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* 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 * In the biographical film ''Film/Rocketman2019'' based on Elton John's rise to fame, John moves in with a young woman and eventually starts to date her. When she finds out he's gay however, she kicks him out and throws out all his belongings onto the street.
collapses on the window sill and sobs, "...Pootie, don't go!" Wa-Da-Tah.

* 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.

* In the biographical film ''Film/Rocketman2019'' based on Elton John's rise to fame, John moves in with a young woman and eventually starts to date her. When she finds out he's gay however, she kicks him out and throws out all his belongings onto the street.

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* In the second book of ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' cycle, ''Literature/SwordOfDestiny'', there's a story where 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 remembers him fondly.

* In the biographical film ''Film/{{Rocketman}}'' based on Elton John's rise to fame, John moves in with a young woman and eventually starts to date her. When she finds out he's gay however, she kicks him out and throws out all his belongings onto the street.

* The Barenaked Ladies song "The Humour of the Situation" has the protagonist drive home to find all his belongings on the lawn courtesy of his girlfriend.

* Parodied with Kelly Clarkson's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRM70Jw7F4M&feature=feedf My Life Would Suck Without You]] video. She teasingly steals first the magazine he's reading and tosses it out, he does the same to the one she was reading. Then she goes and grabs some of his clothes and tosses them, he does the same (and she even takes some of her clothes and tosses them herself). The video ends with the pair kissing.

** SHeDAISY's "Little Goodbyes" is essentially the PerspectiveFlip DistaffCounterpart to "Goodbye Says it All", and is about a woman who trashes the house when she leaves her boyfriend. In very specific ways. She leaves the cat litter, takes the cat. Leaves the VCR, takes the TV. Took the hourglass, left the sand. As well as a general mess. It's never explained in the song just what her boyfriend did to deserve such treatment, but it's clear she's fed up with him.

* In the biographical film ''Film/Rocketman'' based on Elton John's rise to fame, John moves in with a young woman and eventually starts to date her. However, when she finds out he's gay, she kicks him out and throws out all his belongings onto the street.

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* Done in ''Film/ItCouldHappenToYou''. Sort-of parodied in that the man's offense is donating money to charity that she would rather he spent on her.
** Not entirely. She's seen newspaper pictures of him with the waitress who he insisted on splitting their lottery winnings with and suspects--not entirely wrongly, given the husband's strong feelings for her--that they're having an affair.

* In ''Film/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. It's 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).

* 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.
* ''Film/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 ''Film/DirtyWork'' with passersby picking up and taking the protagonist's things. The scene culminated in a dropped commercial-style popcorn maker.

* ''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 [[DestroyTheProductPlacement by the publicity they ended up getting]].[[/note]]
* Subverted with one of the couples in ''Film/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 TheMovie of Brazilian sitcom ''Os Normais'', once Vani figures out her husband is cheating on her (with the wife of the one who would become Vani's fiance in the series, Rui), she starts throwing his things out the apartment window.

* ''Film/HighHeelsAndLowLifes'': After throwing Ray out of her flat, Shannon tosses one last best of his audio equipment at him from the balcony. Having his arms full, Ray fails to catch it and drops everything he is already carrying.

* In ''Literature/{{Komarr}}'' by Creator/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?
-->'''Ekaterin:''' You ass, Tien. You didn't even look to see if there was anyone below.

* In ''The Last Days'' by Scott Westerfeld, this is how Moz gets an expensive electric guitar for free, and also how he meets Pearl.

* Deconstructed in the ''Literature/HowNotToWriteANovel'' section "Prince Charming Doesn't Deserve Me (Wherein [[DesignatedVillain the bad boyfriend]] is [[UnintentionallySympathetic more sympathetic]] than [[DesignatedHero the protagonist]])". Melinda cheats on Joe and throws his clothes out on the lawn for the heinous crimes of "not wanting to help with her mother's taxes on their anniversary" and "buying her the wrong colored roses". The example paints Melinda as petty and vindictive, tormenting Joe at the slightest provocation rather than giving him his just desserts.

