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Tablecloth Yank

185 statements
34 feature instances
22 referencing feature instances

Tablecloth Yank	type	FeatureClass
Tablecloth Yank	label	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank	page	TableclothYank
Tablecloth Yank	comment	A white tablecloth. A beautiful placesetting (bonus points for a lot of fine crystal or a vase of fresh flowers). Our Hero takes one corner of the cloth and with a single pull whips the tablecloth off the table, leaving the placesetting undisturbed. This trick is a good, showy way to demonstrate that a character is a stage magician or is otherwise unusually dexterous. (It also demonstrates that the character knows physics — the dishes and glasses are held in place by inertia.) And even when this trick fails — sending flowers, silver, and glass everywhere — it's still entertaining.
Tablecloth Yank	fetched	2023-10-10T22:16:48Z
Tablecloth Yank	parsed	2023-10-10T22:16:48Z
Tablecloth Yank	processingComment	Dropped link to CreativeClosingCredits: Not an Item - FEATURE
Tablecloth Yank	processingComment	Dropped link to LiteralMusicVideo: Not an Item - FEATURE
Tablecloth Yank	processingComment	Dropped link to ProjectA2: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Tablecloth Yank	processingComment	Dropped link to SpringtimeForHitler: Not an Item - FEATURE
Tablecloth Yank	processingComment	Dropped link to TheTeaser: Not an Item - FEATURE
Tablecloth Yank	processingComment	Dropped link to WarioWareSmoothMoves: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Tablecloth Yank	processingUnknown	ProjectA2
Tablecloth Yank	processingUnknown	WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Video Game)
Tablecloth Yank	isPartOf	DBTropes
Tablecloth Yank / int_10861ce9	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_10861ce9	comment	In The Smurfs episode "Tick Tock Smurfs", Clumsy is told by his fellow Smurfs to clear the table because they're on Brainy's time schedule, and Clumsy does it by yanking the tablecloth, causing food to spill right onto Papa Smurf's face.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_10861ce9	featureConfidence	1.0
The Smurfs	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_10861ce9
Tablecloth Yank / int_1334e196	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_1334e196	comment	Promise Her Anything: Michele's frantic scramble to conceal all signs of a child in her apartment (her date is arriving and he doesn't know about her son) ends with her whipping off a kid-friendly tablecloth, leaving the vase of flowers in place.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_1334e196	featureConfidence	1.0
Promise Her Anything	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_1334e196
Tablecloth Yank / int_1c91e22b	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_1c91e22b	comment	In the animation Dad's Home, the titular Dad successfully pulls this near the end, for no particular reason and on a table that had no reason to be where it was. He also kicks the table over immediately afterwards.
Tablecloth Yank / int_1c91e22b	featureApplicability	1.0
Tablecloth Yank / int_1c91e22b	featureConfidence	1.0
Dad Series (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_1c91e22b
Tablecloth Yank / int_1f720e0	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_1f720e0	comment	Willy has to accomplish this in The Adventures of Willy Beamish, since the tablecloth is a key item. Doing it while a goblet is still on the table will make it topple over, alerting the residents of the house he's currently sneaking around in.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_1f720e0	featureConfidence	1.0
The Adventures of Willy Beamish (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_1f720e0
Tablecloth Yank / int_222c2051	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_222c2051	comment	Captain Awesome did this on Chuck.
Tablecloth Yank / int_222c2051	featureApplicability	1.0
Tablecloth Yank / int_222c2051	featureConfidence	1.0
Chuck	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_222c2051
Tablecloth Yank / int_27b0262b	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_27b0262b	comment	The MythBusters took on a viral video showing this trick being done on a banquet table, with a motorcycle. It didn't work. Note that the video had a much, much longer tablecloth than most versions of this stunt. It is later shown how such tricks are frequently fabricated for the camera by using a pane of glass over the tablecloth but under the set and decorations to keep the latter stable as the cloth is yanked out from under both the items on the table and the glass holding them up.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_27b0262b	featureConfidence	1.0
MythBusters	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_27b0262b
Tablecloth Yank / int_2fcc38cb	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_2fcc38cb	comment	How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: Done successfully by the Grinch when trying to retrieve a tablecloth...only to immediately run back to the table and knock everything over himself. The table included. Apparently Jim Carrey got it right the very first time and had to improvise, leading to this scene.
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HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_2fcc38cb
Tablecloth Yank / int_3adfb1ba	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_3adfb1ba	comment	In an episode of House of Mouse, Jose Carioca tries to teach Goofy to be refined and swipes a tablecloth from underneath Lumiere, Cogsworth and Mrs. Potts. At the end, Goofy attempts to pull this trick in his own "goofy" fashion.
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House of Mouse	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_3adfb1ba
Tablecloth Yank / int_3b73f906	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_3b73f906	comment	In The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Tigger successfully pulls a cloth off Piglet's table without harming any of the dishes. Then he turns to leave the room:
Tablecloth Yank / int_3b73f906	featureApplicability	1.0
Tablecloth Yank / int_3b73f906	featureConfidence	1.0
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_3b73f906
Tablecloth Yank / int_40c8681	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_40c8681	comment	Forest Kingdom: Gleefully averted in the Hawk & Fisher spinoff series' book 4 (Wolf in the Fold), in which Fisher snatches up a tablecloth to cover the naked body of a dead man. The toppling crash of place settings is described in all its destructive glory.
