Line #7 Main/ApplianceDefenestration


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14	->''"If ever you're not satisfied with one of our tires, please feel free to bring it back.\
15	[old woman throws tire through window]\
16	Thank you."''
17	-->-- ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QjTIm-vSKg Discount Tire Co. commercial]]''
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19	A {{Comedy Trope\|s}}. There are few visual images that better convey a character's explosive anger with an alarm clock, videogame, phone call or TV set than said character hurling said object through a [[SoftGlass closed window]]. Crash!
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21	Said action is most always viewed from the outside, only indirectly showing the violent pitch or punt that launches the object. It's funnier that way, especially if the appliance is illogically heavy. (See OffscreenCrash.)
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23	While it usually applies to household appliances, other objects can also be featured, as long as someone is propelling them through the window.
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25	Doesn't count if the character's main intention was to break the window; the focus of the destruction must be on the object.
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27	Keep in note that throwing broken appliances like TV, video game consoles, laptops, etc out of the window in RealLife may cause injury or death to bystanders and pedestrians or damage vehicles below (along with broken shards of glass that follow); and the thrower of said appliance may be held legally accountable for any injuries and damages because of said thrown appliance. So DontTryThisAtHome if you have a broken appliance.
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29	Can be a form of PercussiveTherapy and/or PercussiveShutdown in some cases.
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31	Compare AgitatedItemStomping, RingRingCRUNCH, DefenestrateAndBerate, and ShootTheTelevision.
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34	!!Examples:
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37	[[folder:Advertising]]
38	* Shout laundry detergent:
39	** The commercial opens when an angry housewife somehow manages to pitch her washer and dryer out a second story window to the driveway below.
40	-->"I ''hate'' set-in stains!"
41	** Her across the street neighbor one-ups her by throwing the washer THROUGH THE ROOF!
42	* Tossing the washing machine out the window. Think it was a Maytag or Sears commercial. Having bought the right kind of washing machine, the woman and her mate are happy again... then see a washing machine fly out of a neighbor's house and say they better go tell Sue (or whatever the name was) about the brand they just bought.
43	* The Discount Tire Co. commercial quoted above, featuring a disgruntled old lady hurling a tire through their shop window.
44	* Happens in an ISP commercial when a computer is implied to spend an entire day near 40% and actually jumps back a small percentage.
45	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHEhKo5Ils This]] TV commercial for Gamefly, a videogame rental service, shows a man hurling a TV out of his bedroom window after he discovered that he had bought a bad game.
46	* A 90s-era ad for Compaq computers shows people walking in the streets wearing helmets, because people throw away all the stuff that their brand-new Compaq computer replaces: typewriters, filing cabinets, older computers.
47	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrVXa9pvLyY An early 2000s ad for Snickers Cruncher]] shows a car alarm going off loudly at night. Without warning, a massive sofa, easily the size of the car, falls into the shot, completely crushing it and silencing the alarm. We then see a woman looking outside of her window dusting off her hands in satisfaction. (FridgeLogic sets in as to just ''how'' she threw the sofa out the too-small window without damaging either.) The sofa then slides partway off the car and onto the hood of the one parked next to it, setting off ''its'' alarm.
48	* A Bud Light commercial had an office meeting, with the workers being asked for suggestions on how to save money. A guy suggests they stop serving Bud Light at the meetings. Cut to outside as a chair goes flying through the window—with the guy who made the suggestion in it—and landing on the ground outside the building.
49	* A 1980s advertisement for Amstrad wordprocessors showed now-obsolete typewriters being thrown from office windows into a skip.
50	* A commercial for a weight loss supplement features a woman throwing her radio out the window when she hears it say that women are more likely to gain unneeded weight. The radio, while flying, tells her to eat right and exercise, as well as drink the advertised supplement. She is then showing pulling it back in by the cord, saying, "Now you tell me!"
51	* There's a turkey commercial where the woman is struggling with the frozen turkey [which is huge and heavy]. She miscalculates the amount of effort to toss it into the sink. So it overshoots the sink, breaks through the window and brains a man outside [her husband?]
