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{{quote|'''Number Two:''' Over the last thirty years, Virtucon has grown by leaps and bounds. About fifteen years ago, we changed from volatile chemicals to the communication industry. We own cable companies in thirty-eight states.
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Blackadder]] Goes Forth'' Melchett and Darling show George a model of the stretch of ground that has been captured in the latest battle. It turns out that the model is on a scale of 1:1, so the actual gain is only a few square feet. Closer examination reveals that it's not even a
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Buffy Bot admires a model "City of the Future" at a science fair, but notes that she's never seen people that small.
* In ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', Bill Adama worked on a model of an Age of Sail ship over the course of the show, which he ends up destroying it in a fit of rage. The destruction was an ad lib by Edward James Olmos, who didn't know the model was very expensive (after all, in [[Real Life]] someone working full time can take a couple months to build one) and in fact on loan from a museum.
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** In the season eight episode "Homer's Enemy," Homer enters a "build a model nuclear power plant" contest for kids... and ''not only'' kicks their asses, but humiliates his antagonistic co-worker into a [[Villainous Breakdown]] and accidental suicide!
** Another episode where Mr. Burns has a model airplane (the "Spruce Moose") and orders Smithers to get into it, tho it is clearly too small for a human to fit in.
** In season six's "Bart's Comet," they used a model to show the different ways they can blow up the
* In ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' Christmas special, the Monarch displays a scale model of the Venture compound as he gleefully outlines his plan to destroy Dr. Venture on Christmas Eve. Dr. Girlfriend is visibly ticked off.
{{quote|'''Monarch''': ...What??
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