History Main / EndangeredSouffle

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'', two characters are in a televised cooking competition with the main antagonist and one of his henchmen (Delete). The henchman tries to sabotage the main characters' soufflé by creating a loud noise to make it fall flat, but one of the two main characters, who has repeatedly been stated throughout the series to have some degree of cooking skill, says that it was possible to re-inflate the soufflé by using a certain number of drops of water on it at a certain rate.

** Subverted in this show of all places, where they sneak weapons into a prison under the pretense of delivering a soufflé, and when a guard demands to investigate it, they warn him to be careful with it... right before they knock him out with the [[InstantSedation Off-Button Hypospray]], causing his head to fall into the soufflé and crush it.

* In the Marisa Berenson episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', the Swedish Chef makes a wedding cake for Miss Piggy's RealFakeWedding which is "light as a feather". It collapses when the Chef puts the Miss Piggy on top of it. A variation: The Swedish Chef's soufflé comes out of the oven so light it actually ''floats into the air''. He shoots an arrow at it in an attempt to get it to fall down. It falls down, all right... in both senses of the word.
-->'''Swedish Chef:''' [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign The freesbee soufflé.]]

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' has an [https://garfield.com/comic/1997/09/10 aversion] in a situation where there would be an actual danger in RealLife. Garfield appears to be watching a horror movie, covering his eyes at the "scary part" as someone on TV (not shown) opens a door with a "creeeeeeek" sound effect. In the last panel, Garfield sighs in relief as the person on TV... [[BaitAndSwitch pulls out a "perfect soufflé"]].

A trope that is little-used these days without actually being [[DiscreditedTrope discredited]], this could be found occasionally on [[DomCom Dom Coms]] up until the early 1970s, particularly those with child characters. A cook is attempting to bake a soufflé for a fancy party or important dinner. Unfortunately, they must do so under riotous circumstances, with a consequent paranoia about the soufflé collapsing. Naturally, some event -- rambunctious children or a slamming door or a car backfiring -- does indeed make the soufflé fall, thus "spoiling" the event.

* The 2000 ''Film/CharliesAngels'' movie has Lucy Liu's character Alex attempting to keep her soufflé intact while the trailer she's in is getting perforated with bullets. The soufflé never stood a chance.

* Occurs in [[http://sliceofponylife.tumblr.com/post/56684756244/part-1-link-high-res-page-10-page-11-page this]] ''Blog/SliceOfLife'' installment, which shows off Pumpkin's depression and Pound's poor sense of timing.

* In a ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' episode, Piper is baking a soufflé. When Leo walks in, speaking loudly, Piper threatens to blow him up if her soufflé falls.

* Used straight but comedically in the notorious ''Fanfic/SithAcademy'' SlashFic series; the humor of the situation comes from the fact that the person baking the chocolate souffle is Darth Maul, a vicious-minded Sith Lord who otherwise has the patience of a hyperactive weasel, while what causes it to collapse (and Maul to fly into a homicidal rage) is two Jedi Knights (Obi Wan Kenobi and Qui Gon Jinn, as it happens) having noisy sex in the apartment next door.
* Played rather straight for ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/118359/pinkie-pie-vs-the-souffl Pinkie Pie Vs. The Souffle]]'' in the ''[[Fanfic/TriptychContinuum Triptych Continuum]]''. The focus of the story has Pinkie attempting to make the dish as her master piece: the creation which will prove she's no longer an 'apprentice' baker. It goes about as well as you'd expect on the first attempt. And beyond. [[spoiler:It's implied that she's subconsciously sabotaging herself, because she's not ready to stop being an apprentice, the first step to eventually leaving the Cakes.]]

* The 2000 ''Film/CharliesAngels'' movie has Lucy Liu's character Alex attempting to keep her souffle intact while the trailer she's in is getting perforated with bullets. The souffle never stood a chance.
* Appears in ''Film/{{How to Murder Your Wife}}'' with the wife's famous "lasagna souffle".

** Subverted in this show of all places, where they sneak weapons into a prison under the pretense of delivering a soufflé, and when a guard demands to investigate it, they warn him to be careful with it... right before they knock him out with the [[InstantSedation Off-Button Hypospray]], causing his head to fall into the souffle and crush it.

* Subverted with Seven of Nine in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', who tried to make a souffle to cheer up Neelix. "The soufflé has collapsed somewhat, but its nutritional content remains intact."
* In ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', Alice keeps trying to shush the kids and then collapses the souffle herself by knocking over a pan with a loud crash.
* An episode of ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' had the opposite problem, in which Mr. Humphries was trying to hold down a souffle that was growing out of control.
* In the ''Series/MasterChef'' semi-finals, the contestants had to make a chocolate souffle. Whitney, the eventual winner had a case of both CarryingACake and EndangeredSouffle as she had to hurry and present the souffle to the judges as the souffle slowly sank.

