History Main / FlippingTheTable

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11511964/1/Harry-and-Sodor-The-Magic-of-Normality Harry and Sodor - The Magic of Normality]]'' Harry flips over Minister Shacklebolt's desk when the latter states that his term in office will be limited unless he chucks Harry into [[ExtranormalPrison Azkaban]].

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* ''VideoGame/ChoChabudaiGaeshi'' is a arcade game from Creator/{{Taito}} that allow players to do this, with the goal being to slam the table to get people gathered in front of you, and to finally flip the table and let [[WreakingHavok physics]] do the rest. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyI63UKxwaU No, we are not kidding]]. The game features a wide cast of characters to choose, changing the venue. For example: A ghost attending his own wake. Slamming the table makes the attendee think the place in haunted and investigate. The table you're flipping is actually ''your own open casket''. It even received a sequel! Unfortunately, like a lot of Japanese-developed arcade games, it's [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]], unless your arcade decides to grey market import it.

* Stocking of ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' has this reaction to the [[spoiler:Demon Sisters]] [[BerserkButton calling her fat]]. She surprises even her usually more hot-blooded sister, Panty.

** Genma has actually developed this as a martial arts technique, Wrath of the Father, which he uses against Nodoka (yeah, he's [[DomesticAbuse scum]]).

* 'The Yillian Way'' by Keith Laumer. A human diplomat negotiating a peace settlement with the Yill is about to tuck into the [[WeirdWorldWeirdFood disgusting alien meal]] being served up to him. However his aide realises this is a SecretTestOfCharacter and knocks over the table to prevent this from happening. He then marches up to the table where the Yill leaders are dining and demands to be served good human food. As Yill society is based on alpha male domination, he successfully asserts his authority in their eyes.

* Done in ''Webcomic/{{Consolers}}'', when Nintendo makes Creator/{{Rare}} turn ''[[VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures Dinosaur Planet]]'' into a ''VideoGame/StarFox'' game. Unlike most other examples here, it's not done out of rage, but rather as a reference to "Miyamoto upending the table" mentioned above.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' has Daffy flip over a table during a game of chess with Bugs and claim that there was an earthquake.

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* Creator/{{Nigahiga}}: "I spilled table [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu_fNTNbhwE#t=0m02s all over my liquids!]]"
* The end result of ''Fanfic/OldManHenderson'' was one of these. Having gotten really fed up with a KillerGameMaster, a roleplayer by the name of Waffle House Millionaire created the character of Old Man Henderson, a {{Munchkin}} [[TheLoonie Loonie]] whose sole purpose in life was to [[OffTheRails completely derail the campaign]]. Aided with the [[ExpansionPackPast Backstory]] [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Of Doom]], the sole purpose of which was to be so long and confusing that the DM wouldn't read it, Waffle House Millionaire ended up "winning at ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''." Cue the table flip from the killer GM after finally having gotten what was coming to him.
* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Table-flipping has been taken to new heights with the Kaguya [[http://www.walfas.org/?p=1133#more-1133 Table Flipping RPG.]] It was originally a simple flash animation on Walfas, but was turned into a game. Kaguya's Five Impossible Tasks just became six, with the goal of Rebirth requiring, by most estimates, several thousand times the age of the universe to accomplish. Strangely, through several patches and even ''DividingByZero'', obsessive players have already [[http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/4788/kaguyadividedbyzero.jpg achieved this]].
** The latest version includes special moves called "Enlightenment" and "Master Slice", both of which make achieving Rebirth not only possible to do legitimately, but much quicker and easier.

* The Table Flip is now [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/flipping-tables-%E2%95%AF%E2%96%A1%EF%BC%89%E2%95%AF%EF%B8%B5-%E2%94%BB%E2%94%81%E2%94%BB a bona-fide meme]].

