Down in the Dumps: Difference between revisions

 

For the [[Adventure Game]], see ''[[Down in The Dumps (video game)|Down In The Dumps]]''.

 

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* The Season 2 preview of ''[[Tower of God]]'' shows the new protagonist confidently claming to conquer the tower while lying in a dumpster.

* [[Depending on the Artist]] [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|the EVA dumping ground]] [[The Simpsons Did It|of course]].

* [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Duo]] works in a junkyard, eventually taking ownership of it with his then-girlfriend Hilde.

 

 

* The climax of ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'' is in a dump, with a giant magnet chasing the heroes around and tossing them into the [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]. Particularly depressing since all the cars being discarded are sentient and singing about their glory days before their owners abandoned them as "worthless", while on a conveyor belt leading them into a machine that is going to crush and kill them. In a kids movie.

* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'': {{spoiler|After trying to avoid it the whole movie, the heroes wind up in the dump, and nearly die in the [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]. Luckily, there's a claw machine...}}

* One of the characters in ''[[The Iron Giant]]'' lives in a scrap metal yard; he's a modern artist who uses the trash to make sculptures. It's also a useful place to hide (and feed) the eponymous giant.

* Earth, in the 2009 ''[[Astro Boy (film)|Astro Boy]]'' film, has become a sort of [[Landfill Beyond the Stars]] to the residents of Cloud City, who have since forgotten that they left quite a few people behind.

* ''[[Star Wars]]'' - Leia, Luke, Hans Solo, and Chewbacca drop down a garbage chute into the disposal to avoid being trapped by stormtroopers. Now they're trapped in the garbage with a monster and walls that close in on themselves.

** There's an entire garbage ''[[Single Biome Planet|world]]'' in ''[[Shadows of the Empire]]''.

* ''[[Corvette Summer]]'' (1978) starts in an auto junkyard, as a group of high school kids look for a car to fix up as their auto shop project for the year.

* Pretty much all of Richard Lester's post-apocalyptic black comedy ''The Bed-Sitting Room'' is filmed in real-life junk pile locations.

 

* The Barrens in ''[[IT]]'', the place where all the kids go to do just about anything.

* ''[[The Three Investigators]]'' had their HQ in a junkyard.

* The climactic confrontation in ''[[Stephanie Plum|Lean Mean Thirteen]]'' takes place in a car wrecking yard and involves a compactor.

 

* ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'' and its [[Trans-Atlantic Equivalent]] ''[[Sanford and Son]]'' both took place in junkyards.

* ''[[Salvage 1]]'' mostly took place in a junkyard.

* The very first episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "An Unearthly Child" has the TARDIS located in a junkyard. Much later and much, much farther away, the episode "The Doctor's Wife" also took place in a junk yard.

 

* The [[Gorillaz]] <s>hideout</s> studio, Plastic Beach, is essentially a giant floating landfill.

** It gets sort of [[Nightmare Fuel]]-y when you realize that it's based on [[wikipedia:Great Pacific Garbage Patch|a real location]].

** Their old home base, Kong Studios, was surrounded by a dump as well. The song "We Are Happy Landfill" is about it.

 

 

* Adventure game ''[[Down in The Dumps (video game)|Down in The Dumps]]'' mainly takes place, well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|in the dumps]].

* Gordon Freeman gets caught in a [[Star Wars]]-esque trash compactor in ''[[Half Life]]'', as does Adrian Shepard in ''Opposing Force''

* The second stage of ''[[Vigilante (video game)|Vigilante]]'' takes place in a junkyard.

 

 

* The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] have fought in one on many occasions.

* In ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', the trio have their hang out in the dump.