Endangered Soufflé: Difference between revisions

* A recurring gag in the Shaquille O'Neal superhero movie ''[[Steel (film)|Steel]]''.

* Averted in the Christopher Reeve ''[[Superman (film)|Superman]]'' film. Supes is cooking a souffle with his heat vision, and Lois stops him just in time.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* A distant relative of this trope is illustrated by the episode of ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' in which the gang is in a cabin at the base of a mountain slope, trying not to trigger an avalanche.

* ''[[The Catherine Tate Show]]'' does with with a pair of new parents attending a dinner party and being forced to eat in the car for fear of waking the baby.

* Subverted in [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]] of all places, where they sneak weapons into a prison under the pretense of delivering a souffle, and when a guard demands to investigate it, they warn him to be careful with it...right before they knock him out with the [[Instant Sedation|Off-Button Hypospray]], causing his head to fall into the souffle and crush it.

** Also referenced by Sisko, when he relates to how his father used to say: "Worry and doubt are the greatest enemies of a great chef. The soufflé will either rise or it won't; there's not a damn thing you can do about it, so you might as well just sit back and wait and see what happens."

== [[Puppet Shows]] ==

* A variation on ''[[The Muppet Show]]'': The Swedish Chef's soufflé comes out of the oven so light it actually ''floats into the air''. He shoots an arrow at it in an attempt to get it to fall down. It falls down, all right...in both senses of the word.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* A plot point in an episode of ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]''. Early in the episode, Timmy's mom tries to make a pink souffle, which collapses and turns grey (due to her poor cooking skills, although I think noise was also involved). Later, when Timmy makes a wish that everyone and everything were the same, the world goes greyscale, and everyone becomes identical blobs. Cosmo and Wanda can't find Timmy until he recreates his trademark pink hat using another of his mother's collapsed souffles, which was supposed to be grey.

* This happens to Reverend Lovejoy in ''[[The Simpsons]]'', when a phonecall from Ned Flanders distracted him long enough from his soufflé for it to collapse.

* Partially subverted in one episode of PBS Kids Go series, [[Cyberchase]], in which two characters are in a televised cooking competition with the main antagonist and one of his henchmen (Delete), when the henchman tries to sabotage the main characters' souffle by creating a loud noise to make it fall flat, but one of the two main characters, who has repeatedly been stated throughout the series to have some degree of cooking skill, says that it was possible to re-inflate the souffle by using a certain number of drops of water on it at a certain rate.

* [[Dave the Barbarian]] makes an 'Armageddon Souffle', not realizing that it is "not only a tasty end to any meal, but a tasty end ... TO THE WORLD!" It wreaks havoc, only being collapsed when Dave's family chops down a tree, which lands on Dave's toe and makes him to scream like an opera singer.