History Main / BrokenGlassPenalty

* This happens in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. A few kids are playing with a ball, and a window is broken. Iroh appears and the following dialogue occurs:

Compare with WindowPain, in which the window breaking is not accidental.

* On ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' Chris breaks [[{{Shotacon}} Herbert's]] window playing baseball in the streets.

* ''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 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).

* Happens to Edmund in TheFilmOfTheBook of ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia: Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe''. The children's attempt to hide leads them into the Wardrobe, which sends them to Narnia. (In the book, they were hiding from the housekeeper conducting a tour of the BigFancyHouse).

* In ''MonsterHouse'', DJ is expected (and forced) to retrieve the ball after it is lost on the [[spoiler: [[HeelFaceTurn then-]]]]villain's yard.
* Type C occurs in ''TheSandlot''. Of course, the "haunted house" the kid has to get into (past the "mean" dog) has many other treasures in store.
* Gomez enjoys hitting golf balls off the balcony of his house in the first ''Film/AddamsFamily'' movie, and he's rather nonchalant when some of them fly right through his next-door neighbor's window. This comes back to bite him later when said neighbor, a judge, is presiding over the case involving ownership of his house...

* 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 an episode of ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' Peter is playing ball in the house and breaks Carol's vase. HilarityEnsues

* This is the result of rathergood.com's attempt to [[http://www.rathergood.com/bacon_rocket build a rocket out of bacon]].

* On ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', in the ShowWithinAShow ''Meet the Fatheads'', [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale Mrs. Fathead bashes her husband's head with a parking meter]], [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext 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!"

* Type B happens with a pair of commoner (i.e., non-wizard) teenagers in TheBartimaeusTrilogy, followed by ''extremely'' DisproportionateRetribution inflicted by the wizard victim of the accident and the legal system.

* In ''Film/GoingMyWay'', Father O'Malley, who is temporarily playing right field in a game of stickball, takes the rap when one of the kids hits the ball through the window of a GrumpyOldMan.

* A variation on Type D is what kicks off the plot in the ''{{WesternAnimation/Ultimate Spider-Man}}'' episode "Not A Toy." While playing with Captain America's shield, Spider-Man loses it and ends up going after it. It ends up in the Latverian embassy where ''DoctorDoom happens to be.'' After a failed attempt of asking Doom to give it back (in which Doom responds with a missile), Spider-Man then teams up with Captain America in order to get Cap's shield back.

* Completely subverted in ''Radio/OurMissBrooks''. In the episode ''Two Way Stretch'', Mr. Conklin begins to reprimand [[DumbJock Stretch Snodgrass]] for kicking a football through the window of his inner office:
--> Mr. Conklin: I thought I told you to confine your practicing to the other end of the field.
--> Stretch Snodgrass: But I did Mr. Conklin. That's where I kicked it from.
--> Mr. Conklin: Well, there's actually no excuse in the world for you to . . . nice kick boy!

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' and ''KidVSKat'' would be two C examples.

* 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 onthe ceiling.

* 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 onthe ceiling.

* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In Uncle Iroh's segment in Tales of Ba-Sing-Tse, he comes across a group of kids who broke a window. He approaches them and tells them the value of telling the truth... and then the angry owner of the house appears. Iroh tells them "but not this time" and prompts everyone to run.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' begins this way, as does the original pilot, "My Neighbor Is A Teenage Robot".

* Happens to Edmund in TheFilmOfTheBook of ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia: TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe''. The children's attempt to hide leads them into the Wardrobe, which sends them to Narnia. (In the book, they were hiding from the housekeeper conducting a tour of the BigFancyHouse).