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It's a scenario we've all [[Seen It a Million Times|seen a million times]].
A couple is breaking up. The man has [[Your Cheating Heart|cheated on his woman]], and the woman is showing both her ire and her desire to be rid of this man and all memory of his presence in her life by throwing his belongings out of the window of the dwelling they shared up until she discovered the infidelity or other
For maximum amusement factor, the window is usually at least on the second story of a building (Tossing stuff out the first floor window isn't funny; tossing stuff out a higher window could be dangerous to passerby, and not just humiliating and inconvenient for the cheating boyfriend). The hapless guy's reaction tends to run:
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Compare: [[It's All Junk]]
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* There's a Levi's commercial which subverts the trope: the guy is in his underwear and dodging belongings hurled from above. He hurriedly yanks some flowers from a nearby flowerbed. He knocks on the door with the flowers. The girl, touched by the gesture, forgives. While she's going to find a vase for the flowers, he retrieves from a tree his beloved Levis and dons them. Seconds later, he's cheerfully walking away with his jeans on, and the vase and flowers go crashing to the sidewalk.
* A TV ad with ''two'' couples -- neighbors -- going through this trope. The first unlucky man's things are kept in normal plastic containers, which quickly open as they fall and spill the contents everywhere. The second man's belongings were kept in Rubbermaid containers, and bounced safely as they hit the ground, unharmed.
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* In the manga version of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', Chrono actually tosses ''Rosette herself'' out the window when he becomes frustrated that she won't get up in the morning. When Azmaria responds with horror, Chrono quips "[[Soft Water|don't worry, there's a lake below!]]" Cue Rosette coming back up to the window in a soaking wet nightgown and a fish in her mouth.▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
* In one ''[[Gaston Lagaffe]]'' strip, Prunelle gets overly angry at the titular character for destroying two coat hangers and violently throws the remaining piece of one out the window. As it is shaped like a boomerang, [[Hilarity Ensues]].▼
* There are many TV shows and commercials (most recent one I've seen is with an Xmas tree) where frustration leads to something being chucked out the window.
* In the UK a commercial for Harp lager showed a man sitting in his girlfriend's flat (established to be in a high-rise block) while she is getting ready for their date. When her dog appears, he throws a ball for it, which bounces out of the window, and the dog leaps after it. He makes "a sharp exit", as the slogan had it, and is next seen recounting the tale to his friends in the pub. After complaints from viewers, a scene was added at the end showing the dog appearing in the pub as well, unharmed.
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** Speaking of Turkeys... ''[[Mad About You]]'' had an episode with a [[Running Gag]] that the couple tried to cook a turkey for Thanksgiving and it kept falling out a window, causing them to have to buy a new turkey.
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
▲* In the manga version of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', Chrono actually tosses ''Rosette herself'' out the window when he becomes frustrated that she won't get up in the morning. When Azmaria responds with horror, Chrono quips "[[Soft Water|don't worry, there's a lake below!]]" Cue Rosette coming back up to the window in a soaking wet nightgown and a fish in her mouth.
=== [[
▲* In one ''[[Gaston Lagaffe]]'' strip, Prunelle gets overly angry at the titular character for destroying two coat hangers and violently throws the remaining piece of one out the window. As it is shaped like a boomerang, [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* ''[[Braveheart]]'' has a murderous version of this trope, when King Edward grows annoyed with his son's (male) lover and tosses him out the window.▼
* In the Disney film ''[[Candleshoe]]'', Jodie Foster's character gets frustrated while searching for a clue in a book and nearly throws it out the window...only to realize that the clue was referring to the church graveyard she can see from it.
▲* ''[[Braveheart]]'' has a murderous version of this trope, when King Edward grows annoyed with his son's (male) lover and tosses him out the window.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===▼
* Averted in ''[[Hell To Pay]]'', where John Taylor gets bored waiting for a ditzy socialite to pay attention to him, and starts fingering all the
▲== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
▲* Averted in ''[[Hell To Pay]]'', where John Taylor gets bored waiting for a ditzy socialite to pay attention to him, and starts fingering all the knick-knacks in the room. Fortunately for the knick-knacks, she makes time to talk to him before he needs to act out his next attention-getting tactic: tossing them out the windows. A subversion, in that it's their owner he's frustrated by, not the imperiled objects.
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