History Main / DontTryThisAtHome

* [[DickAndDom Dick & Dom Go Wild]] open each show with a reminder that they're working with trained animal handlers and kids shouldn't approach wild animals on their own, and repeat it if they do anything particularly dangerous (or cute, like feeding fawns.) And when Dick did the notorious cow pregnancy test [[hottip:*:Yes, the one where you stick your arm up the cow's arse to feel the condition of its uterus]]: "This probably doesn't need saying, but don't try this yourselves."

* Used in a more subtle way in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'', during a mission after trying to find out the recipe for Loa Dust, Tobia's wife tells about what is in the Loa Dust but does not explicitly tell what exactly it is made of to the player and gives it to Shaundi instead. Given the possible controversy of teaching gamers to produce real life chemical drugs. It was a good idea anyway.

* ''Series/HorribleHistories'' has had them a few times, usually with the Historical Paramedics, because what they do could be seriously dangerous but at the same time is nowhere near impossible to imitate. One particularly horrible example was the one where they tried to figure out what was wrong with smene by tasting their blood.

-->-- ''Literature/GoodOmens'', by Creator/TerryPratchett and Creator/NeilGaiman

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** This is also lampshaded by Adam Savage's Twitter account: "[[http://twitter.com/donttrythis @donttrythis]]".
** They take the further step, in-episode, of [[{{Pixellation}} obscuring the labels of dangerous substances]]. Frequently {{lampshade|Hanging}}d, usually by Adam, as in "Hindenburg Disaster": "This ingredient is made of blur. Hah.... And this has blur in it too. Blur is very dangerous. You don't want to mix blur with blur."
** They've also done this with non-dangerous experiments that might be misused, such as the episode where they defeat a fingerprint scanner with a technique more commonly used to etch circuit boards--they leave out at least one step, and the narrator even mentions they ''might'' have left it out.
** In the ''Series/MacGyver'' episode, however, it was hinted that some things you could go ahead and try to do at home. Mainly because most people had access to that kind of stuff and it wasn't life-threatening. For the most part. Ditto for the phone book episode; you can really interleave the pages of two phone books together without disastrous effects.

** It was also parodied in "You spoof Discovery" - "Remember kids, don't try this at home. Even though it's ''[[DoNotDoThisCoolThing REALLY COOL]]'' and we're giving you step by step instructions on how to do it!"
*** Which is actually a case of RedundantParody, as during the Chinese Rocket Chair experiment, the ''real'' Adam uttered this gem:

** A recent commercial for the Chevy Sonic shows it doing jumps and grinding on rails as a skateboard would. The disclaimer on the box reads "The Chevy Sonic is NOT a skateboard. Do not attempt." Surprising that they need to have that disclaimer, but considering [[TooDumbToLive how advertisements can inspire people, it is justifiable]].

* In a recent Degree ad, a man, after smelling the deodorant they were advertising, proceeds to leap out an airplane, with his shopping cart, and land on the ground, riding the shopping cart down the freeway. Only when he makes it in between two 18-wheelers do we see the "Do not attempt" disclaimer.
* A [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn_pU0K8U0s British Kellogg's commercial]] for one of its brands, Crunchy Nut, showed a man riding on the back of an Irish Wolfhound in order to get home to have a bowl of the product - this advert contained a "Don't try this with your dog at home" on-screen disclaimer during scenes of the man on dog-back. Ninety-three people complained to the UK [[MoralGuardian Advertising Standards Authority]] about the commercial, but [[http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/Public/TF_ADJ_41725.htm the complaints were not upheld]].
* Ads showing a Post-it on a wall supporting a kid/a dog. Brief text says "Just Kidding. Cannot support a child/dog." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avsOSeXtGAw

** In a later episode, a Chaos Emerald was found under a water, and [[AudienceSurrogate Chris Thorndyke]] was helping Sonic go get it. During an attempt with a hosepipe, Chris holds up a sign saying, "Good kids: Don't imitate this!!" Sonic then holds up a sign saying, "You mean I'm not a good kid?" This only happens in the Japanese version, as [[FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] ruined the joke by blanking out the signs and not bothering to put in any replacement text. This happens again a bit later, when Chris holds up a similar warning sign as they are about to use a bell in their scheme, and 4Kids, of course, blanked it out senselessly.
* In episode 10 of ''FruitsBasket'' Hatsuharu trips Kyo with a rope while Kyo is running (fortunately Kyo gets an [[InstantBandages Instant Bandage]]). Hatsuharu then [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] to say that doing this could cause serious injury to anyone besides Kyo, so '''Don't Try This At Home'''.

