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* ''Film/CominRoundTheMountain'': Done accidentally -- in his act, The Great Wilbert is supposed to hide the key in his mouth so he can spit it out and unlock the chains while behind a curtain. Unfortunately, he gets slapped on the back by Al, resulting in him swallowing it by mistake.
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* On ''Series/{{Intimate}}'', Bruno and Emil join a couple of environmentalists who chain themselves to trees to stop their demolition and then swallow the keys. Emil and Bruno go along with the former but neither wants to do the latter (since they only went along with the group in first place because they were looking for people to invite to a party later that evening). They end up throwing the key to the ground when the others aren't looking.
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* ''Literature/UniversalMonsters'': In book 6, during the first battle in Goldstadt Mansion, the Creature swallows the key to Nina and Angela's cell, in order to make sure the others can't get them out so easily.
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* ''VideoGame/Reincarnation'': Exploited similarly to the example in the [[PlayingWith/SwallowTheKey Playing With]] page. The demon gets the key from a man by powering a magnet with an electric eel, which makes it a ChestBurster. Considering they were in hell, where souls are tortured, it's likely the man was forced to swallow the key to create the need to retrieve it that way.
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* ''VideoGame/Reincarnation'': ''VideoGame/{{Reincarnation}}: Riley's Out Again'': Exploited similarly to the example in the [[PlayingWith/SwallowTheKey Playing With]] page. The demon gets the key from a man by powering a magnet with an electric eel, which makes it a ChestBurster. Considering they were in hell, where souls are tortured, it's likely the man was forced to swallow the key to create the need to retrieve it that way.
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* ''VideoGame/Reincarnation'': Exploited similarly to the example in the [[PlayingWith/SwallowTheKey Playing With]] page. The demon gets the key from a man by powering a magnet with an electric eel, which makes it a ChestBurster. Considering they were in hell, where souls are tortured, it's likely the man was forced to swallow the key to create the need to retrieve it that way.
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* In the second case of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', defendant Damien Tenma swallows the key to the Forbidden Chamber (a room in the crime scene that local folklore says contains a [[SealedEvilInACan sealed youkai]] [[spoiler: and which ACTUALLY contains an enormous hunk of gold that [[GoldFever had previously motivated many deadly conflicts]]]]) immediately upon regaining consciousness at the crime scene. The fact that he does this rather than take any effort to escape suspicion shows just how seriously he takes his duty to keep the room sealed.
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* In the second case of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', defendant Damien Tenma swallows the key to the Forbidden Chamber (a room in the crime scene that local folklore says contains a [[SealedEvilInACan sealed youkai]] [[spoiler: and which ACTUALLY contains an enormous hunk of gold that [[GoldFever had previously motivated many deadly conflicts]]]]) immediately upon regaining consciousness at the crime scene. The fact that he does this rather than take any effort to escape suspicion shows just how seriously he takes his duty to keep the room sealed.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs2021'': In "Mommy's Masterpiece", Gargamel locks Papa Smurf and Smurfette in a cage and then drops the key into his mouth (though he doesn't swallow it), clearly intending to keep them locked up. His mom isn't having any of this and shakes him upside-down to force him to spit it back out.
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* ''Film/{{Mirage}}'' (1990) had the killer swallow the keys to his truck so the FinalGirl couldn't drive away from him. Since they are in the middle of desert, getting them out of him is necessary.
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* ''Film/{{Mirage}}'' ''Film/{{Mirage|1990}}'' (1990) had the killer swallow the keys to his truck so the FinalGirl couldn't drive away from him. Since they are in the middle of desert, getting them out of him is necessary.
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* ''Mirage'' (1990) had the killer swallow the keys to his truck so the FinalGirl couldn't drive away from him. Since they are in the middle of desert, getting them out of him is necessary.
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* ''Mirage'' ''Film/{{Mirage}}'' (1990) had the killer swallow the keys to his truck so the FinalGirl couldn't drive away from him. Since they are in the middle of desert, getting them out of him is necessary.
