History Main / FloorboardFailure

* Near the end of ''Disney/TheAristocats'' "Ev'rybody Wants to be a Cat" number, Scat Cat's gang are jamming on a piano in the attic of an abandoned house. The paw-stomping energy they play with eventually sends the piano and gang through every floor in the house until they reach the street level.

* Happens somewhat frequently to [[ComicBook/XMen the Blob]], given how heavy he is and his status as something of a ButtMonkey.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Falling through the floorboards in a house they've collapsed with their DestructoNookie [[CoitusUninterruptus doesn't stop Buffy and Spike from having sex]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}: Wanpaku Graffiti'', after you beat the haunted kitchen, the house quakes and five floors collapse underneath you, leading you to [[GoodBadTranslation "be garbage of cesspool."]]

* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Happens when Walt and Jesse try DisposingOfABody by dissolving it in hydrofluoric acid in the upstairs bathroom. Jesse buys the wrong container to hold the acid bath, which they realize when the whole indescribable gore-slurry comes gushing down through the ground-floor ceiling.

* In a CrowningMomentOfAwesome, [[ProperLady Muneca]] of the ''Webcomic/{{Pacificators}}'' fame used her [[GravityMaster gravity powers]] to ''throw the Shadow Sleuth through a pier.''

** In one episode of a chainsaw that Gaston had meddled with goes haywire, cutting a hole in the floor around his desk and dropping it and Gaston into the office below, where the process repeats itself. After going through three floors, it is still going, several characters have gathered on top of Gaston's desk (Lebrac appreciating the SecurityCling courtesy of a female coworker), and one asks how many more floors there are.[[note]]Gaston's desk is usually set on the ''cinquième'' or ''sixième étage'', which in US numbering would be the sixth or seventh floor respectively.[[/note]]

** In one episode of a chainsaw that Gaston had meddled with goes haywire, cutting a hole in the floor around his desk and dropping it and Gaston into the office below, where the process repeats itself. After going through three floors, it is still going, several characters have gathered on top of Gaston's desk (Lebrac appreciating the SecurityCling courtesy of a female coworker), and one asks how many more floors there are.

** In another, Lebrac drops termites overnight into Gaston's {{Xenophone}} as a desperate measure to get rid of the damn thing. The next morning, everything made of cellulose is collapsing or desintegrating at the lightest touch. Gaston hurriedly runs to the attic... to find his instrument still there (the termites apparently left it alone due to the varnish on it). An incensed Prunelle asks Lebrac to follow him to his office... just as the two of them are going through the floor.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' fanfic ''FanFic/TheVow'', [[spoiler:[[SparedByTheAdaptation Lord Shen]]]] avoids being crushed beneath a cannon because the [[spoiler:deck of his destroyed ship]] under him collapses, resulting in him falling into the [[spoiler:waters]] below.

* In the ''Film/HomeAlone'' LicensedGame for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, the floors in the Old House break if Kevin, Harry, or Marv walk across them too much. Kevin can use this to his advantage, as he can hit Harry or Marv with one of his weapons as they try to jump across one of the holes, causing them to fall through it and increasing the pain in their Pain meter.

* ''Film/NotAnotherTeenMovie'': After her big makeover, Janey starts boldly walking down the stairs, when suddenly she falls through the staircase, into a basement and a table and lamp fall on top of her.

* In one episode of ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'' a chainsaw that Gaston had meddled with goes haywire, cutting a hole in the floor around his desk and dropping it and Gaston into the office below, where the process repeats itself. After going through three floors, it is still going, several characters have gathered on top of Gaston's desk, and one asks how many more floors there are.

* The WesternAnimation/BugsBunny short "WesternAnimation/BlooperBunny" has Bugs discovering a loose floorboard during shooting. He leads the camera away from it but sure enough, a few scenes later [[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck Daffy]] has the board slam into his face and through his bill. Another blooper immediately follows where Daffy somehow forgets to remove the floorboard.

* Justified in ''[[Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird]]'', since the stone floor of the Cradle of Sulevin has slowly collapsed over several ages and made it dangerous to walk. [[spoiler:As a result, the Lady Inquisitor takes a ''nasty'' fall.]]