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Mind Your Step
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There is a set of stairs that has one step that has something wrong with it. Perhaps it's broken, perhaps it squeaks. For whatever reason, the characters have reason to avoid it. And, most of the time, they do. Until that one time when they are in a tearing hurry and they forget all about it. Their foot comes down on the defective step and Hilarity Ensues. May lead to Death by Falling Over, both in serious and funny contexts, and also in real life. This trope is one reason for a Staircase Tumble, but not the only one. |
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The Belgariad: Belgarath's Mage Tower has one loose step, which he's been warning people to step over for thousands of years. Garion finally fixes it and finds a diamond underneath, reminding Belgarath that he'd put it there to see how long it would take to grind down to dust, then promptly forgotten. By then, he's so used to the loose step that he puts the diamond back. | |
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This often occurs in classic animated shorts, especially Looney Tunes, and is usually followed by: "Watch that first step, it's a lulu", or some other variant. Although often, this same phrase was accompanied with a gag where a character would inadvertently walk off the edge of a cliff. Happens almost word-for-word in Goldimouse and the Three Cats when Sylvester takes his family for a walk: |
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In Muppet Treasure Island, Benjamina (Ms. Piggy) ruins her huge entrance by tumbling down the stairs. She blames her pet anteater. | |
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Harry Potter: One of the staircases in Hogwarts has a 'sinking stair' that traps anyone who steps on it. Neville usually forgets about it and gets stuck. It becomes more serious when Harry is trapped by it while wearing the Invisibility Cloak in Goblet of Fire. There's a more passive example from Chamber of Secrets, when Ron and his twin brothers come to rescue Harry from the Dursleys. As they sneak downstairs to get Harry's belongings, he warns them that the bottom step creaks. |
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Married... with Children has the third step of the basement stairway being broken to the point of being a fall hazard. | |
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In Sesame Street, Maria climbs into Oscar's trash can to look for baby Natasha. Oscar tells her to count twenty steps down in the dark, but there is a crash on the last step. Oscar then tells her that the step is broken. | |
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Homestuck plays a variation: Tavros is repeatedly warned about stairs, specifically that his new robot legs are not fit for traversing them as of yet. He's got too much self-confidence to heed the warnings, though, and chooses to try going up and down the things to test them out. Much as you'd expect, his legs fail to handle them properly and he trips down them. Repeatedly. Which is is a reference to Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff by the same author. It's pretty much law in Homestuck that if there are stairs, someone WILL fall down them. |
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This happens in Who Framed Roger Rabbit when Eddie takes Droopy's elevator. | |
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In A Wrinkle in Time one of the steps on stairs (not stairs on the steps) creaks and Charles Wallace uses that to signal to Meg that he wants a conference. | |
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Father Brown: In "The Queen Bee", the Victim of the Week is climbing a ladder when the top rung comes away and they fall off (non-fatally). It is later revealed that her son had sawn through the bottom rung as a practical joke: expecting for it snap as she stands on it and for her fall over. However, she placed the ladder upside down. | |
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A variant in Everybody Loves Raymond. When Ray hurts himself in a particularly athletic bedroom session, he claims he tripped on a broken step to his parents. It backfires when turns out the stairs really were broken and Frank falls THROUGH them when he investigates. | |
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Big Finish Doctor Who: Castle of Fear: The Doctor misses one... And hits every step on the way down the stairs. The Witch from the Well: The Doctor slides down a slope, and warns the others of this. |
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Cradle of Fear: When Sophie and Emma are sneaking into the old man's house, Sophie almost trips over a loose board on the stairs. When she flees the bedroom, she trips over this same loose board, slams her head into the wall and knocks herself out. | |
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In Snuff Movie, Leon tells the actors not to wander into the west wing of the house, as the floors are rotten and unstable. Matt disregards this and starts down the stairs, only to immediately put his foot through one. Leon then says that from now on he intends his words to be taken seriously. | |
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Which is is a reference to Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff by the same author. | |
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Stōked! | |
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Murder, She Wrote: A squeaky board on the stairs (that the killer does not know about) provides a vital clue in "Shear Madness". In "The Witch's Curse", Robert Urich's character is laid up in a wheelchair because his stairs were being refinished and he forgot about it: falling down the stairs and fracturing his leg in multiple places. |
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Rugrats: As Lou gives Stu, Didi, and Drew a tour of Flushing Waters in "Grandpa Moves Out", he reminds them to watch out for the loose floorboards. | |
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In Sword of Truth, the condition of the stairs in the house which Richard moves into with Nicci is bad enough that he launches into a full-scale tirade at his three thuggish, knife-wielding housemates, saying something along the lines of "put a shirt on and fix those stairs or you'll never amount to anything". Two of them listen, and do end up better for it. The third is another story. | |
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This happened to game show host Jim Peck on The Big Showdown. The show had a large staircase at the back, and on his way down, Peck tripped on one of the stairs. They left the camera running as he got up, looked at the audience and said, "Sure, you people would applaud a lynching!" But was this due to a defective step or Peck simply losing his footing? |
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In The Hillbilly Bears cartoons, their front porch has a loose floorboard that regularly hits Paw (and ONLY Paw) in the face when he steps on it. | |
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Twice in Don't Breathe a squeaky floorboard in the living room gives away the intruders' location to the Blind Man. | |
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Yours Truly: One of the steps on the stairway in the Lovejoy household squeaks whenever it's stepped on. When Mackenzie steps on it, producing a loud noise, Truly's mom calls to her dad to fix it. | |
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Happens in Mickey's Christmas Carol, as Marley's ghost bids farewell to Scrooge and walks through his bedroom wall. | |
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In The Chronicles of Amber, Gerard keeps insisting that there is a loose step on the stairs to the Pattern Room. No one else ever seems to notice it. Gerard is The Big Guy, literally as well as figuratively, so it's possible that the stair only squeaks under his greater weight. He gets annoyed enough by it that he leaves a note pinned to it with a dagger that says "This one, damn it!" but even knowing which one it is, nobody can find anything wrong with it. | |
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