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* ''[[Ethan Frome]]'': Ethan and Zeena don't have the best of marriages, what with Zeena being a hypochondriac shrew; but during a visit from Mattie (whom Ethan likes), the cat is startled and breaks her wedding gift (a bowl), signifying that their relationship is in ''serious'' trouble.

 

* In ''[[Black Books]]'', Manny and Bernard accidentally drink a very expensive bottle of wine, due to be handed to the Pope, and attempt to emulate it with a variety of ingredients. In an odd example, they get away with it. After a fashion. It's revealed at the end that the Pope has actually ''died'' as a result of drinking the 'inferior wine' and the guy who was doing the presenting gets arrested for it.

* ''[[Degrassi Junior High]]'': Yick has to do a class presentation on his family, and he doesn't think they're very interesting—so he buys a cheap vase at a knick-knack shop and tells Arthur it's a "priceless family heirloom from the old country -- Ming Dynasty." Arthur breaks the "heirloom" two days before the presentation and goes mad trying to reglue it before Yick notices.