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Sheet of Glass
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Two extras are shown carefully carrying a large pane of glass across a street. Cut to a chase. Cut back to the sheet of glass. Inevitably, a car is driven right through the glass, shattering it everywhere. The alternative is that a character walks into it, unaware that it's there, and either smashes straight through it, or bounces off and falls flat on their ass. A standard gag is to have the extras see the first approaching car and scramble to get out of its way, only to have them relax and not notice the pursuer until he smashes through. Alternately, anyone who gets shot is sure to have one of these placed handily behind them so they can be nonsensically blown through it, Intuitor's Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics refers to this as "The Attractive Force of Glass". Nowadays the car chase version is a Dead Horse Trope. Often accompanied by a Fruit Cart or Chase-Scene Obstacle Course. If it's a person going through a window, it's Destination Defenestration. Tearing Through the Movie Screen is a similar effect for chase scenes happening in a movie theater. See also Subverted Trope, where this trope is used as an example to illustrate the variations of it and Playing With: Sheet of Glass. Sub-Trope of Product Delivery Ordeal. Examples |
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In The Bourne Identity, during the Paris car chase, Jason Bourne drives through the glass door of a phone booth that just happened to be open at that moment. | |
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Have Gun – Will Travel: This classic 50s western series had an episode in which Paladin was hired by a shopkeeper to transport a large window pane across a county to his store, while a rival businessman hired someone else to destroy the glass and put his rival out of business. A memorable scene involved Paladin and a friend miming carrying the glass pane between them to throw off the rival, but in reality they were carrying nothing. | |
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Parodied in Great News episode "War is Hell", in which Katie, barreling through the newsroom at top speed, crashes through—the empty space between two crewmen practicing how to carry a sheet of glass. | |
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The Simpsons: Parodied more than once. One time the two men successfully dodge the speeding cars and then they chuck the glass pane into a recycling bin. Another time the glass hits the floor and remains intact, leaving one of the men to say, "Geez, tough glass!". Reverend Lovejoy's train set isn't so lucky: being carried just like a Sheet of Glass, it gets shredded as Homer's car drives through it, prompting Lovejoy to look at the heavens and say "Why do you hate my trains?!" In "Sweets and Sour Marge", after sugar becomes illegalized and Homer attempts to smuggle it from an island, he gets chased by Chief Wiggum's police boat. During the chase, Homer comes across two workers on boats holding a sheet of glass, ducking to avoid breaking it. Chief Wiggum swerves to avoid crashing into the glass and a mother on a jet ski pushing a baby carriage, eventually getting his police boat beached. In "Treehouse of Horror XX", a sheet of glass is being carried by zombies during a chase through zombie-infested Springfield. After the glass breaks, the zombies moan "We need windows too..." |
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At one point during the lengthy plane chase in SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab, one of the obstacles Spongebob has to shoot are two fish carrying a sheet of glass. Lampshades, as one of the fish says something along the lines of, "I knew this was a bad idea!" when it gets shattered. | |
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Tested by the MythBusters. While it's obviously possible to drive through such a sheet of glass, both regular and tempered glass would produce high-speed flying shards that would cause injury to the people actually carrying it. Laminated glass would be safer, but it wouldn't look anything like the spectacular shattering depicted in films, leaving this trope shattered...er, Busted. | |
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The trailers for The Sorcerer's Apprentice show Nick Cage's character drive through one, which reforms. | |
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In the Dennis the Menace episode, "Ruff's Hat Trick", Dennis and Ruff are being chased by a police officer. Two workers are seen carrying a sheet of glass, when Ruff and Dennis approach them. Though the workers manage to avoid having having the sheet of glass shattered by both Ruff and Dennis, they're not so lucky when the police officer comes across them. | |
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In the climax of Eyes of a Stranger, Damsel in Distress Tracy has failed to kill the Serial Killer with a mere shot to the gut, so it's left to her sister Jane to finish the job. She snatches up the gun from the floor and delivers a shot right in the center of the forehead - one of those Pretty Little Headshots that is accentuated by the target being Blown Across the Room into the glass door of a shower stall. | |
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Freefall: When being chased by the police, Sam and Helix wind up with one of these in their way. The last frame of the strip shows that Sam cut out an Impact Silhouette, much to the workers' annoyance. | |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends features two men carrying a mirror. It doubles as a Shout-Out, as the two men carrying it looked exactly like Mario and Luigi. It starts out as a subversion when Eduardo and his friends chasing him for his $100 bill run past them, then it's played straight with the Thief, who crashes through the mirror. | |
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Metalocalypse has an episode where Toki and Rockso are riding around Mordhaus courtyard and they crash through a stained glass window being carried by two Dethklok servants. They then proceed to the fruit stand. | |
