History Main / VaudevilleHook

* Happens to WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck in [[ClassicDisneyShorts shorts]] like "Orphans' Benefit" and "Mickey's Amateurs".

* ''DykesToWatchOutFor'' #378: Then First Lady Laura Bush on TV, after saying that women are miserably oppressed in Saudia Arabia. “I say we go in there and– ''Gak!''”

Real {{Vaudeville}} shows would DropTheCow on bad or overly long acts with [[HooksAndCrooks "the hook", a shepherd's crook]] extended from offstage to pull away the performer. But in cartoons, you don't even need to be on a stage to get the hook. Any bad performance can get the hook, even if you're performing on top of a fence - it just reaches out from BehindTheBlack and drags you offscreen. Wearing a red-and-white vertically striped shirt and a straw boater makes you especially susceptible to this, as does dancing while holding a cane. Spending a while dodging the hook, continuing to perform all the while, before eventually getting snared is a common feature.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': The "Cast of ''charactors''" segment used this on the number 6.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' [[AnimatedMusicVideo PMV]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmJ2Bkx2C5A "Beat It"]] features one in the post-music video part, when Animated James's OC asks Flash Sentry if he doesn't mind not being included in the video, because... nobody likes him. Cue Flash struck speechless, and a vaudeville hook slowly reachs for the pegasus before pulling him offstage. Then Ms. Harshwhinny walks in, carrying the hook, and Animated James gives her money.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' [[AnimatedMusicVideo PMV]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmJ2Bkx2C5A "Beat It"]] features one in the post-music video part, when [=AnimatedJames=]' OC asks Flash Sentry if he doesn't mind not being included in the video, because... nobody likes him. Cue Flash struck speechless, and a vaudeville hook slowly reachs for the pegasus before pulling him offstage. Then Ms. Harshwhinny walks in, carrying the hook, and [=AnimatedJames=] gives her money.

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes MerrieMelodies]]'' short ''Hamateur Night'', Egghead gets pulled away by a hook. When he comes back again, two hooks are used. Later, when he comes back a third time, [[RuleOfThree three hooks]] are used, with an extra hook coming in to get his hat.

* In extras of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'', there's a [[Series/AmericanIdol American Idol-esque]] singing contest, and [[PeterPan Captain Hook]], [[JustForPun while playing "Hooked on a Feeling"]], is [[VisualPun removed from the stage in this manner]].

* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': Deployed in several episodes, including multiple times during the episode that showed the audition process for the show. [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Vaudeville Listed on the Muppet Wiki]].

* Peacock from ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' exits the stage this way when switching out characters.

* The fan game ''Franchise/MegaMan: Rock Force'' uses these in Charade Man's stage to try and pull the player into spikes.

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* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', this happens to DonaldDuck and DaffyDuck in the Ink-n-Paint Club. After several minutes of trying to sabotage one another's piano playing, Donald [[RefugeInAudacity fires a cannon at Daffy's piano]], flooring his own and destroying Daffy's. Both of them, along with their pianos, are dragged off-stage with hooks.
* In the new ''Franchise/TheMuppets'' movie. One of these is used to grab most of the other Muppets during the montage.

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* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': Deployed in several episodes, including multiple times during the episode that showed the audition process for the show. [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Vaudeville Listed on the Muppet Wiki]].
* Referred to on ''Series/TheDailyShow'' in 2004 when, after winning the Oklahoma primary, Wesley Clark said, [[IncrediblyLamePun "Oklahoma is OK by me!"]]

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Garfield sometimes gets the hook when he's doing his fence act.
** Once, when he gave a ChristmasSpecial, a candy cane was used.
* One ''Farley'' strip, when Bruin Hilda was running for mayor of San Francisco, had the beaver sing a campaign song (to the tune of "[[Music/TheBeatles Saw Her Standing There]]". Hilda is thinking "Get the hook".
* The page image comes from a political cartoon, where Uncle Sam is obliviously showing off America's status as a world power while [[ChinaTakesOverTheWorld China]] calmly watches in the shadows, with a "Your [[FifteenMinutesOfFame fifteen minutes]] are almost up, Sammy..."

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* Other uses of this trope are discussed in [[http://www.bugmartini.com/comic/hooked-on-a-reeling/ this]] ''Webcomic/BugMartini'' strip.

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* In extras of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'', there's a [[Series/AmericanIdol American Idol-esque]] singing contest, and [[PeterPan Captain Hook]], [[JustForPun while playing "Hooked on a Feeling"]], is [[VisualPun removed from the stage in this manner]].

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', a disguised [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker Joker]] shows up on stage and starts performing at a stand-up comedy competition - right as the judges are about to announce the winner. He gets pulled off stage with one of these on the grounds that since he hadn't registered as a participant, he had no business being there. A year later, [[DisproportionateRetribution Joker steals some mind control chips from the Mad Hatter, uses them to turn the judges into third-rate supervillains, and arranges for himself to be the only contestant in that year's competition - with his henchmen as the new judges]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'''s [[DisneyAcidSequence If I Didn't Have You]] song, there's a part where a line of eggs with dragon feet sticking out dance across the screen. They are promptly yanked off-screen.

Real Vaudeville shows would DropTheCow on bad or overly long acts with [[HooksAndCrooks "the hook", a shepherd's crook]] extended from offstage to pull away the performer. But in cartoons, you don't even need to be on a stage to get the hook. Any bad performance can get the hook, even if you're performing on top of a fence - it just reaches out from BehindTheBlack and drags you offscreen. Wearing a red-and-white vertically striped shirt and a straw boater makes you especially susceptible to this, as does dancing while holding a cane. Spending a while dodging the hook, continuing to perform all the while, before eventually getting snared is a common feature.

* Used in one of Hal Roach's ''OurGang'' comedies, in which one of the mothers tried to drag her boy offstage with the hook... but kept missing him, first popping a couple of stage lights, then badly electrocuting herself when the metal crook got caught in the live socket.

* In the ''MerrieMelodies'' short ''Hamateur Night'', Egghead gets pulled away by a hook. When he comes back again, two hooks are used. Later, when he comes back a third time, [[RuleOfThree three hooks]] are used, with an extra hook coming in to get his hat.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Zoidberg is doing stand up at the Apollo and gets the hook. He breaks it with his claw, only to have another one whack him in the head and pull him away.

Though he didn't originate it, the hook is forever associated with "Sandman" Sims, a tap dancer who would use the hook on bad acts at the Apollo Theatre.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Zoidberg is doing stand up at the Apollo and gets the hook. He tries to avoid it only to have another one whack him in the head and pull him away.

* In extras of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'', there's a [[AmericanIdol American Idol-esque]] singing contest, and [[PeterPan Captain Hook]], [[JustForPun while playing "Hooked on a Feeling"]], is [[VisualPun removed from the stage in this manner]].