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* ''Film/WaitingToExhale''. Angela Bassett's character Bernadine gets dumped by her husband for another woman. This is after she's spent the last 11 years sacrificing her dreams of owning her own business to help him build his. Her reaction? Taking his entire very expensive wardrobe, stuffing it in his very expensive car and setting the whole shebang on fire. And what she couldn't get in the car, she sold. For a dollar.[[note]]Apparently the car in question was [[ProductPlacement a gift to the studio by a car company who wanted some free publicity.]] They were not pleased by the publicity they ended up getting.[[/note]]

* In ''Film/JungleFever'' Lonette [=McKee=] does this to husband Wesley Snipes, cursing him so loudly that everyone in Manhattan should know about his infidelity.

* Haley does this to her boyfriend's things in ''Series/ModernFamily'' after he goes to a movie with another girl.
* In an episode of ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' , This is a step in the BadBoss's HumiliationConga : He berates Earl, gets beat up, sent to the hospital, and his wife shows up with his mistress there. She then throws his stuff out the window, and finds the money he laundered.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': When Penny finds out that her boyfriend writes a blog about their sex life, she violently breaks up with him. She storms to the guys' apartment, opens the window and throws out her soon-to-be ex's iPod.

* Pete Campbell does this to his wife Trudy's chicken dinner on an episode of ''Series/MadMen''. The twist is that she didn't cheat but he was angry because she kept pressuring him to adopt a child.

->'''Kevin''': How do you know when a relationship is over?\\
'''Matt''': Well, all my clothes on the front lawn usually does it for me.

Compare ApplianceDefenestration when someone is so aggravated with whatever they're doing they chuck it out the window. Also see DestinationDefenestration when it's a person that gets tossed out of the window. Also see ItsAllJunk.

* In ''Film/TheWarOfTheRoses'' husband and wife ''both'' throw and destroy each other's belongings [[spoiler:including the dog, or so it is implied]].

* Hilarious example in ''Film/PootieTang. A school-age Pootie Tang [[https://youtu.be/40cOkf5fT7A?t=1m4s calmly watches]] as a distraught adult (grown-ass) woman throws out all of his toys and finally his big wheel before she collapses on the window sill and sobs, "...Pootie, don't go!" Wa-Da-Tah.

!!The Frustration or Accidental Window Toss

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* In the manga version of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', Chrono actually tosses ''Rosette herself'' out the window when he becomes frustrated that she won't get up in the morning. When Azmaria responds with horror, Chrono quips "[[SoftWater don't worry, there's a lake below!]]" Cue Rosette coming back up to the window in a soaking wet nightgown and a fish in her mouth.
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* In one ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'' strip, Prunelle gets overly angry at the titular character for destroying two coat hangers and violently throws the remaining piece of one out the window. As it is shaped like a boomerang, HilarityEnsues.
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* There is a TV commercial for Gamefly, a videogame rental service that promises to take the sting out of dropping $50 on a new game only to find out it's truly horrible, with gamers reacting to such purchases by throwing [=TVs=], consoles, or controllers out the window.
* In the UK, a commercial for Harp lager showed a man sitting in his girlfriend's flat (established to be in a high-rise block) while she is getting ready for their date. When her dog appears, he throws a ball for it, which bounces out of the window, and the dog leaps after it. He makes "a sharp exit", as the slogan had it, and is next seen recounting the tale to his friends in the pub. After complaints from viewers, a scene was added at the end showing the dog appearing in the pub as well, unharmed.
* There's a turkey commercial where the woman is struggling with the frozen turkey [which is huge and heavy]. She miscalculates the amount of effort to toss it into the sink. So it overshoots the sink, breaks through the window and brains a man outside [her husband?]
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* In the Disney film ''Film/{{Candleshoe}}'', Jodie Foster's character gets frustrated while searching for a clue in a book and nearly throws it out the window...only to realize that the clue was referring to the church graveyard she can see from it.
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* Subverted in ''Series/HellToPay'', where John Taylor gets bored waiting for a ditzy socialite to pay attention to him, and starts fingering all the knick-knacks in the room. Fortunately for the knick-knacks, she makes time to talk to him before he needs to act out his next attention-getting tactic: tossing them out the windows.
* ''Series/MadAboutYou'' had an episode with a RunningGag that the couple tried to cook a turkey for Thanksgiving and it kept falling out a window, causing them to have to buy a new turkey. Eventually the guy at the store already has another turkey waiting for them when they rush in for yet another replacement.
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The main variation on this trope is not the relationship breakup, but rather someone being so aggravated with whatever they're doing they chuck it out the window -- see also ApplianceDefenestration. A less common variation is someone accidentally tossing something out a window they hadn't intended to. Does not usually involve defenstrating the ''person'' in question, as per DestinationDefenestration.

Compare ItsAllJunk.

* Happens in ''{{Stoked}}!'' when the staff go on strike and Bummer locks them out of the staff house. The staff not on strike dump their belongings on them from the balcony.

* ''"I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up four wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seats. I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights, slashed a hole in all four tires, maybe next time he'll think before he cheats."'' courtesy of Carrie Underwood. The video for the song does show her tossing some stuff through the window, though the man is otherwise occupied * nudge nudge wink wink* and doesn't actually get to see the results on screen.

