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* In the first episode of ''[[Bleach]]'', Ichigo flips a table after hearing Rukia's explanation of [[Shinigami|Soul Reapers]]. The [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/bleach/v01/c001/16.html manga] [[Lampshades]] this: a note taped to the table reads "[[Don't Try This At Home|CAUTION: For use in sight gags only!]]"
* In ''[[Star Of The Giants]]'', an old-fashioned father would flip over the family dinner table whenever he was morally outraged, ''while they were eating''; the dinner would be subsequently ruined. Several subsequent occurrences of [[Flipping the Table]] were direct references to this scene, which appeared in the series' closing-credits montage; after undergoing [[Memetic Mutation]], [[Flipping the Table]] became part of the visual meme-pool of Japanese comedy in general.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' has a card called "[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Flipping_the_Table Flipping the Table]". In one episode, used by Hayato's (Chumley in the dub) father who (in the Japanese version, at least) was a substantial drunkard and owns a sake company (in the dub, he just owns a hot sauce company). When played, a giant table does invariably appear and Hayato's father does overturn it fairly violently.
* Referred to in two of the ''[[The Slayers|Slayers]]'' [[Non-Serial Movie|Non Serial Movies]]. In ''Slayers: Gorgeous"'', Lina and Naga are engaged in yet another duel of spells, and Lina has cast a spell that, by way of a side effect, froze the surface of a nearby pond; Naga retaliates by summoning up an earth golem and having it perform a ''chabudai-gaeshi'' with the sheet of ice -- it flips through the air and almost crushes Lina. In ''"Slayers: Great"'', while engaged in a battle that parodies the [[Super Robot]] genre, Naga purposely freezes a river the two are duelling near and uses her giant golem to flip the ice sheet to knock Lina's giant golem off of her feet.
* ''[[One Piece]]'': Franky does this during Luffy's fight with the Galley-La company, due to him being denied battling Luffy, since they were the ones fighting in the first place. Also done in Unlimited Adventure, where Franky actually builds a table from scratch, only to flip it mere seconds after finishing it. He also flips another table during the ending cinematic.
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* In ''[[Sora no Otoshimono]]'', Tomoki sometimes does this when he's frustrated with the angeloids shenanigans (usually Ikaros'), such as when Ikaros failed to affect a smile or when the angeloids decided to make an entrance in the roof of his house.
* Referenced by Death in the final episodes of ''[[Soul Eater]]'' when he flips over {{spoiler|Arachnia's fortress while piloting ''Death City transformed into a [[Giant Mecha]]''}}!
* [[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)/Memes|Egypt]] [http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af57/ohthederp/flippingtables.jpg flips tables.]
* Stocking of ''[[Panty and& Stocking Withwith Garterbelt (Anime)|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'' has this reaction to the {{spoiler|Demon Sisters}} calling her fat. She surprises even her usually more hot-blooded sister, Panty.
{{quote| ''"THAT WAS OVER [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|TWO EPISODES AGO]]!"''}}
* Shizuo Heiwajima of ''[[Durarara]]'' has an infamous habit of flipping and tossing the nearest 400-pound object whenever he gets angry. Tables are not excluded.
* In ''Zettai Karen Children'', BABEL has different interview rooms specially designed for different situations. The "Gift of Children" arc shows one for talking to an esper-hater if their child awakens as an esper. It includes a tea table specifically so the parent can flip it if they get angry.
* Done hilariously in ''[[Magico]]'' by a samurai when he finds out that her wife had been lying about her BWH measurements.
* [[Haruhi Chan (Manga)-chan|Haruhi Chan]] had this in episode 3, which is Achakura's first episode. When Achakura is given a doggie dish, the doggie dish appears to contain dog food. Nagato thinks it's a joke and proceeds to give real food to Achakura in said doggie dish. Achakura's response? She '''flips''' the dish. Achakura acually does this with every other food Nagato gives her.
 
== Board Games ==
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* In ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]]'', the newly married Milly flips the table her uncivilized brothers-in-law are sitting at after witnessing their disgusting table manners.
* You will see this once in a while in American sports movies; usually the coach of a losing team flipping a table or bench loaded with Gatorade in order to shock his team into being serious.
* In ''[[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|Beauty and Thethe Beast]]'', Gaston flips over a table that men are playing checkers on. No reason really, probably just that [[Memetic Mutation|nobody flips tables like Gaston]].
* [[Samuel L. Jackson|Jules]] does this early in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', at the beginning of the [[Memetic Mutation|famous "what?" exchange]].
* In the ''[[Thor (Filmfilm)|Thor]]'' film, Odin berates Thor for his belligerence and withholds his Kingship. Thor does ''not'' take this well. The scene them immediately cuts to him flipping over an entire banquet table in frustration.
 
