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Also a typical comedic relationship between the [[Mad Scientist]], [[Wrench Wench]], or [[Gadgeteer Genius]] and [[The Ditz]] or resident [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
Compare to the relationship between the [[Spanner in
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' Take Washu, add Mihoshi, cue [[Big No]]
** For that matter Mihoshi could be a never ending occurrence of this for Kiyone.
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''How to Make an American Quilt'', the protagonist's dissertation on quilting traditions gets blown away by an aggressive storm. She's pretty cheerful about it, though, because [[The Power of Love|she's learned that love is more important]] than work. Or something.
* Similarly, in ''[[Wonder Boys]]'', Michael Douglas' character feels pretty good about losing the [[Doorstopper|several thousand pages]] of his second novel, probably to indicate that it [[Sophomore Slump|didn't measure up]] to his brilliant first one.
* In the first ''[[Dennis the Menace]]'' movie, Mr. Wilson spent forty years growing a plant that only flowers once for a few seconds. So he invites the neighborhood to the flowering, but Dennis causes a distraction at the crucial instant.
* In ''[[Twice Upon a Time (1983 film)|Twice Upon a Time]]'', Synonamess Botch drives his head nightmare writer Scuzzbopper to [[Driven to Suicide|attempted suicide]] (and a [[Heel Face Turn]]) by dismissively throwing his manuscript for a "Great A-Murkian Novel" out a window.
* King Triton actually destroys Ariel's collection of salvaged treasure in Disney's ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* An episode of ''[[
* [[Playing
* Played for laughs in a British sketch show starring ex-[[The Goon Show|Goon]] Michael Bentine. A guest on an interview show has spent ten years building a magnificent model of St. Paul's Cathedral out of matchsticks. Unfortunately the heat of the studio lights cause it to catch fire. The interviewer mutters, "Well, I expect we'll be seeing you again in ten years. Only this time I'd suggest taking the match heads off first."
* In the ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' episode "Orchis Fatalis", someone takes revenge on an orchid collector by pouring weedkiller over his priceless orchid collection. This being Midsomer, things soon escalate to murder.
* The sketch-comedy show ''[[Almost Live]]'' regularly featured a kung-fu parody called "Mind Your Manners with Billy Quan"; the fights would often start with the same oaf thoughtlessly destroying Billy's latest painstaking masterpiece.
* In a ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'' episode, Lowell shows Joe the model blimp he's spent years creating and makes Joe promise not to play with it. Joe plays it with anyway, and it promptly gets smashed behind a door.
== [[Myth and Legend]] ==
* There's a legend about Saint Albertus Magnus who supposedly had built a working android, which could walk, would do household chores, and according to some could even speak. Albertus' greatest student Thomas Aquinas destroyed it (thinking it was the result of demonic possession), after which Albertus was said to have spoken: "The work of fifteen/twenty/thirty years is ruined." In Latin, of course.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* Subverted in [[Real Life]] with Sir Isaac Newton. In his early career he was not very good at getting himself published, he tended to just let the finished work pile up on his desk. One day his dog knocked over a candle and much of his life's work up to that point went up in flames. So he sat down and wrote it all out again. "Diamond! Thou little knowest the mischief thou hast done!".▼
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russell_Wallace Alfred Russell Wallace] was a Victorian naturalist whose work parallelled Darwin's. In 1848 he began a 4-year expedition to the Amazon collecting plant and animal specimens. In 1852 he took ship back to England with his collection. Four weeks later the ship caught fire. The crew abandoned ship but most of Wallace's collection was destroyed. At least it was insured.▼
* [http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/DeathOnAStick DeathOnAStick], who spent a year and a half on a single game of ''[[Nethack]]'', spending most of that time collecting rocks, transforming them into gems, putting them into [[Bag of Holding|bags]], and creating [[Monster Allies|pet giants]] to hold the bags full of gems. Then he accidentally drank a cursed potion of gain level, which moves you up a ''[[Stealth Pun|dungeon]]'' level, which put him past a [[Point of No Return]]. Without his gems.▼
== [[Theater]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* A major part of the fourth game in the ''[[
* This is Lady Vayle's reason for revenge against Artix in ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Happened to Em in ''[[Misfile]]''. When, at the beginning, an angel misplaces two years of Emily's life that she'd spent working incredibly hard at school so she could get accepted to Harvard. She'll just have to do it all over again!
* Sarda of ''[[8-Bit Theater
* Helen and Micah first met in ''[[Mac Hall]]'' when he accidentally jumped off a balcony and just barely missed landing on her semester project.
* Gavin's Project Orwell software in ''[[Kate Modern]]''. When it gets stolen, he becomes bitter and delusional.▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In a episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Bart ended up destroying George Bush Sr.'s memoirs.
* All of those times an [[Ancient Egypt
* ''[[Batman:
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': "MY CABBAGES!!!"
* [[
== [[
▲* Subverted in [[Real Life]] with Sir Isaac Newton. In his early career he was not very good at getting himself published, he tended to just let the finished work pile up on his desk. One day his dog knocked over a candle and much of his life's work up to that point went up in flames. So he sat down and wrote it all out again. "Diamond! Thou little knowest the mischief thou hast done!".
▲* Gavin's Project Orwell software in ''[[Kate Modern]]''. When it gets stolen, he becomes bitter and delusional.
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▲* [http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/DeathOnAStick DeathOnAStick], who spent a year and a half on a single game of ''[[Nethack]]'', spending most of that time collecting rocks, transforming them into gems, putting them into [[Bag of Holding|bags]], and creating [[Monster Allies|pet giants]] to hold the bags full of gems. Then he accidentally drank a cursed potion of gain level, which moves you up a ''[[Stealth Pun|dungeon]]'' level, which put him past a [[Point of No Return]]. Without his gems.
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