This Troper Was working sound board for a theatre company, when a 12 year old on the cast walked up to her and nonchalantly inquired after an ex I am on bad terms with and he shouldn't even know exists, when I had just taken a large sip of ice tea. I promptly sprayed the tea on my bosses' sound board and followed the SpitTake with a BigWhat. Troper has also done this through her nose with hot coffee and soda, both very painful, and spit took once at dinner with a mouthful of cous cous.

This troper did a (luckily) mostly dry spit take after seeing the headline "Elmo and celebrities discuss PTSD with military families" just because she couldn't believe it, since the story fell firmly into Main/ territory.

This Troper kinda deconstructed this once when me and some friends were making fun of something (MST3K style, can't remember what though). While I was drinking soda someone said something particularly hilarious. It turns out that in reality you don't spit, you (or at least me)''inhale'' whatever you are drinking, which is as unfun as it sounds.

This spit take part usually comes from then spitting out everything you just inhaled and coughing and dying, at least in this troper's experience.

This troper has done a rather amusing example of this. He spat his juice immediately after seeing Ace Ventura doing this on the cartoon show.

This troper did this with, of all things, ''ice-cream,'' after a friend's sister revealed a shocking plot twist in the movie they were watching.

This troper, uh, "spit took" when he saw one of his friends making out with my other friend's girlfriend. This troper always wanted to do a spit take.

spat take? spat tack?

Spit taked?

Spat took?

This troper doesn't entirely recall what happened that made him do a spit take. He believes it was learning that one of his friends was not only pregnant, but about 6 months pregnant at the age of 16. He also did an inhale take while watching the Unskippable video for ''AloneInTheDark''.

This troper believes that he has a minor superpower in his ability to trigger spit takes in people while drinking through sheer power of funny. The count is at about ten spit takes so far, a significant portion of which occured by accident.

This Troper's reaction to the announcement that Sonic was in Super Smash Bros. Brawl? I went upstairs, poured myself a glass of milk, took a sip and spat it out.

This troper once mistook a cup of Sprite for a cup of water. Having never tasted Sprite before and having a very sensitive tongue, I took one sip and spat all over the table.

This troper did it after one of his friends said something really funny. They all made sure not to tell jokes in front of me while I was drinking again.

{{Ripsaw}}'s spit-takes usually occur through his ''nose''. This is painful with sodas and pulpy orange juice.

It's even more painful with spaghetti or french fries.

My not-a-bigot-but-certainly-raised-in-''that''-era grandmother has a gorgeous piano in her living room. One Thanksgiving as friends and family were gathered in the room after dinner sipping wine and chatting and someone brought up the piano. My grandmother said that she and her late husband almost didn't buy it. When asked why, she replied matter-of-factly (just as I was taking a rather large sip of of my glass) that, "it's former owner had AIDS and we thought it might be infected." To this day my grandmother still hasn't forgiven me for getting red wine all over her white carpet.

To be fair, there was a mass communication fail from scientists in the early years of the pandemic, so that the majority of the general public really didn't understand how HIV is spread.

This troper once ''didn't'' do a spit take when his friend said something incredibly funny, and started choking on his juice as a result. He also managed to pull a DoubleSubversion with his first cup of coffee. Not knowing what it would taste like, he found out that it tasted bad, but not bad enought to spit it. However, on his last sip, when some of the coffee grounds made their way into his mouth...

This troper's mother once did this with a mouthful of cereal when troper did a rather funny impression of her younger sister. Needless to say, hilarity ensued at the breakfast table.

This Troper's family once had some friends of ours over for dinner, with the subject drifting to Sean Connery. For some reason though, we were all jokingly refering to him as Sean ''Canary'', and making various jokes. Said troper had just taken a '''''large''''' mouthful of water, when her mother yelled out "The canary with his feathers cut short!" (What with 'Sean' being pronounced as 'Shawn', sounding similar to 'Shorn' the past tense of 'Shear', as would a sheep....). In a matter of seconds everyone bar my mother (who made the joke in the first place!) had been sprayed. Now no one tries to make this troper laugh when she has a mouthful of any liquid. And the joke wasn't even that funny...

As this troper sat down with a nice cup of tea in front of her computer, an MSN window popped up. It was a friend recounting tales of some of the weird things she had found on StumbleUpon. This troper read on, mildly interested, until one sentence popped up: "Oh, and an online rental sex-toy shop, too." Cue monitor screen being doused with tea.

