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[[File:mission-impossiblecabledrop.jpg|link=Mission Impossible (film)|frame|Extreme data entry!]]
The [[Stock Parodies|commonly spoofed]] scene for which everyone remembers [[The Film of the Series]] of ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)
See also [[Fast Roping]].
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** As of early 2014, Progressive Insurance is dropping their spokesperson "Flo" into offices via cables to deliver product to customers.
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', in order to test the museum's security, Janine uses her Weezing's smoke to reveal the lasers then lowers herself with her Ariados's thread to steal the museum display.
== Film ==
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== Literature ==
* Darktan in ''[[
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Half-parody in the first promos for the TV show ''[[Chuck]]'', in which Sarah would drop down successfully while Chuck would start spinning in place and get told to "Tense your abs!"
** Also played (relatively) straight in "Chuck vs. The Mask"
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* Parodied in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIujtsgIyRw opening credits] of ''[[The Chaser's War on Everything]]''.
* During the video for
▲== Music Videos ==
▲* During the video for [[Lindsey Stirling (Music)|Lindsey Stirling]]'s performance of the ''Mission Impossible'' theme with [[The Piano Guys (Music)|The Piano Guys]], Stirling is dropped by a cable to change the sheet music being played by a pianist.
== Video Games ==
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** They actually do a varient of rappelling called "Australian Rappelling."
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Cinema Bums]]'' features a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130801110308/http://www.cinemabums.com/?p=174 strip] where Mindy does this to break into David Yates's bedroom to discuss a potential ''[[Doctor Who]]'' movie.▼
▲* ''[[Cinema Bums]]'' features a [http://www.cinemabums.com/?p=174 strip] where Mindy does this to break into David Yates's bedroom to discuss a potential ''[[Doctor Who]]'' movie.
* In ''[[CRFH]]'', Roger does this (through the floor of one of the upstairs apartments) to get to a videotape in the girls' apartment. When Margaret catches him, she points out that loudly humming the ''Mission Impossible'' theme [[With Catlike Tread|isn't especially stealthy.]]
* Torg tests this out as one of their plans to infiltrate Ayleeorgnet in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. Owing to [[Unit Confusion|miscalculating the length of the cables]], he knocks himself out. Note that it was to be called "Operation Look I'm Tom Cruise!"
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* Entrèe does it in an episode of ''[[Spliced]]'' to steal Joe's hat, apparently attaching himself to the ceiling with bubblegum.
* The [[Wallace and Gromit]] short ''The Wrong Trousers'' has a variant that predates the movie involving a robotic pair of trousers fitted with suction cups walking across a ceiling of a museum to steal a heavily protected diamond.
== Real Life ==
* [[Truth in Television]]; a 2010 [https://web.archive.org/web/20110912012048/http://www.switched.com/2010/03/05/mission-impossible-style-best-buy-thieves-swipe-laptops-baffl/ theft] from a Best Buy store seems to have involved this trope.
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