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Costello: You know... you know, they have hit me with everything but the kitchen sink.
Abbott: Oh, well... we can fix that. [pulls the sink out of the wall, breaks it over Costello's head]
— Abbott and Costello, Lost in Alaska

Every time someone refers to the expression "everything but the kitchen sink" in any way, shape or fashion, an actual, literal kitchen sink will inevitably appear. Sometimes, the saying is not even mentioned; showing a kitchen sink in a context where the saying could be used works as a Visual Pun by itself. This trope is almost always Played for Laughs, especially in cartoons.

The original expression is an idiom of unknown origin but originating in the early 20th century, meaning "everything that wasn't bolted down". Kitchen sinks are not only bolted down, but connected to the plumbing.

Nothing to do with a Fantasy Kitchen Sink or a Sci-Fi Kitchen Sink, unless you somehow manage to incorporate them into the mythology as well. Also unrelated to the underground comix publisher Kitchen Sink Press (who probably rather wants to allude to "filth" than to this trope).

Examples:

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    Advertising 
  • An old McDonald's commercial featuring Ronald McDonald and the McDonaldland gang featured them going on vacation; when they got home, Birdie exclaimed that they had "seen everything but the kitchen sink". Ronald said he'd "fix that", and pulled a lever that caused the kitchen in his house—what they were in—to "sink" about ten five feet into the ground. "Now we've seen the kitchen sink," chuckled Grimace. (The whole commercial had been a Hurricane of Puns.)
  • A Vonage commercial showed a couple discussing how their current phone company's fees are robbing them blind, while black-clad and domino-masked thieves steal everything they own, kitchen sink included.

    Comic Books 
  • Negaduck and Magica Da Spell spend 'Crisis on Infinite Darkwings', the second Darkwing Duck comic arc, 'recruiting' various Darkwings; all they can find. In one big splash panel showing off their work, you can see… Darkwing Sink◊.
  • Demon #25, one of the many, many origins of Etrigan. Advertised as including an unneeded Lobo poster. The Demon and Lobo were beating the tar out of each other with every single weapon imaginable, including said sink.
  • A Disney Adventures comic featuring Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series used this line when a brainwashed hockey crowd was attacking the team. "They're throwing everything at us but... [clang] The kitchen sink?"
  • Disney Ducks Comic Universe
    • In Carl Barks's story "A Cold Bargain", Uncle Scrooge and a Brutopian try to outbid each other at an auction. The competition escalates to the point where the Brutopian has to bid all the kitchen sinks of his country. Scrooge asks him how many that is, the exhausted Brutopian barks, "five!" So Scrooge adds six kitchen sinks to his bid, and wins the auction.
    • One Scrooge McDuck story has him run into a convoy of prospectors, which he fails to sell anything to. As he comments that they seem to have everything but the kitchen sink, one of them points towards his mule... sure enough, he's got one.
  • During the disturbance between dimensions in JLA: Another Nail, in a Splash Panel featuring multiple time periods and alternate realities colliding, a kitchen sink is seen floating.
  • From the parody "Marvel What The...": Wolverine to Punisher: "Aren't they still out of ammo yet?" A kitchen sink flies at Wolverine straight into the face, and Punisher comments: "NOW they are out of ammo!"

    Comic Strips 
  • Beetle Bailey: Cookie can't even get it right when he uses the kitchen sink expression about what's in his food, as Beetle finds a tap in his stew right after that.
  • MAD:
    • The Return of the Jedi parody has an unseen crewman on a spacecraft pointing out that the battle around the Death Star has everything but the kitchen sink. The person he's speaking to points out that there is indeed a kitchen sink in the battle (which you can even see in the panel) but not to worry because "The sink's on our side!"
    • Their Lost in Space parody also featured this, although there the sink simply crashed nearby.
  • The newspaper Comicbook Adaptation of Rugrats had Stu complaining about packing too much when they went on vacation. Didi says he's exaggerating. Cue Stu holding a kitchen sink in the last panel.

