History Main / EmptySwimmingPoolDive

* The video for BryanAdams' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VZhSkREYBc "Cuts Like A Knife"]] takes place in an empty swimming pool -- Adams and his band are performing at the bottom of it, to be precise. The performance is intercut with shots of the requisite video babe changing into a bathing suit in a stall. At the end she mounts the diving board and jumps ... [[spoiler:and [[SubvertedTrope reappears at the other end of the pool, wet.]]]]

* The video for Music/Bryan Adams' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VZhSkREYBc "Cuts Like A Knife"]] takes place in an empty swimming pool -- Adams and his band are performing at the bottom of it, to be precise. The performance is intercut with shots of the requisite video babe changing into a bathing suit in a stall. At the end she mounts the diving board and jumps ... [[spoiler:and [[SubvertedTrope reappears at the other end of the pool, wet.]]]]

* Whenever a WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes or TexAvery short features a pool with a diving board, you can bet this trope will appear in one form or another.

* A ''WesternAnimation/TinyToons'' short involving Montana Max stealing water for his own pool had a few instances of this.

* In the backstory of the HulkHogan film ''Mr. Nanny'', this happened to the BigBad. While fighting Hulk's character, the villain accidentally ran off the roof of a building and landed head-first in the empty pool of the nextdoor hotel. It would of killed him, but his FunnyAfro cushioned the fall. Nonetheless, he needed to have a metal plate put on afterwards.

You know the gag. A person makes a masterful dive into a swimming pool, discovering too late that the pool doesn't have water in it. Physical trauma (and possibly [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]]) ensues. It's fairly popular in comedy, and typically PlayedForLaughs, although more dramatic examples do exist.

* Hefty in ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book story "The Smurf Threat" makes a masterful dive into an empty river bed.

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* This trope was the punchline of one ''ShelSilverstein'' poem.

* The 3rd episode of ''TheFlintstones'' (actually the first one produced) was titled "The Swimming Pool", where Fred and Barney build a pool in their adjoining backyards. This gag appears at least once.

* A TinyToons short involving Montana Max stealing water for his own pool had a few instances of this.
* Brainy makes a dive into an empty river bed in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "The Patchwork Bear".

* There's a story of a boy who practiced diving into a public pool at nighttime. One time as he was about to dive, he noticed he was casting a shadow in the shape of a cross. Believing it to be a sign, he hesitated. Moments later, the lights came on... revealing that he'd just barely defied this trope. [[http://www.snopes.com/glurge/highdive.asp Read about it here.]]

* Hefty in ''TheSmurfs'' comic book story "The Smurf Threat" makes a masterful dive into an empty river bed.

* A TinyToons short involving Montana Max stealing water for his own pool had a few instances of this.

* You can do this deliberately in one stage of ''ZackAndWiki: Quest for Barbaros's Treasure''. In fact, you have to in order to get a certain achievement.

* A more serious example in the {{Franco Belgian Comic|s}} ''Les 4 As'': In one book, a mafia gang used that as a method of execution.

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* Whenever a LooneyTunes or TexAvery short features a pool with a diving board, you can bet this trope will appear in one form or another.

* In the ''LooneyTunes'' short "High Diving Hare" BugsBunny tricks Yosemite Sam into jumping off a high dive into a barrel of water, except there's no water in the barrel. Bugs dumps a bucket of water after Sam, and Sam tries to get the water to fall faster than he so it'll be there for him to land in. The water lands on the barrel in time... Sam misses the barrel entirely.

-->--''MADMagazine: Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions''

* Happens in the ClassicDisneyShort "How To Swim", when {{Goofy}} is demonstrating the high dive. He leaves [[EfficientDisplacement a Goofy-shaped hole]] in the floor.

->--''MADMagazine: Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions''

* In the ''LooneyTunes'' short "High Diving Hare" BugsBunny tricks Yosemite Sam into jumping off a high dive into a barrel of water, except there's no water in the barrel. Bugs dumps a bucket of water after Sam, and Sam tries to get the water to fall faster than he so it'll be there for him to land in. The water lands on the barrel in time... Sam misses the barrel entirely.

* A more serious example in the FrancoBelgianComic ''Les 4 As'': In one book, a mafia gang used that as a method of execution.

* In the ''LooneyTunes'' short "High Diving Hare" BugsBunny tricks Yosemite Sam into jumping off a high dive into a barrel of water, except there's no water in the barrel. Bugs dumps a bucket of water after Sam, and Sam tries to get the water to fall faster than he so it'll be there for him to land in.