* ''WebVideo/TableFlip'', a SpinOff from ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' that focuses on tabletop games, uses this for its title. Dramatic slow-motion table-flipping also appears in its intro and outro.
* In the first Net Movie for ''Film/KamenRiderXSuperSentaiXSpaceSheriffSuperHeroTaisenZ'', we see Series/KamenRiderStronger table flip in anger when he finds out Tackle's been seeing an Series/{{Ultraman}} monster behind his back. It's PlayedForLaughs, though.
* In ''WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst'', the gang will sometimes start flipping tables and couch cushions around (or miming doing so) when they're particularly sick of a film. Examples include ''[[https://33.media.tumblr.com/356c89561ff48a1bd5125a6fb04ad145/tumblr_nc3yrsVyxp1rishqio1_500.gif American Flatulators]]'', ''Pocket Ninjas'', ''Film/TammyAndTheTRex'' and ''Dangerous Men'' (where Rich tosses practically the entire room).

* Flipping the Table is a running gag for Orchestral Design in the ''WebVideo/BroniesReact'' videos. He does it at the end of all his appearances, protesting the lack of Octavia in the episodes. And then, with the reaction to the 100th episode, which ''does'' features Octavia heavily, he flips the table again, this time in joy. And once in slow motion, when he sees Octavia and Vinyl Scratch sharing a house. And then, in TheStinger, he flips a table from the roof of his house.

* The ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode ''What Have You Done?'' has Princess Bubblegum flipping a table in both the title card and in the episode itself.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}''. The band's manager has their tables bolted down since Nathan does this so often.
* Muscle Man on ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' flips the table out of anger of being splashed with a soda twice.
* On one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Cleveland was living with the Griffins, and in the midst of a messy divorce. While watching tv with Stewie, he finally snaps and says "I ''hate'' Series/{{Bewitched}}!" when it comes on, and flips the couch over. While Stewie was sitting on it. Stewie responds "[[SarcasmMode Yeah, that was totally reasonable reaction...]]"
** Another possible instance is in the episode, where Stewie and Brian are playing Chess in the back of Quagmire's RV, while he is having sex while driving. When their chess pieces get knocked off due to the reckless driving, they argue when they try to put the pieces back, causing Stewie to snap and knock the pieces off the table again.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' sees Dan and his best friend's wife Elise trapped together in a cabin, where Elise tries to pass the time in a game of "Conglomerate". Dan makes himself banker, gives himself fifteen times the usual starting amount, insists that it's how he always plays with [[ExtremeDoormat his sidekick Chris]]...
-->'''Dan:''' I think you'll find the game is more realistic with a little corruption.\\
'''Elise:''' ...Just roll the dice.\\
''[Dan abruptly puts his bare feet onto the table]''\\
'''Dan:''' ''Not until you rub my feet!'' ... Just another perk of being the banker.\\
''[Elise, equally abruptly, flips the table (and Dan) over]''
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Joy", Miss Simian rages out and flips over a desk from the side, completely flipping it over and landing back on its legs, not disturbing anything sitting on the table either. Realizing this, she then moves behind the desk and flips it over that way.
* Referenced in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''; in "Soos and the Real Girl", someone left a note on the box for the in-universe dating simulator ''Romance Academy 7'' instructing someone to destroy it, and they included a flipping-the-table emoticon.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish", Burns is furiously trashing the Simpson home and tries to flip over a table, but he is too frail to do so and makes Smithers do it for him.

* On ''Series/{{Glee}}'' in 'The Sue Sylvester Shuffle' coach Beiste flips a table after losing a game

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': One of the setup steps to their [[CalvinBall incoherent]] drunken boardgame "Chardee [=MacDennis=]" is nailing the game board down because [[BrickJoke by round 3]] (hard liquor), Mac always gets frustrated and tries to RageQuit. Mac admits that it's for the best and will forget that board is nailed down later in the game. True enough, he does try to flip the board, but is unable to do so.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E13BloodTies Blood Ties]]", vampire Spike does this with the stone lid of a sarcophagus while arguing with Buffy.

