Question: what do greek say when they break plates

title: Plate smashing
text: In the Three 's Company episode `` Opening Night , '' ( November 16 , 1982 ) Larry Dallas invites his family , visiting from Greece , to Jacks Bistro . The large family gathering ends with the Greek celebratory custom of the breaking of plates . Reluctant at first because of all the money it will cost to replace the plates , Jack joins in the celebration when Larry says they will cover the bill for each plate . Jack then looks at Janet who shows him the final cost of all the plates that were broken . Jack , while clenching the remaining two plates he owns , throws them up in the air and says `` Opa ! '' and lets them break as well . In Part I of The Love Boat S6 E18 episode ( February 5 , 1983 ) titled : `` Isaac 's Aegean Affair / The Captain and the Kid / Poor Rich Man / The Dean and the Flunkee , '' Gopher initiates plate smashing in a Greek restaurant . In the Full House episode , `` Greek Week '' , there is a scene at a Greek family party where Rebecca Donaldson smashes a one plate . Then Joey Gladstone leads the crowds in plate smashing while Danny Tanner frantically tries to clean up the broken plates off the floor . In the Frasier episode `` Beware of Greeks , '' ( March 17 , 1998 ) , Frasier 's Greek cousin is getting married and his cousin 's mother smashes plates at the wedding reception . In Ned 's Declassified School Survival Guide , episode 2.6 ( November 12 , 2005 ) , Coconut Head smashes a plate on his head for his presentation on Greece . The 2009 Australian stop motion animated dark comedy film Mary and Max features a plate smashing scene . In Packed to the Rafters , episode 4.1 ( February 8 , 2011 ) , the character Nick ' Carbo ' Karandonis and his fiancée have an engagement party which includes smashing plaster plates and the mistaken smashing of porcelain plates . In Come Dine with Me Canada , episode 2.16 ( October 3 , 2011 ) , the evening ended with plate smashing `` in keeping with the Greek ritual . '' In Kitchen Cabinet , episode 2.3 ( July 16 , 2013 ) , independent Australian Senator Nick Xenophon and host Annabel Crabb end a dinner discussion at a Greek `` yiros '' restaurant with an impromptu plate smashing .