History Main / BrokenGlassPenalty

->-- "Two Way Stretch Snodgrass", ''Radio/OurMissBrooks''

* A bit of a variation on ''Series/{{CSINY}}''. In one episode, a group of boys are playing football in the street when their ball goes thru a ground-floor apartment window. They look in, see a dead body, freak out and run away, thinking they killed the man. Later, one convinces another to turn themselves in. Det. Flack locks them up just for fun.

* On ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', in the ShowWithinAShow ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheFatheads'', [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale Mrs. Fathead bashes her husband's head with a parking meter]], [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext as usual]]. Only this time, it actually breaks his glass eye. A little old man pops out of the broken eyeball and says, "Hey, hey, hey! Someone's gonna pay for that glass!"

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* '''B:''' The glass shatters, but the adult is already there. Can result in a {{You Are Grounded}} situation.

* '''D:''' After impact, the owner comes out of his/her house. (Holding the ball is optional.) Oblivious to the damage, the group asks for the ball back. The owner will either be a {{Grumpy Old Man}} and keep it, or give it back.

* At one point in ''{{Manga/Yotsuba}}'', Yotsuba kicks a soccer ball through a window by accident. Her dad spanks her. Later, in a similar situation she breaks a couple of dishes by bouncing a yoga ball around. This time dad is more concerned about her lying about it, and when she claims it was the fault of a "lying bug", he takes her to a somewhat scary "lying bug eating statue" so that she'll tell the truth.

* In ''Fanfic/BackToTheFrollo'', a signed baseball is accidentally lobbed through one of Notre Dame's windows when Danisha is teaching the kids how to play the sport. Frollo demands that she work under him for the rest of her vacation to pay for it and confiscates the ball; Danisha refuses, punches him in the face, and it escalates from there.

* In ''Film/ThePoorLittleRichGirl'', the neighborhood kids hit a baseball into the greenhouse of the mansion where the titular poor little rich girl resides. She winds up having a mud fight with them before angry servants chase the kids away.
* Happens to Edmund during a cricket game in TheFilmOfTheBook of ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia: Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe''. The children's attempt to hide leads them into the Wardrobe, which sends them to Narnia. (In [[Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe the book]], they were hiding from the housekeeper conducting a tour of the BigFancyHouse). [[spoiler:When after years in Narnia they wander into the trail that leads back and are children once again upon falling out of the wardrobe, there's Diggory to toss them the ball that broke the window--But he doesn't seem ''that'' angered.[[labelnote:Why? ]]Because as prequel ''The Magician's Nephew'' will show, he'd been there himself as a child![[/labelnote]]]]
* The plot of ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' kicks off like this, with Ron Thompson hitting a baseball through the window of the Szalinskys' attic, which lands on the machine which Wayne Szalinsky has been working on. When Ron and Nick, Wayne's son, go to get the ball back, they are shrunk by the machine, followed by Russ and Amy when they go up to check on their siblings.
* Type C occurs in ''Film/TheSandlot''. Of course, the "haunted house" the kid has to get into (past the "mean" dog) has many other treasures in store.

-->'''Judge:''' Mr. Addams, I believe ''these'' are yours! (''dumps a bucket of golf balls on the bench while laughing maniacally'')
* In ''Film/TheMightyDucks'', Fulton's slapshot breaks a window on Coach Bombay's van, leading to his recruitment to the Ducks. In the sequel, Fulton (again) breaks someone's car window during a pick-up game, but the guy cheerfully throws the puck back.
* In ''Film/ThePrideOfTheYankees'', a young Lou Gehrig, playing sandlot ball with the kids in the neighborhood, hits one over the lot's fence, across the street, and through a shop's glass window. This gets him in trouble with his mom.
* At the end of ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'', some kids are playing baseball on a space station. One kid hits a ball, which crashes through the window of a house on the ceiling.

* In ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'', Ray Farrier is playing catch with his son Robbie. In a heated moment of tension between the two, Ray throws the ball especially hard. Robbie, in an act of spite, allows the ball to zip past his head and break the window behind him.