* Weaponised in ''Series/GameOfThrones''. The fight at the inn starts with Sandor Clegane flipping the table onto Polliver, which interferes with Polliver drawing his sword. By the time he crawls out from under the table, Sandor has used the opportunity to kill several of his men.
* ''Series/Daredevil2015'':
** When Madame Gao tells Wilson Fisk he will be removed if he does not reassert control over his criminal alliance, he ends up flipping his massive metal dining table in rage seconds after she leaves.
** When [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Fisk goes public]] before Matt Murdock's group has a chance to expose him, Matt angrily knocks everything off his kitchen table.
** Matt flips over a table covered in playing cards when he finally gets to [[DirtyCop Detective Hoffman]], who he needs to take down Fisk's whole operation. Takes on extra symbolic significance given the Playing Card Motifs of Fisk's criminal empire.
* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': Returning back to his apartment after going out to beat up some looters in the midst of an artificial earthquake triggered by the Hand, Matt Murdock tries to bandage his bloodied knuckles. However, his hands are very shaky, and he eventually snaps and sweeps his medical supplies off the kitchen table. [[CallBack The shot is staged almost identically]] to when he was listening to Fisk's speech.
* Weaponized in ''Series/IronFist2017''. In "This Deadly Secret", a parley between two Triad gangs is conducted from [[TableSpace either end of a long table]]. When negotiations break down, Danny Rand uses his Iron Fist to knock the table into a gang of mooks who are about to attack him.
* ''Series/{{Vikings}}'': Viking Rollo is shown being taught Old French at court in Paris by a clergyman and he's having a ''terrible'' time. It involves him suddenly being fluent in {{Angrish}} resembling Old French, tearing a book page in tiny pieces and crumpling it, flipping his own table, [[AngryCollarGrab grabbing his teacher by the collar]], flinging said teacher across the room. He storms out of the room and knocks down a chair for good measure.
* Jonah's half of the Invention Exchange in the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E09Yongary Yongary]]'', is a tiny desk you can flip over in a rage without making a huge mess you have to clean up afterwards.
* ''Series/{{Cracker}}''. [[TheGamblingAddict Fitz loses all his money gambling]], so he asks the manager of the casino to do him the favour of banning him. He refuses. So Fitz walks over to some Asian gamblers and flips over their table, to their fury. The manager gives a deadpan, "You're banned."
* In ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'', one opening sketch (24th of October, 2019) depicted ''TabletopGame/{{Risk}}: Chaos Edition'', where when one player protests the other's claims of [[AssumedWin having won at the game]], he just flips the table over. ("I win again!")
* In the third season of the turkish soap opera ''Diriliş: Ertugrul", Vasilius, the Big Bad Guy of the season, he flipped over a tabletop chess, scattering all the pieces around, after the news of a big defeat and discovering a whistleblower in his castle, his former fiancee Helena.
* ''Series/TheBoys2019'' had Queen Maeve doing this when her girlfriend Elena decides to break up with her. As she has SuperStrength, the heavy wooden table goes flying across the room, [[BewareTheSuperman terrifying Elena with this sudden display of violence.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. When Quark is courting Grilka, her bodyguard is so outraged at the idea of a Ferengi romancing the leader of a Klingon House that he knocks over the table and Quark with it, challenging him to a DuelToTheDeath.
* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "Stopover", while interrogating a spy, Cowley lays out surveillance photographs on the table of his family back in Poland and [[GoodIsNotNice threatens to frame them for treason]] if he doesn't provide the information Cowley wants. [[EveryoneHasStandards Outraged that Cowley would threaten innocents]], the spy flips the interrogation table in a rage only to be restrained and pulled back into his chair by Bodie.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' has a sci-fi variation in "Bone to be Wild". Scorpius makes Crais's dining table retract into the floor, then kicks the food around.

* Mentioned in the ''[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Let It Go]]'' song parody ''[[https://youtu.be/qOaqiCBum2w Fuck It All]]''.
-->...''Flip the table, screw you all!''

* At 2:00 in the Music/BrunoMars "It Will Rain" music video.

* In the DVD performance of "Not In Our House" from ''[[Music/{{Hero}} !HERO: The Rock Opera]]'', the lead character Hero turns over tables at the synagogue that Chief Rabbi Kai is in charge of.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-ws2WY_8Y Tabletop Simulator]] features this as a game play mechanic.

