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* One ''Series/StargateSG1'' fanfic featured the team attempting to transport a cake secretly through the 'gate. (They were going offworld on Daniel's birthday). Although it made it all around the base, through the 'gate, to another planet, and around that planet for quite a while, eventually, it [[spoiler: ''exploded'']]. Which explains Daniel's haircut at the beginning of the third season.

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* There's a scene in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' where the gang steals melons from some dodos. The scene quickly becomes a parody of a football game. When Sid returns with the last melon, he does a victory dance and spikes it. Oops.

* Too many times on ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' to count. One JustForFun/{{egregious}} (but hilarious!) example was in ''An Ache In Every Stake'', when a passerby got his cake destroyed ''three'' times.

* ''Film/MyFavoriteYear'' - at the Stork Club, Alan asks Benjy to create a diversion so he can steal someone's girl, so Benjy plays an inept waiter, stumbling out of the kitchen with a tray piled high with desserts, chaotically weaving and dodging through the anxious crowd.
* ''Film/TheParty'' settles into a sit-down dinner - with Bakshi (Creator/PeterSellers) seated on a tiny footstool just in front of the kitchen's swinging door, and an inebriated waiter staggering around the table, it's only inevitable that the cake ends up all over the chef when he brings it out.

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* MaryWorth helped out some poor schlub in his big ambition to enter a cake-baking competition - somehow their carrying the cake was shown as high drama.

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* The stage show of ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' has ''Status Quo'' end with Zeke trying to give Sharpay a cake, but having Gabriella dance into him, making him trip and spill the cake onto the girl of his dreams instead. Troy even lampshades this, pointing out that this impromptu school singalong is probably not "the time to be giving Sharpay a cake."
* A key act in Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Theatre/NouvelleExperience'', which later reappeared in ''Theatre/LaNouba'', is based on averting this trope -- the acrobat successfully carries a cake (with lit candles) up with him as he scales a growing tower of chairs.

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* In ''Cake Dance,'' the second episode of the Korean web animation ''ThereSheIs'', the feline main character endures subway crowds, rabbit street gangs, and ''stampedes of jungle animals'' in his attempt to bring a birthday cake to his rabbit ladyfriend's birthday party. In the end he falls through the door and the cake gets smashed, but she enjoys it anyway (and [[TheGlomp tackleglomps]] him for his thoughtfulness).

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''

** "The Best Night Ever". When Applejack fails to sell her wares to the fancy upper-class ponies at the Grand Galloping Gala, she tries to impress them with a huge layer cake. Unfortunately, Pinkie Pie has been trying to [[LifeOfTheParty liven up the festivities]], and chooses that moment to do a stage dive onto Applejack's dessert cart. The cake goes flying, and [[DisasterDominoes it kinda goes downhill from there.]]
** [[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 [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Holmes and Watson]] to catch the culprit.

* [[Literature/WinnieThePooh Winnie The Pooh]] has Pooh carry a jar of honey to Eeyore's birthday a long way through the forest.

* In Ross Campbell's graphic novel series ''ComicBook/WetMoon'', Malady serves people pie from her bag, which she was presumably carrying around with her all day. This happened on two separate occasions.

* Taking over the delivery of a cake is a cover in ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}: Blood Money''. 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 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.

* 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.
** This trope is actually both used and averted in the same story. When Michael relives his birthday a third time at the end of the story ([[spoiler:after accidentally erasing Tara from existence]]) he manages to carry the cake to the table without incident.

* ''Series/FawltyTowers'', "Gourmet Night": Basil spends a good part of the episode trying to get food from a restaurant to his hotel, only to have it destroyed at the last minute. Also "Basil the Rat", in which Basil covers a cut of meat with rat poison in order to poison Manuel's pet rat (also named Basil)...and then has trouble deducing whether or not the poisoned cut was served up to a visiting health inspector.
** With the first example, the main problem is that the cake isn't even what he ordered (duck). When he goes to pick up the replacement, one of the waiters accidentally switches it with a Bombe Surprise, which he digs through once he finds out in an attempt to somehow find the missing duck.

* A spectacular case of ''failing'' to carry a cake happened on ''Series/CakeBoss'': a four-tiered birthday cake with handmade decorations had to be carried down the stairs, but first it had to be lifted over the banister. One of the guys wasn't ready, and in an instant the top three tiers tip right off. About 30 pounds of cake ended up on the floor. Miraculously, Buddy & Co. were able to recreate the entire cake in ''one and a half hours.''

