Sometimes, one wants to test their sharp shooting skills but rather then head to a "legal" firing range of sorts, why not just use what you have laying around, give it a toss into the air and fire. Said objects can be something that the shooter doesn't like and want to get rid of then and there or just some unimportant junk in general. Or heck, maybe you just like shooting things and got plenty of bullets to spare, as long as the law doesn't get involved, what's a bit of fun? Besides, as long as the object can fly and be shot full of holes, it's just as good as a genuine skeet.
Compare Dartboard of Hate, which is throwing darts at a hated target.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- Cowboy Bebop: Played with at the end of "Sympathy For The Devil", after Spike kills Wen, he takes the harmonica he played with, blows a note, then throws it into the air, making a gun motion with his hand and sprouting "Bang".
- In Trigun, Vash the Stampede runs a corrupt sheriff out of town and makes a spectacle in front of the townsfolk by taking his badge, throwing it into the air, and shooting a bullet through it without even looking to aim his gun at it.
Comic Books
- Gaston Lagaffe:
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has Gaston subject the office to his record collection. When he tries to improve the record player, he instead makes it sling the record into the air. The final panel is a wild-eyed Prunelle gunning down the records as they fly up, continuously laughing that Gaston finally had a good idea.
- Another strip has Gaston and a few coworkers go skeet shooting when Gaston accidentally gets his foot caught in the machine. Fortunately, he manages to yell at the others to hold their fire as he's hurled upwards.
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Comic Strips
- Dilbert has to fly into Elbonia to convince Dogbert to relinquish his rulership of that nation. Since Elbonia has no airlines, Dilbert must be launched from a giant slingshot, then hope to land on something soft. As bad timing would have it, Dogbert is at the landing site with a firearm in the Wednesday 9 October 1991 strip.
Films — Animation
- In Hercules, Hades takes out his frustrations at Hercules' rising popularity by shooting at pottery that has depictions of Herc's heroic deeds, blasting them with fireballs as his minions fling the pottery into the air.
Films — Live-Action
- Dr. T & the Women gives the first look at Doctor Sullivan Travers deep in Texas plains with his close friends. They've made a sport of shooting at golf balls struck from a tee. Doc T steps up with his Baikal over/under, "Bernadette Rose," and smoothly blasts the golf ball mid-flight. At this point, he's large and in charge of his life, master of his domain; this doesn't last.
- Duck Soup: When Trentino asks Pinky to show him his past record, he takes out a phonograph record, prompting the angry dictator to toss it up. Pinky shoots it in mid-air with a pistol, and Chicolini rewards him with a cigar.
- In Iron Man 2, a very drunk Tony Stark shows off to party guests by blasting thrown plates, wine bottles, and even a watermelon out of the air using his Iron Man suit.
- In History of the World Part I, King Louis XVI practices skeet shooting on peasants catapulted into the air for the purpose. It's good to be the king.
Louis XVI: I don't care for the peasants?! They are my people. I am their sovereign. I love them... PULL!
- James Bond demonstrates his cavalier attitude to the equipment Q Branch give him in Die Another Day when Q hands him a large booklet detailing proper maintenance of his new car for the movie, which among other things can turn invisible and has an automated anti-missile point-defense system installed. Bond takes the booklet and tosses it into the air in front of the car when the PDS is active, letting it track the flying booklet and shoot it into lots of confetti.
- Q: (nonplussed) Wish I could make you vanish.
Live-Action TV
- Doctor Who has the 11th Doctor's fez be used for target practice in "The Big Bang".
- The Orville: Isaac solves the Finn children's argument over a handheld video game this way in "Into The Fold".
Video Games
- While wandering around Hyrule in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Link can occasionally find spots where acorns are being tossed from trees or balloons appear from nowhere. Shooting them makes a Korok spirit appear and give him a korok seed which can be traded for more inventory slots.
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: The Smuggler's default animation for their out-of-combat self-heal has them toss a coin into the air and then shoot it out of the air with their blaster pistol.
Western Animation
- In Batman Beyond: In the pilot episode "Rebirth", Derek Powers even references shooting skeet when the newly-Batsuited Terry starts throwing Batarangs at him from behind cover. Terry takes advantage of his reflexes to throw a canister of Powers' nerve gas at him. Powers shoots the canister and is exposed to the toxin, the lethal effects of which he had explained in great detail earlier on.
- Ed, Edd n Eddy: In "Stop, Look and Ed", after Eddy encourages the kids to break their parents' rules, Kevin disposes of dirty dishes by launching them with a trash bin lid and hitting them with a slingshot.
- In Family Guy when Peter joins the NRA after finding out his son is more..."endowed" than him. He practices skeet shooting old Madonna and Janet Jackson CDs.
- The Futurama episode "A Fishful of Dollars" features Fry getting insanely rich by collecting 1000 years worth of interest from his savings account. To show how much money he now has, he takes Bender and Leela to go skeet shooting with famous priceless works of art such as the Mona Lisa as skeet targets.
- Looney Tunes: In "Wild and Wooly Hare", Yosemite Sam tosses a can up, fires several holes in it, and challenges Bugs Bunny to fire his bullets through all the same holes. In the original 1959 version, Bugs misses and shoots Sam in the face, while in the syndicated 1978 version, Bugs fires corks from his gun to plug up all the holes.
- Played for laughs in an episode of The Pink Panther. A cowboy wants to show his skills and throws a dollar bill in the air and shoots it, then change falls into his hand.
- The Simpsons: In "The Cartridge Family", after Homer gets his gun following the 5-day waiting period, he and Bart shoot skeet using the family dishes ("See You in Hell, dinner plate!"), forcing Marge to get creative when she serves dinner that evening. When she asks where the dishes went, Homer says "Maybe you left them at work?".
