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* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'', being a sitcom centred around a Leisure Centre, naturally has a pool as part of the main attraction. Surprisingly though, it takes until Series 6 for someone to actually be pushed into the pool, with Tim pushing Gavin into the pool during a lovers' tiff ("[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS6E1BackWithABang Back with a Bang]]") and a somewhat blinded Gavin pushing a woman into the pool by mistake ("[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS6E2BodyLanguage Body Language]]") respectively.
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* ''Film/WhateverItTakes'', with a full ballroom of people in long dresses or smoking.

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--->'''Yukio:''' How did you know there was a pool there?

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--->'''Yukio:''' How did you know there was a pool down there?
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* In Film/TheWolverine, the protagonist interrogates a scumbag who schemed to have his fiancee murdered. Logan, utterly pissed, throws the guy off his balcony, where he lands in a swimming pool several stories below.
--->'''Yukio:''' How did you know there was a pool there?
--->'''Wolverine:''' I didn't.
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* Another less-fun version occurred when model Jasmine Fiore fell into a pool after her husband Ryan Jenkins [[DomesticAbuse punched her in the arm.]] For this, charges would be filed but ultimately never answered for since another violent episode lead to her murder, him going on the run and finally committing suicide.
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* ''Film/SecretsInTheHotSpring'': When [[TheProtagonist Qie]] is trying to fish his grandfather's body out of the hot spring, [[spoiler:not realizing he's just doing hydrotherapy,]] he ends up pushing Lu Qun into the hot spring.
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11290145/1/Swimming-In-The-Rain Swimming In The Rain]]'' a tipsy Draco falls into the pool and Harry fishes him out.

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%% * ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'', and the predictability only enhances [[TearJerker the impact]].

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%% * ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'', ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'': During a pool party, one of Martin's friends gets a knife out and pokes at David with it to see how the predictability only enhances android reacts. The knife triggers David's self-protection programming, causing him to grab onto Martin and refuse to release him as they both fall into the pool. Martin is saved from drowning, but the scary incident leads the Swintons to question whether they should keep David and heightens the [[TearJerker the emotional impact]].


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* ''Film/AmericanHoney'': Jake crashes the cowboys’ private pool party to get Star. Jake threatens the men with his handgun and forces them to jump into the pool fully clothed before he and Star take off.
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* ''Film/OutlawBrothers'' have a fight scene in a mobster's mansion, complete with swimming pool, with a few mooks getting kicked in. The film plays around with the ass-kicking female lead (played by Creator/YukariOshima) who spends much of the fight teetering near the water's edge but never falling in.... but once the fight is over, she adjusts herself a little, and then slips - ''splash''!
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* In the video for Music/{{Steps}}' cover of "Last Thing On My Mind" the final scene shows the band at a swimming pool. At one point Lee stops to talk to some girls only for Lisa to walk past and shove him into the pool.
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-->'''Toby:''' [[DeadpanSnarker C.J., you fell into the pool there.]]\\
'''C.J.:''' I can't see!
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* In ''Film/CatchUsIfYouCan'', the characters attend a party at the Roman Baths. Once the party spills out into the actual bath area, people almost immediately start jumping or falling into the pool.
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* ''Film/TheMillionDollarPool'': The Hoopers have a swimming pool in their backyard. Shortly after Charley the duck moves in with the Dooleys, she escapes and goes for a swim in the pool. Albert and Hooper both end up in the water while trying to catch her.

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* ''Film/TheMillionDollarPool'': ''Film/TheMillionDollarDuck'': The Hoopers have a swimming pool in their backyard. Shortly after Charley the duck moves in with the Dooleys, she escapes and goes for a swim in the pool. Albert and Hooper both end up in the water while trying to catch her.
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* ''Film/TheMillionDollarPool'': The Hoopers have a swimming pool in their backyard. Shortly after Charley the duck moves in with the Dooleys, she escapes and goes for a swim in the pool. Albert and Hooper both end up in the water while trying to catch her.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', though the people who fell in were [[spoiler:pushed off a FloatingContinent several hundred meters above it.]] Also, it [[SoftWater saved theis lives]].