** One episode of ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' begins with the window toss. Eventually the man on the balcony throws the dog over, and the woman below is horrified when her new boyfriend is spattered with blood...Fortunately we are then shown that she caught the dog safely, and the blood was being sprayed by a road salter.

* Used hilariously in ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Dreamland," in which Mulder switches bodies with an Area 51 worker Morris Fletcher. Fletcher's wife thinks that her husband (really Mulder) is cheating on her, as Mulder was muttering something about Scully in his sleep and Scully herself showed up at the door five seconds later looking for Morris Fletcher. She ends up throwing out all of her husband's possessions while Mulder tries to convince Scully that it's really him, even though he looks like Fletcher.

* ''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. There's a BrickJoke as their friend Raj finds it on the pavement outside and brings it back.
-->'''Penny''': Hey! Jerkface, you forgot your iPod!
* Pete Campbell throws his wife Trudy's chicken dinner on an episode of ''Series/MadMen''. The twist is that she didn't cheat and he's not leaving her but he was angry because she kept pressuring him to adopt a child.
* Used in an episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''. It's what makes Ted realize he's done dating around and ready to settle down and get married.
* In an episode of ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'', Ray accidentally lost his wedding ring, and when Debra finds out another woman was flirting with him, and he didn't mention he was married until the end of their conversation, he stands in the yard, where she's throwing his stuff out the second floor window, while he tells her, "C'mon stop! The neighborhood already thinks you drink!"

* "Before He Cheats" by Music/CarrieUnderwood is mainly about a woman scorned defacing her philandering ex-boyfriend's beloved truck while he's with another woman. The video for the song does show her tossing some stuff through the window, though the man is otherwise "occupied" and doesn't actually get to see the results on screen.
* Music/{{Pink}}:
** Pink's video for the song "There You Go" shows a '''motorbike''' crashing through the cheating boyfriend's window.
** Pink and her BF fought in the "You Make Me Sick" vid. Nothing goes through a window, but they sure wreck each other's stuff.

* A Finnish singer Anssi Kela has a couple of lines in his song "1972" that translate roughly into "When I returned home yesterday, my key didn't fit into the lock/My clothes are flying out of the window". It's very likely to be an example of this trope.
* Willie Mabon's R&B song "I'm Mad" (featured in the cartoon ''Sing, Beast, Sing''), has him venting his anger on his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend, eventually threatening to pitch her clothes: "Won't be any more washin', or hangin' upside the wall/ I'm throwin' them out the window/ Run out and catch 'em before they fall."
* Music video of Music/LilyAllen's "Smile" shows a really extreme version. The woman getting revenge upon her cheating boyfriend hires thugs to beat him up and trash his apartment. They stash his clothes into a toilet (too bad she put laxative in his coffee) and scratch his precious [=LPs=].
* Music/PetShopBoys ' "The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on" has the girl in the spoken break threaten to do this to her boyfriend due to his [[HoYay extracurricular]] [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn activities]].

* In Music/BowlingForSoup's song "A-Hole," the singers mention coming home to find all his stuff on the front lawn. "I thought she was happy, but I was wrong."
* Referenced in "Let Me Tell You About My Operation" by Music/TheyMightBeGiants:
-->''Ground floor, screen door, yelling inside\\
I think you know the scene\\
Front lawn, break of dawn, clothes on the ground\\
How could you be so mean?''

* Blu Cantrell's "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)" is about a woman who sells her lover's things, pays the bills a month late, and uses up the credit cards after he cheats on her.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' used it in a sketch, with a pair of birds and their nest.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer and Marge realize that Apu and Manjula are having trouble with their sex life (specifically, that he had been spending all his time at work) when they throw the Kama Sutra out of the window. Homer picks it up and finds it fascinating and tries reading it as they're driving home, swerving all across the road, which makes Marge take over the wheel. Shortly after he points out one particularly interesting page [[NotSoAboveItAll Marge starts swerving just as it did when he was driving]].

** A couple on ''Series/CSIMiami'' destroyed or gave away practically everything they'd owned to keep it from each other, and a man on the Vegas original killed himself and a friend while chain-sawing the furniture he'd just lost to his ex-wife in their divorce settlement.

* In ''Film/TheMexican'' (with Creator/JuliaRoberts and Creator/BradPitt)
* In ''Film/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).

