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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatNorth'': In "Judy Presents: The Staircake", Ham is competing in a baking competition in New Fork and needs to transport his large, elaborate cake there. The family rents a double-decker tour bus to deliver the cake and all tag along for the trip, though most have their own reasons for tagging along: Wolf and Honeybee plan to attend a Shrek-themed party, Aunt Dirt is out for revenge on an old rival, Moon wants to visit a fireworks shop along the way, and Judy is more interested in making a drama-filled documentary. Complicating matters further, Beef stays up all night watching a reality show and is too tired to drive, while Wolf and Honeybee are dressed in bulky, elaborate Shrek costumes, making them useless to stabilize the cake or do much of anything (forcing Ham to drive the bus himself), Moon diverts the bus down a dangerous road to get to the fireworks shop, and the bus turns out to be infested with muskrats, which get loose and cause chaos, leading to the bus crashing into the fireworks shop and both the bus and the cake getting wrecked. After Ham loses his temper and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech let's his family have it]], they sacrifice their prized possessions to buy a sled to transport the cake, which they repair by packing it with dirt (reasoning that the judges never taste the outside of the cake), and pull the sled to New Fork themselves.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatNorth'': In "Judy Presents: Tge Staircake", Ham is competing in a baking competition in New Fork and needs to transport his large, elaborate cake there. The family rents a double-decker tour bus to deliver the cake and all tag along for the trip, though most have their own reasons for tagging along: Wolf and Honeybee plan to attend a Shrek-themed party, Aunt Dirt is out for revenge on an old rival, Moon wants to visit a fireworks shop along the way, and Judy is more interested in making a drama-filled documentary. Complicating matters further, Beef stays up all night watching a reality show and is too tired to drive, while Wolf and Honeybee are dressed in bulky, elaborate Shrek costumes, making them useless to stabilize the cake or do much of anything (forcing Ham to drive the bus himself), Moon diverts the bus down a dangerous road to get to the fireworks shop, and the bus turns out to be infested with muskrats, which get loose and cause chaos, leading to the bus crashing into the fireworks shop and both the bus and the cake getting wrecked. After Ham loses his temper and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech let's his family have it]], they sacrifice their prized possessions to buy a sled to transport the cake, which they repair by packing it with dirt (reasoning that the judges never taste the outside of the cake), and pull the sled to New Fork themselves.

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** Sally Cruikshank animated two segments about creatures called zerkels. One of them, Jake, accidentally dropped a cake he made into the water while trying to carrying it across a lake on stepping stones.

* In the first season of ''Series/SesameStreet'', there was a series of "Song of _____ " skits, each devoted to a different number from 1-10 and showing various items in groupings of that number. The "Song of Eight", for instance, would show eight blocks, then eight clocks, eight puppets, etc. Each of these vignettes would climax with stuntman Alex Stevens (often erroneously credited as Creator/JimHenson, who simply dubbed his voice) as a white-hatted baker attempting to descend a staircase with a given number of cakes, pies, puddings, etc., then tripping and falling to the bottom in a messy heap.
-->'''Chorus of Children:''' And that's/The fall/Of eight

* ''Film/DennisTheMenace Strikes Again'' begins on Mr. Wilson's birthday. Dennis and his many pets visit Mr. Wilson, causing Mr. Wilson to roll down the stairs in Dennis' wagon. When Mrs. Wilson comes to see her husband, carrying his birthday cake, she gets spooked by Dennis' pet lizard and tosses the cake in the air, where [[PieInTheFace it lands on Mr. Wilson's face]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has an entire episode devoted to this in "The Other Tarts".

* The main story of the 2007 ''Marvel Holiday Special'' ("A Piece Of Cake") features [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]] trying to get a cake to Aunt May's Christmas party. Apparently he does this every year, and has never managed to bring the cake intact. The cake is destroyed when he and Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} fight a BadSanta with control of a [[HumongousMecha Sentinel]], but Wolvie bakes him a new one.

* The main story of the 2007 ''Marvel Holiday Special'' ("A Piece Of Cake") features Franchise/SpiderMan trying to get a cake to Aunt May's Christmas party. Apparently he does this every year, and has never managed to bring the cake intact. The cake is destroyed when he and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} fight a BadSanta with control of a [[HumongousMecha Sentinel]], but Wolvie bakes him a new one.

* In the ''Literature/NancyDrew'' movie, Ned brings out the cake at Nancy's birthday party (which has gotten a little out of hand)... only to have one of the wilder partygoers crash into it accidentally.

* In the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''The Cuckoo Clock of Doom'', the main character Michael is carrying his own birthday cake, when his bratty sister [[EnfantTerrible Tara]] trips him, causing him to land face first in it. When he starts going backwards in time, he tries to prevent the tripping, but it still happens anyway. When Michael relives his birthday a third time at the end of the story he manages to carry the cake to the table without incident.

* In ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'', they are supposed to drive the wedding cake to their relative's wedding. HilarityEnsues. To the point that, when the car the cake is in finally bursts into flame, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere the two main characters just walk away from it.]]

* In ''Series/SavedByTheBell: The College Years'' the gang had [[CloudCuckoolander Screech]] pick up a cake. When Slater asked what images were invoked with the words "Screech" and "cake", they decided to order another one.

