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** Well, what do you expect? He wasn't given a spade! |
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* In the ''[[Sesame Street]]'' special ''Big Bird in China'', Oscar and Telly try to reach China by digging, and succeed. Big Bird, however, takes the plane. |
* In the ''[[Sesame Street]]'' special ''Big Bird in China'', Oscar and Telly try to reach China by digging, and succeed. Big Bird, however, takes the plane. |
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* [http://snltranscripts.jt.org/99/99tcenter.phtml This] ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch, featuring [[Jackie Chan]] as [[Inverted Trope|a Chinese man trying to dig to America]]. |
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131026113627/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/99/99tcenter.phtml This] ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch, featuring [[Jackie Chan]] as [[Inverted Trope|a Chinese man trying to dig to America]]. |
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* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'': As a child, Olive tried to dig through the earth to get to Arabia when her parents told her she couldn't have an Arabian stallion. Instead, she dug up a fossilized Triceratops, and a Saudi oil sheik traded her a horse for the skeleton. |
* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'': As a child, Olive tried to dig through the earth to get to Arabia when her parents told her she couldn't have an Arabian stallion. Instead, she dug up a fossilized Triceratops, and a Saudi oil sheik traded her a horse for the skeleton. |
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* An opening sketch for ''All That'' featured several cast members digging a hole to China (in their living room no less). The rest of the cast is stunned when a Chinese boy climbs out, who claims to have seen the other end of the hole in China and climbed through to investigate. When Kevin the Manager protests the boy's presence, he is pushed down the hole himself while busy examining it ("Hey look! Chinese stuff!") |
* An opening sketch for ''All That'' featured several cast members digging a hole to China (in their living room no less). The rest of the cast is stunned when a Chinese boy climbs out, who claims to have seen the other end of the hole in China and climbed through to investigate. When Kevin the Manager protests the boy's presence, he is pushed down the hole himself while busy examining it ("Hey look! Chinese stuff!") |
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