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* In ''Film/{{The Muppets|2011}}'' (2011), Tex Richman finishes a round of fencing and then sees on the news that the Muppets are raising the money to buy their theater back. He throws his fencing blade at the TV in response.

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* In ''Film/{{The Muppets|2011}}'' (2011), Muppets|2011}}'', Tex Richman finishes a round of fencing and then sees on the news that the Muppets are raising the money to buy their theater back. He throws his fencing blade at the TV in response.



* In Creator/BruceCoville's novel ''[[Literature/MagicShop Jennifer Murdley's Toad]]'', Jennifer Murdley was a very unattractive-looking girl. One day when she was six she was watching television and saw a commercial for a Barbie doll. Knowing she would never be as pretty as the doll, she started to cry. When her father saw her crying and realized why, he got so enraged at [=TV=] that he smashed it.

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* In Creator/BruceCoville's novel ''[[Literature/MagicShop Jennifer Murdley's Toad]]'', Jennifer Murdley was a very unattractive-looking girl. One day when she was six she was watching television and saw a commercial for a Barbie doll. Knowing she would never be as pretty as the doll, she started to cry. When her father saw her crying and realized why, he got so enraged at [=TV=] TV that he smashed it.



* ''Series/GameOn'': At the end of one episode, the boys decide to test if a gun is actually real by aiming it at the [=TV=] and firing. It turns out to be real.

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* ''Series/GameOn'': At the end of one episode, the boys decide to test if a gun is actually real by aiming it at the [=TV=] TV and firing. It turns out to be real.



:: He then changes over to ''The Tonight Show'', to find Creator/JoanRivers mocking him. He then wings the remote at the TV.

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* ''Anime/{{Moldiver}}'': In the episode "Overzone", Mirai Ozora becomes frustrated with Mao Shirase's teasing to the point where she hangs up and destroys the screen by throwing her phone at it.

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* There was a ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' strip which featured an old lady shooting her TV.
-->''"Vanna White! Got her in mid-spin!"''
* One strip of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' has Calvin's dad, after having his attempt to take a picture of their vacation rebuffed, muttering how the next time he sees a [[Creator/EastmanKodak Kodak]] commercial he'll put an ax through the TV.
* In ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'', Pantsy throws his shoe through the screen of the prison television showing footage of his capture.
* One ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' had Andy watching interminable news coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial, which was interrupted by news that a UFO had landed on the White House lawn and an alien was addressing the onlookers - and then back to the O.J. trial after ten seconds. Andy remarks "Now I see why Elvis shot that TV".
* One ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' strip has ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' creator Scott Adams shoot his TV set while dressed like Elvis.
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* ''Film/NineteenFortyOne1979'': The insane USAAF pilot Wild Bill Kelso lands his fighter at a roadside gas station and announces that he's searching for two squadrons of Japanese Zeros that supposedly attacked San Francisco. The locals tell him that the radio said the Zeros are just a figment of imagination due to war nerves. Kelso responds by drawing his .45 and shooting the radio. Then he somehow manages to blow up the gas station too.
* Lois Einhorn from ''Film/AceVentura: Pe tDetective'' [[spoiler:reveals herself as Ray Finkle]] when commentary during the Super Bowl halftime show on the "Kick Heard Round the World" that ruined Finkle's career pushes her over the edge:

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* ''Film/NineteenFortyOne1979'': ''[[Film/NineteenFortyOne1979 1941]]'': The insane USAAF pilot Wild Bill Kelso lands his fighter at a roadside gas station and announces that he's searching for two squadrons of Japanese Zeros that supposedly attacked San Francisco. The locals tell him that the radio said the Zeros are just a figment of imagination due to war nerves. Kelso responds by drawing his .45 and shooting the radio. Then he somehow manages to blow up the gas station too.
* Lois Einhorn from ''Film/AceVentura: Pe tDetective'' ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' [[spoiler:reveals herself as Ray Finkle]] when commentary during the Super Bowl halftime show on the "Kick Heard Round the World" that ruined Finkle's career pushes her over the edge:



* In ''Film/Batman1989'', the Joker does this twice. The first is when he takes a boxing glove gun to the TV for mention of Batman in connection to an assassination that Joker pulled off on one of Grissom's underbosses, demanding to know, "What kind of a world we live in where a man dressed up as a bat gets all of my press?!" The second time, Joker shoots the television screen with a real gun after learning on the news that his poisoning scheme involving beauty products has been foiled by the Batman.

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* In ''Film/Batman1989'', ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'', the Joker does this twice. The first is when he takes a boxing glove gun to the TV for mention of Batman in connection to an assassination that Joker pulled off on one of Grissom's underbosses, demanding to know, "What kind of a world we live in where a man dressed up as a bat gets all of my press?!" The second time, Joker shoots the television screen with a real gun after learning on the news that his poisoning scheme involving beauty products has been foiled by the Batman.



* In ''Film/TheMuppets2011'', Tex Richman finishes a round of fencing and then sees on the news that the Muppets are raising the money to buy their theater back. He throws his fencing blade at the TV in response.

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* In ''Film/TheMuppets2011'', ''Film/{{The Muppets|2011}}'' (2011), Tex Richman finishes a round of fencing and then sees on the news that the Muppets are raising the money to buy their theater back. He throws his fencing blade at the TV in response.



* ''Film/RoboCop1987'': As [=RoboCop=], Murphy visits his old home and discovers that [[YouCantGoHomeAgain his family no longer lives there]] and the house is now part of a model housing development, with monitors in every room showing a realtor giving an enthusiastic sales pitch. Murphy wanders around the house as memories of his former life come back to him, growing ever more angry and frustrated until he puts his fist through one of the monitors.

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* ''Film/RoboCop1987'': ''Film/{{RoboCop|1987}}'': As [=RoboCop=], Murphy visits his old home and discovers that [[YouCantGoHomeAgain his family no longer lives there]] and the house is now part of a model housing development, with monitors in every room showing a realtor giving an enthusiastic sales pitch. Murphy wanders around the house as memories of his former life come back to him, growing ever more angry and frustrated until he puts his fist through one of the monitors.



* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'', Shredder is introduced watching a wall of TV screens. When April appears on the news and indicates that [[HeKnowsTooMuch she knows too much]] about the Foot Clan, Shredder throws a knife at her face on the TV screen. If you look closely, several others [=TVs=] also appear to exhibit the same damage.

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* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'', ''Film/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1990}}'' (1990), Shredder is introduced watching a wall of TV screens. When April appears on the news and indicates that [[HeKnowsTooMuch she knows too much]] about the Foot Clan, Shredder throws a knife at her face on the TV screen. If you look closely, several others [=TVs=] also appear to exhibit the same damage.



* ''Series/TheBoys2019''. In "The Big Ride", Starlight gets annoyed about all the PR hype surrounding her, and uses her GlowingEyesOfDoom to break the TV screen of a taxi she's travelling in.

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* ''Series/TheBoys2019''.''Series/{{The Boys|2019}}''. In "The Big Ride", Starlight gets annoyed about all the PR hype surrounding her, and uses her GlowingEyesOfDoom to break the TV screen of a taxi she's travelling in.



