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In general, American game shows tended to use slime as an obstacle or even reward, while the British, with their typical mastery of villainy, treated it more as a sort of ritual punishment with various elaborate and spectacular gungings being dealt out to celebrities or the general public courtesy of the BBC.

Check The Pig Pen for someone who is always like this. When it's blood that somebody is covered with, it's Blood-Splattered Innocents ; if they did it intentionally and like it, it's Blood Is the New Black. If it's mud they're covered in, it's Covered in Mud. Often an essential ingredient in a good Humiliation Conga. Technically at least borderline Rule 34 but arguably less gross, are depictions of characters covered in chocolate, especially if the chocolate is actively being poured on top of them.

Not to be confused with something being Covered in Grunge. Cave Johnson: Oh, in case you get covered in that repulsion gel, here's some advice the lab boys gave me: do not get covered in the repulsion gel. We haven't entirely nailed down what element it is yet, but I'll tell you this: it's a lively one, and it does not like the human skeleton. Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so.

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Tropedia Explore. Wiki Content. Troping Utilities. Troper Social Networks. In this game, the adult's objective was still to answer five questions correctly and light five pumpkin lights next to them, but they would instantly lose if they ever answered with a word that began with a certain letter announced at the beginning of the game. The questions were usually deliberately set to lead them into doing this if the letter was B, for example, a question might be "What is the opposite of 'forwards'?

If they made a mistake or ran out of time, they were plunged into the vat - if they managed to get five correct within the time then their nominator was gunged instead. The rule above still applied, though, even if it made rather less sense in context. The third series used a much lighter 'fairground' setup, and the child's danger of being gunged was removed entirely it was replaced very briefly by the Forfeit Furnace, in which the host would 'burn' a forfeit that the child had taken with them if they were on the losing team - thankfully this was dropped very quickly after complaints from viewers, though the host reassured in an interview that no possessions were really destroyed.

Instead, the losing adult had to answer three multiple choice questions, where answering wrongly would allow their nominator to pull a lever and cover them in one of three colors of gunge. All this was naturally irrelevant, because in the end they always got to send them into the vat below anyway. The adult was still asked three questions, but this time answering wrongly would, after a rabid call of "Crank 'em up! For a while, the danger to the child of the team was also reintroduced, with a choice of two levers before the big moment - one of the identical levers would award them an extra prize, the other would release the tank of gunge above their own head.

The last series of the show completely changed the style of the end game, with both teams now taking part, each adult seated on a ramp, and the kids answering questions to slide them up a level - the one who reached the fifth notch first was then thrown in.

The team that had accumulated the most points during the game being given a slight head start, but it didn't really shake the feeling that it made the rest of the games slightly pointless. Members of the studio audience were selected as victims, often apparently as a complete surprise to them. The game played varied throughout the series' unusually long lifetime: The Kid Gets It : A kid from the audience, usually nominated in secret by a friend, would be called down to sit inside the booth, and had to pick one of the celebrity guests on the show that week to attempt the challenge.

The chosen player would have to speak for one minute about themselves often with prompting from the hosts without saying a certain "trigger word" that had been shown to everyone else via the low-tech medium of a bit of paper waved around at the audience beforehand.

Naturally they always said the forbidden word in the end and the Kid very much Got It. The second variant was also called The Kid Gets It , but completely changed the idea to a courtroom-type setup where one contestant would plead the case for gunging one of their friends to a panel of celebrity judges common crimes included borrowing stuff and not giving it back, or being obsessed with a band the other one couldn't stand.

If successful, the friend would be led into the tank and gunged - if not, the nominator would be gunged instead for "wasting the court's time". Next, the game changed into The Leakiest Sink , a fairly poor take-off of The Weakest Link , where two players would have to take turns sitting inside the booth while a celebrity guest pulled one of six plugs apparently attached to it somehow.

One of these plugs would start up the gunge tank, so the danger increased as the game went on and the chance of picking the 'right' wrong?

Stop the Snot was the last variant, where the show added a whopping great model nose to the front of the tank. This was similar to the very first game, except a celebrity was quizzed for a minute with the rule that they could never say "Yes" or "No", with results that should be obvious by now should they ever do so.

The fondly-remembered Canadian game show Uh Oh! There were a few mini-games chosen by a wheel. The titular Uh Oh! If the player got it right, the team got points, but getting it wrong results in slime being dumped During the final round, there was a category called "Double Uh Oh!

And then, there was the premium option of "Uh Oh! Deluxe", which was the same. Except it was worth more points, or your partner got metallic coloured gunge dropped on them. Not even the audience was safe in this show.

The Punisher would dunk a kid in a kiddie pool, or spray the audience with a water gun during the opening, some games had the contestants tossing slime-filled water balloons at some kind of target or bucket held by audience members And the last-place team always got slimed at the end of the show.

The second section was called Teacher on the Hotseat , where a teacher nominated by some of the audience had to sit inside a futuristic cockpit-like booth and answer three questions on the subject they taught, only being told if they had got the answers right and therefore escaped at the end. Only one teacher ever escaped the gunging, which was fairly vicious even by British standards, with the stuff being sprayed from all sides of the device before they were finished off with a torrent from above - when this happened, they let him out and put the girl who had nominated him in instead.