This Troper, twice. Once with an Orange Fanta at a picnic, and once at Guide Camp. I had Milo all down my uniform. I still have great difficulty when I'm laughing with a drink in my mouth. with vomit, too.

This troper has always wanted a chance to do a spit take, and yesterday, I got that chance while a friend was talking about a series we both like but which she has seen more of. Spoiler was spoiled. Spit take occured. Milk got into my eye. Made my day.

This troper did a spit take with Pepsi the first time she saw ''SouthPark: Bigger, Longer and Uncut''. You know that scene where Sadam teases Satan with a giant rubber dildo?

This troper was just in a stage production of Agatha Cristie's "A Murder Is Announced." Upon reading the announcement in the newspaper, one of the characters literally ''spews'' his tea out and exclaims "A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED?!?!" A beautiful ad-lib, especially when the tea poofs into a cloud in front of him. (We have pictures!)

This troper had two in her life. Once when my mother was talking to my aunt at my grandma's house, amd the other when she watched the "fake" Pocahontas film by Dingo Pictures. It was the cowboys, I tell you.

Steel Komodo performed a variant of this - he was watching a prehistory documentary with his granndmother and brother, and were observing a scene where the archeological team spend the night at an Inuit camp in Siberia before setting off to find the loction of a recently-discovered baby mammoth. As the team are drinking vodka with the natives, Steel Komodo chanced to start yawning on the exact moment his grandmother said "I got drunk on vodka once". Cue mad fit of coughing.

This troper's then-underage sister once tried to trick grandma into thinking she was imbibing beer in large amounts by pouring apple juice into an already empty beer bottle. Grandma walked by, did a hilarious DoubleTake, and screamed "HEY!" Cue SpitTake and a lot of pained laughing/choking.

This troper tried to fake a spit take once, to please her younger cousin. She just ended up getting apple juice all over the rug.

This troper managed to do a spit take with an ''apple'' of all things- He took one bite, saw the whole inside was all brown and rotten, and spat it all over the table.

This troper has taken to doing beverageless spit-takes. I just turn my head to the side and spit out a puff of air when I'm surprised.

BTIsaac was the victim of this twice. Both incidents were triggered by a joke, and the liquid was blasted out through the nose. The first incident happened in a kitchen and involved milk. The second one happened in a car, and involved, of all things, cola. Ouch.

This troper's family as an annoying habit of delivering punchlines when she has just taken a sip of water. Results are hilarious for them, uncomfortable for her. Then again, given how this troper's family generally is, they probably do it on purpose.

This troper once observed a girl spit her drink at her friends accidentally from laughing too hard. I laughed at that all day. Without spitting, however.

I also once subjected someone to a "cough take" with cous cous. While eating, I had a cough enducing throat spasm that sprayed cous cous all over my mother and her food. It was both disgusting and hilarious.

For my sixteenth birthday, I was taken to a fairly nice restaurant, where my mother at one point got up on the table and sang "Happy Birthday" while stone-cold sober. (This was, by far, the least embarrassing moment of that night, but I digress...) Flash forward a few years, I threatened to do this to my mother for ''her'' fiftieth birthday. Thinking that was the end of that, I lifted a bowl of soup up and started to drink. My mother retorted with "Only if I get to yell 'Yay! A stripper!'" Half a second later, the soup was out my nose, in everyone else's bowl, on the table, on the floor, ''on the inside of my glasses' lenses.

And again, this time with a fruit smoothie. Fun fact: little chunks of frozen strawberry '''really hurt''' when they come out your nose. This also caused the mother of all brain-freezes. Which is probably much more information than you require...

This Troper was having dinner at a restaurant with a few close friends. One of the friends asked if this Troper wanted to "hear something really funny." This Troper nodded his assent whilst taking a big gulp of water. The friend then proceeded to say, in a monotone voice and with an expressionless face: "I'll give you a nickel if you tickle my pickle." This Troper spewed water all over his dinner (and all over his adjacent friends), and couldn't stop laughing for a full fifteen minutes.

When we were kids, this troper's older sister actually made a game out of trying to get this troper to spit his drink out onto the dinner table, carefully timing jokes with whenever he tried to quench his thirst.

This troper was spending the night at a friend's house. His friend was eating some instant oatmeal (the kind with fruit) when the friend's cousin went to put a cereal box inside the cabinet. This troper said "Faster, servant! That's what we pay you ten cents to do!". Apparently this was fun enough to make Troper's friend to spit oatmeal ''out of his nose''.

