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* A Wing Dings blackout on ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'' has Dastardly simmering in the hot sun. Zilly offers to fly up and seed the clouds so it will rain. In studying his inventory afterwards, Zilly says he'll have to go up again as he used the wrong seeds. He sure did: it was raining flowers,
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* At the end of the ''[[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines Magnificent Muttley]]'' episode "Start Your Engines" (where Muttley daydreams he's race driver Barney Olfield), Dastardly thanks Muttley for washing his car ([[MythologyGag the Mean Machine]]), saying everytime ''he'' washes it, it starts to rain. Cue the rain starting immediately.
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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/TheRM'' when Jared arrives home from his mission. He gets soaked when he sprinklers turn on and his suitcase falls open. To make matters worse, it turns out that his family no longer even lives there.
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** Though in this case, the rain probably was a *good* thing: it made the ground the orcs were trying to advance over muddy or flooded, buying the good guys time to regroup when the defenses were breached.
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This joke gets a [[Main/CallBack call back]] in the episode, "Stewie Goes For a Drive", where Stewie says, "At least I'm not getting stabbed by some random guy on the street!", and it starts to rain. He then tells the viewers [[Main/BaitandSwitch it's the exact opposite of what they were expecting]]. [[spoiler:And then the random guy shows up and stabs Stewie anyway.]]

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This joke gets a [[Main/CallBack [[CallBack call back]] in the episode, "Stewie Goes For a Drive", where Stewie says, "At least I'm not getting stabbed by some random guy on the street!", and it starts to rain. He then tells the viewers [[Main/BaitandSwitch [[BaitAndSwitch it's the exact opposite of what they were expecting]]. [[spoiler:And then the random guy shows up and stabs Stewie anyway.]]
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->A hundred miles later\\

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->A ->''"A hundred miles later\\



It started to pour!

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It started to pour!pour!"''
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** In another strip, Calvin mocks some flowers with a watering can, claiming that [[AGodAmI he's basically a god to them]] because he's the only one who can possibly give them water. As he's bragging, a massive rainstorm begins, soaking him.
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* Lampshaded in Creator/PhilCollins's song "I Wish It Would Rain Down", where he wishes for rain to pour down on him as he feels miserable.

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* Lampshaded in Creator/PhilCollins's Music/PhilCollins's song "I Wish It Would Rain Down", where he wishes for rain to pour down on him as he feels miserable.

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* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series' mythology, rain is associated with Kynareth, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Aedric Divine]] Goddess of the Heavens and Air. Rain is a phenomenon that is said not to have occurred before [[GodIsDead the removal of Lorkhan's divine spark]]. During the Alessian Revolt, she sent rain to cleanse the blood from [[OurElvesAreBetter Ayleid]] forts and villages after [[GodInHumanForm Pelinal]] [[TheBerserker Whitestrake]] [[PaintTheTownRed came through]], so that they could be used by Alessia's forces.

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In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' the series' mythology, rain is associated with Kynareth, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Aedric Divine]] Goddess of the Heavens and Air. Rain is a phenomenon that is said not to have occurred before [[GodIsDead the removal of Lorkhan's divine spark]]. During the Alessian Revolt, she sent rain to cleanse the blood from [[OurElvesAreBetter Ayleid]] forts and villages after [[GodInHumanForm Pelinal]] [[TheBerserker Whitestrake]] [[PaintTheTownRed came through]], so that they could be used by Alessia's forces.forces.
** When Tiber Septim, the [[FounderOfTheKingdom founder]] of the Third Tamriellic Empire, died, it rained throughout Tamriel for an entire fortnight "as if the land itself was weeping". (Particularly interesting given his [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence posthumous ascension]] as [[DeityOfHumanOrigin Talos]], the Ninth Divine, who is in [[MergerOfSouls some]] [[BecomingTheMask way]] connected with Lorkhan.)
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* A variant from ''Recap/AsterixInBritain''. Asterix, Obelix and their British companion have just reached [[AFoggyDayInLondonTown their destination]].
-->'''Asterix''': Is it always this foggy?
-->'''Anticlimax''': Oh no... [[AssuranceBackfire only when it isn't raining]].
-->'''SFX:''' ''KRAK-THOOM''
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* A well-known Heineken advert featured a frustrated blues musician who, on a sunny day, kept finding himself writing happy songs. One sip of Heineken and his wife walks out on him, his car is repossessed and his dog runs away. Then the heavens open:
--> Sadness is my first name, last name is misery\\
I lost my woman, and the rain is coming down...
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* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series' mythology, rain is associated with Kynareth, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Aedric Divine]] Goddess of the Heavens and Air. Rain is a phenomenon that is said not to have occurred before [[GodIsDead the removal of Lorkhan's divine spark]]. During the Alessian Revolt, she sent rain to cleanse the blood from [[OurElvesAreBetter Ayleid]] forts and villages after [[GodInHumanForm Pelinal]] [[TheBerserker Whitestrake]] [[PaintTheTownRed came through]], so that they could be used by Alessia's forces.
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* ZigZagged in ''Westernanimation/EdEddNEddy'': the rain starts and stops again repeatedly as it's {{Lampshaded}}.

