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{{quote|'''Kevin''': How do you know when a relationship is over?

'''Matt''': Well, all my clothes on the front lawn usually does it for me.|''Two Of A Kind''}}

 

It's a scenario we've all [[Seen It a Million Times|seen a million times]].

 

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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.

 

 

* Done in ''[[It Could Happen To You]]''. Sort-of parodied in that the man's offense is donating money to charity that she would rather he spent on her.

* 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 ''Divorcing Jack,'' the protagonist cheats on his wife and she melts his prize records in retaliation.

* In ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Komarr]]'' by [[Lois McMaster Bujold]], this trope is subverted in that Ekaterin Vorsoisson isn't throwing her husband Tien out for infidelity, but leaving him because he's a bribe-taking traitor. And that it's ''him'' throwing the tantrum while she simply stands there quietly clutching her remaining dignity to her, demanding that she stay with him and trying to (entirely irrationally) blame her for his crimes, and pitching her prized bonsai tree (in the family for 70 years!) off a fifth-story balcony at one point to punctuate his childish rant. Her only reaction?

 

 

* ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' used this when Lindsay found out that Dean had slept with Rory.

* In an episode of ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' , This is a step in the [[Bad Boss]]'s [[Humiliation Conga]] : He berates Earl, gets beat up, sent to the hospital, and his wife shows up with his mistress there. She then throws his stuff out the window, and finds the money he laundered.

 

 

* ''"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.

* Pink's video for the song "There You Go" actually shows a '''motorbike''' crashing through the cheating boyfriend's window.

 

 

* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' used it in a sketch, with a pair of birds and their nest.

* When ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' realized that Apu and Manjula were having trouble with their sex life (specifically, that he had cheated on her) they throw the Kama Sutra out of the window.