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Dropped Glasses

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Dropped Glasses	comment	Any character who wears glasses and is Blind Without 'Em — which is to say, almost every character who wears glasses on TV — lives in fear of dropping or losing their spectacles, because invariably some helpful but elephantine bystander might promptly step forward to help look for them — and immediately crush them underfoot. That is to say, the character is afraid this will happen, which is why they're frantically searching. Actually crushing the glasses is not a requirement for this trope. The sight-impaired character must then often spend at least part of an episode temporarily blind, either because the glasses end up crushed, or because they just couldn't find them. Sometimes this is done deliberately, with the Jerk Jock or other bully of the week knocking the glasses off and optionally crushing them underfoot in a classic Kick the Dog moment. Truth in Television: Losing your spectacles can be a severe problem, as anyone who has really bad eyesight will testify. Although it's unlikely for the lens of glasses to be crushed when stepped on: in most cases, the frame will warp and a lens might pop out, but both are easily fixable on the spot. Despite the fact that they are still called GLASSes, these days lenses are made from polymers (typically a form of polycarbonate), i.e. plastic, that are lighter and less likely to break (although more prone to scratchesnote Which is actually less of a problem than it would seem, as minor, or even moderate, scratches on the surface of the lens itself are extremely far out of focus, and, thus, almost invisible, when the glasses are actually being worn.). Surprisingly, losing the single screw holding a lens in place (which, in real life, is far far harder to find and repair on the spot, mainly because said screw is tiny) is rarely done on TV. Related to Glasses Curiosity. Not to be confused with A Glass in the Hand. A coincidentally convenient replacement may fall under Universal Eyeglasses.
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Dropped Glasses / int_13d74948	comment	Damsels Don't Wear Glasses. The thing about being a glasses-wearing Action Girl is that glasses can, and will, part from your face during fights.
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Dropped Glasses / int_1ae51709	comment	The Mr. Men Show: in one part of the episode "Eyeglasses," Miss Whoops, as a stewardess, accidentally loses her glasses when a pile of carry-on luggage falls on her. She attempts to carry on with her duties regardless, but since she's Blind Without 'Em, the usual ensues. At one point, Mr. Nervous gives her his own glasses, telling her she needs them more than he does. This doesn't help any, since they have different prescriptions.
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Dropped Glasses / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Every so often, Cyclops' glasses or visor will be knocked off or removed. This enforces Blind Without 'Em on him, because without the glasses, Cyclops unleashes uncontrollable power beams whenever he opens his eyes.
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Dropped Glasses / int_2226c779	comment	In The Magic Treehouse #4, Jack loses his glasses while on the beach and scrambles to find them. It costs him precious time in getting away from the pirates.
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Dropped Glasses / int_22cf7df9	comment	The Goonies: Stef drops her glasses in a dark tunnel and Mikey accidentally steps on them. Despite a few early complaints about finding things hard to see, it doesn't seem to affect her that much, but she spends the remainder of the film squinting.
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Dropped Glasses / int_231a397a	comment	Subverted in the final episode of Tenko where Blind Without 'Em Bea loses hers and is still able to identify The Mole based purely on tone of voice!
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Dropped Glasses / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Milhouse mistook a crab for a dog when he lost his glasses in episode "Summer of 4 foot 2". Elvis Costello panicked when his glasses came off in the episode "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation", not because of impaired vision, but because of... Moleman once drove a large truck which was towing a house. Then a bump knocked off his glasses.
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Dropped Glasses / int_2b113e02	comment	Burns in The Mummy. This is almost immediately rendered moot when Imhotep takes his eyes as part of the curse.
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Dropped Glasses / int_341a1fd2	comment	An episode of Mystery Incorporated subverts this by having Velma drop them, only for her to put them back on a few seconds later because they are within reach. And then she sees Nibiru...
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Dropped Glasses / int_3499459d	comment	Another Code: Jessica loses her glasses early on when she's kidnapped. Ashley finds them and returns them to her about halfway through.
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Dropped Glasses / int_3d756af	comment	Goosebumps (1995): This happens to Brook in "Phantom of the Auditorium" when her and Zeke take an elevator underneath the stage. Zeke then proceeds to steal her glasses and run off.
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Dropped Glasses / int_3f047e59	comment	Our Miss Brooks: Mr. Conklin fell victim to this trope on more than one occasion; i.e. "Cure That Habit", "Living Statues", and "Skis in the Classroom".