There was something similar in the Italian show " Disney Club " , where the last segment was the aptly-titled "Teacher torture". If that episode's teacher wasn't able to answer the question Eyespy , a UK show from the 80s, featured gunge cubicles as part of its final obstacle course round. After answering a question correctly to be allowed to start, contestants would have to find pieces of a code by picking from a row of ten cubicles, only finding out if they had picked one of the four safe ones once they had shut themselves inside.

Clockwise was another children's show where the contestants risked their cleanliness - it often featured games in which one member of a team would have to save the other. Two memorable examples were the "steady hand" game where one team member would have to guide a loop along a twisted wire, with the addition that the buzzer was also wired up to a gunge tank with their team-mate inside, and a similar one where the teams had to shoot six targets with catapult-like contraptions before time expired.

The final round was called the Tunnel of Time, where the winning team would ride a roller coaster car-like thing through a tunnel, having to answer questions while being covered by various devices throughout.

Pump It Up , another UK game show, used gunge as its entire scoring system - winning any of the games before the final would allow a team to turn off one of the "gunge zones" on the giant inflatable obstacle course at the end.

If a zone wasn't turned off when a team reached it, a load of gunge would be spewed down on to them from the ceiling, making progress difficult at best, and if it happened to be on an uphill ramp, hilariously impossible.

The British loved this, didn't they? Twister was a game show in that wasn't often messy, but occasionally had games that involved contestants being fastened in place under huge industrial hoppers and being covered in ridiculous amounts of gunge throughout. One of them was set up so that their team-mates had to avoid hitting "triggers" on the floor - the resultant carnage can be viewed here. Beginning in Season 3, Wipeout began using more gunge in its obstacles, the most prominent examples in the qualification course being the "paint sprayer" Sucker Punch which added exactly that to its usual content of boxing gloves on sticks , and one that is usually a kitchen-based setting but has a different theme every time in season 4.

On the Israeli game show Crime and Punishment , participants who made it to the final stage after beating two others, so it was one finalist per episode had to sit on a chair above a huge tank of slime while connected to a polygraph. Possibly the only show to buy custard powder by the tonne. The Legend of Dick and Dom , their follow-up show, has lots of gunge-covered Shout Outs to Da Bungalow, like the heroes being put in the stocks and having tomatoes flung at them.

I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! Oh, and often there's worms and insects. All this to win food for themselves and their competitors. Canadian kids' show Zoink'd! The All-New Press Your Luck had this in the form of the "Double Whammy ", where, in addition to losing all your current winnings, you also got covered in gunge related to the Whammy animation shown.

MTV sister channel of Nickelodeon even got a hold of this trope with its game shows Trashed and Kidnapped. On Trashed , after two rounds of teams attempting to save their possessions from being destroyed, the third round put one player from each team up for "trashing", which involved gungeing about 50 percent of the time. Kidnapped took this round and made an entire show out of it, seeing three friends attempting to rescue a fourth from repeated tortures, most of which were gungey.

This would entail the contestant holding bowls over their heads as snack food got dumped on them. Typically it would be chips, cheese puffs or other loose food; on at least one occasion, Twinkies — still in the wrapper! British pirate-themed kids gameshow, Swashbuckle has something called "slop" which is bright green and contains bits of plastic seaweed.

The antagonist characters who the team are playing against have to Walk the Plank into a vat of the stuff if the team wins and get repeatedly doused in it in slapstick scenes between rounds. Fort Boyard : An unavoidable fate for the contestants facing several challenges is to end up covered in disgusting stuff, such as the mud wrestling, the spiderweb, the tomato sauce fabric or the "Willymix".

Though they are at least given the opportunity to clean up before the next challenge, and not stay that way for the rest of the game. Animal Inn : Val and Andy, the dog she rescues from a tar basin, in the start of book 9. The depiction in-story makes it clear that the late Terry Pratchett very much did not. When Molly asks if their clothes could be salvaged, Harry just throws his indestructible longcoat into the fireplace to burn the sludge off, and tells her he tried bringing his clothes to a laundry after his previous fight with a slime golem, but the next day the laundry's owner set it on fire and attempted Insurance Fraud.

They were thrown at us, poured over our heads, stuffed down our pants, and mushed into our hair When we left the lunchroom we squished as we walked, and left a sloppy trail of cereal. Live-Action TV. They were convinced not to by Jack Donaghy. Then double subverted after it's revealed Jack isn't the classmate they mistook him to be, causing them to try it on Liz again.

It misses, but she's naturally pissed at the attempt and decides to quit trying to make amends with them. Jenna is at a 'Kid's Choice' awards show, where Best Actress winner Helen Mirren or at least someone playing her gets slimed at the podium.

She chuckles "Ohh, you got me! As he begins talking about Cooking With Offal , a tank overhead opens and deluges him with unexpected, and humiliating, gunge. Several cast members ask pointedly what to do with the excess pies, when their Butt-Monkey stage manager walks in. Someone decides to bring the extra pies to the zoo for the zebras.

