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.
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
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.
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.
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Both added! Thanks!
Let us know when the trope goes live!
Andy does it in Firestarter (at least in the book) right before he gets “the push” back
Did the trope ever appear on Tvtropes?
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:
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.
No problem. Just curious.
That must be where I saw it. Thanks!
Did you try “Drug in Cheek”? They love puns there.