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* Seen in flashbacks in ''Exit to Eden'', when a male photojournalist who enjoys being spanked is given the heave-ho by women who are squicked by his desires.
* In ''[[The Mexican]]'' (with Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt)
* In ''[[Next Friday]]'' Craig's cousin Day-Day tells him about a girl he started dating 3 weeks ago who started claiming he was the father of her unborn child (she was six months pregnant). She gets really angry when he leaves her and starts destroying his stuff, actually going over to his home multiple times to damage his car. Its apparently subverted since the restraining order Day-Day managed to get indicates he wasn't lying about when he started dating her (and thus the impossibility of him being the father.)
* In ''[[The War of the Roses]]'' husband and wife ''both'' throw and destroy each other's belongings {{spoiler|including the dog, or so it is implied}}.
* In ''[[The Holiday]]'', Amanda is tossing her ex boyfriend's belongings out of the house while he denies [and eventually admits] he cheated.
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** Apparently the car in question was [[Product Placement|a gift to the studio by a car company who wanted some free publicity.]] They were not pleased by the publicity they ended up getting.
* Heavily subverted with one of the couples in ''[[He's Just Not That Into You]]'', when the cool and calculating woman finds out her husband had slept with another she tries to act rational about it by suggesting that before they do anything hasty they should go into counciling. It's not until she finds cigarettes in her husband's things (something she had suspected him of having and that he denied to the point of making her feel guilty about asking) that she realizes she wants him out of her house and after smashing some porcelain in anger, neatly packs up all his belongings and leaves them on the stairs with a note telling him she wants a divorce and that he should get lost.
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* In ''The Last Days'' by Scott Westerfeld, this is how Moz gets an expensive electric guitar for free, and also how he meets Pearl.
* In one of Carla Kelly's Regency romances, this is done to the heroine because she married well beneath her station.
* In ''[[Sword of Destiny]]'' Dandelion enters the plot via this sort of a comedic scene, being exiled by some young woman named Vespula — which seems to be a familiar situation for him. So he carefully caught the one truly valuable instrument, picked up the rest of stuff (some of it — noting «she demands monogamy, but herself throws another man's pants»), then retreated when she ran out of his possessions and switched to flowerpots. After he was out of range, she continued to swear at him, and loudly proclaimed that he is no great lover, on which Dandelion grumbled «I also knew girls who said "No" more pleasantly than she put out, but I don't shout about this to the whole street». Vespula attacks Dandelion [[Frying Pan of Doom|with a frying pan]] when they meet again, but {{spoiler|when knocked down, he starts to lose shape — this one turns out to be a doppleganger}}, thus merging the breakup plot with the main plot.
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
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* Season 1 of ''[[Friends]]'' has Rachel doing this to the [[Romantic False Lead]] (the original, natch).
** In Season 4, Rachel's crush, Joshua, has to buy a lot of new clothes as his ex-wife set all his old clothes on fire. He later reveals he keeps on buying clothes since he likes Rachel.
* Though not seen, an episode of ''[[CSI]]'' has a man who is thrown out by his girlfriend describe how she tossed his stuff into the street.
** The ''CSI'' franchise also uses the divorce variant for both sexes. A couple on ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' destroyed or gave away practically everything they'd owned to keep it from each other, and a man on the Vegas original killed himself and a friend while chain-sawing the furniture he'd just lost to his ex-wife in their divorce settlement.
** One episode of ''[[CSI New York]]'' begins with this. Eventually the man on the balcony throws the dog over, and the horrified woman below is spattered with blood... Fortunately we are then shown that the dog was caught safely, and the blood was being sprayed by a road salter.
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* On ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'' Casey dumps her husband's money out the window of his yacht when she finds out he was lying about being poor. She eventually throws him overboard as well.
* ''[[Keen Eddie]]'': In ''Inciting Incident,'' a woman is sent photo-shopped photos of her husband with another woman and becomes so furious with him, she throws all of his belongings out the window while the police watch and comment. She eventually beans her husband in the head with a suitcase, leaving him with a nasty bump for the rest of the episode.
* Done in the ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' episode "Ring Out Your Dead". A woman breaks up with her lover by flinging all of his belongings out of the window of her flat. Including his pants, forcing him to run outside naked to retrieve them.
* ''[[Weeds]]'' season 7 episode "Bags" a classic example involving Shane in Copenhagen.
=== [[Music]] ===
* ''"I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up four wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seats. I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights, slashed a hole in all four tires, maybe next time he'll think before he cheats."'' courtesy of [[Carrie Underwood]]. The video for the song does show her tossing some stuff through the window, though the man is otherwise occupied * nudge nudge wink wink* and doesn't actually get to see the results on screen.
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* The [[Barenaked Ladies]] song "The Humour of the Situation" has the protagonist drive home to find all his belongings on the lawn courtesy of his girlfriend.
* A Finnish singer Anssi Kela has a couple of lines in his song "1972" that translate roughly into "When I returned home yesterday, my key didn't fit into the lock/My clothes are flying out of the window". It's very likely to be an example of this trope.
* Willie Mabon's R&B song "I'm Mad" (featured in the cartoon ''Sing, Beast, Sing''), has him venting his anger on his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend, eventually threatening to pitch her clothes: "Won't be any more washin', or hangin' upside the wall/ I'm throwin' them out the window/ Run out and catch 'em before they fall."
* [[Lily Allen]]'s video 'Smile' shows her getting revenge upon her cheating boyfriend by hiring thugs to beat him up and trash his apartment.
* [[Pet Shop Boys]] ' "The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on" has the girl in the spoken break threaten to do this to her boyfriend due to his [[Ho Yay|extracurricular]] [[Please Put Some Clothes On|activities]].
* The BlackHawk music video "Goodbye Says It All" has a man coming home to find his home trashed with a video showing his ex ruining his possessions. He throws the television in the lake after she says, "And even though I'm leaving you, I still hope we can be friends."
* Parodied with [[Kelly Clarkson]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRM70Jw7F4M&feature=feedf My Life Would Suck Without You] video. She teasingly steals first the magazine he's reading and tosses it out, he does the same to the one she was reading. Then she goes and grabs some of his clothes and tosses them, he does the same (and she even takes some of her clothes and tosses them herself). The video ends with the pair kissing.
* Invoked repeatedly in [[Icona Pop]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxxajLWwzqY "I Love It"]:
{{quote|''I threw your shit into a bag and pushed it down the stairs.''}}
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* Happens in ''[[Stoked]]!'' when the staff go on strike and Bummer locks them out of the staff house. The staff not on strike dump their belongings on them from the balcony.
=== Web Comics ===
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' has such an incident [https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=531 described] as «It was like something out of a [[Whitesnake]] video»
== The Frustration or Accidental Window Toss ==
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