52	* A 2018 commercial for [=DirecTV=] NOW shows a woman throwing several TV props out of her apartment window before ending by throwing her satellite receiver out.
53	* A commercial for a fast internet provider from the early 2000s' went like this: A young boy (no more than 12 years old) logs on to the internet and types "how to talk to girls," the computer is agonizingly slow in providing search results, and the screen fades to black. We next see the young boy sitting in front of his monitor with a black eye, and the computer still loading the results. We then see a shot of the exterior of the house, and the computer monitor crashing through the bedroom window, and smashing into bits on the ground.
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56	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
57	* ''Manga/GoodNightWorld'':Taichiro throws his VR visor out the window over [[spoiler:his onlie friend Pico seemingly abruptly cutting contact with him after promising to start a new version of the Pirates together, not knowing she's one of the AIs Kojiro needed to delete to make the very dangerous Black Bird more manageable]]. By pure luck, this happens while his mother Miyabi is coming back to the house for the first time a in while and she brings it back inside before it can get even more damaged.
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60	[[folder:Comic Books]]
61	* In ''ComicBook/{{Silverblade}}'' #1, Jonathan discovers Milestone watching a videotaped plea for money from his third ex-wife and rips the VCR off the top of the television and hurls it through the closed window.
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64	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
65	* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'':
66	** In one strip, Dogbert gives a variety of strange solutions to problems with everyday life. For the problem of television evangelists, he suggests throwing your television out the window. His theory is that if everyone does it, someone will get lucky and brain a passing evangelist.
67	** Alice is prone to this. A lot. Some examples include [[http://dilbert.com/strip/1998-06-04 "Code Rage"]] and [[http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-05-05 "Try rebooting your computer."]]
68	* One episode of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'', where ''a scientist'' is launched out of the window of the Stress Institute. From inside: "Hey... I feel better already."
69	* In one ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'' strip, Prunelle gets overly angry at the titular character for destroying two coat hangers and violently throws the remaining piece of one out the window. As it is shaped like a boomerang, hilarity ensues.
70	* Played straight in [[http://tinyurl.com/68e25k page 1]] and [[http://tinyurl.com/69rzp2 page 2]] of the ''ComicStrip/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'' comic in ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine #63 (July 1982), in which computers are hurled through open windows by owners frustrated with fantasy {{RPG}} programs.
71	* In one ''Channel Chuckles'' comic a television is thrown out the window.
72	-->'''Man on TV:''' Of course, some of you folks may not agree with these political views, however...
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75	[[folder:Fan Works]]
76	* Mocked in an ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' parody. Gibbs goes storming into Vance's office (as per usual), but Vance's weary resignation towards the interruption leaves Gibbs unable to express how ''angry'' and ''passionate'' he is. So he opens a window and chucks a random appliance out.
77	-->''Vance counted it as a win that the window had been open.''
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80	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
81	* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'', Lord Shen wistfully regards the throne promised to him by his parents before his exile. The next shot is of said throne flying out the window.
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84	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
85	* In the Disney film ''Film/{{Candleshoe}}'', Jodie Foster's character gets frustrated while searching for a clue in a book and nearly throws it out the window only to realize that the clue was referring to the church graveyard she can see from it.
86	* In the Mexican movie ''Film/NoManchesFrida2'', when the protagonists' wedding video goes viral after he screwed it up. When he goes back to the high school where he teaches, he finds two of his students laughing at it and calling him an idiot. When he walks up to them, he tells them he can now laugh at the video, takes the cell phone, and flings off the second story and onto the floor of the lobby of the administration building.
87	* Played seriously in ''[[Music/TheWall Pink Floyd – The Wall]]'', where the character Pink, in the throes of SanitySlippage during the segment of "One of My Turns", a) throws a TV out the window of his hotel room and b) smashes another one in with an electric guitar.
88	* In an homage to many real life stories regarding rock band, ''Film/RockStar'' has an angry Steel Dragon member throwing a TV out the window after being dumped by his girlfriend.
