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* In ''[[The Two Ronnies]]'' serial ''The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town'', the Prime Minister and the leaders of the [[Anachronism Stew|Commonwealth]] are meeting to discuss the threat of the Phantom. Who drops in uninvited, and blows a raspberry at them that's powerful enough to make the Queen's portrait blush and bring the chandelier down.
* An epsisode of ''[[The Dingo Principle]]'' featured a parody of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' where someone was killing members of the Liberal Party by dropping chandeliers on them, regardless of where they were at the time.
* ''[[HarpersHarper's Island]]'', although it's not the chandelier per se, but a [http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater/collection/1990.0018.102.html headspade] concealed in it.
* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S1 E9/E09 The Puppet Show|The Puppet Show]]", Buffy gets a chandelier dropped on her by Sid the [[Demonic Dummy|living ventriloquist dummy]], temporarily pinning her down as he attacks.
** Averted in "Smashed". Spike weakens a chandelier while swinging from it to kick Buffy in the face, including a closeup showing how it's been pulled out of the ceiling. By the time it falls however neither of them notice, [[Coitus Uninterruptus|because they're too busy having passionate sex]] up against the wall.
* In the ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode "The Coltons", Jesse Colton takes out a gunman who has taken cover behind a table by shooting out the chandelier above him so that it falls on him.