History Main / CowTipping

* ''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.

* The seventh [[TheManyDeathsOfYou Die-O-Rama]] from ''[[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot Crash Tag Team Racing]]'' has Crash notice a sign that warns him not to tip cows and [[HeroicComedicSociopath immediately decides to tip the cow standing beside it]]. The bandicoot [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome tires himself out as he budges the cow to no avail]], and the cow, unamused by his attempted prank, proceeds to strangle him with its tail before finishing him off with a [[ToiletHumor point-blank fart to his face]].

* ''VideoGame/TheBardsTale''. There are a number of cows in [[FirstTown Houton]] that the Bard can push over and if you tip enough of them, a very angry cow will attack him.

* ''VideoGame/AsheronsCall'' has the "[[http://asheron.wikia.com/wiki/Cow_Tipping Cow Tipping]]" quest that requires tipping 300 cows for a guy who is rather paranoid about cattle.
-->'''[[https://asheron.fandom.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!

* ''VideoGame/EverquestII'': The "[[http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/Brell%27s_Everlasting_Brew Brell's Everlasting Brew]]" quest for Brew Day requires tipping over Farmer Prew Drowers' cow, Betsy and stealing some of Prew's hops while he is helping her get back up.
* The seventh [[TheManyDeathsOfYou Die-O-Rama]] from ''[[VideoGame/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.
* ''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.
-->'''Phoenix''': What!? I'll have you know, back in the day, I once broke into a cattle ranch and tipped--\\
'''Judge''': M-Mr Wright! What are you saying?!
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' has an [[CosmeticAward achievement]] in console versions and older PC versions called "Cow Tipping", which involves picking up leather, preferably from a dead cow (but getting one from fishing or a loot chest also works). The death animation of mobs, including cows, is them simply tipping over sideways, making it look like deadly cow tipping.
* As a subtle in-joke in ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'' said when the Friendly Bartender card is played.
-->'''Friendly Bartender''': Don't forget to tip your tauren!"
* Recorder, a funny modded follower for ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim,]]'' brings up a very valid point in regards to the livestock of the land.
-->Surprising there is no milk option on the menu. What are all those cows for? Tipping?

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''. Mater invites Lightning to go "tractor tipping" ([[FantasticFaunaCounterpart 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''.

# Unless injured, cows are perfectly able to lie down and regain their footing whenever they want.
# You will probably make the cow angry, and it will try to defend itself, [[JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs possibly]] ''[[JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs killing]]'' [[JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs anyone who attempts this]].

--> '''Rolf:''' Never again will Rolf store his keys in his trouser pockets.

* [[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]].

# You will probably make the cow angry, and it will try to defend itself, [[TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs possibly]] ''[[TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs killing]]'' [[TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs anyone who attempts this]].

# You will probably make the cow angry, and it will try to defend itself, [[DontTryThisAtHome possibly]] ''[[DontTryThisAtHome killing]]'' [[DontTryThisAtHome anyone who attempts this]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}''. After Snotty Boy cowtips an innocent cow along with his friends, Otis and the Jersey Cows turn the tables.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}''. After a boy tries cowtips an innocent cow along with his friends, Otis and the Jersey Cows turn the tables.
-->'''Otis''': [[IronicEcho That's called "boy tipping"! HA, HA, HA!]]

* Referenced in a ''Advertising/GotMilk'' ad featuring ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'' characters. The Gangreen Gang invade Pokey Oaks and steal the kindergartner's chocolate milk. Ace calls it "better than cow tipping".

# Cows don't sleep standing up.

* Referenced in a ''Advertising/GotMilk'' ad featuring ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' characters. The Gangreen Gang invade Pokey Oaks and steal the kindergartner's chocolate milk. Ace calls it "better than cow tipping".

* The invention exchange for ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode ''Film/AlienFromLA'' had Mike install "Fridge Utters" into a refridgerator to dispense varieties of milk (and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick crushed ice]]). Crow suggests getting drunk and "going fridge-tipping" later, and he's later shown to have tried, flattened under the fridge.

* As a subtle in-joke in ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'' said when the [[EverythingsBetterWithCows Friendly Bartender]] card is played.

* The 2005 MadeForTVMovie, ''Film/{{Larva}}'' starts with four teenagers going cow tipping in a Missouri field and after they push one of them over, they find out that it was already dead on its feet. As the teens are running away, laughing at what they had done, the parasites start chewing their way out of carcass.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Ben 10}}'': Three boys sneak onto a farm to tip cows at the start of the "Under Wraps" episode. Todd's attempt on a bull fails to move it even an inch and instead manages to greatly enrage it.

* Variant in ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': while the Eds are chasing a balloon, they bump into a cow, which then falls on Rolf.

* In one special of ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' where the kids go to a farm, Susie tries to do this, but the cow keeps laying down before she can. Eventually, the boy on the farm tells her cowtipping is just a myth, to which Susie says it's like {{Sewer Gator}}s, much to the boy's disappointment.

* ''Film/ILoveYouBethCooper'': Rich, Cammy, and Treece come across a field of cows while drunk and decide to tip one of them. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs when 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]].