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Forest Kingdom	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_40c8681
Tablecloth Yank / int_4c4e08ca	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_4c4e08ca	comment	Benny Hill from The Benny Hill Show has done Tablecloth Yank quite a few times and has sometimes succeeded and sometimes failed. In one of the episodes, he also did an inversion of a classic Tablecloth Yank.
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The Benny Hill Show	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_4c4e08ca
Tablecloth Yank / int_503d3d54	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_503d3d54	comment	In The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Frank N. Furter does this after the song "Eddie's Teddy" to reveal Eddie's unfortunate fate.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_503d3d54	featureConfidence	1.0
The Rocky Horror Picture Show	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_503d3d54
Tablecloth Yank / int_56ca6c63	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_56ca6c63	comment	In The Peanuts Movie, Charlie Brown tries to incorporate this into a magic act. While practicing the first time everything falls and the second time he pulls the whole table out while the objects stay in mid air for a second. It's only later when he cancels his act and retrieves the table cloth, he does the trope successfully.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_56ca6c63	featureConfidence	1.0
The Peanuts Movie	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_56ca6c63
Tablecloth Yank / int_61339eee	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_61339eee	comment	Das Boot: During the scene in the La Rochelle whorehouse, one crew member tries this. He's so drunk he can barely stand, so needless to say he fails.
Tablecloth Yank / int_61339eee	featureApplicability	1.0
Tablecloth Yank / int_61339eee	featureConfidence	1.0
Das Boot	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_61339eee
Tablecloth Yank / int_6c4df4aa	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_6c4df4aa	comment	In Granada's Sherlock Holmes, Holmes (Jeremy Brett) does this near the end of "The Six Napoleons". See it here.
Tablecloth Yank / int_6c4df4aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Tablecloth Yank / int_6c4df4aa	featureConfidence	1.0
Sherlock Holmes	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_6c4df4aa
Tablecloth Yank / int_6e33f3df	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_6e33f3df	comment	Subverted in The Beatles cartoon "Please Please Me." Ants invade the boys' picnic, so Ringo grabs the blanket and yanks it off the ground, leaving the settings and fixings undisturbed.
Tablecloth Yank / int_6e33f3df	featureApplicability	-0.3
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The Beatles	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_6e33f3df
Tablecloth Yank / int_6e98faa	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_6e98faa	comment	Super Mario Party: In the Rhythm minigame Clearing the Table, each player has a table topped with a tablecloth of their player color, and a pile of glasses are dropped atop the table in time with the music. When the pile is complete, on the next beat, the players must quickly pull their Joy-Con toward themself to yank the tablecloth out from under the glasses. If they yank with the correct timing, the cloth will come out without disturbing the glasses at all, and that player will earn more points. Players can anticipate the beat they must yank the cloth by noting the rhythm at which the glasses land on each other.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_6e98faa	featureConfidence	1.0
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Tablecloth Yank / int_77be988d	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_77be988d	comment	Death does this in Thief of Time, in which it's a Phlebotinum Analogy for what the History Monks do — the table is still laid, but the tablecloth can now be reused. Susan points out that the salt's fallen over and the tablecloth is stained, and Death replies, "YES. AS METAPHORS GO IT IS RATHER GOOD, DON'T YOU THINK?"
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Tablecloth Yank / int_8258e260	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Luigi's Mansion: All tablecloths in the game series can be yanked by Luigi's vacuum-cleaner. Super Mario Party: In the Rhythm minigame Clearing the Table, each player has a table topped with a tablecloth of their player color, and a pile of glasses are dropped atop the table in time with the music. When the pile is complete, on the next beat, the players must quickly pull their Joy-Con toward themself to yank the tablecloth out from under the glasses. If they yank with the correct timing, the cloth will come out without disturbing the glasses at all, and that player will earn more points. Players can anticipate the beat they must yank the cloth by noting the rhythm at which the glasses land on each other.
Tablecloth Yank / int_8258e260	featureApplicability	1.0
Tablecloth Yank / int_8258e260	featureConfidence	1.0
Super Mario Bros. (Franchise)	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_8258e260
Tablecloth Yank / int_90b916ba	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_90b916ba	comment	In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?", Robin knocks a thug standing on a table off his feet by pulling out the tablecloth. "I love that trick, but I can never make it work."
