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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' episode "Chariots of Fur" has Daggett and Norbert at one point visit a water show featuring "Jupi the well organized Seal", Daggett and Norbert getting caught in a jet ski stack causes the nearly finished house of cards Jupi was working on to collapse.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' episode "Chariots of Fur" has Daggett and Norbert at one point visit a water show featuring "Jupi the well organized Seal", Daggett and Norbert getting caught in a jet ski stack causes pulled water skier human pyramid that crashes into the nearly finished house of cards Jupi was working on to collapse.on.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' episode, "The Bing That Wouldn't Leave", Daggett and Bing's playing knocks down Norbert's toothpick sculpture of a redwood tree, but Bing managed to rebuild it in seconds.
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* ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'': The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8YxcJNmQ64 "Anger" segment]] on the ''Mind Candy'' featurette in the film's Blu-ray release features Riley constructing a large, impressive card house, only for it to fall apart once she puts the final card in place. Reacting accordingly, Anger causes Riley to sweep away the remains of her card house in frustration.
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* ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'': The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8YxcJNmQ64 "Anger" segment]] on the ''Mind Candy'' featurette in the film's Blu-ray release features Riley constructing a large, impressive card house, only for it to fall apart once she puts the final card in place. Reacting accordingly, Anger causes Riley to sweep away the remains of her card house in frustration.
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* In the final season of ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', while preparing for his final fight with Shizuo, Izaya takes a bunch of tarot cards to make a card house. It actually goes really well and he finishes it in around a minute. Unsurprisingly, Izaya himself is the one to destroy the structure by purposely flicking a pawn into it. He then lights all the cards on fire for good measure.
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* In the final season of ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'', while preparing for his final fight with Shizuo, Izaya takes a bunch of tarot cards to make a card house. It actually goes really well and he finishes it in around a minute. Unsurprisingly, Izaya himself is the one to destroy the structure by purposely flicking a pawn into it. He then lights all the cards on fire for good measure.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}''. [[DirtyCop Marcus]] is shocked to come home and find Silco--the undercity boss he's taking bribes from--in his house, helping his daughter built a house of cards. At the end of their subsequent conversation, Silco knocks over the cards, pointing out that [[ShameIfSomethingHappened accidents happen.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}''. [[DirtyCop Marcus]] is shocked to come home and find Silco--the undercity boss he's taking bribes from--in his house, helping his daughter built a house of cards. At the end of their subsequent conversation, Silco knocks over the cards, pointing out that [[ShameIfSomethingHappened accidents happen.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}''. [[DirtyCop Marcus]] is shocked to come home and find Silco--the undercity boss he's taking bribes from--in his house, helping his daughter built a house of cards. At the end of their subsequent conversation, Silco knocks over the cards, pointing out that [[ShameIfSomethingHappened accidents happen.]]
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* Each episode of ''Series/TheMillionaire'' begins with the title character in his office, engaging in one of his many hobbies and describing how the hobby can be related to human nature and the ways people deal or fail to deal with unexpected changes. In one episode, he builds a house of cards then causes it to collapse by breathing on it, presenting it as a metaphor for how a life can be drastically altered by a small interruption.
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* Subverted in an episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'': After receiving a disturbingly large number of tongue depressors for their unit, Hawkeye uses the excess depressors to build a memorial tower to all the patients who have passed through the 4077th. When Stars and Stripes gets wind of this, they decide to do a story in the project, only for Army Recruitment to decide to use the tower as a shot in the arm for enlistment efforts. Hawkeye is less than thrilled at this prospect and opts to instead blow the tower up on camera.
---> '''Hawkeye:'' Senseless destruction. That's what it's all about babe.
---> '''Hawkeye:'' Senseless destruction. That's what it's all about babe.
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* Subverted in an episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'': After receiving a disturbingly large number of tongue depressors for their unit, Hawkeye uses the excess depressors to build a memorial tower to all the patients who have passed through the 4077th. When Stars ''Stars and Stripes Stripes'' gets wind of this, they decide to do a story in the project, only for Army Recruitment to decide to use the tower as a shot in the arm for enlistment efforts. Hawkeye is less than thrilled at this prospect and opts to instead blow the tower up on camera.
---> '''Hawkeye:'' -->'''Hawkeye:''' Senseless destruction. That's what it's all about babe.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit in WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit in WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut''.WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut'' provides the page image as Gromit builds an impressive house to pass the time on their trip to the moon, and is just about to put the last two cards on when Wallace pulls the handbrake as they arrive, causing it to collapse.
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* Subverted in an episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'': propaganda photographers want to make a fragile amateur sculpture into a symbol of the war, but the artists are trying to destroy their own creation.
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* Subverted in an episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'': propaganda photographers want to make After receiving a fragile amateur sculpture into a symbol disturbingly large number of the war, but the artists are trying to destroy tongue depressors for their own creation.unit, Hawkeye uses the excess depressors to build a memorial tower to all the patients who have passed through the 4077th. When Stars and Stripes gets wind of this, they decide to do a story in the project, only for Army Recruitment to decide to use the tower as a shot in the arm for enlistment efforts. Hawkeye is less than thrilled at this prospect and opts to instead blow the tower up on camera.
---> '''Hawkeye:'' Senseless destruction. That's what it's all about babe.
---> '''Hawkeye:'' Senseless destruction. That's what it's all about babe.