 
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* Parodied in a [[Kids in The Hall]] sketch where a disgruntled employee barges into his boss' office to berate him. He tries to flip the desk over but it proves too heavy. He makes several attempts but fails each time, eventually settling on throwing a pen across the room.
* An episode of ''[[Monk]]'' involved a play where the male lead was supposed to flip over a table in anger. After he becomes the [[Victim of the Week]], Adrian -- after having memorized the entire part just from watching the rehearsal and turning out to be a good actor in his own right -- ends up taking over his role. When it comes around to the table flipping scene, he can't bring himself to do that; instead he removes everything that's on it before carefully turning it on its side.
* ''"WHERE'S MY MAC AND CHEESE?"'' -- ''[[30 Rock (TV)|Thirty Rock]]'', "Sandwich Day"
** Later parodied when Josh tries to storm out in disgust. He's unable to overturn the table, and Lemon urges the other writers to help him.
* On ''[[Top Gear]]'', when James May attempted to play a car-themed version of Top Trumps with The Stig, Stig overturned the table and stormed off in disgust.
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* One of Zangief's attacks in [[Street Fighter|Super Gem Fighter]], complete with him reading a newspaper before getting angry at the opponent and ripping it in half before flipping the table at them.
* In the game ''[[One Piece]]: Unlimited Adventure'', Franky flips a table as part of his animation when creating a new invention in his workshop.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'''s The Heavy in ''[[Poker Night At the Inventory (Video Game)|Poker Night At the Inventory]]'' does this when he loses a large hand--he follows this up by spinning his [[Gatling Good|minigun]], which thankfully, has no ammo.
* Akihabara now has arcade machines that allow players to do this, with the goal being to incur as high a damage cost as possible from all the flying debris.
* In the ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' DLC ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'', the Shadow Broker is revealed to be {{spoiler|a 4 meter tall space gorilla}}. When talking Shepherd and Liara into giving up doesn't work, he jumps from his seat and throws his entire desk as them before charging into battle.
* Meta example: During the development of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Four Swords Adventures]]'', Eiji Aonuma described Miyamoto as "upending the tea table" in the story development, leaving the plot rather... messy. He felt it was too complicated. The phrase has since become a minor meme to the fanbase.
 
 
== Webcomics ==
* Frank in ''[[New School Kids (Webcomic)|New School Kids]]'' flips the table during a bad game of "Trevopoly."
* Comedic rage example in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''. {{spoiler|[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p55/ This superhero] is enraged to discover that [[It Makes Sense in Context|Benjamin Franklin's clone has died again, condemning them both to suffer through truly awful service in the restaurant of the afterlife.]]}}
 
 
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** The latest version includes special moves called "Enlightenment" and "Master Slice", both of which make achieving Rebirth not only possible to do legitimately, but much quicker and easier.
* [[Nigahiga|I spilled table]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu_fNTNbhwE#t=0m02s all over my liquids!]
* On an episode of [[Loading Ready Run]]'s ''[[Commodore HUSTLE]]'', Matt attempts to flip a table after a particularly nasty [[Magic: theThe Gathering]] loss, then finds it to be too heavy. Then Alex brings in a smaller table specially designed for flipping.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* The ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]'' episode ''What Have You Done?'' has Princess Bubblegum flipping a table in both the title card and in the episode itself.
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', Jimmy attempts to do this when subjecting Beezy to some [[Perp Sweating]]. He ends up being too weak to do so, and asks Beezy to help him. He does.
* Averted in ''[[Metalocalypse]]''. The band's manager has their tables bolted down since Nathan does this so often.
* Muscle Man on ''[[Regular Show]]'' flips the table out of anger of being splashed with a soda twice.
* On one episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', Cleveland was living with the Griffins, and in the midst of a messy divorce. While watching tv with Stewie, he finally snaps and says "I ''hate'' [[Bewitched (TV)|Bewitched]]!" when it comes on, and flips the couch over. While Stewie was sitting on it. Stewie responds "[[Sarcasm Mode|Yeah, that was totally reasonable reaction...]]"
 
 
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* Reportedly happened in real life when Ed O'Brien of [[Radiohead]] lost his patience at a restaurant. "He thought he was Jesus in the temple of the moneychangers," fellow bandmember Colin Greenwood commented.
* This can be done with any [[Board Game]] as a method of [[Rage Quit|Rage Quitting]], as seen on the image for that page.
* Stories about players flipping tables are very common in competitive ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]''.
* Football player Jim Everett [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HNgqQVHI_8 did this] to sports reporter Jim Rome when Rome called Everett "[[My Name Is Not Durwood|Chris]]" right after Everett asked him to stop doing so.
* While King Canute and the Danish Earl Ulf were playing chess, the latter overturned the chessboard [[Rage Quit|out of anger]] over the former taking back a move. The king's courtman executed the Earl in church shortly after.
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== Religion ==
* [[The Bible (Literature)|Jesus]] in the temple with the moneychangers. [[Older Than Feudalism]].
 
 
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