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* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', though the people who fell in were [[spoiler:pushed off a FloatingContinent several hundred meters above it.]] Also, it [[SoftWater saved theis their lives]].
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* ''Film/TrickOrTreats'': Happens a few times in the prologue of the movie. When Malcolm is fighting the orderlies who came to take him away, he kicks one into the pool, then shoves another, and eventually all three end up in it.
** When [[TheProtagonist Linda]] sees Charlie floating face-down in the pool, she runs into the pool to get him out.

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* An episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' had a bikini-clad starlet pull Spencer Reid -- shirt, tie, shoes, sidearm and all -- into a pool. Of course, with Reid being Reid, he ends up deflating the moment by telling the starlet that [[spoiler:her agent has been murdered]].

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* An episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' had a bikini-clad starlet pull Spencer Reid -- shirt, tie, shoes, sidearm and all -- into a pool. Of course, with [[CluelessChickMagnet Reid being Reid, Reid]], he ends up deflating the moment by telling the starlet that [[spoiler:her agent has been murdered]].


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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/GilmoreGirls,'' where [[PromotionToParent Luke]] and [[TroubledButCute Jess]] get into a fight and walk off in the same direction across a bridge over a pond. At the end of his rope with Jess's attitude that episode, Luke pushes him into the water and walks off without flinching.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6048432/8/Summer-Lessons Summer Lessons]]'' Remus and Tonks push Harry into the pool during a party.



* In ''Literature/InstrumentOfGod'', 246 pushes a woman who can't swim but is afraid she'd drown into the pool order for her to understand that because they're already dead they ''cannot'' drown.

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* In ''Literature/InstrumentOfGod'', 246 pushes a woman who can't swim but is afraid she'd drown into the pool in order for her to understand that because they're already dead they ''cannot'' drown.



* Someone is thrown into the Wakefield's backyard pool in pretty much every ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'' book.

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* Someone is thrown into the Wakefield's Wakefields' backyard pool in pretty much every ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'' book.
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* ''Film/ChildrenOfALesserGod'': Sarah likes to go swimming in the pool at the school she works at. James visits her there one night to make a LoveConfession, but as he's about to do that, he slips and falls:
-->'''James''': I'm falling in the pool with you!
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* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', though the people who fell in were [[spoiler:pushed off a FloatingContinent several hundred meters above it.]]

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* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', though the people who fell in were [[spoiler:pushed off a FloatingContinent several hundred meters above it.]]]] Also, it [[SoftWater saved theis lives]].
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12265183/1/Picnic-Panic Picnic Panic]]'' a drunken Ron bumps into a four-year-old guest at the neighborhood barbecue Hermione's parents are hosting, sending her flying into the pool. Fortunately Harry fishes her out unharmed.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12265183/1/Picnic-Panic Picnic Panic]]'' a drunken drunk Ron bumps into a four-year-old guest at the neighborhood barbecue Hermione's parents are hosting, sending her flying into the pool. Fortunately Harry fishes her out unharmed.



* In ''Time to Live'' three Death Eaters following a tracking charm on Harry Portkey to the Muggle hotel where he's staying, appearing over (and falling into) the pool. Harry later jokes that they "attacked the pool and lost."

