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First, fill something to the nick of overfilling. It doesn't matter what it is: a bag almost bursting with stuff; an ominously creaking cliff; an elevator nearing its maximum occupancy; a morbidly obese gourmand's stuffed stomach; you name it. When you've finished, add just a teeny, tiny bit more. Watch your recipient blow/crack/shatter instantly and/or loudly. Basically, a literal interpretation of "the last straw that broke the camel's back". This trope applies to situations where maximal capacity is reached, and even an infinitesimal quantity surpassing it causes effects far more massive than common sense could predict. Often preceded by a character declaring how nothing could go wrong before the proverbial straw is added. Although the most common variation of this is when a group of people/stuff is at a ledge and a light feather/dust powder lands and it simply breaks apart instantly (and painfully), it's not only restricted to those cases. Compare Hair-Trigger Avalanche, Death of a Thousand Cuts, Cherry Tapping, Critical Existence Failure, Critical Encumbrance Failure, Exploding Closet, and The Stateroom Sketch. If you're looking for the trope where a character finally can't take it anymore and explodes because of something being the last straw for them, see Rage Breaking Point. |
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Animator vs. Animation: While the Chosen One was already getting cold feet over the Dark Lord rampaging through the internet after StickPage got attacked, the incident that spurred him towards a Heel–Face Turn was the Dark Lord subsequently razing Newgrounds to the ground and murdering Sergeant John Captain even when the Chosen One pleaded for him to reconsider. | |
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On an episode of The Oblongs the teens are driven off the road by the two nasty Hill kids. It teeters on edge but, with a sigh of relief, it rights itself. Then the nasty kids drive up and kick their car off the cliff. | |
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In Jack, the treehouse where a bunch of kids, Robin Williams as a forty-year-old adult that's actually a kid with severe growth problems and Bill Cosby singing and stomping feet falls down when a butterfly lands on not even the treehouse itself but a splinter, which slowly bends until it touches the treehouse, and then everything falls apart. | |
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House: Played with; the team has to diagnose a morbidly obese man in a coma. They eventually get to the point that they need to get an MRI. Only problem? The weight limit for the MRI is 450. The man in question weighs over 600. | |
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Lamput: In "Snow", Fat Doc lands on a patch of thin ice while holding one half of Lamput. The added weight of Lamput causes the ice to start cracking, and Fat Doc throw him to the side and tries to convince him against pressing on the cracking ice. After Lamput leaves, a leaf falls onto the ice patch and makes it break completely, causing Fat Doc to fall into the water below. | |
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The Simpsons: Used to great effect in the episode "Mr. Plow", when a vehicle is peering off the edge of a road, about to topple in sideways. The saving gesture? Turning the radio dial to the left, causing the vehicle to flop back onto the road. In the beginning of "Poppa's Got A Brand New Badge" with a heatwave occurring causing the power plant to reach full capacity. What causes the city-wide blackout? Homer plugging in the dancing Santa Claus. Bart gets sent to military school in "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" as punishment for pulling a literally disastrous prank at the police station while he and his class were on a field trip there. The prank involved stealing every bullhorn in the station and lining them up end to end, creating a mega-mega-mega-megaphone the length of an entire room. A fly buzzes right past the speaker of the bullhorn nearest Bart's mouth, creating an ominous rumble that sounds like a distant earthquake. Ignoring this, Bart puts his lips right up to the speaker and softly says, "Testing..." - and the result is a sonic shockwave that ripples across all of Springfield and levels half the town atomic-bomb style! In "Bart Sells His Soul", Moe opens a family restaurant called Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag. Not wanting to hire any waiters or waitresses, Moe takes all the orders himself, causing himself to become extremely stressed out and slowly go to pieces as the customers' demanding, insensitive, and sometimes rude behavior get the better of Moe. Krusty notices a throbbing vein of rage building up on Moe's forehead and points it out to the other diners, saying, "That guy's gonna blow." Sure enough, Moe finally reaches his breaking point when a Sickeningly Sweet little girl calls out to him that "My sodie's too cold. My teef hurt." Moe explodes in a colossal temper tantrum: "Aww, your 'teef' hurt? WELL, THAT'S JUST TOO FREAKIN' BAD! I CAN TELL YOU WHERE TO PUT YOUR FREAKIN' 'SODIE', TOO!" The little girl starts crying, the customers all react with outrage at Moe's Cluster F-Bomb, and everyone files out of the restaurant as Moe desperately tries to apologize. In "Hurricane Neddy", Ned Flanders' home gets destroyed by a hurricane, and Homer leads Springfielders in rebuilding it. But as Ned is touring it, he finds it's shoddily built (e.g. painted dirt rather than floorboards). But afterwards, Homer asks "What do you think of the house love built?", lightly patting it and having it completely collapse. Shortly after, Ned's glasses breaking when he tries to clean them is the last straw that causes Ned to explode in a furious tirade of abuse at almost everyone present. In "The PTA Disbands", the school's previous bus is shown sitting abandoned in a lot. When a leaf falls on it, it explodes. |
