History Main / ObjectCeilingCling

* At VERY least once in ''TheThreeStooges'', when a pie is thrown to the ceiling. At a fancy party. Pompous woman: "Why, young man, you act as if the Sword of Damocles was hanging over your head." Moe: "Lady, you must be psychic!"

* ''DudeWheresMyCar?''A pizza is hidden by throwing it so it sticks to the ceiling. Later, the pieces fall one by one.
* The famous piece of balogna in ''TheBreakfastClub''
* "[[Film/{{UHF}} Not many people know this, but the turtle is nature's suction cup!]]"

* Done intentionally in PeeWeesBigAdventure. He has a breakfast machine RubeGoldbergDevice that prepares pancakes and flips them onto the ceiling. At the end, he catches then on a plate, neatly stacked.

* ''TheBigBangTheory:'' Howard's faulty space toilet malfunctions, and during the attempt to fix it, he launches a piece of meatloaf onto the apartment ceiling. It falls later when Penny is there.

* ''{{Friends}}:'' Monica is making a milkshake, but Rachel says something that surprises her, making her lid hand slip, splattering bananas on the ceiling. It doesn't come down until Monica mops it up.

* In a classic episode of ''ILoveLucy'', Ricky was cooking a couple of chickens in a pressure cooker. He put it on too high and the lid blew off. Ricky looks in to see the chickens are gone. A few seconds later, one chicken fell down and then the other.
* In one of the Swedish Chef sketches on ''TheMuppetShow'' he flips pancakes that go up but don't come down again. After a couple have disappeared this way, he takes out his trusty "boomstick" and shoots up at the ceiling... and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLqohiMy_CU a dozen pancakes fall on his head]].

* ''WesternAnimation{{Recess}}'': Gretchen gave advice to a boy in the bathroom when trying make a wet paper towel stay stuck on the ceiling.

* ''TheLooneyTunesShow'': Daffy accidentally flings a carrot pie onto the ceiling - where it sticks - at the start of "Newspaper Thief". It becomes a BrickJoke at the very end of the episode.

* ''{{Recess}}'': Gretchen gave advice to a girl in the bathroom when trying make a wet paper towel stay stuck on the ceiling.

* Office workers who work in buildings with fake ceilings often throw pencils into the ceiling, as the fake ceilings are often as weak as cardboard.
** Hilariously done [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj7hIDEN21Q here]]

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* A common school prank is to do this with [[http://www.playgroundlaw.com/cgi-bin/browse.pl?sid=945 glue sticks]].
* Or wet bog roll. Although, we once used a piece of cucumber, which remained on the ceiling for ''[[TheyJustDidntCare upwards of six years]]''.

-->Homer Simpson: Oh, Lord! Why do You mock me?
-->Marge: Homer, that's not God. That's a waffle Bart stuck to the ceiling.

-->Homer Simpson: Lord, I know I shouldn't eat thee, but...''(munch munch munch)''...mmm...sacrilicious.

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* Used to great effect in [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1985/12/15/ this]] {{Garfield}} strip

* In ''Fries With That?'', two burger flippers get into a burger flip off, where they show off increasingly complex moves, some require the patty to stick to the ceiling for a few seconds in order to do two at once. Alex mentions that he's attempted to do it with a cheeseburger, but the cheese caused it to get stuck permanently.

* In a classic episode of ILoveLucy Ricky was cooking a couple of chickens in a pressure cooker. He put it on too high and the lid blew off. Ricky looks in to see the chickens are gone. A few seconds later, one chicken fell down and then the other.
* In one of the Swedish Chef sketches on TheMuppetShow he flips pancakes that go up but don't come down again. After a couple have disappeared this way, he takes out his trusty "boomstick" and shoots up at the ceiling... and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLqohiMy_CU a dozen pancakes fall on his head]].

* ''TheSimpsons:'' Bart sticks a waffle onto the ceiling, which Homer mistakes for God, Marge pries the waffle off the ceiling. Homer eats it.

