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* In the ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' episode "My Best Friend's Baby's Baby and My Baby's Baby", PanickyExpectantFather Turk is given one job: Get ice chips. When the ice machine won't co-operate, he gets his hand jammed in it.

* The film version of ''Film/OverTheHedge'' starts with R.J.'s attempt to get a bag of chips out of a machine. He does get it, eventually.

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* WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead try to buy pork rinds from a machine that doesn't drop the goods - they figure if they try it again they'll get two for the price of one (?!?) While Beavis guards the machine, Butt-Head cadges a dollar from an old woman and goes to get change at the convenience store. When he spots a bunch of old nachos that are going to get thrown out, he buys them all and heads home, forgetting all about Beavis.

* In the ''{{Scrubs}}'' episode "My Best Friend's Baby's Baby and My Baby's Baby", PanickyExpectantFather Turk is given one job: Get ice chips. When the ice machine won't co-operate, he gets his hand jammed in it.
* In the ''{{Frasier}}'' episode "Rooms With a View", when the Cranes are waiting for Niles to have surgery, Martin tries to get a candy bar from a hospital vending machine. When it jams, an increasingly tense Daphne throws a chair at it.

* On ''DiagnosisMurder'', this happened to Dr. Mark Sloan, and in a bit of an IdiotBall moment he tried reaching into the machine to get the stuck snack and ended up breaking a finger.

* In ''ZorkGrandInquisitor'', part of a puzzle involves getting out a piece of candy stuck inside a vending machine.

* Done in the ''PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Ain't No Kiddie Ride" with a kiddie ride.

* In the ''{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' episode "Wet Painters", this happens to Patrick when he was trying to put a dollar in a vending machine, which is what [=SpongeBob=] is telling him ''not'' to do.

* Done more often than it is possible to count on ''TheSimpsons''. In one notable case, Homer is trying to buy a soda with a stolen $1 trillion bill.
* Taken to the extreme in the ''{{Sealab 2021}}'' episode "All That Jazz", where Murphy is trapped under an Evil Vending Machine for ''months''.
* BeavisAndButthead try to buy pork rinds from a machine that doesn't drop the goods - they figure if they try it again they'll get two for the price of one (?!?) While Beavis guards the machine, Butt-Head cadges a dollar from an old woman and goes to get change at the convenience store. When he spots a bunch of old nachos that are going to get thrown out, he buys them all and heads home, forgetting all about Beavis.
* This happens in the ''HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'' episode "Gone Efficien...t".

* A background gag on ''{{Futurama}}'' features a vending machine for "Refreshing Crack". The vial gets stuck, leading the user to beg the machine not to hold out on him.

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* One comic noted the vending machines that dispense pricey electronics and questioned whether this is a problem those vendors have:
-->''"I'm upset when a candy machine takes my dollar. If the iPod machine takes my $200, I am getting my iPod... Along with every other fucking iPod in that thing."''

* In one episode of ''[[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', John is trying to buy a snack out of a vending machine and the device fails to push the chip bag far enough forward for it to fall out of its holder. Annoyed, John tries tapping on the glass to see if he can jar the chips loose. [[KillerRobot Cameron]] promptly steps up to tap the glass ''once'', and the chips are quickly dislodged, [[SuperStrength along with about a dozen other snacks]]. [[spoiler: Except that this never ''actually'' happened, [[ItMakesSenseinContext being all]] [[AllJustADream just a dream]]]].

* In one episode of ''[[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', John is trying to buy a snack out of a vending machine and the device fails to push the chip bag far enough forward for it to fall out of its holder. Annoyed, John tries tapping on the glass to see if he can jar the chips loose. [[KillerRobot Cameron]] promptly steps up to tap the glass ''once'', and the chips are quickly dislodged, [[SuperStrength along with about a dozen other snacks]]. [[spoiler: Except that this never ''actually'' happened, [[ItMakesSenseinContext being all]] [[JustADream just a dream]]]].

** Sadly TruthInTelevision. Sometimes an ATM (generally a remote one) will be [[ParanoiaFuel sabotaged by a third party for fraud purposes, with pretty much the results given above.]]

* In ''RedDwarf'' episode "Only the Good", we get a vending machine with artificial intelligence that gets angry when Rimmer uses a coin-on-a-string to get a free chocolate bar. Rimmer is unimpressed with its threats of terrible vengeance, only to get clonked on the back of the head by a flying soda can at the end of the episode.

* Done in ''ChickenLittle'' when [[PunnyName Runt of the Litter]] tries to get a soda. A particularly cruel example, since the characters' ''lives'' actually depend on the acquisition of said soda.

* Done in ''ChickenLittle'' when [[PunnyName Runt of the Litter]] tries to get a soda. An odd example, since the characters' ''lives'' actually depend on the acquisition of said soda.

* Done in ''ChickenLittle'' when [[PunnyName Runt out of Litter]] tries to get a soda. An odd example, in that the characters' ''lives'' actually depend on the acquisition of said soda.

* The whole plot of the ''{{VeggieTales}}'' short "Lunch: An Animated Parable" is about one of these.

* In ''RedDwarf'' episode "Only the Good", we get a ''literally evil'' vending machine that tries to kill Rimmer.

* The film version of ''OverTheHedge'' starts with R.J.'s attempt to get a bag of chips out of a machine. He does get it, eventually.

* In ''SilentMovie'', there's a Coca-Cola machine that has multiple dispensers, and fires the Coke can at high speed out of whichever dispenser you aren't watching.

* In TheMonkees ''{{Head}}'', Micky is staggering through a desert, nearly delirious - he finds a Coke machine out there, drops in a coin...and nothing comes out. As he pounds on it screaming maniacally, the Coke jingle plays merrily on the soundtrack.