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* ''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.

* 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 (An AnachronismStew because the scene takes place in the summer of 1994 and the [=PS1=] didn't come out in Europe until Fall 1995) out the window. "Bit stupid, really. Now he's on a diet ''and'' has nothing to take his mind off it."

** According to their road manager, Keith was very fond of throwing TV's 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.

** [[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 symbol is spray-painted on it.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': [[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.

* 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.

* ''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"''.
* 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!

* 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''.

* [[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.

* 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!"

* 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 UsefulNotes/PlayStation (An AnachronismStew because the scene takes place in the summer of 1994 and the [=PS1=] didn't come out in Europe until Fall 1995) out the window. "Bit stupid, really. Now he's on a diet ''and'' has nothing to take his mind off it."

* 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, HilarityEnsues.

-->'''Brickowski''': Startin' tomorrow, you girls ain't gonna be on the air no more!"

* ''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 prevents it from getting damaged.

* In a non-''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'' Bil Keane comic a television is thrown out the window.

* During Johnny's rampage at the end of ''Film/TheRoom'', 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.

* In a pre-''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'' Bil Keane comic a television is thrown out the window.

* An Ad for Snickers 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.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', this is [[PlayedForDrama actually a science]] called Dark Fenestrology. [[spoiler: However, in this universe, Appliance Defenestration can be used, in special coniditions, to send objects across dimensions.]]

--> '''Woman''': I thought you said "coffee machine"!

* ''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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* Happens in the title sequence to ''Creator/CharlieBrooker's Series/{{Screenwipe}}''.

* Played seriously in ''[[Film/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.

* Played seriously in ''[[Music/TheWall Pink Floyd – The Wall]]'', where the character Pink, in the throes of SanitySlippage, a) throws a TV out the window of his hotel room and b) smashes another one in with an electric guitar.

** As documented on the never-to-be-released-until-everybody-in-it-is-dead Music/TheRollingStones 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.

* Spoofed in ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''. When Malcolm gets enraged over a ''VideoGame/TheSims'' {{Expy}}, he opens up the window... only to find that the computer's too heavy, so he just shoves it off his desk instead.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': 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.

* 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 UsefulNotes/PlayStation (A CriticalResearchFailure because the scene takes place in the summer of 1994 and the [=PS1=] didn't come out in Europe until Fall 1995) out the window. "Bit stupid, really. Now he's on a diet ''and'' has nothing to take his mind off it."

* Played seriously in ''Film/PinkFloydsTheWall'', where the character Pink, in the throes of SanitySlippage, a) throws a TV out the window of his hotel room and b) smashes another one in with an electric guitar.