* Parodied in episode 25 of the first ''{{Slayers}}'' anime, when [[{{Engrish}} "Pritty Lina's Magic Lecture"]] explains how Zelgadis does one of his spells.

* At the end of one chapter of ''KeroroGunsou'', the Sergeant can be seen with his back turned to the reader, using a screwdriver to take a Rubik's Cube apart. There is a caption at the bottom of the panel saying "Don't try this at home, kids".
* ''SchoolRumble'', Episode 2, shows the main character, Tenma, climbing down the school's outer wall from the second floor using a pair of toilet plungers as tools. As soon as she steps out the window, a caption appears reading "This is a joke. Please do not try at home."
* ''KaleidoStar's'' first OVA has May climbing from one speeding taxi to another with the standard "Good children should not attempt this!" message. All while the Gonzo team were clearly having too much [[{{Fanservice}} fun with the camera angle]] now that they weren't on TV.
* In Chapter 0 of ''[[KamichamaKarin Kamichama Karin Chu]]'', Kazune is going to England. Not wanting him to go, she replaces his passport photo with a picture of Francis Xavier, a Jesuit missionary. There's a caption of Nya-ke/Shi-chan saying, "This is an illegal act called 'forrrgery of official documents,' so good kids, don't trrry this ★" under the panel.

* Parodied in ''SamuraiPizzaCats'': "Kids, don't try this at home. We're professional cartoon characters."
* In [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/yu_gi_oh/v01/c001/41.html Himitsu Project's fanslation]] of the ''Manga/YuGiOh'' manga, under the panel with the infamous game between Yami Yugi and the bully Ushio where they must stab a pile of money placed on their bare hands, you can find the following disclaimer "If you try this at home, you are stupid".

* The second episode of PandaZ features the eponymous character trying to eat a big plate of hot, steaming batteries. Every other scene had a text scroll across the bottom with phrases like "Batteries are not food", "Do not expose batteries to heat", or "Do not cut batteries".
* The {{Trigun}} anime gives us this comedic line: "The Deadly Dodgeball Face! A technique that involves holding the ball to your mouth with intense suction! [[InvertedTrope TRY THIS AT HOME, KIDS!]]"

* At the beginning of every episode of KoreWaZombieDesuKa, we're helpfully reminded "Our protagonist is a zombie. Do not try this at home!"

* In one of the MaiHime sound dramas after the main events of the series, Nao (who is in ''middle school'') offers Mai and the others (who, except for the middle school age Mikoto, are in high school) some alcohol, and they start drinking. Nagi then [[BreakingTheFourthWall reminds]] listeners that they shouldn't try this until they're 20.
* In the CookingDuel of ''FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya 2wei'', while Suzuka was wrapping up Tatsuko like a mummy to prevent her from further screwing up the cake they were baking, Nanami breaks the fourth wall to address the readers.

* When Walker uses an AerosolFlamethrower in the sixth ''{{Durarara}}'' LightNovel, the narration notes that this is, in fact, a ''terrible'' idea and more likely to set ''you'' on fire than your opponent. It then notes that Walker knows this and does it anyway, [[CloudCuckoolander because he's Walker.]]

* A shot in {{Sankarea}} that shows Chihiro's grandfather eating hydrangea leaves includes a warning to the viewer that hydrangea leaves are poisonous, and that the grandfather's acts should not be imitated.

