History Main / CatharticScream

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Bart and his friends get stranded in Tennessee during their Spring Break and are forced to get jobs to make enough money to get back home. Lisa finds out about this and is asked to keep their situation quiet, but when it becomes obvious that Bart won't be back in time, she is forced to confess to Homer what Bart did, forcing him to put on the helmet of a Hazmat suit and then...

* Peggy does this in the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "''Goodbye Normal Jeans''". In the middle of her self-induced HumiliationConga due of Bobby being able to do the housework and cooking better than she can after Peggy learns that Hank was up all night [[SoProudOfYou bonding with Bobby over his newfound skills]]. Unable to accept that Bobby is better at her job than she is, she stomps into Bobby's room and does so out of pure jealousy.

* Played for laughs in ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', the episode where Rose fears she has AIDS. Blanche tells her to scream or throw something or whatever to let it all out, and it appears she's going to, but it's just a loud "HECK!". Possibly a subversion. Played straighter another time when someone, I think Blanche, said "I'm so mad I could scream" and then did. Prompting a "that's the first time I ever heard someone say that and then do it" type comment from Rose.

* In the film ''Film/BringingDownTheHouse'', Creator/SteveMartin's character listens to a (presumably long) confession from his teenage daughter about all the things in her life. After hearing this, he calmly walks upstairs, takes a pillow, holds it to his face, and screams.
** Then proceeds to take a couple of pills, then scream into the pillow again.

* Early on in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', after an argument between Nani and Lilo, both of them retreat to scream into their respective pillows in frustration.

* ''Literature/DragonKnight'': Lady Angie lets out a loud and 'rather refreshing' scream upon seeing a dragon in her castle. Of course the next second she realizes it's just her husband.and

* At the end of ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'', the villain has been defeated, but everyone at the opera house is still hanging around instead of leaving. Agnes, the exceptionally-talented but [[BrawnHilda decided stout]] singer who carried most of the weight in the story, is struggling to deal with the absurdities of opera, the least of which isn't that the [[BrainlessBeauty conventionally beautiful, airheaded, and talentless]] Christine is getting all the credit for her work. Nanny Ogg suggests Agnes have a good yell, and she lets out in a truly spectacular scream that goes all the way up through her magically enhanced range. ''Then'' the audience leaves. [[spoiler:Because it ain't over until the fat lady sings.]]

Despite the similarity in name, has ''nothing'' to do whatsoever with AndIMustScream, or TheScream (which is a FateWorseThanDeath and a horrific reaction, respectively. This is a frustration trope). May overlap with SkywardScream and {{Angrish}}. Sister trope of CatharticCrying. Has nothing to do with a {{Jerkass}} having a streaming breakdown to the satisfaction of the audience. That's CatharsisFactor.

Despite the similarity in name, has ''nothing'' to do whatsoever with AndIMustScream, or TheScream (which is a FateWorseThanDeath and a horrific reaction, respectively. This is a frustration trope). May overlap with SkywardScream and {{Angrish}}. Sister trope of CatharticCrying. Has nothing to do with a {{Jerkass}} having a streaming breakdown to the satisfaction of the audience. That's CatharticFactor.

* ''Literature/DragonKnight'': Lady Angie lets out a loud and 'rather refreshing' scream upon seeing a dragon in her castle. Of course the next second she realizes it's just her husband.
* At the end of ''{{Literature/Maskerade}}'', the villain has been defeated, but everyone at the opera house is still hanging around instead of leaving. Agnes, the exceptionally-talented but [[BrawnHilda decided stout]] singer who carried most of the weight in the story, is struggling to deal with the absurdities of opera, the least of which isn't that the [[BrainlessBeauty conventionally beautiful, airheaded, and talentless]] Christine is getting all the credit for her work. Nanny Ogg suggests Agnes have a good yell, and she lets out in a truly spectacular scream that goes all the way up through her magically enhanced range. ''Then'' the audience leaves. [[spoiler:Because it ain't over until the fat lady sings.]]

Despite the similarity in name, has ''nothing'' to do whatsoever with AndIMustScream, or TheScream (which is a FateWorseThanDeath and a horrific reaction, respectively. This is a frustration trope). May overlap with SkywardScream and {{Angrish}}. Sister trope of CatharticCrying.

* In ''Anime/WhentheyCry'', Rika Furude goes into a screaming raging fit when Miyo and Irie claim they couldn't help Satoko from her abusive uncle, with that and how Rika couldn't escape her fate of being murdered, She screamed so much that she unexpedectly sounded like a raging Banshee.

Despite the similarity in name, has ''nothing'' to do whatsoever with AndIMustScream, or TheScream (which is a FateWorseThanDeath and a horrific reaction, respectively. This is a frustration trope). May overlap with SkywardScream and {{Angrish}}. Compare CatharticCrying, which may also overlap with this trope.

Despite the similarity in name, has ''nothing'' to do whatsoever with AndIMustScream, or TheScream (which is a FateWorseThanDeath and a horrific reaction, respectively. This is a frustration trope). May overlap with SkywardScream and {{Angrish}}.

* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': In Linkara's review of ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'', he drops this little gem.

* When Dave takes a crack at being a therapist in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'', he suggests this to Lula over her anger issues as "primal screaming". She screams so loud that she ends up awakening an ancient evil deep underground.

* In ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' chapter 25, Kimihito [[spoiler:shoves his head inside [[SlimeGirl Suu's]] body and screams at the top of his lungs when he learns that The Organization will cover all living expenses, basically meaning he put himself through hell all throughout the chapter for nothing]].

* There's an NPC in ''Videogame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' that mentions it's best to scream at the ocean to vent your frustration.

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* In ''Manga/SangatsuNoLion'', Rei belts one out amidst an empty street after his post-game encounter with Yasui, venting out the frustration he gained from Yasui during and after the match. Yasui implicitly blaming Rei for not being able to have a happy last Christmas with his daughter (whose mother he's having an impending divorce with) is what sets it off.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'', Hacker does this on occasion. For instance, when [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Buzz and Delete]] [[SurroundedByIdiots accidentally drop his]] [[FrankensteinsMonster undead monster]] right in the middle of his EvilGloating, Hacker quietly leaves the room and screams.

* WebVideo/TheNecroCritic does this using his cat the same way one would scream into a pillow.

* ''{{Literature/Masquerade}}'': Agnes at the end of the book, after facing all the outright absurdities of opera, more than a few of which relate to how (in the modern era of opera) looks matter more than musical talent, which is why the [[BrainlessBeauty conventionally beautiful, airheaded, and talentless]] Christine gets the credit for Agnes (incredibly talented, [[BrawnHilda decidedly stout]]) singing, with even the relatively sensible people in the Opera House favouring her. Agnes eventually snaps at the end of it all, and on Nanny Ogg's advice, lets it out in a truly spectacular scream that goes all the way up through her magically enhanced range. It is also, of course, a pun on "it isn't over until the fat lady sings."