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I've been watching anime for a long time and I still don't understand what it
means when a wash pan falls from the sky onto a character's head. I've seen it
recently in _Rosario+Vampire_ when the witch summons a wash pan over another
character's head.

What does it mean or represent?


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Why are wash pans dropped on a character's head?


I imagine this is somehow related to the common schoolprank of placing
basins/buckets of water on top of door frames and waiting for people to come
in and get soaked

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eb3Khm.jpg)

As is mentioned in @Vogel612's link, it's sortof the Eastern equivilant of an
anvil being dropped on someone's head. A bit more realistic perhaps though.


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