** Although the souffle in question is never seen (technically, it was some kind of cake with a very complicated name), in the episode where Rose is revealed to have a dependency on painkillers, she has violent mood swings when her prescription runs out; a local producer is trying to film a commercial in the kitchen with Sophia, and Rose comes in and tears him a new one for endangering the souffle that no one knew she was making.
** Season 4, "The Impotence of Being Ernest," they get it in a restaurant and it figures into a boner joke. So the real souffle rises but the metaphorical one doesn't. I think that counts.
* ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'': Cloris Leachman's character Phyllis deliberately collapses a souffle Sue Ann Nivens (White) is baking when Phyllis finds out about Nivens' affair with her husband.
* Played with in an episode of ''Series/TheNanny''; Niles has just been told that the very complex meal he's been killing himself making is now worthless because their guest is recovering from a heart attack and needs a special menu. When Max opens the door and asks what smells so good, Niles snaps: "Oh, just a chocolate souffle that's been rising. Don't need that." (Slams the oven door closed '''HARD''' with his foot.)

* In a ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' episode, Piper is baking a souffle. When Leo walks in, speaking loudly, Piper threatens to blow him up if her souffle falls.
* {{Averted|Trope}} in series 6 of ''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff'': The semifinal technical challenge was a chocolate souffle, and while there were some issues all the souffles made it to judging un-collapsed.

* ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'', Larry attempts to finish his latest creation- A Rose Petal Souffle when Tuddrussel and Otto come in to pull pranks on him.
* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', where a mad baker attempts to create a giant souffle to smother The City. To collapse the souffle, the Tick must shoot himself out of a cannon at the speed of sound.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', [=SpongeBob=] causes the collapse of Squidward's souffle ''after'' it's removed from the oven.

** When long-time chef show host Helmut Spargle is replaced by the Emeril-esque Elzar, Elzar "BAM"s and causes Spargle's souffle to collapse.
** Parodied and justified in later episode "The Mutants are Revolting", which features a souffle that contains nitroglycerin.

** A plot point early in an episode: Timmy's mom tries to make a pink soufflé, which collapses and turns grey (due to her poor cooking skills, rather than noise). Later, when Timmy makes a wish that everyone and everything were the same, the world goes grey-scale, and everyone becomes identical blobs. Cosmo and Wanda can't find Timmy until he recreates his trademark pink hat using another of his mother's collapsed souffles, which was supposed to be grey.
** In another episode, Timmy wishes Jorgen to his location while the latter was making a souffle. Jorgen then threatens Timmy that if his souffle were to fall, he would [[UnusualEuphemism bake him a mighty cake of death]].

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'', two characters are in a televised cooking competition with the main antagonist and one of his henchmen (Delete). The henchman tries to sabotage the main characters' souffle by creating a loud noise to make it fall flat, but one of the two main characters, who has repeatedly been stated throughout the series to have some degree of cooking skill, says that it was possible to re-inflate the souffle by using a certain number of drops of water on it at a certain rate.
* ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'' makes an 'Armageddon Souffle', not realizing that it is "not only a tasty end to any meal, but a tasty end ... TO THE WORLD!" It wreaks havoc, only being collapsed when Dave's family chops down a tree, which lands on Dave's toe and makes him scream like an opera singer.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures'', Berrykin Bloom's loud bassoon-playing collapses the souffles that Strawberry made.
* Discussed in ''WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda'', where Gordy and Angela's brothers are making a Souffle and tell her to be quiet because it's in the oven.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "An Ed Too Many", Jimmy is moping about Sarah leaving him to go swoon over Edd when the souffle he's baking for lunch finishes; [[ButtMonkey it collapses almost immediately]].

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'', where Madeline and her friends are learning how to cook at Cordon Bleu has this happen to Nicole. The souffle she makes is ''tres manifique'', but then it deflates. She cries.
* A common thing that happens not only to Greedy's souffles, but also his muffins, in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheDayMyButtWentPsycho'': {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one episode when Deuce and Elanor's fighting is wrecking everything Zack does. He comments that he probably picked the wrong day to bake a souffle. Just as he takes it out of the oven, Deuce and Elanor thunder past. Miraculously, the souffle survives. Then Deuce returns to shout (through a megaphone) how amazing it is that the souffle didn't collapse...

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':;

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* ComicBook/GastonLagaffe once bakes an enormous souffle to cheer up his chronically depressed cousin. Initially it seems to work, but collapses at a critical moment, resulting in the "most depressing sight ever." Probably justified, since Gaston is a CordonBleughChef often bordering on a LethalChef.
* One of the storylines of ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'''s "Monroe" had the titular loser try to impress a girl named Jolynda by making her a souffle. However, since he's the universe's [[CosmicPlaything personal chewtoy]], his delicate dessert is ruined by his brutish classmate, Dylan. Laughing, the bully strolls away with Jolynda in tow, leaving the poor antenna-haired teenager to stew in his culinary failure.

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* Appears in ''HowToMurderYourWife'' with the wife's famous "lasagna souffle".

* Averted in Creator/{{ABC}}'s extended cut of ''Film/SupermanII''. Supes is cooking a souffle with his heat vision, and Lois stops him just in time.[[note]]The theatrical version and the Richard Donner Cut don't actually show Superman and Lois preparing the souffle, but the theatrical version's Special Edition DVD and Blu-Ray include this clip as an extra.[[/note]]
-->"You should never overcook a souffle!"