* SquirrelGirl likes to take advantage of her fourth wall breaking recap pages by warning us kids that we should not replicate the questionable acts done made during the issues. She especially warns us against downloading stuff free of the Internet.
** But then this was subverted in the very first issue of ''[[GreatLakesAvengers G.L.A. Misassembled]]'' when Grasshopper hops in and announces that there are no kids who read comic books, [[YouBastard only overweight thirty-year-old men who still live with their parents]], so he encourages readers to [[TooDumbToLive try these very questionable acts]] and do the human gene pool a favor. And then this trope is subverted yet again when he dies during his very next appearance.

* In ''StayTuned'', Helen, in cartoon form, says "Kids, don't try this at home", as she and Roy are dumping a handheld hair dryer (still plugged in!) into a bathtub filled with water to disable Robo-Cat.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]]'', in the film, remarks to [[RobotBuddy Goddard]], "Don't try that at home" after shooting a communications [[strike: toaster]] satellite into orbit ''by hand''. The important question: Why say this, when 99% of households do not contain the materials to produce an upper-atmosphere rocket large enough for two human children and a robot dog?
** The remaining 1% doesn't either, for the record...

* In the climactic scene of ''[[Series/SesameStreet Follow That Bird]]'', Big Bird is in the back of a truck, in a giant cage, doing about 30 on the interstate. Gordon and Susan have followed him in a Volkswagen Beetle that's had the trunk cover chewed off by Cookie Monster (keep in mind, Volkswagen Beetles have the trunk in the front of the car). Despite the vehement protestations of driver Susan, Gordon leaves the inside of the vehicle through a Cookie Monster-created hole in the roof, and tries to get Big Bird to jump from the cage into the hood.

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' had a TV spot for its home video release that showed comic violence throughout the spot over an announcer admonishing "Don't try this at home... or this... or this... or this... [[OverlyLongGag or this]]..."

* ''ProjectX'' has a warning at the beginning that no one should attempt to re-create the events in the film, given that the film was inspired by events in real-life, this is useful, hasn't stopped people from trying to emulate it though.
* The second ''{{Jackass}}'' movie has one too, saying the stunts were done by professionals and "neither you nor your dumb little buddies should try these at home."

* Every instance of someone climbing into the eponymous wardrobe in Creator/CSLewis's first ''{{Narnia}}'' book, ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,'' is accompanied by the narrator's remarks on how dangerous it is to close oneself into a wardrobe, how smart Lucy and Peter are to leave the door ajar, and how foolish Edmund is to close it on himself -- no doubt to prevent children from getting themselves trapped in wardrobes while trying to emulate the Pevensies.
** This becomes HilariousInHindsight as of the Walden Media movie adaptation: one of the outtakes has Edmund climbing into the wardrobe and closing the door behind him... and getting locked in.
* ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': the second book, ''The Reptile Room'', warns the reader to never, ever, ever, ever, ever (continued for slightly more than a page) ''ever'' stick things in an electric socket. ''Ever''.

* ''[[TheRedGreenShow The Red Green Book]]'' describes a fictional "game" that essentially involves drinking oneself into low-level alcohol poisoning. Understandably, that section of the book contains an editor's note that says "Do ''not'', under ''any'' circumstances, ''ever'' play this game."
* ''CuriousGeorge'': "George is a monkey, and he does things we can't do."

* StephenColbert's ''I Am America (And So Can You!)'' After a comment that the father's role in the family is as protector, so all men should sleep with a 9mm under their pillow and "wake up firing" at any sign of movement:

* Creator/RoaldDahl's ''George's Marvellous Medicine'' begins with a warning to children not to follow the protagonist's lead and start mixing up things they find in their medicine cabinets at home and drinking them because it might make them sick.
** Or well and truly ''dead''.
* Parodied in TheActionHerosHandbook: "This book is for action heroes only."
* ''DaveBarry's Guide to Guys'' parodies this in a [[FootnoteFever footnote]] to a passage overendowed with metaphors: "I am a professional writer. Do not try these metaphors at home."

