History Main / ApplianceDefenestration

* Parodied in an ''{{NCIS}}'' parody. Gibbs goes storming into Vance's office (as per usual), but Vance's weary resignation towards the interruption leaves Gibbs unable to express how ''angry'' and ''passionate'' he is. So he opens a window and chucks a random appliance out.

* On ''{{Scrubs}}'', Dr.Cox does this when an old hospital computer is giving him trouble.[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME4oGDAqNQM link]]

* In ''{{Homestuck}}'', this is [[PlayedForDrama actually a science]] called Dark Fenestrology. [[spoiler: However, in this universe, Appliance Defenestration can be used, in special coniditions, to send objects across dimensions.]]

* Played seriously in ''Pink Floyd: The Wall'', where Bob Geldof a) throws a TV out the window of his hotel room and b) smashes another one in with an electric guitar.'
* In the Rolling Stones' never-to-be-released-until-everybody-in-it-is-dead movie, ''Cocksucker Blues'', a chronicle of their infamous 1972 American Tour, Keith Richards and sax player Bobby Keys are shown, to much hilarity, throwing a hotel's TV out the window to an alley below.

* Happens in the title sequence to ''Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe''.

* Happens in the music video for Green Day's "Basket Case."

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[[caption-width:323:That'll teach you to [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife ruin my life]]!]]

* According to [[TheOtherWiki]] [TheWho]] drummer Keith Moon was leaving a hotel then he told the limo driver, "I forgot something. We've got to go back!" Back at the hotel, Moon went to the room and hucked the TV out the window into the pool. As he got back into the limo, he told the driver, "I nearly forgot."

** Which is funny, and awesome, but is not focused on wrecking the bike, but on blasting the bike into her JerkAss ex's apartment and trashing the place. So it may not be this trope.

* During Johnny's rampage at the end of TheRoom, he throws a television out of a window. The scene is not meant to be comedic, but is because of {{Narm}}. He lifts the television with little effort, making no attempt to handle it as a real television and not a lightweight prop.

* On {{Scrubs}}, Dr.Cox does this when an old hospital computer is giving him trouble.[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME4oGDAqNQM link]]

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* ''TheWarAgainstTheChtorr''. The protagonist finds himself imprisoned on a MissingFloor by the mysterious Uncle Ira group. To protest he throws all the furniture out the window.

* Played straight in [[http://tinyurl.com/68e25k page 1]] and [[http://tinyurl.com/69rzp2 page 2]] of the "What's New With Phil And Dixie" comic in ''{{Dragon}}'' magazine #63 (July 1982), in which computers are hurled through open windows by owners frustrated with fantasy {{RPG}} programs.

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* [[BattlestarGalactica Laura Roslin]] is famous for throwing [[FantasticRacism toasters]] out the [[ThrownOutTheAirlock window]].

* During Johnny's rampage at the end of TheRoom, he throws a television out of a window. This is a bit of {{Narm}} because he lifts the television with so little effort, making no attempt to disguise it as a real television and not a lightweight prop.

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* One episode of ''TheFarSide'', where ''a scientist'' is launched out of the window of the Stress Institute. From inside: "Hey... I feel better already."
* Played straight in [[http://tinyurl.com/68e25k page 1]] and [[http://tinyurl.com/69rzp2 page 2]] of the "What's New With Phil And Dixie" comic in ''{{Dragon}}'' magazine #63 (July 1982), in which computers are hurled through open windows by owners frustrated with fantasy {{RPG}} programs.

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* Happens in the music video for Green Day's "Basket Case."
* Also see Pink's music video for "There You Go," in which a '''motorbike''' goes crashing through the window.
** Which is funny, and awesome, but is not focused on wrecking the bike, but on blasting the bike into her JerkAss ex's apartment and trashing the place. So it may not be this trope.
* Played hilariously in [[{{BBW}} Kelly Price's]] video for "Should Have Told Me," where she's dating a man who wishes she were thinner. The video ends with her throwing a '''treadmill''' out the window where it lands on his car.

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* Happens in the title sequence to ''Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe''.
* [[BattlestarGalactica Laura Roslin]] is famous for throwing [[FantasticRacism toasters]] out the [[ThrownOutTheAirlock window]].
* On {{Scrubs}}, Dr.Cox does this when an old hospital computer is giving him trouble.[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME4oGDAqNQM link]]
* The opening credits for ''{{SCTV}}'' include a montage of people defenestrating their [=TVs=] in rage because the station is on the air. Buildings the [=TVs=] were thrown out of include high-rises, suburban tract houses, mansions, and a grass hut (probably referencing the African nation of Togo, a running joke on the show).

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* [[http://bash.org/?416857 This]] quote from {{BashOrg}}.

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* An adding machine is defenestrated in [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=12 this]] LackadaisyCats strip.
** ''Twice.''

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* In the Rolling Stones' never-to-be-released-until-everybody-in-it-is-dead movie, ''Cocksucker Blues'', a chronicle of their infamous 1972 American Tour, Keith Richards and sax player Bobby Keys are shown, to much hilarity, throwing a hotel's TV out the window to an alley below.

* A scene in ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' involved a character dunking a radio through a window.

* The opening credits for ''{{SCTV}}'' include a montage of people defenestrating their TVs in rage because the station is on the air. Buildings the [=TVs=] were thrown out of include high-rises, suburban tract houses, mansions, and a grass hut (probably referencing the African nation of Togo, a running joke on the show).

** It should be noted that half way through his clapping attempts that Marge warned him that "we don't have a Clapper."

* Played seriously in ''Pink Floyd: The Wall'', where Bob Geldof a) throws a TV out the window of his hotel room and b) smashes another one in with an electric guitar.