    Fan Works 

    Films — Animation 
  • At the end of Aladdin, the newly-freed Genie starts packing for his trip around the world. One of the things to go in his suitcase: a kitchen sink.
  • In Inside Out, while emptying his Bag of Holding, Bing Bong has a kitchen sink in it.
  • In the Mickey Mouse adaption of The Prince and the Pauper, when The Prince, Donald Duck and Goofy are escaping from the dungeon, the weasel guards throw various assorted weapons at Goofy, one of them being a kitchen sink.
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: When the Seven Dwarfs let Snow White sleep in their beds, they all have to find new places to sleep. Doc sleeps in the kitchen sink, and at one point, a drop of water from the pump falls into his mouth.
  • Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats: Humorously subverted, then played straight in the same scene. When Top Cat and his gang are having a wild party, their neighbors respond by throwing a bunch of junk at them to get them to be quiet. Fancy then remarks that the neighbors have thrown everything but the kitchen sink; the next object dropped is a grand piano. T.C. yells, "What's the matter with you up there?! He said, 'kitchen sink'!", with predictable results.
  • Yellow Submarine: Old Fred opens up a cupboard door and lots of unlikely objects fall out, including a kitchen sink.

    Films — Live-Action 
  • Lost in Alaska: While getting stuff out of the "ammunition igloo" (which is full of miscellaneous items) and throwing them at Stillman and his henchmen to keep them from advancing, Tom says he and George have thrown everything but the kitchen sink. George promptly comes back with one and hurls it at the trio.
  • Similarly, the climactic battle of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice occurs in a derelict house. Batman uses everything in sight to bash on Superman including, you guessed it, a kitchen sink.
  • Cool World: When the Goons are building a tower of improbable items in order to spy on Holli and Jack having sex, the stack includes the kitchen sink.
  • Hellzapoppin': When Jeff is reviewing the props for the revue, he comments that they have everything but the kitchen sink. Johnson then walks in carrying a sink.
  • During the fight between Rhodey and Tony in Iron Man 2, Rhodey actually uses the sink to beat Tony over the head with.
  • During the climactic battle in Shin Godzilla Tokyo is throwing collapsing buildings against Godzilla in an effort to stop him. Buildings that have kitchens, and by extension, kitchen sinks.
  • The Spirit has one extended fight scene that involves various objects culminating with a kitchen sink smashed over someone's head.
  • Star Wars: The opening battle in Revenge of the Sith was so complex one of the people on the team said they had put everything in it but the kitchen sink. They then proceeded to rectify that. Watch closely, specifically the shot where we fly by a CIS ship as it breaks apart and a piece of debris smashes into a nearby Republic ship. That's the kitchen sink.

    Literature 
  • In Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon, Bill lifts the day pack Lori prepared for the family outing to the opening day of King Wilfrid's Faire and gives a low whistle:
    "I hope you remembered to put the kitchen sink in here," he said. "We may have to wash King Wilfrid's dishes before the day is through."
    "I knew I forgot something," I said, snapping my fingers. "Wait here. I'll run in and get the sink."
  • In The Berenstain Bear Scouts and the Run-Amuck Robot, the titular robot is described as being made of "Everything but the kitchen sink. And quite a few sink parts."
  • In one of the Dragaera novels, a barricade assembled by Easterners to seal off South Adrilankha incorporates all sorts of furnishings, including a kitchen washbasin. Actual sinks haven't been invented yet.
  • The Dresden Files: Discussed by Harry Dresden’s internal narration during the hilltop battle in Turn Coat:
    The naagloshi snarled more words in unknown tongues, and began flinging power with both arms. Balls of fire like the one I’d seen at Chateau Raith were followed by crackling spheres of blue sparks and wobbling green spheres of what looked like Jell-O and smelled like sulfuric acid. It was an impressive display of evocation. Had a kitchen sink gone flying towards Listens-to-Wind, conjured from who knows where, it wouldn’t have startled me.
  • Occurs in Garfield's Pet Force. When Binky the magician declares "found it!" after a comment about the kitchen sink, it is the sink that he found, not the object he is looking for.
  • In "Grandmaster" by David Klass the titular Grandmaster wins by first sacrificing a knight, then a rook and then a kitchen sink. (Wait, no, that's just what an unqualified spectator said in-universe.)
  • Specifically averted in the Prince Roger series: one of the two things that Poertena's "pig pocking pag" is known to not contain is a kitchen sink. (The other is a tabletop tester for plasma rifles.)
  • Barely averted in 1636: The Saxon Uprising, when Mike Stearns is denouncing Axel Oxenstierna's actions:
    The list went on for quite some time. The kitchen sink wasn’t there, but only because Mike hadn’t been able to figure out a plausible way to accuse Oxenstierna of stealing it.
    He did accuse the chancellor of imperiling the nation’s sanitation measures and increasing the danger of epidemics, though.