* At Cyan, the studio behind Myst, they'll often use their own offices for a Nerf Gun war. When they finished building their world headquarters building in '96, they played a Nerf war before moving furniture in. One of the darts was shot up on the ceiling, where it remains to this day.

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-->-- '''Carly''', ''[[ICarly iCarly]]'', "iGo Nuclear"

* ''[[DudeWheresMyCar Dude, Where's My Car?]]''A pizza is hidden by throwing it so it sticks to the ceiling. Later, the pieces fall one by one.

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* ''{{iCarly}}'': Carly flings a live worm onto the ceiling while trying to compost for a science project. It sticks. It falls back down on Spencer's head.

* ''HowIMetYourMother'': Marshall, Barney and Ted are throwing pencils at the ceiling. One falls and bounces up Barney's nose, which Marshall calls a miracle.
* In ''Fries With That?'', two burger flippers get into a burger flip off, where they show off increasingly complex moves, some require the patty to stick to the ceiling for a few seconds in order to do two at once. Alex mentions that he's attempted to do it with a cheeseburger, but the cheese caused it to get stuck permanently.

* In a classic episode of {{I Love Lucy}} Ricky was cooking a couple of chickens in a pressure cooker. He put it on too high and the lid blew off. Ricky looks in to see the chickens are gone. A few seconds later, one chicken fell down and then the other.

* [[SluggyFreelance Torg and Riff]] occasionally play a game known as "Gravity-Defying Ceiling Ninja". This involves lying on the floor and throwing darts at a dartboard attached to the ceiling- gravity-defying because the darts stick and stay up. The ninja part? That's what you need if the darts don't stick...

-->Homer Simpson: Lord, I know I shouldn't eat thee, but...''(munch munch munch)''...mmm...sacrilicious.

* In the Lucas Arts adventure game ''DayOfTheTentacle'' there's a slab of fake vomit stuck to the ceiling of the hotel lobby. The characters comment on it with varying shades of distaste. Eventually you have to get it loose to solve a puzzle.

* ''Film/{{Coraline}}'': The ancient taffy Miss Spink and Miss Forcible offer Coraline. The whole bowl gets launched and glued to the ceiling when she struggles to get one loose (and comes down when Spink scolds Forcible that [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Giraffes don't just fall from the sky, Miriam!"]])

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* In the [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad Email]] "couch patch", Homestar has a flashback in which he is spitting Teddy Grahams around Strong Bad's basement. One ends up sticking to the ceiling, and Homestar then starts trying to knock it down by spitting more at it (and catching them back in his mouth each time he fails; it's not indicated whether he ever succeeds).

* "[[{{UHF}} Not many people know this, but the turtle is nature's suction cup!]]"

* ''BlackBooks:'' Pictured above. Manny sees a piece of toast on the ceiling whilst he is calling a cleaner. Later in the same episode, Bernard launches a piece of toast with jam onto the ceiling.

* ''{{Recess}}'': Gretchen gave advice to a girl in the bathroom when trying make a wet paper towel stay stuck on the ceiling.

* Related: In Zero G, this happens when things move toward air vents, as noted in ''{{Freefall}}'' [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff900/fv00900.htm here]].

* Used to great effect in [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1985/12/15/ this]] ''Garfield'' strip

* ''He Died With A Felafel In His Hand:'' A piece of food is stuck to the ceiling.

* ''Dude Where's My Car:''A pizza is hidden by throwing it so it sticks to the ceiling. Later, the pieces fall one by one.

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* at Cyan, the studio behind Myst, they'll often instead of playing laser-tag use their own offices for a Nerf Gun war. When they finished building their world headquarters building in '96, they played a Nerf war before moving furniture in. One of the darts was shot up on the ceiling, where it remains to this day.

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* ''TheSimpsons:'' Bart sticks a waffle onto the ceiling, which Homer mistakes for a sign from God, Marge pries the waffle off the ceiling. Homer eats it.