History Main / NauticalKnockout

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* ''Film/CheaperByTheDozen2003'': Happens to the father.

* ''Film/JoeVersusTheVolcano'' - Happens to Patricia (Meg Ryan's third role) during a storm, knocking her out. Joe jumps in to save her, hero that he is.
* ''Film/OneCrazySummer''.
* ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'' (the 1983 film) - The Pirate King runs into the boom during the Pirate King number (but it doesn't knock him overboard, though he does that later on his own).
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' - Jack Sparrow does this intentionally to Will Turner.
* ''Film/{{Sabrina|1995}}'' - Happens to Linus Laraby in the remake.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Curse of the Black Spot" - Happens to Rory.

* ''Film/CheaperByTheDozen'': Happens to the father.

* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': A rather iconic scene has Plucky as the star of his own sea movie, ''Kon Ducky.'' While trying to film a scene where he's enjoying a glass of mango juice on the deck, he's smashed over the head by the falling mast. In ''every'' take.

* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''" A rather iconic scene has Plucky as the star of his own sea movie, ''Kon Ducky.'' While trying to film a scene where he's enjoying a glass of mango juice on the deck, he's smashed over the head by the falling mast. In ''every'' take.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures "Ahh, mango juice!"]]

* There is a minor piece of Polish internet lore which is a [[http://www.humorkowo.net/txt/zeg.php humorous dictionary]] of nautical terms. The dictionary mentions that the boom's main purpose is to sweep landlubbers, annoying crewmembers and miscellaneous litter from the deck.

* ''Film/JoeVersusTheVolcano'' - Happens to Patricia (Meg Ryan's third role) during a storm, knocking her out. Joe jumps in to save her, hero that he is.

* This is how [[KrakenAndLeviathan the Leviathan]] actually kills [[HornyVikings the Viking captain]] in an infamous deleted opening for ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.
* Played for laughs in the Creator/JohnCandy movie ''Summer Rental''.
* In ''Film/GreatWhite'', [[TeaserOnlyCharacter the woman in the teaser]] climbs on to the yacht to escape the shark, but the fraying rope holding the boom snaps and the swinging boom smacks her head: knowing her out and knocking her back into the water.

* In Creator/KurtVonnegut's novel ''God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater'', Eliot Rosewater accidentally kills his mother when he takes her sailing on his small boat and tacks. The boom swung across, knocked her off the boat where she sank like a stone.
* Subverted in ''[[Literature/DragonridersOfPern Dragondrums]]'', in that Sebell, nautically inexperienced, doesn't react when warned to get out of the way of the boom. Fortunately for him, Menolly yanks him out of the way just in time.

* Happens to Pierce in ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "[[Recap/CommunityS1E19BeginnerPottery Beginner Pottery]]" while in a boating class. Only since the college is nowhere near water, the boat is in the middle of the parking lot, yet the instructor insists that they act as if they were at sea, and Pierce is essentially left to die.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror XXI" -- It's how they kill Dr. Series/{{House}}.

* Comically reversed in the WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} cartoon "How to Be a Sailor". When a boom hits Goofy, it shatters on impact to illustrate the era of WoodenShipsAndIronMen.

* This is ''supposedly'' the source of the [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Royal Navy]] acronym [[FunWithAcronyms BOHICA]]: "Bend Over, Here It Comes Again". It's claimed that the acronym references this trope, but it's also likely to be an example of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

** In ''Sea Scouts'', Donald orders his nephews to hoist the sail on his ship, but they raise the boom rather than actually unfurl the sail. As Don commands them to lower the boom, they accidentally let go of their rope, causing it to drop onto their uncle.

* This is how [[KrakenAndLeviathan the Leviathan]] actually kills [[HornyVikings the Viking captain]] in an infamous deleted opening for ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.

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* ''Film/CheaperByTheDozen'' - Happens to the father.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' - WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror XXI - It's how they kill Dr. Series/{{House}}.

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* This is ''supposedly'' the source of the [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Royal Navy]] acronym [[FunWithAcronyms BOHICA]]: Bend Over, Here It Comes Again. It's claimed that the acronym references this trope, but it's also likely to be an example of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

* WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck

* ''Film/{{Sabrina}}'' - Happens to Linus Laraby in the remake.

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* There is a minor piece of Polish internet lore which is a [[http://www.humorkowo.net/txt/zeg.php humorous dictionary]] of nautical terms. The dictionary mentions that the boom's main purpose is to sweep landlubbers, annoying crewmembers and miscellaneous litter from the deck.

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On a small, single-masted ship, the sail will be large and the deck so small you have to watch for the boom -- it's the spar under the sail. So when the sail moves, it's likely to swing suddenly across the deck and knock the sailor unaware in the head. Sometimes this results in unconsciousness. Sometimes the sailor is knocked into the water. And sometimes, the sailor is knocked ''unconscious'' into the water.

* Happens to Pierce in ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "[[Recap/CommunityS1E19BeginnerPottery Beginner Pottery]]"while in a boating class. Only since the college is nowhere near water, the boat is in the middle of the parking lot, yet the instructor insists that they act as if they were at sea, and Pierce is essentially left to die.

* Happens to Pierce in ''Series/{{Community}}'' while in a boating class. Only since the college is nowhere near water, the boat is in the middle of the parking lot, yet the instructor insists that they act as if they were at sea, and Pierce is essentially left to die.

* ''Film/{{Sabrina}}'' - Happens to Linus Laraby.

* This is ''supposedly'' the source of the [[BritsWithBattleships Royal Navy]] acronym [[FunWithAcronyms BOHICA]]: Bend Over, Here It Comes Again. It's claimed that the acronym references this trope, but it's also likely to be an example of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.