* The Nickelodeon game show ''LiveActionTV/{{Guts}}'' had a disclaimer from host Mike O Malley:

* "We're what you call 'experts'." Jamie and Adam on ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' warn off the brain-dead at least twice every episode, with additional reminders at the start of especially dodgy (or deceptively safe-looking) experiments. See also "We've got years of experience that keeps ''us'' safe," and the blanket admonition usually seen at the outset:

** They take the further step, in-episode, of [[{{Pixellation}} obscuring the labels of dangerous substances]]. Frequently [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]], usually by Adam, as in "Hindenburg Disaster": "This ingredient is made of blur. Hah.... And this has blur in it too. Blur is very dangerous. You don't want to mix blur with blur."

* "Neither you nor your dumb little buddies should attempt anything seen on this show." The original, funnier opening warning of ''Series/{{Jackass}}''. Changed to a more serious disclaimer when [[TooDumbToLive one of their stunts]] ''[[TooDumbToLive was]]'' [[TooDumbToLive tried at home.]]
** The show also told viewers not to submit videos of their own stunts, and that any tapes they received would be thrown away unwatched.
* ''BrainiacScienceAbuse'' not only uses this a lot, but invariably reinforces it a few seconds later with "No, really -- Don't." Often associated with putting things in microwave ovens that cause them to explode.

** This punchline was also used by TheReducedShakespeareCompany. The guys are about to perform ''Hamlet'' really fast (as in the entire play in under a minute). They give a short disclaimer to the effect that props will be thrown about, etc., and the audience should not try this at home. Adam tosses back "go to a friend's house" as he assumes his position.

* In ''BeakmansWorld'', one particularly dangerous demonstration involving ammonia and strong acids has a comical quick cut beforehand of all the characters turning in place with klaxons blaring and rotating red lights flashing before cutting a particularly urgent "Don't try this..." warning.

* In the Spike series ''ThousandWaysToDie'', the disclaimer is probably the one that gets the most to the point: "Do not attempt to try any of the actions depicted! YOU WILL DIE!"

* On a Series/{{Farscape}} transcript Ben Browder tells people not attempt Unity, a special alien mental bond. Since the closest anyone could come to it is banging their heads together and hoping for the best this probably wasn't necessary. [[ViewersAreMorons Probably.]]

* At the end of every {{Gladiators}} episode.
* Subversion: in one episode of ''GoodEats'', while Alton carves a roast the scrolling text at the bottom of the screen says "Semi-skilled professional in a real kitchen... do try this at home... but be careful won't you?"

* On an episode of ''{{QI}}'' it was revealed that custard is dense enough to walk on if you have, say, a kiddie pool full of it. The panel jumped at the opportunity to tell any kids watching that they definitely ''should'' try this at home.
** The footage shown of someone actually walking on custard was from an episode of BrainiacScienceAbuse, which is already mentioned above. In fact, the occurence might be considered a ShoutOut to the show.

* Series/TheGoodies: "We would like to point out that Ecky Thump is the ancient Lancastrian art of self defence. When practised by the untrained, it could be dangerous."

* When ''PowerRangers'' first aired in the UK, it was broadcast in ITV's morning slot as part of their breakfast show [=GMTV=]. [=GMTV=] also included a fitness segment with "Mr Motivator", who would appear before ''Power Rangers'' to warn viewers that the Rangers were played by trained martial artists/stunt performers and kids should Not Try This At Home.

* TheYoungOnes - "The BBC would like to warn small children that putting people in old refrigerators is a bloody stupid thing to do."

* After one sketch on ''HarryHillsTVBurp'', he [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this by telling the camera: "Now kids, some grownups think that because you've seen me do this, you might try it, and they write to ITV to complain. So just to be sure: DON'T CUT YOUR HAND OFF WITH A CLEAVER! Aren't grownups silly?"

* ''CakeBoss'' has needed to invoke this on occasion. When they made a cake for Grucci Fireworks (which included live fireworks), the episode opened with a safety warning. And then Buddy blew up a test cake trying to see how this was going to work; maybe ''he'' should have watched the safety warning.