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Dropped Glasses / int_47dfc6f	comment	Total Drama: In "One Million Bucks B.C." and by extension "Aftermath III: O-wen or Lose", Harold is without his glasses after he's taken a shower. As a result, he doesn't see the soap that's fallen to the floor and slips on it. Beth loses her glasses during the red carpet challenge in "Rock 'n Rule". The camera flashes worsen her already poor eyesight, but she chooses to continue the challenge without getting her glasses back first. She doesn't get far and destroys several props. Cameron's glasses break due to Mal's trickery and he's forced to do the midnight challenge in Moon Madness with limited sight. For better or worse, Sierra takes care of him.
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Dropped Glasses / int_49333fe0	comment	In The Bank Dick, W.C. Fields' character is trying to keep the bank examiner from looking over the books, knocking off his glasses and 'accidentally' stepping on them. He's dismayed to see the examiner keeps about a dozen spares in his briefcase.
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Dropped Glasses / int_4962e658	comment	This happens to Ms. Norbury in Mean Girls when she tries to break up two girls fighting. Unfortunately they get stepped on before she can retrieve them.
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Dropped Glasses / int_4a5ac974	comment	Brenda from Adventures in Babysitting sees badly enough without her glasses that she mistakes a giant rat for a cat.
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Dropped Glasses / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: Leonard, Raj, and Howard hide out at a Planet of the Apes marathon, leaving Penny to deal with a sick Sheldon. Leonard drops his glasses. Hilarity ensues.
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Dropped Glasses / int_5144055f	comment	Part of a puzzle in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Wally the cartographer is blind without his monocle, which you need to "borrow" to progress in the game. Until you bring him a replacement, Wally is seen frantically and blindly searching for the missing lens.
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Dropped Glasses / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone: A man can find no time to read in peace, but when an apocalyptic nuclear war leaves him the last person alive in a world full of books, he drops and breaks his glasses. Brilliantly parodied in The Scary Door. He not only loses his glasses, but also his eyes, his hands and lastly his tongue and head, thanks to radiation.
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Dropped Glasses / int_55157132	comment	Kozue of Occult Academy constantly drops her glasses and has difficulty finding them again. To the point that a two-parter about her being trapped in the afterlife after a near-death experience happened because her soul had dropped its glasses... only to find them perched on top of her head.
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Dropped Glasses / int_5690420f	comment	DuckTales (1987): In "Take Me Out of the Ballgame", while up at bat, Doofus' glasses fall off. The Beagle Brat back catcher steps on the lenses, smashing them. Doofus still goes on to hit a homerun and win the game.
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Dropped Glasses / int_69daf29	comment	A notable subversion in Grrl Power where Sydney feigns this trope Ã la Velma to let her first opponent villain's guard down before hitting it where it matters.
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Dropped Glasses / int_6c9193a1	comment	In The Venture Brothers, Dr Venture loses his glasses during a fight and does the classic crawling-around-looking-for-them bit... and after he's got them back on, he realizes his glasses may be broken, but his eye is worse.
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Dropped Glasses / int_70814599	comment	When Daniel from Stargate SG-1 is captured/kidnapped, he always wakes up without his glasses. In the later seasons, the writers apparently forgot that his sight was cured way back in the beginning of season 2. That was temporary, a side-effect of using the Sarcophagus. Although you would have thought ascension would have fixed it, or he would have contacts, or even a spare pair... He does have contacts. In the episode he infiltrates the Goauld Peace Conference, he's seen putting them in. That said, it's never actually said that he's Blind Without 'Em. In all likelihood, he has minor vision issues. The closest we get is after he de-ascended and put his old pair back on for the first time. It's also implied that Carter is Blind Without 'Em but this trope is averted as she wears contacts.
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Dropped Glasses / int_746814ae	comment	Arthur once spent most of an episode looking for his glasses, not realizing that they were pushed up on his head.
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Dropped Glasses / int_749d1853	comment	In a variant, Mighty Ray of Hero: 108 occasionally drops his removable eyeballs.
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Dropped Glasses / int_755fadab	comment	Subverted in Haruhi Suzumiya. Yuki Nagato does not need new glasses after they break since they were purely aesthetic, and decides to simply go without them.
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Dropped Glasses / int_85a5a3b9	comment	Transformers: Prime used this with Raf on occasion. The main episode where this occurred technically downplayed it though; Rafe not being able to see well was a problem because they were in completely unfamiliar territory running from killer monsters so having him at risk for tripping was a hazard for all three kids.
