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The trope name is a play on [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s ''Fall of the House of Usher''.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Near's tarot card house in ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]''. He specifically warns his coworkers about how pissed he'll be if they knock it over. They don't. However, in a variant on the trope, he builds a huge structure of ''dice'' which [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?|collapses in slow motion]] when {{spoiler|most of his team gets Death Noted}}.
* Yugi made one and eventually fell in the Toei ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' series.
* ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'': Hisoka did it, too.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[MashM*A*S*H (TV)|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 ''[[MamasMama's Family (TV)|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.
* Happens on an "Over Our Heads" episode of ''[[The Facts of Life]]'', when Natalie is trying to stack up some boxes in the store. Everyone keeps slamming the store door and knocking them down.
 
 
== Video Games ==
* The opening video of ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army]]'' has Narumi building a house out of matchsticks which gets knocked over by Gouto (the protagonist's [[Talking Animal|talking cat]] [[Non -Human Sidekick|sidekick]]) jumping onto his desk.