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Line 1: {{trope}} {{quote\|''Some primal termite knocked on wood~~<br />~~ ''Tasted it, and found it good~~<br />~~ ''And that is why your Cousin May~~<br />~~ ''Fell through the parlor floor today.~~\|"The Termite" by [[Ogden Nash]]}}~~'' \|"The Termite" by [[Ogden Nash]]}} [[Termites]] are portrayed in fiction as very fast munchers of wood making saw blade sounds; often, simply a terrifying invisible force that disintegrates wood rapidly. They are often a problem in buildings and may require fumigation tents. See also [[Horde of Alien Locusts]]. {{examples~~\|Examples:~~}} == [[Comics]] == * In the ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' comic "The bridge on the Mississippi" the evil mayor suggest the constructor of the bridge (of wood) to celebrate the opening by swinging a bottle of champagne against it. As a test a seemingly empty bottle is used, but it really contained termites, which afterward unnoticed, begin to eat up the bridge from inside. Then the cavalry came and want to use the bridge, but when they ride over, it collapsing under their weight. And of course, this part of the fleet just happens to be full of alligators... Line 16 ⟶ 18: == [[Video Games]] == * In ''[[Escape ~~From~~from Monkey Island]]'', Guybrush must at one point infest the baddie's cane with a handful of termites so that he can follow the resulting trail of sawdust to the villain's lair. By the time you get there, the cane has dissolved completely. == [[Western Animation]] == * ''[[The Pink Panther]]'' episode "Pink Pest Control": A termite bedevils the panther by literally eating him out of house and home. Watchable [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWvfFRUFqNk here]. * Also from DFE, ''[[The Ant and ~~The~~the Aardvark]]'' episode "Rough Brunch": The Aardvark fights a termite (and his family) who can eat through wood products at lightning speed with the accompanying sound of a buzzsaw. There's a complete episode guide [http://www.tv.com/the-ant-and-the-aardvark/rough-brunch/episode/264614/recap.html here] and the episode is viewable [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCyGQ2m-Z1g here]. * On one ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon, Porky Pig had to deal with a termite caricatured as a [[Canada, Eh?\|French-Canadian lumberjack]]. The exterminator Porky hires causes far more trouble for him than the termite. ** Incidentally, the Warner Bros. Animation studio in [[The Golden Age of Animation]] was called "Termite Terrace" by [[Tex Avery]] and the other employees, due to the title trope. * For a sci-fi take on it, there's the [[Woody Woodpecker]] cartoon "Termites [[Recycled in Space\|From Mars]]". Line 27 ⟶ 29: * The last episode of the western animated series ''Zoo Cup'' is about a soccer match between kangaroos and termites. Or rather it should be. Because just when kangaroos and the commentator are busy wondering where the termites' team and their supporters are, the termites eat up the entire stadium in seconds. * In one episode of ''[[The Huckleberry Hound Show]]'', Huck encountered a crafty termite. * [[~~Tom and Jerry (Animation)\|~~Tom and Jerry]], in an episode of their 1970s series, dealt with a gang of termites on tiny motorcycles with sawblade wheels. * One episode of ''[[The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]'' was about a swarm of termites raiding Rabbit's house. * One episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' was about the titular family being forced to live in a 19th Century home as part of a reality show because their house was badly damaged by termites living in a hockey stick. * A termite in ''[[Oggy and ~~The~~the Cockroaches]]'' had gigantic metal jaws and could reduce anything to splinters in a second. Even electrical appliances. * An episode of ''[[Eek! ~~the~~The Cat]]'' called "The Eeksterminator" had the eponymous cat accidentally breaking Wendy Elizabeth's inflatable Squishy Bears cage of termites and dealing with a termite that freed from the cage. * An episode of ''[[Popeye]]'' deals with Popeye defending his newly built home from termites. After eating his spinach, he rebuilt his house completely out of steel. {{reflist}} [[Category:Invertebrate Index]] [[Category:~~Termite~~Alliterative ~~Trouble~~Trope Titles]] [[Category:~~Trope~~{{PAGENAME}}]]