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* 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 ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' after finding out that she was secretly in love with a human prince.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* An episode of ''[[Blackadder]] the Third'' centers on Baldrick's unwittingly destroying Dr. [[Samuel Johnson]]'s life's work, the very first English dictionary. Johnson is, of course, enraged...until it turns out the manuscript that Baldrick burned was ''Blackadder's'' life's work, a novel that he'd spent over seven years writing. {{spoiler|And then at the end of the episode, Baldrick really ''does'' toss the dictionary into the fire.}}
* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] in an episode of ''[[Reno 911!]]'' where an author's novel manuscript is trapped in a burning building. He pleads with the cops to go in and save it, but they want to know if it's any good first. He describes it, but it turns out it's a derivative knockoff, and they let it burn.
* 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.
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