Swivel Chair Antics: Difference between revisions

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Could include either someone spinning in a chair out of boredom or restlessness, rolling around in it in favor of just getting up, [[Die Hard (Film)|rigging them with explosives to fight bad guys with]], or riding them like makeshift chariots.

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* There was a [[Britcom]] called ''Two In Clover'' where the heroes leave their boring job by tying their boss to a swivel chair and pushing him out the window. On the ground floor, it is hoped, although it may well be a fantasy sequence...

* Early in ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'', the eponymous character [[Destination Defenestration|defenestrates a corporate executive on swivel chair through a glass wall]]. Only the chair hits the ground, the executive having combusted on exposure to direct sunlight.

* The Countess Dowager(Maggie Smith) on ''[[Downton Abbey]]'' is caught off guard to be sitting in one when she visits Matthew Crawley's office:

{{quote| '''Countess:''' (almost falling off) Good heavens! what am I sitting on?<br />

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