History Main / CutASliceTakeTheRest

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[[caption-width:234:[[BigEater He likes the big pieces.]]]]

A character is about to receive or take something. Maybe it's money or food. Either way a small fraction of the entirety is divided from the whole. This small fraction is what could be considered a normal portion. The character in question then precedes to take the larger portion, leaving the small fraction behind.

* In the episode "Heavy Sleeper" from Chowder Chowder takes an orange from a fruit bowl only to suck out the rest of the fruit and putting the orange back in the bowl.

* Taxman, by the Beatles, seems to fit this trope well:

* In ''{{Asterix}} and Cleopatra'', Obelix is asked to cut three slices from the cake. He cuts out two normal-sized slices and takes all the rest as his own piece. ("Well, I ''did'' cut ''three'' slices, didn't I?")

** To be honest, he ''did''. [[DontExplainTheJoke To cut the two wedges of cake, he had to make three cuts]].
** That said, it was probably for the best given that only they had drank the antidote...

* ''TheBennyHillShow'': During an extended sketch parodying ''ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' Benny (as Butch) and Jackie Wright (as Sundance) are enjoying a stolen picnic dinner. Benny offers to cut a slice of cheese from a large - like 2 feet long - cube. Sundance makes him move the blade so the slice is thinner, and thinner, and thinner until it's practically a paper thin slice; after Butch cuts the thin slice, Sundance picks up the rest of the cheese and starts to eat it. [[http://stagevu.com/video/ksbumicuhrlc Seen here starting about 2 minutes in.)

* Played with in CtrlAltDel, when Ethan attempts to create a web show based off of "Will It Blend", using rocket fuel on various objects to see if they launch. Ethan says that he cleverly calculated the amount of rocket fuel needed for the launch, and holds up said amount. Zeke then points out that since what he's holding is the calculated amount, Ethan just lit the 'rest' of the fuel. Cue an OhCrap face from Ethan and a brick through the wall.

Played with in CtrlAltDel, when Ethan attempts to create a web show based off of "Will It Blend", using rocket fuel on various objects to see if they launch. Ethan says that he cleverly calculated the amount of rocket fuel needed for the launch, and holds up said amount. Zeke then points out that since what he's holding is the calculated amount, Ethan just lit the 'rest' of the fuel. Cue an OhCrap face from Ethan and a brick through the wall.

* A variation is used in {{TheNuttyProfessor}} 2 when Sherman's family devours an entire buffet leaving only the salad.

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[[caption-width:330:[[BigEater I'll take the big piece.]]]]

* Spoony (of TheSpoonyExperiment, of course) used this trope in [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/12/06/highlander-the-source-review/ his review of Highlander: The Source]], albeit with Crazy Pills instead of cake.

This was TruthInTelevision. When the Beatles recorded this song, 95% was indeed the tax rate in Britain at the top tax bracket, which the Beatles' earnings put them in.

A character is at a party, frequently the first guest to arrive. Obviously, you can't have a party without a cake, right? So when the second guest arrives, the first guest takes advantage of the host's distraction to get a piece of cake. He very meticulously cuts off a slice of cake and...

...takes the rest of the cake, leaving only about an eighth of the original cake for all the other guests.

Common in older WesternAnimation, the trope has been [[ForgottenTrope virtually unused]] recently.

* Inverted in a sense, in SayonaraZetsubouSensei. The girls are having cake, and [[SuperOCD Chiri]] is in charge of dividing. She insists that everyone's piece is perfectly equal, cuts the cake, and.. another student shows up. Things continue on for several more students, and eventually everyone ends up with cups full of liquified cake.

* In ''TheThreeStooges'', Moe and Larry would usually give Curly the short end of the stick. In the short "I Can Hardly Wait" they even make Curly feel guilty for being so ungrateful for his meager piece of the food when he complains.
-->'''Moe''': We each took half a slice of ham and half an egg apiece, and gave you a whole bone and a whole egg shell, ''and you're squakin'!!''

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* One {{Dragonball}} fic has a clever variant. Vegeta takes the middle tier of a wedding cake.

** In another strip, Peter tells his mother that he and Jason only had one slice of pizza each. After she leaves, Jason comments, [[ExactWords "I wondered why you ordered a large pizza cut in half."]]

* In ''TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy eats a slice of pizza. When his godparents ask for some, he insists that there's only one piece left, a "really huge almost-circular piece".

** Also TruthInTelevision. When the Beatles recorded this song, 95% was indeed the tax rate in Britain at the top tax bracket, which the Beatles' earnings put them in.

Should five percent appear too small/Be thankful I don't take it all/'Cause I'm the taxman,/Yeah, I'm the taxman
** Although it's worth bearing in mind that it's only 95% for the funds that fall into that tax bracket. If the rate's 25% to £100,000, and 95% beyond that, and you have £100,001, then the first £100,000 is assessed at 25%, and only the last £1 is assessed at 95%.
** Still, sucks to have a high-liability, high-risk job that commands a high salary, only to be effectively capped at £100,000. Almost makes the job seem, I dunno, not worth the trouble it takes to obtain it.
** Keep in mind inflation, + the strength of the GBP at the time, this is more like 1mil USD

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Common in older WesternAnimation, the trope has been [[ForgottenTrope virtually unused]] recently. Obviously, you shouldn't take the trope's name ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraction_%28mathematics%29#Vulgar.2C_proper.2C_and_improper_fractions literally]]'' or even in the [[MostCommonSuperPower first figurative sense]] that [[IThoughtItMeant comes to mind]].

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