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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* [[Gaston Lagaffe]]'s [[Xenophone|dreadful instrument]], the Gaffophone.

 

== [[Film]] ==

{{quote| '''Fat Lady:''' It's amazing! And just with my voice!}}

* In ''[[Victor Victoria]]'', Julie Andrews' character does this with the high note at the end of her stage act (her voice also pops a champagne cork).

* In ''[[Splash]]'', Madison saying her real name [[Starfish Language|in her native language]] causes all the TV screens on a department store to shatter.

* ''[[Last Action Hero]]'' has this in [[Movie Land]] when the Lieutenant screaming for Jack Slater causing his windows to break.

* Invoked and parodied in ''[[The Absent Minded Professor]]'': The opening scene features Professor Brainard attempting to demonstrate this with a trumpet and a glass placed on the table. His playing fails to crack the glass but manages to shatter every ''other'' glass object in the room, including beakers full of chemicals that fill the room with smoke as the opening credits roll.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In ''[[Nursery Crime|The Fourth Bear]]'', [[Punch and Judy|Judy]]'s scream is so shrill, it makes a nearby flowerpot shatter.

* The purpose of {{spoiler|the screaming clock}} in ''[[The Three Investigators]]''.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' has a scene where Ms. Martin tries to give London singing lessons. They start with the simple "Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do", but once London reaches the last Do, the note shatters a glass on the table in front of them.

* ''[[Myth Busters]]'' tested this one and managed to replicate it. Jamie wasn't able to hold the right note long enough to break the wine crystal, but Adam was, and the metal singer they brought in to give vocal lessons was able to break it without even using any amplification.

** Another time, a [[Brawn Hilda]] opera singer is recruited to hit a high note to shatter an unbreakable glass cell holding a captive scientist - when her note breaks all the glass in the vicinity ''except'' the booth, she squares her shoulders and just walks right through it.

* ''[[The Amanda Show]]'' has this when Amanda demonstrates the audience if she can break a wine glass with her voice. All the glass around the studio breaks, but not the wine glass until she just purposely breaks it herself.

* An episode of ''[[Bonanza]]'' revolved around a man with a glass-shattering voice. The Cartwrights had to protect him after he broke every glass in Virginia City and the enraged beer drinkers came looking for revenge.

{{quote| '''Kermit:''' Did you also double as an air-raid siren during The War?}}

** A series of newspaper comics had Piggy trying to do it herself. Her first attempt cracked the ''table''.

 

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In one episode of ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'s Berry Bitty Adventures'', Katie and Sadie's singing is so bad that it cracks Lemon Meringue's mirror, which wasn't even in the same house.

* In an episode of ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'', an opera singer named Alicia Botti sees a mouse in one of the coaches and her scream shatters windows around the dockyard.

* In one ''[[Making Fiends]]'' episode, Vendetta's kazoo-playing shatters a mirror.

* One ''[[Monster High]]'' webisode has [[Make Me Wanna Shout|Operetta]] breaking Ghoulia's glasses as well as the glass on the school's windows with a ''sneeze''. Cleo's screaming has also broken windows multiple times.

* In the ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' episode "Chip Off the Old Chip", a [[Running Gag]] involves Timmy's terrible voice winds up breaking some glass, while Chip Skylark's voice makes the glass magically unbreak. When Timmy and Chip wind up switching voices, Timmy now has the ability to fix the glass Chip broke with Timmy's awful voice.

 

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