* Sheena Easton's "Almost Over You" is about the singer expressing her heartbreak for her man who was "painting the town" (committing adultery). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugl3pd8LUhA&feature=youtu.be&t=78 The music video]] has her playing the piano while also featuring some video games of the time, implying that her boyfriend is a gamer. The climax of the video has her throwing '''an arcade machine''' out of the balcony.

It's a scenario when a couple is breaking up. The man is leaving his wife or girlfriend. Perhaps he has [[YourCheatingHeart cheated on her]], and the woman is showing both her ire and her desire to be rid of this man and all memory of his presence in her life by throwing his belongings out of the window of the dwelling they shared up until she discovered the infidelity or other dealbreaking thing he's done. This is usually accompanied by the woman screaming or [[TranquilFury faux-calmly berating]] him for what he's done, or [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech delivering the litany of reasons]] he's being dumped along with his belongings.

* Sheena Easton's "Almost Over You" is about the singer expressing her heartbreak for her man who was "[[YourCheatingHeart painting the town]]". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugl3pd8LUhA&feature=youtu.be&t=78 The music video]] has her playing the piano while also featuring some video games of the time, implying that her boyfriend is a gamer. The climax of the video has her throwing '''an arcade machine''' out of the balcony.

* Season 1 of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' has Rachel throwing out Paolo's stuff from her balcony. They were supposed to have a romantic weekend off, and he hit on Rachel's friends Phoebe. He's the classic RomanticFalseLead (the original, natch).

** Inverted by Ted keeps many belongings from old ex-girlfriends, but Robin (whom he was dating throughout season 2) is uncomfortable with them and demands he gets rid of it all, which turns out to be almost everything he owns. On the other hand, Ted himself is uncomfortable when he finds out Robin got all her dogs from ex-boyfriends, and Robin decides to send them to a farm (literally). However, when they get back to Ted's apartment she sees that he has gotten back everything he threw out. This culminates in a huge argument that [[UnreliableNarrator Future Ted]] struggles to remember, but it somehow ends with the two deciding to move in together.
** In season 8, Ted dated, broke up, and made up with the psychotic Jeanette. Upon making up with her when Jeanette finds Barney's Playbook, whom she thought was Ted's, she throws him out of his apartment and threw out all his stuff that he had collected from his exes, along with the book.

* Inverted in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''. Ted keeps many belongings from old ex-girlfriends, but Robin (who he is currently dating) is uncomfortable with them and demands he gets rid of it all, which turns out to be almost everything he owns. On the other hand, Ted himself is uncomfortable when he finds out Robin got all her dogs from ex-boyfriends, and Robin decides to send them to a farm (literally). However, when they get back to Ted's apartment she sees that he has gotten back everything he threw out. This culminates in a huge argument that [[UnreliableNarrator Future Ted]] struggles to remember, but it somehow ends with the two deciding to move in together.

* 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 remembers him fondly.

** One episode of ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' begins with the window toss. Eventually the man on the balcony throws the dog over, and the woman below is horrified when her new boyfriend is spattered with blood...Fortunately we are then shown that he caught the dog safely, and the blood was being sprayed by a road salter.

** One episode of ''Series/CSINewYork'' begins with window toss. Eventually the man on the balcony throws the dog over, and the horrified woman below is spattered with blood... Fortunately we are then shown that the dog was caught safely, and the blood was being sprayed by a road salter.

* Used hilariously in ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Dreamland", in which Mulder switches bodies with an Area 51 worker Morris Fletcher. Fletcher's wife thinks that her husband (really Mulder) is cheating on her, as Mulder was muttering something about Scully in his sleep and Scully herself showed up at the door five seconds later looking for Morris Fletcher. She ends up throwing out all of her husband's possessions while Mulder tries to convince Scully that it's really him, even though he looks like Fletcher.

* In an episode of ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'', Ray accidentally lost his wedding ring, and when Debra finds out another woman was flirting with him, and he didn't mention he was married until the end of their conversation, he stands in the yard, where she's throwing his stuff out the second floor window, while he tells her, "c'mon stop! The neighborhood already thinks you drink!"