89	* During Johnny's rampage at the end of ''Film/TheRoom2003'', he throws a television out of a window. The scene is not meant to be comedic, but is because of {{Narm}}. He lifts the television with little effort, making no attempt to handle it as a real television and not a lightweight prop. The film then cuts to the television crashing onto the sidewalk.
90	* ''Film/ShortcutToHappiness'': When his typewriter breaks as the last piece of a HumiliationConga, Stone snaps and flings the machine out his window. [[AccidentalMurder Where it kills an old woman walking by on the street below]].
91	* In a cross with ThrowTheBookAtThem, ''Film/SilverLiningsPlaybook'' has Pat chucking ''Literature/AFarewellToArms'' out the window once he finishes and dislikes the DownerEnding.
92	* A scene in ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'' involved Stanley dunking a radio through a window.
93	* ''Film/TakeTheMoneyAndRun'': Virgil's cello is thrown out a window, presumably by someone fed up with his [[DreadfulMusician horrible skill]] with the instrument.
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96	[[folder:Literature]]
97	* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', Harry mentions in a letter to Sirius Black that in the course of a tantrum over being put on a diet by his parents, Dudley Dursley threw his Platform/PlayStation[[note]]an anachronism because the scene takes place in the summer of 1994 and the [=PS1=] didn't come out in Europe until Fall 1995[[/note]] out the window. "Bit stupid, really. Now he's on a diet ''and'' has nothing to take his mind off it."
98	* Subverted in ''Literature/{{Nightside}}: Hell to Pay'', where John Taylor gets bored waiting for a ditzy socialite to pay attention to him, and starts fingering all the knick-knacks in the room. Fortunately for the knick-knacks, she makes time to talk to him before he needs to act out his next attention-getting tactic: tossing them out the windows.
99	* In the sequel to ''Literature/{{Peeps}}: The Last Days'', people infected with the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampire-like parasite]] go crazy and start throwing things they used love out windows all over New York City. The book begins with two of the protagonists saving a classic Stratocaster from hitting the ground.
100	* ''Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr'': The protagonist finds himself imprisoned on a MissingFloor by the mysterious Uncle Ira group. To protest he throws all the furniture out the window.
101	-->"Ceramic lamps are very nice. So are beer kegs. And almost any liquid-filled bottle. Chairs and mattresses are impressive, but dull."
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104	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
105	* ''Series/AgentsOfShield'' has an episode where the team's hacker in the van outside is told to get ready to receive a "large file transfer." Cue an entire filing cabinet full of hard-copied data being thrown out the window.
106	* In an episode of ''Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos'' a clip is shown with two guys dropping an extra large TV out a second-story window of their house with Tom Beregeron remarking "I'm sure a lot of people feel like doing this when our show gets preempted."
107	* Happens to a TV in the title sequence to ''Creator/CharlieBrooker's Series/{{Screenwipe}}''.
108	* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
109	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmfMte3L4A&t=2m31s In the Season 2 First Look Scene,]] on the upper floor of the de la Croix mansion, a chair is thrown at a closed window (presumably by a vampire while attacking a human) and the glass shatters on impact.
110	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wT4QihIavo&t=1m45s In the Season 2 trailer,]] Madeleine hurls a flat-iron at her store window after a swastika is spray-painted on it.
111	* ''Series/KitchenNightmares'' featured an episode where a chef was cooking all of the meals in a microwave. Guess what Ramsay did when he took [[ICallItVera "Chef Mike"]] to the second floor window overlooking an alleyway?
112	* ''Series/MadAboutYou'' had a ThanksgivingEpisode with a RunningGag that the couple tried to get a turkey without their families noticing after the dog ate the first. The second time, once everyone is approaching Jamie, she throws it out the window! (and showing the dangers mentioned in our lead, it is followed by car horns, meaning a huge cooked bird disrupted traffic...) Eventually the guy at the store already has another turkey waiting for them when they rush in for yet another replacement.
113	* In one episode of ''Series/MadMen'', Pete performs a variation of this to demonstrate his anger with Trudy, by throwing the Christmas turkey out the window.