* One of the sillier {{Finishing Move}}s in ''VideoGame/TechRomancer'' involves one of the Mecha flipping the table on the other mech.
* Referenced in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars''. One of Masaaki's possible spoof-CallingYourAttacks for his Psybuster's basic Discutter is "Magic Blade: Ether Table Flip Attack! ...just kidding."
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' in the snowboarding minigame where you're weaving through igloos, one of them has a Moogle at a table. Crash into it and the Moogle will throw the table at you, imitating this trope.
* One of Zangief's attacks in ''VideoGame/SuperGemFighter'', complete with him reading a newspaper before getting angry at the opponent and ripping it in half before flipping the table at them.
* ''VideoGame/ChaosCode'''s resident ChefOfIron Bravo Peperoncine has a super attack called "Getting Angry! Evil Course Fast Food", during which a table with UsefulNotes/McDonalds food and a microwave oven appears before him. Enraged, he flips it at the opponent.

* ''VideoGame/ChoChabudaiGaeshi'' is a arcade game from Creator/{{Taito}} that allow players to do this, with the goal being to slam the table to get people gathered in front of you, and to finally flip the table and let [[WreakingHavok physics]] do the rest. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyI63UKxwaU No, we are not kidding]]. The game features a wide cast of characters to choose, changing the venue. For example: A ghost attending his own wake. Slamming the table makes the attendee think the place in haunted and investigate. The table you're flipping is actually ''your own open casket''. It even received a sequel! Unfortunately, like a lot of Japanese-developed arcade games, it's [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]], unless your arcade decides to grey market import it.
* In the ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' {{DLC}} ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'', the Shadow Broker is revealed to be [[spoiler:a 4 meter tall space gorilla]]. When Liara responds to his BreakingSpeech by pushing his BerserkButton, he hurls his entire desk at the party before [[UnstoppableRage charging them]]. While Shepard and Liara dodge, whoever's filling the third party slot isn't so lucky and is knocked out for the fight.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda:'' Depending on the player's actions, they might hear about [[{{Jerkass}} Nakmor Morda]] flipping tables when she's supposed to be meeting with the Andromeda Initiative's Acting Director (who she has a ''very'' personal grudge against), because she's angry. Or irritated. Or just because.

* If you're willing to accept the Earth, or at least Sumaru City as the "table" in question, then Nyarlathotep's actions just after the final boss fight in ''[[VideoGame/{{Persona2}} Persona 2: Innocent Sin]]'' are basically one huge table-flip, but one he had carefully set up just in case he was beat. Yes, Nyarlathotep is such a [[TheChessmaster Chess]][[{{Pun}} master]] that table-flipping is one of his stratagems -- he doesn't care about playing, he cares about ruining the game for everyone else.
* In the beginning of ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'', alternative reality Franchise/{{Superman}} does this when "interrogating" ComicBook/TheJoker, who was sitting behind the table -- or at when least complaining to him about how he killed everyone and made Superman kill someone he loved. The table flies pretty far to the side, naturally, but still to a kind of restrained extent considering it's [[SuperStrength Superman]] we're talking about. Still, if you thought at this point he was flipping out, you'd be right.
* The "Flip Out" EmoteAnimation in ''VideoGame/Destiny2'' has your Guardian conjure a table out of HardLight for the sole purpose of flipping it in a huff.
* ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon'' actually has the table-flipping as a gameplay mechanic, except, unlike most examples, it's done not as a sign of anger, but as a way to provide cover from the enemy fire. However, the Table Tech Rage item invokes this by having the character get mad after flipping the table, which increases their damage.
* The 2017 cinematic trailer for ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil2'' features [[PigMan Zhou Yuzhu]] doing this in a Chinese restaurant after [[MischiefMakingMonkey Knox]] sells him a supposed gold pig idol that's actually made of Swiss chocolate, accompanied by a [[ClusterFBomb foul-mouthed rant]].
-->'''Zhou Yuzhu:''' I want every ''fucking cop''... in this ''fucking city''... after that '''[[SuddenlyShouting FUCKING BASTARD]]'''!!
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'': After getting a NewhartPhoneCall from Mother Miranda apparently warning her that [[IWantThemAlive they need Ethan alive for the "ceremony"]], Lady Dimitrescu calmly hangs up... [[MoodSwinger then immediately and abruptly]] knocks over her vanity in a rage, storming off and vowing revenge on Ethan for [[spoiler: killing her "daughters".]]
-->'''Lady Dimitrescu:''' To hell with the ceremony! That man will ''pay'' for what he's done...
* ''VideoGame/LilGatorGame'': The legendary hero recruits Tony by showing him an innovative chess strategy.

