Piano Drop: Difference between revisions

[[Anvil Onon Head]] is a similar gag [[Captain Obvious|using an anvil]].

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* There's a wonderful [https://web.archive.org/web/20160325095907/http://cassies.adbeast.com/2001winners/reels/sr_clarica/index.html commercial for Clarica investment company] (now merged with Sun Life) in which a woman is sitting at a bus stop. Suddenly, a man at the bus stop across the street looks hectically up at the sky, then madly starts gesticulating, pointing, and yelling, but she can't hear him. Finally someone else comes along, sees what the man's so freaked out about, [[Hammerspace|pulls out]] a piece of cardboard and a marker, draws a [[Talking Withwith Signs|big up arrow]], and shows it to the woman. She looks up, then dives out of the way an instant before a falling piano crushes the bus stop. The tagline: "There's a lot to be said for clarity."

* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', Eddie Valiant's brother and partner was murdered by a rogue Toon who dropped a piano on his head. One of the movie's many "barely inconvenient for Toons, lethal for humans" reminders. Unlike most examples this is not remotely played for laughs.

* The classic [[Laurel and Hardy]] short ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_Box_:The Music Box (film) |The Music Box]]'' - except that a pulley is only used briefly, and most of the business revolves around an incredibly long flight of stairs.

* In ''[[Zombieland (Film)|Zombieland]]'', the "Zombie Kill of the Week" goes to a [[Badass]] [[Never Mess Withwith Granny|little old lady]] who sets up a Piano with a pulley on purpose to fall on a zombie.

** The exception being the first one they destroyed, in the "Did the Communists ever make a good car?" segment. That one got [[Kill It Withwith Fire|set on fire]] and used as a brazier.

{{quote| '''George:''' I saw them drop a piano on some chick's head. I don't think they're looking to score points on originality.}}

* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "Human Nature", the Doctor averts a piano drop.

* In the ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]'' song "Danger's No Stranger" (the video for which parodies the [[Music Video]] trend of [[The Eighties]] of a rock band playing in a dark alley), someone is dropped like this to go with the lyrics "And don't walk under a fallin' piano"

{{quote| "At last! Relief for Muggeridge sufferers, with new Burkiss Grand Pianos! Simply haul it up to a fourth storey window, wait for Malcolm Muggeridge to come along..."}}

* In the [[TRS -80]] [[Text Adventure]] game ''Asylum'', if you ever look up, a piano immediately falls on your head and kills you.

* Peacock in ''[[Skullgirls (Video Game)|Skullgirls]]'' can drop a piano on you, and roughly 20 other items of varying sizes as well.

== WebcomicsWeb Comics ==

* In ''[[The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat (Webcomic)|The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat]]'', having a piano dropped on your head and playing the keys right, [http://dtoons.com/conroy/2011/01/piano-lessons/ is part of his training to become a toon star.]

* ''[[The Critic]]'': When Jay decides to audition to be Siskel's and Ebert's replacement (they had split up), he sings [[Tempting Fate|"Nothing's gonna stop me now!"]] So an [[Anvil Onon Head|anvil]] falls on his head. Then a piano. [[Rule of Three|Then]] a [[Space Whale|whale]].

{{quote| [[Private Eye Monologue|"Needing tuning; It was flat. So was the piano player. He played that ten-finger rag all the way down. I guess some guys never learn."]]}}

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has Twilight Sparkle failing to heed Pinkie Pie's [[Spider Sense]] about falling things in "Feeling Pinkie Keen". Cue a flower pot falling on her head, [[Anvil Onon Head|followed by an anvil]], followed by a hay wagon, and finally, a piano. The camera then tilts up to [[Ascended Meme|Derpy Hooves]] and a couple of other pegasi who were working on a pegasus-drawn moving truck that the things fell out of.

* The Esther episode of ''[[Veggie Tales (Animation)|Veggie Tales]]'' involved a piano drop as part of a plot to assassinate the king.

* In the ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'' short "Heavenly Puss", Tom is pulling on a stair rug to try to catch Jerry. He ends up pulling an upright piano down the stairs, which [[Squashed Flat|flattens him against the wall.]]