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A trope that is little-used these days without actually being [[Discredited Trope|discredited]], this could be found occasionally on [[Dom Com
Two variations on this trope exist: In one, the rambunctious behavior around the souffle is quieted down with no ill effects, only to have a relatively-distant disturbance (slamming door, car backfire) collapse the souffle after it is "safe" (the souffle can be replaced by say, a sleeping baby). The other works much the same, except that it is the cook him- or herself which triggers the collapse.
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See also [[Carrying a Cake]].
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* [[Gaston Lagaffe]] once bakes an enormous souffle to cheer up his chronically depressed cousin. Initially it seems to work, but collapses at a critical moment, resulting in the "most depressing sight ever." Probably justified, since Gaston is a [[Cordon Bleugh Chef]] often bordering on a [[Lethal Chef]].
** He also accidentally transformed a Grand Marnier bottle into a rocket grenade while trying to flambee some crepes, missing the french president's limousine in a nearby parade by only a few meters.
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* Used straight but comedically in the notorious '[[Sith Academy]]' [[Slash Fic]] series; the humor of the situation comes from the fact that the person baking the chocolate souffle is Darth Maul, a vicious-minded Sith Lord who otherwise has the patience of a hyperactive weasel, while what causes it to collapse (and Maul to fly into a homicidal rage) is two Jedi Knights (Obi Wan Kenobi and Qui Gon Jinn, as it happens) having noisy sex in the apartment next door.
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* In ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', Alice keeps trying to shush the kids and then collapses the souffle herself by knocking over a pan with a loud crash.
* An episode of ''[[Are You Being Served?|Are You Being Served]]'' had the opposite problem, in which Mr Humphries was trying to hold down a souffle that was growing out of control.
* In the ''[[
* In one episode of ''[[My Three Sons]]'', "Happy Birthday, World," son Robbie tries to earn extra money by setting up a home business making birthday cakes. At one point, while he's making a set of cakes, a door is slammed in the house and causes the three cakes in the oven to collapse.
** Oddly enough the cakes that do come out of the oven fine look very much to have been topped already and put back in the pans upside-down giving them perfectly square tops.
* Used as a major plot point in an episode of ''Wimzies House''.
* Used in an episode of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'', although the souffle in question is never seen. In the episode where Rose is revealed to have a dependency on painkillers, she has violent mood swings when her prescription runs out; a local producer is trying to film a commercial in the kitchen with Sophia, and Rose comes in and tears him a new one for endangering the souffle that no one knew she was making.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Time Squad]]'', the one with Edgar Allan Poe.
* Inverted in ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'', where a mad baker attempts to create a giant souffle to smother The City. To collapse the souffle, the Tick must shoot himself out of a cannon at the speed of sound.
* In an episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Spongebob causes the collapse of Squidward's souffle ''after'' it's removed from the oven.
* ''[[Futurama]]''. When long-time chef show host Helmut Spargle is replaced by the Emeril-esque Elzar, Elzar "BAM"s and causes Spargle's souffle to collapse.
** Parodied and justified in later episode "The Mutants are Revolting", which features a souffle that contains nitroglycerin.
* A plot point in an episode of ''[[The Fairly
* 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.
{{quote|'''Lovejoy:''' Damn Flanders... }}
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