* Done twice in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''; first by [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005968 Hussie]], then by [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5529 Jane]].
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Zeetha gleefully uses a table as a weapon during the nightly no weapons BarBrawl at Mamma Gkika's by flipping it into some oncoming Jagermonsters:
-->'''Zeetha:''' ''That's'' not a weapon! That's a ''table!''
* Frank in ''Webcomic/NewSchoolKids'' flips the table during a bad game of "Trevopoly."

* 'Death's Nuzlocke' on the [[Webcomic/NuzlockeComics Nuzlocke forums]] has an... interesting variant on the concept [[http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/072/4/6/death__s_hg_ss_nuzlocke_pg_33_by_protocol00-d4snked.png here.]]
* ''Webcomic/PvP'''s Francis ''tries'' to flip a table once [[http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2011/03/20/unfit-of-anger but fails]]. In [[http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2012/06/28/riposte another strip]] he suggests it as an alternative to the conversation he and his on-and-off girlfriend Marcy are having.
* Played for laughs in ''WebComic/{{Shortpacked}}'' when Galasso resurrects the historical Jesus Christ. He tries flipping one of the toy store tables, but finds they're a lot heavier than they used to be. Leslie, who has [[{{Gayngst}} issues]] [[ComingOutStory with religion]], ends up helping him.

* In [[http://existentialcomics.com/ Existential Comics]], whenever the philosophers have game nights and Karl Marx happens to be there he has a habit of flipping over the table and yelling "Revolution!" when he loses. Eventually they [[http://existentialcomics.com/comic/49 bolted it down.]]
* Discussed (sort of) in Webcomic/ASofterWorld:
-->If you don't have anything nice to say...[[http://asofterworld.com/index.php?id=586 flip a table.]][[note]][[AltText Fuck this table and fuck you!]][[/note]]
* Done in ''Webcomic/{{Consolers}}'', when Nintendo makes Creator/{{Rare}} turn ''[[VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures Dinosaur Planet]]'' into a ''VideoGame/StarFox'' game. Unlike most other examples here, it's not done out of rage, but rather as a reference to "Miyamoto upending the table" mentioned above.
** Done later with Taito flipping her work desk in rage after Square Enix gives her too much work - the desk breaks open the door and hits Square Enix.
* ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'': If Destania's reaction [[spoiler: to finding out that the Blunt Object Brigade ''didn't'' kill Abel]] is any indication, creatures like demons and cubi are capable of not just flipping tables, but ''solid oak tables'' at that.
** Also, Pip is losing [[http://dmfa.katbox.net/comic/1665-the-only-winning-move/ at chess]].

* Table-flipping has been taken to new heights with the [[Franchise/TouhouProject Kaguya]] [[http://www.walfas.org/?p=1133#more-1133 Table Flipping RPG.]] It was originally a simple flash animation on Walfas, but was turned into a game. Kaguya's Five Impossible Tasks just became six, with the goal of Rebirth requiring, by most estimates, several thousand times the age of the universe to accomplish. Strangely, through several patches and even ''DividingByZero'', obsessive players have already [[http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/4788/kaguyadividedbyzero.jpg achieved this]].

* Creator/{{Nigahiga}}: "I spilled table [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu_fNTNbhwE#t=0m02s all over my liquids!]]"

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' has a card called [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Flipping_the_Table "Flipping the Table."]] In one episode, used by Hayato's (Chumley in the dub) father who (in the Japanese version, at least) was a substantial drunkard and owns a sake company (in the dub, he just owns a hot sauce company). When played, a giant table does invariably appear and Hayato's father does overturn it fairly violently.
* Referred to in two of the ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' {{Non Serial Movie}}s. In ''Slayers: Gorgeous'', Lina and Naga are engaged in yet another duel of spells, and Lina has cast a spell that, by way of a side effect, froze the surface of a nearby pond; Naga retaliates by summoning up an earth golem and having it perform a ''chabudai-gaeshi'' with the sheet of ice -- it flips through the air and almost crushes Lina. In ''"Slayers: Great"'', while engaged in a battle that parodies the SuperRobot genre, Naga purposely freezes a river the two are duelling near and uses her giant golem to flip the ice sheet to knock Lina's giant golem off of her feet.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Shikamaru Nara gets mentally and verbally probed by his father Shikaku during a game of shogi after [[spoiler:Shikamaru's sensei, Asuma, is killed]]. Shikamaru finally snaps and flips the shogi board with a well-placed backhand.
* In ''Manga/MamotteShugogetten'', Tasuke does this in one episode in order to get Shao [[ItMakesSenseInContext to think of him as a jerk in order to help her.]]
* In the ''[[Anime/MazingerZ Mazinkaiser]]'' [[Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}} movie]], Boss insists on Flipping the Table before revealing where he hid the Kaiser Pilder, much to Kouji's confusion.
* Kyouya flips the table on Tamaki (amoung other things) on ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' when Tamaki jokes that losing claim to his father's company would give him time for more interesting things. As third in line in his family, Kyouya is disgusted Tamaki is so close to having it all and is not willing to fight for it. Tamaki counters that Kyouya is just projecting his frustrations on Tamaki and is mad that ''he'' isn't fighting for ''his'' father's company.
* The second episode of ''Anime/PandaZ'' is made entirely of Talon, the main character, and his aged grandfather sitting down to a healthy meal of batteries (let's all use them properly). Talon tries various utensils to eat the batteries (fork, knife, screwdriver, scissors, etc.), but fails each time, gets frustrated and angrily knocks the table over. After several of these, Panjii gets up, picks up another fully set table from offscreen, sets it down where the original table was, and ''flips the new one over himself.''
* Early in ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' Kyo upends a table during a heated exchange with Yuki... and unintentionally hits Tohru in the head with it. Then we find out why you [[BewareTheNiceOnes don't anger Yuki]]...
* Used seriously in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', against BigBad Fate Averruncus.

* In ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'', Tomoki sometimes does this when he's frustrated with the angeloids shenanigans (usually Ikaros'), such as when Ikaros failed to affect a smile or when the angeloids decided to make an entrance in the roof of his house.
* Referenced by Death in the final episodes of ''Manga/SoulEater'' when he flips over [[spoiler: Arachnia's fortress while piloting ''Death City transformed into a GiantMecha'']]!
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' Egypt [[http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af57/ohthederp/flippingtables.jpg flips tables.]]
* Stocking of ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' has this reaction to the [[spoiler:Demon Sisters]] [[BerserkButton calling her fat]]. She surprises even her usually more hot-blooded sister, Panty.
-->''"THAT WAS OVER [[MediumAwareness TWO EPISODES AGO]]!"''
* Shizuo Heiwajima of ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' has an infamous habit of flipping and tossing the nearest 400-pound object whenever he gets angry. Tables are not excluded.
* In ''Manga/PsychicSquad'', BABEL has different interview rooms specially designed for different situations. The "Gift of Children" arc shows one for talking to an esper-hater if their child awakens as an esper. It includes a tea table specifically so the parent can flip it if they get angry.
* Done hilariously in ''Manga/{{magico}}'' by a samurai when he finds out that her wife had been lying about her BWH measurements.
* ''Manga/HaruhiChan'' had this in episode 3, which is Achakura's first episode. When Achakura is given a doggie dish, the doggie dish appears to contain dog food. Nagato thinks it's a joke and proceeds to give real food to Achakura in said doggie dish. Achakura's response? She '''flips''' the dish. Achakura acually does this with every other food Nagato gives her.
* Flipping the (traditional) mahjong table seems to be a RunningGag in ''Anime/LegendaryGamblerTetsuya''. Tetsuya does it the first time he is pwned by Boshu, then when Tetsuya [[spoiler:get rid of the bamboo-backed mahjong tiles and change the set to plastic ones to deny Innami's heightened sense]], and then when Danchi is pwned by Tetsuya. Everytime it happens, it's epic.
* A slightly drunk Itsuwa does this in ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex''. To Tatemiya, who had just played a prank on her regarding her crush on Touma. She flipped it so hard it struck him in the face and sent him flying out of the room. Everyone else wisely decides to stay out of Itsuwa's way after this.
* One of the later chapters of ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'' (Baki: Son of Ogre) the protagonist Hanma Baki is engaging his father in a battle of minds where both try to catch the other in their illusions. This goes as far as the two of them having an imaginary dinner at an imaginary table. Baki eventually wins this battle when he flips the table and gets his father to try to catch it thus proving that the latter was deceived by the vividness of Baki’s illusion.
* ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' episode, 'War of the Worlds' has one rough-tough teacher insult and aggravate Mugen into learning how to read. In a semi-quiz, Mugen gets a character wrong, and gets slapped and yelled at - as a result of which, Mugen flips the table sitting between him and his teacher, shouting, "This sucks!!"
* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in the ''Anime/LupinIIIPilotFilm'', but when Lupin "beats" Inspector Zenigata in Shogi, the detective knocks everything off his desk.
* {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', when Koro-sensei volunteers to coach his students for an upcoming baseball exhibition match. He brings along a miniature table stocked with food for the express purpose of flipping it over, thus achieving his dream of acting like one of those "hot-blooded coaches you find in sports series".