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* In ''Film/SurfNinjas'', the heroes lock Lt. Spence up with his own handcuffs on the boat to Patusan. When they ask where he got the key, he mentioned that he swallowed it on Tuesday. When asked how he knew that he was going to need it, he states simply that [[ButForMeItWasTuesday he swallows it EVERY Tuesday]].
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* In one ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon where they were doing their take on ''RobinHood'', Tom swallowed the key that went to Robin's cell.
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* In one ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon where they were doing their take on ''RobinHood'', ''Myth/RobinHood'', Tom swallowed the key that went to Robin's cell.
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* ''VideoGame/StayTooned'': In the Malt shop room, Pixel and Chisel mention tricking Fiddle into swallowing one of the [[PlotCoupon apartment keys]]. To get it back, the player has to feed Fiddle more and more food until he explodes, ''destroying the diner'' in the process.
-->'''Chisel''' (to Pixel): [[WordSchmord Brilliant, schmilliant!]] Anybody would've thought of putting a ''key'' into a ''lime pie''!
-->'''Chisel''' (to Pixel): [[WordSchmord Brilliant, schmilliant!]] Anybody would've thought of putting a ''key'' into a ''lime pie''!
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* In the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon "Trick or Treat", Don locks away all his Halloween candy in a closet and swallows the key. Witch Hazel then casts a spell on Donald's feet so that they kick out the key. (He then kicks the key under the door of the closet, annoying Hazel even more, who increases the spell's potency so his feet make him ram the door down.)
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* In the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon "Trick "[[WesternAnimation/TrickOrTreatDisney Trick or Treat", Treat]]", Don locks away all his Halloween candy in a closet and swallows the key. Witch Hazel then casts a spell on Donald's feet so that they kick out the key. (He then kicks the key under the door of the closet, annoying Hazel even more, who increases the spell's potency so his feet make him ram the door down.)
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* ''Manga/YuGiOh'':
** A character in the manga does this as part of his hereditary Human Vault job; he can retrieve it easily if he has to. It's one of the many NightmareFuel moments if you think about how he'd have been prepared for the role.
** Mokuba does this as well, hence his Duelist Kingdom kidnapping in the manga. He claims the Big Five watched him every time he went to the bathroom, hoping it would pass. Eventually, they use an X-ray to scan his stomach and make a copy (why then never considered laxatives isn't clear) but when Yugi defeats Pegasus, this becomes redundant. (In the anime, he hides the key in his locket instead).
** A character in the manga does this as part of his hereditary Human Vault job; he can retrieve it easily if he has to. It's one of the many NightmareFuel moments if you think about how he'd have been prepared for the role.
** Mokuba does this as well, hence his Duelist Kingdom kidnapping in the manga. He claims the Big Five watched him every time he went to the bathroom, hoping it would pass. Eventually, they use an X-ray to scan his stomach and make a copy (why then never considered laxatives isn't clear) but when Yugi defeats Pegasus, this becomes redundant. (In the anime, he hides the key in his locket instead).
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* ''Manga/YuGiOh'':
''Anime/YuGiOh'':
** A character in [[Manga/YuGiOh themanga manga]] does this as part of his hereditary Human Vault job; he can retrieve it easily if he has to. It's one of the many NightmareFuel moments if you think about how he'd have been prepared for the role.
** Mokuba does this as well, hence his Duelist Kingdom kidnapping in the manga. He claims the Big Five watched him every time he went to the bathroom, hoping it would pass. Eventually, they use an X-ray to scan his stomach and make a copy(why then never considered laxatives isn't clear) but when Yugi defeats Pegasus, this becomes redundant. (In the anime, he hides the key in his locket instead).
** A character in [[Manga/YuGiOh the
** Mokuba does this as well, hence his Duelist Kingdom kidnapping in the manga. He claims the Big Five watched him every time he went to the bathroom, hoping it would pass. Eventually, they use an X-ray to scan his stomach and make a copy
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* In ''Literature/JoeyPigzaSwallowedTheKey'', this is done by the titular character entirely by accident: he suffers from ADHD and develops a habit of putting the key in his mouth and then using the string attached to it to pull it back out just before he swallows it. When his exasperated teacher removes the key from its string to discourage this, he still unthinkingly puts the key in his mouth and since there's no string to retrieve it this time...
