History Main / ShootingGallery

'''Examples:'''

* ''BattlestarGalactica''. Apollo, Starbuck and Hotdog are seen doing pistol practice, shooting at a target with Sharon's face on it.

* Fittingly, there's two of these at the carnival in ''{{Bully}}''. One is a WildWest setting: targets include bottles (shoot), bandits (shoot), women with their hands up (don't shoot), and a star (shoot for bonus). The other is a baseball throw, with catchers (hit), batters (don't hit), umpires (instant game over), and a big glove (bonus).

* In one of the ''TopGear'' American specials has the guys at one. Amusingly all the targets are shaped like the Stig.

* One episode of ''DannyPhantom'' has Danny practicing with his ectoblasts. The gallery has cut-outs of ghosts and one cut-out of his sister, Jazz. He only hits the ghosts...but hits his sister afterward. Don't worry, it's played for laughs.

* In the {{LooneyTunes}} short ''Satan's Waitin''' in which Sylvester can't stop dying and using up the remainder of his lives trying to kill Tweety at point he wanders onto one of these while trying to catch him, he ends up getting shot multiple times and losing four of his lives.

* ''BattlestarGalactica''. Apollo, Starbuck and Hotdog are seen doing pistol practise, shooting at a target with Sharon's face on it.

* VideoGames can have these for practise, like ''JakAndDaxter 2''.

* The ''MenInBlack'' movie has a trick example: the [=MIBs=] put potential recruits through a shooting gallery full of scary-looking monsters, but the only thing Will Smith's character shoots is a little girl. When questioned by Rip Torn, he points out his logic (the "snarling" monster just has a cold, the one on the streetlight is just exercising, but the little white girl in the projects at the dead of night with quantum physics textbooks must be up to something). Turns out that was the right answer.

If the characters are using one, but the audience isn't told beforehand, it can be a case of TheKobayashiMaru.

*** Also, older video games predating FirstPersonShooters, like ''Prohibition''.

* ''{{The Kenny Everett Video Cassette}}''. In a spoof of the TV series ''{{SWAT}}'', Kenny Everett shoots a pop-up target on a Hogan's Alley range and is congratulated by his fellow officers on his great shooting. After they leave we see a man holding a target stagger out from behind the wall and fall down dead.
* ''{{Hunter}}''. An episode where Hunter and Dee Dee were investigating a mad sniper shooting women had them going to an army range, where they naturally encounter both the standard RedHerring suspect, who shoots all targets innocent or guilty [[TriggerHappy with great enthusiasm]], and his older sergeant who's the real killer. At the end Hunter chases the killer onto the range and activates the targets. The killer reacts to the first couple of targets, so when Hunter appears his reactions are lax enough that he gets shot.

* The ''MenInBlack'' movie has a trick example where Will Smith passes by not being species-ist and shooting all the scary aliens, and shooting little Tiffany the suspicious school girl instead.

* In RiversOfLondon the Folly has one for trainee wizards to practice their fireball skills in. As a mark of just how long it has been since it was put use, all the target silhouettes are still shaped like WW2 Nazis.

* In ''Hex'' #8, JonahHex runs through a shooring gallery where the dummies are firing back with live ammunition in a story entitled, appropriately enough, "The Shooting Gallery".

* ''[[TheAvengers The New Avengers]]'' episode "Target!" features the agency's shooting gallery being used to assassinate agents.

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* DearWendy features a secret underground shooting gallery.

* ''The Kenny Everett Video Cassette''. In a spoof of the TV series ''SWAT'', Kenny Everett shoots a pop-up target on a Hogan's Alley range and is congratulated by his fellow officers on his great shooting. After they leave we see a man holding a target stagger out from behind the wall and fall down dead.
* ''Hunter''. An episode where Hunter and Dee Dee were investigating a mad sniper shooting women had them going to an army range, where they naturally encounter both the standard RedHerring suspect, who shoots all targets innocent or guilty [[TriggerHappy with great enthusiasm]], and his older sergeant who's the real killer. At the end Hunter chases the killer onto the range and activates the targets. The killer reacts to the first couple of targets, so when Hunter appears his reactions are lax enough that he gets shot.

