History Main / SwivelChairAntics

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'':
** Someone stands on a swivel chair to hang up a "Ten days without an accident!" poster. The chair slips, and he falls and injures himself. Dilbert comments on the {{irony}}, and the guy who fell replies, "No, it was ironic when this happened 11 days ago."
** In the followup comic, the company makes Swivel Chair Safety Training mandatory. At the training, the demonstrator spins wildly ''while doing a headstand'' on his chair. The pointy-haired boss can't tell if that's a "do" or a "don't".
** In another strip, a manager (Not the PointyHairedBoss) decides to pick someone for a task by spinning around in his chair like a roulette, and asks to be spun. Alice sends him down a flight of stairs, killing him, and causing the forces of darkness to possess his body.
* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' comic at Irma's diner, Irma asks Jon why he and Garfield always sit at the bar rather than in one of the booths. Turns out they both enjoy spinning around on the stools.

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* [[http://memebase.com/2011/06/02/memes-this-is-how-i-roll/ This gif]]
** [[http://work.failblog.org/2011/07/29/job-fails-hands-up-if-youre-spinning-right-now/ This pic]]
* The Office Chair Racing Championship in the German resort town of Bad Koening sees more than 50 participants race downhill over jump ramps.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/CloserThanEver'', the NaughtyByNight song "Miss Byrd" is supposed to be performed, "including any 'dancing'" (the stage directions specify), entirely on a typist's swivel chair at an ordinary real-estate office desk.
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-->'''Countess:''' (almost falling off) Good heavens! what am I sitting on?
-->'''Matthew:''' A swivel chair.
-->'''Countess:''' Another modern brainwave?
-->'''Matthew:''' Not very modern, they were invented by Thomas Jefferson.
-->'''Countess:''' Why does every day involve a fight with an American?
-->'''Matthew:''' I'll fetch a different one.
-->'''Countess:''' No, no, no, I'm a good sailor!

* ''Series/StargateSG1'' occasionally features Jack goofing around with his chair when he should be paying attention to either Sam or Daniel.
** Serves a purpose in [[Recap/StargateSG1S10E6200 "200"]]. During a "flashback" in which [[NoodleIncident Jack is rendered invisible]], the unoccupied chair in Carter's lab appears to spin on its own, signaling where Jack is. As opposed to a chair that ''isn't'' moving, which Carter evidently constantly failed to realize was a sign that Jack had ditched her.

* In the scene at Ah Jong's apartment from ''Film/TheKiller'', Ah Jong uses a swivel chair to good use when the bad guys attack, launching himself backward before blasting the hell out of the first guy to enter the room. It's later reenacted by Inspector Li Ying, who thoroughly spooks out his partner Chang while doing so.

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': Izaya has one in his office. In one memorable scene, he spun around repeatedly while laughing about how interesting humans are.

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': In the episode "No Win Scenario, Vadic spins around in her chair. Doubles as a CastingGag: Vadic is played by Creator/AmandaPlummer, whose [[Creator/ChristopherPlummer father]] [[Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry once did the same thing]].

* ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'' has Dr. Evil goofing around with his evil chair... and promptly having it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoosDbx2TCs go psycho]] on him.
** [[Film/TheExorcist '''THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!''']]
*** Best part? ''Completely unscripted.'' There are few actors capable of staying in character when the props start acting up. Myers fucking '''NAILS''' it. One look at the footage and ''everyone'' was saying ThrowItIn.

** Serves a purpose in [[Recap/StargateSG1S10E6200 "200"]]. During a "flashback" in which [[NoodleIncident Jack is rendered invisible]], the unoccupied chair in Carter's lab appears to spin on its own, signalling where Jack is. As opposed to a chair that ''isn't'' moving, which Carter evidently constantly failed to realize was a sign that Jack had ditched her.

* The Countess Dowager (Maggie Smith) on ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' is caught off guard to be sitting in one when she visits Matthew Crawley's office:

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* ''Literature/{{Shtum}}'': After [[spoiler:Ben's only employee Valentine quits, seemingly destroying the business]], Ben spends about five minutes spinning around for lack of anything better to do.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': The [=ZCorp=] Chair Racer zombie rides a swivel chair backwards into the battlefield at ''very'' fast speeds. When he hits a plant, he deals massive damage to it and gets launched further into your defences.

* Everybody knows that the second Death Star is meant to look incomplete as a disguise, but ''VideoGame/LEGOStarWars II'' gives a different explanation: when Darth Vader arrives, he finds a bunch of technicians ''slacking off'', one of whom is having fun in a swivel chair!
* ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' has a traversal emote called "Office Chariot" that consists of your character spinning around in a wheeled swivel chair.

* Literature/{{Discworld}}-set fic ''Fanfic/ThePriceOfFlight'' has the Ankh-Morpork City Air Watch playing darts in their unique way. the dartboard itself is magically enchanted so that it moves on the wall in a random and unpredictable way. The Air Witches compound the difficulty by sitting in a moving swivel chair - so that the pilot is throwing her darts from a moving platform at a moving target. This is defended on the grounds that it improves aim and targetting and simulates actual air combat. Sam Vimes suspects it's because the Air Watch pilots are, to a woman, crazy. And the [[UsefulNotes/{{Finland}] Swommi]] pilot who devised this is craziest of all.