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* In ''Literature/JoeyPigzaSwallowedTheKey'', this is done by the titular character entirely by accident: he suffers from ADHD and develops a habit of putting the key in his mouth and then using the string attached to it to pull it back out just before he swallows it. When his exasperated teacher removes the key from its string to discourage this, he still unthinkingly puts the key in his mouth and since there's no string to retrieve it this time...time.
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* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': an ex-champion turned DeathSeeker does this to ensure a demon will kill him to get it back; he's actually hidden it in a thermos of coffee, so the demon won't get what he wants.
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* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': an An ex-champion turned DeathSeeker does this to ensure a demon will kill him to get it back; he's actually hidden it in a thermos of coffee, so the demon won't get what he wants.
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* In ''{{Series/Jekyll}}'', there's a scene where Claire swallows the key keeping Hyde locked up. (In this case, it turns out she didn't actually go through with the swallowing, and the key stayed hidden in her mouth.)
* Played with in ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'': in the episode "Jungle", Bob Fossil eats a key, slowly biting bits off it and chewing them.
* Played with in ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'': in the episode "Jungle", Bob Fossil eats a key, slowly biting bits off it and chewing them.
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* In ''{{Series/Jekyll}}'', ''Series/{{Jekyll}}'', there's a scene where Claire swallows the key keeping Hyde locked up. (In this case, it turns out she didn't actually go through with the swallowing, and the key stayed hidden in her mouth.)
* Played with in''Series/TheMightyBoosh'': in ''Series/TheMightyBoosh''. In the episode "Jungle", Bob Fossil eats a key, slowly biting bits off it and chewing them.them.
* ''Series/{{Moon Knight|2022}}'': Ammit's ushabti is hidden inside Alexander the Great's throat, which Steven reasons was a safety measure against thieves, since they would be more likely to pilfer the valuables than tear apart the corpse looking for a specific item.
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* ''Series/{{Moon Knight|2022}}'': Ammit's ushabti is hidden inside Alexander the Great's throat, which Steven reasons was a safety measure against thieves, since they would be more likely to pilfer the valuables than tear apart the corpse looking for a specific item.
* ''VideoGame/DragonsLair'': Parodied in the Re-Cut edition, the first time Dirk grabs the key, he places it in a teacup and drinks it.
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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': Big Baba's first appearance is in the Forest Temple, where it swallows a key to a monkey's cage to prevent Link from freeing it. Link just defeats the head, but not the bud area, which serves as the main body and where they key is kept in. Link needs to use a Bombling to destroy the bud in order for the beast to cough up the key.
* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'':
** In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'', Luigi has to deal with the playful yet mischievous Polterpup, who eats the items he needs to progress in [[RuleofThree three different levels]]. Each level ends with Luigi finally capturing Polterpup after traversing the entire area and chasing the dog throughout said area. The first two times, Polterpup manages to escape captivity, thus setting up his additional appearances, but after the third time, Luigi gets the dog sealed up for good.
** In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'':
*** Luigi is haunted twice over by Polterkitty, who pops out of the elevator control panel with the button he just tried to install, subsequently swallowing it whole and forcing him to chase after it. It gets away via detachable tails, but it only has so many of those. No need to ask why he doesn't try to use the elevator anyway; even if the hotel wasn't haunted, Luigi's a plumber, not an electrician.
*** One of the elevator buttons also repeatedly gets stolen and swallowed by some of the rats around the hotel, though they're considerably easier to deal with compared to Polterkitty.
* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'':
** In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'', Luigi has to deal with the playful yet mischievous Polterpup, who eats the items he needs to progress in [[RuleofThree three different levels]]. Each level ends with Luigi finally capturing Polterpup after traversing the entire area and chasing the dog throughout said area. The first two times, Polterpup manages to escape captivity, thus setting up his additional appearances, but after the third time, Luigi gets the dog sealed up for good.