* In the {{LooneyTunes}} short Satan's Waitin' in which Sylvester can't stop dying and using up the remainder of his lives trying to kill Tweety at point he wanders onto one of these while trying to catch him, he ends up getting shot multiple times and losing four of his lives.

* ''{{The Kenny Everett Video Cassette}}''. In a spoof of the TV series ''{{SWAT}}'', Kenny Everett shoots a pop-up target on a Hogan's Alley range and is congratulated by his fellow officers on his great shooting. After they leave we see a man holding a target stagger out from behind the wall and fall down dead.

* ''Series/{{Hunter}}''. An episode where Hunter and Dee Dee were investigating a mad sniper shooting women had them going to an army range, where they naturally encounter both the standard RedHerring suspect, who shoots all targets innocent or guilty [[TriggerHappy with great enthusiasm]], and his older sergeant who's the real killer. At the end Hunter chases the killer onto the range and activates the targets. The killer reacts to the first couple of targets, so when Hunter appears his reactions are lax enough that he gets shot.

** ''Hogan’s Alley''

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* The ''MacGyver'' episode “Halloween Knights� featured a shooting gallery called “Death Row� used by MurderInc organisation H.I.T. to test new recruits.
* ''[[TheAvengers The New Avengers]]'' episode “Target!� features the agency’s shooting gallery being used to assassinate agents.

* The ''MacGyver'' episode “Halloween Knights” featured a shooting gallery called “Death Row” used by MurderInc organisation H.I.T. to test new recruits.
* ''[[TheAvengers The New Avengers]]'' episode “Target!” features the agency’s shooting gallery being used to assassinate agents.

*The ''MenInBlack'' movie has a trick example where Will Smith passes by not being species-ist and shooting all the scary aliens, and shooting little Tiffany the suspicious school girl instead. Well, actually, he completely ignores the aliens and aims for a little girl holding a textbook on advanced physics. And the supervisor clearly does not agree that holding a book far above your apparent reading level makes you immediately suspicious. Ah, Close enough.
** This troper was always under the impression that the supervisor, Zed, was impressed with J's having made the correct deduction. I thought that Zed's grimace came as a result of J's attitude, which was, shall we say, less than respectful.
** Exactly. It was the attitude that annoyed Zed. (Off topic for a moment here- Zed? They were in New York, not Toronto. Why the heck was he not Zee?) Shooting the {{Tykebomb}} ''was'' the correct answer.
*** Probably because "Zee" is pronounced too much like the letter C to be reliably distinguished in a crisis situation. It's the same reason that doctors call an echocardiogram an EKG (the German initials), rather than ECG, which is easily confused with an EEG (= electroencephalogram).
** This troper wonders just how everyone's coming to that conclusion. In the scene afterwards, it was clear to this troper that K has to argue with Zed to let J join ''despite'' his failure on the test. Zed ''very grudgingly'' accepts K's recommendation.
** This troper thought that the correct answer was to shoot little Tiffany because the MIB isn't an agency to kill all aliens they should be looking for suspicious ones. And none of the other people passed the test despite having hit the other aliens. The convincing of Zed/Zee was because of J's attitude. He passed the test but he's going to give us trouble kind of thing.
**This troper thought that to Agent K, this showed that J was good at quickly making up explanations on the spot.
**This troper wonders if maybe the test really was just to assess their aiming ability without anything else to it. It seemed like Zed was impressed by James' ability to think outside the box and to believe that everything might not be as it seemed (which would be hard to find in recuits, and likely necessary for the job along with the physical prowess), as he seemed pretty ticked off before James explained his reasoning. It's possible they were just supposed to hit the aliens (who did look pretty threatening). Thus, he still failed but he was what K was looking for regardless.
** And ''this'' troper assumed that K's criticism was mostly staged for the ''other'' recruits, who'd smugly assumed they were correct to kill all the aliens on sight, only to have that smugness thrown back in their faces when J's explanations were endorsed by Zed himself. The ''movie'' may be all about J, but the M.I.B. ''organization'' isn't: those other recruits needed to be brought down a peg for being trigger-happy.