History Main / PrankInjuries

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': in the ''[[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysTheBigPictureShow Big Picture Show]]'' movie, Ed and Eddy manage to scare Edd in the gag factory wearing items that portray with a fork and an axe through their heads respectively.

[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]

* When ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'' and her father went to a cultural festival at their neighbor Fuuka's high school, one class had a haunted house manned by a girl with the arrow-through-the-head thing. Being five, and not having been exposed to that gag, Yotsuba got really concerned about her well-being...

[[folder: Film - Animation ]]

* On ''{{Disney/Pocahontas}}'', Radcliff's valet Wiggins pulls the old arrow-through-the-head bit.

[[folder: Film - Live Action ]]

* In the third ''ScaryMovie'', one of the main character's friends from the previous film fakes these (being expected to die in 7 days as part of the film's status as a parody of ''TheRing'') before being killed off proper.
* ''{{Film/April Fools Day}}'' took this to the extreme.

[[folder: Live Action Television ]]

* Mike in ''TheMonkees'' has one of the fake arrows through his head in a few romps.

* [[Series/{{Mythbusters}} Adam Savage]] is fond of these, having both the arrow and knife variety of head injury prank items in his possession, as well as having used them before for humorous [[NoFourthWall pieces to the camera]].

[[folder: Newspaper Comics ]]

* One ''FarSide'' comic had a reversal of the fake-arrow-through-head hat, an indian with a fake ''rifle'' stuck through their head.
* ''ShermansLagoon'': Sherman attempts to pull this gag. The lagoon gang is trying to hide a whale from hunters when Sherman comes up claiming to have been harpooned through the head. Filmore doesn't fall for it and tell him to just "wait over there till this is over."

[[folder: Video Games ]]

* One of the {{Nice Hat}}s you can now get in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' simulates a large butcher knife stuck in your head. (This being ''[[BloodyHilarious Team Fortress 2]]'', it may well be an ''actual'' butcher knife stuck in your head.)

[[folder: Webcomics ]]

* [[http://www.unshelved.com/2003-2-21 This]] ''{{Unshelved}}'' strip.

[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': in the ''[[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysTheBigPictureShow Big Picture Show]]'' movie, Ed and Eddy manage to scare Edd in the gag factory wearing items that portray with a fork and an axe through their heads respectively.
* The arrow gag is taken UpToEleven in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "One If By Clam, Two If By Sea". After a hurricane hits Quahog, Peter stumbles around with a fence plank impaled through his body. After horrifying his family, he reveals that it's just set up like the fake arrow trick.

[[folder: Real Life ]]

* SteveMartin wore a hat that portrayed an arrow through his head as his trademark.
-->[[http://legends.disney.go.com/legends/detail?key=Steve Martin "The arrow-through-the-head was a thing we used to sell at Disneyland," Martin says, "It was just so silly. It was like anti-comedy."]]
* Basically any high end magician/illusionist act. Sawing a person in half, spearing the armoire with swords, etc.

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* An episode of'' {{Scrubs}}'' has Dr Cox put an arrow on a hung over Jordon's head. She doesn't notice even while Cox draws attention to it.

Prank items used in imitating horrifying injuries. May result in CryingWolf or DeadlyPrank.

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* [[http://www.unshelved.com/2003-2-21 This]] ''{{Unshelved}}'' strip.

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* On the HalloweenEpisode of ''ModernFamily'', Claire pretends to accidentally chop off her hand to scare the girls. They don't fall for it, but as they try to pick up the fake hand, it suddenly jumps up at them and they scream. Turns out it was Phil hiding under the table.

* When [[YotsubaTo Yotsuba]] and her father went to a cultural festival at their neighbor Fuuka's high school, one class had a haunted house manned by a girl with the arrow-through-the-head thing. Being five, and not having been exposed to that gag, Yotsuba got really concerned about her well-being...

* [[{{Mythbusters}} Adam Savage]] is fond of these, having both the arrow and knife variety of head injury prank items in his possession, as well as having used them before for humorous [[NoFourthWall pieces to the camera]].

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': in the ''Big Picture Show'' movie, Ed and Eddy manage to scare Edd in the gag factory wearing items that portray with a fork and an axe through their heads respectively.

* ''EdEddNEddy'': in the ''Big Picture Show'' movie, Ed and Eddy manage to scare Edd in the gag factory wearing items that portray with a fork and an axe through their heads respectively.

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* One ''FarSide'' comic had a reversal of the fake-arrow-through-head hat, an indian with a fake ''rifle'' stuck through their head.
* ''ShermansLagoon'': Sherman attempts to pull this gag. The lagoon gang is trying to hide a whale from hunters when Sherman comes up claiming to have been harpooned through the head. Filmore doesn't fall for it and tell him to just "wait over there till this is over."

[[AC:RealLife]]
* SteveMartin wore a hat that portrayed an arrow through his head as his trademark.
-->[[http://legends.disney.go.com/legends/detail?key=Steve Martin "The arrow-through-the-head was a thing we used to sell at Disneyland," Martin says, "It was just so silly. It was like anti-comedy."]]
* Basically any high end magician/illusionist act. Sawing a person in half, spearing the armoire with swords, etc.

* [[spoiler: ''{{Film/April Fools Day}}'' took this to the extreme.]]

* One of the {{Nice Hat}}s you can now get in ''TeamFortress2'' simulates a large butcher knife stuck in your head. (This being ''[[BloodyHilarious Team Fortress 2]]'', it may well be an ''actual'' butcher knife stuck in your head.)

* In ''[[{{ptitle8pp9w72sx8tq}} E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]'', Michael's Halloween costume includes a gag item simulating something sharp stuck through his head. ET appears concerned that he's been genuinely injured.

* ''EdEddNEddy'': in the ''Big Picture Show'' movie, Ed and Eddy manage to scare Edd in the gag factory wearing items that portray with an arrow and an axe through their heads respectively.

* An episode of {{Scrubs}} has Dr Cox put an arrow on a hung over Jordon's head. She doesn't notice even while Cox draws attention to it.

* [[spoiler: ''AprilFoolsDay'' took this to the extreme.]]

* In the third ''ScaryMovie'', one of the main character's friends from the prevous film fakes these (being expected to die in 7 days as part of the film's status as a pardy of ''TheRing'') before being killed off proper.

* In the third ''ScaryMovie'', one of the main character's friends from the prevous film fakes these (being expected to die in 7 days as part of the film's status as a pardy of ''TheRng'') before being killed off proper.

* One ''FarSide'' comic had someone who had a version that made it look like they had a rifle stuck through their head.