%%* An ''Literature/EncyclopediaBrown'' chapter involves kids playing ball in the house and accidentally throwing the ball ''out'' the window. To avoid getting in trouble, they put a rock on the floor in the room and told their mother that someone had thrown the rock in; that's how the window got broken. The mother figured it out EB-style: [[spoiler:If the rock had been thrown in, the window would have broken inwards, causing the glass to fall into the room, but instead the glass was on the ground outside, indicating it had been broken from the inside.]]

* Type B happens with a pair of commoner (i.e., non-wizard) teenagers in Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy, followed by ''extremely'' DisproportionateRetribution inflicted by the wizard victim of the accident and the legal system.
* ''HarryAndTheHauntedHouse'' starts as the titular character and his friends are playing baseball, but after the pitcher, Earl, throws an impressive curveball, Harry hits it, but the ball flies into a window in the distant haunted house, resulting in a type C scenario.
* Happens to ''Literature/LePetitNicolas'' and his friends from time to time. In one story they break a window at school, and after a bit of fighting over credit for the awesome shot that broke the window and whether or not it still counts as a goal, they introduce Geoffroy as the culprit. The principal tries to lecture them over responsibility and tells Geoffroy that he'll have to pay the school back for the damage he's done, but Geoffroy, being richer than God, immediately pulls out his wallet and asks how much he owes. The principal eventually gets Geoffroy's father to send a handyman over to the school to replace the glass, and tries to lecture Geoffroy again about how his recklessness led to his father having to spend money and the poor handyman going through the gruesome process, but considering Geoffroy's dad can afford ANYTHING and the handyman is perfectly content doing his job, it's all an obvious moot point, even to the kids.

* ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'': In "The Broken Window", while Wally and Beaver are playing baseball with their friends, Eddie Haskell (who else?) hits a ball through the Cleaver's living room window. The rest of the kids run off as Ward Cleaver arrives home. When Beaver asks why Wally and him don't do likewise, Wally replies:
--> '''Wally''': We can't. It's our home!"
* In an episode of ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' Peter is playing ball in the house and breaks Carol's vase.

* ''Series/{{The IT Crowd}}'': When Moss was a young child, he accidentally broke the patio window. His mother ''[[DisproportionateRetribution sued]]'' him, even holding a [[KangarooCourt mock trial]] in the kitchen with herself as [[HangingJudge both the prosecution and judge]] and a viewing gallery for the cats. Unsurprisingly, she won, and he's still paying her back. ...And that's why Moss hates courtrooms.

* The time ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' return for their breakup, in their Ping-Pong game. Josh causes this ten.
* A bit of a variation on ''Series/{{CSINY}}''. In one episode, a group of boys are playing football in the street when their ball goes thru a ground-floor apartment window. They look in, see a dead body, freak out and run away, thinking they killed the man. Later, one convinces another to turn themselves in. Det. Flack locks them up just for fun.

* In the US ''{{ComicStrip/Dennis The Menace|US}}'', Dennis and his friends do this to Mr. Wilson's house sometimes, usually resulting in a Type B or D outcome.
* Brazilian comic Comicbook/MonicasGang has quite a few cases of this in soccer games. One story opens with Smudge destroying a man's window, being demeaned for doing so, and ends with him in the future as a professional footballer, performing a penalty kick... and hitting that exact window again!

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' plays out like this - the girls throw their ball through the window of Mojo Jojo, who tries to use it as an excuse to destroy them while pretending to be looking for their ball. After the girls [[PricelessMingVase continue to do more damage in the house]], he instead just gives them the ball back [[GetOut so that they will leave]]. He receives the SoOnceAgainTheDayIsSaved credit because he returned their ball.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has a variation on Type C with a radio-controlled plane instead of a ball. Bart (although it was technically Nelson and Milhouse who crashed in) goes to get it and gets caught, setting off the episode's A plot of [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext Bart working in a burlesque house]]]]).