    Live-Action TV 

In General:

  • Game Shows: Honestly, there were several shows where kitchen sinks were indeed prizes:
    • Several Goodson-Todman shows of the mid-1970s—including The Price Is Right and Concentration—offered a kitchen sink from the H.R. Schriner Co. A legitimate prize worth about $450, this had a teakwood base with cabinet space below the sink basin, and counter space was included. (Schriner also had a burner base that was sometimes a prize.)
    • Several other packagers offered similar "kitchen sinks" as legit prizes—either stand-alone or part of a "home remodeling" prize package. (Such as Wheel of Fortune, where AristoKraft's kitchen cabinetry and remodeling package was sometimes a prize in the 1980s and early 1990s.)
    • High Rollers: One of the dice games—It Takes Two—literally had "the kitchen sink" as one of the prizes. Unlike G-T's shows, this was a gag prize (worth about $250).

Series:

  • In an episode of The Big Comfy Couch Loonette decides to pull everything out of the couch to see how much is in it. The very last thing she pulls out? A kitchen sink!
  • On the Bill Nye the Science Guy episode "Atoms" Bill enters the lab which is all full of different items which he claims are all made of matter. One of the items is—the kitchen sink!
  • One time on Clean House, Niecy goes "We're throwing out everything but the kitchen sink!" Gilligan Cut to Trish Suhr throwing a kitchen sink to which Niecy responds "Well shut my mouth!"
  • Invoked in a Dirty Jobs segment set in a scrapyard; since kitchen sinks are all stainless (and weigh several pounds), they're actually not all that rare in context.
  • One time on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, as they were going about demolition Ty Pennington says "We're throwing out everything..." cue kitchen sink flying out the first floor window "…and the kitchen sink!"
  • In the "April Fools" episode of Mama's Family, Thelma Harper plays a prank on her family by filling the front lawn with junk from the garage. Shocked at the sight, Vinton says, "Mama, you've got everything out here but the kitchen sink!" Just then, Iola wheels out said sink, asking Thelma, "Where do you want it?"
  • In the M*A*S*H episode "Sticky Wicket", Hawkeye is repeatedly disturbed while hiding in a tent. When two orderlies enter carrying a crate, he loses his temper:
    Hawkeye: What's going on here? Just because I want some privacy there's everything in here but the kitchen sink! What's in there?
    Orderly: Kitchen sink, sir.
    Hawkeye: Out! Out!
  • One episode of The Monkees had them under fire from a pack of rustic, gun-wielding maniacs. They do indeed throw the kitchen sink at the Monkees... or rather, they wheel over a sink with a lit stick of dynamite on it. One Monkee responds by turning on the faucet of the sink (which still works, somehow) to drown the dynamite.
  • Used as a visual gag in the MythBusters series 5 episode "Kitchen Nightmares".
    Robert Lee: With the errr, Hyneman seal of approval, it's time for the boys to pack up everything.
    Adam: And. [holds up a kitchen sink]
  • In the 1974 Saturday morning Husdon Brothers vehicle Razzle-Dazzle, Once per Episode they would have "The Razzle-Dazzle Wrap-Up of Everything, Including the Kitchen Sink."
  • The Red Green Show: Red attempts to show us how to build a perpetual-motion machine.
    Red: So all you need is stuff you probably have lyin' around: A gas lawnmower, a downspout, a car alternator, 45-gallon drum, ceiling fan, chunk of garden hose, and some corn stalks. Now you're probably saying, "Geeze, Red, you're using everything but the kitchen sink!" Well, you're wrong! [reaches behind drum, pulls out kitchen sink]

    Music 

    Pro Wrestling 
  • A rare but beloved Running Gag in WWE: When weapons are allowed, just once, occasionally...someone will come up from underneath the ring with a kitchen sink.
  • The Legion of Doom/Ahmed Johnson vs. The Nation of Domination (Faarooq/Crush/Savio Vega) match at WrestleMania XIII was a "Chicago Street Fight". Among the weapons brought to the ring, with "everything but the kitchen sink" promised, was a kitchen sink.
  • In the "Good Housekeeping" match between Jeff Jarrett and Chyna, in which "household items" were legal, Jarrett entered carrying a kitchen sink.
  • During the 2000 edition of the WCW pay-per-view Slamboree, where the main event was a tie in match for Ready to Rumble, the second level of the three layered steel cage contained a wide variety of weapons, including a kitchen sink.

    Software 
  • Some versions of emacs — a text editor at heart that has gained a bewildering array of non-text-editing functions over the decades (notably Tetris) — use a picture of a kitchen sink as the program's icon.
  • This Mozilla Firefox extension adds an ASCII art kitchen sink.
  • Some versions of the Super Nintendo emulator ZSNES include the KitchenSync, a VSync option specifically calibrated for monitors that refresh at 120 Hz.