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* In ''Time ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2856856/12/Time-to-Live Time to Live'' Live]]'' three Death Eaters following a tracking charm on Harry Portkey to the Muggle hotel where he's staying, appearing over (and falling into) the pool. Harry later jokes that they "attacked the pool and lost."
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* Series/{{Chespirito}} had plenty of this trope in the Acapulco episodes of ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'' and ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' whenever they were near the pool. Notably in the final scene of the latter, as it follows a quick succession: first, it's kicked off by Quico pushing la Chilindrina into the water (for mocking him before); Don Ramón pushes Quico in retaliation; Professor Jirafales falls in while trying to get Quico out; Mr. Barriga tries to help the professor out only to get pulled in himself; then while Don Ramón argues with Doña Florinda, the latter gets pushed in by Doña Cleotilde; and while Don Ramón's busy laughing at her, el Chavo throws a coconut at his head by accident and falls in. Doña Cleotilde then goes "Stand back! I'll save him!" and jumps in herself.
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* A sidestory of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' centered on Misty starts out when her parents send her to do cleaning duties, and while she's moping the floor around the gym's pool, she starts throwing a tantrum and ends up slipping in and falling into the water. Thankfully, before she can drown her bloodliner powers kick in and allow her to breathe and get out by herself.
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** In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', a party is thrown by Lupe at Sanchez' estate after Bond's victory over Sanchez. There's a pool, and as Bond sees Pam Bouvier go away thinking he has no romantic interest in her, he [[RaceForYourLove jumps in the pool as short cut to reach her]]. Pam ends up joining him in the water, cue TheBigDamnKiss.

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** In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', a party is thrown by Lupe at Sanchez' estate after Bond's victory over Sanchez. There's a pool, and as Bond sees Pam Bouvier go away thinking he has no romantic interest is romantically interested in her, Lupe, he [[RaceForYourLove jumps in the pool as short cut to reach her]]. Pam ends up joining him in the water, cue TheBigDamnKiss.
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** In ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'', SPECTRE lieutenant Emilio Largo has a pool at his estate. It turns out it's a SharkPool, and he gets rid of a henchman who [[YouHaveFailedMe failed to kill Bond]] by feeding him to the sharks. Bond later ends up in it and survives an encounter with the sharks.
** In ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', some mafia-like Slumber Inc. thugs surprise Bond and Plenty O'Toole at their hotel in Las Vegas and throw Plenty through a window... fortunately, she lands in the hotel's pool below. But then she's later found dead in that same pool with CementShoes, killed by Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd.
** In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', a party is thrown by Lupe at Sanchez' estate after Bond's victory over Sanchez. There's a pool, and as Bond sees Pam Bouvier go away thinking he has no romantic interest in her, he [[RaceForYourLove jumps in the pool as short cut to reach her]]. Pam ends up joining him in the water, cue TheBigDamnKiss.
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* ''Film/{{Nowhere}}'': At Jujyfruit's party, Dark withdraws to the poolside to moodily stare into it, fully clothed. Sure enough, a few minutes later Ducky shows up and tries to drown himself in it.
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* In ''VideoGame/MergeMansion'' Ursula comments that she once pushed her future husband into the pool because she saw her mother coming and nobody knew that they were dating.

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* In ''VideoGame/MergeMansion'' ''Merge Mansion'' Ursula comments that she once pushed her future husband into the pool because she saw her mother coming and nobody knew that they were dating.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4907797/4/Beneath-Boundless-Skies Beneath Boundless Skies]]'' Harry tackles Draco after he tears up some of Harry's old shirts for us as rags and they both fall into the pool.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4907797/4/Beneath-Boundless-Skies Beneath Boundless Skies]]'' Harry tackles Draco after he tears up some of Harry's old shirts for us use as rags and they both fall into the pool.



* In ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fic ''Time to Live'', three Death Eaters following a tracking charm on Harry Portkey to the Muggle hotel where he's staying, appearing over (and falling into) the pool. Harry later jokes that they "attacked the pool and lost."

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* In ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fic ''Time to Live'', Live'' three Death Eaters following a tracking charm on Harry Portkey to the Muggle hotel where he's staying, appearing over (and falling into) the pool. Harry later jokes that they "attacked the pool and lost.""
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1462543/15/A-Moment-in-Time A Moment in Time]]'' Draco throws Harry into the pool after he gives Draco a DopeSlap.

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