History Main / PianoDrop

* This is the only sure way to kill a Sintillian in ''[[WesternAnimation/MenInBlack MIB: The Series]]''.

* WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls: On the character showcase episode, "Hero of the Month: Wonder Woman", Wonder Woman saves an old lady from a falling piano, but unknowingly throws the piano on top of Cheetah. Cheetah, [[CirclingBirdies seeing stars]], emerges from the rubble [[NonSequiturThud speaking nonsense]] before losing consciousness.

* In the UsefulNotes/TRS80 TextAdventure game ''Asylum'', if you ever look up, a piano immediately falls on your head and kills you.

Basically, in the old days, a piano in your high-rise apartment was a sign of prestige, since not only did the owner have to pay for the piano, but also the equipment and crew to get it ''into'' said high-rise apartment, which could be upwards of hundreds of feet off the street level. Naturally, the best (and back then, ''only'') way to get a whole piano up there was hoisting it aloft with a crane, but this presented the danger of a careless crane operator or faulty sling harness causing the piano to come loose and begin a final plummet to the street below--and anyone between it and said street were [[JustForPun flat]] out of luck if they didn't get out of the way.

** A mouse does this to Sylvester in "Canned Feud", and Sylvester smiles with his key-teeth.

** This happens to Peter himself in "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing", as predicted by a fortune cookie he got.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' during the "Why Should I Worry" sequence in which a piano is being lifted ''seven stories into the air'' and does not fall, yet [[DisneyAcidSequence Dodger somehow manages to jump off]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' Goofy and Max meet a mime who is pretending to haul on a rope; Goofy joins in, miming a pair of shears with which he cuts the rope. A rope-bedecked piano immediately falls onto the mime.

* ''Webcomic/FreddyFox'': In [[https://www.freddyfoxcomic.com/comic/showtime-2/ Showtime 2]], Cathy the cat ends up getting a piano dropped onto her (which, according to the narrator, is more likely than getting set on fire, water damage, or electrocution) as a consequence for not closing a bottle of toxic fluids.

* The GrandFinale of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' ends with two in succession, [[spoiler:killing off both the main character and the show's creator.]]

* Every spring since 1972, students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology drop an old, irreparable piano from the roof of a dormitory six stories high to celebrate Drop Date, the last date one can drop classes at MIT. The resulting noise has spawned a unit of sound volume, known as the Bruno. A photo of the inaugural piano drop at MIT in 1972 appears on the cover of ambient musician Tim Hecker's 2011 album ''Ravedeath, 1972''.