* This is a running gag with Keiichi Hiiragi in ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody''.
* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. Mimi does this for a DitchTheBodyguards ploy. She kicks over the chess set they were just playing while apparently TantrumThrowing over not being allowed outside, then when Hilshire and Triela get down on the floor to pick up the pieces she handcuffs them together and flees.

* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': In Season 2 episode 7, Tok Aba flips the table he is cutting vegetables on in frustration when he discovers that Fang doesn't know why [[spoiler:Ochobot short-circuits in front of him]].

* Happens once or twice in ComicStrip/{{Mafalda}}, but with chess boards instead of tables.
* In the first story arc of the ''ComicBook/AdventureTime'' comics, Finn [[InvokedTrope builds a table out of sand just so he can flip it over]]. He tries flipping over a real table in the second story arc, [[SubvertedTrope only to discover it's nailed to the floor]].
* Comicbook/{{Deadpool}} somehow managed to flip ''Comicbook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool'''s [[TheChessmaster mental chessboard]] when he realized that the girl is also a FourthWallObserver so he can make the encounter a meta-off instead of a fight (which he was losing).
* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': Stephanie flipped the end table the phone was on when it kept ringing shortly after she and her mother learned of her father's supposed death. She was already upset ''because'' they were grieving him despite his criminal past and what a poor father and husband he'd been and was set off by the disruption.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11511964/1/Harry-and-Sodor-The-Magic-of-Normality Harry and Sodor - The Magic of Normality]]'' Harry flips over Minister Shacklebolt's desk when the latter states that his term in office will be limited unless he chucks Harry into [[ExtranormalPrison Azkaban]].
* An embittered Lieutenant Kim does this in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' fic "The Flux of Mortal Things". B'Elanna ends up headbutting him and they both get thrown into the brig.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'', after Lightning's tire blows out, one of his pit crew members flips a stack of tires over in frustration.

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* In ''Film/DieHard'', this is how [[TheDragon Karl]] responds to learning about the death of his brother Tony (courtesy of [[CowboyCop John McClane]]).
* In ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'', the newly married Milly flips the table her uncivilized brothers-in-law are sitting at after witnessing their disgusting table manners.

* [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Jules]] does this early in ''Film/PulpFiction'', at the beginning of the [[MemeticMutation famous "what?" exchange]].
* In the first ''Film/{{Thor}}'' film, Odin berates Thor for his belligerence and withholds his Kingship. Thor does ''not'' take this well. The scene then immediately cuts to him flipping over an entire banquet table in frustration.
* Done by Cal in ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' while he's having breakfast with Rose, in response to one of her snark remarks regarding how she can't do anything on her own without his man servant spying on her.
* Happens in ''Film/TakeShelter'' during a fight between the hero and his fellow colleague.
* ''Film/TheManFromUNCLE2015''. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are [[EnemyMine ordered by their respective superiors to work together]]. They leave them in a cafe to 'get acquainted', and the two agents promptly try to find each other's BerserkButton. Solo wins, as shown when Kuryakin reaches this trope and storms off.
* In ''Film/KnivesOut'', Harlan does this to give Marta a tough time while the two of them are playing ''TabletopGame/{{Go}}''. She finds it ActuallyPrettyFunny and is laughing about him being a SoreLoser.