* In ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Rachel is organizing a 1st birthday party for Emma, but when the cake turns up it's an "erotic" cake (never shown but it's pretty clear it's a penis,) with the baby's face on it. Joey faces some conflict over finding the cake delicious. In the end, Ross ends up making it look like bunny. "Well, I just made these two things cheeks, and then I split this to make ears."
* On ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', Rose accidentally buys a cake from an erotic cake shop. "I thought it was in the shape of Florida!"
* On ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'''...a bakery is recommended to Larry, but he isn't told that it's an erotic bakery, and the cake he has ordered is a big chocolate penis.

** ''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.
** Almost any shot that included [[ThoseTwoGuys Bulk and Skull]] from ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' and a cake generally resulted in this. Probably the most memorable was the episode 'Peace, Love and Woe' when after destroying a cake, Ernie, the owner of the juice bar banned them until they paid him for it. At the end of the episode, Ernie caught them wearing disguises to violate the ban and Bulk decided to get the money from the 'bank', which happened to be his foot. The money was so smelly, Ernie fell on the replacement cake.

* In ''{{Series/Scrubs}}'', Dan Dorian takes a long bus ride to J.D.'s apartment carrying a cake, which is their family's way of telling someone about a death.

* ''VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper'' has only the best of intentions when he buys Sunny Funny's birthday cake, so his self-important rival loses no time in tripping him while he carries it home. To add insult to injury, Parappa somehow manages to drop the cake safely face-up...and then land face-down in it.
** Possibly just as well, since he'd picked out a [[FurryConfusion flower-shaped]] [[ImAHumanitarian cake]] [[FridgeHorror for an anthropomorphic daisy girl.]]

* Partial example in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'': [[DamselInDistress Princess Peach]] was kidnapped (again), and Mario interrupts her forced wedding to her kidnapper just in time. He gets attacked by the angry chef, and moments later, the [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere cake inexplicably comes to life and attacks Mario too]].

* Gruesomely subverted in this Newgrounds animation by HarryPartridge, [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/439541 Chuck's New Tux]]

* Averted in the ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'' TV show episode "Special Delivery Monkey." Chef Pisgetti forgets to bring a pie to a meeting with prospective clients. George delivers it in perfect condition, narrowly avoiding disasters along the way. [[spoiler: Then subverted when the chef promptly shoves the pie in another man's face. "When you order from Pisgetti's, we guarantee that your pie in the face gag will never fall flat!" He's cheered by the prospective clients, who are clowns.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[InvokedTrope invoked this trope]] as part of a scam played by Homer and Bart. Bart portrayed a blind kid with a cake for his deaf sister (really just a frosted throw pillow) and stood next to someone so they would knock it over. Then Homer stepped in and threatened the mark to pay them for the "cake".

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' features this in "The Best Night Ever". When Applejack fails to sell her wares to the fancy upper-class ponies at the Grand Galloping Gala, she tries to impress them with a huge layer cake. Unfortunately, Pinkie Pie has been trying to [[LifeOfTheParty liven up the festivities]], and chooses that moment to do a stage dive onto Applejack's dessert cart. The cake goes flying, and [[DisasterDominoes it kinda goes downhill from there.]]
** This trope is the premise of [[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 [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Holmes and Watson]] to catch the culprit.

* ''Film/TheMusicBox''. Creator/LaurelAndHardy deliver a piano up a long flight of stairs several times destroying everything around them but miraculously preserving the piano. The surprise gift delivery displeases the owner of the house who hates pianos. He smashes it to pieces.

* Done with a twist in ''PracticalMagic'' (the book that inspired the film). Younger sister Kylie makes a cake as a peace offering for older sister Antonia, with whom she had a fight. While she's carrying the cake to where she knows she can find her sister, she gets [[AttemptedRape assaulted by a strange man]]. Though she escapes to safety, she's covered in the cake, which she sort of used as a defensive weapon. It still achieves the desired objective, though; she reaches Antonia, who helps her clean up, and the incident heals the breach between them.

* An early sequence in ''Film/EasyMoney'' has Rodney Dangerfield and JoePesci having to transport a gigantic wedding cake in their van. After laboriously loading it up, they do some other errands before having to brake suddenly, sending the cake smashing into the windshield. Something of a Lampshade Hanging, as the sequence seems to play on the audience's expectations that the cake will be destroyed, and it takes so long to happen that they may start to doubt the film is going to do it.

* In the early years 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 (but often erroneously credited to JimHenson, who simply voiced him) 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.

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* An early sequence in ''Film/EasyMoney'' has Rodney Dangerfield and JoePesci having to transport a gigantic wedding cake in their van. After laboriously loading it up, they do some other errands before having to brake suddenly, sending the cake smashing into the windshield. Something of a Lampshade Hanging, as the sequence seems to play on the audience's expectations that the cake will be destroyed, and it takes so long to happen that they may start to doubt the film is going to do it.

