History Main / Scandalgate

* ''Fanfic/CheatingDeathThoseThatLived'': Social media dubs the [[spoiler:34th]] Hunger Games [=GrenadeGate=] due to how the disastrous inclusion of hand grenades at the Cornucopia cause an explosion that kills almost every tribute with no suspense or fighting.]

* ''Literature/KentuckyFriedPolitics'':
** Prime Minster Stonehouse was revealed to be an agent for the Czechoslovakian government, and is arrested as he is trying to flee the country.
** The ''Miss Arkansas'' scandal almost taints Sanders' presidency, as it is alleged that Sanders in his youth inappropriately touched a beauty pageant candidate. However, Sanders defies it by admitting his mistake and apologizing to the victim in question and other victims, and making amends by proposing anti-sexual harassment laws. This sets the feminist movement into an overdrive called the "Ark Wave", similar to the [=#MeToo=] movement of OTL 2010s.
** The "Great Potomac Scandals" of [[spoiler: the Denton administration. Between Secretary of State [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_%22Buz%22_Lukens Buz Lukens's]] crime of pedophilia that sets off the second Arkwave of anti-sexual pestering, as well as using political funds as hush money, Vice-President Lamar Alexander's accepting of bribes that led to his resignation, Chief of Staff Richard Schemerhorn's cover-up of Lukens's crime by destroying evidence, Secretary of Agriculture H. Guy Hunt's misuse of department funds for personal use, and culminating in hidden diary entries that reveal President Denton knew about the scandal and tried to cover it up, it all leads to the chambers of Congress turning Democrat in a mid-term tidal wave, and Denton deciding to resign before he can be impeached]].
** In contrast, the sole "scandal" of President Kemp's tenure is his Secretary of Defense [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Dunagan Donnie Dunagan]] resigning because he withheld information during his Senate confirmation hearing (or they didn't ask) - that he voiced WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}} as a young boy!
** Midway through President Jesse Jackson's second term, his son [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson_Jr Jesse Jackson Jr.]] is arrested for assault on a reporter, discovered to have bipolar disorder, and chooses to check into rehab to get control of it. If not for the reporter withdrawing his charges (because he supposedly had his own pending arrest warrants), things might have gotten even uglier.
*** Jackson suffers a second scandal after he leaves office, when he makes some anti-semitic "YouAreACreditToYourRace" remarks about his VP (now President) Paul Wellstone on an interview. This leads to quite a bit of backlash and Jackson doing his best to withdraw from the limelight.

* In the Creator/GoldieHawn vehicle ''Film/{{Protocol}}'', Goldie Hawn's blond ditz character, Sunny Davis, is unaware that she's being asked to be a prostitute for a high-ranking Arab shiek. When the scandal finally broke, the TV news called it "Sunnygate".

* In the Goldie Hawn vehicle ''Protocol'', Goldie Hawn's blond ditz character, Sunny Davis, is unaware that she's being asked to be a prostitute for a high-ranking Arab shiek. When the scandal finally broke, the TV news called it "Sunnygate".

* The political satire ''The Best Laid Plans'' has pundits use the term "Leathergate" after the BSDM habits of a prominent politician are exposed. This leaves the opposing candidate and his campaign manager ([[SpringtimeForHitler who are trying to lose the election]]) dismayed. They lampshade the seriousness of the "-gate" suffix being adopted. 

** In ''Ishmael and the Return of the Dugongs'', an event at a pool-party is later discussed as Piss-in-the-watergate. [[spoiler:It was cordial.]]

* Hugh Dennis on ''Series/MockTheWeek'' made a joke about this, calling a scandal about tapping the phones of celebrities "stargate" and one about politicians buying pornography "[[IncrediblyLamePun masturgate]]."

* In ''VideoGame/TheDarksideDetective'', ditzy police officer Dooley decides there is something suspicious about a gate, and declares that he's going to investigate until he discovers what secrets it is hiding. He calls it "Gategate."

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* Referenced in the Post-Boot ''ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}''. The crisis of the United Planets' PortalNetwork being subverted by an alien power and used to invade Earth is referred to as "Softgate."

* On ''Series/{{Succession}}'', Shiv refers to the incident of [[spoiler:her alluding that her father is a 'dinosaur' and she might be a better fit to run it]] at a public panel as "dinosaur-gate".

* Referenced and discussed in ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', Volume 1. Peter Parker listens to a lecture on the Watergate Scandal; the teacher lampshades how paranoid Nixon was, while still keeping kept all of his incriminating evidence, because he thought he was untouchable. This allows Peter to realize Kingpin records ''all'' of his incriminating evidence for posterity because he thinks he's above the consequences - evidence that can be stolen and leaked to the press.

The event, dubbed "Watergate" after the hotel[[note]]Incidentally, the "gate" in Watergate refers to the literal [[https://ggwash.org/images/posts/201607-130932-1.jpg wooden toll gate]] marking the place where the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal empties into the Potomac River. The Hotel overlooks said gate.[[/note]], was the biggest political scandal to hit the United States in the 20th century. As a result virtually every political scandal that has happened since has had the suffix "-gate" applied to its name. Even scandals that aren't political in nature have followed this naming convention.

The event, dubbed "Watergate" after the hotel[[note]]Incidentally, the "gate" in Watergate refers to the literal [[https://ggwash.org/images/posts/201607-130932-1.jpg wooden toll gate]] marking the place where the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal empties into the Potomac River. The Hotel overlooks said gate.[[/note]], was the biggest political scandal to hit the United States in recent memory. As a result virtually every political scandal that has happened since has had the suffix "-gate" applied to its name. Even scandals that aren't political in nature have followed this naming convention.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': When a lunch lady doesn't give Gene enough tater tots, he refers to what happened as "Tatergate".

* In the ''Laugh Factory'' comic book miniseries that took place after the events of the Pixar film ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', Sulley refers to Waternoose's scheme of solving the energy crisis by kidnapping human children as "Waternoosegate".

* In the ''Laugh Factory'' comic book miniseries that took place after the events of the Pixar film ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', Sulley refers to Waternoose's scheme of solving the energy crisis by kidnapping children as "Waternoosegate".