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{{trope}}
{{quote|''Drop everything! (Unless it is a baby.)''
|'''[[Dave Barry]]'''}}
[[Drop What You
It usually occurs in specific situations:
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== Advertising ==
* A British PSA about how to recognise the symptoms of a stroke includes the on-screen victim losing control of one arm and dropping her mug of coffee.
== [[Anime]]
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': Kasumi sees Akane's [[Close-Call Haircut]] and drops a frying pan and what she was cooking in it in shock. Ranma, not one to waste food, manages to save dinner.
* Used at least twice in [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|the 2003 anime adaptation]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': first, Edward drops a basket of vegetables when he sees his sick mother collapsed on the floor, and later on, Hughes's wife drops a tea set when she goes into labor.
* Hilariously [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] on [[Crayon Shin-chan]], when Misae tells his son some ''shocking'' news (not really, but Shin-chan is quite the drama queen) and he actually ''goes to the kitchen to fetch some cookies in order to drop them'' after he makes his mother repeat what she just said.
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* ''[[Haibane Renmei]]'': In the first episode, Reki drops her box of art supplies when she finds Rakka's cocoon. Later on, Rakka herself drops a teapot when she's feeling faint.
* A heartbreaking example occurs in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''. {{spoiler|Just before Miaka and her Seishi leave for Hokkan, Tamahome pays a visit to his family with Miaka and Nuriko. He buys them a few gifts before heading to their home, but when he opens the door to their house, he is horrified to see that his entire family had been murdered. The ball he had bought for Yuiren rolled right out of his hands and bounced on the floor before reaching her barely-alive fingertips.}}
* [[
** In A's, Shamal is preparing a bento when she gets a message on her cell phone from Suzuka about wanting to visit the hospitalized Hayate with some friends. Shamal's initially pleased to hear this, but when she recognizes Nanoha and Fate (whom she fears will expose Hayate as her mistress), in the attached picture, she becomes shocked and drops her chopsticks.
* In ''[[Meitantei Holmes]]'', Mrs. Hudson is chloroformed and kidnapped by Moriarty, and as she loses consciousness she drops the flowerpot she's carrying.
* In ''[[D.Gray-man]]'', episode "The Black Order Annihilation Incident", both Lenalee and Alan drop their trays full of coffee during their encounter with Komui's robot.
* In one of the picture dramas of ''[[Code Geass]]'', Nunnally is holding half of her mother's commemorative plate (she had an argument with Lelouch over whether Euphemia would give it to her when it got cracked in half and Euphemia gave one half to her) while listening to the news about Euphemia starting the Specially Administered Zone. When the news gets cut off {{spoiler|as the massacre begins}}, Nunnally drops the plate.
* ''The Fantastic Adventures of [[Unico]]'' features a variant, in that Katy drops the bucket she was carrying to fetch water ''after'' the Baron D'Ghost invites her to his castle, and then only after he leaves.
* In the ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* In ''[[Batman]]'', Alfred drops his tray of tea when he sees that {{spoiler|Stephanie, aka The Spoiler}} is still alive. {{spoiler|Steph}} then lampshades this by commenting that it's nice to see Alfred lose his cool British demeanor once in a while.
* When the death of [[The Flash|Bart Allen]] in in the DCU was announced to Robin (Tim Drake) via cellphone, he drops the phone in shock. There's no dialogue on the page and if the audience hadn't known exactly what had been happening in the DCU of late you probably wouldn't realise why (it was pretty safe for them to assume everyone who read ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' might well have known about events in [[The Flash]], but still possible that somebody could pick up the issue for the first time and
* Fittingly enough, [[
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'''Savage:''' Not soon enough. }}
* In the [[Iron Man]] issue 182, Tony Stark was drinking a bottle of alcohol when his friend, Gretyl, announced that she's giving birth. Tony promptly dropped the bottle to help her.
== Film ==
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* ''[[The Omen]]'' has the second type: Damien intentionally runs his tricycle into the chair that his mother is standing on while she changes a second-story light fixture, it crashes to the first-story floor slightly before she does.
* Averted and played for laughs in [[The Shawshank Redemption]] when Tommy narrates his most recent crime he committed.
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* ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'' did this with a dog and his bone.
* Near the beginning of ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'', After Tiana realizes that she had made enough money to start her own restaurant for being a waitress at another, Duke, said restaurant's owner actually drogs a fried egg from a spatula.