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A running gag during one chase scene of The Benny Hill Show features a sheet of glass carried by two workers, narrowly escaping destruction several times... then the chasers finally just run through it, as if the glass wasn't there... and the two carriers drop the sheet. | |
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Played with in Mako Mermaids: An H₂O Adventure. As Zac and Evie attempt to move Rita (stuck in her mermaid form, and using her magic to turn herself invisible) somewhere out-of-the-way, a random student walks toward the "empty" space between them, sees them, stops for a moment, and without a word, completely nonchalantly walks around them, as though expecting the sheet of glass. | |
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Minion Rush: In the Residential and Downtown areas. | |
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A disturbing variant in an episode of American Dad!. The moving men decide to hold the glass horizontally instead of vertically (because it always gets broken that way), and accidentally cut a running man in half as a result. | |
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Smallville: Used extensively; characters would often be thrown through a glass window in slow motion. Culminated in one episode where a character is thrown across the street through a large pane of glass being held vertically on a passing truck. | |
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A chance card in the medical career track in The Sims poses the question to a paramedic Sim: Avoid a traffic jam by driving your ambulance on the sidewalk, or lug your gear on foot for several blocks to the scene you've been called to? Although there is no mention of pedestrians on the sidewalk in the question card, if you choose to drive on the sidewalk and get a bad result... the ambulance has to dodge, among other things, two men carrying a sheet of glass! The incident ends in the Sim getting stopped by the police and losing their job. | |
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In Run Lola Run, a Sheet of Glass is used during all the three times the story repeats: the first and third time, an ambulance manages to brake before hitting the glass; the second time, though, the ambulance isn't so lucky and shatters it. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Likewise, in "Tacking Into the Wind," in the absence of suitable windows, Worf has to be thrown through a tactical display made out of a vertically positioned sheet of transparent material. | |
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The Goodies: In "Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express", the mimes wreak havoc with a mimed sheet of glass that has exactly the same effect that real sheet of glass would have had. | |
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Off the Mark: Inverted in this strip. It's the car that gets damaged, which surprises the workmen. | |
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The Punisher MAX: Justified in one arc where a meth lab is smuggling the product in glass plates, so when Frank sees Jigsaw on the other side, he runs through them to get at him. | |
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Paperboy: This kind of scenario is an obstacle, with the workers shuffling back and forth in the player character's path. | |
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Handled with realism in Hell Teacher Nube. Kyoko and friends are walking down the street, oblivious, while discussing a very ugly-looking man-faced dog that has grown attached to her. As the two workmen carrying the sheet of glass lose their grip, the sheet falls (edge-first) directly towards her neck... and the poor dog dives at her, pushes her out of the way, and is beheaded by the glass. | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: In the episode “Star On Wheels,� This happens to a giant painting. | |
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The Pink Panther: This is featured in "Tickled Pink", with an out-of-control roller skates. | |
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FlatOut Ultimate Carnage has one or more tracks that places a sheet of glass in the middle of one of the jumps. In Riverbay Circuit 3, said jump is also followed by a heavy vehicle holding up sheets of glass above the racing line. | |
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Variation: In Ong-Bak, Tony Jaa's character runs through two guys carrying a pair of sheets parallel to each other (and the sidewalk). Tony then smoothly jumps between them without breaking stride. | |
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In Storks, Junior has to go through a maze of glass panes inside a warehouse while being chased by wolves. Since birds can't see glass, he ends up hitting each and every one until he finally makes it out, only to then run into the classic sheet being carried by two men. | |
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A character in Pieces skateboards through a mirror-sheet. This inspires a killer to cut up women with a chainsaw. | |
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A gag that comes up twice in Rock Dog from characters being launched by touching an electric fence. The workers are able to move the glass out of the way the first time, but not when the character then slingshots back. Bodi shatters the glass, while the much smaller and thinner Angus does a Glass Smack and Slide on it instead. | |
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Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie uses every Chase Scene trope in one go, including this one. The two men carrying the glass scramble out of the way of the Nerd's van, but the glass ends up getting hit by Dark Onward's military vehicle... which wrecks the vehicle but leaves the glass unharmed. | |