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Also examined on MythBusters, by supercooling beer and then rapping the bottle on a solid surface to cause it to flash-freeze. | |
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In one episode of Back at the Barnyard, the gang sets the Farmer up with a Gold Digger who wants to redecorate the barn, forcing the animals to relocate to an ad-hoc shack that can barely contain all of them. The shack explodes as soon as Pip (a mouse) squeezes himself in along with the rest of them. | |
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In the iCarly episode "iDate a Bad Boy" Spencer buys a pressure sensitive alarm in front of the door to prevent Carly from sneaking out. Carly jumps up and down on it, and it doesn't go off. Later, an obese postman comes to give a package to Spencer, telling him that it needed one more stamp. The postman steps on the sensor with the package. Nothing. Spencer gives him the stamp to complete the postage, and then the alarm goes off. | |
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True to its Looney Tunes origins, this trope shows up in Taz-Mania. In the first appearance of the Kiwi, Taz and Buddy Boar end up tied to a tree dangling over the edge of a cliff. The Kiwi returns Buddy's lucky coin, which it had stolen earlier, and the extra weight is enough to cause the tree to snap. | |
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While not quite the same thing, in Breath of Fire IV the God-Emperor Fou-Lu has spent the entire game with a target on his head by the very empire that resurrected him. Near the end of the game, they decide to go all out and drop a Fantastic Nuke on him. He survives this, only to notice the hair accessory of his love interest near him. They'd used her for ammo. This act effectively convinces him to go from Humans Are Bastards but he can live with it to kill everyone and then burn the world down. | |
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In NetHack, once you've eaten enough to become satiated, eating anything more may choke you to death. This includes the corpses left by wraiths, which have interesting magical properties but no nutritional value and therefore don't trigger the usual "are you sure you want to eat more?" warning. This is referenced on "Lessons Learned the Hard Way": "Don't eat wraith corpses when satiated. You don't get a warning." | |
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In the Teen Titans Go! episode "Starliar", Starfire neglects to feed Silkie his pet food and he spends the rest of the episode eating everything in the tower. Near the end, he's experienced a Temporary Bulk Change and when he eats the unopened pet food can, he throws everything else up. | |
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Spirou & Fantasio: In Le Tombeau des Champignac, Fantasio sleeps under a leaking roof with a tarp to catch the rain. Throughout the night, the tarp collects and becomes swollen with water. By morning, it has stopped raining, but water is still dripping into the tarp, one drop at a time. Eventually, it becomes one drop too many, and the tarp tears, causing all the water to be dumped onto Fantasio at once in a rude awakening. | |
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This has currently happened four times. The first three times, it was Big Show getting superplexed: first time by Brock Lesnar, second time by Mark Henry, third time by Braun Strowman. The fourth time saw Bray Wyatt superplex Strowman. | |
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Road Trip: Seann Scott's character demonstrates he can spit across a ten-foot wide broken bridge. He did, but causing the other end of the bridge to collapse from his spit. | |
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An issue of The Batman Adventures has Mastermind, Mr. Nice, and The Professor escaping from Gotham City State Penitentiary ridiculously easily. As Mastermind and Nice try to think of some way to create a diversion in the cafeteria (which is at the moment occupied by hundreds of violent, sociopathic, could-snap-at-any-moment hardened criminals having dinner), the Professor simply stands up, clears his throat, and calmly announces: "Fire." All the convicts panic, the guards (thinking they're trying to start a riot) retaliate, and then a real riot breaks out, during which the trio slip away unnoticed. | |
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Garfield: Happens in a strip◊ with a Christmas tree toppling from the addition of one last decoration. | |
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Sesame Street: An animated segment featured an elevator where first the operator, a fairy, soldier, witch, kangaroo, taxicab, fireman, clown, gorilla, and a mouse get on board. (The point of the sketch is to teach children how to count to ten.) When the mouse gets on board, the elevator shakes and then explodes, sending the operator falling to the bottom of the shaft. Another example: a kid yanks the bottom can of a stack and the whole store collapses. |
