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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 SouffleSoufflé]], [[Dissimile|only not with souffle]], and comes with the same two standard variations: In one, the rambunctious behavior around the house of cards is quieted down with no ill effects, only to have a relatively-distant disturbance (slamming door, car backfire) collapse the structure after it is "safe". The other works much the same, except that it is the builder him- or herself who triggers the collapse.
 
[[Dish Dash]] is a related trope.
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=== Western Animation ===
* Bigweld's domino layout in ''[[Robots]]''.
* In an episode of ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'', Timmy is building a scale model of the Eiffel tower when his dad or mom bursts in and it collapses. Happens as a [[Running Gag]] throughout the episode.
* ''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]]'' 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.
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