![]() ![]() ends up taking a fall and getting hit by his own anvil. Thanks to the short life of the Supervolt batteries his helicopter runs on, Wile E. Coyote is hired by the fictional Supervolt battery company to destroy the Energizer Bunny, and attempts to stop him with a homemade helicopter that carries an anvil. In a commercial for Energizer batteries, Wile E.TV ads for Ditzo car insurances would often end with a Corrupt Corporate Executive being flattened by a car dropping inexplicably from the sky.If something more surreal than an anvil is used for the purpose, that's Drop the Cow. The anime equivalent is Drop the Washtub. Anvilicious is unrelated conceptually, but we call it that for having the same amount of subtlety as the average anvil dropped on the average head. Not to be confused with Dropped a Bridge on Him. Obviously the real-life consequences of this trope place this FIRMLY in the category of Don't Try This at Home, as a falling anvil could easily kill a person in real life. After everybody got far away and someone lit the fuse, they would watch the second anvil be launched high into the air, from which it necessarily had to fall back to earth. ![]() May have its origins in the real life practice of "anvil firing", which was used in America to celebrate the fourth of July: one anvil was laid upside down on the ground, a charge of gunpowder was placed in the hollow in the base, a fuse was laid leading out of it, and a second anvil was placed right-side-up atop the first. Often results in an Accordion Man, Squashed Flat or Hammered into the Ground. Another sometimes used option is for a tree or telephone pole to fall over on top of the character, repeatedly bouncing on their head and driving them into the ground like a piledriver. #DOODLEBOB AND THE MAGIC PENCIL MLP FULL#Grand pianos are used as well, in which case the character will either end up inside where the strings are, or with a mouth full of piano keys for teeth. In those, occasionally the safe's lock whirls open and the character, who has somehow wound up inside the safe, falls out. ![]()
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