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In the Discworld book Interesting Times, Rincewind is dangling above a giant fall, barely supported by a few rotting logs. A quantum butterfly lands on his hat, and, wary of this exact trope, Rincewind tries to blow it off — so it starts making it rain just over his head, which is enough to drop him. It also stings him with a very small lightning bolt. | |
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Yumi's Cells: When Yumi started dating Woong, Love Cell hung up a gourd that represented Yumi's love for him. The Cells would throw bean bags at it whenever Woong did something to upset Yumi, but it would not break no matter how much they threw at it, including Hysterius's gatling gun of bean bags and Hunger Cell's oversized bean bag. However, when Manner Cell got upset at the way Woong texted Yumi, she kicked a light bean bag that ricocheted off of the pole and caused the gourd to break open, leading to the break-up. | |
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This was dramatically demonstrated in one scene in an episode of Lilo & Stitch: The Series where Stitch is lifting ten girders and two bulldozers. Gantu comments, "You can lift three thousand times your own weight and not an ounce more." He then proceeds to throw his backstage pass on the pile, causing a total collapse. | |
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Space Goofs: In the episode "Bats in the Belfry", Candy gets brutally annoyed by bats because he thinks they are disgusting. The other aliens attempt to take the bats down, but end up failing. Finally, the bats shove underwear on Candy, causing him to reach his breaking point and chase them away; however, just as the other aliens are glad they are gone, Candy turns his face on them and chews them out, resulting in a Downer Ending. | |
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Horizon Zero Dawn: While Avad was always against his father's killings, it's after his father has his older brother Kadaman killed — after Avad wanted him to talk sense in their father, no less — does he decide to leave and join Ersa's resistance directly. | |
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In the Starbomb song "A Boy and His Boat", after Link tells the King of Red Lions he "absolutely cannot carry one more thing", his Sapient Ship reassures him "all that's left is a single piece of string", which breaks Link's back when it goes on top of his bag. | |
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In Horton Hears a Who! and its adaptations, the microscopic Whos live on a speck of dust, and the only normal-sized animal who can hear them is an elephant named Horton (due to his large ears). The other animals get sick of Horton talking about the Whos and plan to boil the dust speck in oil, so the Whos all try to make as much noise as possible to prove their existence. Finally, the Mayor finds one Who who isn't contributing—a particularly small Who named JoJo (his son in some adaptations)—takes him to the highest point in town and has him make a loud "YOPP!" This added to all the other Whos' noises finally allows the animals to hear them, saving the town. | |
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One episode of DuckTales (1987) has the Beagle Boys mounting a full-scale offensive on Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin. Bigtime Beagle shows up wearing a full suit of armor; Scrooge shows up driving a tank. Bigtime crows that his armor can withstand a 60mm shell; Scrooge responds by saying that his tank fires 61mm shells, and after counting on his fingers Bigtime figures out "That's one millimeter too many!" True to the trope, he takes the shell full-on and gets sent flying out of the Money Bin. | |
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James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only: A car with a bad guy who killed Bond's buddy inside is balanced on edge of cliff. Bond walks up and tosses the badguy's own calling card at the car, expecting it to tip. When that's not enough Bond gives the car a kick for good measure. | |
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According to World Wrestling Entertainment, the rings used for (among other things) the massive Royal Rumble Match held every January can bear the weight of approximately five non-metric tons, or 10,000 pounds - enough to bear the weight of about 40 standard-sized male wrestlers (the average male WWE Superstar weighing about 250 pounds)note This didn't stop commentators from saying things like "We've reinforced the ring for this match" when two 400 lb. guys faced off. This was obviously total bullshit, but as Vince McMahon always said, sell the sizzle, not the steak. But if even a cruiserweight (wrestler weighing less than 200 pounds) jumped in after them, the whole thing would presumably collapse. Fortunately, 40 is the absolute maximum number of Superstars ever allowed in the Royal Rumble Match over its two-and-a-half decades of existence, and no more than 15 of those guys at the most are ever in the ring all at once (the overwhelming majority of the contestants being unable to stay in the match for 60 minutes, which is the average length of a Royal Rumble), so the chances of such a thing happening are practically nonexistent. When a superheavyweight (400 pounds or more) performs a top-rope maneuver on another superheavyweight, however... This has currently happened four times. The first three times, it was Big Show getting superplexed: first time by Brock Lesnar, second time by Mark Henry, third time by Braun Strowman. The fourth time saw Bray Wyatt superplex Strowman. |