    Tabletop Games 
  • BattleTech: The Daishi X variant was originally a hypothetical configuration of the Daishi omnimech that showed up in the Total Warfare rulebook that mounts one of virtually every single different type of weapon system that was in the game at the time so that it could serve as an example for how to use each weapon. When it was finally given a canon record sheet in Record Sheets: 3050 Upgrade Unabridged, it quickly earned the Fan Nickname "The Kitchen Sink" due to its eclectic array of weaponry. For the record, it carries one Large Pulse Laser, one Heavy Medium laser, two Extended Range Micro Lasers, one Ultra-10 autocannon, one LB 5-X autocannon, one Advanced Tactical Missile 6-pod, one Streak Short Range Missile 2-pod, one Short Range Missile 4-pod, and one Long Range Missile 15-pod.
  • One issue of Dragon Magazine had for its cover a picture of a dragon's hoard, which contained gold, jewels, and many, many less conventional objects. A kitchen sink was among them.

    Theatre 

    Theme Parks 

    Video Games 
  • Breath of Fire III has the 'blitz' skill. It involves throwing a lot of seemingly random objects at the target, including a kitchen sink.
  • One of the more amusing spells in the 1974 dnd game is "Kitchen Sink," in reference to the phrase and the versatility of magic.
  • Kingdom of Loathing provides. In a parody of Swiss Army knife.
  • The ghostly composers Mr. Passion and Lord Passion in Mother 3, being able to command Animate Inanimate Objects to attack the player, occasionally throw "everything but the kitchen sink" at the heroes.
  • Somebody somewhere must have incautiously described NetHack as possessing everything but the kitchen sink, because in the very next version... there was one.
  • Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes has the "Kitchen Sink Zombie" teammate, who holds a kitchen sink. More importantly, he possesses several abilities, even those from other zombie classes, thus living up to the phrase he's named after. Specifically... It's even referenced in his Flavor Text:
    He's got everything but the - no wait, he's got that too.
  • In La Pucelle Culotte has the Kitchen Sink ability, where he throws a lot of junk before ending the attack with a bomb. The flavor text reads "Every thing but".
  • Unsurprisingly, Scribblenauts includes the ability to summon a kitchen sink.
  • Used as a Visual Pun in The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare. When climbing a skyscraper, the tenants are throwing anything they can find at you, including the kitchen sink.
  • Skullgirls has Peacock who can complete her combo with a kitchen sink.
  • In the Skylanders games, the items that Magna Charge can throw using his tertiary attack include a kitchen sink.
  • In Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart, a rare item you can get from the monitors is an actual kitchen sink. If you throw it at someone, it will act like they fell off the stage and give out an announcement that you hit someone with it (if you can actually hit someone with it, that is).
  • In Stay Tooned!, Schmooze provides Fiddle with a large platter of things to eat. They consist of things from normal food items, like a taco, a hot dog, and a pack of Pyrenees Mints; to raw ingredients that don't make sense to eat, like a half coconut with its shell still on, a whole turnip, and a dead rat; to inedible items including a leather boot and, as the trope would imply, a kitchen sink.
  • In Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games, the Burper mini-game is a shooter where you make Pumbaa belch on various stuff that falls from a tree. One of the possible targets is a kitchen sink.
  • At the end of the credits after the game is finished, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans has a list of special thanks, with the final entry being "The Kitchen Sink and you for reading this."

    Web Animation 
  • In the Cable vs. Booster Gold DEATH BATTLE!, Boomstick tests out Booster's force field belt, which Wiz is currently using, by throwing different objects at him, including a sink.
  • In Spriggs: a Halo 3 Machinima, there's this exchange:
    Triple M: I can't get a roll of toilet paper from HQ, and you get everything but the kitchen sink!
    Willy: No, no, I get the kitchen sink, too. I told them it was padding for the hornet, or some crap like that.
  • In Terrible Writing Advice's video on Intrigues, he suggests piling on more and more elements, with a picture of him holding a sink and thinking, "Well, in it goes."
    • The video for "Fantasy Races" shows numerous types of elves, including, at the end of the row, "Kitchen Sink Elves", who are all literally holding said bathroom feature.

