History Main / InvitedAsDinner

* This is part of the Cat's plan in Theatre/{{Honk}}, even having a whole song -- "Play With Your Food" -- to the before actions.

* In ''Vampire in Brooklyn'', the vampire says "I would like to have you for dinner".

* The novel ''Practical Demon Keeping''.

* An episode of the ''IT Crowd'' had Moss go to a German cannibal, mistaking the classified ad as being for a cooking class instead of for a volunteer meal. "I want to cook with you...Oh, you want to cook using me."

* {{Dungeons And Dragons}} module B2, ''TabletopGame/KeepOnTheBorderlands''. The hobgoblin lair has a sign outside: "Come in - we'd like to have you for dinner!". The player characters may assume that this is a cordial invitation to eat dinner with them. It isn't.

* In the musical ''{{Annie}}'', the last verse of the song "We'd Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover" invites President Hoover to join the [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty starving residents of Hooverville]] for Christmas dinner.

* In ''TheSilverChair'', one of ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', the Lady of the Green Kirtle sends Eustace, Jill and Puddleglum to Harfang, the home of the so-called Gentle Giants, for their Autumn Feast. The children and Puddleglum find out that they are intended to be the Autumn Feast. Although the giants are a little perplexed on how to cook Puddleglum.

An instance where a character thinks they are invited as a guest, but are actually intended as the main course. May include dialogue like "We'd like have you for dinner" "Where's the dish?" "You are." (Cue eating). Tends to occur in LetsMeetTheMeat / CarnivoreConfusion situations, or else with monsters doing this to humans. Compare with InnOfNoReturn and ToServeMan.

* {{Dungeons And Dragons}} module B2, ''The Keep on the Borderlands''. The hobgoblin lair has a sign outside: "Come in - we'd like to have you for dinner!". The player characters may assume that this is a cordial invitation to eat dinner with them. It isn't.

* ''TheElderScrolls [=III=]: Morrowind'' uses this in one of its many in-game short stories. A thief is mistaken for "Lady Tressed" at a masquerade dinner party where everyone has weird names. Her partner is already there (asleep at the end of the table), being called "Esruoc Tsrif" by the guests. She eventually realizes that everyone is pronouncing their names backwards, but she waits until the vampires jump her to figure out who "Lady Tressed" is.
** It's part of an actual ''quest'' in ''TheElderScrolls [=V=]: Skyrim''--to complete The Taste Of Death, you ([[VideoGameCrueltyPotential yes]], ''[[VillainProtagonist you]]'') must trick Brother Verulus into coming to a cannibal den for a meal. You then kill him and eat of him to successfully complete the quest and get the reward.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/LandBeforeTime 5'', the dinosaurs are invited to dinner by their friend Chomper, a T-rex. Chomper actually did mean the invitation to be a friendly get-together, but the main cast is understandably a little freaked out. A song ensues. ("Friends for dinner / Don't want to be friends for dinner...")

* In ''LandBeforeTime 5'', the dinosaurs are invited to dinner by their friend Chomper, a T-rex. Chomper actually did mean the invitation to be a friendly get-together, but the main cast is understandably a little freaked out. A song ensues. ("Friends for dinner / Don't want to be friends for dinner...")
* From ''TheLionKing'':

* on one {{ The Simpson}} this happens to Homer

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* In PSP remake of ''Disgaea2'', Axel is anonymously offered a job to provide entertainment at a "dinner hotel", which he all too eagerly accepts. He remains completely oblivious to the fact that he was meant to be eaten for the entire chapter, despite it being ''clearly stated'' to him on multiple occasions, and gets beaten up by his companions for it.

** Another recent one has the two at a supermarket, and Yellow comments on what he thinks is a guest list. [[GrumpyBear Red]] informs him that it's a [[OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList grocery list]].

* Famously, {{the Brothers Grimm}}'s "Literature/HanselAndGretel".

'''Banzai''': Yeah, we could have whatever's [[IncrediblyLamePun lion around]]!

* An Ivan Turgenev story "Bubnoff and the Devil" has the title character meeting {{Satan}} one night, and being invited as an honored guest to the Devil's home and even proposed as a match for the Devil's [[CuteMonsterGirl grand-daughter]]. The demons like him so much, they decide to eat him for dinner.

* In ''TheSilverChair'', one of ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', the Lady of the Green Kirtle sends Eustace, Jill and Puddleglum to Harfang, the home of the so-called Gentle Giants, for their Autumn Feast. The children and Puddleglum find out that they are intended to be the Autumn Feast. Although the giants are a little perplexed on how to cook Puddleglum.

* An episode of the ''IT Crowd'' had Moss go to a German cannibal, mistaking the classified ad as being for a cooking class instead of for a volunteer meal. "I want to cook with you...Oh, you want to cook using me."

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* At least two of Bugs Bunny's encounters with Wile E. Coyote started off with his being invited over to become the main course.

* Played with in an episode of ''KrodMandoonAndTheFlamingSwordOfFire''. The team is sent to kill an alleged man-eating cyclops. They arrive, and the cyclops complains that nobody will socialize with him because everyone thinks he's a monster like his father. Then, once he has all his guests in the hot tub, a cage descends from the ceiling and he reveals that he's going to eat them after all... [[RapeAsComedy after having sex with them.]]

* In the comic strip ''ComicBook/{{Pogo}}'':

* In the comic strip ''{{Pogo}}'' the title character, a possum, is invited to a dinner of "parsnip and [--possum--] pie."
** In the same strip there was a world series arc that included a team of ptarmigans that were accidentally cooked and eaten. They were ptough.

* Famously, {{the Brothers Grimm}}'s ''{{Hansel and Gretel}}''.

* A ''Chips Ahoy'' commercial has an anthropomorphic cookie at a birthday party wondering "Where's the cake?" and then to his horror, realizing the answer.
** More like his mild annoyance. The scene is much funnier than the above description makes it sound.

-->Cookie: "...Oh."

* Played with in an episode of ''KrodMandoon''. The team is sent to kill an alleged man-eating cyclops. They arrive, and the cyclops complains that nobody will socialize with him because everyone thinks he's a monster like his father. Then, once he has all his guests in the hot tub, a cage descends from the ceiling and he reveals that he's going to eat them after all... [[RapeAsComedy after having sex with them.]]

* The 1995 indie film ''The Last Supper'' has a group of ideologically liberal twentysomethings inviting strangers to dinner and then eating them if they turn out to be too conservative (and as a liberal, I don't remember the film being as offensive as that one-sentence)

* In "The Silver Chair," one of the Narnia Chronicles, the Lady of the Green Kirtle sends Eustace, Jill and Puddleglum to Harfang, the home of the so-called Gentle Giants, for their Autumn Feast. The children and Puddleglum find out that they are intended to be the Autumn Feast. Although the giants are a little perplexed on how to cook Puddleglum.