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In Superman: The Animated Series, Superman memorably pushed a giant robot off the ledge of a roof with a small puff. | |
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In the film of Wizards of Waverly Place Justin has to make a bridge. He's very proud of it and taunts Alex until she wordlessly takes a pebble and tosses it on the bridge. The Genre Savvy can guess what happens. | |
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In Stitch! The Movie, Hamsterviel restrains Stitch with his weight "times three thousand and one!" | |
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The Angry Beavers: In one episode, a tree that has been growing since the time of the dinosaurs teeters on the edge of a cliff due to millions of years of erosion. Finally, a single fly lands on an exposed root-sending it toppling right into the protagonists' house. | |
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American Dad! did a cliff-side variant in "Delorean Story-an". During a father and son road trip, Stan overinflated and burst his bubblegum at his face losing control and causing his car to nearly fall off a cliff. They manage to get out safely while the car is still in balance, until a Japanese motorist from an earlier encounter arrives and slightly adjusts their crooked side mirror causing the car to fall off the cliff. | |
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| The Last Straw / int_699a47ae | type |
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In Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama, when Kim's prom date shows up to Ron's treehouse while Kim and Ron are in it, Ron says he can't come up. While Kim interprets it as jealousy (and it partially is), Ron tells her the treehouse has a weight limit and the two of them, Ron's pet naked mole rat Rufus, Ron's plate of nachos, and the slingshot he's holding is already pushing it. | |
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In The ZhuZhus episode "Zhu Got Game" Frankie's dad causes the packed basement shelf to collapse with.... a straw. | |
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8 Simple Rules: CJ stands on the trap door to the attic, holding a bowling ball and a teddy bear. He drops the bowling ball so the trap door would go up. Nothing happens. He drops the teddy bear, and then the trap door goes up. | |
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In a song in the 3D children's cartoon WordWorld, Pig makes a pizza with toppings that all start with the letter P. He stacks the pizza up with "toppings" ranging from popcorn to pickles, creating a tower of various foods. Finally, he adds a single peanut, causing the entire tower to fall. | |
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CJ in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas can eat up to eleven super-size fast food meals perfectly comfortably. Try finishing it off with a salad, though... | |
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In Beetlejuice, Adam and Barbara are driving over a covered bridge and swerve to avoid a dog. They crash through the wall of the bridge and end up poised on the edge, teetering above a river. They look back and see the dog standing on a broken plank, panting happily at them. The dog hops off the plank, and over they go. | |
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Seinfeld: George's wallet. The "mint" is a phone tab from an ad (a strip of paper just big enough to fit a phone number). | |
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In A Flintstone Christmas, Fred insists on putting an ornament on the left side of his Christmas tree instead of on the right, despite Barney's warning, which causes the tree to double over and fall on top of him. | |
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In The Boxtrolls, Snatcher is already bloated from falling in the remains of the Briehemoth. Eating one more piece of cheese causes him to explode. | |
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"Gone Nutty", a short starring Scrat from Ice Age: Scrat has filled a log full of acorns and is just putting in the last one. But the log is so full that that last acorn keeps popping out. In trying to push it back in, the bottom collapses, sending all the nuts — and Scrat — tumbling down a cliff. | |
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At the beginning of Cas and Dylan, Dr. Cas Pepper is already a widower and facing a fatal, inoperable brain tumor. When his beloved dog unexpectedly drops dead during an innocent game of fetch, Cas sets out on a cross-country trip to (a) give the dog a proper burial and (b) end his life on his own terms. | |
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"Frigid Hare": Bugs and the big bad Eskimo are hanging onto a near-broken-off ledge that is literally swinging in the wind. The penguin looks down at them, accidentally dislodging a single snowflake that drifts down onto the ledge, causing it to fall. | |