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** Of course you would too if {{spoiler|the supposedly dead wife of your love interest walked into the room and found you spending the night with her husband.}}
* Hilariously parodied in ''[[Blackadder]] The Third'': Prince George is reading the news that a criminal (who unknown to the prince, Blackadder teamed up with then was almost immediately betrayed by) was hanged:
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''(Blackadder drops the tray he was carrying)''
'''George''': But they don't know who it was!
''([[Rule of Funny|The tray jumps back up into Blackadder's hands]])'' }}
** In an earlier episode of the same series, Blackadder "accidentally" dropped a tray full of refreshments after the Prince insulted him one time too many, leading him to the brink of resigning that very moment.
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* This is the [[Character Tic]] of Kazu in [[Kamen Rider Double]], who drops whatever he's holding almost every single time he's asked a question or is told something even remotely dramatic. (This is in almost every scene he's in) Inverted in the fact that he hardly even seems to be fazed by this in any way, regardless of what he may be holding, be it a spoon, a suitcase, a teacup, etc, even if the object breaks.
** Played straight with Shoutarou late in the series with his phone.
* When {{spoiler|Henry Blake's death is announced}} at the end of the third season of ''[[
* In ''[[True Blood]]'', last episode of the first season, Sookie drops the pitcher she was holding when she realizes the killer is in the room with her.
* Parodied in ''[[The Goodies]]'' - Bill isn't really shocked, he's just into loud noises.
* At the end of the ''[[Sliders]]'' pilot episode, the Sliders are sitting down to dinner believing they are safe and sound on their home earth. Quinn and the others make a toast just as Quinn's father, who died years ago, walks into the room. Realizing this means they didn't make it home, Quinn drops his wine glass and it shatters on the floor.
* Happens in the ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Won't Get Fooled Again." A mother is cooking when she realizes her daughter is holding a package containing a bomb. She drops an egg she was holding and it smashes to the floor.
* On an episode of ''[[Night Court]]'', someone said "Who's willing to drop everything and help me?" Roz drops her lunch tray, just before she passes out. (Turned out she had diabetes.)
* It happened in ''[[NCIS]]'' when Gibbs drops his coffee after hearing a bullet whiz by, shattering glass, and
** Gibbs drops his coffee again in "Driven" to save Abby from suffocating in the same [[Death Trap|experimental Humvee]] the [[Victim of the Week]] was killed in at the beginning of the episode.
* In ''[[The Duchess of Duke Street]]'', a character's very quiet death is heralded by his cigarette falling from his fingers.
* Used humorously to make for a particularly charming moment in ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'', especially considering it sets up an important [[Tragic Keepsake]].
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'''Belle:''' *drops teacup in alarm*
'''Rumpelstiltskin:''' ...That one was a quip. }}
* An episode of NBC's ''[[New Amsterdam (2018 TV series)|New Amsterdam]]'' features a no-dialog montage with sad music over two minutes long full of random people reacting to {{spoiler|the US Supreme Court decision ''Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization''}} that includes a random pedestrian dropping a cup in slow motion to top off the [[Cliché Storm]].
== Religion and Mythology ==
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* In ''Charlie's Aunt'' upon hearing the news that one man intends to marry Charlie's Aunt, who is actually another man in drag, drops the tray he's holding.
== Video Games ==
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* [http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20080324 This] ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]'' comic.
** Also, [http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20031110 Zeke's first appearance].
* ''[[Queen of Wands]]'': Shannon drops the phone due to {{spoiler|a complication with her pregnancy}}, and Angela thinks Shannon just got disgusted and hung up on her.
* Dominic's father Donovan displays it upon a harsh shock in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140213091039/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2007-04-03 this] ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' comic.
* Done by Meimi, Yuki's mother {{spoiler|and retired [[Magical Girl]]}} at the end of ''[[Megatokyo]]'''s 9th chapter to introduce an element of uncertainty to {{spoiler|Miho's}} [[No One Could Survive That]], providing a massive [[Cliff Hanger]] as well.
* The webcomic ''Nothing Better'' has it at least twice:
** Jane drops her shower bucket when she discovers a prank grodying up the shower stall.
** Katt drops her art supplies when she is shocked.
* In ''[[Cwen's Quest]]'', Riddly Lancer is occasionally so surprised he [https://web.archive.org/web/20080805041217/http://www.drunkduck.com/Cwens_Quest/index.php?p=425972 not only drops what he is holding] but [http://www.drunkduck.com/Cwens_Quest/index.php?p=462855 is himself dropped to the ground]{{Dead link}}.
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' has a ''three-person'' example of [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1327 this trope].