114	* Spoofed in ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''. When Malcolm gets enraged over a ''VideoGame/TheSims'' knockoff, he opens up the window... only to find that the computer's too heavy, so he just shoves it off his desk instead.
115	* ''Series/{{MASH}}'':
116	** One episode had Winchester turning into a total slob, leading to a scene where he, Hawkeye and BJ trash one another's areas in the Swamp. During the scene, Winchester threw Hawkeye's mattress through the wall of the tent.
117	** Also in an earlier episode just after Frank Burns is sent home because of his mental breakdown, he calls Hawkeye to say goodbye. During the conversation, he mentions he has been promoted from Major to Lieutenant Colonel and put in charge of a veterans hospital in Fort Wayne. Hawkeye listens calmly, but as soon as the conversation's over, he rips the phone and throws it outside of the tent in a fit of rage.
118	* One ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' episode has Ron Swanson learn about the lack of privacy on the internet, leading him to toss out his computer and monitor (although he does it straight into a dumpster rather than out his window.)
119	* On ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', Dr.Cox does this when an old hospital computer is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME4oGDAqNQM giving him trouble.]]
120	* The opening credits for ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' begins with a montage of people defenestrating their [=TVs=] in rage because nothing good is on...until now (the announcer goes, "Tired of ordinary television? Don't touch that dial! [=SCTV=] is now on the air!"). Buildings the [=TVs=] were thrown out of include high-rises, suburban tract houses, mansions, and a grass hut (probably referencing the African nation of Togo, a running joke on the show).
121	* In the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "Rogue", corrupt cop Sam Phelan learns of Clark Kent's powers and blackmails him into serving him. At one point, when ordered to break into an office and steal from a safe, Clark instead rips the whole safe out and throws it out the window, where it lands on and disables Phelan's car. Clark then super speeds away and leaves him to the arriving cops. Phelan manages to escape and get Clark under his control again. Clark is ordered to help him steal from a museum. Clark pulls the same trick again by throwing an artifact that Phelan touched and got his fingerprints on out the window, then speeding away and leaving him to the guards that were alerted by the commotion. This time, Phelan gets gunned down when he angrily tries to attack the guards, leaving Clark's secret safe.
122	* ''Series/StillGame'' shows you don't have to break the window to defenestrate something—Big Innes lands Isa's cooker square in the skip on street level from her high-rise flat in ''"Big Yin"''.
123	* The short-lived UPN show, ''Series/TheWatcher'' (an anthology show hosted by Sir Mix-A-Lot) had an episode with a band called Pandemonium (played by the members of Music/CheapTrick) doing a run of shows in Las Vegas. The singer complained that the other band members had gone soft, unable to party down like they used to, and vowed to replace them all with other musicians. To show they could still "live it up", the other band members threw a TV out the window—only for it to land on the singer!
124	* Inverted in ''Series/TheYoungOnes'': Vyvyan attempts to throw the TV out the window... only for it to bounce off the glass.
125	--> '''Mike''': That I did not expect.
126	* ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' had an episode set to the Da Vinci's Notebook song "The Gates" where Drew throws his laptop off the office building roof after it breaks down just like the song.
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129	[[folder:Music]]
130	* The Music/BigAndRich song "Six Foot Town":
131	-->You know from two stories up, a Zenith makes a big boom!
132	* In "The Gates" by Music/DaVincisNotebook, a malfunctioning laptop (that eventually causes the protagonist to hunt down Bill Gates himself, hence the title) is thrown off the roof of an office building. "And when it arrived, seven stories below, it really made a mighty fine sound-o."
133	* Music/StVincent suggests doing this in her song "Digital Witness":
134	-->People turn the TV on and throw it out the window, yeah.
135	* As they were leaving a hotel, Keith Moon of Music/TheWho demanded that he return to the hotel because he had forgotten something. What he had forgotten to do was to throw the TV out the window.
136	** According to their road manager, Keith was very fond of throwing [=TVs=] out the window, and he would bring long extension cords on the road so, when he threw the TV out the window, it would keep playing up until the moment it hit the ground.
