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* In the commentary for ''[[Underworld (Filmfilm)|Underworld]]'', the movie's creators point out in a scene towards the end of the movie that some of the stone debris from someone getting thrown through a wall can be seen to float in a pool of water. Oops.
* ''[[Dragon Ball Evolution]]'': In the climax of the movie, the heroes are in a valley between rock pillars. Except the rocks look very light.
* In the climax of ''[[Our Man Flint]]'', one of Flint's fleeing girlfriends is hit by a styrofoam "boulder" and it bounces right off.
* In the ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'' episode "Ethics", [[The Worf Effect|Worf's]] spine is broken when a cargo container falls on him. It seems almost humourous, since the way it falls and bounces indicates that it's so light it wouldn't even hurt a human, let alone a big sturdy Klingon.
** There's another example in the [[Star Trek: theThe Original Series|TOS]] episode "The Return of the Archons": A melon-sized "rock" bounces off a stuntman's head and he keeps running. Apparently it wasn't supposed to hit him at all, and was left in under time pressure.
* The opening to ''[[UHF (Film)|UHF]]'' makes fun of this, as a rock bounces right off George Newman's head mid-fantasy and does nothing to him.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' has an episode with a flashback which reveals how Daniel Jackson's parents were killed. Apparently, they were crushed to death under the collapsing walls of an ancient cardboard temple.
** It was also parodied rather hilariously in the ''Wormhole X-Treme'' episode when they kept pelting the Jackson-analog with the "bricks" in multiple 'takes'.
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* In ''[[Congo]]'' rocks fell from the cave roof; some bounced and those that landed in the underground river floated.
* ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' used this a lot, to keep up the illusion that the three had the endurance of a typical cartoon character when being hit in the head with rocks or bricks.
* This occurred in several early ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' stories, but most notably in "An Unearthly Child" and "The Daleks." It was a variation in that rocks and rock walls were made of the stuff; the DVD of "The Daleks" points out where Ian accidentally pulls off a chunk of the rock face (!). It's entirely forgivable because the show was at the time confined to Lime Grove Studios.
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]: [[Gamera]] vs. Guiron''. When a building collapses on the kid heroes, the SOL crew point out how little it looks like bricks.
{{quote| '''Tom Servo:''' Maybe [Guiron] can help us clean up this styrofoam.}}
* Seen occasionally in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' films, as most of the sets were made of polystyrene (in fact, during production the films became the biggest consumer of polystyrene in the ''world''). Thus, any time there are earthfalls, the rocks will fall a little too lightly.
* A famous goof in ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' has Indy shove a loose cubical stone the size of a compact car hood out of a wall, and the shadow shows it bouncing several times as it hits the sand.
* During the climactic attack at the end of Disney's ''[[Swiss Family Robinson]]'' when the titular family rolls the logs down the hill at the pirates, one of the "logs" collides with the head of an unfortunate pirate and makes a quite audible and very hollow, unwooden "bonk". It's hilarious.
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