History Main / StickySituation

** In the episode "Goodbye Island", the group accidentally discover a new glue when they attempt to use the sap of a local tree to create pancake syrup. They then try to use it to repair their boat. [[HilarityEnsues Very clumsily, of course.]]

* In ''Film/HoneyWeShrunkOurselves'', the direct-to-video sequel of ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'', Wayne manages to accidentally shrink himself, his brother, and their wives to the size of cockroaches. Of course, they end up fleeing from a real cockroach into a Roach Motel-like glue trap. [[MadScientist Wayne]] has made a hobby of disassembling these traps for [[ForScience some reason]], and knows there's a clear path through which they can safely pass to the other side. His wife, freaking out over being attacked by a giant cockroach, manages to step in the glue and get stuck, with the cockroach biting at her, until [[BigDamnHeroes Wayne comes back and pulls her free]].

->''"Hmmm... tree sap. Very sticky. Better not get on me. Too late."''

* Alice from ''Anime/AlicesAdventuresInWonderlandJP'' becomes stuck when crossing a chessboard that has been covered in honey.

* ''WesternAnimation/JacktheExplorer'' literally has an episode titled "Sticky Situation" in which the entire second half of the episode involves Niko being glued to Chip and Rocket and Sam and Yoko also having their hands glued together. As Jack tries to make a substance capable of freeing them while miniturized, he ends up accidently gluing his cheek and hand to a jar of peanut butter and gets dangerously close to being caught by the adults. All of them have to work together to make the substance and just barely manage to do it without any of the adults finding out.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS4EP9 Stray Bullet]]", the girls get their feet stuck on flypaper that Mojo Jojo laid out as a trap.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'':

** In the episode "Stuck On Smurfs", Gargamel casts a spell that causes the Smurfs to get stuck to each other, which Papa Smurf uses to his advantage by having the stuck Smurfs stick on Gargamel, forcing him to come up with a counter-spell that frees him and all the other Smurfs. They then trap Gargamel in an actual glue trap.
** In "Shamrock Smurfs", Brainy sets up a glue trap for a leprechaun but ends up trapping the other smurfs.
** In "The Smurfs That Time Forgot", the smurfs get stuck in a tar pit.
** In "Hefty's Heart", Gargamel traps the smurfs on the table by using glue.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' episode "Stuck on You", Baloo and Don Karnage are stuck together by a very sticky glue. They had to work together to retrieve the solvent before the glue will set permanently.

* The ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' episode "Fractured" has a minor villain getting hold of some RealityWarper powers, and Raven, having been knocked into the ocean, can't fly out because the water has turned into glue.

* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': In "A Super Recipe," the wombats are making cornbread. The first ingredient in making cornbread is honey. The wombats all stick their hands into the honey jar, but they mess up the cookbook and get stuck to it because of how sloppily they ate the honey.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Powerpuff Girls|1998}}'': In "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS4EP9 Stray Bullet]]", the girls get their feet stuck on flypaper that Mojo Jojo laid out as a trap.

* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': In Season 5, the B-Squad remaining on Etheria are lured to the village of Elberon to fend off a supposed Horde invasion, but they find only [[MindManipulation villagers who are acting strangely]] versus their previous appearance on the show. The villagers eventually ambush them, and the B-Squad must [[NeverHurtAnInnocent fend them off without harming them]]. King Micah, a powerful mage, uses a spell to create a purple goo that traps a large group of the villagers to the ground during this non-lethal battle.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Lost Our Lisa", Bart decides to glue some novelty items to his face with industrial strength adhesive. Eventually Dr. Hibbert removes the items by [[spoiler:making Bart sweat, as apparently human sweat is great at dissolving glue]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'':

*** There is also Gaston's "non-freezing ice-cream", which proves extremely stingy and sticky. Its first appearance leads to involuntary BuidlingSwing for Gaston (really). At the end of the album, Gaston accidentally entangles a pickpocket in an alley with it. And then the two cops trying to arrest the thief end up hopelessly entangled alongside by the sticky stuff.

* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Gaston has once a DreamSequence where he uses an old WWII bomber against a whaler boat -- dropping a ''glue'' bomb of his invention on the crew, leaving them stuck together and unable to hunt any whale, to be freed at the end of the hunting season.

* ''AesopsFables'': In "The Flies and the Honeypot," a swarm of flies comes across a spilled honey pot and refuse to leave until there's not a single drop left. While they're eating, the honey gets stuck to their feet and wings, preventing them from flying away. They lament how stupid they were, throwing away their lives for a delicious treat.

* The StickyBomb was a real Ally weapon in WWII. It resembled a German stick grenade but with the end coated in glue, to be tossed on the weak parts of enemy tanks. Pulling the pin would pop the end off, revealing the sticky end and arming the device, and having one where the glue leaked onto the handle was a ''very'' real possibility. The fact that it was very swiftly replaced by the PIAT (Projectile Infantry Anti-Tank, a type of weapon that used an extremely powerful spring to launch an anti-tank grenade). The fact that despite the PIAT's brutally punishing recoil and other drawbacks it was swiftly adopted as a replacement to the sticky grenade by British troops should tell just how dangerous they were to the user.

