I Fell for Hours: Difference between revisions

* In the 3-D ''[[Journey to The Center of The Earth]]'' movie, the characters fall, scream, stop screaming, realize, "WE'RE STILL FALLING!" and scream some more. In the end they land [[Soft Water|in water.]]

* The second ''[[Spy Kids]]'' movie. The fall was so long, they eventually got bored to tears.

'''Juni''': I don't know. [[Shoe Phone|My watch]] [[Brick Joke|doesn't tell time.]] }}

** Though it was actually an illusion; they were being held up by a fan.

* The rabbit hole Alice tumbles down in ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' is the likely [[Trope Codifier]]. This fall is so long that it gives her plenty of time to [[Contemplate Our Navels|wonder about the ways of the world and talk to herself.]] One of the few examples which doesn't double as an [[Overly Long Gag]].

* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', the Infinite Improbability drive changes a missile into a sperm whale two miles above the surface of a planet. It has about half a page of monologue to come to terms with its own existence, comprehend its situation, and come up with a name for the big round thing rushing up at it really fast before it learns, rather abruptly, that the ground does not wish to be friends with it, whereupon it becomes a rather messy canyon at ground zero.

** Based on the state of her injuries and the landscape she landed in, she spent somewhere between one and five centuries climbing, and six to twelve months falling.

* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' while Skimming, one of the Aiel being transported falls off the platform everyone's on. The area in question is essentially an endless nothingness where one will fall forever without chance of rescue. Gulp.

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* Also, a Demetri Martin joke:

 

 

* In ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'', you can set up a portal loop such that your character falls indefinitely through the ceiling and into the floor. There's an achievement for doing this, called "Terminal Velocity" -- you have to set up a portal loop and let yourself fall for about 15 minutes to get it... and hope you aren't subject to motion sickness.

* The beginning of Chapter 6 in ''[[Portal 2]]'', aptly titled "The Fall" and containing a nice bit of [[Lampshade Hanging]] from GLaDOS.

* ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]'' had a scene where Guybrush is falling and falling and falling until you remember that you picked up an umbrella at some point earlier. You have plenty of time to open your inventory and select it, allowing him to drift gently to the entrance of the cliff lair of some smugglers.

* ''[[Banjo Tooie]]'' features an elevator to move between the five floors of [[Eternal Engine|Grunty Industries]], only there's no elevator and you have to climb a rope to get to the top. Without any elevator to get in your way, however, you can jump off from the top and fall for such a long time that Banjo's falling yell ends before you're even halfway to the bottom. The fall is so long that you will die even with full health (unless you have the fallproof cheat active).

** Which gets a redo in [[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]] but with a falling car instead, [[Mythology Gag|once again stops a few inches just before hitting the ground]], [[Lampshade Hanging|Bugs Bunny saying]]: "[[Shout-Out|Heh, out of gas.]], [[Quip to Black|the screen fading out]], [[Subverted Trope|and the girl of the party saying]]: "[[Too Dumb to Live|That doesn't work like that!]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|the car crashing into the ground anyway.]]

* On ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', in the episode "Journey to the Center of Acme Acres", Plucky and Hampton fall down a crack in the ground when a huge earthquake hits Acme Acres. After a while, they start getting bored and hope they eventually hit something just to break the monotony. They eventually end up at the center of the Earth where they float because their gravity reaches an equilibrium.

'''Plucky''': I hope so, this is so boring. Getting splattered would be a nice change! }}

* In ''[[The Flight of Dragons]]'': "It seems like we've been falling for hours!" "Actually, it's been more like ten centuries!"

** Also happens when Bart and Sideshow Bob fall off the Springfield Dam in "Brother from Another Series". The fall takes long enough for them to scream, take a long inhale, then keep screaming.

* In the '' [[Freakazoid]]!'' "Virtual Freak", this happens to Freakazoid and the Lobe.

'''Freakazoid:''' [[Rule of Funny|'Cause it's funny!]]<br />

'''Lobe:''' No it's not, [[Overly Long Gag|it's just stupid!]] [[Continuity Nod|It's as dumb as that Handman episode!]] }}