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* The ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' chibi shorts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw2Ye46CvOM Bending Battle]] has [[CuteBruiser Toph]] demonstrating Earthbending by turning a cliff face into a pinball machine, complete with [[ChewToy Sokka]] as the ball.

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* In WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryBlastOffToMars Peep, Tom, and Jerry have this happen to them as they're taking off in their space ship when it hits some of the martian buildings.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', A LamePunReaction from Story Weather sends [[PungeonMaster Cat Noir]] careening across the city and bouncing off cars with the appropriate sound effects.

"TILT!" -- the indication that an attempt to cheat at pinball by lifting or shaking the machine has been detected -- is a subtrope in its own right. Tilted machines shut down immediately, ignoring player input and ending the current game, sort of an early-to-mid-20th century BSOD, with the added element of [[NoFairCheating "you brought this on yourself, cheater!"]] In a similar manner, a character subject to "TILT!" is usually stunned or unconscious, although whether this is because of or simply indicated by the "TILT!" varies from instance to instance.

Bonus points if Pinball-related sounds are included, such as target bells and paddles striking the moving object.

Most frequently seen in WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons, this is a visual gag which reproduces the look and action of a {{Pinball}} game. A ball or other spherical object (sometimes a character forced to curl into a ball) caroms wildly about, rebounding off of numerous objects and/or persons, producing glowing "scores" over each one. The gag ends when either it leaves the "playing field" (often by dropping into a hole) or one specific target lights up with a "TILT!" indicator.

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* ''TheManWithTwoBrains''. They specifically set up the whole MadScientist lab just so Steve Martin can do the pinball routine near the end of the movie.

* Literal: The opening titles of ''InchHighPrivateEye'' has the title character on the surface of a pinball machine chased around by a pinball.

* During the car chase scenes in ''Film/THX1138'', where the titular character is pursued by the robotic police officers on motorcycles. In the scene immediately following the wipe-out of the first officer, "TILT//" can be seen flashing on a mainframe panel.

* In the dodgeball episode of NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide, [[spoiler: Moze]] takes out four people with one throw of a ball, including pinball sound effects.

* One playing of Party Quirks on WhoseLineIsItAnyway had Wayne Brady acting like he was a pinball in a machine.

* A variation of this is found in ''FamilyGuy'', in one of their random referential gags: In "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz", Stewie has been forced to live in a bubble for a while, and at one point complains about the morning he's had: Somehow getting caught in ''Series/SesameStreet''s Funky classic [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZshZp-cxKg "Pinball Number Count"]] short (123 '''4 5''' 678 '''9 10''' 11 12!).

* Happens on ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'', when Jimmy and Beezy are [[BeTheBall knocking themselves around]].

* In the elephant race event of ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics'' from India, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy's elephant bounces off city pillars with accompanying pinball noises after betting a trunk full of curry (thanks to the Really Rottens).

* This happens in ''DoubleRainboom'' when Rainbow Dash drinks the potion that allows her to fly faster. There is even a scoreboard adding up points.

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* ''Mario Pinball Land'' is a [[DigitalPinballTable pinball video game]] built around this trope.

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* This happens in ''DoubleRainboom'' when Rainbow Dash drinks the potion that allows here to fly faster. There is even a scoreboard adding up points.

* ''Mario Pinball Land'' is a [[DigitalPinballTable video pinball game]] built around this trope.

* In the dodgeball episode of ''NedsDeclassified'', [[spoiler: Moze]] takes out four people with one throw of a ball, including pinball sound effects.

* In the dodgeball episode of ''NedsDeclassified'', [[spoiler: Jennifer/Moze]] takes out four people with one throw of a ball, including pinball sound effects.

* ''Mario Pinball Land'' is a video pinball game built around this trope.

Most frequently seen in WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons, this is a visual gag which reproduces the look and action of a pinball game. A ball or other spherical object (sometimes a character forced to curl into a ball) caroms wildly about, rebounding off of numerous objects and/or persons, producing glowing "scores" over each one. The gag ends when either it leaves the "playing field" (often by dropping into a hole) or one specific target lights up with a "TILT!" indicator.

* Several ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts have some variation of it, including ''Baseball Bugs'' when Bugs hits a line drive that bounces off of all the outfielders.