History SchmuckBait / LiveActionTV

* ''[[Series/WarehouseThirteen]] is full of really cool artifacts with mystic powers but dangerous side effects. Pete Lattimer is well aware of this, but still touches anything and everything where the downside isn't immediately apparent.

* In the opening episode of episode of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' season three, Hiro receives a posthumous message from his father saying that he must not open the safe in the office. Any one who has watched Hiro for five minutes knows this was idiocy on his father's part. And it was... the fact that one of the things in the safe was another message saying "I told you not to open the safe!", while funny, makes it clear that his father actually ''intended'' to make him open the safe.

* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', "Save Henry." Regina, Snow White, and Emma are hunting down Peter Pan when they see Pandora's Box just sitting on the ground. Seeing as how the box is a FateWorseThanDeath for anyone inside it, and [[spoiler:Rumplestiltskin]] ''is'' inside it, Regina ''[[GenreSavvy immediately]]'' deduces its a trap. Snow White doesn't listen, goes to the box, [[WhatAnIdiot and sets off the trap]].
* ''{{Community}}'' - Abed sent Jeff a fake invitation to a club opening to ensure his calendar would be open for Troy and Abed's housewarming party.
-->'''Jeff''': [reading card] There’s no such thing as the “Single Malt Platinum Boobs and Billiards Club"?...I guess I never said it out loud.

** So the panellists know that obvious questions are schmuck bait. But the question setters know that the panellists know, so set schmuck bait questions that aren't. The panelists won't answer, so Stephen has to force the answer out of them, cajoling them until one says they will 'take the bullet for the team', and being surprised the obvious answer is the correct answer, leading to one of {{David Mitchell}}s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONsrQtnvZcs rants]]. Of course when Stephen has to cajole the answer, and refuses to move on it must be because the answer IS right, so they know to give it. The production team know that the panellists know this. So the obvious answer IS wrong...

** "The Pandorica Opens". The Doctor seeks out a device that is an advanced prison designed to contain the universe's most powerful and intelligent being, a being feared by the Daleks, Cyberman, Judoon, Silurians, and countless other hostile alien races he's fought against. [[spoiler: Its a prison for the Doctor.]]

** After a "Manamana" Muppets bit...

** A more recent one (from him) would be to google "santorum", because of discussing a lesser-known GOP candidate Rick Santorum. The kicker? The guest for that night, KeiraKnightley actually googled it and felt [[spoiler: that her innocence was taken away from her.]]

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' episode "The Heist". Soldiers raid a secret government armory, but the guard they capture begs them not to open a box. They open it, and unleash an alien that kills them all and continues to the outside world.

* On Season 18 of ''TheAmazingRace'', the Austria Detour involved "Long Hard Walk" or "Quick and Easy Meal". "Long Hard Walk" involved carrying a large couch down a large stretch of the city while "Quick and Easy Meal" involved eating food on the Prater Ferris Wheel within a strict time limit (one full rotation of the wheel). The only problem with the latter detour was that they did not identify ''how much food you had to eat''. It turned out to be an absolutely massive amount, and the three teams who initially attempted this could not finish and ended up doing the other side of the Detour, as it was not like you could eat any more the second time around.

::: People actually did it. Even the [[EarWorm correct link]] is Schmuck Bait.

:: People actually did it. Even the [[EarWorm correct link]] is Schmuck Bait.

* The term "Schmuck Bait-y" was used in the MutantEnemy bullpen and by Creator/JossWhedon in [=DVD=] commentaries to describe settings that were dark and gloomy and seemed dangerous. Handy term for places they were ''bound'' to send characters.

* At least one ingredient in Round One of every episode of ''CupcakeWars'' is obvious Schmuck Bait. For example, the oysters, or the olives.

* In ''Zeke & Luther'', Zeke takes a bath in a hotel.Near the tub is a sign saying [[RuleOfFunny Don't stick fingers in the faucet]].He does it and it remains stuck,forcing him to do a stunt with a faucet stuck to his toe.Better than the other idea,though (which was to saw his toe off.)

** Inverted with the lever mark "Do not pull lever" that opens the side door.

* ''South Beach Tow's'' ChristmasEpisode ''begins'' with this as a ChekhovsGun with anonymous box of Christmas cookies that [[FatIdiot Rob Jr.]] eats despite his [[WomenAreWiser sister's]] paranoia about where they came from. [[PottyEmergency Cue bad gas and emergency bathroom run]] during a heated bilingual exchange with the owners of a [[PintsizedPowerhouse car that despite being hitched up]] ''drags the entire tow truck'' to who-knows-where. Then, [[HumiliationConga he returns to HQ sans truck where he's chewed out by his dad, loses out to]] [[ReliableTraitor Eddie]] [[TooDumbToLive who ALSO ate the cookies after Christine's warning,]] [[PottyEmergency hogged the company bathroom, leaving]] [[GassHole Rob to nearly shit himself on the floor as his dad]] [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity fires him]] [[MagnificentBitch after the anonymous baker, a former tow victim, calls to rub it in.]]

* ''PawnStars''

* ''South Beach Tow's'' ChristmasEpisode ''begins'' with this as a ChekovsGun with anonymous box of Christmas cookies that [[FatIdiot Rob Jr.]] eats despite his [[WomenAreWiser sister's]] paranoia about where they came from. [[PottyEmergency Cue bad gas and emergency bathroom run]] during a heated bilingual exchange with the owners of a [[PintsizedPowerhouse car that despite being hitched up]] ''drags the entire tow truck'' to who-knows-where. Then, [[HumiliationConga he returns to HQ sans truck where he's chewed out by his dad, loses out to]] [[ReliableTraitor Eddie]] [[TooDumbToLive who ALSO ate the cookies after Christine's warning,]] [[PottyEmergency hogged the company bathroom, leaving]] [[GassHole Rob to nearly shit himself on the floor as his dad]] [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity fires him]] [[MagnificentBitch after the anonymous baker, a former tow victim, calls to rub it in.]]

* In ''{{Sharpe}}'s Rifles'', Sharpe gets Harris to make a sign reading "Keep Out" in French, and puts it at the entrance of a booby-trapped building. Sure enough, the next French cavalrymen to pass fall for it.