137	** Keith Moon probably could have been the Trope Maker for this category. His destruction of hotel rooms was legendary. Supposedly, one hotel the Who was staying in was undergoing renovations, so they put the band in the area to be renovated and told him to do whatever he wanted to.
138	** In 1976 in New York, Keith once paid some NYC cab drivers to block traffic on the street in front of the hotel so he could throw the entire contents of his hotel room out the window.
139	** Music/RogerDaltrey said that while just throwing a TV out the window was fun, it was even better if you could find enough extension chord to make sure the TV stayed on all the way to the ground.
140	** In his book, [[Music/TheSmallFaces Kenney Jones]] told a story of a time when their bands were on tour together. Keith called him and invited him out for a drink, but told him to come up to his room first. When he got there, Kenney saw Keith had ten snare drums around the room. Keith picked one up, said "Watch this" and threw it at the window. It crashed through the glass, and the two drummers ran over to watch it shatter as it hit the ground.
141	** Their docu-biopic, ''The Kids Are Alright'', features a sketch from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' where host Creator/SteveMartin extols the virtues of the hotel chain he's advertising, while Keith is destroying the hotel room.
142	* Keith Moon wasn't the only rock star who liked this:
143	** As documented on the never-to-be-released-until-everybody-in-it-is-dead Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}} documentary ''Cocksucker Blues'', Keith Richards and Bobby Keys [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqI4CiDQXcM dropped a TV from a balcony]] at the Andaz West Hollywood in 1972.
144	** Music/OzzyOsbourne pushed a hotel TV out the window simply because he had never done it before.
145	** Music/LedZeppelin [[https://ultimateclassicrock.com/led-zeppelin-spinal-tap-story/ also liked to throw TVs]], and when a desk clerk asked what it felt like, the band manager added some extra to the "hotel damages bill" so the clerk could toss one himself.
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148	[[folder:Music Videos]]
149	* Happens in the music video for Music/GreenDay's "Basket Case."
150	* Played hilariously in Kelly Price's video for "Should Have Told Me," where she's dating a man who wishes she were thinner. The video ends with her [[FatAndProud throwing a treadmill out the window]] where it lands on his car.
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153	[[folder:Radio]]
154	* This is generally how Sir Philip deals with whatever bizarre {{Steampunk}} gadget Sourquill has brought with him in the FramingStory for each episode of ''Radio/BleakExpectations''.
155	* Conversational troping in ''Radio/TheNewsQuiz'', when Sandi says she missed the ''Series/BritainsGotTalent'' finale because she can't watch ITV, in case she accidentally sees Keith Lemon and has to throw her TV out the window.
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158	[[folder:Video Games]]
159	* ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': Early in the beginning when Ann is walking out of her apartment, one of the nearby residents throws their computer out the front door.
160	* Inverted in ''VideoGame/WingCommanderPrivateer 2: The Darkening.'' According to the flavor text for the Galactic Gourmet Hotel on Hephaestus, one particularly snobby guest was so annoyed at ''only'' getting an eight-room suite that, instead of throwing the TV out of the hotel, ''he threw the hotel out of the TV.'' Apparently, this could only be accomplished with the aid of a hypercrane and a small [[RealityWarper local reality manipulation generator]].
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163	[[folder:Web Comics]]
164	* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', this is [[PlayedForDrama actually a science]] called Dark Fenestrology. [[spoiler: However, in this universe, Appliance Defenestration can be used, in special conditions, to send objects across dimensions.]]
165	* An adding machine is defenestrated in [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=12 this]] ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' strip twice.
166	* One ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' strip has someone throw his computer out the window just as Gabe and Tycho are walking by. Gabe finds a CD in the ruins and remarks "''VideoGame/MystIV''. [[NintendoHard Yeah, that's about right.]]"
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169	[[folder:Web Original]]
170	* ''WebVideo/{{Dragonbored}}'' has Karl hurl a witche's head he found in his oven (Jimbroth said that is has some mystical abilities and mistook the stove for a chest to store it in) from his apartment balcony into the nearby fishing pond.
171	* Such an occurence caused an accidental off-screen death ([[DeconstructedTrope e.g. an old lady happened to be under the window]]) in ''Series/{{Noob}}''. Let's just say that HairTriggerTemper and incompetent guildmates don't mix well.