    Webcomics 

    Web Original 
  • In Honest Trailers 's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice video, while speaking of the villain's plan, the following happens:
    Narrator: You don't have to throw everything but the kitchen sink into your evil plan!
    [Batman smashes a sink]
    Narrator: And there's the sink...
  • In Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Abridged, Dio stops time and throws more and more knives at the frozen Jotaro until there are too many for him to block or avoid. Before starting time up again, he adds, "And for comedic effect..." and a kitchen sink gets photoshopped into the scene while he notes "Perfect." Jotaro manages to punch the sink away with Star Platinum, though still not fast enough to stop all the knives.

    Western Animation 
  • The episode "The Contender" of The Adventures of T-Rex had one of the titular T-Rexes in a boxing tournament. One of the villain's mooks begins to throw various objects at him, causing the referee to yell "Foul!" The mook's coach then runs in and says "My boy's hitting him with everything but the kitchen sink!" In the background, the mook then picks up a kitchen sink and tosses it at the T-Rex.
  • An episode of Aladdin: The Series features Genie fighting a magical demon named Aziz who was a Big Eater, eating everything Genie throws at him. Finally Genie comments "It's come to this" as he materializes a kitchen sink.
  • In Bad Luck Blackie, the antagonist dog was cursed with bad luck to get hit on the head by items. He is hit by a kitchen sink from nowhere near the end of the cartoon (after all, he'd been hit with practically everything else...).
  • A Bat Fink cartoon had a villain whose main gimmick was a magnet. He was defeated when he turned it on Batfink's sidekick Karate, and the metric tons of random gadgets and doodads up Karate's "utility sleeve" crushed his machine. Batfink comments that it was a good thing Karate had in his sleeve "everything but the kitchen sink!"...to which Karate responds by pulling out a kitchen sink, saying he'd put it there last week!
  • One episode of the Beetlejuice cartoon series had the Ghost with the Most in an Escalating War of sight gags with washed-up cartoon star Bartholomew Bat, which boiled down in the end to the two of them facing each other and dropping larger and larger objects on each others' heads. After the final salvo includes, of course, a kitchen sink, Lydia remarks, "Guess that about covers it." (And then Beetlejuice added one more thing: a leaf, sufficient to make Bartholomew hit the floor.)
  • In 1945's Californy 'er Bust!, Goofy narrates, "They threw everything at us but the kitchen sink!". Guess what hits him next?
  • Danger Mouse: In "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still", Professor Squawkencluck is explaining the new features of the Dangermobile and exclaims that it has "everything, including the kitchen sink!". A kitchen sink on a spring then pops out the back of the car.
  • Darkwing Duck:
    • "Duck Blind" has Megavolt fighting Darkwing by using electricity to activate various appliances to attack him. When Darkwing exclaims that "he's using everything but the kitchen sink!", Megavolt animates a kitchen sink, which he uses as a crawling vehicle to escape the scene.
      D.W.: ...I stand corrected.
    • In the "Battle of the Brainteasers" when Gosalyn uncovers the aliens disguised as hats, she runs home and block the door with chairs, table, refrigerator and finally a kitchen sink.
  • In part 3 of The Fairly OddParents! Wishology trilogy, the Military Extraterrestrial Research Facility (MERF) comes in to stop the Destructinator. They can't. Among the many weapons they fire at it is a giant kitchen sink.
  • In one episode of The Flintstones, Fred attempts to invent a new soft drink called 412 Up by mixing various ingredients together. After finishing, he comments that he threw in everything but the kitchen sink. When the mixture explodes in his face, Fred says maybe he should've added it.
  • George of the Jungle: Dr. Chicago once created an army of plant monsters to loot the area. He commented they took everything except a kitchen sink. Then one falls from a loot bag and he commented "Spoke too soon".
  • Hey Arnold!: In the episode "Save the Tree", the kids are trying to prevent a bulldozer from knocking down Mighty Pete, the oldest tree in the city, which also has a treehouse, by throwing stuff in its way, without success. Sid comments that they've "thrown everything but the kitchen sink," then promptly throws the kitchen sink, which also fails.
  • In the I Am Weasel short "I Am Cliched", after a barrage of Anvils, a Piano, an elephant and a whale, fall on Weasel and Baboon, the latter notes "all that's missing is the kitchen sink!" Cue that falling on Weasel.
  • Looney Tunes:
  • In the Mighty Magiswords episode "Get that Borfl!", while Vambre was trying to grab said critter in the kitchen (and both of them making quite the mess in the process), Reginald calls the authorities to come in and assist. And then this happens.