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Tablecloth Yank / int_90b916ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman: The Animated Series	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_90b916ba
Tablecloth Yank / int_967347ea	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_967347ea	comment	In Revolutionary Girl Utena, when Anthy's dress disintegrates during a party due to a vicious prank, Utena whips a nearby tablecloth free (sending everything that was on the table flying in the process) and wraps it around her, making it into a new, toga-like dress to replace it.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_967347ea	featureConfidence	1.0
Revolutionary Girl Utena	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_967347ea
Tablecloth Yank / int_9b530c26	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_9b530c26	comment	In one Archie Comics story, a new physics teacher and Riverdale High does this trick to demonstrate the "Objects at rest stay at rest" rule. Lunchlady Miss Beazley, who set up the table, thought the new teacher was about to ruin her work and fainted dead away.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_9b530c26	featureConfidence	1.0
Archie Comics (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_9b530c26
Tablecloth Yank / int_9c608bbc	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_9c608bbc	comment	In Bewitched, Sam uses her power to invert the trick to put a tablecloth back under the plates and centerpiece.
Tablecloth Yank / int_9c608bbc	featureApplicability	1.0
Tablecloth Yank / int_9c608bbc	featureConfidence	1.0
Bewitched	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_9c608bbc
Tablecloth Yank / int_a183d57f	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_a183d57f	comment	Bender in the Futurama episode "Bender Gets Made": This is a double subversion, in that Bender succeeds in performing this trick, but his success was really a failure, since he meant to single-subvert the trope by just pulling everything off the table.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_a183d57f	featureConfidence	1.0
Futurama	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_a183d57f
Tablecloth Yank / int_ba4cb51c	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_ba4cb51c	comment	Time Warp did both versions, showing you the secret to achieving both.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_ba4cb51c	featureConfidence	1.0
Time Warp	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_ba4cb51c
Tablecloth Yank / int_c4282b71	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_c4282b71	comment	Done successfully by Applebloom in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode, "Call of the Cutie". She wasn't really trying; she just needed the tablecloth.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_c4282b71	featureConfidence	1.0
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_c4282b71
Tablecloth Yank / int_d14c3aa1	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_d14c3aa1	comment	Ghostbusters (1984) had the comedy version. Venkman tries to whip a table cloth from under a set table and succeeds in sending every item on the table except the centerpiece crashing to the floor.
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Ghostbusters (1984)	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_d14c3aa1
Tablecloth Yank / int_d43cbccb	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_d43cbccb	comment	Luigi's Mansion: All tablecloths in the game series can be yanked by Luigi's vacuum-cleaner.
Tablecloth Yank / int_d43cbccb	featureApplicability	1.0
Tablecloth Yank / int_d43cbccb	featureConfidence	1.0
Luigi's Mansion (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_d43cbccb
Tablecloth Yank / int_d68df17d	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_d68df17d	comment	Top Gear: Similar to the MythBusters example, Clarkson tried to emulate the stunt using a Nissan GT-R to pull the tablecloth off. And, like the MythBusters example, it didn't work.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_d68df17d	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Gear	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_d68df17d
Tablecloth Yank / int_ea684cd1	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_ea684cd1	comment	During the opening battle scene of Bayonetta 3, the title character lands between two tables at a party on a cruise ship. Her opponents land on the tables, and Bayo yanks the tablecloths to trip them up... and gives an amused "Oooh" when she realizes the place settings are still there.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_ea684cd1	featureConfidence	1.0
Bayonetta 3 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_ea684cd1
Tablecloth Yank / int_ec24be81	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_ec24be81	comment	In Bolt, Rhino pulls a paper place-mat from under a man's food and drink without knocking it over. He does this a second time at a picnic during the credits.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_ec24be81	featureConfidence	1.0
Bolt	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_ec24be81
Tablecloth Yank / int_f634206e	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_f634206e	comment	In Ratatouille, Skinner accidentally does this as he falls into the Seine while chasing Rémy.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_f634206e	featureConfidence	1.0
Ratatouille	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_f634206e
Tablecloth Yank / int_f84676e	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_f84676e	comment	Drifting Classroom: In the first chapter, Sho yanks the tablecloth containing his breakfast during his fight with his mother, causing everything to fall to the floor.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_f84676e	featureConfidence	1.0
Drifting Classroom (Manga)	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_f84676e
Tablecloth Yank / int_fc439a61	type	Tablecloth Yank
Tablecloth Yank / int_fc439a61	comment	In the second Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, when you examine a cart with a tea set and cloth on, Kay Faraday will consider doing this. Edgeworth has to talk her out of it.
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Tablecloth Yank / int_fc439a61	featureConfidence	1.0
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Tablecloth Yank / int_fc439a61

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Tablecloth Yank	processingCategory2	Comedy Tropes
Are You Being Served? / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
Das Boot / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
Ghostbusters (1984) / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
It's Always Fair Weather / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
No Reservations (2007) / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
Project A / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
Promise Her Anything / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
Forest Kingdom / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
TableClothYank	sameAs	Tablecloth Yank
Non Non Biyori (Manga) / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
Doc Martin / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
I Love Lucy / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
The Benny Hill Show / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
Super Mario Party (Video Game) / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Video Game) / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
Joseph's Machines (Web Video) / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
Jackie Chan Adventures / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
Ratatouille / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank
The Alvin Show / int_e5b898f6	type	Tablecloth Yank
The Smurfs (1981) / int_6e467916	type	Tablecloth Yank

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