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Dropped Glasses / int_8c209cbe	comment	In Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Debra Strobe does this when trying to flee him, rendering her Blind Without 'Em and fumbling to get out of her own backyard. By the time she finds them, it's just in time for Michael to take an axe to her head.
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Dropped Glasses / int_8d814070	comment	Col. Potter and Radar of MAS*H drop their glasses at the same time. They pick them up right away, but when they put them on they immediately realize each picked up the other's glasses. In an episode in an earlier season, a comedically similar incident occurs not involving glasses. Col. Blake drops a temporary filling, which Major Burns then steps on and breaks, leaving the Colonel in agony every time he opens his mouth.
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Dropped Glasses / int_8f9c0e62	comment	Happens in My Girl, when Thomas dies as he's stung to death by a bee swarm.
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Dropped Glasses / int_90ab7fe1	comment	Recess: In "The Kid Came Back", Mikey trips and accidentally tosses his sloppy joe on Gus, causing his glasses to fall off his face. Gus then unknowingly steps on his glasses, breaking them.
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Dropped Glasses / int_93683e89	comment	A sketch in '80s British comedy show Not the Nine O'Clock News involves an intimidating bully who removes a studious-looking man's glasses and crushes them underfoot. "You shouldn't have done that", the bookworm tells him. "Oh yeah? Why not?" "Because you're not wearing any shoes." At which point a pained expression crosses the bully's face and he hobbles away, humiliated.
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Dropped Glasses / int_93b87ae5	comment	Eliza drops her glasses pretty often on The Wild Thornberrys. It becomes rather bad when she's out exploring. Naturally, her eyesight is awful.
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Dropped Glasses / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Played mostly straight in One Piece: When Tashigi drops her glasses, she scrambles to find them. Zoro actually does safely retrieve them for her — but then crushes them in shock upon seeing her face. (Anime-only, though. In the manga, he apparently just hands them to her.)
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Dropped Glasses / int_a15e269a	comment	The movie A Christmas Story has Ralphie accidentally stepping on his own glasses after accidentally shooting them off with his BB gun. He manages to fake his way out of trouble by blaming the accident on an errant icicle.
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Dropped Glasses / int_a183d57f	comment	Brilliantly parodied in The Scary Door. He not only loses his glasses, but also his eyes, his hands and lastly his tongue and head, thanks to radiation.
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Dropped Glasses / int_aff74f6b	comment	In D.N.Angel, Satoshi has moments where he drops his glasses...however, he admits he doesn't actually need them to see. It appears they're actually what's keeping Krad under control, so while he can see fine without them this is still a problem.
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Dropped Glasses / int_b2ba506	comment	The Endeavour episode Colours features a somewhat more realistic take: the killer's glasses break on the scene of the crime, but are easily mended... except for the tiny screw, which remains lost. He later returns to search for it, but Morse finds it first. (The unrealistic part is Morse accidentally spotting the screw on the ground, at dusk, when he wasn't even looking for it.)
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Dropped Glasses / int_b507f2d1	comment	Velma from the Scooby-Doo cartoons was always losing hers at the worst possible times. Which was subsequently parodied in Johnny Bravo, in the Crossover episode "Bravo-Dooby-Doo", when Velma drops her glasses and Johnny drops his Cool Shades: An episode of Mystery Incorporated subverts this by having Velma drop them, only for her to put them back on a few seconds later because they are within reach. And then she sees Nibiru...
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Dropped Glasses / int_b5761a43	comment	Olivia in Final Destination 5 loses her glasses in the opening bridge collapse, rendering her helpless as she falls into the water below and is crushed by a falling car.
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Dropped Glasses / int_b98da5d2	comment	Used to good effect in Love Hina, with fumbling for his glasses getting Keitaro another Megaton Punch in one episode, and in another leading to both he and Naru (both Blind Without 'Em) having a great time on a date, without realizing they were with each other.
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Dropped Glasses / int_bd310eaa	comment	Used in El Goonish Shive to reveal that the character doesn't really need them.
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Dropped Glasses / int_cb6abea3	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Weevil Underwood/Insector Haga pretends to do this during the Doma Arc when he is found crawling on the floor, looking for rare cards. He just threw them a few inches away and this was pointed out fairly quickly, but the act of desperation still did the job as it warded off further questioning on the matter.
