Priceless Ming Vase: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|'''Krusty''': Why, this rickety ladder in front of this door is the perfect place for this [[Trope Namer|priceless Ming vase]]. Eh? Eh?

* In [[Gordon Korman]]'s ''This Can't Be Happening at [[Macdonald Hall]]!'', Boots, in an attempt to annoy his snobbish new roommate enough to force the headmaster to reunite him with his ''old'' roommate Bruno, deliberately used three of said roommate's mint 1886 Queen Victoria Canadian stamps to mail a letter to his mother.

* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] in ''[[Septimus Heap]]'', where in ''Darke'' Larry from Dead Languages translation puts such a vase in front of his easily stuck front door so that people coming in will fall on the vase, break it and have to pay for it.

 

 

::After they make up, Duncan buys them another Ming vase. It ends up broken too, because Methos thinks it's funny.

* ''[[Seinfeld]]'': The cabin. ''Cherish'' the cabin.

{{quote|'''Blanche''': You shot my vase!

'''Sophia''': Thank God I hated that thing!

** It's also something of a subversion, because if you scan it beforehand, Tippi will say it's worth only 100 coins at the most.

* In the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' games, the Fey clan's greatest treasure is the Sacred Urn, said to house the soul of the clan's founder. It gets broken and put back together again at least three times over the course of ''Justice for All'' and ''Trials and Tribulations''.

* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'', Link can break some of these, but if he breaks too many, he has to pay 10 rupees each.

** A sidequest in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks|The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks]]'' has Link bring an incredibly fragile vessel to Steem so he may decorate his sanctuary. The slightest hit from an enemy attack or reckless actions on the rails will smash it to pieces. Even when Steem has the vessel safe and sound- it ''isn't.'' Don't even think about whacking it with a sword.

** Homer has also torn and spilled chocolate on the US Bill of Rights [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|while sitting in Archie Bunker's chair]], and destroyed the Stonecutter Sacred Parchment by using it as a napkin.

* ''[[The Critic]]'': Parodied in a spoof of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''. "Mr. Sweaty Guy, this is the original copy of the U.S. Constitution. It's been kept dry for two hundred years. I want ''you'' to hold it."

** Played straight in another episode where, while attempting to find out if the world really has stopped having sound, Timmy causes a domino effect in his living room which destroys a Faberge Egg, a Ming vase, the Venus of Milo and ''The Holy Grail''. With the world being silent, though, his parents are unable to yell at him.

* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': [[Zig-Zagging Trope|Zig-zagged]] to hell and back in "Wet Painters": SpongeBob and Patrick are hired to paint Mr. Krabs's knickknack-festooned living room with paint that supposedly never, ''ever'' comes out. They manage to paint the entire room (pretty much by accident) without getting paint on anything else. At first it appears that they are off the hook, until SpongeBob notices a ''tiny, nearly microscopic speck of paint'' on [[Number One Dime|Krabs' first dollar earned]]. Trying to wipe it off only spreads the paint all over, and they spend the rest of the episode trying to get it off, then hiding it from Mr. Krabs. Finally, Krabs discovers the painted bill, and '''licks it clean!''' Turns out [[Shaggy Dog Story|Krabs only told them the paint was unwashable]] to mess with them, which causes him to laugh so hard he gets spit all over the walls, [[Laser-Guided Karma|washing off all of the paint]].