History Main / PeopleFallOffChairs

* ''BlazingSaddles'': When the newly-minted Sheriff Bart is riding down the street into Rock Ridge, one man is sitting in chair leaned against the wall of a building, gapes at Bart in surprise, and the chair slips out from under him.

* In the prologue of ''ComicBook/KillerCondom'', the student's mother falls off her chair from shock after hearing what her darling daughter did to her professor (supposedly bite of his ''bits''). Then goes the father. Played with in the general direction of JustifiedTrope, as both fainted, which in itself is quite an exaggeration of reaction, even if you were from Philadelphia.

* In ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', Captain Kirk's most famous line is delivered from the floor in front of his captain's chair. Kirk stumbling off the chair was entirely accidental. But director Creator/LeonardNimoy thought it suited the scene and [[ThrowItIn left it in]].

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': In "Emotion Sickness", Kim (under the influence of a [[EmotionBomb "Moodulator" device]]) kisses Ronjust as [[MissionControl Wade]] calls. The sight causes Wade to do a SpitTake and fall out of his chair.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': In "Emotion Sickness", Kim (under the influence of a [[EmotionBomb "Moodulator" device]] kisses Ronjust as [[MissionControl Wade]] calls. The sight causes Wade to do a SpitTake and fall out of his chair.

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* In the {{ER}} episode "Motherhood", as Dr. Lewis rushes in with her laboring sister, screaming for assistance, perpetual ButtMonkey Carter does this.

** When L finds out that {{Shinigami}} might exist, he falls out of his chair.

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* Ted makes Stella laugh so hard she does this in an episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''.

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* In a ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' SundayStrip from 1986, Charlie Brown tells Lucy at her psychiatric booth that he's afraid of falling off chairs. While she tries to convince him that it's an irrational fear, he falls off her stool twice.
%% Commented out since WeblinksAreNotExamples * [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin's]] mother [[http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-ash1/v97/241/42/159101491/n159101491_30194056_5498.jpg here]].
* Used multiple times in ''Literature/TheConditionsOfGreatDetectives''. After Tenkaichi sets up a dramatic scene in the police station he asks to go to the bathroom, shocking everybody and causing some of them to fall of their chairs onto their face.

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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Grace [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-07-23 does this]] upon meeting the AlternateUniverse versions of Tedd and Elliot, who are dating.

-->'''Greg:''' Are you okay?
-->'''Child Left Behind: I'm fine! I tripped!'''
-->'''Shade Tail:''' But you were sitting.

-->'''Raven:''' Your classmate Grace is going to be here, and it's best she doesn't--- *[[OffscreenCrash THWUMP]]*
-->'''Raven:''' What happened?
-->'''Noah:''' Nothing! I tripped!
-->'''Raven:''' ...How?

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* When L finds out that {{Shinigami}} might exist in ''Manga/DeathNote'', he falls out of his chair.

%% commented out since WeblinksAreNotExamples * Happens on [[http://www.anymanga.com/gokusen/008/007/009/ this]] page of ''{{Gokusen}}''.

* In ''Film/{{Batman}}'', a news anchor does this as she [[DieLaughing dies laughing]] from the effects of SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker's "Smilex" chemical found in her makeup.

* Inverted in ''Film/{{Inception}}''- pushing someone off a chair is used to trigger a huge shock (causing a sleeping person to wake up), rather than a huge shock causing someone to fall off a chair.

* Inverted in ''{{Inception}}''- pushing someone off a chair is used to trigger a huge shock (causing a sleeping person to wake up), rather than a huge shock causing someone to fall off a chair.

May be a consequence of SwivelChairAntics. Compare FaceFault, BreakingBadNewsGently (when it involves saying "You better sit down"), and DramaticDrop, though in this case the thing being dropped is yourself. Sister Trope of SpitTake and DramaticSitDown. [[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do]] with Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs.

* In ''Film/{{Batman}}'', a news reporter does this as she [[DieLaughing dies laughing]] from the effects of the SelfDemonstrating/{{Joker}}'s "Smilex" chemical found in her makeup.

* Used multiple times in ''Literature/TheConditionsOfGreatDetectives''. After Tenkaichi sets up a dramatic scene in the police station he asks to go to the bathroom, shocking everybody and causing some of them to fall off their chairs onto their face.

* ''Anime/ManabiStraight'': In a montage of do-it-yourself remodeling of Student Council room, Manabi tests a freshly glued-together chair by vigorously reclining in its plastic seat-and-back-piece. She flips back with it to the laugh of onlooker, the glue apparently wasn't given enough time to harden.