Note – This article contains, in its original language, lots of links documenting the details of the subject – but they are only available in Italian. Should you be interested and willing to suffer their machine translations, I strongly suggest to check them...

So you are attending a bachelor party. A huge cardboard cake is wheeled in, everyone gathers around it, and… yeah, you know how it continues, of course. In fact, you do because the “stripper in the pop-out cake” gag is a veritable cliché – and often a pretty sad one....