Note that in Real Life being upset with your significant other does not give you the right to damage their property; Carrie Underwood lyrics to the contrary notwithstanding.[[note]]Point of fact, this, as well as a number of other tropes that often appear in romantic comedies, is in fact a crime for which you can be prosecuted. So, technically, you can go ahead and break their shit, as long as it's worth it to you.[[/note]]

* In ''[[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Komarr]]'' by LoisMcMasterBujold, this trope is subverted in that Ekaterin Vorsoisson isn't throwing her husband Tien out for infidelity, but leaving him because he's a bribe-taking traitor. And that it's ''him'' throwing the tantrum while she simply stands there quietly clutching her remaining dignity to her, demanding that she stay with him and trying to (entirely irrationally) blame her for his crimes, and pitching her prized bonsai tree (in the family for 70 years!) off a fifth-story balcony at one point to punctuate his childish rant. Her only reaction?

* In the manga version of ''ChronoCrusade'', Chrono actually tosses ''Rosette herself'' out the window when he becomes frustrated that she won't get up in the morning. When Azmaria responds with horror, Chrono quips "[[SoftWater don't worry, there's a lake below!]]" Cue Rosette coming back up to the window in a soaking wet nightgown and a fish in her mouth.

-->-- ''Two Of A Kind''

* Oscar Kokoshka and his wife Susie go through a number of times on ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' Arnold's used to it.

* Done in ''ItCouldHappenToYou''. Sort-of parodied in that the man's offense is donating money to charity that she would rather he spent on her.

* Seen in flashbacks in ''Exit to Eden'', when a male photojournalist who enjoys being spanked is given the heave-ho by women who are squicked by his desires.

* In ''NextFriday'' Craig's cousin Day-Day tells him about a girl he started dating 3 weeks ago who started claiming he was the father of her unborn child (she was six months pregnant). She gets really angry when he leaves her and starts destroying his stuff, actually going over to his home multiple times to damage his car. Its apparently subverted since the restraining order Day-Day managed to get indicates he wasn't lying about when he started dating her (and thus the impossibility of him being the father).

* ''EarthGirlsAreEasy'' varies the trope a little. Valerie (Geena Davis) tosses Ted (Charles Rocket) out of the house clad only in his underwear. And then, while singing a song about how much his cheating has hurt her, Valerie systematically destroys all of Ted's favourite belongings in the fireplace, the microwave, and randomly tossing them. Close enough for horseshoes. Extra points to Valerie for rolling a bowling ball down his skis into the monitor of his computer.
* Done early in the 1998 ''DirtyWork'' with passersby picking up and taking the protagonist's things. The scene culminated in a dropped commercial-style popcorn maker.

* ''WaitingToExhale''. Angela Bassett's character Bernadine gets dumped by her husband for another woman. This is after she's spent the last 11 years sacrificing her dreams of owning her own business to help him build his. Her reaction? Taking his entire very expensive wardrobe, stuffing it in his very expensive car and setting the whole shebang on fire. And what she couldn't get in the car, she sold. For a dollar.[[note]]Apparently the car in question was [[ProductPlacement a gift to the studio by a car company who wanted some free publicity.]] They were not pleased by the publicity they ended up getting.[[/note]]
* Subverted with one of the couples in ''HesJustNotThatIntoYou'', when the cool and calculating woman finds out her husband had slept with another she tries to act rational about it by suggesting that before they do anything hasty they should go into counselling. It's not until she finds cigarettes in her husband's things (something she had suspected him of having and that he denied to the point of making her feel guilty about asking) that she realizes she wants him out of her house and after [[PercussiveTherapy smashing some porcelain in anger]], neatly packs up all his belongings and leaves them on the stairs with a note telling him she wants a divorce and that he should get lost.

* In the second book of ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' cycle, ''Literature/SwordOfDestiny'', there's a story where [[TheProtagonist Geralt]], looking for his friend [[SpoonyBard Dandelion]] through the streets of Novigrad, comes at the some commotion, and sees Dandelion trying to catch his stuff that [[ReallyGetsAround his current lover]], Vespula, throws at him from the window, berating him [[TheCasanova for unfaithfulness]] all the time. What's interesting, is that during ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'', some dozen years later, she apparently [[MemeticSexGod remembers him fondly]].

* In the Disney film ''{{Candleshoe}}'', Jodie Foster's character gets frustrated while searching for a clue in a book and nearly throws it out the window...only to realize that the clue was referring to the church graveyard she can see from it.

* Haley does this to her boyfriend's things in ''ModernFamily'' after he goes to a movie with another girl.

* In the second book of ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' cycle, ''Literature/SwordOfDestiny'', there's a story where [[TheProtaginist Geralt]], looking for his friend [[SpoonyBard Dandelion]] through the streets of Novigrad, comes at the some commotion, and sees Dandelion trying to catch his stuff that [[ReallyGetsAround his current lover]], Vespula, throws at him from the window, berating him [[TheCasanova for unfaithfulness]] all the time. What's interesting, is that during ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3TheWildHunt'', some dozen years later, she apparently [[MemeticSexGod remembers him fondly]].

* In ''NextFriday'' Craig's cousin Day-Day tells him about a girl he started dating 3 weeks ago who started claiming he was the father of her unborn child (she was six months pregnant). She gets really angry when he leaves her and starts destroying his stuff, actually going over to his home multiple times to damage his car. Its apparently subverted since the restraining order Day-Day managed to get indicates he wasn't lying about when he started dating her (and thus the impossibility of him being the father.