, do not try this at home.)

* [[{{Jerkass}} Shake]] from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' spent the entire episode "Reedickyoulous" sticking Meatwad's cats in the microwave, resulting in ''the entire backyard being full of graves.'' When the pets are revived as zombies by radioactive poop, they try to put Shake in the microwave. Among them was a GORILLA Of all things! [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToknow You’re better off not asking how Shake managed that...]].

* [[{{Jerkass}} Shake]] from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' spent the entire episode "Reedickyoulous" sticking Meatwad's cats in the microwave, resulting in ''the entire backyard being full of graves.'' When the pets are revived as zombies by radioactive poop, they try to put Shake in the microwave. Among them was a GORILLA Of all things! [[ThereAreThingsManWasNotMeantToknow You’re better off not asking how Shabaka managed that...]].

* [[{{Jerkass}} Shake]] from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' spent the entire episode "Reedickyoulous" sticking Meatwad's cats in the microwave, resulting in ''the entire backyard being full of graves.'' When the pets are revived as zombies by radioactive poop, they try to put Shake in the microwave.

Please, DontTryThisAtHome. You'll end up with a dead pet, [[LudicrousGibs a ton of grossness]], and a broken microwave. And probably [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone a lot of guilt on your conscience]]. And if anyone finds out, [[YouMonster a lot of hate directed at you]].

** ''Seth [=MacFarlane's=] Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy'' includes a skit about putting a dog in the microwave after giving them a tin foil hat and chocolate. Earth explodes. (But seriously, in real life the tin foil would have caught fire, do not try this at home.)

This can be a case of KickTheDog, or (as a popular UrbanLegend [[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/microwavedpet.asp has it]]) just some misguided old lady or child trying to dry the pet out after it got wet. Has nothing to do with INeedToGoIronMyDog.

* Discussed in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. The anthropomorphic animals trick Elvira into thinking she's in an alternate world where humans are the pets. One of the animals asks for Elvira as its pet, but then the mother goes "no honey, you put the last one in the microwave." Elvira, a notorious ChronicPetKiller, [[InformedAttribute though actually treats pets pretty decently on-screen]], shrieks, freaks out, and flees in abject terror.

* Discussed in ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs''. The anthromorphic animals trick Elvira into thinking she's in an alternate world where humans are the pets. One of the animals asks for Elvira as its pet, but then the mother goes "no honey, you put the last one in the microwave." Elvira, a notorious ChronicPetKiller, [[InformedAttribute though actually treats pets pretty decently on-screen]], shrieks, freaks out, and flees in abject terror.

* Discussed in ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs''. The anthromorphic animals trick Elvira into thinking she's in an alternate world where humans are the pets. One of the animals asks for Elvira as its pet, but then the mother goes "no honey, you put the last one in the microwave." Elvira, a notorious PetKiller, [[InformedAttribute though actually treats pets pretty decently on-screen]], shrieks, freaks out, and flees in abject terror.

Please, DontTryThisAtHome. You'll end up with a dead pet, [[LudicrousGibs a ton of grossness]], and a broken microwave. And probably [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone a lot of guilt on your conscience]].

* In ''Series/{{Shameless}}'', eight-year-old Carl microwaves a goldfish, apparently for fun.

* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'': In Season 1 (Murder House), Episode 5, Hayden tricks Vivien into thinking she killed her dog in the microwave. Similarly, in Season 7 (Cult), Episode 3, a guinea pig, given as a gift to 10 year old Oz Mayfair-Richards, is murdered in the microwave by an unknown killer.

** Seth Farlane's Cavalade of Cartoon Comedy includes a skit about putting a dog in the microwave after giving them a tin foil hat and chocolate. Earth explodes. (But seriously, in real life the tin foil would have caught fire, do not try this at home.)

[[caption-width-right:350:That's Shake's cat by the way.]]

* There are some videos on YouTube of live animals being microwaved but most have over 80% dislikes and are flagged for violating community guidelines.