History Main / StallingTheSip

* A gag similar to the Bugs Bunny one mentioned also turned up in a Columbia cartoon ''Schooner or Later'' (1946), with the same result.

* Happens in season 2 of ''Series/BreakingBad'', after Walt and Jesse have been kidnapped by the psychotic Tuco. During lunch, Walt attempts to poison Tuco's burrito with some poisoned meth. After a particularly tense moment where Walt frantically fold the burrito back up while Tuco's back is turned, Tuco finally gets ready to eat the burrito...when his disabled uncle, who Walt had assumed was senile and not paying attention, begins frantically ringing a bell on his wheelchair. Tuco initially ignores this and almost bites into the burrito again, only for the uncle to ring the bell even more. Finally, Tuco assumes that the uncle ''wants'' the taco, and gives it to him instead.

* In ''Manga/SnowWhiteWithTheRedHair'' a basket full of poisoned apples is delivered to the remote forest home Shirayuki is at while she's fleeing from the setting's version of the evil queen, in this instance a spoiled prince who wanted to forcefully make the fairest woman in the kingdom his concubine. While Shirayuki and Zen consider the apples and accompanying note and ribbon to be a more subtle threat, she picks up one and stares at it while talking with Zen. [[spoiler:In the end it's Zen that takes a bite, causing Shirayuki to return to the corrupt prince to get the antidote for him]].

* A non-liquid example in ''Film/DumbAndDumber''. Harry and Lloyd put lots of very hot peppers on Mental's burger when he is out of his seat. He takes a long time to take a bite when he returns, leading to Harry interrupting the conversation by loudly asking, "how's your burger?" [[spoiler:Ultimately, they make his ulcer flare up...and the protagonists accidentally give him rat poison ([[KarmicDeath the rat poison he was going to give them no less]]) instead of his medication, leading to his death.]] Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/J7L9THry9QM?t=106 here]].
* In ''Film/HailCaesar'', two commies infiltrated the set of "Hail Caesar" as extras and roofied the chalice from which Baird Whitlock (Creator/GeorgeClooney) is supposed to drink in the scene. Whitlock raises his chalice four times but gets interrupted each time much to the commies' disappointment. He finally drinks up and later passes out in his trailer. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/pkJmbpTVvXA here]].
* Before Hubert's duel in ''Film/TheCourtJester'', Hubert and his opponent are supposed to drink a toast to each other. Both Hubert and his opponent know that one of the two cups of wine is poisoned but they are unsure which it is. So they delay choosing glasses and when they finally have to they toast each other by bashing the cups against each other so hard that all the wine spills out.

* ''Film/TheGiantSpiderInvasion'' features an unintentional example. A tarantula crawls into a blender just in time to accidentally become an ingredient in Ev's cocktail. In the conversation that follows, Ev and Dan pass the drink back and forth, neither aware that it's a "spider smoothie". Finally, Ev takes a drink, does a SpitTake, and the scene abruptly ends.
* In ''Film/JohnnyEnglishReborn'', [[BigBad Simon Ambrose]] sends Pamela a [[SlippingAMickey drink laced with a mind-control drug]] [[spoiler: to make her kill the Chinese premiere]]. As she is reading the newspaper, Pamela lifts the drink up to her lips, just about to take a sip, but repeatedly keeps putting the drink down and lifting back up again. Simon, who is watching her from a hidden camera, starts to lose his patience and mutters, "Go on! Go on!". Finally, English breaks into her room in a bodybag saving her from drinking it.

* Subverted in one episode of ''Die Pfefferkörner'', where the kids suspect a guy of trying to poison his neighbor via some chocolate truffles. She delays eating it (due to her pet bird acting up) long enough for the kids to rush in and warn her... except that it turns out the truffles weren't actually poisoned anyway.

* In one ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short, Yosemite Sam poisons Bugs Bunny's drink. Bugs spins the table so that they switch drinks, Sam switches them back and so on. Bugs refuses to drink until Sam drinks his first, so he does. With his trembling hand, Bugs reaches for his glass and downs the drink, then thanks Sam for the delicious drink. It is then that Sam realizes that his was the poisoned drink.
* A gag similar to the Bugs Bunny one mentioned also turned up in a Columbia cartoon ''Schooner or Later'' (1946), with the same result.

* PlayedForLaughs and subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': Kuzco is served the food Yzma had poisoned, but he keeps insulting her instead of eating. Then he finally stops stalling and collapses, only to get better and [[ObliviousTransformation proceed to yammer throughout his transformation]], while Yzma desperately tries to subtly tell Kronk to knock Kuzco out.

* In ''Series/{{House}}'' episode "The Choice", the patient of the week is a man who's started lactating. A sample of it wind sup in the meeting room. House pours some in his coffee, leading to everyone else slowly looking horrified as he gets ever closer to drinking it while giving out his orders... then he tells them to get a move on and disposes of it.

* In the bodice-ripper ''Whisper To Me Of Love'', the heroine has poured out some milk for her cat and stopped to chat with her lover. She's about to drink a glass of milk herself when he suddenly knocks it out of her hand, then points to her cat's dead body, the poor animal poisoned by the very milk she would have drunk had the hero not unknowingly interrupted her. (The backstory on this moment is that she's unaware that she's actually an heiress to a great fortune and title and the villain who wants to keep this a secret has enticed one of the maids to slip the poison into her milk by telling her it's an antidote to a drug that the hero is supposedly giving her)

* In ''The Inspector General'', Danny Kaye [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuU9gtsjzww does an entire song]] while teasing a poisoned drink.

* A non-liquid example in ''Film/DumbAndDumber''. Harry and Lloyd put lots of very hot peppers on Mental's burger when he is out of his seat. He takes a long time to take a bite when he returns, leading to Harry interrupting the conversation by loudly asking, "how's your burger?" [[spoiler:Ultimately, [[DeadlyPrank the peppers trigger a heart attack in Mental and he dies]].]] Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/J7L9THry9QM?t=106 here]].

* PlayedForLaughs and subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': Kuzco is served the food Yzma had poisoned, but he keeps insulting her instead of eating. Then he finally stops stalling and collapses, only to get better and [[ObliviousTransformation proceed to yammer throughout his transformation]], while Yzma desperately tries to subtly tell Kronk to knock Kuzco out.

* In ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'', Kotetsu keeps getting distracted, which frustrates [[spoiler:Maverick]] to no end, who needs Kotetsu to drink the coffee to knock him out so he can [[spoiler: mess with his memories.]]
* In ''Manga/SnowWhiteWithTheRedHair'' a basket full of poisoned apples is delivered to the remote forest home Shirayuki is at while she's fleeing from the settings version of the evil queen, in this instance a spoiled prince who wanted to forcefully make the fairest woman in the kingdom his concubine. While Shirayuki and Zen consider the apples and accompanying note and ribbon to be a more subtle threat she picks up one and stares at it while talking with Zen, [[spoiler:in the end it's Zen that takes a bite causing Shirayuki to return to the corrupt prince to get the antidote for him]].