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{{trope}}
[[File:godzilla formed in the clouds 991.jpg|frame|[[Godzilla]]. The clouds honor him.]]
 
 
{{quote|'''Lucy''': If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud formation...What do you think you see, Linus?
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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]]''.
{{quote|'''Shute:''' That cloud looks like you!
'''Captain:''' Am I really that fat?
'''Shute:''' Don't worry, the sky adds ten pounds. }}
 
== [[Fan FictionWorks]] ==
* 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-2]]'' argue over whether a cloud looks like a dragon or a chocobo.
 
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* During a rather entertaining Quidditch match in ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Half-Blood Prince (novel)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'', announcer [[Cloudcuckoolander|Luna Lovegood]] was not interested in such "mundane" things such as the score, and kept trying to draw the crowd's attention away from the game to "interestingly shaped" clouds.
* 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 ''[[The Dragon Hoard]]'': Jasleth, faced with a group of men with hostile intent, attempts to distract them by engaging them in a conversation about the shape of a cloud. It doesn't work.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', "Imaginary Friend":
{{quote|'''Data''': I believe what you are seeing is the effect of the fluid dynamic processes inherent in the large-scale motion of rarefied gas.
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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,
{{quote|'''Jag''': What about that one?
'''Jay''': Gene Wilder holding a hammer between his teeth.
'''Jag''': Hey, yeah! }}
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209162112/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3260 this starts in that direction -- to veer off and talk of seeing pollution.]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209161105/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2196 Pooch and Percy, however, see a dog and a cat.]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120623164422/http://www.dummyduck.com/?p=372 This] ''[[Dummy Duck]]'' strip.