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' goes through all of these variants when he accidentally ticks off the [[CrazyCatLady crazy cat owner]] in one episode, and goes through a variety of completely pointless and ever more complex plots trying to get the ball back. Turns out all the man wanted was an apology, for the kids to turn the baseball diamond around, and to join in with the kids. Of course, when the diamond is turned around, the [[HereWeGoAgain first thing that happens is the ball goes through a window of Johnny's house,]] prompting the only form of this trope that hadn't been seen up to that point (Type B).
* On ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' Chris breaks [[PaedoHunt Herbert's]] window playing baseball in the streets.
-->'''Peter''': Chris, you have damaged this man's property, and until you pay off the debt, you'll do whatever job he wants you to do. And if at the end of the day you're exhausted and your face is dripping wet, well that just means you did a good job.
-->'''Herbert''': That sounds just fine.

* ''WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda'': In "Childhood for Sale", Angela breaks Mrs. Brinks' window while playing baseball and starts a garage sale to have enough money to pay for it.
* On ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', in the ShowWithinAShow ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheFatheads'', [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale Mrs. Fathead bashes her husband's head with a parking meter]], [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext as usual]]. Only this time, it actually breaks his glass eye. A little old man pops out of the broken eyeball and says, "Hey, hey, hey! Someone's gonna pay for that glass!"
* A Type A example of sorts occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode, "Everyone Knows its Bendy". When Bendy does bad things, blames the other imaginary friends, and gets them punished, Bloo decides to set a trap for Bendy by planting a baseball bat and a baseball near a glass window. Bendy breaks the window with the ball and bat, but leaves before Coco can take an incriminating picture of him. When Bloo wonders how Bendy could have escaped so quickly, he picks up the ball and bat, and Coco accidentally takes a picture of him doing so, getting him punished.
* Mostly the kids of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' used to cause this on the Grouse residence.
* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts: In ''Father's Day Off'', Goofy is [[ADayInHerApron taking on his wife's chores for the day]] when his son catches a ball thrown by his friend through a windowpane, and then tosses it back through the ''other'' pane.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MisterGo'' has the titular character taking a soccer ball from a kid, and when he starts playing with it, he inevitably ends up breaking a window. A police officer asks him about it and he tries to pin the blame on his dog Bip, but the kid comes back and tells the officer what really happened.

''A large man appears inside the house''\\
'''Large man:''' When I'm through with you kids, the window won't be the only thing that's broken!\\
'''Iroh:''' But not this time! ''Run!''

* In ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'', Ray Farrier is playing catch with his son Robbie. In a heated moment of tension between the two, Ray throws the ball especially hard. Robbie, in an act of spite, allows the ball to zip past his head and break the window behind him.

->''"I thought I told you kids not to play ball'' '''''in the house!'''''"
-->-- '''Gypsy''', ''Series/{{Mystery Science Theater 3000}}'', "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E06TimeOfTheApes Time Of The Apes]]"

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', Played for Laughs in Time of the Apes. In the opening segment, Joel, Tom, and Crow are playing tee ball when they accidentally break a window in the Satellite, causing ship-wide decompression and garbage being blown all over the place. Gypsy quickly repairs the damage and chides the guys for causing it. Of course, they go straight back to playing ball despite Gypsy's warnings.
-->'''Gypsy:''' I thought I told you kids not to pay ball in the house!!!

->''"I thought I told you kids not to play ball'' '''''in the house!'''''"
-->-- '''Gypsy''', ''Series/{{Mystery Science Theater 3000}}'', "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E06TimeOfTheApes Time Of The Apes]]"

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', Played for Laughs in Time of the Apes. In the opening segment, Joel, Tom, and Crow are playing tee ball when they accidentally break a window in the Satellite, causing ship-wide decompression and garbage being blown all over the place. Gypsy quickly repairs the damage and chides the guys for causing it. Of course, they go straight back to playing ball despite Gypsy's warnings.
-->'''Gypsy:''' I thought I told you kids not to pay ball in the house!!!

-->-- '''Gypsy''', ''Series/{{MysteryScienceTheater3000}}'', "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E06TimeOfTheApes Time Of The Apes]]"