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When the giant foot use is just plain silly or a gag for when a scene has gone on too long, it's a case of [[Drop the Cow]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Our Dragons Are Different|Voltaire]] does this in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]''. Three Gadget Drones are shown floating around and shooting at random stuff, then squish!
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* Narrowly averted in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Mist]]'', when a '''gargantuan''' creature crosses the road and nearly steps on the fleeing protagonist's SUV.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* The opening titles of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', of course. The foot was taken from a Cupid in a painting by Bronzino. ([http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l32/IATHOTH/Angelo_Bronzino_Allegory.jpg Here's a very big jpeg] of the Bronzino painting (possibly [[NSFW]]). The foot in question is at bottom left.)
* A shoed Giant Foot of Stomping makes an appearance in the opening credits of ''[[Penn and Teller Bullshit]]''.
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