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{{trope}}
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A character crushed by an [[Anvil Onon Head]] or other large object (e.g. piano) will often stumble away, being squashed into a pleated and flexing shape like an accordion, frequently accompanied by accordion music.
 
Compare to [[Squashed Flat]].
 
And no, it's not a [[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|new and bizarre Robot Master]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Chester Cheetah of Cheetos fame got that way from falling into a sewer.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Wario Land (Video Game)|Wario]], when he gets slammed by a massive hammer, turns into one of these; it gives him super bouncing powers.
* [[Space Quest]], in the falling [[Have a Nice Death|death pictures]] in the third and fifth episodes.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Happens to Monterey Jack in the third part of the ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animationanimation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' [[Five Episode Pilot]] "To the Rescue". When Fat Cat accidentally steps on him while running, he turns into an Accordion Mouse for a second before stumbling on along his way.
* Happens to Peter in ''[[Family Guy]]'' when, true to form, a piano falls on him.
* The [[Classic Disney Shorts|Mickey Mouse cartoon]] ''The Cactus Kid'' (happens to Pegleg Pete, pictured at right) and others.
** Discussed in the ''Walt Disney Presents'' episode "The Plausible Impossible", where Walt demonstrates this trope by having [[Donald Duck]] suffer this after being squashed by a falling safe.
* Frequented a lot of [[Tex Avery]] cartoons, played straight on "The Cat Who Hated People".
* Several [[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]] cartoons, one time in which the Italian dog that gave Tom that injury promptly proceeded to play Tom like an actual accordion.
* And plenty of [[Looney Tunes]] shorts. A certain Coyote, Wile E. is occasionally subject to this, with appropriate sounds. On a couple of occasions, a crashing piano [[Piano Drop|gives him piano keys for teeth which began spontaneously playing a song]], instead of turning his body into an accordion.
** A [[Shout -Out]] from Bugs Bunny, when it happens to Yosemite Sam: "Look at the new [[Dick Tracy (Comiccomic Stripstrip)|Dick Tracy]] character: Accordion Head."
** Happened to Daffy (as Duck Dodgers) on ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' where Porky (as Cadet) crushes him while in a small spaceship.
* It happened a couple of times in [[Rocko's Modern Life]] most notably after Rocko and Heffer crash into the ground on a cheaply made roller coaster.
* It happened to Eddy in the ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' episode "Tag, Yer Ed", after Lee Kanker slammed him head first into a wrestling mat. She then starts playing him like an actual accordion.
** Edd suffers a similar gag in "Laugh, Ed, Laugh", getting smacked into a street lamp while trying to subdue a scam-deprived Eddy. When Ed picks him up off the ground, he's scrunched flat and has a hilarious dazed look on his face.
* An episode of ''[[Ka BlamKaBlam!]]!'' had Henry and June bring in the guy who invented it, but then his thank-you list was too long, so June sent down an anvil on him...and he performed the trope.
* Happened to Lucius on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''.
* ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'' featured a variation of this: whenever Kaa gets his tail caught in some bamboo, when he frees it his tail flies back at him causing himself to recoil instantly (he is a snake), making an accordion noise as he does so.
* Happens to [[Scooby-Doo]] a couple of times, like after getting stomped on by a kangaroo.
* Happens to Wakko on ''[[Animaniacs]]'' after eating a whole stack of pizza boxes which morphs him into an accordion like shape.
* Happened to Stimpy on ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' at least once.
* Happens a couple of times on ''[[Popeye (cartoon)|Popeye the Sailor]]'', mainly the ones produced by ''Famous Studios'' such as "Safari So Good" where Bluto as Tarzan crushes a crocodile and plays it like an accordion before throwing it at Popeye.
* In the ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "Naughty Nautical Neighbors," Patrick angrily slams his rock house closed, hitting his head in the progress. All to Squidward's joy and complete with accordion sound effects.
* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' used this gag in the episode "Stay Tooned", where Sammy K. Ferrett drops an anvil on his guest and plays her like a real accordion after she becomes flattened and folded up.
* ''[[Timon and Pumbaa]]'' featured this gag occasionally, like when the titular duo got head-butted by a goat guard when trying to get to the border of France.
* Played straight on the ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]'' cartoon "The Woody Woodpecker Polka".
 
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