At the end of the episode, Wil pulls out two huge buckets of MILO and announces he is going upstairs to Ita Buttrose (the chairperson of The ABC)'s private spa. Of particular hilarity was a Freeze-Frame Bonus that showed the hot tub full of MILO was listed as a 'serving suggestion'. The Gruen Transfer had a field day pulling apart, analysing and mocking a MILO ad that showed a couple sitting in a hot tun filled with the drink (see Advertising above).In an ironic twist of fate, the final episode has the tyrant, having his vile head concubine Daji usurping him, then drowning the tyrant in the pool of wine. In the TVB drama Gods of Honor (loosely based on the novel, Fengshen Yanyi) the Zhou tyrant has a "Wine Pool" in his palace courtyard (right next to the "Meat Garden", where roasted slices of fine meat are hung from trees by his royal cooks), which as the name states, is filled with the finest of wines where he can dip himself in with his harem and concubines, drink from it as he swims whenever he feels like it, and the pool will be drained and refilled regularly by the eunuchs and courtiers.Paths of the Perambulator: When the party gets trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine hallucination, Clothahump's apprentice's Sorbl hallucination is that he's found an entire lake filled with bourbon.Moominmamma inquires whether there is a pool with hot soup somewhere the man sadly says that he only has one pool of whipped cream and one pool of jam. Moomintroll and Sniff eat so much that they get a stomach ache and a toothache respectively. The Moomins: In the first book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, Moominmamma, Moomintroll, and Sniff encounter a kind, elderly man who owns a Level Ate park with almost everything made of candy.Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball: Manny's idea for home renovation is to have a pool filled with chocolate pudding.In a bit of a subversion though, Wonka gets angry when somebody dips his hands in it and falls in, but has no problem running a boat on it. An iconic scene from every version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the chocolate river, which Willy Wonka claims is a key part of the mixing process.However, she's not actually a fairy she just wants to be one, so the spell doesn't work. In the children's book Alice The Fairy, Alice, fed up with bathing in ordinary water, tries to use a spell to turn it into jello.The sound effects of walking in them even resemble a sort of viscous liquid. Seeking refuge from the constant harassment, this inner nest akin to an ant colony, has passageways etched into stone by the antlion workers and coated with an organic substance, filled with the health palette dispensing larvae. As Gordon goes deeper into the caves in order to procure a specific form of larva extract, he comes across an area that has an antlion guard. Called grubs by other characters, once squished, they emit a health-enhancing pellet. note In Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Chapter "This Vortal Coil'', Gordon discovers the larvae in the mines and underground nests of the antlion species. Note: "Grub" as in the slang term for food, not the insect, although one video game has filled a pool with that particular insect as well. Food used this way that looks good would be Food Porn as well. A Don't Eat and Swim reminder may or may not be required. Tomato Skunk Stink Cure could be considered an occasional subtrope. Compare Pooled Funds when the pool is full of currency instead, and Foul Ball Pit when a pool is full of plastic balls and likely contains excreted food (feces, urine, vomit). Sub-Trope of Conspicuous Consumption and Unconventional Food Usage. One doesn't even have to be that wealthy that way. There are always jacuzzis and kiddie pools. Of course, it doesn't have to be an Olympic-sized pool. But if you're really rich then why fill it with plain, boring old water? Why not gelatin, or pudding, or booze? The real reason is that most consumables would clog up the filters that pools use to keep the water clean and you can't really swim that easily in something like gelatin. What does every moderately wealthy person need to have these days? Certainly, a swimming pool is often on the list.
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