* DickAndDomGoWild open each show with a reminder that they're working with trained animal handlers and kids shouldn't approach wild animals on their own, and repeat it if they do anything particularly dangerous (or cute, like feeding fawns.) And when Dick did the notorious cow pregnancy test [[hottip:*:Yes, the one where you stick your arm up the cow's arse to feel the condition of its uterus]]: "This probably doesn't need saying, but don't try this yourselves."
* ''BillNyeTheScienceGuy'': "Do not, I repeat, DO NOT attempt this demonstration at home!"
* [[CrashAndBernstein "Woah, hold on a second! I am made of cloth and stuffing. All the crazy and wild things I do on this show cannot harm me....]]
* Taken UpToEleven by a new DiscoveryChannel Canada show, ''Series/NeverEverDoThisAtHome'', which involves intentionally doing such ridiculous things just to see what would happen (seemingly in the interest of science, but more of a RefugeInAudacity). Some of the things done done by the two excitable hosts (and their safety crew) include: launching fireworks in the living room, turning a small bathroom into a giant microwave to defrost a whole fish and filling a water bed with 1000 gallons of water (weighing 4000 kg) then popping it while still in the same room.

* When the Irish music group Darby O'Gill covered TomLehrer's ''The Irish Ballad'', they added this disclaimer after detailing one of the female protagonist's [[SelfMadeOrphan murders]].
* SongsToWearpantsTo's "[[http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/songs/i-am-the-reason-why-girls-are-hot/ I am The Reason Why Girls Are Hot]]" ends with "Yo I got a flamethrower and a microwave \ bring any girl to me and I'll make her real hot \ Don't try this at home, kids... bring her to ''my'' house".

* TheDeadMilkmen song "Part 3" contains the warning: "''Don't any of you kids try this guitar solo at home - that man is a trained professional''"

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE This]] video starring the Swedish Chef of TheMuppets fame warns at the beginning "The Swedish Chef is a trained professional. (Sort of) Do not try this at home. (Seriously) Thanks. (Really)"

** And recently they've been having wrestlers tell the viewers not to try any stunts at home about three times per two-hour episode, probably due to ExecutiveMeddling caused by WWE now trying to pander to children as their main audience.

* In ''EscapeFromMonkeyIsland'', just before he does a false alarm prank with a fire alarm on a school, Guybrush turns [[NoFourthWall to the player]] and says that you should never, ever do this in RealLife.

* The ''NeedForSpeed'' series always included a short video disclaimer about safe driving, delivered by whomever was playing the hottie in the FMV cutscenes.

* Used in a more subtle way in ''SaintsRow'', during a mission after trying to find out the recipe for Loa Dust, Tobia's wife tells about what is in the Loa Dust but does not explicitly tell what exactly it is made of to the player and gives it to Shaundi instead. Given the possible controversy of teaching gamers to produce real life chemical drugs. It was a good idea anyway.

* If the player falls hard in ''[[BackyardSports Backyard Skateboarding]]'', Erik says "Don't try this at home, kids" after landing.

* VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Tag Tournament PS2's bowling minigame, when the player overcharges and gets a foul, or chooses to knock out someone with the ball on either side of the bowling alley.

* ''RuneFactoryFrontier'' pulled this when you're trying to cheat on your wife by triggering the "Love Confession" scenes. If Raguna is already married, his wife will come and beat him up, following with the line "* Do not try this at home." after the screen has turned white.

* Used seriously in Webcomic/{{Collar 6}}, which has warnings that it's a fantasy world, NOT a guide to BDSM safety.
* ''AmazingSuperPowers'' did it in [[http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2008/05/watercooler/ the strip about the watercooler]] (see AltText).

* Near the start of the {{Mythbusters}} storyline of LeastICouldDo, [[http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20080930 this happens]]. While the mythbusters DO use the trope's name [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope for legal reasons]], they completely negate it by saying "Come on. Do it. Do it at home." "But do it '''bigger''''".