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Bugs Bunny sets it up in "Little Red Riding Rabbit", by piling a bunch of goods on top of the big bad wolf, who's straddled right over a bunch of hot coals, but just as he's climbing up a ladder to invoke the trope with a feather... LRRH shows up. Red is, in this case, a Genre (or at least Story) Savvy teenager with a loud, obnoxious voice and a fairly clear idea of how things go. She's been spending the entire short harassing Bugs and the wolf ("Hey Grandmaaaaa!"), and her barging in while Bugs is busy is a Wafer Thin Mint all on its own. Bugs abandons his attempt to roast the wolf in favor of leaving Red at the bottom of the pile, while standing off to one side sharing a carrot with the wolf! That seems a bit harsh, even for Red. | |
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In The Loud House episode "Cooked!", after Lynn Sr. buys a condemned seafood place to turn into his dream restaurant, a butterfly landing on the dilapidated fish decoration on the roof causes it to fall off and roll into Vanzilla. | |
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Shrek Forever After: Shrek is going through tons of stress at his children's birthday party, with the three pigs having eaten the cake, and a bratty kid repeatedly pestering him to give him a roar, to which Shrek eventually lets out a roar of frustration. When a replacement cake with a cute-looking ogre decorated on it is brought into the room, Shrek finally loses his temper and smashes the cake with his fist before storming out of the party. | |
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Spy Hard: In a flashback, Steele makes a false presidential rescue thinking there's a threat. He ends up having his feet hanging over the ledge of a bridge along with the president's car. He stretched his arms out with his wallet to keep himself from falling. | |
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The classic Goofy bodybuilding sketch in "Goofy Gymnastics". He's holding up a weight that he can barely hold. A fly lands on one end, he starts to tumble, but stays up. The fly walks across the barbell, and at that time he falls through the floor. | |
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PAW Patrol: In the Halloween episode "Pups Saves the Trick-or-Treaters", Mayor Humdinger's gluttonous candy-stealing robotic spider is full to the point of bursting when the deceitful mayor piloting it spies a stray candy corn, and vacuums it up... and the spider promptly explodes with candy raining down. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls, you can run at full speed while being 0.1 weight units under your limit and perform stunning feats of acrobatics if your level is high enough, but if, in that state, you get hit by a 0.1 weight arrow, you are instantly immobilized. | |
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An adage in competitive Pokémon is that the only hit point that matters is the last one. This is made use of with the item Focus Sash, the move Endure, and the ability Sturdynote all of which will allow the Pokémon using it to survive any attack with 1 hp remaining, though Endure only works for the next turn and the other two only work when the Pokémon is at full health before the move hits. Sash and Sturdy are common ways to guarantee a Pokémon lives a minimum of two turns, but any mon left with one hp is at death's door, with any further damage acting as this trope. | |
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The Last Straw | |
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In the "Aves Raras" segment of The Three Caballeros, the Aracuan Bird gives one more straw for a bird building a rather extravagant nest, only for it to collapse. | |
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game: In the Realistic version, this is how the tutorial ghost—the Sloth Ghost—died. In life, he was an obese, extremely wealthy, and very lonely gourmand who won a huge Thanksgiving feast, which he ate single-handedly...with decidedly lethal consequences. This was how he chose to die. | |
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Futurama: In the episode "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", Amy takes Fry for a ride in her new car on Mercury. They proceed to run the fuel down by turning on all the appliances (including turning on the heater to counteract the air conditioning). The final straw is not when Fry puts Pop-Tartsâ„¢ in the toaster but rather when he turns up the darkness control on the toaster. In "The Deep South", the video explaining how Atlanta ended up underwater shows that after it was relocated out in the Atlantic Ocean to draw more attention it was overcrowded with taller buildings, then finally tilted with the weight of a gold statue of Ted Turner. |
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life has the infamous sketch where Mr. Creosote eats exorbitant amounts of food while vomiting profusely. The Maitre d' then approaches him with a wafer-thin mint — the former Trope Namer. After a few rude protestations that he was full, Mr. Creosote was coaxed into eating the mint. The Maitre d' then finds a hiding spot as most of Mr. Creosote's body explodes into chunks of innards and bile. | |
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The dam holding back the mountain of leftover food gives way when a single cherry falls on top of a scoop of ice cream. | |
| The Last Straw / int_a5fbd473 | featureApplicability |