* ''Film/{{Mercenaries}}'': During the poker game in the motor pool, Raven kicks the table over to prevent Grigori from getting a clear shot at her while she jumps him.

* In ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', Drinian and Bern do this to Gumpas' table, to get his attention.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Prince Aegon Targaryen kicks over the cyvasse table when Tyrion Lannister points out a few flaws in his RightfulKingReturns plan, then demands that Tryion pick up the mess. Tryion can't help being reminded of RoyalBrat Joffrey, who turned out to be TheCaligula once he took the throne. It's a sign that the plan to raise Aegon as ModestRoyalty, so he'll empathize with the common people, might have a few flaws.
* ''Literature/{{Rogue}}'': At a birthday party in fourth grade, Kiara lost her temper from all the other kids picking on her and flipped the table with the cake on it. She wasn't invited to any more birthday parties after that.

* ''Series/ThirtyRock'':
** ''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYW5E5TI4rw Where's my mac and cheese?]]"'' in "Sandwich Day,"
** Later parodied when Josh tries to storm out in disgust. He's unable to overturn the table, and Lemon urges the other writers to help him.

* On ''Series/{{Glee}}'' in 'The Sue Sylvester Shuffle' coach Beiste flips a table after losing a game
* In ''Series/LittleBritain'', Marjorie (the leader of Fat Fighters diet class) enters to find the table laid out for an engagement party, complete with cakes, mini-chipolatas, and vol-au-vents. Not only is the place abound with really fattening food ("We did vol-au-vents last week, have I been wasting my time?"), but Marjorie is the only person not to be invited. She violently overturns the table as she leaves.
* On ''Series/ManVFood'' Adam Richman flipped a table after winning a spicy food challenge.
* Teresa Giudice from ''Series/TheRealHousewives'' ''of New Jersey''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWJZwM6msU4 right here.]]
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Emma is on a date with the person she needs to put in jail, and the guy flips the table on her.
* On ''Series/{{Bottom}}'', a seemingly "innocent" game of Chess led to Eddie Hitler flipping the table onto Richie's feet.
* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'': In "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother", Korsak and Frost attempt to arrest a suspect at an underground gambling club. He flips the table as part of his attempt to escape.
* ''Series/TheColbertReport'' introduced ''Stephen Colbert's Super Coin Toss'', a board game with an elaborate set-up (actually a Mouse Trap board with a few other things added on it) and rules. The first player -- who would be the winner of the game -- is determined by flipping the "Medallion of Fate". When Stephen loses the toss to young Brandon, he does this.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Stephanie flipped the end table the phone was on when it kept ringing shortly after she and her mother learned of her father's supposed death. She was already upset ''because'' they were grieving him despite his criminal past and what a poor father and husband he'd been and was set off by the disruption.

** In Team Fortress 2 proper, The Heavy has a taunt much like this, although he doesn't do it out of rage, and there are no board games on the table (instead there being some soup and other cooking objects).

* In ''Manga/KyojinNoHoshi (Star of the Giants)]]'', an old-fashioned father would flip over the family dinner table whenever he was morally outraged, ''while they were eating''; the dinner would be subsequently ruined. Several subsequent occurrences of Flipping the Table were direct references to this scene, which appeared in the series' closing-credits montage; after undergoing MemeticMutation, Flipping the Table became part of the visual meme-pool of Japanese comedy in general.

* Literature/TheBible: Jesus did this with a marble table in the temple with the moneychangers, making this trope OlderThanFeudalism.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'': After getting a NewhartPhoneCall from Mother Miranda apparently warning her that they need Ethan alive for the "ceremony", Lady Dimitrescu calmly hangs up... [[MoodSwinger then immediately and abruptly]] knocks over her vanity in a rage, storming off and vowing revenge on Ethan for [[spoiler: killing her "daughters".]]

* In ''[[Creator/IkkiKajiwara Kyojin no Hoshi (Star of the Giants)]]'', an old-fashioned father would flip over the family dinner table whenever he was morally outraged, ''while they were eating''; the dinner would be subsequently ruined. Several subsequent occurrences of Flipping the Table were direct references to this scene, which appeared in the series' closing-credits montage; after undergoing MemeticMutation, Flipping the Table became part of the visual meme-pool of Japanese comedy in general.