History Main / PinballGag

* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': In "Alien", the alien spacecraft launches into space and ricochets off the planets of the solar system, with pinball sounds as it does so. All the planets it hits end up with rings of stars circling around them (except for Saturn, the one planet it doesn't hit - it had a ring already).

Most frequently seen in WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons, this is a visual gag which reproduces the look and action of a {{Pinball}} game. A ball or other spherical object (sometimes a character forced to curl into a ball) careens wildly about, rebounding off of numerous objects and/or persons, producing glowing "scores" over each one. The gag ends when either it leaves the "playing field" (often by dropping into a hole), ends up hitting one thing so hard it stops them from moving or one specific target lights up with a "TILT!" indicator.

* Done for laughs in the climax of ''Film/KungFuHustle'', complete with electro-mechaniccal pinball sounds and chimes.
* The second time the protagonist in ''Film/{{Hoomania}}'' fails to StayOnThePath as instructed, he receives a rocket car to help him complete the game faster, but almost immediately drives it into a giant pinball machine out of curiosity, [[SchmuckBait which he really should have known was a trap]], resulting in him getting bounced around the machine, completely wrecking the rocket car, which finally crashes into a tree after being ejected from the machine.

* The [[CouchGag "It's" Man]] in episode 12 of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' in no way resembles a ball, but produces the characteristic sounds bouncing off trees.
* One playing of Party Quirks on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' had Wayne Brady acting like he was a pinball in a machine.

* The ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' super-deformed short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw2Ye46CvOM Bending Battle]] has [[CuteBruiser Toph]] demonstrating Earthbending by turning a cliff face into a pinball machine, complete with [[ChewToy Sokka]] as the ball.

* In the elephant race event of ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics'' from India, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy's elephant bounces off city pillars with accompanying pinball noises after getting a trunk full of curry (thanks to the Really Rottens).
* Literal: The opening titles of ''WesternAnimation/InchHighPrivateEye'' has the title character on the surface of a pinball machine chased around by a pinball.
* One of the [[CouchGag couch gags]] on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', A LamePunReaction from Stormy Weather sends [[PungeonMaster Cat Noir]] careening across the city and bouncing off cars with the appropriate sound effects.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryBlastOffToMars'', Peep, Tom, and Jerry have this happen to them as they're taking off in their space ship when it hits some of the martian buildings.

And your sporran lights up and says: "Tilt!"