* Happens several times in [[Ménage à 3]]:
** "No man has ever been able to give me an orgasm!" - [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20100909.html CRASH]
** "Thanks to '''you''' I've been eating '''pussy''' on a '''nightly basis'''! - [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20100914.html SMASH]
* The trope is discussed in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120128112128/http://www.pvponline.com/2011/02/28/two-cups-one-floor/ this] ''[[PvP (webcomic)|Pv P]]'' strip.
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'', when Vanamonde informed by his grandfather that there's one more claimant to be his liege than he thought while holding a big cup of coffee.
* ''[[Homestuck]]''. Ms Paint has [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006578 this] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006579 reaction] upon seeing {{spoiler|[[Eldritch Abomination|Lord English]] [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You|behind the fourth wall]].}}
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[The Spoony One|Spoony]] dropped his controller at the sight of [[Final Fantasy|Quistis]] in his Final Fantasy 8 review. A very hot teacher.
* In ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' version 4 Reiko Ishida does something like this with a piece of bread she had been eating when she finds out that [[Angsty Surviving Twin|her twin sister Reika has been killed]]. This quickly reached [[Memetic Mutation]].
* In the final moments of the last episode of volume 3 of ''[[RWBY]]'', Ruby's father Taiyang drops a tray of food when he comes into her bedroom and discovers that she has left home.
** In the final couple minutes of Volume 5 Chapter 6 "Known by its Song" Ruby herself drops a tray of food when she enters a room of the house she, Oscar, and team JNR are staying at and sees her sister Yang and teammate Weiss for the first time in months.
** In V8E10, Weiss drops a tray of food when {{spoiler|the not-a-nuclear-explosion set off by Oscar destroys Salem's "whale"}}.
== Western Animation ==
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** And when Nana Possible gets mind-controlled, she lets her lemon squares drop to the floor.
* [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] during an episode of ''[[American Dad]]''.
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'''Francine''': ''(holding a plate with food)'' But it'll stain the floor. Can't I just put it away first?
'''Stan''': Drop it!
''(Francine sighs and drops the plate.)''
'''Stan''': [[Jerkass|Good. Now clean that up and help me look]]. }}
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'':
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** Season 3: Katara again, when she discovers that Aang has run (well, flown) away (perfectly good food).
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' episode "See No Evil": There's a criminal who is ''[[Invisibility Cloak|literally]]'' the [[Disappeared Dad]], thanks to the [[Applied Phlebotinum]]. He pretends to be his daughter's [[Imaginary Friend]], and holds a toy so she can tell where he is. When the little girl tells him they're moving, he drops the doll in shock.
* ''[[Yin Yang Yo!
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' is very fond of this. We even get ''close-ups'' of the objects hitting the ground.
* ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'''s Gwen Stacy drops her books in shock at seeing Harry Osborn unconscious on the ground after disappearing a while.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' where Sam drops her tea cup when she gets word Danny and Valerie have been in the same room together for hours. Can be taken as a [[Double Entendre]] as well.
* ''[[As Told by Ginger]]'': Macie's father, on realizing Ginger's right and he and his wife have forgotten Macie's 13th birthday, drops the stylus to his
* Felicia Hardy drops a jar of face cream when she hears the {{spoiler|body of Michael Morbius}} has been found in an episode of the 90s [[Spider-Man]] [[Animated Series]].
* ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' uses this trope a fair bit:
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* Two old ladies drop their teacups to shatter on the floor when Solomon Grundy shows up for revenge in a Halloween episode of ''[[The Batman]]''.
** Alfred drops a ''Ming vase'' when Ethan says something to Bruce about the Batman.
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* [[Daria]]'s Mom was busy talking to her boss, Eric, on the phone when Jake collapsed from a heart attack. As soon as she realized what happened, she dropped her phone.
* Helga and her father Big Bob on ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' both drop their glasses in shock when Miriam anounces she's going to be away from a few days, suggesting they spend some father-daughter quality time together while she's gone in the episode Quantity Time.
* In the episode Hand in Hand on ''[[Kick Buttowski]]'', Kendall drops her phone in the middle of a conversation with her boyfriend, Ronaldo, when she realizes she's right outside the store he's in and he's about to exit and sees the possibility of him catching her and Kick together.
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== Real Life ==
* A less dramatic, but memorable example occurs during a lecture by [[L. Ron Hubbard]] on the events of [[Church of Happyology|OT III]]. When he gets to the part about how [[Evil Overlord|Xenu]] used his last moments in office (he was about to be forcibly "un-elected") to "goof the floof," an attendee can be heard dropping their pencil, apparently in shock. Hubbard comments on this:
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