History Main / DishDash

* The Characters/BugsBunny ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "Little Red Riding Rabbit" ended with this scenario. Red was so annoying that Bugs rescued the wolf and left Red split between two chairs and arms full of breakables.
** Sylvester has one of these in ''Kit for Cat''.

* TexAvery's short "Rock-a-Bye Bear".

* ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS'': In the opening titles sequence, Mrs. Mitchell finds herself in this situation after Dennis, riding on Ruff, sends her armload of clean dishes flying.

* ''DennisTheMenaceUS'': In the opening titles sequence, Mrs. Mitchell finds herself in this situation after Dennis, riding on Ruff, sends her armload of clean dishes flying.

* In ''Film/MaryPoppins'', the Banks household must engage in this every time their neighbor Admiral Boom shoots off his cannon. Nothing ever gets broken, although the piano requires tuning.

* Olga Orly does this after every BigNo in ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney''. Until the one time she can't... and the dishes land perfectly anyway. Angel from the first game does the same with her box lunches.

Not to be confused with DinerDash, its mobile game equivalent.

* In a tie-in comic for ''{{Ratatouille}}'', Linguini bumps into one of the other chefs who was carrying a lot of dishes, and thanks to Remy's quick manipulation, he catches them all, making the other chefs wonder about his crazy skills. Linguini then gives Remy a break, and when he comes back in, Skinner tries to create the situation a second time, only for Linguini to drop every single one of the dishes. The other chefs conclude that the earlier event was just a fluke.

* In ''MahouSenseiNegima'', Chachamaru is acting as waitress for Chao Bao Zi, and is carrying two stacks of dim sum bowls seven high ... and trips.[[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v09/c075/6.html Asuna, Setsuna, and Negi catch all the bowls]]

-->-- ''TheHobbit''

* The "discredited version" of this trope was used on ''{{Recess}}'', when Spinelli first tried her hand at plate-spinning.

* Jadeybug does this with packages in the ''StrawberryShortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures'' episode "Berry Bitty World Record."

* ''KickButtowski'' "Stand and Delivery" - Kick insists he's fast. He gets the chance to prove it when Gunther loses his grip on a huge stack of dishes. Kick plucks them all out of the air.

* ''Film/{{Astroboy}}'' (2009): The title character does a scene like this, even though he realizes it could give away he's a robot.

* In one of the first issues of ''{{Impulse}}'', the title character's {{mentor}} who has SuperSpeed is having a cup of coffee while in his civilian identity. He knocks the cup off the desk and instinctivly catches it, hot liquid and all. This is done in front of his LoveInterest who at the time, had no idea of his superhero persona. He tries his best to play it off.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Brian goes out to dinner with his ex-girlfriend Jillian and her new beau. A waiter walks by and trips, causing him to drop his full tray, but Jillian's boyfriend catches everything with no problems. Wanting to one-up him, Brian then trips the next waiter who walks by and tries to do the same thing. He winds up covered in food and hurting the waiter's leg (which Jillian's boyfriend 'fixes' with some fancy handwork).

*** "The Royal Nap" includes one with Jerry and Tuffy/Nibbles throwing dishes to force Tom into the DishDash.

** The ChristmasSpecial ''TheTownSantaForgot'' has a failed Dish Dash caused by the main character throwing a temper tantrum so severe it knocks all the dishes from the cabinets to the floor before his mother can even attempt to catch any.

* ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" has a subversion. Quark has his employees dropping his glasses down on him from the second floor on purpose -- so that he can improve his catching skills for the big game.

The animated and/or comedy trope wherein a character has to pretty much dash madly around a room catching stacks of falling breakable dishes/plates/cups/mugs/lightbulbs/vases before they hit the floor and smash into a million pieces.

The most common variations of "what happens next" involve someone or something disturbing the rescuer of dishes, knocking into or startling them, and:

* Sanji and Robin perform this move in one of the ''Manga/OnePiece'' opening songs.

* Pikachu does this in an episode of ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}''. After Pachirisu, who's floating through a steamboat's kitchen after tying some balloons to its tail, knocks over a bunch of dishes, Pikachu catches them all with his front paws, back paws, and his own tail.

* Tiana in ''ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' {{DishDash}}es as part of her work, as seen early in the movie during the number "Down in New Orleans".
* There's a monster in the background on the floor in the penultimate scene of ''MonstersInc'' spinning plates on sticks [[spoiler: now that they've discovered laughter is 10 times more powerful than scream]].

