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A common stock setting, the construction zone, normally pictured as the skeleton of a sky scraper made up of steel beams, tends to be the place where every [[Never Wake Up a Sleepwalker|sleep walker]] or [[Badly
Things to watch out for include super-heated rivets, malfunctioning elevators, wooden beams or steel girders dangling from cranes (which have an eerie way of positioning themselves at just the right moment to prevent someone from falling), or spilled grease upon a high steel beam threatening to send a character sliding off a ten-plus story drop. Also, expect to see a [[Literal Cliff Hanger]], though if someone actually falls, they're likely to just [[Soft Water|safely land in liquid cement]] and become statues when they try to climb out.
[[Dead Horse Trope|It doesn't show up very often today]], but [[Western Animation]] kept it alive long after it mostly fell out of use in Live Action Film.
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== Film ==
* [[The Three Stooges]]' short "How High Is Up?" has the stooges taking jobs as construction workers and ending up working on the 97th floor. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Harold Lloyd]] was at least the [[Trope Codifier]] in ''[[
* [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s "Pay Day" features the Tramp's zany antics as a construction worker.
* The [[Laurel and Hardy]] silent short "Liberty" climaxes with the duo getting stranded atop an unfinished skyscraper...with a live crab in Ollie's pants, no less.
* The film ''[[Baby's Day Out]]'' makes use of this trope after two crooks chase a kidnapped baby into a construction zone.
== Live
* ''[[Soap]]'': Burt owns a construction company and brings stepson Danny into the business. At one point they're up on the high iron talking and accidentally knock over a bucket full of rivets.
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** In "Child Shockology", Popeye and Bluto chase an escaped Sweet Pea, who wanders into a construction site.
** The short "Bridge Ahoy!" has Popeye, Olive and Wimpy building a bridge to compete with Bluto's ferry business, and Bluto attempts to sabotage them.
* The ''[[
** The later [[Chuck Jones]] shorts "Pent-House Mouse" and "Bad Day at Cat Rock" take place at construction sites.
** ''[[Tom and Jerry Tales]]'' also had this as a setting a few times, in the shorts "
* The [[Donald Duck]] short "The Riveter" has Donald work as a construction worker, and incurring the wrath of his boss after his jackhammer goes out of control.
** In the short "[[Clock Cleaners]]", Goofy unknowingly wanders into one after being hit on the head and [[Concussions Get You High|put into a daze]].
** The early [[Mickey Mouse]] short "Building a Building" has Mickey working at a construction site.
* This was also used in ''[[The Garfield Show]]'' episode "Jon's Night Out".
* The ''[[
** In [[Elite Beat Agents]], the Bonus Level using "ABC" by the Jackson 5 is pretty much a direct Homage to this short, where the Agents have to help a cat keep its owners' baby from getting into trouble as it wanders through a construction site.
* The ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon "Homeless Hare" features a battle between [[Bugs Bunny]] and a burly construction worker on a building site, including a dazed Bugs, after taking a girder to the face, walking through a harrowing series of moving girders and other objects.
** Chuck Jones' "Cat Feud" takes place at a construction site, with a dog trying to rescue a kitten.
** The late '60s short "Skyscraper Caper" has [[Daffy Duck]] sleepwalking into a construction site, and [[Speedy Gonzales]] trying to rescue him.
* ''[[The Fairly
** A little later on in the series, Timmy is watching Poof while Cosmo and Wanda go out to eat at a fancy restaurant. They up the ante with ''3 construction sites'', the last one being in space where Dark Laser is building a brand new Death Ball.
* On ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' the penguins chase a baby into a demolition site, with Kowalski [[Lampshading]] it all the way through.
* The climax of ''[[Mr. Bug Goes to Town]]'' has the bug characters scrambling up a skyscraper under construction on the vacant lot where they used to live, staying within a hairsbreadth away from being crushed by bricks being laid or shaken off by riveters.
* The ''[[
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "The Fool Monty", Homer leads a dazed and amnesiac Mr. Burns to a construction site in the hopes of bumping him off via this manner.
* In the episode "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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