172	* ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz'':
173	** The first episode opens with a Wii U flying out the window.
174	** 62 episodes later, in "Nintendo Before Video Games", Scott parted ways with an inflatable gator he bought by similar means, although the gator (or at least the box it came in) is on his desk in all episodes since. He also threw his high school diploma out the window in "Nintendo Labo \| Adventures With the Variety Kit".
175	* ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'': At the end of the "Meat In Your Mouth" video.
176	--> "The rest of the video was damaged when Wilshire Farms threw the video out the window."
177	* ''Website/{{Vine}}'': There is a humorous example of this in an installment of Clayton Farris's series of "Toss Me the Keys" videos. He asks a woman on the second floor to throw down the keys, only to have the coffee machine land near him.
178	--> '''Clayton''': I said "''keys''"!
179	--> '''Woman''': I thought you said "''coffee machine''"!
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182	[[folder:Western Animation]]
183	* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': In the episode "PDA", Shake tosses his chair out the window after [[BelievingTheirOwnLies convincing himself]] that someone stole his unowned PDA.
184	* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': In the credits of "Operation Couch", Numbuh 4 throws the couch out of the treehouse after some Daves steal the remote and popcorn.
185	* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'':
186	** Courage throws his (sentient) computer through a closed window after the computer demands a hamburger in order to cooperate.
187	** He also does this when the SnarkyInanimateObject makes a crack at Courage to "Insert 25 cents or your call will be interrupted."
188	--->'''Computer''': Some people just can't take a joke.
189	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy throws his computer through his window after having difficulties with homework.
190	* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Grunkle Stan throws his TV out of the window at the end of "The Inconveniencing" when he gets... a little over-invested in the soap opera he's watching.
191	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'', Wendy does this to her birthday presents and cake at the beginning of "Reptiles in the Rose Garden".
192	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode "Everything Breaks", when Billy is served cereal at breakfast instead of pancakes he throws the bowl out the window, after which the bowl [[MadeOfExplodium explodes]].
193	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "Cop Out", Mike Brickowski, disgruntled ex-cop, who blames the Powerpuff Girls for his firing (ignoring the fact that he did absolutely nothing but sleep and eat donuts), gets enraged when the news presents a story on the girls and tosses his TV out the window.
194	-->'''Brickowski''': Startin' tomorrow, you girls ain't gonna be on the air no more!
195	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
196	** A bedside lamp suffers this fate when Homer is flummoxed by its inability to respond to his clapping, immediately after his claim that fighting a nuclear war is as easy as turning off a light.
197	** Bart does this to a radio while Creator/DrDemento was on the air. Unlike most examples of this trope, he actually did this out of fear instead of anger. [[NoodleIncident Apparently Demento is one of his "mortal enemies".]]
198	* Handy's window vision in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode of the same name gets thrown out of a few Smurf houses because they can't turn off the show with its most annoying host -- Brainy!
199	* ''WesternAnimation/{{WordGirl}}'': In the episode "The Ballad of Steve [=McClean=]", Dr. Two-Brains discovers through the ''Wordgirl Weekly Supervillain Countdown'' on TV that he's been dethroned as the #1 supervillain in Fair City by newcomer Steve [=McClean=]. He is so outraged by this that he promptly throws the TV out the window of his warehouse hideout.
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202	[[folder:Real Life]]
203	* Creator/DaveBarry wrote of how his college band, the Federal Duck, ended. He and his roommate threw his amplifier out the dormitory window while chanting "The Who! The Who!" As much as he'd love to believe it was a meaningful gesture, he really just wanted to know what it would sound like. It sounded OK.
204	* Pranksters in Whitehorse, Yukon managed to convince a guy to [[http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/03/23/hotel-prank.html throw the TV and the fridge in his hotel room out the window]]—''in the middle of the winter''.
205	* A particularly infamous protest march turned AngryMob of British university students upset about their tuition costs being tripled ended up doing this to most of the furniture in the offices of the Conservative Party, among other things.
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