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Mind Your Step is about faulty stairs. Stepping on a loose plank that hits you falls under Rake Take.
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* ''Theatre/PeterPanGoesWrong'': When Trevor (as Peter Pan) steps on to the table, he steps on a loose plank which flips up and hits him the face, knocking him out.
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* In [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]] special ''Film/AMuppetFamilyChristmas'', there's a running gag about an icy patch in front of the door. "Careful of the icy patch!" greets each new visitor - after they've already slipped.
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* In ''Series/SesameStreet'', Maria climbs into Oscar's trash can to look for baby Natasha. Oscar tells her to count twenty steps down in the dark, but there is a crash on the last step. Oscar [[NowYouTellMe then tells her]] that the step is broken.
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* In ''Series/SesameStreet'', Maria climbs into Oscar's trash can to look for baby Natasha. Oscar tells her to count twenty steps down in the dark, but there is a crash on the last step. Oscar [[NowYouTellMe then tells her]] that the step is broken.
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* In ''Series/SesameStreet'', Maria climbs into Oscar's trash can to look for baby Natasha. Oscar tells her to count twenty steps down in the dark, but there is a crash on the last step. Oscar [[NowYouTellMe then tells her her]] that the step is broken.
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* In ''Film/TheScarletClaw'', Dr. Watson's attempt to come to Holmes' aid comes unstuck when he puts his foot through a step on a rickety staircase; giving away his presence.
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* In ''Film/SnuffMovie'', Leon tells the actors not to wander into the west of wing of the house, as the floors are rotten and unstable. Matt disregards this and starts down the stairs, only to immediately put his foot through one. Leon then says that from now on he intends his words to be taken seriously.
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* In ''Film/SnuffMovie'', Leon tells the actors not to wander into the west of wing of the house, as the floors are rotten and unstable. Matt disregards this and starts down the stairs, only to immediately [[FloorboardFailure put his foot through one.one]]. Leon then says that from now on he intends his words to be taken seriously.
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* ''Film/CradleOfFear'': When Sophie and Emma are sneaking into the old man's house, Sophie almost trips over a loose board on the stairs. When she flees the bedroom, she trips over this same loose board, slams her head into the wall and knocks herself out.
* Twice in ''Film/DontBreathe'' a squeaky floorboard in the living room gives away the intruders' location to the Blind Man.
* In [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]] special ''Film/AMuppetFamilyChristmas'', there's a running gag about an icy patch in front of the door. "Careful of the icy patch!" greets each new visitor - after they've already slipped.
* In ''Film/SnuffMovie'', Leon tells the actors not to wander into the west of wing of the house, as the floors are rotten and unstable. Matt disregards this and starts down the stairs, only to immediately put his foot through one. Leon then says that from now on he intends his words to be taken seriously.
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* Twice in ''Film/DontBreathe'' a squeaky floorboard in the living room gives away the intruders' location to the Blind Man.
* In ''Film/SnuffMovie'', Leon tells the actors not to wander into the west of wing of the house, as the floors are rotten and unstable. Matt disregards this and starts down the stairs, only to immediately put his foot through one. Leon then says that from now on he intends his words to be taken seriously.
* ''Film/CradleOfFear'': When Sophie and Emma are sneaking into the old man's house, Sophie almost trips over a loose board on the stairs. When she flees the bedroom, she trips over this same loose board, slams her head into the wall and knocks herself out.
* In ''Film/SnuffMovie'', Leon tells the actors not to wander into the west of wing of the house, as the floors are rotten and unstable. Matt disregards this and starts down the stairs, only to immediately put his foot through one. Leon then says that from now on he intends his words to be taken seriously.
* ''Film/CradleOfFear'': When Sophie and Emma are sneaking into the old man's house, Sophie almost trips over a loose board on the stairs. When she flees the bedroom, she trips over this same loose board, slams her head into the wall and knocks herself out.
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* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': Belgarath's MageTower has one loose step, which he's been warning people to step over for [[TimeAbyss thousands of years]]. Garion finally fixes it and finds a diamond underneath, reminding Belgarath that he'd put it there to see how long it would take to grind down to dust, then promptly forgotten. By then, he's so used to the loose step that he puts the diamond back.
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'', Gerard keeps insisting that there is a loose step on the stairs to the Pattern Room. No one else ever seems to notice it. Gerard is TheBigGuy, literally as well as figuratively, so it's possible that the stair only squeaks under his greater weight. He gets annoyed enough by it that he leaves a note pinned to it with a dagger that says "This one, damn it!" but even knowing which one it is, nobody can find anything wrong with it.
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'', Gerard keeps insisting that there is a loose step on the stairs to the Pattern Room. No one else ever seems to notice it. Gerard is TheBigGuy, literally as well as figuratively, so it's possible that the stair only squeaks under his greater weight. He gets annoyed enough by it that he leaves a note pinned to it with a dagger that says "This one, damn it!" but even knowing which one it is, nobody can find anything wrong with it.
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* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'', Gerard keeps insisting that there is a loose step on the stairs to the Pattern Room. No one else ever seems to notice it. Gerard is TheBigGuy, literally as well as figuratively, so it's possible that the stair only squeaks under his greater weight. He gets annoyed enough by it that he leaves a note pinned to it with a dagger that says "This one, damn it!" but even knowing which one it is, nobody can find anything wrong with it.
* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': Belgarath's MageTower has one loose step, which he's been warning people to step over for [[TimeAbyss thousands of years]]. Garion finally fixes it and finds a diamond underneath, reminding Belgarath that he'd put it there to see how long it would take to grind down to dust, then promptly forgotten. By then, he's so used to the loose step that he puts the diamond back.
* In ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime'' one of the steps on stairs (not stairs on the steps) creaks and Charles Wallace uses that to signal to Meg that he wants a conference.
* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': Belgarath's MageTower has one loose step, which he's been warning people to step over for [[TimeAbyss thousands of years]]. Garion finally fixes it and finds a diamond underneath, reminding Belgarath that he'd put it there to see how long it would take to grind down to dust, then promptly forgotten. By then, he's so used to the loose step that he puts the diamond back.
* In ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime'' one of the steps on stairs (not stairs on the steps) creaks and Charles Wallace uses that to signal to Meg that he wants a conference.
* In ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime'' one of the steps on stairs (not stairs on the steps) creaks and Charles Wallace uses that to signal to Meg that he wants a conference.
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* In [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]] special ''Film/AMuppetFamilyChristmas'', there's a running gag about an icy patch in front of the door. "Careful of the icy patch!" greets each new visitor - after they've already slipped.
* The British one-off drama ''Number 27'' used this seriously as a kind of ChekhovsGun. One of the characters was an old lady who constantly complained that her landlord would never repair the broken step on the stairs up to her flat. The landlord himself forgot the broken step, tripped on it and broke his neck.
* The British one-off drama ''Number 27'' used this seriously as a kind of ChekhovsGun. One of the characters was an old lady who constantly complained that her landlord would never repair the broken step on the stairs up to her flat. The landlord himself forgot the broken step, tripped on it and broke his neck.
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* The broken step in the Dunphy house is a RunningGag in ''Series/ModernFamily''.
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* The loose floorboard in front of Parmenter's office was a RunningGag in ''Series/FTroop''.
* The loose floorboard in front of Parmenter's office was a RunningGag in ''Series/FTroop''; usually flipping up to smack Captain Parmenter in the face.
* The broken step in the Dunphy house is a RunningGag in ''Series/ModernFamily''.
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* The British one-off drama ''Number 27'' used this seriously as a kind of ChekhovsGun. One of the characters was an old lady who constantly complained that her landlord would never repair the broken step on the stairs up to her flat. The landlord himself forgot the broken step, tripped on it and broke his neck.
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** It's pretty much law in Homestuck that if there are stairs, someone WILL fall down them.
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* In the "Maw and Paw" cartoons, their front porch has a loose floorboard that regularly hits Paw (and ONLY Paw) in the face when he steps on it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}!''
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* In the ''{{Tintin}}'' album ''Recap/TintinTheCastafioreEmerald'', a broken stair in Marlinspike Hall puts Captain Haddock in a wheelchair after he forgets about it, while the repairman keeps procrastinating. At the end of the story, when he is out of the wheelchair and the stair is freshly repaired, he forgets about it again, steps on the still setting marble, and sends himself flying, undoing the repair in the process.
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* In the ''{{Tintin}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'' album ''Recap/TintinTheCastafioreEmerald'', a broken stair in Marlinspike Hall puts Captain Haddock in a wheelchair after he forgets about it, while the repairman keeps procrastinating. At the end of the story, when he is out of the wheelchair and the stair is freshly repaired, he forgets about it again, steps on the still setting marble, and sends himself flying, undoing the repair in the process.
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** In "The Witch's Curse", Robert Urich's character is laid up in a wheelchair because his stairs were being refinished and he forgot about it: falling down the stairs and fracturing his leg in multiple places.
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* ''Series/FatherBrown'': In "The Queen Bee", the VictimOfTheWeek is climbing a ladder when the top rung comes away and they fall off (non-fatally). It is later revealed that her son had sawn through the bottom rung as a practical joke: expecting for it snap as she stands on it and for her fall over. However, she placed the ladder upside down.
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* ''Film/CradleOfFear'': When Sophie and Emma are sneaking into the old man's house, Sophie almost trips over a loose board on the stairs. When she flees the bedroom, she trips over this same loose board, slams her head into the wall and knocks herself out.
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* In ''Film/SnuffMovie'', Leon tells the actors not to wander into the west of wing of the house. Matt disregards this and starts down the stairs, only to immediately put his foot through one. Leon then says that from now on he intends his words to be taken seriously.
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* In ''Film/SnuffMovie'', Leon tells the actors not to wander into the west of wing of the house.house, as the floors are rotten and unstable. Matt disregards this and starts down the stairs, only to immediately put his foot through one. Leon then says that from now on he intends his words to be taken seriously.
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* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', Belgarath has loose step on the stair to his tower. Turns out the reason is that he put a diamond under it, in order to see how long it took for it to be ground to dust. Throughout the books, everyone simply skips that step. At the end, when he's finally repairing the step, he remembers putting the diamond there and why. But because everyone always skipped over the stair, he never will find out how long it would take to grind it down.
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* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': Belgarath's MageTower has one loose step, which he's been warning people to step over for [[TimeAbyss thousands of years]]. Garion finally fixes it and finds a diamond underneath, reminding Belgarath has loose step on the stair to his tower. Turns out the reason is that he he'd put a diamond under it, in order it there to see how long it took for it to be ground to dust. Throughout the books, everyone simply skips that step. At the end, when he's finally repairing the step, he remembers putting the diamond there and why. But because everyone always skipped over the stair, he never will find out how long it would take to grind it down.down to dust, then promptly forgotten. By then, he's so used to the loose step that he puts the diamond back.
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-->'''Marley:''' [[StockScream YAAAAAAAAH-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOOEY!]]
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-->'''Marley:''' [[StockScream YAAAAAAAAH-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOOEY!]]
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-->'''Marley:'''first--!\\
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* In ''Film/SnuffFilm'', ''Film/SnuffMovie'', Leon tells the actors not to wander into the west of wing of the house. Matt disregards this and starts down the stairs, only to immediately put his foot through one. Leon then says that from now on he intends his words to be taken seriously.