History Main / FlippingTheTable

** In the last episode Matt flips over a table covered in playing cards when he finally gets to 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.

* ''LightNovel/SeitokaiNoIchizon'': Ken upon hearing Kurumi say she didn't do anything wrong on the exams. She got two 25s and a 27.

* Teresa Giudice from ''Series/TheRealHousewives'' ''of New Jersey''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCet3ekQ0E right here.]]

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "Blood Ties", vampire Spike does this with the stone lid of a sarcophagus while arguing with Buffy.

* ''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.

* In ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder,'' Lord Hater flips over a fortune-teller's table to punctuate the following line:
-->'''Lord Hater:''' [[IResembleThatRemark I AM NOT EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE!]]

-->'''Lord Hater:''' [[IResembleThat Remark I AM NOT EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE!]]

* Shizuo Heiwajima of ''{{==LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' has an infamous habit of flipping and tossing the nearest 400-pound object whenever he gets angry. Tables are not excluded.

* An instance of this occurs in ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' during the episode "[[Recap/RWBYV6E4SoThatsHowItIs So That's How It Is]], when Salem grills her subordinates in the meeting hall over their failure to retrieve the Relic of Knowledge and destroy Haven Academy. When Hazel at first tries to justify their failure by pointing out that the citizens of Menagerie had divided their forces, then tries to take full responsibility, Salem loses her patience. She flips the massive conference table and advances on Hazel, berating Hazel for taking responsibility when they all know full well that Cinder doomed the mission to failure by prioritizing her lust for power over Salem's wishes.

* In the first episode of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Ichigo flips a table after hearing Rukia's explanation of [[{{Shinigami}} Soul Reapers]]. The manga {{lampshades}} this: a note taped to the table reads "[[DontTryThisAtHome CAUTION: For use in sight gags only!]]"

* Shizuo Heiwajima of ''{{LightNovel/Durarara}}'' has an infamous habit of flipping and tossing the nearest 400-pound object whenever he gets angry. Tables are not excluded.
* In ''Manga/ZettaiKarenChildren'', 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.

* Table-flipping has been taken to new heights with the [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} 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]].

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''

* Used seriously in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', against BigBad Fate Averruncus.

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' Egypt [[http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af57/ohthederp/flippingtables.jpg flips tables.]]

* Happens in the first verse of the Pet Shop Boys song "West End Girls"

* This can be done with any BoardGame as a method of {{Rage Quit}}ting, as seen on the image for that page.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'' had Queen Maeve doing this (and the table, given she has super strength) once her girlfriend decides to break up with her.

See also TantrumThrowing. If the action taking place at the table is a game of some sort, Flipping the Table often accompanies a RageQuit, or more general ScrewThisImOuttaHere

* The video for Music/DuranDuran's ''Hungry Like The Wolf'' has the lead singer flip over a table in a restaurant. This is due mostly to sexual urges than anger, however.

* Done by Cal in ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' while he's having breakfast with Rose in response to one of her snark remarks regarding how he has his man servant spy on her everywhere she goes.

* In ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Gaston flips over a table in the middle of a chess game he's playing during his VillainSong. Probably because [[BookDumb he was losing]]. That, and [[MemeticMutation nobody flips tables like Gaston]].

* Captain Hook in ''Disney/PeterPan'' does this when he reminds Smee about the time Peter chopped off his hand.

* Mentioned in the ''[[Disney/{{Frozen}} Let It Go]]'' song parody ''[[https://youtu.be/qOaqiCBum2w Fuck It All]]''.

->'''Dave''': Whoa, the Big Guy made a dud call? Uh oh...\\
'''Sara''': Please don't flip the table, Brian. Please don't flip the table.\\
'''Brian''': I'm... trying really hard not to, Sara, but... RAAAAAARRRGH!

-->Buy as much as you want! Buy as much as you're able!
-->Just don't let Jesus in, or He'll start flippin' tables!

-->'''Amber:''' How many tables have ''you'' rage-flipped in public today?
-->'''Danny:''' You're not gonna convince me you're a bad person by listing stuff Jesus Christ did.

--> '''Matt:''' ''*flips table*''
--> '''Alex:''' Feel better?
--> '''Matt:''' ''*visibly relaxed*'' Sooo much better.

--> '''Boomstick:''' Somebody gimme a [[PrecisionFStrike motherfuckin']] table to flip!!!

-->'''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.]''

-->'''Ruby:''' "I AM AN ETERNAL FLAME, BABY!!"

* In ''Anime/StarOfTheGiants'', 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.

* Meta example: Creator/{{Nintendo}} producer Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto is known within the company for (metaphorically) "upending the table" on projects which he was unsatisfied with, like [[https://web.archive.org/web/20060928211847/http://www.watch.impress.co.jp:80/game/docs/20040325/zelda06.htm the father]] in ''Manga/{{Star of the Giants}}''. The phrase has since become a minor meme to the fanbase.