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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 (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', "The Fool Monty"}}
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-Battered Babysitter|escaped baby]] inevitably wanders into, giving way to crazy slapstick antics as their pursuer tries desperately to catch up with them and keep them out of harm's way. Said constructions zones almost always have [[No OSHA Compliance]], so when our bumbling protagonist gets a job working at one, there's bound to be trouble.
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[[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]].
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* 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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** 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 ''[[Two Stupid Dogs]]'' episode "Seeing Eye Dogs" have the two dogs leading a mostly-blind Hollywood on a "shortcut" through a construction site.
* 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/Recap/S2/E08 The Mysterious Mare Do Well|The Mysterious Mare Do Well]]" of ''[[My Little Pony:
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