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* In ''Film/MenWithBrooms'', Cutter, [[TranquilFury feeling frustrated]], asks the bartender how much it would cost for another beer, then asks how much for the ''mug'', and finally, for the TV on the wall. After handing over the money, Cutter is told by the GenreSavvy bartender to "have at it", and he slings the empty beer mug through the television set.

* In ArthurCClarke's first short story, "Rescue Party", aliens exploring the abandoned Earth as the Sun is about to go nova find an office with its contents trashed. [[StrawVulcan Most of them are baffled]] even after one of them suggests this trope as the explanation.

* Referenced by EddieIzzard in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUwnkTnHrtI this]] sketch about chiropractors from ''Dressed to Kill''

* The first weapon you get in ''RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'' gives a nice satisfying crunch.

* Katchoo in ''StrangersInParadise'' breaks/smashes/destroys (in various ways) her alarm clock ''every time'' when it rings in the morning.

* In SpiderRobinson's ''Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon'' series, all drinks at Callahan's bar are fifty cents, and Callahan only accepts one dollar bills. You get the fifty cents back unless you want to step up to the line and make a toast by tossing your empty glass into the bar's fireplace hard enough to shatter it. It is an exceptionally cathartic action, as it turns out.

* The scene in ''OfficeSpace'' when Peter, Michael and Samir destroy the fax machine.

* One time on ''TheDickVanDykeShow'' Rob & Laura took their frustrations out on a pile of dishes that they were going to replace anyway because they had chips in them.

* ''{{Psych}}'': Lassiter's ex refuses a gift. He then uses them for target practice.
* ''BabylonFive'', from "A Late Return from Avalon";

* Tim Burton's ''Film/{{Batman}}'': The joker shoots a TV set whenever Batman comes on.

[[DontTryThisAtHome For obvious reasons, this is rarely something you can do in real life without legal consequences at the least.]]

* In the ''GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', when a muckraking reporter and her film-crew kept following [[BoisterousBruiser Stone]] around, looking for ''something'' to tarnish up his already shaky reputation with, he finally got so fed up with her that he flattened the newsvan they were using to follow him. And you should take the word "flattened" literally, as he used his SuperStrength to drop a bulldozer on it eight or nine times in quick succession. Then he got himself a beer.

* ''SluggyFreelance'' has Torg get people together for a party where they [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/090119 step on a scale that mocks their weight]] just so they can have fun [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/090120 smashing it with crowbars]].

The visceral joy one gets from ruthlessly smashing or otherwise destroying some inanimate object, especially if said object (or whatever it represents) has caused you a great deal of annoyance. Implements favored for this kind of catharsis include, but are not limited to: [[BatterUp Baseball Bats]], [[DropTheHammer Sledgehammers]], [[ChainsawGood Chainsaws]], Woodchippers, Heavy Construction Equipment, and in some cases High Explosives. As a general rule, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill the more over the top the means of destruction, the greater the satisfaction.]] RingRingCrunch is a subtrope of this. DieChairDie may also be related to this, depending on the game.

* In ''{{Hook}}'', Hook tries to hurt Peter by turning his son to his side. He starts out by encouraging Jack to smash a watch that his father gave him. After that, Jack starts smashing a room full of clocks, for everything Peter did that annoyed him.

* Referenced in whichever {{Mythbusters}} episode had the killer snowplow myth. (where a snowplow could blow a car off the road.)

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* The ''car smash fundraiser'' in which people pay money to swing a sledgehammer at an old car.

* When Sasha is teaching Raz how to use the psiblast in ''{{Psychonauts}}'', he tells him to picture something terrible, something that absolutely must die. Sasha's target of choice? Tacky decorative lamps.

* Tim Burton's ''{{Batman}}'': The joker shoots a TV set whenever Batman comes on.

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty Advance'' contains a Gaddget called "Stress Press." The entire purpose of it is to smash various objects with an enormous hammer, for the express purpose of making you feel better.

* In ''WarriorCats'', Jayfeather is so upset that Rock didn't tell him that [[spoiler:Leafpool and Crowfeather are his real parents]] that he decides to break Rock's stick. (ItMakesSenseInContext.)

* TheWorldEndsWithYou [[EnsembleDarkhorse Sho Minamimoto]] "Your opinions are garbage! CRUNCH, I'll add 'em to the heap."