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{{quote|“Don't worry boy, another girder always swings in for you to walk on when you get to the end.”|Homer, ''[[The Simpsons]]'', "The Fool Monty"}}
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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.
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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 "Deconstruction Junction" and "Jackhammered Cat".
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** 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.
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* 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]]'' 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 (Animation)/Recap/S2 E8 The Mysterious Mare Do Well|The Mysterious Mare Do Well]]" of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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