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Dropped Glasses / int_cd63e81d	comment	A pair of crushed glasses found at the scene of a murder become important evidence in the first case of the second Ace Attorney game. And in another game in the series Godot is rendered temporarily blind when he loses his eye mask.
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Dropped Glasses / int_cf2d20a8	comment	Which was subsequently parodied in Johnny Bravo, in the Crossover episode "Bravo-Dooby-Doo", when Velma drops her glasses and Johnny drops his Cool Shades:
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Dropped Glasses / int_d0799db8	comment	Dennis Nedry from the film version of Jurassic Park loses his glasses, which not only renders him vulnerable to the blinding poison of the Dilophosaurs, but also gives one of them time to hide in his car.
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Dropped Glasses / int_d4b50b28	comment	This happens to Dean Higgins for a few seconds in The Strongest Man in the World, when attempting to clean his glasses after they got fogged up after he eats some of the strength formula-laced cereal.
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Dropped Glasses / int_d56cd064	comment	Power Rangers Zeo once played this trope strictly by the book: Billy, whose glasses went away during the slight toning-down of his extreme stereotypical geek persona, has his contacts knocked out by visiting alien Cestro, who slapped him on the back a bit too hard. The robot Alpha promptly stepped on them while attempting to help search, and two worlds were put in jeopardy as essentially blind Billy couldn't finish the weapon he was working on.
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Dropped Glasses / int_da02c1ef	comment	Inverted and subverted in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Your own character (Mario) accidentally crushes someone else's contact lens, but she can still see. She demands for you to get her a new one before you can continue saving the world.
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Dropped Glasses / int_e0730aee	comment	When the plane wrecks early in Dr. Franklin's Island, Semi loses her glasses and contacts and has to live in a blur, constantly afraid that she's being a drain on her companions, and needing things at a distance described to her. It reaches the verge of making her an Unreliable Narrator. When transformed, her eyesight improves.
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Dropped Glasses / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Setsuna effectively wins her first fight with Tsukuyomi in Negima! Magister Negi Magi by knocking her glasses off. She's helpless without her glasses.
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Dropped Glasses / int_e936047a	comment	This happens once to Phoebe on Hey Arnold! when she is hall monitor. We see students stepping on them as she frantically searches for them.
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Dropped Glasses / int_ec19bd89	comment	In Saiyuki Gaiden, this happening at a most inconvenient time leads to Tenpou being killed in a fight he was actually winning prior to that point.
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Dropped Glasses / int_ef0cb827	comment	Parodied in a Pop Team Epic strip where Popuko drops her glasses. She not only misses them while looking for them, she somehow winds up in space looking for them.
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Dropped Glasses / int_f16ee232	comment	In The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov, a dropped pair of glasses is critical to the case.
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Dropped Glasses / int_f3315208	comment	Date A Live: Altered Timeline: Implied to be a common occurrence with Nia, along with them breaking after they fall off, since she carries multiple spares on hand.
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Dropped Glasses / int_f361b493	comment	On I Love Lucy, when Lucy & Ricky go to Hollywood, Lucy is boasting about all the movie stars she's meeting. When a friend from New York stops by, Lucy and Ethel hide her glasses so Lucy can impersonate (badly) a whole string of famous actors. The payoff comes when Lucy is disguised as Harpo Marx ... just as the real Harpo shows up.
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Dropped Glasses / int_f724b70d	comment	JÃ©rÃ©mie Belpois in Code Lyoko will occasionally lose his glasses due to XANA's attack of the week.
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Dropped Glasses / int_fc0e7530	comment	In an episode of Dexter's Laboratory, Dee Dee steals Dexter's glasses and then drops them on the floor for everybody to step on, by the time he finds them the lenses are completely cracked.
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Dropped Glasses / int_fc83a067	comment	Naturally, this happens to Velma in Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed. She even lampshades this, remarking, "I have got to consider contact lenses." The Blind Without 'Em aspect of the trope is downplayed, however, in that while searching for them, she stumbles across a vital clue to the Big Bad's identity that she is still able to make out.
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Dropped Glasses / int_ff9ab17f	comment	This happened a few times with Geordi LaForge of Star Trek: The Next Generation, but not to excessive frequency. His VISOR is apparently too durable to be subject to breaking, but Phlebotinum Breakdown has led to it becoming non-functional for an episode. In "The Skin of Evil", the Evil is Petty Monster of the Week teleports the VISOR off his face so Geordi has to grope for them on the ground. When the others try to guide him, he then re-teleports them a short distance elsewhere just to troll him.
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