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{{quote|'''Lucy''': If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud formation...What do you think you see, Linus?
'''Linus''': Well, those clouds up there look to me like the map of the British Honduras in the Caribbean....That cloud up there looks a little like the profile of Thomas Eakins, the famous painter and sculptor...and that group of clouds over there gives me the impression of the stoning of Stephen...I can see the Apostle Paul standing there to one side....
▲{{quote|'''Lucy''': If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud formation...What do you think you see, Linus?<br />
▲'''Linus''': Well, those clouds up there look to me like the map of the British Honduras in the Caribbean....That cloud up there looks a little like the profile of Thomas Eakins, the famous painter and sculptor...and that group of clouds over there gives me the impression of the stoning of Stephen...I can see the Apostle Paul standing there to one side....<br />
▲'''Lucy''': Uh huh...That's very good... What do you see in the clouds, Charlie Brown?<br />
'''Charlie Brown''': Well, I was going to say I saw a ducky and a horsie, but I changed my mind.|''[[Peanuts]]''}}
Basically looking at clouds and what shape they resemble. Often done in [[Real Life]], but fiction will of course play around with it. Sometimes the cloud will literally look like the thing, for one. The official term for this is [
[[Stock Phrase|Sometimes]], just to be funny, someone will say "[[Shaped Like Itself|It looks like mashed potatoes / marshmallow / an airborne agglomeration of moisture!]]"
Compare [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]], [[Watching the Sunset]], [[Inkblot Test]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* This is how Shute and Captain start to bond in ''[[SD Gundam Force]]''.
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'''Captain:''' Am I really that fat?
'''Shute:''' Don't worry, the sky adds ten pounds. }}
== [[Fan
* Used in an episode of ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120529000205/http://www.goatpen.org/affr/s03e05p03.html The Amazing Final Fantasy Race]'', a fanfic that combines the characters of the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series with the format of ''[[The Amazing Race]]''. Blank from ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' and Lucil from ''[[Final Fantasy X
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Up]]'', it happened in the montage with Ellie and Carl.
* Played straight in ''[[The Agony and
* The opening scene of the film version of ''[[James and
* The young [[Amelie]] took pics of these clouds with her secondhand Instamatic camera.
* Variation: ''[[Shrek]] 2'' has Donkey mentioning "that bush that looks like Shirley Bassey".
== [[Literature]] ==
* During a rather entertaining Quidditch match in ''[[Harry Potter and
* The children in ''The Candymakers'' do this. One boy has dyslexia, and wishes that doing this was taught in school instead of reading.
* The picture book ''It looked like spilt milk'' is all about this.
* In ''[[
== [[Live
* ''[[Star Trek:
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'''Guinan''': No, no. First it was a fish, and now it's a Mentonian sailing ship.
'''Data''': Where?
'''Guinan''': Right there. Don't you see the two swirls coming together to form the mast?
'''Data''': I do not see it. It is interesting that people try to find meaningful patterns in things that are essentially random. I have noticed that the images they perceive sometimes suggest what they are thinking about at that particular moment. ''(pause)'' [[Out-of-Character Moment|Besides, it is clearly a bunny rabbit]]. }}
* ''[[Star Trek:
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'''Leila''': I've never seen a dragon.
'''Spock''': I have. On Berengaria Seven. But I've never stopped to look at clouds before. }}
* On [[The Golden Girls]], Rose said she saw a cloud that looked just like a cotton ball.
** Another gag has Sophia saying she's going to hang out with the 'Cloud Society', which entails the group getting drunk and saying what they think the clouds look like.
* ''[[
== [[Music]] ==
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* ''[[BC]]'' did a few, such as "all the ills suffered by mankind" (a mushroom cloud) and "the dust cloud raised by a herd of stampeding mammoths" (cue stomping as it turns out it is, indeed, the dust cloud raised by a herd of stampeding mammoths).
* ''[[Garfield]]'' also had a few clouds, such as one that resembled Odie, the same ears, the same stupid expression...
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** Another time, Jon observed that one cloud looked "just like a cloud." After a [[Beat Panel]], Garfield asked, "which one?"
== [[Theater]] ==
* [[Older Than Steam]], because [[William Shakespeare]] [[The Zeroth Law of Trope Examples|did it]]:
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'''Polonius''': By th' Mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.
'''Hamlet''': Methinks it is [[Like a Weasel]].
'''Polonius''': It is backed like a weasel.
'''Hamlet''': Or like a whale.
'''Polonius''': Very like a whale. }}
** Of course, Hamlet is just doing this to [[Troll|mess with Polonius' head]].
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* [http://countyoursheep.keenspot.com/d/20091130.html This] ''[[Count Your Sheep]]'' strip.
* Played straight and then immediately parodied in ''[[Concerned]]''. [http://www.hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2005-10-14 Oh, you and your imagination.]
* ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]'' naturally [http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF069-Not_Today_Little_One.jpg has one.]
* In ''Absurd Notions'', a cloud is [http://www.absurdnotions.org/page127.html remarkably cloud-shaped.] Also,
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'''Jay''': Gene Wilder holding a hammer between his teeth.
'''Jag''': Hey, yeah! }}
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [
** [
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120623164422/http://www.dummyduck.com/?p=372 This] ''[[Dummy Duck]]'' strip.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* Done in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' in the episode where Bart steals the head off a statue. He's hanging around with some anti-social kids who see people being stabbed and the like in the clouds.
** In a ''Simpsons'' comic, Homer is going on a diet, but all of the clouds [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere|look like donuts to him]].
* Parodied in ''[[
** Lampshaded by Sandy: "Spongebob...all the clouds look like flowers...all the time?"
* In one episode of ''[[Arthur (
* In the ''[[Recess]]'' episode when the gang are all mentoring kindergartners, Mikey and his younger counterpart bond by looking at clouds together.
* In ''[[The Lion King]] 2'', Kiara and Kovu look at the constellations, a scene reminiscent of that in the first movie with Timon, Pumbaa, and Simba. This is how Kiara first gets a feel for how it is for those in exile.
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