* ''VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper'':

* In ''VideoGame/AkibasTripUndeadAndUndressed'', one side mission for your little sister requires you to buy a limited cake from three maid cafes around Akiba. Once you do, a maid {{Otaku}} will try and mug you for it, and taking a single hit will ruin the cake.

* In ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' Zeno spends a morning making a cake for his [[CuteMonsterGirl girlfriend]] [[CuteWitch Mye]] only for her to unknowingly knock it out of his hands when one of their friends gives her something she's been looking for, she then [[http://www.charbythevampirate.com/comic/882 magically vanishes the dropped cake]] to clean up without seeing what it was.

** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress "MMMystery on the Friendship Express"]]: Pinkie Pie is tasked with delivering a massive cake by train to a dessert-contest, but it gets (partially) eaten ''en route''. HilarityEnsues when she and Twilight Sparkle play [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Holmes and Watson]] to catch the culprit.

* In ''Anne of Ingleside'' by Lucy Maud Montgomery, five-year-old Rilla (youngest daughter of ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'') is told to take a cake to a church fundraiser, but she's very reluctant to do so because she's under the impression that it's disgraceful to be seen carrying a cake in public, so she dumps the cake into a nearby river the first chance she gets. She then feels very foolish when she runs into her much-admired Sunday School teacher, who's bringing her own cake to the church.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'': While trying to make it to his dad's party for being promoted to police chief, Miles brings two cakes (as one cake couldn't fit the long message he asked for at the bakery) and runs into numerous mishaps while heading home, such as forgetting he left the cakes on the roof of a taxi and having to run after it to get them back. By the time he finally gets to the party and reveals the cakes to his parents, one of the cakes is broken down the middle and the icing for both of them is ruined, with his long and heartfelt message being reduced to the words "I'm not proud".

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'': While trying to make it to his dad's party for being promoted to police chief, Miles parkours up a stair shaft while using his spider powers to launch a boxed cake up with him. By the time he reaches the top, he opens up the box, only to find out that the cake has been smashed from the force of being pulled upwards.

-->'''Moe:''' Not a good time to be carrying this cake.

* In the first season of ''Series/SesameStreet'', there was a series of "Song of _____ " skits, each devoted to a different number from 1-10 and showing various items in groupings of that number. The "Song of Eight", for instance, would show eight blocks, then eight clocks, eight puppets, etc. Each of these vignettes would climax with stuntman Alex Stevens (often erroneously credited as Creator/JimHenson, who simply dubbed his voice) as a white-hatted baker attempting to descend a staircase with a given number of cakes, pies, puddings, etc., then tripping and falling to the bottom in a messy heap.
-->'''Chorus of Children:''' And that's/The fall/Of eight

Sometimes, a plot involves or is centered on a character needing to carry a cake, pie, or some other food item toward a destination.

This item never arrives as scheduled. Usually it's dropped just before the destination is reached, or else it's stolen, or [[BigEater eaten]] by the character carrying it. If the food item does arrive at its destination, it is never in the correct state, or it is unwanted in some capacity once there. If it is a cake, expect it to be a big wedding cake or of similar size for extra mess.

* In ''Anne of Ingleside'' by Lucy Maud Montgomery, five-year-old Rilla (youngest daughter of ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'') deliberately dumps the cake she is told to take to a church picnic because she's under the impression that it's disgraceful to be seen carrying a cake. She then feels very foolish when she runs into her much-admired Sunday School teacher bringing her own cake to the church.

* In ''Series/SavedByTheBell: The College Years'' the gang had [[WackyGuy Screech]] pick up a cake. When Slater asked what images were invoked with the words "Screech" and "cake", they decided to order another one.

* In ''Film/TheSandlot'', during the chase scene with The Beast, two chefs carrying a large layer cake are in the path of the runners. Benny jumps over the cake, the Beast runs under it, and the other kids jostle the chefs as they run around it. When the chefs finally set the cake down safely on the table, a clown on stilts loses his balance from all the kids and falls onto the table, launching the cake into the air and landing square on the poor chefs, covering them with frosting and stuff.

* ComicBook/{{Archie|Comics}} has had this problem. Any time the cake isn't eaten by his chowhound friend Jughead, Archie ends up walking into someone and spilling it- Like Mr. Lodge, for example.

* ''Series/KenanAndKel'' once went to a bakery to pick the cake Kenan's father ordered. To their surprise, they managed to take it home without any accidents (to the cake, at least - the bakery was another story). After TemptingFate by commenting on how unusual it was for them to actually succeed, they tripped and dropped the cake. They even tried to bake a new one but lost Kenan's Dad gift to Kenan's Mom in the dough.

** ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' had this at a wedding. Flynn, who supported the wedding on the grounds of "party!", spent the whole fight against the WeddingSmashers protecting the cake - only for the RichBitch in attendance to land in it trying to catch a bouquet.

-->'''Chorus of Children''': And that's/The fall/Of eight

* Taking over the delivery of a cake is a cover in ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney''. On the way to its destination, the cake can be dropped, used to smuggle guns, poisoned, and rigged to explode - depending on how the player wishes to carry out Agent 47's mission.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode ''The Mutants are Revolting'' began with the crew needing to [[NitroExpress deliver a nitroglycerin-laced souffle]] to Mrs. Astor. Surprisingly, they managed it, and it didn't even explode when eaten... until Mrs. Astor gave the leftovers to her dogs, at which point it promptly exploded.