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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 (Filmfilm)|Steel]]''.
* Averted in the Christopher Reeve ''[[Superman (Filmfilm)|Superman]]'' film. Supes is cooking a souffle with his heat vision, and Lois stops him just in time.
{{quote| "You must never overcook souffle!"}}
 
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* ''[[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.
{{quote| "Are you insane? She's asleep - we can't ''move'' her!"}}
* 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? (TV)|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 ''[[Master Chef (TV)|Master Chef]]'' semi-finals, the contestants had to make a chocolate souffle. Whitney, the eventual winner had a case of both [[Carrying a Cake|Carrying A Cake]] and [[Endangered Souffle]] as she had to hurry and present the souffle to the judges as the souffle slowly sank.
* 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.
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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.
{{quote| '''Swedish Chef:''' [[As Long Asas It Sounds Foreign|The freesbee soufflé.]]}}
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* ''[[Time Squad]]'', the one with Edgar Allan Poe.
* Inverted in ''[[The Tick]]'', 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 ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob 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.
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* 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... }}
* Partially subverted in one episode of PBS Kids Go series, [[Cyberchase (Animation)|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.
* 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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