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There's a subversion in Regular Show as well: during a vehicle chase there is constant cuts between Rigby looking forward and screaming and two men carrying a glass sheet... then the vehicles pass by the street next to the guys carrying the glass... who promptly drop the glass and take out their phones to take pictures of the chase happening next to them. Rigby was screaming at a picture of a dog with a hat that Eileen sent to him. | |
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In Wayne's World 2, Wayne encounters a group of people whose sole purpose is to stack watermelons in the street, and a pair who walk back and forth with a huge pane of glass. When the inevitable Chase Scene ensues and the car drives through the fruit and glass, those involved congratulate themselves on a job well done. | |
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Played with in The Amazing World of Gumball. Gumball and Darwin are chasing a senior citizen on a mobility scooter, and the two "crash" into a sheet of glass carried by construction workers. However, because the scooter is so slow Gumball and Darwin just lightly press their faces against it. Gumball asks why the workers are carrying the glass around in a park, and they respond by asking him why they're chasing an octogenarian on a scooter. | |
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What's Up, Doc?: The Sheet Of Glass appears in Peter Bogdanovich's affectionate homage to the Screwball Comedy. Subverted in that none of the cars smash it, because the men carrying safely get it to the sidewalk. However, one car does hit the ladder on which another workman is stringing a banner; that guy swings from the broken banner and through the glass. | |
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Feet of Clay, the narrator of this Discworld novel speculates that the people who block every chase in the multiverse with sheets of glass, heavily laden carts and long racks of clothes may be agents of a secret society. | |
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Subverted in Taxi 3, where a bank robber on rollerblades hits a pane of glass being carried across the street in a heated chase scene. Except it's Plexiglas, and the man bounces off without scratching it. | |
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Tim in Final Destination 2 is killed when a sheet of glass falls on and crushes him. | |
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Subverted in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, in which SpongeBob is chasing a frisbee and destroying everything on the beach, and when he nears two guys carrying a sheet of glass the frisbee turns around and continues in the other direction. | |
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Similarly to the above: the Belgian travel company Eurostar ran an ad campaign to promote new rail service from Belgium to London in 2007, which featured two workmen carrying a sheet of glass about to collide with a John Cleese lookalike doing the famous Silly Walk from Monty Python's "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch. The tagline: "Watch out! London is just around the corner!" | |
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Averted then played straight immediately after in The Protector, another Tony Jaa film. Tony's character is being chased (on foot) through an Abandoned Warehouse by a mook on a four-wheeler. He runs down a hallway that ends in a big window, and instead of crashing through it, runs vertically up it. The four wheeler then crashes through underneath him. | |
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Back to the Future (1989): The videogame adaptation for the NES involved timed races from one checkpoint to another while dodging obstacles, with the Sheet of Glass as one of the more sensible enemies (why are ballerinas trying to kill us again?). Oddly, the pane itself is invisible until you crash into it. | |
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South Park (Cancelled) during the Dukes of Hazzard style chase. | |
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The Book of Boba Fett. A variation in "The Streets of Mos Espa" where during a chase scene someone crashes through a painting being carried through the streets. This also counts as a Mythology Gag as the painting is actually concept art by Ralph McQuarrie for Return of the Jedi. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In "This Years Girl" Buffy and Faith are demolishing Joyce's house during their fight. Faith throws open a French door into Buffy's path so she runs right through it. | |
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The Guardians of the Galaxy (2015) episode "Lyin' Eyes" features two aliens carrying a sheet of glass during a chase scene. Rocket Raccoon is small enough to slide under it - Drax, unfortunately, isn't. | |
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In the comedy Short Time during the chase scene a car drives up onto a loading dock and smashes through a truckload of window glass being unloaded. | |
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Amphibia: In "Thai Feud", this routine is done with a large flat-screen TV being passed between two guys in neighboring apartments, and it gets destroyed by the out-of-control food truck Anne and Sprig are driving. | |
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In Gravity Falls's second episode, Dipper, Mabel, and Soos are being chased by the Gobblewonker and crash through this. In the middle of a lake, creating an example not unlike the Simpsons image above. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Since windows in Star Trek tend to be made of transparent aluminum (and lead into space), characters generally have to make do with being thrown through various pieces of glass furniture. A good example is "Conspiracy," where Riker takes a surprisingly long time to get thrown through a glass coffee table. (However, glass furniture seems a bit more prone to being intentionally smashed in fits of rage. As Deanna once enquired of Worf, "Did the table do something wrong?") | |
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