History Main / CowTipping

* ''Film/ILoveYouBethCooper'': Rich, Cammy, and Treece come across a field of cows while drunk and decide to tip one of them. [[RealityEnsues All three of them pushing together on the cow does not do anything other than starting a stampede that chases them out of the field]].

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''. Mater invites Lightning to go "tractor tipping" (tractors being the car world's analog of cows). He honks his horn, startling the tractor into driving forward and rearing back, which ends with it aiming straight up until it's fully awake enough to right itself. Lightning, who doesn't have a horn, gives it a try... by revving his engine, which is loud enough to startle the ''entire pasture''.

* Despite its overall nigh-impossibility to do as mentioned above, Cow Tipping is a ''criminal offense'' in the state of Wisconsin. It counts as defiling the official state animal.
* The documentary ''Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero'' includes a scene where an underground nuclear test is conducted near a cowfield. The ground shock forces one rather surprised looking cow to its knees, although admittedly it doesn't actually fall over.

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-->-- '''Snotty Boy''', ''''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}''''

-->-- '''Snotty Boy''', '''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}'''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}''. After a boy tries cowtipping some cows along with his friends, the cows respond with boytipping him.

A subtrope of ArtisticLicenseBiology and a popular {{Urban Legend|s}} (you see, there's a reason why it is called an [[CitySlicker urban]] legend and not a ''rural'' one).

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** In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout4}}'', one of the random dialogs from Brotherhood of Steel Vertibird pilots is that they occasionally use their aircraft to do this when they're bored.

* Sims can tip cows in the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS version of ''Videogame/TheSims2'' or if they have the "Milkin' It Dairy Corral" from the "Farm Fresh Folk Set" DownloadableContent for ''Videogame/TheSims3''. There is a good chance that the sim will end up on his/her backside instead but if the sim is successful, they can milk the cow to produce a milkshake!

-->'''[[http://asheron.wikia.com/wiki/Dwennon Dwennon]]''': You've seen them lingering around town, haven't you? They've been here all along, you know that, don't you? They have spies all over the place. They see and hear everything. They must be stopped, and stopped the only way we know how. Simply killing them isn't good enough, we need to tip them and tip them often. Go, go tip the cows, they must be stopped!

* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'': [[CrusadingLawyer Phoenix]] is insulted when [[spoiler: [[DirtyCop Damon]] [[EvilOldFolks Gant]]]] suggests that he would not have the guts to break into his office to [[FrameUp plant evidence]] and retorts by claiming that he was adventurous enough to tip cows.

* In "[[http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=032513 Pro Tipping]]" from ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'', two boys get more then they bargained for when they go [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Miltank]]-tipping and start its RollingAttack (even though the Miltank is still asleep!}.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead''. A 1994 episode of the show has Beavis and Butthead try to do this. They succeed in the end, but Beavis gets crushed underneath the cow's weight.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''. Mater invites Lightning to go "tractor tipping" (tractors being the car world's analog of cows). He honks his horn, startling the tractor into driving forward and rearing back, which ends with it aiming straight up until it's fully awake enough to right itself. Lightning, who doesn't have a horn, gives it a try... by revving his engine, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments which is loud enough to startle the]] ''[[UpToEleven entire pasture]]''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' has an [[CosmeticAward achievement]] called "Cow Tipping", which involves picking up leather, preferably from a dead cow[[note]]But a one [[FishingForSole caught by fishing]] will suffice.[[/note]]. A dying animation of a cow, or any mob for that matter, involves the mob simply tipping over sideways, making it look like deadly cow tipping.

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* Despite its overall nigh-impossibility to do as mentioned above, Cow Tipping is a ''criminal offense'' in the state of Wisconsin. It counts as defiling the official state animal.
* The documentary ''Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero'' includes a scene where an underground nuclear test is conducted near a cowfield. The ground shock forces one rather surprised looking cow to its knees, although admittedly it doesn't actually fall over.

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* In "[[http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=032513 Pro Tipping]]" from ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'', two boys get more then they bargained for when they go [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Miltank]]-tipping and start it's RollingAttack (even though the Miltank is still asleep!}.

A subtrope of ArtisticLicenseBiology and a popular {{Urban Legend|s}} (you see, there's a reason why it is called an [[CitySlicker urban]] legend and not a ''rural'' one). The myth originates that cows "Lock up" their leg joints when they sleep, so the idea is like helping a stilt walker get back up on his own.

* The seventh [[TheManyDeathsOfYou Die-O-Rama]] from ''[[Franchise/CrashBandicoot Crash Tag Team Racing]]'' has Crash [[http://youtu.be/ys0G18X19gI?t=1m2s notice a]] [[http://youtu.be/NBhxY8tk1cE?t=1m6s sign warning]] not to tip cows and [[HeroicComedicSociopath immediately decides to tip one]]. The cow is not amused and chokes Crash with his tail.

* Despite it's overall nigh-impossibility to do as mentioned above, Cow Tipping is a ''criminal offense'' in the state of Wisconsin. It counts as defiling the official state animal.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''. Mater invites Lightning to go "tractor tipping" (tractors being the car world's analog of cows). He honks his horn, startling the tractor into driving forward and rearing back, which ends with it aiming straight up until it's fully awake enough to right itself. Lightning, who doesn't have a horn, gives it a try... by revving his engine, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny which is loud enough to startle the]] ''[[UpToEleven entire pasture]]''.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''. Lightning and Mater go out at night and tip tractors (by beeping at them so that they startle, tip, and cannot right themselves before they fully awake), the car world's analog of cows.

* ''Film/ILoveYouBethCooper'': Rich, Cammy, and Treece come across a field of cows while drunk and decide to tip one of them. All three of them pushing together on the cow does not do anything other than starting a stampede that chases them out of the field.

People (usually those afflicted by SmallTownBoredom) will sneak out at night and try to tip a cow over, because as you all know cows sleep upright and are too dumb or weak to do anything about people pushing it over. When they finally fall they will just lie on the ground helpless until someone gets them back on their feet. Right?

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* The {{Music/Blink 182}} song, "Degenerate" from the ''Dude Ranch'' album has the lyrics:

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* [[https://garfield.com/comic/1996/06/16 The 06/15/96 strip]] of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' has Jon mention that he once went out cow tipping with some friends when he turned eighteen which [[CatsAreMean inspires Garfield]] to tip over [[DogsAreDumb Odie]].

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* All games ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' series (bar ''4'') allow the player to indulge in Brahmin-tipping (Brahmin being two-headed cows that were mutated by exposure to radiation following the nuclear war).

* Certain games in the ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' series allow the player to indulge in Brahmin-tipping (Brahmin being two-headed cows that were mutated by exposure to radiation following the nuclear war).

* The 06/15/96 strip of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' has Jon mention that he once went out cow tipping with some friends when he turned eighteen which [[CatsAreMean inspires Garfield]] to tip over [[DogsAreDumb Odie]].

-->-- '''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}'''

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}''. After a boy tries cowtipping some cows along with his friends, the cows respond with boytipping him.
* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''. Lightning and Mater go out at night and tip tractors (by beeping at them so that they startle, tip, and cannot right themselves before they fully awake), the car world's analog of cows.

A subtrope of ArtisticLicenseBiology and a popular UrbanLegend (you see, there's a reason why it is called an [[CitySlicker urban]] legend and not a ''rural'' one). The myth originates that cows "Lock up" their leg joints when they sleep, so the idea is like helping a stilt walker get back up on his own.

'''Rich''': What, isn't that like an {{urban legend}}?