    Reginald: He's destroyed everything but the—
    (kitchen sink falls on top of him)
    Reginald: This joke is entirely on the nose and I don't appreciate it one bit.
  • My Life as a Teenage Robot: In "Victim of Fashion", Jenny is manipulated by the Crust Cousins into believing being thin is the only way to be fashionable and gain popularity. She has her friend Sheldon remove every unnecessary part in her body, including all her Earth-defending weapons. Among the items given emphasis in Sheldon's garage is a kitchen sink.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
    • In "Suited for Success", bigwig fashion designer Hoity Toity calls the dresses at Rarity's first fashion show a "piled-on mishmash of everything but the kitchen sink." Cue a thoroughly-embarrassed Rarity hiding a kitchen sink behind the curtains.
    • One of Spike's presents in "The Secret of My Excess" is a kitchen sink... for no reason other than this trope. (The entire hoard was full of props from previous episodes to begin with.)
    • Sweetie Belle uses one among other things to build an emergency barricade in "Hearts and Hooves Day".
  • The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: In the episode "Pooh Skies,"' when everybody unpacks their bags after having evacuated to Gopher's tunnels, Tigger unpacks all kinds of stuff from his trunk, including a kitchen sink.
    • In "Luck Amok," when Tigger decides to leave the Hundred Acre Wood so that bad luck won't come to anyone anymore, he packs up Rabbit's belongings, the sink included.
  • In one episode of Peppa Pig, Peppa's family rents an RV. Its dashboard control panel controls everything, including the kitchen sink.
  • In the Phineas and Ferb episode "Live and Let Drive", Doof attempts to skid Perry off the race track by throwing everything from his car, including a wrench, a hammer, an elephant and a kitchen sink!
  • In the Disney version of The Prince and the Pauper, when the Prince, Donald and Goofy are escaping from the dungeons, the weasel guards throw a bunch of knives and other weapons at them. A Freeze-Frame Bonus shows a kitchen sink among the stuff thrown at Goofy.
  • In the episode of Rocko's Modern Life "The High-Five of Doom", Rocko and Heffer build a blockade in front of the door using every heavy object they can possibly find, including the kitchen sink.
  • In the Rocky and Bullwinkle episode "Wossamatta U":
    Narrator: Boy, we've had everything in this episode but the kitchen sink!
    Bullwinkle: [pulling one out from behind him] What do you suppose this is?
  • The Screwy Squirrel cartoon The Screwy Truant has a scene where Screwy hits Meathead the dog, playing the role of Truant Officer, with a bunch of items found in a steamer trunk labeled "Assorted Swell Things To Hit Dog On Head":
    Truant Officer Meathead: Gee whiz! He hit me with everything but the kitchen sink.
    Screwy: Well, don't want to disappoint ya, chum. (hits him with kitchen sink; Meathead's eyes read "Closed for the Duration")
  • She-Ra: Princess of Power: In the episode "Enemy with My Face", She-Ra is battling a mud clone of her that Shadow Weaver created, and who is throwing everything in the village at She-Ra. At one point, She-Ra says the creature has thrown everything at her but the kitchen sink, which of course gets thrown at her next. She-Ra gives an Aside Glance and says, "Well, I guess I was wrong."
  • The Super Hero Squad Show: After going mad with power, the Dark Surfer boasts that he can hit the squaddies with any element in the known universe, including fire, ice, elephants, and plumbing supplies. Cue volley of kitchen sinks hurtling through space.
  • TaleSpin:
  • Variation in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) episode "The Maltese Hamster" where Donatello does a Private Eye Monologue throughout the episode: He mentions that the gang they are in pursuit of "Took everything that wasn't nailed down — and even a few things that were."
  • In Tom & Jerry Kids episode Droopo: First Bloodhound, fugitive McWolf, disguised as a sheriff, chases Droopy and Dripple's jeep and begin to throw all kinds of objects from a helicopter. Dripple comments "Wow! He's throwing everything at us but the kitchen sink", and McWolf is about to throw one but changes his mind because the joke was too corny. note 
  • One episode of Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! has a scene where Widget uses the Wubmobile's drill to dig for Daizy's ring. When various things come out of the ground, she says that the drill is "digging up everything but the kitchen sink!" And on cue, the sink is the next thing that comes out of the ground.

    Real Life 
  • Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings said that during the startup's battle with Blockbuster Video during the 2000s, Blockbuster had "thrown everything but the kitchen sink at us." Not long after the comment, the CEO of Blockbuster mailed an actual kitchen sink to Netflix.

 
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