History Main / FlowerPotDrop

* In the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon ''WesternAnimation/DonaldsDilemma'', a flowerpot falling on Don's head gives him IdentityAmnesia and a handsome voice, making him think he's a great singer. WesternAnimation/Daisy|Duck}} brings him back to normal by dropping another pot on his head.

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* In the ComicBook/DonaldDuck cartoon "Donald's Dilemma", a flowerpot falling on Don's head gives him IdentityAmnesia and a handsome voice, making him think he's a great singer. Daisy brings him back to normal by dropping another pot on his head.

* In the ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} short ''The Spinach Roadster'', Olive accidentally drops a whole mess of flower pots onto Popeye's car, including one on his head.

* Dandelion in ''TheWitcher'' saga was flower-bombed by his current mistress breaking with him, after she threw all his possessions out of the window.

* Oscar relates that this happened to him in the ''TrueJacksonVP'' episode ''The Prototype''.

-->-- '''Sassy''', ''Film/HomewardBoundIILostInSanFransisco''

-->-- '''Sassy''', ''[[Film/HomewardBoundTheIncredibleJourney Homeward Bound 2: Lost in San Fransisco]]''

* In ''[[Film/HomewardBoundTheIncredibleJourney Homeward Bound II: Lost In San Francisco]]'', Sassy knocks a flower pot off of a shelf on top of one of the mean stray dogs.

* Occasional hazard in the NES game ''VideoGame/UrbanChampion''.

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* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'': Monica once accidentally dropped one from an apartment window and hurried down. She couldn't use the stairs because they were being washed back then so she had to wait for an elevator. Despite this, she [[spoiler:managed to arrive on time to be hit]].
* In ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book story "The Reporter Smurf", a Smurf reading the village newspaper wonders if he's a Taurus when the horoscope of the day for Taurus reads "beware of falling objects", and soon enough he gets bonked in the head by a flower pot, with his fellow Smurf confirming that he's a Taurus.
* In ComicBook/RatchetAndClankComic Ratchet gets hit by one of these in the first issue "Ears of War" after a robot blasted him through his garage.
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-->-- '''Sassy''', ''Film/HomewardBoundTheIncredibleJourney''

* In one episode of ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ'', this was done to commit murder. [[spoiler: The killer was the wife of the victim, angry over their decaying relatioship.]]

* In Part 4 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Okuyasu Nijimura's debut has him demonstrating the power of his Stand: The Hand, being able to pull this towards him by erasing the space between them. While he grabs Josuke using The Hand's vacuum, he also pulls a flower pot off a nearby window and slams himself in the head with it, knocking him out.

* ''ComicStrip{{Garfield}}'' has used this a few times.

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-->'''Popeye:''' Somebody don't know the difference between a car and a garbage can.

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* In ''TheWrongBox'', Masterman Finsbury tries, unsuccessfully, to kill his brother Joseph, and finally screams for him to leave. As Joseph leaves, Masterman hurls a couple of flowerpots at him - finding himself with an armful of flowers, Joseph calls out "It's no use apologizing!"

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* ''{{Garfield}}'' has used this a few times.

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* The homebrew [[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/printthread.php?t=122824 Falling Anvil]] discipline for Dungeons and Dragons (versions 3.X) includes this in varying degrees, starting with flowerpots, and ranging upwards through anvils, safes, and finally Viking longboats. Of course, it also includes a wide variety of other toon-like attacks and defenses.

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* On the Creator/TexAvery short "BadLuckBlackie", a flowerpot is the first thing that falls on the bulldog's head. Larger and more unlikely objects soon follow.
* In the DonaldDuck cartoon "Donald's Dilemma", a flowerpot falling on Don's head gives him IdentityAmnesia and a handsome voice, making him think he's a great singer. Daisy brings him back to normal by dropping another pot on his head.

* In one episode of ''Manga/DetectiveAcademyQ'', this was done to commit murder.

* ''MonicasGang'': Monica once accidentally dropped one from an apartment window and hurried down. She couldn't use the stairs because they were being washed back then so she had to wait for an elevator. Despite this, she [[spoiler:managed to arrive on time to be hit]].

* In ''DreamHigh'', Baekhee drops a flower pot from the top of the school building, hoping to hurt Hyemi. She hits Samdong instead and he is rushed to the hospital for a serious head injury.

* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Clerks}}'', Dante and Randal are climbing up Leonardo Leonardo's building when all of a sudden a flower pot drops in the middle of them. Dante asks "Why are we walking like this?" as the camera angle changes and zooms out, revealing they are just barely there.

* Parodied in ''KungFuHustle'', where the character doesn't get up after a pot is dropped on him from a top level apartment, and still played for laughs. When bad stuff starts happening, the recipient gathers the scattered dust around his head to hide.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros [=U/3DS=]'', [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing the Villager's]] dash attack has him trip over and drop a flower pot fowards, which breaks upon contact with the ground or an opponent.
* In ''CallOfDuty: ModernWarfare 2'''s Takedown mission, flower pots are dropped from the upper favela levels at a few points.

* On ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' this happens to poor Michelangelo. (when?)