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In the VeggieTales episode "Madame Blueberry", the titular character goes on a major shopping spree and has everything she purchases sent to her opulent treehouse mansion while she keeps shopping. Unbeknownst to her, the stuff she's buying is overloading the tree, causing her house to teeter closer and closer to destruction. Eventually, she catches on and manages to stop the deliveries, just as the last item has fortuitously stabilized the house. And then, a butterfly lands on the roof, tipping the treehouse and making everything inside it fall into the nearby lake. Then the tree snaps back upright, catapulting her house off into the distance. | |
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Rocky and Bullwinkle: Boris and Natasha overloaded the raft with supplies from Moosylvania. Fearless Leader shows up from his sub awarding Boris with a one-ounce medal, enough to sink their raft. | |
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Used twice with Pip in Enchanted. Once by accident, the second as a kind of Heroic Sacrifice. (But it was a Disney movie, so...). | |
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In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Bombur is sitting on a bench that's audibly creaking under his weight. So one of the other dwarves decides to toss him a sausage, and the bench promptly collapses. | |
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FoxTrot did a variation as a Shout-Out to the former Trope Namer, with Peter and Paige's heads bloated from an all-night cram session (and a viewing of Meaning of Life) and Jason offering them "onlee a wafer-theen formula". | |
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In one episode of The Mighty B!, Bessie eats what was probably several dozen foods in an attempt to find which is her weakness. When she lastly eats a zucchini, she throws it all up, carrying Ben out the door in a wave of mostly undigested food. | |
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In Not Without My Handbag, the girl defeats Satan (possessing the handbag) by giving him all the cakes in a bakery. He eats most of them and grows to an enormous size before she offers him one last chocolate éclair. He tries to refuse, but ends up eating it anyway. The monstrosity explodes, sending Satan back to hell and the inanimate handbag back to the girl's dead aunt. | |
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This gag happened frequently on both Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs, possibly in reference to its frequent use in Looney Tunes. In one of many examples from Tiny Toons, Babs adds "I just can't help myself" as she delicately places a single rose on top of a gigantic pile someone is carrying. Guess what happens. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Squid's Day Off," Mr. Krabs' attempts to retrieve a dime that's fallen down the drain end with him losing his arms and hurling backwards across the room until he crashes into the opposite wall and collapses a shelf. The shelf tilts, and a pot, a glass, a pan, a coffee mug, a treasure chest, an anchor, a buoy, and an old-fashioned diving suit (in that order) all fall on his head, creating a massive swelling...but it's not until a dime (quite possibly the same one he was trying get back in the first place) lands on the actual swelling to top it off that he loses consciousness. In "Shuffleboarding", SpongeBob and Patrick take Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's places at a shuffleboarding tournament and later start arresting everyone in Bikini Bottom for random Felony Misdemeanors, causing the jail to expand in size. When they arrest Man Ray and an old woman he was talking to at the laundromat, the jail explodes. In "Home Sweet Rubble", when SpongeBob's pineapple house begins to rot, Patrick uses Squidward's elastic limbs to hold it together. When the house is remodeled, they forget to remove Squidward and he ends up being used to support a shelf holding a single can. Taking the can off the shelf causes Squidward to unravel and he inadvertently tears the whole house down. |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Pinkie Apple Pie", the Apple family and Pinkie Pie, sailing down a river in a makeshift boat weakly held together by vines and tree sap, fall over a waterfall. The boat manages to safely survive, and just as Granny Smith is amazed that the boat is still in one piece, Pinkie, held aloft by balloons, lands on the boat. Cue the boat splitting in two and sinking immediately. In "Made in Manehattan", an old bench splits in two when Applejack puts her hat down on it. Later, an actress takes a single step on an old stage and it collapses. |
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Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown: Snoopy and Woodstock get lost in the woods at night and slip down a cliff. Snoopy manages to save himself by grabbing a hold of a tire hanging from a branch. When Woodstock perches on the tire, their combined weight causes it to fall. | |
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In Black Sheep (1996), a huge boulder behind the cabin in which the two main characters are staying is loosened by, among other things, David Spade's character standing on it and a rodent digging under it. Finally, a bird flying overhead poops on it, and... | |
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In God Hand, when a demonic enemy is both down to their last bit of health and stunned, a prompt appears for "Poke of God", which causes Gene to finish the enemy with a light poke. | |
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In True Lies the bad guys' truck is hanging off the edge of the bridge and they sigh in relief that it didn't go over. Then a pelican lands on it... | |
