# Examples of "cheeking" in movies/TV? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-cheeking-in-movies-tv/926348 "2020-11-24T14:18:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-cheeking-in-movies-tv/926348/21 "2020-11-28T01:06:14Z")
And, I hope you’ll be happy to hear, in addition to changing the proposed name of the new trope (to “Contesting a Pill”), I’ve added both the _House_ and the _Boston Legal_ examples. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-cheeking-in-movies-tv/926348/22 "2020-11-28T01:10:55Z")
Great. I think several variations of “Contesting a Pill” occur in both the book and movie of “One Flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest” (not surprisingly) - see here [https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-happens-patient-doesnt-take-his-medicine-how-376319](https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-happens-patient-doesnt-take-his-medicine-how-376319) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-cheeking-in-movies-tv/926348/24 "2020-11-28T07:39:45Z")
It happens in an episode of _The Rockford Files_ called “the Competitive Edge”. Jim is being held in a mental hospital to keep him from blowing the whistle on some scam. He not only cheeks his tranquilizers, he causes a distraction and slips them into the staff’s coffee pot, putting them all to sleep so that he can escape. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-cheeking-in-movies-tv/926348/25 "2020-11-28T12:07:44Z")
Arthur Spooner does it with “big blue” in “King of Queens”, though I don’t recall if he actually hid it in his mouth or used some other form of deception. mmm ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-cheeking-in-movies-tv/926348/26 "2020-11-30T18:52:50Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > I think several variations of “Contesting a Pill” occur in both the book and movie of “One Flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest” (not surprisingly) > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > It happens in an episode of _The Rockford Files_ called “the Competitive Edge”. Jim is being held in a mental hospital to keep him from blowing the whistle on some scam. He not only cheeks his tranquilizers, he causes a distraction and slips them into the staff’s coffee pot, putting them all to sleep so that he can escape. Both added! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-cheeking-in-movies-tv/926348/27 "2020-12-01T01:07:55Z")
Let us know when the trope goes live! ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-cheeking-in-movies-tv/926348/28 "2020-12-01T01:29:07Z")
Andy does it in Firestarter (at least in the book) right before he gets “the push” back ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-cheeking-in-movies-tv/926348/29 "2021-04-15T18:57:41Z")
Did the trope ever appear on Tvtropes? ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-cheeking-in-movies-tv/926348/30 "2021-04-15T23:56:05Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I found a script online. She wasn’t successful. No - she later spits out the paperclip she stole, but she doesn’t manage to cheek the pills. However, in an episode of the TV version, the Sarah Connor Chronicles, she does cheek some pills. I had to look up which episode - it’s this one: > **[Episode 216: Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep](https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_216:_Some_Must_Watch,_While_Some_Must_Sleep)** > > Haunted by nightmares of the man she killed in the factory, Sarah checks in to a sleep clinic. When suspicious things begin happening, Sarah suspects Skynet may be using the facility for brain-mapping. Sarah drives her car through the streets at late... ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-cheeking-in-movies-tv/926348/31 "2021-04-16T12:10:11Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Did the trope ever appear on Tvtropes? To be honest, I sort of lost the drive to get it done. I got several comments that the trope name was weak, but no one suggested anything better, and then one thing led to another, and it sort of fell off my to-do list. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-cheeking-in-movies-tv/926348/32 "2021-04-16T12:13:07Z")
No problem. Just curious. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-cheeking-in-movies-tv/926348/33 "2021-04-16T14:46:46Z")
That must be where I saw it. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-cheeking-in-movies-tv/926348/34 "2021-04-16T14:47:58Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I got several comments that the trope name was weak Did you try “Drug in Cheek”? They love puns there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-cheeking-in-movies-tv/926348.md?page=1)