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* There was a ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' strip which featured an old lady shooting her TV.
-->''"Vanna White! Got her in mid-spin!"''
* One strip of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' has Calvin's dad, after having his attempt to take a picture of their vacation rebuffed, muttering how the next time he sees a [[Creator/EastmanKodak Kodak]] commercial he'll put an ax through the TV.
* In ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'', Pantsy throws his shoe through the screen of the prison television showing footage of his capture.
* One ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' had Andy watching interminable news coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial, which was interrupted by news that a UFO had landed on the White House lawn and an alien was addressing the onlookers - and then back to the O.J. trial after ten seconds. Andy remarks "Now I see why Elvis shot that TV".
* One ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' strip has ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' creator Scott Adams shoot his TV set while dressed like Elvis.
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* In ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} 4: The Captain's Return'', Kayto Shields furiously puts a bullet through his TV while his arch-enemy, Veniczar Fontana, is giving a speech proclaiming PACT's victory over the Solar Alliance.



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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', upon seeing [[spoiler:Tarquin kill Nale]] through the Three Fiends' scrying television as she was trapped in her home plane, Sabine picks up the couch she was sitting on and chucks it through the screen in a rage.
-->'''Lee''': That's coming out of your holiday bonus.
* In one strip ''Webcomic/PixieAndBrutus'', when Pixie stumbles upon a movie on television, it takes Brutus half-sleepingly correcting her saying "[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Cougar]]" to [[DelayedReaction realize]] that [[KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms she was watching a horror movie]] and immediately smashes the television [[UseYourHead with a headbutt]].

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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', upon seeing [[spoiler:Tarquin kill Nale]] ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} 4: The Captain's Return'', Kayto Shields furiously puts a bullet through his TV while his arch-enemy, Veniczar Fontana, is giving a speech proclaiming PACT's victory over the Three Fiends' scrying television as she was trapped in her home plane, Sabine picks up the couch she was sitting on and chucks it through the screen in a rage.
-->'''Lee''': That's coming out of your holiday bonus.
* In one strip ''Webcomic/PixieAndBrutus'', when Pixie stumbles upon a movie on television, it takes Brutus half-sleepingly correcting her saying "[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Cougar]]" to [[DelayedReaction realize]] that [[KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms she was watching a horror movie]] and immediately smashes the television [[UseYourHead with a headbutt]].
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* The narrator of ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'' did this while sinning ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993''.
-->"WHAT THE FUCK GODDAMN PIECE OF SHIT FEVER DREAM OF A MOVIE AM I WATCHING?! ''[bang]'' Sorry, I just shot my television. Can someone tell me how this thing ends?"
* Hockey writer Sean [=McIndoe=], aka Down Goes Brown, during 2012 [[http://www.downgoesbrown.com/2012/06/winners-and-losers-from-2012-nhl.html twice]] [[http://www.downgoesbrown.com/2012/05/2012-world-championships-preview.html jokingly]] attributed this to Jack Johnson, who was traded from the Los Angeles Kings that would win UsefulNotes/TheStanleyCup. There was a third in Sean's book, in a brand new recap of the year's finals:
-->'''Overtime''': Jeff Carter looked pretty good during the replay of his winning goal right up until that sledgehammer smashed through the screen, report people watching the game at Jack Johnson's house.

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* The narrator of ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'' did this while sinning ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993''.
-->"WHAT THE FUCK GODDAMN PIECE OF SHIT FEVER DREAM OF A MOVIE AM I WATCHING?! ''[bang]'' Sorry, I just shot my television. Can someone tell me how this thing ends?"
* Hockey writer Sean [=McIndoe=], aka Down Goes Brown, during 2012 [[http://www.downgoesbrown.com/2012/06/winners-and-losers-from-2012-nhl.html twice]] [[http://www.downgoesbrown.com/2012/05/2012-world-championships-preview.html jokingly]] attributed this to Jack Johnson, who was traded from the Los Angeles Kings that would win UsefulNotes/TheStanleyCup. There was a third in Sean's book, in a brand new recap of the year's finals:
-->'''Overtime''': Jeff Carter looked pretty good during the replay of his winning goal right up until that sledgehammer smashed through the screen, report people watching the game at Jack Johnson's house.
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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', upon seeing [[spoiler:Tarquin kill Nale]] through the Three Fiends' scrying television as she was trapped in her home plane, Sabine picks up the couch she was sitting on and chucks it through the screen in a rage.
-->'''Lee:''' That's coming out of your holiday bonus.
* In one strip ''Webcomic/PixieAndBrutus'', when Pixie stumbles upon a movie on television, it takes Brutus half-sleepingly correcting her saying "[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Cougar]]" to [[DelayedReaction realize]] that [[KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms she was watching a horror movie]] and immediately smashes the television [[UseYourHead with a headbutt]].
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* Hockey writer Sean [=McIndoe=], a.k.a. Down Goes Brown, during 2012 [[http://www.downgoesbrown.com/2012/06/winners-and-losers-from-2012-nhl.html twice]] [[http://www.downgoesbrown.com/2012/05/2012-world-championships-preview.html jokingly]] attributed this to Jack Johnson, who was traded from the Los Angeles Kings that would win UsefulNotes/TheStanleyCup. There was a third in Sean's book, in a brand new recap of the year's finals:
-->'''Overtime:''' Jeff Carter looked pretty good during the replay of his winning goal right up until that sledgehammer smashed through the screen, report people watching the game at Jack Johnson's house.
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* The narrator of ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'' did this while sinning ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993''.
-->"WHAT THE FUCK GODDAMN PIECE OF SHIT FEVER DREAM OF A MOVIE AM I WATCHING?! ''[bang]'' Sorry, I just shot my television. Can someone tell me how this thing ends?"
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* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': Joker and Harley both display this tendency, which causes a little friction when Harley is living in Poison Ivy's apartment.
--> '''Poison Ivy:''' You have been here two weeks and have destroyed nine [=TVs=].

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* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': ''WesternAnimation/{{Harley Quinn|2019}}'': Joker and Harley both display this tendency, which causes a little friction when Harley is living in Poison Ivy's apartment.
--> '''Poison -->'''Poison Ivy:''' You have been here two weeks and have destroyed nine [=TVs=].



*** He then changes over to ''The Tonight Show'', to find Creator/JoanRivers mocking him. He then wings the remote at the TV.

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*** :: He then changes over to ''The Tonight Show'', to find Creator/JoanRivers mocking him. He then wings the remote at the TV.



* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' third season premiere "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS3E01Grounded Grounded]]", Mariner switches off the news story about her mother's trial by hurling a potted plant at the viewscreen. The camera pulls back to her father scolding her--sitting in front of a full wall of smashed viewscreens. When Admiral Buenamigo calls and gets a glimpse of the decor, he wonders why Admiral Freeman still keeps potted plants in the house.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' third season premiere "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS3E01Grounded Grounded]]", Mariner switches off the news story about her mother's trial by hurling a potted plant at the viewscreen. The camera pulls back to her father scolding her--sitting her -- sitting in front of a full wall of smashed viewscreens. When Admiral Buenamigo calls and gets a glimpse of the decor, he wonders why Admiral Freeman still keeps potted plants in the house.



* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'': In "A Better Mousetrap", the Turtles witness a news conference where Baxter Stockman displays his Mouser robots (Which had destroyed the Turtles' old lair in the first episode) as a pest exterminator. Raphael gets so angry (as is his wont) that he stabs a TV set with his sai.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'': ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|2003}}'': In "A Better Mousetrap", the Turtles witness a news conference where Baxter Stockman displays his Mouser robots (Which had destroyed the Turtles' old lair in the first episode) as a pest exterminator. Raphael gets so angry (as is his wont) that he stabs a TV set with his sai.



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* In John Pierce's "A Case of Jurisdiction" Regan's wife goes up on a hill behind their house and shoots the TV with a rifle. He promptly ''calls the sheriff'' to report the murder of one of the heroes on the Western he was watching. When he fetches the portable TV from his bedroom and turns it on after the sheriff and his deputy show up, a funeral for the hero in question is taking place. Then his wife shoots that set while the deceased's girlfriend is begging the other hero not to go off and shoot the villain.
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When a character is finished watching TV and has a HairTriggerTemper, is an EccentricMillionaire who replaces electronic devices like normal people replace rolls of toilet paper, or [[DeadTVRemoteGag just can't get the remote control working]], he'll whip out a gun and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin shoot the television set]] (or otherwise destroy it).

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When a character is finished watching TV and has a HairTriggerTemper, is an EccentricMillionaire who replaces electronic devices like normal people replace rolls of toilet paper, or [[DeadTVRemoteGag just can't get the remote control working]], he'll they'll whip out a gun and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin shoot the television set]] (or otherwise destroy it).
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* In ''ComicBook/GorskyAndButch'', a politician appears on a TV screen in a pub. Someone calls for it to be turned off, causing one of the patrons to throw a shoe at the TV, smashing the screen.
* ''ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls'' story "Drama-O-Rama" (issue #48, DC run) has Sedusa throwing a boot at her TV and shattering the screen after she sees the girls' latest heroics.
* In one ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' story, the mercenary Boomerang gets angry when he sees a talk show where Peter is promoting his book, ''Webs'', and throws a boomerang at the set. Then, his current employer tells him it's coming out of his salary.
* ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'' has a RunningGag in the reader submissions to the "Profanisaurus" column, where readers who noticed some accidental DoubleEntendre claim that they smashed their TV/computer/whatever and sent [someone distantly responsible] the bill. This is a reference to the notorious Music/SexPistols[=/=]Bill Grundy incident.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** ''ComicBook/TheSupermanAdventures'': In the aftermath of another failed scheme to destroy Superman, Lex Luthor skims over how much it cost in favor of how "a creature of no obvious intelligence" beat him again or how he [[EvilCannotComprehendGood "[maintains] this pretense"]], then yells and chucks a bust of UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein into a big-screen monitor depicting his nemesis. Shortly, a team Mercy addresses as "cleaners" file in, looking like this isn't even the first time, to fix the screen and get a new bust.

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* In ''ComicBook/GorskyAndButch'', a ''ComicBook/GorskyAndButch'': A politician appears on a TV screen in a pub. Someone calls for it to be turned off, causing one of the patrons to throw a shoe at the TV, smashing the screen.
* ''ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls'' ''ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In the story "Drama-O-Rama" (issue #48, DC run) has Sedusa throwing a boot at her TV and shattering the screen after she sees the girls' latest heroics.
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'': Dr. Robotnik throws a Sledgehammer at the TV near the end of the Story "Mock the Doc".
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
In one ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' story, ''ComicBook/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' #144, the mercenary Boomerang gets angry when he sees a talk show where Peter is promoting his book, ''Webs'', and throws a boomerang at the set. Then, his current employer tells him it's coming out of his salary.
* ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'' has a RunningGag in the reader submissions to the "Profanisaurus" column, where readers who noticed some accidental DoubleEntendre claim that they smashed their TV/computer/whatever and sent [someone distantly responsible] the bill. This is a reference to the notorious Music/SexPistols[=/=]Bill Grundy incident.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
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** ''ComicBook/TheSupermanAdventures'': In the aftermath of another failed scheme to destroy Superman, Lex Luthor skims over how much it cost costs in favor of how "a creature of no obvious intelligence" beat him again or how he [[EvilCannotComprehendGood "[maintains] this pretense"]], then yells and chucks a bust of UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein into a big-screen monitor depicting his nemesis. Shortly, a team Mercy addresses as "cleaners" file files in, looking like this isn't even the first time, to fix the screen and get a new bust.



** Subverted in ''ComicBook/TheStrangeRevengeOfLenaLuthor''. Lena Luthor is having a heated argument with her brother Lex when all of sudden, the tv explodes. Lena becomes frightened, thinking her telepathy has been altered into some form of telekinesis which she cannot control, but later it is revealed the tv was stealthily destroyed by a crook who was gaslighting Lena.
* Dr. Robotnik throws a Sledgehammer at the tv near the end of the ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' Story Mock the Doc.

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** Subverted in ''ComicBook/TheStrangeRevengeOfLenaLuthor''. Lena Luthor is having a heated argument with her brother Lex when all of a sudden, the tv explodes. Lena becomes frightened, thinking her telepathy has been altered into some form of telekinesis which that she cannot control, but later it is revealed the tv TV was stealthily destroyed by a crook who was gaslighting Lena.
* Dr. Robotnik throws ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'': The series has a Sledgehammer at RunningGag in the tv near reader submissions to the end of "Profanisaurus" column, where readers who noticed some accidental DoubleEntendre claim that they smashed their TV/computer/whatever and sent [someone distantly responsible] the ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' Story Mock bill. This is a reference to the Doc.notorious Music/SexPistols[=/=]Bill Grundy incident.
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* ''Film/RoyalWarriors'': Bull, the last surviving member of the villains, angrily blasts his rickety old TV set with his shotgun when seeing a news broadcast from Michelle, the heroine he's hunting with intent to kill. Notably, when Michelle threatens him on a live news broadcast.
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* ''Film/Elvis2022'': Playing off of the real figure's history of shooting his TV, the film's final act sees a drug-addled Elvis fire several rounds into a wall of televisions in a paranoid frenzy, highlighting how much his captivity at the International Hotel is eating away at him.
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* In Creator/BruceCoville's novel ''Literature/JenniferMurdleysToad'', Jennifer Murdley was a very unattractive-looking girl. One day when she was six she was watching television and saw a commercial for a Barbie doll. Knowing she would never be as pretty as the doll, she started to cry. When her father saw her crying and realized why, he got so enraged at [=TV=] that he smashed it.

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* In Creator/BruceCoville's novel ''Literature/JenniferMurdleysToad'', ''[[Literature/MagicShop Jennifer Murdley's Toad]]'', Jennifer Murdley was a very unattractive-looking girl. One day when she was six she was watching television and saw a commercial for a Barbie doll. Knowing she would never be as pretty as the doll, she started to cry. When her father saw her crying and realized why, he got so enraged at [=TV=] that he smashed it.

