History Main / SmugglingWithDolls

Dolls and stuffed animals are often used as a symbol of childhood innocence, at least when they're not [[CreepyDoll being creepy]]. So, who would suspect that the innocent little dolly, often in the hands of a child, has something less than savory in it that someone wants to slip under the watchful eyes of a higher authority? It might be stolen gems, illegal drugs, spy information, or other secrets that someone hopes everyone else will overlook; after all, what could possibly be dangerous about a cuddly teddy bear?

* In ''VideoGame/DieAnstalt'', [[spoiler:Sly the Snake]] is revealed to have drugs stuffed in his tail by smugglers, which is giving him psychosis.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' online has one scene for one of the heists where the players deliver a truck of action figures with cocaine inside them to... surprise! Trevor; one of the main anti-heroes from the campaign. [[{{PsychopathicManChild}} Naturally]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7RsVC_yYDo&feature=youtu.be&t=477 he plays with them.]]

* ''Series/{{Castle}}''

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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': The team realizes that their BodyOfTheWeek hid evidence inside a collectible doll they found when Castle bought the contents of her storage unit at auction and gifted to Captain Gates. Cue Castle [[DestructiveSavior bursting into Gates's office and smashing the doll]]... and finding nothing, because it was ''Gates's'' doll that she brought from home. So he smashes the other doll, too, and finds a USB drive.

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* During the American Civil War, a doll named [[https://acwm.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/E10765AF-52FB-4CAC-AA4F-648033369009 Lucy Ann]] was used to smuggle quinine (a medicine used to treat malaria) to Confederate soldiers, using a hollow pocket in her head. She currently resides in the American Civil War Museum.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Mentioned in "The Thin White Line", in which Brian becomes a drug-sniffing dog. Although not seen directly, he comes home from work one day and gives a furious speech about the fact that he caught a man hiding drugs in his daughter's doll. O-One day, you see your reflection
-->'''Lois:''' So... how was your day?
-->'''Brian:''' My day? Un-''freakin'''-believable! F-First, we nail this bastard who had the gall to hide his stuff in his daughter's doll--''her DOLL, for God's sake!'' ''(takes a smoke)'' Oh, were's the line anymore? Well, I have news for you! I-I-It's not even on the radar screen! The days of decency and virtue are ''gone'', honey! BAM! Freakin' evaporated like a dingy, stinkin' mud puddle! O-One day, y-you s-s-you see your reflection in it, and the next day, i-it's a... it's a damn oil spot on your cracked driveway, staring back at you, ''mocking'' you -- ''blah, blah, blah'' -- knowing the perverted truth will rot in the pit of your soul! ''That's'' how my freakin' day was!

* During the American Civil War, a doll named [[https://acwm.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/E10765AF-52FB-4CAC-AA4F-648033369009 Lucy Ann]], who had a hollow head and shoulders, was used to smuggle quinine (a medicine used to treat malaria) to Confederate soldiers. She currently resides in the American Civil War Museum.

* One of the artifacts in the American Civil War Museum is a doll named [[https://acwm.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/E10765AF-52FB-4CAC-AA4F-648033369009 Lucy Ann]]. Her head is hollow and was used to smuggle quinine (a medicine used to treat malaria) to Confederate soldiers.

* Seen in this PublicServiceAnnouncement [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9i0MSSx9pA "Soft Toy"]], cautioning against taking anything into or out of a country for someone else.

* On ''Series/{{Blindspot}}'', the team discusses this when they seize a bunch of dolls from the hideout of a notorious smuggler. They run tests on the dolls to determine if there is anything hidden inside and then start testing the material the dolls are made off. Unfortunately, it turns out that [[spoiler: the dolls contain a deadly bioweapon that kills the person doing the testing]].

** The murder victim in "[[spoiler: Montreal]]" found out that [[spoiler: someone at his toy company was smuggling drugs in the same kind of dolls his late dog liked to chew on and went undercover at his warehouse to find who it was, leading to his murder]].

* ''Film/{{Traffic}}'' takes this to the logical extreme when the drug lord's wife, left running the empire after the drug lord is arrested, hits on a clever way of smuggling cocaine across the border: ''make dolls out of cocaine''.

* In ''Film/AntmanAndTheWasp'', Scott's daughter Cassie buys him a "World's Best Grandma" trophy as a symbol of innocence and love. Scott genuinely loves it, but decides to hide the original Ant-Man shrinking suit inside the base to prevent it from being found by the feds while he's under house arrest. However, the need to recover the suit comes up when Cassie takes the trophy to school for show and tell day.

** Lupin himself does this in ''Anime/FarewellToNostradamus'', hiding a diamond he stole in a dolly that later gets taken itself by a bratty little girl on an airplane. Taking things UpToEleven, then the girl gets kidnapped with the doll, so Lupin is forced getting involved with a larger plot to rescue both.

* In the FanFilm ''Film/ImperialMilitaryPersonnelStories'', the Railrunners shoot down the ''Millenium Falcon'' only to find they're [[DisproportionateRetribution smuggling a crateload of kids toys]].