* In Ross Campbell's graphic novel series ''WetMoon'', Malady serves people pie from her bag, which she was presumably carrying around with her all day. This happened on two separate occasions.

* In ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Rachel is organizing a 1st birthday party for Emma, but when the cake turns up it's an "erotic" cake (never shown but it?s pretty clear it?s a penis,) with the baby's face on it. Joey faces some conflict over finding the cake delicious. In the end, Ross ends up making it look like bunny. "Well, I just made these two things cheeks, and then I split this to make ears."

* A spectacular case of ''failing'' to carry a cake happened on ''Series/CakeBoss'': a three-tiered birthday cake with handmade decorations had to be carried down the stairs, but first it had to be lifted over the banister. One of the guys wasn't ready, and in an instant about 30 pounds of cake ended up on the floor. Miraculously, Buddy & Co. were able to recreate the entire cake in ''one and a half hours.''

* In ''GeneSimmonsFamilyJewels'' Nick and Sophie were driving home from the cake shop with Gene's birthday cake and Sophie braked suddenly, causing Nick to squish the cake onto his T-shirt.

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* One episode of ''{{Manga/Kekkaishi}}'' had the Yoshimori help a ghost of a former pastry chef complete his GhostlyGoals of comforting his brother, who was mourning his untimely death, by recreating a cake he once made when he was little to cheer up his brother after their parents died. After many exhaustive attempts trying to create the perfect cake (doubling in difficulty since the ghost's incorporeal nature makes it so he has to direct Yoshimori to making the cake himself), they hurry with Ogata and her butler's help in their car. However the butler's reckless driving damages the cake, which the brother surprisingly accepts as the cake his late sibling baked because he did a shoddy job baking the cake when they were little (regardless it was the act himself that he cherished). His acceptance of the cake is enough to allow the ghost to pass on.

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* The main story of the 2007 ''Marvel Holiday Special'' ("A Piece Of Cake") features Comicbook/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 {{Wolverine}} fight a BadSanta with control of a [[HumongousMecha Sentinel]], but Wolvie bakes him a new one.

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* One ''Series/StargateSG1'' fanfic featured the team attempting to transport a cake secretly through the 'gate. (They were going offworld on Daniel's birthday). Although it made it all around the base, through the 'gate, to another planet, and around that planet for quite a while, eventually, it [[spoiler: ''exploded'']]. Which explains Daniel's haircut at the beginning of the third season.

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* 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.

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* ''Series/FawltyTowers'', "Gourmet Night": Basil spends a good part of the episode trying to get food from a restaurant to his hotel, only to have it destroyed at the last minute. Also "Basil the Rat", in which Basil covers a cut of meat with rat poison in order to poison Manuel's pet rat (also named Basil)...and then has trouble deducing whether or not the poisoned cut was served up to a visiting health inspector.

* On ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'''...a bakery is recommended to Larry, but he isn't told that it's an erotic bakery, and the cake he has ordered is a big chocolate penis.

* ''Series/WillAndGrace'', the episode with Will's Father's party, where Karen and Jack bring a large cake and have to walk up many flights of stairs with the cake which arrives after Jack has eaten some of it, but the party has gone to hell in the meantime.

* In ''GeneSimmonsFamilyJewels'' Nick and Sophie were driving home from the cake shop with Gene's birthday cake and Sophie braked suddenly, causing Nick to squish the cake onto his T-shirt.

* 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.

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* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones The Flinstone Comedy Show]]'' had a skit where Fred and Barney offered to transport a cake that Wilma made for some contest. Hilarity ensues, cake gets destroyed, and they reassemble it with their golf clubs.

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* The second episode of WebAnimation/ThereSheIs features Nabi the cat trying to deliver a cake to a bunny, falling afoul of many trials during the trip.

* One skit in ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' features a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo by DonaldSutherland, who is playing "The Clumsy Waiter" and is carrying a cake. He trips and face-plants in it.

* A key act in CirqueDuSoleil's ''Nouvelle Experience'', which later reappeared in ''Theatre/LaNouba'', is based on averting this trope -- the acrobat successfully carries a cake (with lit candles) up with him as he scales a growing tower of chairs.

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* A key act in CirqueDuSoleil's ''NouvelleExperience'', which later reappeared in ''LaNouba'', is based on averting this trope -- the acrobat successfully carries a cake (with lit candles) up with him as he scales a growing tower of chairs.