* ''FamilyMatters'': Steve Urkel frequently does this. And sheepishly asks after the dust settles, "Did ''I'' do that?"
* ''TheYoungOnes'': Neil can't get the lentils out of the cupboard because if he opens the door all the plates will fall out and smash, so he enlists Vyvyan's help to knock a hole through the wall into the back of the cupboard. HilarityEnsues.
* ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" has a subversion. Quark has his employees dropping his glasses down on him from the second floor on purpose -- so that he can improve his catching skills for the big game.

* The Characters/BugsBunny ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "Little Red Riding Rabbit" ended with this scenario. Red was so annoying that Bugs rescued the wolf and left Red split between two chairs and arms full of breakables.

** WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry have had several variations, including the first film, "{{Puss Gets the Boot}}".

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Brian goes out to dinner with his ex-girlfriend Jillian and her new beau. A waiter walks by and trips, causing him to drop his full tray, but Jillian's boyfriend catches everything with no problems. Wanting to one-up him, Brian then trips the next waiter who walks by and tries to do the same thing. He winds up covered in food and hurting the waiter's leg (which Jillian's boyfriend 'fixes' with some fancy handwork).

* This happened in the ''{{My Little Pony}}'' film ''A Charming Birthday,'' where Rainbow Dash had a bunch of teapots, until Minty bumped into her. At first Minty caught all the teapots on her head, but dropped them all when she took a bow, saving only the green one.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Apple Bloom can do a DishDash in the "spinning on a stick" manner, and the "sure-footed, quick hand--er hoofed" method.

* In ''MaryPoppins'', the Banks household must engage in this every time their neighbor Admiral Boom shoots off his cannon. Nothing ever gets broken, although the piano requires tuning.

* Sanji and Robin perform this move in one of the ''OnePiece'' opening songs.
** Also from OnePiece, when Luffy is chasing Chopper around Doctorine's castle, he surprises him and causes a bunch of test tubes, beakers, bottles, etc. to fall. Chopper catches all of them (with his hooves an antlers, which of course makes no sense), and ens up balanced precariously on one foot. Luffy then grins, chuckles evilly, and says "But what if I...?" before proceeding to tickle Chopper mercilessly. Apparently, none of the 'dishes' broke in the end.

* Olga Orly does this after every BigNo in ''[[PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]''. Until the one time she can't... and the dishes land perfectly anyway. Angel from the first game does the same with her box lunches.

* A mother bird from ''Disney/AliceinWonderland'' actually does this with ''her own eggs.''

* In ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}'', Sebastian frequently ends up catching multiple dishware, food, and other items due to the clumsiness of Maylene and the other household staff. He never drops anything -- by accident, anyway -- because he's just that good of a BattleButler.

* ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowski'' "Stand and Delivery" - Kick insists he's fast. He gets the chance to prove it when Gunther loses his grip on a huge stack of dishes. Kick plucks them all out of the air.

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* The Characters/BugsBunny ''LooneyTunes'' cartoon "Little Red Riding Rabbit" ended with this scenario. Red was so annoying that Bugs rescued the wolf and left Red split between two chairs and arms full of breakables.

* ''ThreeDelivery'' opened with an earthquake, and Sid used martial arts moves to rescue all the breakables. He even managed to save Mr. Wu's favourite mug; unfortunately, Mr. Wu came in and startled Sid, resulting in the mug falling to the ground and breaking.

** TomAndJerry have had several variations, including the first film, "{{Puss Gets the Boot}}".

* ''FamilyGuy'': Brian goes out to dinner with his ex-girlfriend Jillian and her new beau. A waiter walks by and trips, causing him to drop his full tray, but Jillian's boyfriend catches everything with no problems. Wanting to one-up him, Brian then trips the next waiter who walks by and tries to do the same thing. He winds up covered in food and hurting the waiter's leg (which Jillian's boyfriend 'fixes' with some fancy handwork).

* ''MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' uses both versions of the trope:

* Occurs in a museum of priceless artifacts on ''KimPossible''. Surprisingly, none of them ended up breaking.

* ''DennisTheMenace'': In the opening titles sequence, Mrs. Mitchell finds herself in this situation after Dennis, riding on Ruff, sends her armload of clean dishes flying.