Stage manager calls them on it, and one explains that the baker had also sent over a large cake explicitly for throwing at him.

Angel did this a few times, covering several characters in demon slime. And Angel's car keys in one ep. Cordy to Doyle: Do you think that tentacle spew comes out with dry cleaning? Brennan: Okay, we're covered in flesh and bone fragments. Scrape it all off into evidence bags. Be careful not to swallow. For the "Re-whipped" version of the album, the girl on the cover is wearing a whipped cream "bikini". Similarly, the model on the cover of the Ohio Players' album Honey is clad in only honey while suggestively feeding herself the same confection.

Comedian Pat Cooper is covered with spaghetti sauce and noodles on the cover of his Spaghetti Sauce and Other Delights.

It's only one of the myriad lampoons of, and homages to, the Whipped Cream album. Then a hand comes in and sprays paint on her dress. Then more paint gets sprayed on her. Then more. By two minutes into the song her dress is completely multi-coloured — and then they start spraying paint in her face. Because they could only do it in one take, they couldn't stop, and she admitted that while making the video was great fun, it wasn't easy singing while completely blinded with paint.

In the Book of Malachi from The Bible , God threatens to smear dung in the faces of the priests who don't take the command to be impartial to the Law to heart. The backglass for Comet shows several of the rollercoaster riders Covered In Gunge, such as an old woman getting a facefull of ice cream and a man being plastered by the flowing hair of the woman ahead of him. Spring starts episode 5 of Sequinox covered in Scorpie goo, before getting it washed off by Summer's special attack.

She considers both equally bad. Pro Wrestling. Cue Cassidy coming into the arena, listening to a little more of Jericho's remarks, not saying a word, and then slowly raising his fist into a thumbs-down gesture. Followed by the Inner Circle being drenched in orange juice dropped from the rafters.

To add further humiliation, Jericho received a towel from ringside to wipe himself off, not finding out until several seconds later that it was an Orange Cassidy towel.

Zia psychically attacks a reptile monster, causing its brain to explode inside its head. The New Orleans Saints' head coach got the Nickelodeon slime treatment in a similar fashion after winning an NFL playoff game being simulcast by the channel. A related tradition in Major League Baseball is to give a shaving or whipped- cream pie-in-the-face to someone who made a walk-off hit while they are being interviewed after the game.

Traditional British pantomimes often feature a slosh scene at the end of the first act, in which two or more comic relief characters start a completely innocent activity such as baking a cake or putting up wallpaper, and inevitably end up covered in whatever messy stuff they're using.

Often leads to characters lampshading the inevitable mess with lines like, "Better put down this handy tarpaulin just to be on the safe side! It's like he does it just to torment the stage management team! Theme Parks. Video Games. A powerup like this will appear in Backyard Sports : Sandlot Sluggers. Haunting Starring Polterguy : Poltergeist Polterguy constantly has to collect ectoplasm bilious green slime that drops from the ceiling to the floor when he successfully has scared a person out of the room or when he's in the crypt.

An item called Sticky Juice in Water Warfare will fill your water gun up with, well, sticky juice, which will temporarily cover an enemy in yellow goo that slows them down and changes your water's splashing animation and sound effects to huge, gloppy splats. The instruction manual calls this Status Effect "soaked," but we know better. In the PS3 game '' Folklore there are certain enemies, such as Impets, that can immobilize the player this way.

Can you say Portal 2? Three varieties of colored gel involved in numerous puzzles Unless a player is really careful, they're bound to get covered in the stuff at some point. Which is something of a worry given this recorded announcement: Cave Johnson: Oh, in case you get covered in that repulsion gel, here's some advice the lab boys gave me: do not get covered in the repulsion gel.

We haven't entirely nailed down what element it is yet, but I'll tell you this: it's a lively one, and it does not like the human skeleton. Don't worry. It's actually safe enough. And it washes off. Web Animation.

One of the characters was an athletic, blonde elf war-maiden. She fell into a cesspit while in the sewer and got covered in shit. Things did not improve for her after. Web Comics. This is a Running Gag in Dominic Deegan , though it hasn't been seen as much as of late. Whenever Dejah, a living Slime, uses his "Slime Geyser" teleport spell, one of the teleported always, always , gets covered in slime.

It's always, always Luna and she always, always has an exasperated look on her face when it happens. Well, almost always Too many chocolates. Gil of Girl Genius ends up covered in green gunk after cutting his way out of a giant carnivorous plant. A minor antagonist in Ennui GO! It leaves kids it encounters slathered with fudge. Web Original. Industrial Zone at FurAffinity is a fictional game show series featuring this in vast quantities.

Experience the uncomfortable feeling of not knowing whether you're reading porn or not. It takes a lot of work to get her cleaned up enough that she can ride home with everyone else.

There are lots of Internet gameshows using this as a prize or forfeit. In Worm , Chapter 1. It seems like half of the polls on Mister Poll consist of this you can probably chalk it up under "Weird Fetishes".