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* Lois Einhorn from ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' [[spoiler: reveals herself as Ray Finkle]] when commentary during the Super Bowl halftime show on the "Kick Heard Round The World" that ruined Finkle's career pushes her over the edge:

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* ''Film/NineteenFortyOne1979'': The insane USAAF pilot Wild Bill Kelso lands his fighter at a roadside gas station and announces that he's searching for two squadrons of Japanese Zeros that supposedly attacked San Francisco. The locals tell him that the radio said the Zeros are just a figment of imagination due to war nerves. Kelso responds by drawing his .45 and shooting the radio. Then he somehow manages to blow up the gas station too.
* Lois Einhorn from ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' [[spoiler: reveals ''Film/AceVentura: Pe tDetective'' [[spoiler:reveals herself as Ray Finkle]] when commentary during the Super Bowl halftime show on the "Kick Heard Round The the World" that ruined Finkle's career pushes her over the edge:



* In Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/Batman1989'', The Joker does this twice. The first is when he takes a boxing glove gun to the TV for mention of Batman in connection to an assassination that Joker pulled off on one of Grissom's underbosses, demanding to know, "What kind of a world we live in where a man dressed up as a bat gets all of my press?!" The second time, Joker shoots the television screen with a real gun after learning on the news that his poisoning scheme involving beauty products has been foiled by the Batman.

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* ''Film/AndStarringPanchoVillaAsHimself'': Villa is shown a newsreel of President Diaz giving a BalconySpeech, promising the crowd he'll destroy Villa, who draws his pistol and puts a bullet through the screen, right over Diaz's head.
* In Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/TheAirUpThere'', Urudu gets partial revenge for the raid on Winabi by Nyaga's goons by shooting Nyaga's thirty-two-inch TV set with remote.
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''Film/Batman1989'', The the Joker does this twice. The first is when he takes a boxing glove gun to the TV for mention of Batman in connection to an assassination that Joker pulled off on one of Grissom's underbosses, demanding to know, "What kind of a world we live in where a man dressed up as a bat gets all of my press?!" The second time, Joker shoots the television screen with a real gun after learning on the news that his poisoning scheme involving beauty products has been foiled by the Batman.



* In the movie ''Film/{{Control 2004}}'', Lee Ray Oliver is a sociopathic criminal in a medical experiment; after he fails in a rigged video game test, he flies into a rage and destroys the TV.

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* In the 2004 movie ''Film/{{Control 2004}}'', ''Film/{{Control|2004}}'', Lee Ray Oliver is a sociopathic criminal in a medical experiment; after he fails in a rigged video game test, he flies into a rage and destroys the TV.TV.
* In ''Film/{{Dobermann}}'', Dobermann becomes so enraged at what he is seeing on Joe's surveillance system that he shoots the monitor.
* ''Film/DriveHeSaid'': Paranoid ConspiracyTheorist Gabriel takes a samurai sword to his TV set, then kicks and beats it with a chair in order to avoid being "sterilized" by "the death ray."



* In the David Carradine B-Movie ''Film/FutureForce'', John Tucker shoots a TV set in a strip club, which angers the owner; John hands him a wad of cash to defuse the situation.

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* In ''Film/{{Frida}}'', Diego Rivera brandishes a revolver after his friend insults him, but shoots the David Carradine B-Movie gramophone instead.
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* ''Film/GoodBurger'': Kurt angrily kicks in the TV when he sees Dexter and Ed getting positive publicity on the news for the Good Burger restaurant.
* ''Film/{{Heathers}}'': J.D. shoots the television set in his living room when he and Veronica are "celebrating" the fake suicides they orchestrated. This is the moment when Veronica realizes that J.D. is simply AxCrazy and rejects him.
* In ''Film/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller'', Otis kicks the TV in a rage when he can't get it to work.
* The Drake shoots his television in ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'' after the local news praises the titular hobo.
* In ''Film/TheHorrorShow'', police detective [=Lucas McCarthy=] is tormented by visions of dead mass murderer Max Jenke (Brion James) while he and his family are watching a stand-up comedian on TV. The visions drive Henricksen's character to take out his police issued handgun and shoot the TV set, to the shock and dismay of the rest of his family.



* In ''Film/MissingInAction'', Creator/ChuckNorris shows that you don't need a gun, just a good karate kick!



* In ''Film/PoliceAcademy3BackInTraining'', Tackleberry is calling Lights Out for the recruits when the TV calls out, "You're dead meat, copper!" Tackleberry, being a GunNut, responds to the fictional defiance in this manner.
* ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2''. Towards the end, Ricky sees a Christmas parade on the tv and subsequently puts an axe through it.

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* In ''Film/PoliceAcademy3BackInTraining'', ''Film/{{P2}}'', Angela finds a TV playing footage of Thomas molesting her while she was unconscious. She angrily smashes the screen with a fire ax.
* In ''Film/PoliceAcademy 3: Back in Training'',
Tackleberry is calling Lights Out for the recruits when the TV calls out, "You're dead meat, copper!" Tackleberry, being a GunNut, responds to the fictional defiance in this manner.
* ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2''. ''Film/RoboCop1987'': As [=RoboCop=], Murphy visits his old home and discovers that [[YouCantGoHomeAgain his family no longer lives there]] and the house is now part of a model housing development, with monitors in every room showing a realtor giving an enthusiastic sales pitch. Murphy wanders around the house as memories of his former life come back to him, growing ever more angry and frustrated until he puts his fist through one of the monitors.
* In ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'', when [[spoiler:the Furies cut Orpheus's head off on live TV]], Razoreus smashes the screen in with a skateboard in response.
* ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2'':
Towards the end, Ricky sees a Christmas parade on the tv and subsequently puts an axe through it.



* In ''Film/{{Traxx}}'', a shootout between the title character and some bad guys is halted by a television news report on recent studies finding that "most overly aggressive, sociopathic males have tiny, little wazoos." The bad guys respond to this by shooting out the TV screen before returning to the fight with the hero.
* In ''Film/UsedCars'', Roy L. Fuchs smashes his TV set in a rage during President Carter's televised address, after the broadcast is hijacked by the employees of his brother Luke's used car lot, who were seeking to "advertise" their rival business on TV and destroy several cars on Roy L.'s lot in the process.



