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Some guy is skiing or snowboarding. Suddenly he trips and starts tumbling down the slope, as he tumbles, snow gathers up around him until he's now seen as a giant snowball rolling down the hill.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Used as an inventive way to [[Disposing of a Body|get rid of a body]] in a ''[[Detective Conan]]'' case.
* Happened to Tubby in an episode of the [[Little Lulu]] anime.
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== Commercials ==
* A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qjfeyl33mg commercial] for the first ''[[Katamari Damacy]]'' takes place in an office of some sort.
* A commercial for Doctors Without Borders used a rolling ball of people as a metaphor for the spread of AIDS
** Some smartass [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtXaRE1Jz2M
* Travelers Insurance did a similar spot caled "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhNmjUImygw Snowball]" soon after Citi spun it off, using a ball of people as a metaphor for risk.
** It too got a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1c0KYSheHc ''Katamari'' music version].
== Film -- Animated ==
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* In one of [[Chuck Jones]]' early "Two Curious Pups" cartoons, one of the dogs falls down a snowy hill, but instead of a ball, the snow accumulates in the shape a giant dog.
* Played with in the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "Daffy and Tom Turkey". Porky chases Daffy down a series of hills, with Daffy forming a snowball as he runs down the hill, then shrinking back to Daffy as it rolls up the next hill. Eventually, the snowball shrinks down to nothing, confounding Porky. Daffy, of course, is just offscreen, ready to pelt Porky with a snowball.
* Happens to ''[[Betty Boop]]'' in her incomprehensively strange adaptation of [
* Happens to Jerry of ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' in the opening of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0t2eVyVgOc Snowbody Loves Me.]
* Happens to Bart and Homer in one episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]''.
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