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== Fanfiction ==
* The [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] fanfiction [[Decks Fall, Everyone Dies|Decks Fall Everyone Dies]] is a metaphorical example. The card house is analogous to the government built around complicated [[Card Games]]. The stuff going on in Jamerica causes the government to fall, leaving the duelists hanging like a card house builder's hand.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'': propaganda photographers want to make a fragile amateur sculpture into a symbol of the war, but the artists are trying to destroy their own creation.
* In ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'', with Dewey's set of dominoes. They averted the collapse many times, and Hal was really looking forward to the eventual release (trying to keep himself from giving in to the temptation to set them off)... and then he comes home and Dewey has already done it.
* On an episode of ''[[Mama's Family|Mamas Family]]'', Vint starts stacking up sugar cubes on his plate, claiming to be going for the "world sugar-stacking record". Mama slams the refrigerator door, and they fall down. He starts doing it again, and this time Mama purposely knocks them down with her tongs.
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