* In ''Film/YoungDoctorsInLove'' during the Christmas party Dr. Prang, the hospital owner, shoots a TV showing financial news. This foreshadows his bankruptcy and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge how he would react to it]].
* In the film ''Film/{{Traxx}}'', a shootout between the title character and some bad guys is halted by a television news report on recent studies finding that "most overly aggressive, sociopathic males have tiny, little wazoos." The bad guys respond to this by shooting out the TV screen before returning to the fight with the hero.
* ''Film/{{Heathers}}'': J.D. shoots the television set in his living room when he and Veronica are "celebrating" the fake suicides they orchestrated. This is the moment when Veronica realizes that J.D. is simply AxCrazy and rejects him.
* ''Film/GoodBurger'' Kurt (antagonist) angrily kicks in the TV when he sees Dexter and Ed (protagonists) getting positive publicity on the news for the Good Burger restaurant.
* The Drake shoots his television in ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'' after the local news praises the titular hobo.
* In ''Film/TheHorrorShow'' (aka ''House III'') police detective [=Lucas McCarthy=], played by Lance Henriksen, is tormented by visions of dead mass murderer Max Jenke (Brion James) while he and his family are watching a stand-up comedian on TV. The visions drive Henricksen's character to take out his police issued handgun and shoot the TV set, to the shock and dismay of the rest of his family.
* In ''Film/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller'', Otis kicks the TV in a rage when he can't get it to work.
* ''Film/AndStarringPanchoVillaAsHimself''. Villa is shown a newsreel of President Diaz giving a BalconySpeech, promising the crowd he'll destroy Villa, who draws his pistol and puts a bullet through the screen, right over Diaz's head.
* In ''Film/{{P2}}'', Angela finds a TV playing footage of Thomas molesting her while she was unconscious. She angrily smashes the screen with a fire ax.
* In ''Film/{{Frida}}'', Diego Rivera brandishes a revolver after his friend insults him, but shoots the gramophone instead.
* In the Creator/RobertZemeckis comedy ''Film/UsedCars'', Roy L. Fuchs smashes his TV set in a rage during President Carter's televised address, after the broadcast is hijacked by the employees of his brother Luke's used car lot, who were seeking to "advertise" their rival business on TV and destroy several cars on Roy L.'s lot in the process.
* In ''Film/MissingInAction'', Creator/ChuckNorris shows you don't need a gun, just a good karate kick!
* ''Film/RoboCop1987''. As [=RoboCop=], Murphy visits his old home and discovers [[YouCantGoHomeAgain his family no longer lives there]] and the house is now part of a model housing development, with monitors in every room showing a realtor giving an enthusiastic sales pitch. Murphy wanders around the house as memories of his former life come back to him, growing ever more angry and frustrated until he puts his fist through one of the monitors.
* In ''Film/{{Dobermann}}'', Dobermann becomes so enraged at what he is seeing on Joe's surveillance system that he shoots the monitor.
* ''Film/NineteenFortyOne1979''. The insane USAAF pilot Wild Bill Kelso lands his fighter at a roadside gas station and announces that he's searching for two squadrons of Japanese Zeros that supposedly attacked San Francisco. The locals tell him that the radio said the Zeros are just a figment of imagination due to war nerves. Kelso responds by drawing his .45 and shooting the radio. Then he somehow manages to blow up the gas station too.
* ''Film/DriveHeSaid'': Paranoid ConspiracyTheorist Gabriel takes a samurai sword to his TV set, then kicks and beats it with a chair in order to avoid being "sterilized" by "the death ray."



* In ''Film/TheAirUpThere'', Urudu gets partial revenge for the raid on Winabi by Nyaga's goons by shooting Nyaga's thirty-two-inch TV set with remote.
* In ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'', when [[spoiler:the Furies cut Orpheus's head off on live TV]], Razoreus smashes the screen in with a skateboard in response.

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* In ''Film/TheAirUpThere'', Urudu gets partial revenge for ''Film/YoungDoctorsInLove'', during the raid on Winabi by Nyaga's goons by shooting Nyaga's thirty-two-inch TV set with remote.
* In ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'', when [[spoiler:the Furies cut Orpheus's head off on live TV]], Razoreus smashes
Christmas party, the screen in with hospital owner Dr. Prang shoots a skateboard in response.TV showing financial news. This foreshadows his bankruptcy and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge how he would react to it]].



* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'':
** In the Slappy Squirrel short "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode3 Slappy Goes Walnuts]]", Slappy throws her remote at the TV when one of her old cartoons cuts to a commercial before she could finish her catchphrase.
--->'''Skippy:''' What happened to your TV set?\\
'''Slappy:''' It's having a bad day.
** In another Slappy Squirrel short, "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode64 No Face Like Home]]", Slappy throws a bomb at a TV playing a bland environmental cartoon.
** In "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode65 The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special]]", just before the first commercial break, obscure Warner Bros. cartoon star Buddy destroys his television set as he vows to destroy the Warners for ruining his (nonexistent in real life) stardom.



** In "Joker's Wild", the Joker's reaction to Cameron Kaiser building a casino in his likeness is the fly into rage and throw a flowerpot at the television.
** Mr. Freeze shot a TV with his FreezeRay when he became unable to stomach [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Ferris Boyle's]] smugness at the Humanitarian of the Year awards.
** In "Lock-Up," Lyle Bolton destroys his TV by pushing it over, annoyed at how the media portrays Gotham's supervillains.
** In "Joker's Millions" has the Joker shooting the VideoWill in which his benefactor reveals [[spoiler:most of the money is fake]].
** In "Judgement Day", the series' final regular episode, Two-Face shoots out a bar-room TV when he hears via a press conference that he is a dangerous new vigilante's next target. The bartender almost calls him out on it, but has second thoughts about it and lets him go.

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** In "Joker's Wild", "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE14HeartOfIce Heart of Ice]]", Mr. Freeze shoots a TV with his FreezeRay when he becomes unable to stomach [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Ferris Boyle]]'s smugness at the Humanitarian of the Year awards.
** In "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE41JokersWild Joker's Wild]]",
the Joker's reaction to Cameron Kaiser building a casino in his likeness is the fly into rage and throw a flowerpot at the television.
** Mr. Freeze shot a TV with his FreezeRay when he became unable to stomach [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Ferris Boyle's]] smugness at the Humanitarian of the Year awards.
**
In "Lock-Up," "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE17LockUp Lock-Up]]", Lyle Bolton destroys his TV by pushing it over, annoyed at how the media portrays Gotham's supervillains.
** In "Joker's Millions" "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE7JokersMillions Joker's Millions]]" has the Joker shooting the VideoWill {{Video Will|s}} in which his benefactor reveals that [[spoiler:most of the money is fake]].
** In "Judgement Day", "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE24JudgementDay Judgement Day]]", the series' final regular episode, Two-Face shoots out a bar-room TV when he hears via a press conference that he is a dangerous new vigilante's next target. The bartender almost calls him out on it, but has second thoughts about it and lets him go.go.
* Valerie of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' shoots her television with an ecto-gun during a news report on her "ArchEnemy"'s growing popularity.
-->'''Mr. Grey:''' ''[offscreen]'' Valerie, was that the ectogun?!\\
'''Valerie:''' ''[hiding the weapon behind her back]'' No!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "[[Recap/DuckTalesS2E1TimeIsMoney Time Is Money, Part 3]]", Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s rival Glomgold watches a news report on how a diamond mine has been ruled as Scrooge's property. Angry, Glomgold asks Bouncer Beagle for something to throw. He gets a vase and chucks it at the screen, [[TelevisionPortal causing the newscaster to duck]].
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** A flashback from "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E16AVerySpecialFamilyGuyFreakinChristmas A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas]]" shows FCC agents shooting up Peter's VCR when he recorded a football game [[RulesSpiel without the written consent of both ABC and the NFL]] (He only got ABC's permission).
** In another episode, Peter shoots the TV when an announcer says that ''Series/TheOrville'' (another FOX show starring Creator/SethMacFarlane) is on.
--->'''Chris:''' Why do you hate that show so much?\\
'''Peter:''' ''[with a different voice]'' Because it's preventing me from doing my work here at ''Family Guy''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** Lrr does this with a disintegration ray when the season finale of [[ShowWithinAShow "Single Female Lawyer"]] is knocked off the air as the result of someone (Fry) at the broadcast station spilling soda on a console.
** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E7TheLatePhillipJFry The Late Phillip J. Fry]]", Leela does this when she sees a newscast about an explosion at a party she thought Fry went to rather than meet her for their date.
** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E24ColdWarriors Cold Warriors]]", Professor Fansworth does this when his rival Wernstrom said that there was no cure for the cold epidemic around town and New New York had to be destroyed.



* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': Joker and Harley both display this tendency, which causes a little friction when Harley is living in Poison Ivy's apartment.
--> '''Poison Ivy:''' You have been here two weeks and have destroyed nine [=TVs=].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'' has Auger destroy a TV OnceAnEpisode by throwing his shoes at it for reporting news that annoys him. A later episode has a net set up in front of the TV seemingly to prevent this.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E13And14Eclipsed Eclipsed]]", angered by "Glorious" Gordon Godfrey's comments about her outfit ("I've seen showgirls with more modesty"), Wonder Woman smashes the TV with her fist. Downplayed earlier when Green Lantern turns off Godfrey's show by zapping the off button with his ray.



** In season four's "The Front", Bart and Lisa write a script for an [[JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow "Itchy & Scratchy"]] cartoon that ends with Scratchy's head (now just a skull) going through a ceiling and into Elvis Presley's television set. Elvis promptly produces a revolver and shoots Scratchy's skull through the TV.
** In the season five premiere "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", Chief Wiggum, [[ThePeteBest after he had been kicked out of The Be Sharps]], becomes so upset while watching Creator/JohnnyCarson that he begins wildly shooting the TV in a fit of rage. His wife wakes up next to him and irately tells him to use the remote control instead;
--->'''Chief Wiggum''': I can't find it.\\
'''Mrs. Wiggum''': Well, check your holster.\\
'''Chief Wiggum''': ''(does so)'' Oh, yeah.

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** In season four's "The Front", "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E19TheFront The Front]]", Bart and Lisa write a script for an [[JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow "Itchy & Scratchy"]] cartoon that ends with Scratchy's head (now just a skull) going through a ceiling and into Elvis Presley's television set. Elvis promptly produces a revolver and shoots Scratchy's skull through the TV.
** In the season five premiere "Homer's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E1HomersBarbershopQuartet Homer's Barbershop Quartet", Quartet]]", Chief Wiggum, [[ThePeteBest after he had been kicked out of The Be Sharps]], becomes so upset while watching Creator/JohnnyCarson that he begins wildly shooting the TV in a fit of rage. His wife wakes up next to him and irately tells him to use the remote control instead;
instead:
--->'''Chief Wiggum''': Wiggum:''' I can't find it.\\
'''Mrs. Wiggum''': Wiggum:''' Well, check your holster.\\
'''Chief Wiggum''': ''(does so)'' Wiggum:''' ''[does so]'' Oh, yeah.



** The trope is [[InvertedTrope inverted]] in season nine's "The Cartridge Family": Homer uses his new revolver to ''turn the TV on''. Hilariously, the image that comes on the screen when it does turn on is of a cowboy, having been shot, falling off a roof.
** In "Steal This Episode", Homer gets into movie piracy business until FBI commandos catch him and shoot up Homer's laptop while arresting him.
** Discussed in "The Springfield Connection" by Bart when asking newly hired police officer Marge if she would need to take a bullet for the mayor if someone tried to shoot him, which she states she would, then for him to ask if she would have to for a Coke machine or a television set with the mayor on it.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** Lrr does this with a disintegration ray when the season finale of [[ShowWithinAShow "Single Female Lawyer"]] is knocked off the air as the result of someone (Fry) at the broadcast station spilling soda on a console.
** In "The Late Phillip J. Fry", Leela does this when she sees a newscast about an explosion at a party she thought Fry went to rather than meet her for their date.
** In "Cold Warriors", Professor Fansworth does this when his rival Wernstrom said that there was no cure for the cold epidemic around town and New New York had to be destroyed.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "Time Is Money, Part 3", Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s rival Glomgold watches a news report on how a diamond mine has been ruled as Scrooge's property. Angry, Glomgold asks Bouncer Beagle for something to throw. He gets a vase and chucks it at the screen [[TelevisionPortal causing the newscaster to duck]].
* Valerie of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' shoots her television with an ecto-gun during a news report on her "ArchEnemy's" growing popularity.
-->'''Mr. Grey:''' ''(Offscreen)'' Valerie, was that the ectogun?!
-->'''Valerie:''' ''(Hiding the weapon behind her back)'' No!

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** Discussed in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E23TheSpringfieldConnection The Springfield Connection]]" by Bart when asking newly hired police officer Marge if she would need to take a bullet for the mayor if someone tried to shoot him, which she states she would, then for him to ask if she would have to for a Coke machine or a television set with the mayor on it.
** The trope is [[InvertedTrope inverted]] {{inverted|Trope}} in season nine's "The "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E5TheCartridgeFamily The Cartridge Family": Family]]": Homer uses his new revolver to ''turn the TV on''. Hilariously, the image that comes on the screen when it does turn on is of a cowboy, having been shot, falling off a roof.
** In "Steal "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E9StealThisEpisode Steal This Episode", Episode]]", Homer gets into movie piracy business until FBI commandos catch him and shoot up Homer's laptop while arresting him.
** Discussed in "The Springfield Connection" by Bart when asking newly hired police officer Marge if she would need to take a bullet for the mayor if someone tried to shoot him, which she states she would, then for him to ask if she would have to for a Coke machine or a television set with the mayor on it.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** Lrr does this with a disintegration ray when the season finale of [[ShowWithinAShow "Single Female Lawyer"]] is knocked off the air as the result of someone (Fry) at the broadcast station spilling soda on a console.
** In "The Late Phillip J. Fry", Leela does this when she sees a newscast about an explosion at a party she thought Fry went to rather than meet her for their date.
** In "Cold Warriors", Professor Fansworth does this when his rival Wernstrom said that there was no cure for the cold epidemic around town and New New York had to be destroyed.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "Time Is Money, Part 3", Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s rival Glomgold watches a ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' third season premiere "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS3E01Grounded Grounded]]", Mariner switches off the news report on how story about her mother's trial by hurling a diamond mine has been ruled as Scrooge's property. Angry, Glomgold asks Bouncer Beagle for something potted plant at the viewscreen. The camera pulls back to throw. He her father scolding her--sitting in front of a full wall of smashed viewscreens. When Admiral Buenamigo calls and gets a vase and chucks it at glimpse of the screen [[TelevisionPortal causing decor, he wonders why Admiral Freeman still keeps potted plants in the newscaster to duck]].
* Valerie of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' shoots her television with an ecto-gun during a news report on her "ArchEnemy's" growing popularity.
-->'''Mr. Grey:''' ''(Offscreen)'' Valerie, was that the ectogun?!
-->'''Valerie:''' ''(Hiding the weapon behind her back)'' No!
house.



