In Nicolai's opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this fat, funny rogue gets dumped into the river in a laundry basket
When 
his bar bill gets out of hand, Sir John decides to fix the problem by ... John's gold-
digging schemes, and our hero ends up in a laundry hamper, a river, and a forest 
.... hamper with Falstaff inside is dumped out the window and into the river.