This troper tends to end up drinking things when people make her laugh, which makes her spit it out. It often comes out her nose, too, ew.

Galifrey! For Victory! For the End of Time! Apparently you can have a spit take with popcorn and water.

This troper while watching a recent movie, took a sip at one of the funniest parts. Luckily, most of the drink (Dr. Pepper I believe) landed on an empty seat in front of me. Not as luckily, some landed one seat in front of and to the right, where a pregnant lady was sitting. He promptly apologized, and needless to say, covered his mouth whenever he took a sip for the rest of the movie.

This troper had an incident where she dumped some excess water from an old water bottle into her milk cup to keep the milk from drying out. A few minutes later she reached, grabbed the milk cup, and then almost ruined the magazine she was currently reading.

To quote a conversation on CloudCuckoolanders in a friend's Facebook, "Or that other time in a crowded college cafe when the following... exchange took place between me and a schoolmate I hadn't seen in ages: Him: (Nervously) "You know I'm uh, gay, right?" Me: "Oh man, really? That's awesome! You know, I like my gay just like I like my coffee. Strong, black, and bitter!" Never in my life did I see so many people spit up coffee and never have I received so many puzzled and concerned stares."

This troper once did this with Jamba Juice. I can safely say that having a chunk of frozen strawberry lodged in your sinus cavity is a very unique (read: painful) experience.

Unfortunatly for This troper, She tends to do a spit-take of the shooting-out-the-nose variety.

This troper sometimes has this problem when gaming. The other members of the group not only lampshade it, but also encourage it and try to make sure the SpitTake goes through. It's that kind of group.

This troper was stupid enough to drink a coke while reading the funny page for pro wrestling. It took ten minutes to clean my monitor.

This Troper was waiting with two friends outside for another friend to show up so we could do something. This friend was running a bit late, so we decided to have sodas while we waited. Soon a cop car pulled up and park next to us. One of my friends sighed and said "I know, I know..." and assumed the position on the hood of the car. Other friend squirted Big Red out her nose laughing.

Years ago, This Troper was drinking chocolate milk while someone had been cracking a joke I found funny. And there were people sitting next to me at that time, so I felt rather embarrassed,

I once did a spit-take, spewing rice out of my mouth while laughing. Context: a family friend was relating an incident he'd witnessed, about a boy who was giving a man some serious difficulty (can't remember the exact details). According to my friend, the man got upset and yelled at the boy, "Why yu no go play wid u faada?" (translation from Jamaican patois to Standard English: "Why don't you go play with your father?") I happened to be eating corned beef and rice at the time, and had a half-full mouth of rice when my friend said that. Even now, I still laugh when I remember it.

This Troper has this happen to him ''a lot''. The two that he can think of right off include spewing food onto the already rather dirty computer screen during an uncharacteristically outrageous moment of Life With Derek. Even worse, though, was when he was drinking a large amount of gatorade while walking through the house, and just the mere ''thought'' of this image and the line that spawned it (as well as another troper's comment on it: "Work it, Voldy!") from the infamous ''My Immortal''. Actually, this has happened several times with something related to ''My Immortal''.

This Troper, while normally unusually skilled at defying this trope, once had to take medicine for her cough. The medicine came in these pills filled with goo, and was told to bite down on the pills by her mom. She did so, and the shock of how bitter and sour the goop inside was caused her to bring both hands to her mouth. Then, later that day, she had to take water with the pills, and while drinking the water, bit down on the pills and had a huge stream of spat out water all over her mom and the kitchen.

This Troper did the "starts choking" inversion when he heard the punchline to a certain joke. It wasn't obscene or anything, it was just funny and mildly shocking.

I managed to make a friend do this with a well-timed comment. Thankfully it was just water, or else it could have been messy.

This troper lost a perfectly good sip of water after reading that her favorite characters EVER aren't virgins...

This troper refuses to do a spit take under any circumstances, which leads to situations where she's holding back a mouthful of water while trying not to choke while laughing, and the situation usually makes her laugh harder, which makes it harder not to choke ... it's quite unpleasant until she calms down enough to swallow the water safely.

This troper had it done to her via a friend. Can't remeber what her friend said, but it was enough to have a nasal cleanse AND a spit take all at once. Got it all over her Dog and nice new floors.