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In My Life as a Teenage Robot, a hackey sack that Jenny launched into space adds enough mass to a meteor to make it a threat. | |
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In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Mighty Little Defenders episode 1, Wolffy and the other wolves are all blasted to Wolf Castle. Wolffy lands on the roof of the castle, only to have the other wolves land on him and cause him to fall into the room below, where he is struggling to carry the other wolves on his back. An envelope lands on him and is enough to make him collapse from the amount of weight he's carrying. | |
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In the Ed, Edd n Eddy series finale movie, Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show, the titular trio created an unknown scam that unfortunately went horribly (and disastrously) wrong once again as it created large amounts of property damage in the neighborhood and severely injured the cul-de-sac kids (with the exception of Sarah and Jimmy as they were not involved in the scam). Because of this, the neighborhood kids became so angered and furious of the Eds and so fed up with them that they not only wanted to torment and bully the Eds as they usually did throughout most of the series, but they also wanted to literally murder the Eds for good. So, the frightened Eds managed to flee for their lives and run away from the cul-de-sac using Eddy's brother's car and after narrowly escaping from being bullied by the kids, the Eds decided to embark on a treacherous quest to find Eddy's brother for help and protection, while unbeknownst to them, the angry kids, as well as the Kanker sisters, are still out pursuing them for punishment and vengeance. | |
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In the Tom and Jerry cartoon "The Million Dollar Cat", Tom inherits a fortune, On One Condition — if he hurts another living thing, even a mouse, he loses the money. Jerry, naturally, takes advantage of this, continually following Tom around, despite the cat's best attempts to get rid of him and basically acting like a freeloader who ruins Tom's life. The final straw comes when he eats Tom's breakfast and attacks Tom with the rest of the breakfast material, which causes Tom to lose his temper, shreds the will, and attack Jerry. | |
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Nu, Pogodi!: In a stadium episode, the Wolf has barely managed to lift a very heavy barbell, when a butterfly lands on it, with predictable results. At the end of a winter-themed episode, Wolf barely avoids triggering an avalanche by yelling in the mountains, then triggers it anyway with a whisper. |
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It's possible to drain the patient's blood level in Surgeon Simulator 2013 to an incredibly minuscule amount via whichever tools you decide to use, then finish him off with something seemingly inconsequential. This happens in an Achievement Hunter Rage Quit video; the patient is stabilized at 1 mL of blood (out of 5600), then is killed by a jab from a syringe. | |
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In the South Park episode "Pee" the water tester warns that if one more person urinates in the pool, it could set off a chain reaction. A little girl in an inner tube floats past the boys, then stops and lets loose some pee, which indeed sets off a chain reaction that causes a giant tsunami of urine to wash over the whole park. | |
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In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, Galatea is eating at a posh French restaurant and making her usual complete pig of herself. In a shout out to Monty Python, it turns out the long-suffering waiter fed her The Wafer Thin Mint some time ago, to no effect, and she orders another plate-full of them, just to emphasize what a bottomless pit her stomach truly is. After the meal, she skips out on the check. | |
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In Miitopia, if a Mii develops a quarrel, it will display "That was the last straw" with a jagged arrow pointing towards the offender. | |
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Lilo & Stitch: Stitch can lift three thousand times his own weight, but collapses under even a little bit more. In Stitch! The Movie, Hamsterviel restrains Stitch with his weight "times three thousand and one!" |
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In an episode of Doug, Doug and Mr. Dink are aboard a fishing boat overloading with all sorts of mostly unnecessary equipment. Not until Mr. Dink needed the keys in which his wife tossed them to him was it enough to sink the boat with them on board. | |
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Kingdom of Loathing: "You eat the piece of after eight. Despite the wafer-thinness of the mint, you explode in a shower of gore." This happens if you eat it while full, which you can do because it doesn't actually contribute to your fullness (you can keep eating wafer-thin coins and exploding all day if you feel like it). | |
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One of the gags in M78 Love and Peace. Ultraman struggles to lift a barbell, removing one weighted disc after another, until only the barbell's pole remains. Finally Ultraman managed to lift it, but then a butterfly lands on the pole's left side making Ultraman fall over comically. | |
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