History Main / InCaseOfXBreakGlass

* WebVideo/RedLetterMedia: After a ''WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst'' episode in which Creator/MaxLandis made a guest appearance and brought ''Double Down'', a Creator/NeilBreen film, as one of the three movies to review, the RLM crew kept another Breen film under a glass container in the studio marked with "In Case of Max Landis, Break Glass." After sexual assault allegations were leveled at Landis, the RLM channel [[MissingEpisode de-listed]] ''Double Down'', and the glass case was quietly relabeled "In Case of Emergency, Break Glass." The crew eventually did break the glass and watch the film when another film they had scheduled to review proved unwatchable.

* A host segment from the ''WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw'' show has the show's cast as volunteer firemen. Blabber is seen destroying windows with an axe. When Snooper asks what he's doing, Blabber replies "The sign says '[[LiteralMinded In case of fire, break glass,]]' Snoop!"

* In ''Literature/SonicTheHedgehogInCastleRobotnik'' after a power-cut Sonic and Tails are stuck in an Elevator and after ages of trying to prize off the emergency hatch with their hands they notice a box with a spanner in it designed to remove the bolts fixing the hatch closed.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Bossy Boots", after Mr. Krabs passes out after hearing SpongeBob "fire" Pearl, [=SpongeBob=] breaks an emergency case containing a dollar bill to wave under Mr. Krabs' nose like smelling salts.

--->'''Mr. Krabs:''' Is that a twenty?

* WebVideo/RedLetterMedia: After a ''WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst'' episode in which Creator/MaxLandis made a guest appearance to brought ''Double Down'', a Creator/NeilBreen film, as one of the three movies to review, the RLM crew kept another Breen film under a glass container in the studio marked with "In Case of Max Landis, Break Glass." After sexual assault allegations were leveled at Landis, the RLM channel [[MissingEpisode de-listed]] ''Double Down'', and the glass case was quietly relabeled "In Case of Emergency, Break Glass."

* In Europe, Australia and several other countries, fire alarm break-glass "call points" are still in wide use, designed so a small button right behind the glass will be pressed when the glass is smashed, sounding the alarm.
** In the United States and Canada, fire alarm break-glass pull stations are also available as a common option for fire alarm systems, albeit not as much as they were in the past. Simplex even makes a pull station that requires a glass pane be shattered with the attached hammer before reaching the lever (Simplex's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeWgUT6-Zpg older version of this]] from TheSeventies and [[TheEighties 80s]] was designed so the frame holding the glass pane in place could swing down among the glass being broken, making it easier to access the lever without worry of broken glass shards.) In other cases, a break-glass cover can be installed over an existing pull station for additional coverage.

** And finally, "To Hare Is Human." Bugs has another mounted box around his bed marked ''In case of coyote, break glass.'' Inside the box is a BananaPeel, which he throws in front of the ladder that serves as the stairway to his hole. Once the coyote steps on the peel, his next stop is the Coyote Disposal and a date with gravity.

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* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Buffy's high school actually had a fire axe in one of these emergency glass cases by the door of the school. In the episode "School Hard", Spike actually broke the glass with *the face* of one of his own minions in order to get the axe.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein", when a group of nuns get word of Peter entering a synagogue, they rush toward a case reading "In Case Of Heresy, Break Glass" and smash it to reveal rulers behind it.

* In WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Chester]] [[BigBad V]] has a box next to the [[spoiler:FLDSMDFR]] that reads IN CASE PLAN FAILS BREAK GLASS. That box contains a large hammer used to.... break the glass containing the [[spoiler:FLDSMDFR]] so he can grab it and escape.

-->'''Eddy:''' Bingo! ''(breaks the glass with the tiny hammer'') My bro's always prepared! ''(proceeds to reach for...a peanut; Eddy starts looking confused)'' A peanut?

** Fortunately, the peanut contained the key to Eddy's Brother's car, which the Eds promptly used to escape from the Cul-De-Sac. Sort of.

* In ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', Buffy's high school actually had a fire axe in one of these emergency glass cases by the door of the school. In the episode "School Hard", Spike actually broke the glass with *the face* of one of his own minions in order to get the axe.

* In ''Buffy the vampire slayer'', Buffy's high school actually had a fire axe in one of these emergency glass cases by the door of the school. In the episode "School Hard", Spike actually broke the glass with *the face* of one of his own minions in order to get the axe.

** In ''Kitty Kornered'', Porky takes out a gun from behind glass when he thinks he's being attacked by martians. He [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by asking who put it there.

* And finally, "To Hare Is Human." Bugs has another mounted box around his bed marked ''In case of coyote, break glass.'' Inside the box is a BananaPeel, which he throws in front of the ladder that serves as the stairway to his hole. Once the coyote steps on the peel, his next stop is the Coyote Disposal and a date with gravity.