* The StickyBomb was a real ally weapon in WWII. It resembled a German stick grenade but with the end coated in glue, to be tossed on the weak parts of enemy tanks. Pulling the pin would pop the end off, revealing the sticky end and arming the device, and having one where the glue leaked onto the handle was a ''very'' real possibility.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Uvo manages to trick Diana and Steve into walking right into a "Magnetic Glazite" wall which they stick to and can do nothing to escape until Di tricks Uvo into shooting it, which disables the power to it and lets them drop to the floor.

* One of the monsters in ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' was King Cobra; a giant snake that was able to spit a glue-like substance from its mouth. It used this to capture multiple people, including briefly the H.E.A.T team, before been defeated by Godzilla while H.E.A.T and the JSDF created a chemical to free the captured humans from the glue.
** King Cobra would survive its fight with Godzilla and later appear in the "Monster Wars" trilogy - been mind-controlled and sent to Paris as part of the Tachyon's plan to conquer Earth, with the snake again using its glue spit on the French soldiers who attacked it.

* Alice from ''[[Anime/AlicesAdventuresInWonderlandJP Alice in Wonderland]]'' (1983) becomes stuck when crossing a chessboard that has been covered in honey.

** The Trapster, a.k.a. [[OldShame Paste Pot Pete]] centers his whole shtick around this trope. In one case he made a ''stairway'' out of glue to flee a building, daring Spider-Man to follow, who simply swung ''over'' the trap with his webbing.

* Two ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' books (''The Calculus Affair'' and ''Flight 714'') feature a line of people in succession trying to flick a strip of sticking plaster off their hand. Whenever they succeed, it flies onto the next person, and so on.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Uvo manages to trick Diana and Steve into walking right into a "Magnetic Glazite" wall which they stick to and can do nothing to escape until Di tricks Uvo into shooting it, which disables the power to it and lets them drop to the floor.

* StickySituation: Glue-Gun, who is [[ButtMonkey regarded as a joke]] by the entire superhero community. The ''only'' time he appears in a story is to be laughed at.

%%* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' has an {{Expy}} of the Trapster called Glue Gun.%%Zero-context example.

* WesternAnimation/WonderPets: In "Save The Duckling!," Ming-Ming decides to save a baby squirrel on her own, but it did not need saving, so she goes home since it is gonna rain, but gets covered in tree sap, as shown on the quote above and gets stuck on the schoolhouse roof.

* WesternAnimation/WonderPets: In ¨Save The Duckling!,¨; Ming-Ming decides to save a baby squirrel on her own, but it did not need saving, so she goes home since it is gonna rain, but gets covered in tree sap, as shown on the quote above and gets stuck on the schoolhouse roof.

* WesternAnimation/WonderPets¨´´: In ¨Save The Duckling!,¨ Ming-Ming decides to save a baby squirrel on her own, but it did not need saving, so she goes home since it is gonna rain, but gets covered in tree sap, as shown on the quote above and gets stuck on the schoolhouse roof.

* WesternAnimation/WonderPets¨´´: In ´´Save The Duckling!, Ming-Ming decides to save a baby squirrel on her own, but it did not need saving, so she goes home since it is gonna rain, but gets covered in tree sap, as shown on the quote above and gets stuck on the schoolhouse roof.

* ;WesternAnimation/WonderPets¨´´: In ´´Save The Duckling!´´,¨ Ming-Ming decides to save a baby squirrel on her own, but it did not need saving, so she goes home since it is gonna rain, but gets covered in tree sap, as shown on the quote above and gets stuck on the schoolhouse roof.

* ´&acute´´´WesternAnimation/WonderPets¨´´: In ´´Save The Duckling!´´,¨ Ming-Ming decides to save a baby squirrel on her own, but it did not need saving, so she goes home since it is gonna rain, but gets covered in tree sap, as shown on the quote above and gets stuck on the schoolhouse roof.

* ´&acute´´WesternAnimation/WonderPets´´: In &uml ´´Save The Duckling!´´,¨ Ming-Ming decides to save a baby squirrel on her own, but it did not need saving, so she goes home since it is gonna rain, but gets covered in tree sap, as shown on the quote above and gets stuck on the schoolhouse roof.

* ´&acuteWesternAnimation/WonderPets: In &uml ´´Save The Duckling!´´,¨ Ming-Ming decides to save a baby squirrel on her own, but it did not need saving, so she goes home since it is gonna rain, but gets covered in tree sap, as shown on the quote above and gets stuck on the schoolhouse roof.

* ´´WesternAnimation/WonderPets: In ¨Save The Duckling!,¨ Ming-Ming decides to save a baby squirrel on her own, but it did not need saving, so she goes home since it is gonna rain, but gets covered in tree sap, as shown on the quote above and gets stuck on the schoolhouse roof.

* ´´WesternAnimation/WonderPets : In ¨Save The Duckling!,¨ Ming-Ming decides to save a baby squirrel on her own, but it did not need saving, so she goes home since it is gonna rain, but gets covered in tree sap, as shown on the quote above and gets stuck on the schoolhouse roof.

* ´´WesternAnimation/WonderPets : In ¨Save The Duckling!,¨ Ming-Ming decides to save a baby squirrel on her own, but it did not need saving, so she goes home since it is gonna rain, but gets covered in tree sap,as shown on the quote above and gets stuck on the schoolhouse roof.