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The collapse often happens just as the last two cards are being placed, leaving the builder holding them in place over the empty air where the house used to be.
Like [[Endangered
[[Dish Dash]] is a related trope.
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=== Literature ===
* Ron does this with Exploding Snap cards in ''[[Harry Potter and
* ''[[The Dark Tower]]: [[The Dark Tower/The Drawing of the Three|The Drawing of the Three]]'' has crime boss Enrico Balazar build a house of cards while he waits for Eddie to cough up the drugs. When things begin go pear-shaped, the [[Foreshadowing|cards collapse]] without him noticing.
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=== Western Animation ===
* ''[[Wallace and Gromit]] in A Grand Day Out''.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': In one of the short segments done for Tracey Ullman, Bart tries to build a house of cards, and Lisa and Maggie keep unintentionally causing it to collapse.
* ''The Imp'' cartoon, episode "Bison" (where it is, perhaps unsurprisingly, knocked down by a rampaging bison).
* The 2003 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon, episode "Scion of the Shredder". The Turtles and Splinter are chilling in their lair, and Michelangelo is building a house of cards. ''Right after'' he places the last two cards, the perimeter alarm goes off. After Donatello hurries to check his computer systems, something starts beating on the front door. The Turtles go for their weapons, and the house of cards gets its very own falling-down shot before it cuts back to the door finally breaking in.
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=== Western Animation ===
* Bigweld's domino layout in ''[[Robots]]''.
* In an episode of ''[[The Fairly
* ''Mickey's [[A Christmas Carol|Christmas Carol]]'' has Scrooge counting his money, piling the coins into tall thin stacks as he basically dumps Belle. She storms out, toppling the piles in mid-count.
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming", Sideshow Bob builds a miniature model of Westminster Abbey, which collapses from the sound of people laughing at the Krusty the Klown Show.
* [[Disney]]'s ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''. The sultan is stacking some tiny statuettes when Jafar slams open the door and they fall down.
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