* Supposedly part of an aborted [[ExecutiveMeddling plan]] to give [[AmericanDragonJakeLong Jake Long's dragon form]] helmet was based on the prospect of children imitating it. Yeah, children turning into a dragon and flying without a helmet, makes perfect sense.

* Sometimes before they were about to do something dangerous in the original ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon, Raphael would say, "Kids don't try this at home."
** Even Rocksteady said this deliberately to the audience after he and Bebop jumped off the back of the subway train.
** Played as a joke in Donatello's opening narration in one episode of the 2003 ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon: "Warning: the stunt you are about to witness is performed by ''professional'' maniacs..."
* A ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode entitled ''Lemon Aid'' had this. Long story short, Jon, Garfield and Odie were in Jon's car, chasing another out-of-control car down a pier. Garfield leans out the window holding a harness attached to a rope, as he is about to save the man in the other car, and says to the camera, "Kids, don't try this at home. We're professionals, and also [[BreakingTheFourthWall we're cartoon characters]]." It was a [[TalkingIsAFreeAction really long pier]].

* Disney's newest animated show ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowski'' basically is a personification of the trope.
* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] and [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] in an episode of ''Gumby'' called ''Lawn Party'', when he and Pokey were watching ''[[StopMotion animated people]]. When Gumby imitates the lawn mowing sequence himself, he wrecks the yard, and a portion of the house!
--->'''Pokey:''' We've been FRAMED! Never trust animated people!

* [[WesternAnimation/KaBlam "Remember kids, don't try this at home. June is a profesional comic book character"]]
* In the SpaceGoofs ChristmasEpisode, the aliens are trying to drive away Santa Claus by lighting explosives under the chimney:

* In the first episode of JohnnyTest, Johnny tries to fly using cardboard wings from atop a ladder. Dukey addresses the camera:

* One TV ad for the DVD release of ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' shows clips from the movie with the announcer saying, "Don't try this at home... or this... [[OverlyLongGag or this...]]" over and over again as the characters do dangerous things to "[[PublicDomainSoundtrack Orpheus in the Underworld]]".
* Spoken several times in TomAndJerryKids, usually by a human character, just before Tom was about to do something dangerous. One of them involved him splitting in two, and going around a tree from both sides.

* Even the animated series ''AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'' would have the cast members [[LampShadeHanging saying this from time to time]].
** [[UrExample Igor Smith is seen hitchhiking in the episode]] ''[[ThePhantomOfTheOpera The Phantomato]] [[AffectionateParody of the Opera]]''. A 18-wheeler passes him by, kicking up a big cloud of dust and truck exhaust in its wake.

* This is literally the last verse of a song in the USAcres cartoon "Secrets of the Animated Cartoon".

* The real-life TropeNamer was the late motorcycle stunt man Evel Knievel, who on his numerous televised death-defying feats in the [[NewerThanTheyThink 1970s]] included the same disclaimer: "Kids, don't try this at home."

** The latter appears in ''[[TheReducedShakespeareCompany The Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show]]''.

* At one of his concerts, MeatLoaf noticed some young children in the audience. He told them "Kids, don't talk like I do when you get home." (Meat Loaf tends to use swear words on stage.) And adds "Wait 'till you get to school!"

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* ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'' features a private event where Rena reformats a public computer's hard drive, erasing the data. The fourth wall is broken and the player is told "Do not try this at home!"

** Even better is when they added this to the commercial for "The Cube," when the car never actually moves

* One ad for Visa (the credit card) showed a pregnant woman picking out house paint with her husband, trying to get ''juuuuust'' the right shade of vermillion. When she finally found the shade she wanted, and said "This is going to be perfect", the scene switched to her in a gridiron Football stadium screaming "Catch the stinkin' ball, stinker!", with her face painted in the vermillion and light-blue colors of her team. A disclaimer at the bottom of the screen during this scene read: "Do not paint your face with house paint."

** Even better is when they added to the commercial for "The Cube," when the car never actually moves

** A recent commercial for the Chevy Sonic shows it doing jumps and grinding on rails as a skateboard would. The disclaimer on the box reads "The Chevy Sonic is NOT a skateboard. Do not attempt." Suprising that they need to have that disclaimer, but considering [[TooDumbToLive how advertisements can inspire people, it is justifiable]].

