History Main / RainOfSomethingUnusual

-->If toads and dead snakes rain from the sky
Then without doubt\\
Is she who summons close\\

And [[DetonationMoon the moon fell from the sky]], it rained mackerel, it rained trout

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W5QBGxuhbo A commericial for GE has it raining octopuses.]]

->"''My new invention will turn this rain into jellybeans!''"

* ''Manga/{{Jagaaaaaan}}'': The plot kick-starts when all of a sudden UncannyValley amphibians starts raining down over the city from a clear sky.

* One object contained by the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' is a bowl that, when filled with a liquid, causes a rainstorm of that liquid to take place which then also causes irregular plant growth that varies depending on what the liquid was. It refuses to make a rainstorm of elemental mercury though.

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow'', Huck disposes of a giant potato by sending it into orbit on a rocket. At the end, the rocket explodes and it rains potato chips.

* ''Literature/TheBible'', Literature/BookOfExodus:
** In (Exodus 16) the Hebrews subsisted on a bread-like substance that rained from the heavens while they wandered the desert. They called it manna (literally "what is it?") so it must have been pretty nondescript as a foodstuff. It was said to taste like honey cake, though, so basically a rain of donuts.
** One of the Ten Plagues of Egypt was a rain of frogs.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': In the ''Elder Evils'' sourcebook, Leviathan and Zargon have the Eerie Weather sign, which causes cataclysmic storms, droughts, and other extreme weather. At worst, it creates a Strange Storm, which in Leviathan's case can be blood, frogs, acidic rain, or flaming hail, and in Zargon's case is corrosive slime.

* ''Film/BedtimeStories'': The children that Skeeter is telling a story to interrupt his tale with gumball rain. Because the stories supposedly comes to life, Skeeter is caught in the middle of a gumball rainfall when he's driving home. The camera reveals that it's the result of a gumball lorry crashing into a pillar on the road above him.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': One episode features a WeatherControlMachine being used by a reporter to make it snow prematurely, but the snowmen created with the snow developed sapience and became hostile because it was fueled by [[GrimyWater toxic water]]. One attempt to shut the machine off made it rain frogs.

* ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'': In one episode, Timmy's guilty conscience manifests itself in the form of "[[TalkingInYourSleep sleep-wishing]]". One such sleep-wish is for it to be raining ducks.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': One episode features a WeatherControlMachine being used by a reporter to make it snow prematurely, but the snowmen created by it develop sapience and become hostile because it was fueled by toxic water. One attempt to shut the machine off makes it rain frogs.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': The aptly named Weather Report has a power that allows him to control the weather. At one point, he manipulates the winds such that it makes it rain poison dart frogs.

* ''VideoGame/{{Oblivion}}'': In one quest, you help Sheogorath the Madgod with an elaborate prank by fulfilling stages of a prophecy, in order to convince some villagers that the world is about to end. At the end of the quest, Sheogorath summons a rain of burning dogs, the final sign that the prophecy is coming true.

* In ''D&D: Dragonshard'', it rains crystals. These are collected as a resource.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': The aptly named Weather Report has a power that allows him to control the weather. At one point he makes it rain poison arrow frogs, as it has rained frogs in the past.

[[caption-width-right:250:A flash frog warning is in effect for the area.]]

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': In the Q Continuum trilogy, Q and three other SufficientlyAdvancedAliens are testing the [=T'Kon=] empire. Q is allowed to test them first, and decides to "Start with something silly and see where it goes from there", and makes it rain fruit on the [=T'Kon=] capital to see how the people react to it.
* ''Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes'': The short story "Rainy Season" has a young husband and wife rent a vacation home in the small town of Willow, Maine, only to discover that [[spoiler:every seven years, the town suffers a rain of grotesque black toads with razor-sharp teeth, which devour a visiting couple before melting away in the daylight; this sacrifice is what keeps the town prosperous]].
* Creator/JohnHodgman's ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire'' has a subplot a rivalry between Milwaukee, WI, and Richmond, VA for the title of Strange Rain Capital of the United States, with both towns bringing in specialist weathermen to ensure the most delightful precipitation possible, like jelly beans and butterflies. This culminates in [[spoiler: the Richmond weatherman somehow cursing Milwaukee to be destroyed under a deluge of human skulls.]]

* Music/TomWaits' song "Earth Died Screaming" (off of ''Music/BoneMachine'') uses this as an omen of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

* ''Manga/{{Gunnm}}'': The conclusion of volume 6 of ''Battle Angel Alita'' has Alita and Figure Four saved from dehydration, starvation and overheating in the desert by a rain of fish.