-->'''Jake''': [[SarcasmMode Ah, great]]. Morbulus is gone. So's our TV.
* It was a RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'' for one of the members of the heroic Earth Corps, Auger, to throw his shoe at the TV showing irritating newscast.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** A flashback from "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" shows FCC agents shooting up Peter's VCR when he recorded a football game [[RulesSpiel without the written consent of both ABC and the NFL]] (He only got ABC's permission).
** In another episode, Peter shoots the TV when an announcer says that ''Series/TheOrville'' (another FOX show starring Creator/SethMacFarlane) is on.
--->'''Chris:''' Why do you hate that show so much?
--->'''Peter:''' ''(with a different voice)'' Because it's preventing me from doing my work here at ''Family Guy''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} (1993)'':
** In the Slappy Squirrel short "Slappy Goes Walnuts", Slappy throws her remote at the TV when one of her old cartoons cuts to a commercial before she could finish her catchphrase.
-->'''Skippy:''' What happened to your TV set?
-->'''Slappy:''' It's having a bad day.
** In another Slappy Squirrel short, "No Face Like Home", Slappy throws a bomb at a TV playing a bland environmental cartoon.
** In "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special", just before the first commercial break, obscure Warner Bros. cartoon star Buddy destroys his television set as he vows to destroy the Warners for ruining his (nonexistent in real life) stardom.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': Angered by "Glorious" Gordon Godfrey's comments about her outfit ("I've seen showgirls with more modesty"), Wonder Woman smashes the TV with her fist. Played with earlier when Green Lantern turns off Godfrey's show by zapping the off button with his ray.
* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019:'' Joker and Harley both display this tendency, which causes a little friction when Harley is living in Poison Ivy's apartment.
--> '''Poison Ivy:''' You have been here two weeks and have destroyed nine TV's.
* In the third season premiere of ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'', Mariner switches off the news story about her mother's trial by hurling a potted plant at the viewscreen. The camera pulls back to her father scolding her--sitting in front of a full wall of smashed viewscreens. When Admiral Buenamigo calls and gets a glimpse of the decor, he wonders why Admiral Freeman still keeps potted plants in the house.

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-->'''Jake''': -->'''Jake:''' [[SarcasmMode Ah, great]]. Morbulus is gone. So's our TV.
* It was a RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'' for one of the members of the heroic Earth Corps, Auger, to throw his shoe at the TV showing irritating newscast.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** A flashback from "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" shows FCC agents shooting up Peter's VCR when he recorded a football game [[RulesSpiel without the written consent of both ABC and the NFL]] (He only got ABC's permission).
** In another episode, Peter shoots the TV when an announcer says that ''Series/TheOrville'' (another FOX show starring Creator/SethMacFarlane) is on.
--->'''Chris:''' Why do you hate that show so much?
--->'''Peter:''' ''(with a different voice)'' Because it's preventing me from doing my work here at ''Family Guy''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} (1993)'':
** In the Slappy Squirrel short "Slappy Goes Walnuts", Slappy throws her remote at the TV when one of her old cartoons cuts to a commercial before she could finish her catchphrase.
-->'''Skippy:''' What happened to your TV set?
-->'''Slappy:''' It's having a bad day.
** In another Slappy Squirrel short, "No Face Like Home", Slappy throws a bomb at a TV playing a bland environmental cartoon.
** In "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special", just before the first commercial break, obscure Warner Bros. cartoon star Buddy destroys his television set as he vows to destroy the Warners for ruining his (nonexistent in real life) stardom.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': Angered by "Glorious" Gordon Godfrey's comments about her outfit ("I've seen showgirls with more modesty"), Wonder Woman smashes the TV with her fist. Played with earlier when Green Lantern turns off Godfrey's show by zapping the off button with his ray.
* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019:'' Joker and Harley both display this tendency, which causes a little friction when Harley is living in Poison Ivy's apartment.
--> '''Poison Ivy:''' You have been here two weeks and have destroyed nine TV's.
* In the third season premiere of ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'', Mariner switches off the news story about her mother's trial by hurling a potted plant at the viewscreen. The camera pulls back to her father scolding her--sitting in front of a full wall of smashed viewscreens. When Admiral Buenamigo calls and gets a glimpse of the decor, he wonders why Admiral Freeman still keeps potted plants in the house.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'' had the Auger character destroy a TV OnceAnEpisode by throwing his shoes at it for reporting news that annoyed him. A later episode has a net set up in front of the TV seemingly to prevent this.
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* In the fourth episode of ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'', they manage to borrow a robot from West Germany to clear the most contaminated section of the plant's roof. But the robot that was proof against 2,000 roentgen is immediately fried in the ''12,000'' roentgen. As soon as it fails, Shcherbina realizes that Moscow gave out the propaganda number and storms off, deafening every KGB agent wiretapping his phone as he rips into the Kremlin for wasting ''months'' of time that has resulted in more radiation exposure for everyone present just because [[SkewedPriorities they don't want to look bad]]. Then he hangs up. Or rather, he smashes the receiver against the phone until it's disintegrated and walks calmly out of the trailer, dragging its remains behind him.

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* In the fourth episode of ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'', they manage the Soviet cleanup team manages to borrow a police robot from West Germany to clear the most contaminated radioactive section of the plant's roof. But the robot that was proof against 2,000 roentgen is immediately fried in the ''12,000'' roentgen. within seconds of being deployed. As soon as it fails, Boris Shcherbina realizes that Moscow gave out the propaganda number Kremlin deliberately low-balled the radiation level to the West Germans, [[SlaveToPR for the sake of downplaying the disaster on the world stage.]] Scherbina calls the Kremlin and storms off, deafening ''deafens'' every KGB agent wiretapping his phone as he rips into the Kremlin entire Soviet leadership, up to and including Gorbachev, for wasting ''months'' of time that has resulted in more radiation exposure for everyone present just because [[SkewedPriorities they don't want to look bad]]. Then he hangs up. Or rather, he smashes the receiver against the phone until it's disintegrated and walks calmly out of the trailer, dragging its remains behind him.him and asking one of the soldiers to requisition a new one.
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* In one strip ''Webcomic/PixieAndBrutus'', when Pixie stumbles upon a movie on television, it takes Brutus half-sleepingly correcting her saying "[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Cougar]]" to [[DelayedReaction realize]] that [[KidsShouldntWatchHorrorMovies she was watching a horror movie]] and immediately smashes the television [[UseYourHead with a headbutt]].

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* In one strip ''Webcomic/PixieAndBrutus'', when Pixie stumbles upon a movie on television, it takes Brutus half-sleepingly correcting her saying "[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Cougar]]" to [[DelayedReaction realize]] that [[KidsShouldntWatchHorrorMovies [[KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms she was watching a horror movie]] and immediately smashes the television [[UseYourHead with a headbutt]].



-->'''Mr. Grey:''' Valerie, was that the ectogun?!
-->'''Valerie:''' No!

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-->'''Valerie:''' ''(Hiding the weapon behind her back)'' No!
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* ''Fanfic/CatTales'': In "Such an Idiot", Harvey Dent/Two-Face has been having a nervous breakdown over how his philosophy on duality and life being black and white no longer fits, feeling that the concept of fate has betrayed him. While watching TV one day, he watches two people arguing about that very thing (that life ''isn't'' black and white), turns to a mirror to debate between shooting himself or his reflection, and ultimately decides to do what for him has been otherwise unthinkable and TakeAThirdOption -- by shooting the television instead.
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* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': At the start of the "Phantom Bullet" arc, when [=XeXeed=], the top player in Gun Gale Online, is giving an interview on in-game television, the SerialKiller known as Death Gun stands up and shoots at [=XeXeed=] on a screen while watching TV in a bar inside the game. The other players laugh at Death Gun, until [=XeXeed=]'s player suffers a heart attack and dies in real life, resulting in him being logged off.