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* ZigZagged in ''Westernanimation/EdEddNEddy'': ZigZagged in "Read All About Ed", the rain starts and stops again repeatedly as it's {{Lampshaded}}.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'': In "A Boy's Game", this happens when Mike sees Alfred battening down the hatches for an impending monsoon.
-->'''Mike:''' What's a monsoon? ''(it starts pouring)'' Oh, a fancy word for rain.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ShimmerAndShine'': In "Now You See Her", after a forced landing, Zeta is glad that at least it's not raining. Nazboo congratulates Zeta for the subsequent rain. Zeta later tries to tell him at least it's not snowing but snow falls right before she says "snowing".
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* thunder claps and rain immediately starts to fall*

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* thunder claps and rain immediately starts to fall*fall*\\
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' episode "Bunny Swap", pampered palace bunny Clover is far from home and traveling on paw to get back.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' episode "Bunny Swap", pampered palace bunny Clover is far from home and traveling on paw to get back.back, guided by an opossum.



'''Sassofras''' (an opossum): *cheerfully* It could be worse!\\

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'''Sassofras''' (an opossum): '''Sassofras''': *cheerfully* It could be worse!\\



'''Clover''': And now it is.

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'''Clover''': And now it is.\\
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' episode "Bunny Swap", pampered palace bunny Clover is far from home and traveling on paw to get back.
-->'''Clover''': Are these hills ever gonna end?\\
'''Sassofras''' (an opossum): *cheerfully* It could be worse!\\
*thunder claps and rain immediately starts to fall*
'''Clover''': And now it is.
Justified, as Sassofras did comment that a storm was coming earlier in the episode.
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->A hundred miles later\\
My feet were so sore!\\
THEN, wouldn't you know it!\\
It started to pour!
-->--''Literature/IHadTroubleInGettingToSollaSollew''
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* ''Film/TheSureThing'': In Creator/RobReiner 's college-age [[RoadTripRomance cross-country]] [[RomanticComedy rom-com]], it's roughly midnight, in the middle of FlyoverCountry, on the side of a two-lane blacktop road. Hitchhiking Gib (Creator/JohnCusack) and Alison (Daphne Zuniga) have just been passed up by the only car for miles. Alison discovers a stick of gum in her purse, then notices Gib eyeing her. As she starts to put it in her mouth anyway, the following ensues:
-->'''Gib''': I'm starving. (Alison splits the gum with him.)
-->'''Gib''': Thank you.... I'm freezing to death.... My feet are killing me.... I just swallowed my gum.\\
'''Alison''': Your incessant complaining isn't doing us any good. Can't you try and look on the bright side?\\
[[ThunderEqualsDownpour KA-BOOM!]] [[WhenItRainsItPours Instant monsoon.]]
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* In ''A Hidden Oracle'', the first book of ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'', this happens when Apollo and Meg [[spoiler:go into the forest to look for the missing campers.]] Apollo comments that it is "just on the edge of sleet."
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Subtrope of FromBadToWorse, and frequently follows RockBottom. The [[InvertedTrope inverse]] is CueTheSun, where the dark skies clear up when things start to get better. Contrast HappyRain and RedemptionInTheRain.

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Subtrope of FromBadToWorse, and frequently follows RockBottom. The [[InvertedTrope inverse]] is CueTheSun, where the dark skies clear up when things start to get better. Compare CueTheFallingObject, which is similar except used more for comedy purposes. Contrast HappyRain and RedemptionInTheRain.
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* A humorous example occurs in the ''{{ComicBook/Tintin}}'' adventure, "The Calculus Affair." Captain Haddock, mistakenly thinking they were in danger, dives for cover -- right into a large mud puddle. This exchange occurs immediately after he gets up:

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* A humorous example occurs in the ''{{ComicBook/Tintin}}'' adventure, "The Calculus Affair." Captain Haddock, mistakenly thinking they were in danger, dives for cover -- right into a large mud puddle. This exchange occurs immediately after he gets up:
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* A humorous example occurs in the ''{{ComicBook/Tintin}}'' adventure, "The Calculus Affair." Captain Haddock, mistakenly thinking they were in danger, dives for cover -- right into a large mud puddle. This exchange occurs immediately after he gets up:
--> '''Tintin:''' And on top of it all, you're soaked...\\
'''Captain:''' Oh, the sun will soon dry me off.\\
''[Rain starts falling]''\\
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** [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/12/01 Another strip]] has Calvin, waiting for the school bus, begging for enough snow to close the school. Guess what happens.
-->'''Calvin:''' So close... And yet so far.
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We'd almost gone home, and it started to...\\

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We'd almost gone We're eight miles from home, and it it's started to...\\

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'''Tulio:''' Excuse me, were you about to say "worse"?

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'''Tulio:''' Excuse me, were you about to say "worse"?"''worse''"?!\\
'''Miguel:''' Er... no. \\
(They continue to argue as the camera pulls out to show [[ThreateningShark at least a half dozen sharks]] following their boat.)
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* Lampshaded in Creator/PhilCollins's song "I Wish It Would Rain Down", where he wishes for rain to poor down on him as he feels miserable.

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* Lampshaded in Creator/PhilCollins's song "I Wish It Would Rain Down", where he wishes for rain to poor pour down on him as he feels miserable.
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* ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': After alienating all his friends and turning all the floorspace he'd normally use to film his show into rented space in order to make money, Mr. Potato Head is stuck outdoors, alone. He says it's not so bad "on a day like today", only for a thunderstorm to begin.

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