History Main / SeesawCatapult

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': In the ''Series/ElmosWorld'' episode about Up and Down, Mr. Noodle falls onto both sides of this trope when Elmo asks him how he goes up and down on a seesaw. He first places an ant on one end of the seesaw, and when he gets on the other end, he launches the ant into the air (when he lands, the ant says he's okay). Mr. Noodle then gets Snuffy to push one end of the seesaw with his snuffle while he sits on the other end. At the end of his segment, Mr. Noodle is launched into the air by Snuffy.

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': In a ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' Quickie, Booker and Sheldon want to play on a seesaw, but since they both weigh the same, Orson suggests that they both sit on the same end while he sits one the other end. When Orson sits on his end, Booker and Sheldon slide down to him, wishing they could go up instead of down. Roy then jumps onto the now-empty end and launches all three of them into the air.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':

* A common puzzle element in ''VideoGame/CaptainToadTreasureTracker''. It usually requires the player to shift around other parts of the level so that a heavy object will fall on the opposite end of the seesaw.

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty6'': The "Cashapault" mini-game involves teams of two jumping on a seesaw to get coins floating in mid-air. Each player takes a turn launching their teammate into the air, and the first team to collect all of the coins wins.

* ''Film/TheMuppets'' During the opening song, Walter and his brother Gary are on a see saw and Gary launches Walter to the sky.

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* In ''VideoGame/MarioParty 6'', the "Cashapault" mini-game involves teams of two jumping on a seesaw to get coins floating in mid-air. Each player takes a turn launching their teammate into the air, and the first team to collect all of the coins wins.

* This happens in several of Creator/ChuckJones's ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner'' cartoons, with the teeter-totter being made of stone. The Coyote would either use the teeter-totter rock as part of his scheme or end up falling on it as a result of a scheme. He would be flung into the air when a large rock fell on the other end of the teeter-totter rock. Or when he tried to fling the rock into the air, it would fall on him instead.
** And then there was the time when he tried using one to fling himself across a gorge. The rock was too much for the ledge the other end was on, so it smashed through and turned the catapult into a ramp poor Coyote slid down to his doom.

->"''When you have a fat friend, there are no see-saws; only catapults.''"
-->--Creator/DemetriMartin

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' LicensedGame for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, the boss of the [[LocomotiveLevel Dino Express]] level is a giant condor that stole Betty's ribbon and is using it as a bowtie. He flies above two seesaws with boulders on them. When he is flying above one the seesaws, Fred must jump onto the other end so that the seesaw will launch the boulder into the air and it will hit the condor.