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* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': At the start of the "Phantom Bullet" arc, when [=XeXeed=], the top player in Gun Gale Online, is giving an interview on in-game television, the SerialKiller known as Death Gun stands up and shoots at [=XeXeed=] on a screen while watching TV in a bar inside the game. The other players laugh at Death Gun, until [=XeXeed=]'s player suffers a heart attack and dies in real life, resulting in him being logged off.
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* In ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' episode "But I Didn't Shoot The Deputy", Al insists to Peg that he has been handling his new gun, that he bought to protect the family from a loose burglar, with care only for Bud to admit that he was taking potshots at the television while watching ''Donahue''.


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** Discussed in "The Springfield Connection" by Bart when asking newly hired police officer Marge if she would need to take a bullet for the mayor if someone tried to shoot him, which she states she would, then for him to ask if she would have to for a Coke machine or a television set with the mayor on it.
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In the event that a news item or message on television is the cause of the sudden anger or frustration that makes someone do this, the trope may be a slight variant on ShootTheMessenger. Other times, it may just be a sign that someone is so wealthy that they can afford to live in a way that involves wasting expensive home appliances in this manner. Of course, there's also the concept that it wasn't ''their'' television they went and broke, either through HouseAmnesia or lack of consideration for other people's property.

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In the event that a news item or message on television is the cause of the sudden anger or frustration that makes someone do this, the trope may be a slight variant on ShootTheMessenger. Other times, it may just be a sign that someone is so wealthy that they can afford to live in a way that involves wasting expensive home appliances in this manner. Of course, there's also the concept that it wasn't ''their'' television they went and broke, either through due to HouseAmnesia or lack of consideration for other people's property.
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In the event that a news item or message on television is the cause of the sudden anger or frustration that makes someone do this, the trope may be a slight variant on ShootTheMessenger. Other times, it may just be a sign that someone is so wealthy that they can afford to live in a way that involves wasting expensive home appliances in this manner.

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In the event that a news item or message on television is the cause of the sudden anger or frustration that makes someone do this, the trope may be a slight variant on ShootTheMessenger. Other times, it may just be a sign that someone is so wealthy that they can afford to live in a way that involves wasting expensive home appliances in this manner.
manner. Of course, there's also the concept that it wasn't ''their'' television they went and broke, either through HouseAmnesia or lack of consideration for other people's property.
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* ''VideoGame/AmandaTheAdventurer'': [[spoiler:The good ending has Riley put a stop to all the madness by smashing a brick right through the television that played the tapes]].
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* ''VideoGame/{{Instinct}}'' begins with a cutscene of your character, a bachelor tired of living, destroying the TV he's watching with a flung beer bottle.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'' had the Auger character destroy a TV OnceAnEpisode by throwing his shoes at it for reporting news that annoyed him. A later episode has a net set up in front of the TV seemingly to prevent this.
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* ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive 3'': In Bass Armstrong's route, at one point he sees a TV broadcast that annoys him, causing him to put his fist through the screen.

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* ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive 3'': 2'': In Bass Tina Armstrong's route, ending, her father Bass at one point is watching a runway show and appreciating the model he sees a TV broadcast sees, until the camera zooms in on her face showing that annoys him, it's Tina, causing him to put his fist through the screen.

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* Jim Raynor does this in the opening cutscenes of ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', when Emperor Mengsk refers to him as "a clear and present threat" to the Dominion during a news conference interview. He later gets a note from the owner billing him for the damages, and at the Hyperion cantina, the TV has a note on it that says, "Do not shoot screen!"

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* Jim Raynor does this in the opening cutscenes of ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', when [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Emperor Mengsk Mengsk]] refers to him as "a clear and present threat" to the Dominion during a news conference interview. He later gets a note from the owner billing him for the damages, and at the Hyperion cantina, the TV has a note on it that says, "Do not shoot screen!"screen!"
-->'''Jim Raynor:''' It ain't over 'til it's over, you son of a bitch. (shoots the TV screen with his [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolver pistol]])
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* In ''VideoGame/DisneyMagicKingdoms'', during the ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' Event, Tyler is said to have "hucked a controller at the TV" hard enough "to crack a flatscreen".



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* In ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} 4: The Captain's Return'', Kayto Shields furiously puts a bullet through his tv while his arch-enemy, Veniczar Fontana, is giving a speech proclaiming PACT's victory over the Solar Alliance.

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* In ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} 4: The Captain's Return'', Kayto Shields furiously puts a bullet through his tv TV while his arch-enemy, Veniczar Fontana, is giving a speech proclaiming PACT's victory over the Solar Alliance.
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* In ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} 4: The Captain's Return'', Kayto Shields furiously puts a bullet through his tv while his arch-enemy, Veniczar Fontana, is giving a speech proclaiming PACT's victory over the Solar Alliance.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'': In "A Better Mousetrap", the Turtles witness a news conference where Baxter Stockman displays his Mouser robots (Which had destroyed the Turtles' old lair in the first episode) as a pest exterminator. Raphael gets so angry (as is his wont) that he stabs a TV set with his sai.
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** The page image is supplied by Season Four's "The Front", Bart and Lisa write a script for an [[JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow "Itchy & Scratchy"]] cartoon that ends with Scratchy's head (now just a skull) going through a ceiling and into Elvis Presley's television set. Elvis promptly produces a revolver and shoots Scratchy's skull through the TV.
** In the Season Five premiere "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", Chief Wiggum, [[ThePeteBest after he had been kicked out of The Be Sharps]], becomes so upset while watching Creator/JohnnyCarson that he begins wildly shooting the TV in a fit of rage. His wife wakes up next to him and irately tells him to use the remote control instead;

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** The page image is supplied by Season Four's In season four's "The Front", Bart and Lisa write a script for an [[JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow "Itchy & Scratchy"]] cartoon that ends with Scratchy's head (now just a skull) going through a ceiling and into Elvis Presley's television set. Elvis promptly produces a revolver and shoots Scratchy's skull through the TV.
** In the Season Five season five premiere "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", Chief Wiggum, [[ThePeteBest after he had been kicked out of The Be Sharps]], becomes so upset while watching Creator/JohnnyCarson that he begins wildly shooting the TV in a fit of rage. His wife wakes up next to him and irately tells him to use the remote control instead;



** The trope is [[InvertedTrope inverted]] in Season Nine's "The Cartridge Family": Homer uses his new revolver to ''turn the TV on''. Hilariously, the image that comes on the screen when it does turn on is of a cowboy, having been shot, falling off a roof.

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** The trope is [[InvertedTrope inverted]] in Season Nine's season nine's "The Cartridge Family": Homer uses his new revolver to ''turn the TV on''. Hilariously, the image that comes on the screen when it does turn on is of a cowboy, having been shot, falling off a roof.
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* In ''Film/TheMuppets'', Tex Richman finishes a round of fencing and then sees on the news that the Muppets are raising the money to buy their theater back. He throws his fencing blade at the TV in response.

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* In ''Film/TheMuppets'', ''Film/TheMuppets2011'', Tex Richman finishes a round of fencing and then sees on the news that the Muppets are raising the money to buy their theater back. He throws his fencing blade at the TV in response.
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* During the [[UsefulNotes/CricketWorldCup 1996 Cricket World Cup]], the defending champions Pakistan lost their quarter final match to arch rival India. This proved to be too much to endure for a Pakistani man, who shot his television, [[DrivenToSuicide then shot himself]].

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