** In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'':
*** Luigi is haunted twice over by Polterkitty, who pops out of the elevator control panel with the button he just tried to install, subsequently swallowing it whole and forcing him to chase after it. It gets away via detachable tails, but it only has so many of those. No need to ask why he doesn't try to use the elevator anyway; even if the hotel wasn't haunted, Luigi's a plumber, not an electrician.
*** One of the elevator buttons also repeatedly gets stolen and swallowed by some of the rats around the hotel, though they're considerably easier to deal with compared to Polterkitty.
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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': Big Baba's first appearance is in the Forest Temple, where it swallows a key to a monkey's cage to prevent Link from freeing it. Link just defeats the head, but not the bud area, which serves as the main body and where they the key is kept in. Link needs to use a Bombling to destroy the bud in order for the beast to cough up the key.
* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'':
** In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'', Luigi has to deal with the playful yet mischievous Polterpup, who eats the items he needs to progress in [[RuleofThree three different levels]]. Each level ends with Luigi finally capturing Polterpup after traversing the entire area and chasing the dog throughout said area. The first two times, Polterpup manages to escape captivity, thus setting up his additional appearances, but after the third time, Luigi gets the dog sealed up for good.
** In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'':
*** Luigi is haunted twice over by Polterkitty, who pops out of the elevator control panel with the button he just tried to install, subsequently swallowing it whole and forcing him to chase after it. It gets away via detachable tails, but it only has so many of those. No need to ask why he doesn't try to use the elevator anyway; even if the hotel wasn't haunted, Luigi's a plumber, not an electrician.
*** One of the elevator buttons also repeatedly gets stolen and swallowed by some of the rats around the hotel, though they're considerably easier to deal with compared to Polterkitty.key.
* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'':
** In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'', Luigi has to deal with the playful yet mischievous Polterpup, who eats the items he needs to progress in [[RuleofThree three different levels]]. Each level ends with Luigi finally capturing Polterpup after traversing the entire area and chasing the dog throughout said area. The first two times, Polterpup manages to escape captivity, thus setting up his additional appearances, but after the third time, Luigi gets the dog sealed up for good.
** In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'':
*** Luigi is haunted twice over by Polterkitty, who pops out of the elevator control panel with the button he just tried to install, subsequently swallowing it whole and forcing him to chase after it. It gets away via detachable tails, but it only has so many of those. No need to ask why he doesn't try to use the elevator anyway; even if the hotel wasn't haunted, Luigi's a plumber, not an electrician.
*** One of the elevator buttons also repeatedly gets stolen and swallowed by some of the rats around the hotel, though they're considerably easier to deal with compared to Polterkitty.
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* ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': The Bowser minigame Tunnel of Lava! begins as a Mechakoopa eats a key, then leaves and returns with other 15 Mechakoopas; the solo player has to proceed to defeat them, as one of them is the one which has the key that opens the exit door. The problem is that some of them begin to breathe fire, and touching it will stun the player, wasting precious time (and the limit is only 30 seconds). The Mechakoopas will also march in a rotating pattern, making the timing to stomp them more difficult. Luckily, as soon as the player stomps the Mechakoopa that ate the key, the minigame ends succesfully.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionSeries'':
*** In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'', Luigi has to deal with the playful yet mischievous Polterpup, who eats the items he needs to progress in [[RuleofThree three different levels]]. Each level ends with Luigi finally capturing Polterpup after traversing the entire area and chasing the dog throughout said area. The first two times, Polterpup manages to escape captivity, thus setting up his additional appearances, but after the third time, Luigi gets the dog sealed up for good.
*** In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'':
**** Luigi is haunted twice over by Polterkitty, who pops out of the elevator control panel with the button he just tried to install, subsequently swallowing it whole and forcing him to chase after it. It gets away via detachable tails, but it only has so many of those. No need to ask why he doesn't try to use the elevator anyway; even if the hotel wasn't haunted, Luigi's a plumber, not an electrician.
