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== [[Music]] ==
== [[Music]] ==
* [[Played for Laughs]] in [[Key of Awesome]]'s parody of [[Kesha]]'s "Tic-Toc" music video. The actress who played Kesha commented several times that the staircase scene was the hardest one she has ever done for the KOA.
* [[Played for Laughs]] in [[Key of Awesome]]'s parody of [[Ke$ha]]'s "Tic-Toc" music video. The actress who played Kesha commented several times that the staircase scene was the hardest one she has ever done for the KOA.
* Happens to the narrator in [[Dead Kennedys]]' "Too Drunk to Fuck" as a consequence of his drinking.
* Happens to the narrator in [[Dead Kennedys]]' "Too Drunk to Fuck" as a consequence of his drinking.


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* This was a common way to die in old [[Adventure Game|adventure games]], especially Sierra games, which [[The Many Deaths of You|mocked the player]] for the various ways in which you could get yourself killed by performing ordinary tasks. The ''[[King's Quest]]'' series is a particularly bad offender.
* This was a common way to die in old [[Adventure Game|adventure games]], especially Sierra games, which [[The Many Deaths of You|mocked the player]] for the various ways in which you could get yourself killed by performing ordinary tasks. The ''[[King's Quest]]'' series is a particularly bad offender.
* In ''[[Deardrops]]'', Shinichi pushed his fellow violinist Johan down a flight of stairs on impulse, injuring him, due to stress.
* In ''[[Deardrops]]'', Shinichi pushed his fellow violinist Johan down a flight of stairs on impulse, injuring him, due to stress.
* In the [[Otome Game|otome]] [[Visual Novel]], ''[[Planets|(P)lanets]]'', the main character gains her [[Telepathy|telepathic powers]] after tripping down a flight of stairs at her school.
* In the [[Otome Game|otome]] [[Visual Novel]], ''[[Planets|(P)lanets]]'', the main character gains her [[Telepathy|telepathic powers]] after tripping down a flight of stairs at her school.


== [[Web Animation]] ==
== [[Web Animation]] ==
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** In an early episode, Homer fell down the stairs tripping on Bart's skateboard angering at his son's hallway mess. He spent the first act laying on the couch due to his back pain.
** In an early episode, Homer fell down the stairs tripping on Bart's skateboard angering at his son's hallway mess. He spent the first act laying on the couch due to his back pain.
** A [[Running Gag]] in "Bart the Mother" is Homer falling down the basement stairs due to Bart's actions.
** A [[Running Gag]] in "Bart the Mother" is Homer falling down the basement stairs due to Bart's actions.
* A major subplot in ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Brian Griffin's House of Payne" when Chris and Meg's misbehavior pushed Stewie down the stairs causing a severe head wound.
* A major subplot in ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Brian Griffin's House of Payne" when Chris and Meg's misbehavior pushed Stewie down the stairs causing a severe head wound.
** One cutaway gag shows Bobby McFerrin falling down the stairs.
** One cutaway gag shows Bobby McFerrin falling down the stairs.
* In the ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' episode "[[Sdrawkcab Name|SDRAWKCAB]]", Dexter gets manipulated into running up and down a flight of stairs, causing his father standing next to him to get dizzy and come tumbling down.
* In the ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' episode "[[Sdrawkcab Name|SDRAWKCAB]]", Dexter gets manipulated into running up and down a flight of stairs, causing his father standing next to him to get dizzy and come tumbling down.