History Main / SheetOfGlass

** The page picture shows that it even manages to happen during a boat chase.

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[[caption-width-right:300:Why some people tend to do this [[RuleOfFunny we'll never know]].]]

Nowadays the car chase version is a DeadHorseTrope. Often accompanied by a FruitCart or ChaseSceneObstacleCourse. If it's a person going through a window, it's DestinationDefenestration.

* ''WesternAnimation/PinkPanther'' features this in "Tickled Pink", with an out-of-control roller skates.

* ''Film/WhatsUpDoc''[[note]]Nothing to do with WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.[[/note]]: The Sheet Of Glass appears in Peter Bogdanovich's affectionate homage to the Screwball Comedy. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that none of the cars smash it, because the men carrying safely get it to the sidewalk. However, one car does hit the ladder on which another workman is stringing a banner; that guy swings from the broken banner and through the glass.
%%* Parodied in the climax of a really weird movie, that involved a fight in a factory. Two people would periodically walk in carrying a large sheet of glass, just in time for someone to fly through it. The one time someone regains their balance before hitting the glass, runs through it on purpose.

* ''Film/WhatsUpDoc'': The Sheet Of Glass appears in Peter Bogdanovich's affectionate homage to the Screwball Comedy. [[note]]Nothing to do with WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.[[/note]] [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that none of the cars smash it; it's another worker swinging from a broken banner who breaks it.

See also SubvertedTrope, where this trope is used as an example to illustrate the variations of it and PlayingWith: PlayingWith/SheetOfGlass.

[[ItsGoingDown Inevitably]], a car is driven right through the glass, shattering it everywhere. The alternative is that a character walks into it, unaware that it's there. A standard gag is to have the extras see the first approaching car and scramble to get out of its way, only to have them relax and not notice the pursuer until he smashes through.

* At one point during the lengthy plane chase in ''VideoGame/SpongebobSquarepantsCreatureFromTheKrustyKrab'', one of the obstacles Spongebob has to shoot are two fish carrying a sheet of glass. Lampshaeded, as one of the fish says something along the lines of, "I knew this was a bad idea!" when it gets shattered.

* Taken UpToEleven in the DramaticChaseOpening of the sci-fi BMovie ''Film/TheHidden''. Two men are carrying a sheet of glass across a park for no apparent reason when the BodySurf alien comes roaring up in a stolen car. He not only drives through the glass, he also [[KickTheDog runs over the two men in the process]].

* The UnfinishedEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/FatherOfThePride'', known as the "Lost Tale," includes a variation on this where Larry chucks a football out the window, directly towards two orangoutangs carrying a sheet of glass. The two wince in anticipation but the ball just bounces off of it without leaving any damage. They then [[DoubleSubverted immediately drop the glass in excitement to play with the football]].

* A disturbing variant in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''. The moving men decide to hold the glass horizontally instead of vertically (because it always gets broken that way), and accidentally cut a running man in half as a result.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' ''Bubble Boy'', this trope had been taken [[UpToEleven Up To Eleven]]. The Rowdyruff Boys (plus Bubbles, minus Boomer) had played a game where they would spit at a plane and see who hits. Of course, they all missed. But when the first two boys did it, it was sent into space ''just as two astronauts were replacing the lens for their satellite''. You know what happened next.

* DoubleSubverted in the ''Series/ForeverKnight'' PilotMovie ''Nick Knight'': A runaway car, barreling down the hill. Guys carrying pane of glass across the road. Drive yelling and trying to wave them off. Frightened face of car's helpless driver reflected in the glass. Guys make it out of the way in time, saving the glass...except they're so busy watching the car, they walk into a nearby tree, smashing the glass anyway.

* The TitleSequence of ''Series/TheProfessionals'' opens with a car driving through a plate glass window.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. Likewise, in "Tacking Into the Wind," in the absence of suitable windows, Worf simply has to be thrown through a tactical display made out of a vertically positioned sheet of glass.

* Handled with realism in ''Manga/HellTeacherNube''. [[{{Tsundere}} Kyoko]] and friends are walking down the street, oblivious, while discussing a [[{{Inugami}} very ugly-looking man-faced dog]] that has grown attached to her. As the two workmen carrying the sheet of glass lose their grip, the sheet falls (edge-first) directly towards her neck... and the [[HeroicSacrifice poor dog]] [[DivingSave dives at her]], pushes her out of the way, and [[TakingTheBullet is beheaded]] by the glass.

-->'''Worker:''' Well, two out of three isn't bad.

* There's a subversion in ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' as well: during a vehicle chase there is constant cuts between Rigby looking forward and screaming and two men carrying a glass sheet... then the vehicles pass by the street next to the guys carrying the glass... who promptly drop the glass and take out their phones to take pictures of the chase happening next to them. Rigby was screaming at a picture of a dog with a hat that Aylene sent to him.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace'' episode, "Ruff's Hat Trick", Dennis and Ruff are being chased by a police officer. Two workers are seen carrying a sheet of glass, when Ruff and Dennis approach them. Though the workers manage to avoid having having the sheet of glass shattered by both Ruff and Dennis, they're not so lucky when the police officer comes across them.