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== [[Anime]] ==
* All the fairies from ''[[A Little Snow Fairy Sugar]]'' create the weather by playing their instruments.
** Turmeric in particular seems to fit the artist type, not being satisfied with anything less than the perfect cloud.
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== [[Film]] ==
* In Walt Disney's ''[[Fantasia]]'' during ''The Nutcracker Suite'' segment, fairies are shown using their magic wands to change the colour of leaves, start the first frost, and so on.
* The film version of ''[[The
* In ''Hans Christian Anderson's [[Thumbelina]]'', the fairies are responsible for changing the seasons, and so, while searching for the eponymous heroine, Prince Cornelius asks his parents to delay the winter frost for as long as they can.
** And in ''[[Rock-a-Doodle]]'' (also by [[Don Bluth]]), Chanticleer the rooster's crowing is the real reason why the Sun rises every morning. But one day, thanks to Chanticleer being distracted by one of the [[Big Bad]]'s flunkies, the Sun started to rise without him...
* The big reveal in ''[[The Thirteenth Floor]]'' is when the characters {{spoiler|head out to a place they would never go and see it hasn't been built, proving they live in a virtual reality. [[Broad Strokes]] [[Truth in Television]] because that is what CGI environments look like when viewed from an unintended angle.}}
* In ''[[Nocturna]]'', there's a whole range of dfferent jobs in order to make the night - meowing cats make children sleep, there's an ''orchestra'' for the various nocturnal sounds, dreams are written down and read to sleeping kids, and there are even people who have to [[Messy Hair|mess up hair]] and another who makes {{spoiler|kids [[Potty Failure|wet the bed]]}}.
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* ''[[The Phantom Tollbooth]]'' has the orchestra that plays all the colors in the world.
* In the Swedish picture book ''Olles skidfärd'' (app. "Olle's skiing trip") the boy Olle gets to meet King Bore, the ruler of winter. The King has an antagonistic relationship with Old Woman Thaw (an old hag with a bucket and broom), not because he minds her mistress Princess Spring taking over each year, but because Old Woman Thaw can't keep the time if her life depended on it, and will invariably be either too early or too late.
* [[Dave Barry]] literally did this once, when his son was fairly young. And wrote a column about it.
* Shel Silverstein wrote a short poem about the man who paints the colours and markings onto the animals and notes, "Jack Frost, he's just a part-time workin' fellah/Touching up the leaves and trees and things/He's famouser than me/But I'm happier than he/For I paint the things that runs, and flies, and sings!"
* Quite literally in ''[[Shades of Grey]]''; most people can only see one color naturally, and thus synthetic color and gardens painted with it are a status symbol.
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* In ''[[Little House On the Prairie|Little House in the Big Woods]]'' Laura's father tells her that Jack Frost comes to put frost on the windows. This results in Laura attempting to 'catch' Jack Frost in the act.
* In ''[[The Magicians Nephew]]'', Aslan sings Narnia into being.
* Helen Keller wrote -- or thought she wrote -- a perfect fairy tale about melted jewels staining autumn leaves with brilliant colors. It turned out to be a paraphrase from a book that had been read to her. The book's author went on record that Helen's version was better.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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== [[Music]] ==
* The Swedish summer song ''Idas Sommarvisa'' (lyrics by [[Webcomic/Astrid Lindgren|Astrid Lindgren]]) is all about this trope.
* There is also (again in Swedish) ''Vem tar hand om hösten?'' which reveals who takes care of the various seasons when it ''isn't" autumn, winter etc., in case you ever wondered. {{spoiler|The Hare watches over Autumn, Tomten (the Swedish Santa Claus) over Winter, the Lark over Spring, and the Shepherd herds Summer with his sheep.}}
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* The ''[[Disney Fairies|Tinkerbell]]'' movies posit that it's the Neverland fairies that bring nature to the Main Land in much this way: painting leaves in the Fall, carrying droplets of water to spiderwebs, even painting spots on ladybugs.
* In the 2003 special ''Spring for [[Strawberry Shortcake]]'', [[Spring Is Late]], so Strawberry and her friends go off to investigate and not only meet Old Man Winter, but the young girl Spring, who thinks winter is more fun than spring, and thus hasn't bothered to make the snow melt. Eventually she comes around, and even gets a song about how she works her magic: "I Put the Zing in Spring."
* A 1936 [[Happy Harmonies|MGM cartoon]] "To Spring" is built around the trope of little elves/gnomes who put the springtime colors into the plants, by operating various gnome-powered machinery and a color pipe-organ. They battle an Old Man Winter character who is determined to hang around a while longer.
** There is also "Jack Frost", an Ub Iwerks "Comicolor" short from a year or two previous.
* In the "Mr. Plow" episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' Grandpa played "Old Man Winter" in the [[Show Within a Show|Commercial Within A Show]] for Homer's plowing business.
* ''[[Rainbow Brite]]''
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** There's a forest outside of town where nature works normally, which creeps the ponies out.
{{quote|'''Applejack:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|It ain't natural!]]}}
** The pegasus city of Cloudsdale is home to the "weather factory", where rainbows are brewed ([[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce|don't try to taste the liquid rainbows]]) and snowflakes are crafted. And speaking of rainbows, turns out ponies can remove the color of one. Using a vacuum cleaner.
** Pegasi also have to create huge tornadoes to get water from ground reservoirs to Cloudsdale, in order to make storm clouds for the rainy season.
* The original ''[[My Little Pony and Friends]]'' had the Dell Dwellers from "Mish Mash Melee", who make the rocks, trees, and other features of the forests around Dream Valley in an underground factory.
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