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-->"Are you insane? She's asleep - we can't ''move'' her!"
* Subverted in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' of all places, where they sneak weapons into a prison under the pretense of delivering a souffle, and when a guard demands to investigate it, they warn him to be careful with it...right before they knock him out with the [[InstantSedation Off-Button Hypospray]], causing his head to fall into the souffle and crush it.

** Subverted with Seven of Nine in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', who tried to make a souffle to cheer up Neelix. "The souffle has collapsed somewhat, but its nutritional content remains intact."

* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''

* Oswin in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks "Asylum of the Daleks"]] keeps trying and failing to make a soufflé. [[spoiler:Turns out it was just a fantasy in her mind and the soufflés were a subliminal reminder that she had been transformed into a Dalek ("Eggs-stir-min-ate").]]

* In the Marisa Berenson episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', the Swedish Chef makes a wedding cake for Miss Piggy's RealFakeWedding which is 'light as a feather'. It collapses when the Chef puts the Miss Piggy on top of it.
** A variation: The Swedish Chef's soufflé comes out of the oven so light it actually ''floats into the air''. He shoots an arrow at it in an attempt to get it to fall down. It falls down, all right...in both senses of the word.
-->'''Swedish Chef:''' [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign The freesbee soufflé.]]

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* In ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'', a similar thing is a recurring theme with Cookie's cakes, which can apparently be deflated by loud bangs when in the oven -- he [[ExaggeratedTrope even]] has a cake of potential Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords size fail due to a massive simultaneous artillery practice barrage being initiated at the critical moment.

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* A plot point in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''. Early in the episode, Timmy's mom tries to make a pink souffle, which collapses and turns grey (due to her poor cooking skills, rather than noise). Later, when Timmy makes a wish that everyone and everything were the same, the world goes grey-scale, and everyone becomes identical blobs. Cosmo and Wanda can't find Timmy until he recreates his trademark pink hat using another of his mother's collapsed souffles, which was supposed to be grey.
** In another episode Timmy wishes Jorgen to his location while the latter was making a souffle. Jorgen then threatens Timmy that if his souffle were to fall, he would [[UnusualEuphemism bake him a mighty cake of death]].

--> '''Lovejoy:''' Damn Flanders...

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* A variation on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': The Swedish Chef's soufflé comes out of the oven so light it actually ''floats into the air''. He shoots an arrow at it in an attempt to get it to fall down. It falls down, all right...in both senses of the word.
-->'''Swedish Chef:''' [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign The freesbee soufflé.]]

* happens naturally to Audrey Hepburn in ''Film/{{Sabrina|1954}}'' when she forgets to turn on the oven in the first place.

* In the Marisa Berenson episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', the Swedish Chef makes a wedding cake for Miss Piggy's RealFakeWedding which is 'light as a feather'. It collapse when the Chef puts the Miss Piggy on top of it.

* An episode of ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' had the opposite problem, in which Mr Humphries was trying to hold down a souffle that was growing out of control.

* Averted in series 6 of ''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff'': The semifinal technical challenge was a chocolate souffle, and while there were some issues all the souffles made it to judging un-collapsed.

* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', where a mad baker attempts to create a giant souffle to smother The City. To collapse the souffle, the Tick must shoot himself out of a cannon at the speed of sound.

* happens naturally to Audrey Hepburn in ''Film/{{Sabrina}}'' when she forgets to turn on the oven in the first place.

* It happens with a cake in ''HarrietTheSpy'', only Harriet deliberately stomps and knocks over some chairs after the cook tells her to be quiet.

* Used straight but comedically in the notorious ''SithAcademy'' SlashFic series; the humor of the situation comes from the fact that the person baking the chocolate souffle is Darth Maul, a vicious-minded Sith Lord who otherwise has the patience of a hyperactive weasel, while what causes it to collapse (and Maul to fly into a homicidal rage) is two Jedi Knights (Obi Wan Kenobi and Qui Gon Jinn, as it happens) having noisy sex in the apartment next door.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "The Big Catnap", while Garfield is sleeping, Jon receives a package containing his mother's cookies, which as he relates to the mailman, he hasn't eaten in years because Garfield always finds a way to trick him out of them. So, he sneaks around him... but a parade outside and auto racing on TV conspire to wake him up, so Jon goes to a park in another city. His biting of the cookie is what wakes Garfield up and brings him speeding to Jon's location.

#Improperly construct it so that the fat in the yolk mixture destabilizes the foamy whites mixture. Refer to the relevant ''Series/GoodEats'' episode. What Alton Brown doesn't say, though, is that it is ''laughably easy'' to do this, especially given mid-20th century ingredients and equipment.

* Averted in the Christopher Reeve ''Film/{{Superman}}'' film. Supes is cooking a souffle with his heat vision, and Lois stops him just in time.
-->"You must never overcook souffle!"