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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"}}
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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* The ''[[Two Stupid Dogs (Animation)|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]]'' 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 (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', the titular mystery heroine saves construction workers from a collapsing construction site.
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