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* ''Series/HeyYouWhatIf'': In "You Could Live On The Moon?", Zigi is building a house of cards to wile away the tedious 14 days of night when you can't go outside when it is demolished by a moonquake.
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* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', Faye realizes that she made a mistake. The comic then [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1629 cuts to Hannelore]] (in another apartment in the same building) constructing a house of cards before Fay's AtomicFBomb causes its destruction.
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* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', Faye realizes that she made a mistake. The comic then [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1629 cuts to Hannelore]] (in another apartment in the same building) constructing a house of cards before Fay's AtomicFBomb causes its destruction.
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* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', episode "[[Recap/TheBradyBunchS1E15FiftyFourFortyAndFight 54-40 and Fight]]": The boys and the girls face off in a house-of-cards building contest to settle an argument.
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* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', episode "[[Recap/TheBradyBunchS1E15FiftyFourFortyAndFight 54-40 and Fight]]": The boys and the girls face off in a house-of-cards building contest to settle an argument. Bad luck for the boys that Tiger runs through the living room when they're putting the finishing touches on.
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* In ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', the sultan is stacking some tiny statuettes when Jafar slams open the door and they fall down.
* ''Disney/MickeysChristmasCarol'' has Scrooge counting his money, piling the coins into tall thin stacks as he basically dumps Belle. She storms out, toppling the piles in mid-count.
* ''Disney/MickeysChristmasCarol'' has Scrooge counting his money, piling the coins into tall thin stacks as he basically dumps Belle. She storms out, toppling the piles in mid-count.
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* In ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', the sultan is stacking some tiny statuettes when Jafar slams open the door and they fall down.
*''Disney/MickeysChristmasCarol'' ''WesternAnimation/MickeysChristmasCarol'' has Scrooge counting his money, piling the coins into tall thin stacks as he basically dumps Belle. She storms out, toppling the piles in mid-count.
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* In the final season of ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', while preparing for his final fight with Shizuo, Izaya takes a bunch of tarot cards to make a card house. It actually goes really well and he finishes it in around a minute. Unsurprisingly, Izaya himself is the one to destroy the structure by purposely flicking a pawn into it. He then lights all the cards on fire for good measure.
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Like EndangeredSouffle, [[{{Dissimile}} only not with souffle]], and comes with the same two standard variations: In one, the rambunctious behavior around the house of cards is quieted down with no ill effects, only to have a relatively-distant disturbance (slamming door, car backfire) collapse the structure after it is "safe". The other works much the same, except that it is the builder him- or herself who triggers the collapse.
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Like EndangeredSouffle, [[{{Dissimile}} only not with souffle]], and comes with the same two standard variations: In one, the rambunctious behavior around the house of cards is quieted down with no ill effects, only to have a relatively-distant disturbance (slamming door, car backfire) collapse the structure after it is "safe". The other works much the same, except that it is the builder him- or herself themselves who triggers the collapse.
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-->"Now, add all the dead weight of students like you..."\\
''(Student adds haphazard pile of cards to the top of a very large tower, which quickly collapses.)''\\
"So as you can see, children, our whole society is nothing more than a perilous house of cards, doomed to collapse ''under its own weight''."
''(Student adds haphazard pile of cards to the top of a very large tower, which quickly collapses.)''\\
"So as you can see, children, our whole society is nothing more than a perilous house of cards, doomed to collapse ''under its own weight''."
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'''Miss Bitters:''' So as you can see, children, our whole society is nothing more than a perilous house of cards, doomed to collapse ''under its own weight''.
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-->'''Butch:''' My counselor was right. All I needed to curb my anger was a hobby.
-->''(Reaches up to place a stick on the very top only to have the lights turn off, followed by a crashing sound)''
-->'''Butch:''' Okay, NOW I'M MAD!
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-->'''Butch:''' Okay, NOW I'M MAD!
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'''Butch:''' Okay, NOW I'M MAD!
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'''Butch:''' Okay, NOW I'M MAD!
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* ''Franchise/WallaceAndGromit in WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut''.
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* ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'': In a cutscene near the beginning of the game, Faith is passing time in Merc's lair building a house of cards. When she hears that her sister is in trouble she springs to her feet, knocking the whole thing over.
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* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'': exploring Olney Powerworks, the [[PlayerCharacter Lone Wanderer]] will likely come across a stack of metro tickets on someone's desk, with a couple of pool balls on top - and considering that the Lone Wanderer is probably the first person to enter the building since the Great War, that means this stack has stood for a good 200 years. But pick up any of the other items on the desk and the venerable structure will surely crumble.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "The Crying Dame", Lincoln's card house suffers this fate.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' this happens to Alex in the season 2 intro.
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* A RunningGag in ''Film/TheToy'' is U.S.'s elaborate domino maze getting knocked over accidentally.
* A RunningGag in ''Film/TheToy'' is U.S.'s elaborate domino maze getting knocked over accidentally.
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* ''Disney/MickeysChristmasCarol'' has Scrooge counting his money, piling the coins into tall thin stacks as he basically dumps Belle. She storms out, toppling the piles in
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* A RunningGag in ''Film/TheToy'' is U.S.'s elaborate domino maze getting knocked over accidentally.
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* Bigweld's domino layout in ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}''.
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* ''Disney/MickeysChristmasCarol'' has Scrooge counting his money, piling the coins into tall thin stacks as he basically dumps Belle. She storms out, toppling the piles in mid-count.
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* In ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', the sultan is stacking some tiny statuettes when Jafar slams open the door and they fall down.