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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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* Appears in ''How to Murder Your Wife'' with the wife's famous "lasagna souffle".
** There really is such a thing as a lasagne souffle. It is a Greek (not Italian) appetizer involving several different kinds of cheese.
* A recurring gag in the Shaquille O'Neal superhero movie ''[[Steel (
* Averted in the Christopher Reeve ''[[Superman (
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== [[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.
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* 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."
* 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
* 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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== [[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.
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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 ''[[
* ''[[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.
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* Partially subverted in one episode of PBS Kids Go series, [[
* [[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.
* In [[Recess]], the gang decides to save Chef Vince from being sent to France by sabotaging his soufflé test, with a popped paper bag.
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