does anyone kknow of any books that involve gunge, i remember a hardy boys book from when i was a kind but there must be more slime and gameshows where the biggest in the 90's

It's going back a bit, but in 'Gulliver's Travels' he gets thrown into a bowl of cream when he is tiny, and in 'Pilgrim's Progress' by John Bunyan he falls into a pit of slurry near the beginning.

'At the Table' by Claire Powell contains a woman face-planting into a cake on the front page, but the novel itself does not contain such a scene.

I have some books from a series called The Mystery Squad, you have to solve a crime and if you make mistakes along the way you get custard pied, and there are drawings of your character getting nailed with the pies. They are a fun read.

Vague memories of reading these in the library in the 80s.

There have to be more other there then that

The book '' Nono Het ZigZag Kind'' by David Grossman has a giant chocolate vat scene where a female villain and cop fall into in it
It was remade into a movie by Dutch director Vincent Bal and when he read the book he said he just had to have that scene in the movie no matter what it cost

Taken from an interview

Q: Let's talk about the money shot: the chocolate vat scene.

VB: When I read it in the novel, I thought, "I have to do this film." It's so over-the-top! It's so Fellini! But how were we going to do it? So we found a chocolate factory where they allowed us to film. Then we built this huge vat and we put in 12,000 liters of chocolate pudding. You really could call it the money shot, because it was very expensive, but it was truly worth it. I think it's my favorite scene in the film. We couldn't bring in anything into the factory that wasn't edible. So we experimented with different textures and we found that a certain chocolate pudding mixed with hot water gave us the right substance and color, so that's what we went for.

The Demon Headmaster has a scene on a gameshow where buckets of flour and I think fish were poured over the title character. When the made a TV version in the 1990s they replaced the buckets with a gunge tank

There's some horseplay in the mud in a ghost story called The Pied Piper.

In Good Omens by Neil Gaiman there's a scene where a character gets covered in cake at a birthday party (if I remember correctly), read it a long time ago

This can't be all there must he more out there