Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,612
edits
Do-It-Yourself Plumbing Project: Difference between revisions
markup
m (Mass update links) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (markup) |
||
| (6 intermediate revisions by 4 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
[[File:
{{quote|''We repair what your husband fixed.''|Sign seen on a plumbing truck.}}
{{quote|'''Calvin:''' "La dee da da dee dee da da/I think I'll get a buck-et.../ [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|Nothing's wrong...]][[Blatant Lies|No need to panic]]/I just need a bucket to hold some...stuff...."
'''Calvin's parents:''' (simultaneously) "'''Your''' turn."|''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''}}
Line 22:
[[Reality Ensues|Can also result in extensive property damage and, in extreme cases, a trip to the ER. Or worse.]] [[Don't Try This At Home]].
{{examples}}
== Comic Books ==
* Being [[The Klutz]], this happens a lot to the title character of ''[[Archie Comics]]''. What starts as an annoying leak will often end with a flooded basement.
Line 31 ⟶ 30:
* Disney's The Rescuers
* [[The Three Stooges]], in "[[The Three Stooges/A Plumbing We Will Go/Recap|A Plumbing We Will Go]]" pose as plumbers to escape the police and end up destroying the house, getting water in the electrical system, digging up the lawn, etc.
* ''[[Brazil (film)|Brazil]]'' has the maliciously incompetent Dowser and Spoor and the competent freelance maverick Harry Tuttle.
== Live Action TV ==
* In the first season of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', to help show that the people with powers were "ordinary people with extraordinary abilities" [[Psychic Powers|Matt Parkman]] fixes a broken bathroom sink. Really. Though by the end of the first season [[Butt Monkey|his character has become important to the main plot(s)]], many fans were not amused by this plot stop.
* ''[[Perfect Strangers]]'' had a memorable episode, entitled "Pipe Dreams", where Jennifer asks Larry to let the plumber in while she and Mary Ann are away on a flight, so he can replace the showerhead. Larry agrees but then immediately calls to cancel the plumber -against Balki's advice- saying he will it do it himself, in order to impress Jennifer. After what Balki describes as "twenty-three hours of backbreaking labour" Balki and Larry turn on the new showerhead to test it: the showerhead flies off as a jet stream of water shoots out, the taps at the sink fly off the basin with their own water jets, the toilet erupts like [[Old Faithful]] and opening the cabinet results in a flood from the pipes. This episode was regarded by the cast, crew and fans as one of the funniest of the entire series.
* A whole episode of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' was devoted to them trying to renovate their own bathroom. One result is the shower turning on when they turned the tap over the handbasin.
* ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'': The family has a routine that involves precautions like a 3-minute shower limit for whenever Uncle Phil goes on one of these sprees, but eventually this time, Vivian has to resort to the [[Lysistrata Gambit]] to get him to call the plumber.
* In one of the later seasons of [[Boy Meets World]] Corey and Topanga (now married) move into a tiny fleabag apartment with rusty pipes. This trope is averted as Corey is able to actually ''fix'' the pipes (even though he got [[Hilarity Ensues|hilariously]] wet and messy in the process.
* In the aptly-named ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'' episode "Flooded," Buffy tightens a pipe with a wrench to stop a leak ... (pause for a moment) ... and then all the other pipes burst, effectively flooding the basement.
* In the ''[[Frasier]]'' episode "Seat of Power," Martin makes fun of Frasier and Niles' lack of practical skills, so in an attempt to prove him wrong they try to fix Frasier's toilet, with
* Averted in the HGTV series ''Holmes on Homes''. Mike only took on jobs that were screwed up by ''[[Crooked Contractor|paid contractors]]''.
** Another HGTV show, ''[[Disaster DIY]]'', has contractor Bryan Baeumler come in to fix DIY projects gone wrong.
* Subverted on ''[[That '70s Show]]'' when Red and Eric try to fix the kitchen sink. Although they fail to fix the sink, they don't do any major damage and decide to just call a plumber to fix it.
* ''[[Eric's World]]'' had a clever subversion when Eric and C.J. had to deal with a leaky faucet. Rather than try to fix it themselves, C.J. suggests they call a plumber. When Eric protests that it's the middle of the night and they won't be able to get a plumber this late, C.J. uses his trusty "Plumber's Signal" (essentially a [[Batman|Bat Signal]] with the image of a pipe wrench, rather than a bat) to call a plumber, who arrives less than ten seconds later.
* One episode of ''[[Family Matters]]'' had Karl trying to install a second shower in the house. Before his wife got him to call a plumber, he had somehow gotten the bathroom set up so that you turn on the shower by turning off the sink.
== Music ==
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s Milli Vanilli parody "The Plumbing Song":
{{quote|
''When you flush the john, then your shower goes on
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'': Calvin has tried to fix the bathroom faucet on <s> one</s> more than one occasion. It ended up flooding the house.
** On another occasion, Calvin's dad prepares to do some plumbing, reading a book that advises him to have both the appropriate tools ''and'' expletives ready.
* ''[[Garfield]]'' - Jon has also occasionally tried to fix a leaking faucet, with the expected results.
== Western Animation ==
Line 71 ⟶ 70:
[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]
[[Category:Truth in Television]]
[[Category:Do
| |||