History Main / DroppedGlasses

** In "[[Recap/RugratsS2E16ChuckieLosesHisGlassesChuckieGetsSkunked Chuckie Loses His Glasses]]", Angelica steals Chuckie's glasses during a game of hide and seek when he was supposed to count, causing him to wander around and get lost. She gets some LaserGuidedKarma by the end though. She periodically put on his glasses, but his eyesight was so terrible, doing distorted her vision to the point where she got dizzy and eventually [[VomitIndiscretionShot threw up.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'': In "[[Recap/RugratsS2E16ChuckieLosesHisGlassesChuckieGetsSkunked Chuckie Loses His Glasses]]", Angelica steals Chuckie’s glasses during a game of hide and seek when he was supposed to count, causing him to wander around and get lost. She gets some LaserGuidedKarma by the end though. She periodically put on his glasses, but his eyesight was so terrible, doing distorted her vision to the point where she got dizzy and eventually [[VomitIndiscretionShot threw up.]]

* This was WesternAnimation/MrMagoo's main gimmick. Almost every episode, he'd lose his glasses and go through all kinds of shenanigans blissfully unaware that anything is wrong because he can't see a thing.

* ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'': This happens to Brook in "Phantom of the Auditorium" when her and Zeke take an elevator underneath the stage. Zeke then proceeds to steal her glasses and run off.

--->"That's not fair. That's not fair at all. There was time now..."

TruthInTelevision: Losing your spectacles can be a severe problem, as anyone who has really bad eyesight will testify. Although it's unlikely for the lens of glasses to be crushed when stepped on: in most cases, the frame will warp and a lens might pop out, but both are easily fixable on the spot. Despite the fact that [[BrandNameTakeover they are still called GLASSes]], these days lenses are made from polymers (typically a form of polycarbonate) that are lighter and less likely to break (although more prone to scratches[[note]]Which is actually less of a problem than it would seem, as minor, or even moderate, scratches on the surface of the lens itself are ''extremely'' far out of focus, and, thus, almost invisible, when the glasses are actually being worn.[[/note]]). [[RealityIsUnrealistic Surprisingly, losing the single screw holding a lens in place (which, in real life, is far far harder to find and repair on the spot, mainly because said screw is tiny) is rarely done on TV]].

* In ''TheLadyInTheCarWithGlassesAndAGun'', Dany drops her glasses to the floor when she gets attacked from behind in the restroom near a diner. She spends the rest of the movie with one lense shattered

%%* Happens regularly to Gus in ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': In "Chuckie Loses His Glasses", Angelica steals Chuckie’s glasses during a game of hide and seek when he was supposed to count, causing him to wander around and get lost. She gets some LaserGuidedKarma by the end though. She periodically put on his glasses, but his eyesight was so terrible, doing distorted her vision to the point where she got dizzy and eventually [[VomitIndiscretionShot threw up.]]

* Averted in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. Yuki Nagato does not need new glasses after they break, and decides to simply go without them.

* In ‘’Film/The Lady In the Car with Glasses and a Gun’’ Dany drops her glasses to the floor when she gets attacked from behind in the restroom near a diner. She spends the rest of the movie with one lense shattered

* When the plane wrecks early in ''Literature/DrFranklinsIsland'', Semi loses her glasses and contacts and has to live in a blur, constantly afraid that she's being a drain on her companions, and needing things at a distance described to her. It reaches the verge of making her an UnreliableNarrator. [[spoiler: When [[InvoluntaryTransformation transformed]], her eyesight improves.]]

* PlayedForDrama in ''ComicBook/MarshalBass'', when during the climactic battle of volume 6, [[CulturedBadass the Professor]] unknowingly [[KillTheOnesYouLove shoots and kills his two best friends]] after losing his glasses.

* PlayedForDrama in ''ComicBook/MarshalBass'', when during the climactic battle of volume 6, [[CulturedBadass the Professor]] unknowingly shoots and kills his two best friends after losing his glasses.

->''"My glasses! I can't see without my glasses!"''
-->-- '''Velma''', ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou''