History Main / WetCementGag

* "WesternAnimation/DixielandDroopy" has a variation. While fleeing from the owner of a flea circus, John Pettibone a.k.a. Dixieland Droopy rounds a corner and finds himself trying to run through a street freshly paved with tar. Being a Creator/TexAvery cartoon, the Dixieland fleas embedded in John's fur slow their music tempo down as John gets bogged down in the stuff, then speed up their tempo as John gets his HeroicSecondWind at the midpoint. Once free of the tar, John resumes running at full tilt as his fleas play furiously fast.

** On the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon "Homeless Hare", a construction foreman falls into wet cement, completely submerged except for his cigar. The worker smoothing down the cement doesn't notice when he falls, and simply keeps smoothing, plucking out the cigar to smoke it.

** In "It's Hummer Time", a cat trying to catch a hummingbird keeps running afoul of a BullyBulldog who forces him to spin a wheel to decide which humiliating punishment to inflict on him. One of these is The Thinker[[note]][[AnythingButThat No! Not The Thinker!]][[/note]], which involves putting the cat in a cement mixer, then letting him set into the pose of the Rodin sculpture of the same name. In the end the hummingbird tricks both the dog and the cat inside the cement mixer, turning them into a decorative bird bath for him.

* Rookie officer Judy Hopps of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' ends up standing in fresh concrete as Nick Wilde concludes his BreakThemByTalking speech to her. Ironically, she stood on that spot to refute Nick's claims and protest that she's not a "dumb bunny". Once Nick points out that Officer Hopps is standing in newly-poured sidewalk concrete, Judy has no further rebuttal. When she gets home, her feet are still caked in concrete dust.

* Rookie officer Judy Hopps of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' ends up standing in fresh concrete as Nick Wilde concludes his BreakThemBytalking speech to her. Ironically, she stood on that spot to refute Nick's claims and protest that she's not a "dumb bunny". Once Nick points out that Officer Hopps is standing in newly-poured sidewalk concrete, Judy has no further rebuttal.

Related to CementShoes, SheetOfGlass and FruitCart.

* The climax of ''Film/TheFlintstones'' takes place at the quarry where Fred and Cliff's fight causes Cliff’s rock-smashing machine to malfunction, pulverizing the boulders fed to it instead of cutting slabs off. Later, more damage causes a flood of water to wash over the rock dust and gravel, some of which gets poured all over [[spoiler: Cliff, freezing him in place]]. Mr. Slate realizes the potential of this new concoction, names it after his daughter Concretia, and declares the Stone Age over.

* The climax of ''Film/TheFlintstones'' takes place at the quarry where Fred and Cliff's fight destroys the rock-smashing machine, and then a flood of water washes over the sand and gravel, instantly freezing the mixture into a statue [[spoiler: of Cliff]]. Mr. Slate realizes the potential of this new concoction, names it after his daughter Concretia, and declares the Stone Age over.

* "[[WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}} Dixieland Droopy]]": While fleeing from the owner of a flea circus, John Pettibone a.k.a. Dixieland Droopy rounds a corner and finds himself trying to run through wet sidewalk concrete. Being a Creator/TexAvery cartoon, the Dixieland fleas embedded in John's fur slow their music tempo down as John gets bogged down in the stuff, then speed up their tempo as John gets his HeroicSecondWind at the midpoint. Once free of the concrete, John resumes running at full tilt as his fleas play furiously fast.