**** One of the elevator buttons also repeatedly gets stolen and swallowed by some of the rats around the hotel, though they're considerably easier to deal with compared to Polterkitty.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': The Bowser minigame Tunnel of Lava! begins as a Mechakoopa eats a key, then leaves and returns with other 15 Mechakoopas; the solo player has to proceed to defeat them, as one of them is the one which has the key that opens the exit door. The problem is that some of them begin to breathe fire, and touching it will stun the player, wasting precious time (and the limit is only 30 seconds). The Mechakoopas will also march in a rotating pattern, making the timing to stomp them more difficult. Luckily, as soon as the player stomps the Mechakoopa that ate the key, the minigame ends successfully.
** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionSeries'':
*** In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'', Luigi has to deal with the playful yet mischievous Polterpup, who eats the items he needs to progress in [[RuleofThree three different levels]]. Each level ends with Luigi finally capturing Polterpup after traversing the entire area and chasing the dog throughout said area. The first two times, Polterpup manages to escape captivity, thus setting up his additional appearances, but after the third time, Luigi gets the dog sealed up for good.
*** In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'':
**** Luigi is haunted twice over by Polterkitty, who pops out of the elevator control panel with the button he just tried to install, subsequently swallowing it whole and forcing him to chase after it. It gets away via detachable tails, but it only has so many of those. No need to ask why he doesn't try to use the elevator anyway; even if the hotel wasn't haunted, Luigi's a plumber, not an electrician.
**** One of the elevator buttons also repeatedly gets stolen and swallowed by some of the rats around the hotel, though they're considerably easier to deal with compared to Polterkitty.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': The Bowser minigame Tunnel of Lava! begins as a Mechakoopa eats a key, then leaves and returns with other 15 Mechakoopas; the solo player has to proceed to defeat them, as one of them is the one which has the key that opens the exit door. The problem is that some of them begin to breathe fire, and touching it will stun the player, wasting precious time (and the limit is only 30 seconds). The Mechakoopas will also march in a rotating pattern, making the timing to stomp them more difficult. Luckily, as soon as the player stomps the Mechakoopa that ate the key, the minigame ends successfully.
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* The Professor in ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' did this with the spaceship keys to stop anyone from wasting fuel, only to "recover" them the next day.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "Bethic Twinstinct", after Rick hides the Venusian wine in his secret stash, he drops the stash's remote into the kitchen sink garbage disposal.
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* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': Big Baba's first appearance is in the Forest Temple, where it swallows a key to a monkey's cage to prevent Link from freeing it. Link just defeats the head, but not the bud area, which serves as the main body and where they key is kept in. Link needs to use a Bombling to destroy the bud in order for the beast to cough up the key.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': Big Baba's first appearance is in the Forest Temple, where it swallows a key to a monkey's cage to prevent Link from freeing it. Link just defeats the head, but not the bud area, which serves as the main body and where they key is kept in. Link needs to use a Bombling to destroy the bud in order for the beast to cough up the key.
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* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
**''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': Big Baba's first appearance is in the Forest Temple, where it swallows a key to a monkey's cage to prevent Link from freeing it. Link just defeats the head, but not the bud area, which serves as the main body and where they key is kept in. Link needs to use a Bombling to destroy the bud in order for the beast to cough up the key.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', Jack swallows the key that locks the box where the magic beans are kept.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots2011'', Jack swallows the key that locks the box where the magic beans are kept.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Orphanimo}}'': In the third album, Vic tries to lure a cop named Andrea to their house so they can prove it really is on a pat suspended on sewer pipes. To force her to come along, he handcuffs himself to her and initially pretends to swallow the key while actually keeping it hidden in his mouth, but in the heat of the action he does accidentally swallow it. The story ends with Vic [[ToiletHumor having to retreat to the bathroom]] while still handcuffed to Andrea.
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-->'''Bob''': "I'm gonna swallow the key!" *attempts to swallow it, then spits it out* "Wait, that's impossible. How do people do that in movies?"\\movies?"
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->'''Bob''': "I'm gonna swallow the key!" *attempts to swallow it, then spits it out* "Wait, that's impossible. How do people do that in movies?"movies?"\\