* "We're what you call 'experts'." Jamie and Adam on ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' warn off the brain-dead at least twice every episode, with additional reminders at the start of especially dodgy (or deceptively safe-looking) experiments. See also "We've got thirty years of experience that keeps ''us'' safe," and the blanket admonition usually seen at the outset:

** They've also done this with non-dangerous experiments that might be misused, such as the episode where they defeat a fingerprint scanner with a technique more commonly used to etch circuit boards.

** It was also parodied in "You spoof Discovery" - "Remember kids, don't try this at home. Even though it's ''REALLY COOL'' and we're giving you step by step instructions on how to do it!"

--->'''Pokey:''' We've been FRAMED! [[InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou Never trust animated people!]]

* Taken UpToEleven by a new DiscoveryChannel Canada show, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Never Ever Try This At Home]]'', which involves intentionally doing such ridiculous things just to see what would happen (seemingly in the interest of science, but more of a RefugeInAudacity). Some of the things done done by the two excitable hosts (and their safety crew) include: launching fireworks in the living room, turning a small bathroom into a giant microwave to defrost a whole fish and filling a water bed with 1000 gallons of water (weighing 4000 kg) then popping it while still in the same room.

* Taken UpToEleven by a new DiscoveryChannel Canada show, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Never Ever Try This At Home]]'', which involves intentionally doing such ridiculous things just to see what would happen (seemingly in the interest of science, but more of a RefugeInAudacity). Some of the things done done by the two excitable hosts (and their safety crew) include: launching fireworks in the living room, turning a small bathroom into a giant microwave to defrost a whole fish and burning a propane camping burner (with the safety valve disabled) indoors.

* When Ling Ling Fat is demonstrating his gunpowder at the beginning of ''Forbidden City Cop'', he reminds the audience that Fat Yun is highly trained for such feats, and that children should never attempt detonating gunpoweder [[spoiler: in their mouths]].

* The protagonist of ''TheCrowCityOfAngels'' says this before taking a mook's gun and [[AteHisGun shooting himself in the mouth.]]

* Taken UpToEleven by a new DiscoveryChannel Canada show, ''Never Ever Try This At Home'', which involves intentionally doing such ridiculous things just to see what would happen (seemingly in the interest of science, but more of a RefugeInAudacity). Some of the things done done by the two excitable hosts (and their safety crew) include: launching fireworks in the living room, turning a small bathroom into a giant microwave to defrost a whole fish and burning a propane camping burner (with the safety valve disabled) indoors.

* The disclaimer for ''Lifesigns Surgical Unit'' states: "Furthermore, the examinations, operations and other behavior performed in this game differ from the real ones. Do not imitate them under any circumstance."

* Taken UpToEleven by a new DiscoveryChannel Canada show, ''Never Ever Try This At Home'', which involves defying warning labels just to see what would happen. Some of the things done done by the two excitable hosts (and their safety crew) include: launching fireworks in the living room, turning a small bathroom into a giant microwave to defrost a whole fish and burning a propane camping burner (with the safety valve disabled) indoors.

* Taken UpToEleven by a new DiscoveryChannel Canada show, ''Never Ever Try This At Home'', which involves defying warning labels just to see what would happen. Some of the things done include: launching fireworks in the living room, turning a small bathroom into a giant microwave to defrost a whole fish and cooking canned food still sealed in the can on a stovetop.

* Taken UpToEleven by a new DiscoveryChannel Canada show, ''Never Ever Try This At Home'' (which, by the looks of the advertisements, involves defying warning labels just to see what would happen)

** They take the further step, in-episode, of [[{{Pixellation}} obscuring the labels of dangerous substances]]. Frequently [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]], usually by Adam, as in "Hindenburg Disaster": "This product is made with blur. This product also has some blur in it. You should ''never'' mix blur with blur, it's very dangerous."