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{{examples}}
* A Geico commercial has the CEO of Geico suggesting he do the "fall back and you catch me"
* An insurance company had a radio commercial involving actors doing the falling trust exercise. Cue falling, thump, muffled cry of pain, and the catcher saying, "Wait... what's my motivation?" At which the slogan of the commercial came in, "Life's better with a partner you can trust".▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In
▲== [[Commercials]] ==
▲* A Geico commercial has the CEO of Geico suggesting he do the "fall back and you catch me" exercise-- with the Gecko. [[Oh Crap|Naturally, the Gecko has deep misgivings]].
▲* An insurance company had a radio commercial involving actors doing the falling trust exercise. Cue falling, thump, muffled cry of pain, and the catcher saying, "Wait... what's my motivation?" At which the slogan of the commercial came in, "Life's better with a partner you can trust".
== [[Fan
* Used hilariously in an excellent ''[[NCIS]]'' fanfic.{{context}} It's structured like a real episode, and complete with this humourous subplot. Tony is insulted when Ziva and McGee jokingly claim not to trust him. He responds by instituting "random trust fall"
* The blunder in ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6717308/7/But_Who_IS_He But Who IS He?]'' is that the workforce had to have training at all; once after [[Sherlock]] informed a woman that her husband was dead (most likely in his [[Brutal Honesty|usual subtle manner]]), the police department was almost sued and had to undergo two days of sensitivity training, something which Lestrade looks back on with dread. John then [[Fridge Horror|realizes in horror]] that the only thing worse than going through a sensitivity workshop would be going through it ''with Sherlock''.
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* The protagonists of the slasher movie ''Severance'' are a sales team out on a team building weekend in the Hungarian wilderness.
* ''[[Mean Girls]]'' had a high-school version of the falling-backwards exercise: Everyone was supposed to admit a flaw, then fall backwards. One of the members of the [[Alpha Bitch]] [[Girl Posse]] apologized for being so beautiful it made everyone jealous. After she turns around, everyone except for one girl walks away in disgust. You can probably guess the outcome.
** Played with when another girl falls and everyone catches
* In ''[[Birthday Girl]]'', the bank branch managers are doing the falling backwards exercise. The catchers fail at their role because they are stunned at the sight of their model employee {{spoiler|stuffing a couple of guitar cases full of money in the vault room}} across the hall.
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* In [[Susan Cooper]]'s ''King of Shadows'', a [[Jerkass]] drops the hero in the falling-backward exercise... and is promptly bawled out by the director and kicked out of the group on the spot.
== [[Live
* In ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'', the aliens teach a youth group a lesson on trust through one of these exercises, by not catching the faller, and delivering the [[Aesop]] "Don't trust anyone!", and then divide the group into two teams identified by different coloured bandanas, in a very [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Gangland fashion]].
* The second episode of ''Hippies'' has Simon Pegg's character do this with the lead of a musical he's directing. The lead falls just as Pegg is turning to the others to explain the exercise.
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** It was mostly done to avert the inevitable betrayal that ends most [[Villain Team-Up|Villain Team Ups]]. Grodd was being [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] and because he did this, his villain team was one of the more successful, going so far as to cause a temporary disbanding.
* IN a ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' skit, Dr. Phil does the "fall and I'll catch you" with a criminal. He catches him, says, "I won't hurt you, but they will," before throwing to a bunch of cops who proceed to beat the guy down.
* Happens in ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]''. One episode features a substitute teacher who makes an effort to connect with the class. He assumes the titular duo are misguided youths who have never been given any encouragment. He tries to show that he trusts them by standing on his desk and falling backwards, but unfortunately, Beavis and Butt-head don't realize what they're supposed to do, and he ends up needing a substitute himself.
* [[El Tigre]]'s Maria holds therapy sessions for his [[Rogues Gallery]]. One of the sessions is the fall-catch trust-builder, but it fails when the faller, El Oso, is MUCH bigger than the catcher, El Cucharone, and squashes him flat. ("Hey, I trusted you, man!)
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