History Main / Timber

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** Often used in a CanadaEh setting, as in ''Daltons in the Blizzard'': the Daltons are wandering through the forest, when suddenly they hear "Timber!" and huddle around trying to understand what it means. One gets as far as "I think it's something lumberjacks yell whenever they're cutting down a--" before being interrupted by the tree nearly falling on them.

* In one ''WesternAnimation/BarneyBear'' cartoon where he took a beaver community's wood supply for firewood, they retaliated by knocking down his cabin, with the leader yelling this when the supports gave way.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats'', Melody is sought after by some spies after she absorbs a vital chemical formula in her memory. She is disguised as a child on a TV quiz show:

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/AGruesomeTwosome", Tweety looks like he's about to yell "Timber!" as loud as he can when two cats are about to crash into a tree, but instead says it in a low, uninterested tone.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' revealed that Ronnie Anne has stage fright because as a younger girl, she fell on her face while playing a tree in a play. In response a random kid yelled "Timber!" and the audience laughed at her.

* ''WesternAnimation/PinkPanther'' has an episode where Pink tries various jobs and when working as a Lumberjack he is annoyed by a fellow lumberjack who keeps cutting down trees which nearly fall on Pink and doesn't say "Timber" until after the tree has already fallen.

* A typical Creator/TexAvery gag:

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': One skitch about the worst name to give a child has a lumberjack chopping down a tree and shouting this phrase, only for a young man to show up stating "My name is Timber!" The man gets crushed.

** In his W-B short "Land of the Midnight Fun", we see a timber wolf who while laughing hysterically runs from tree to tree shouting "Timber!" each time. Even the wolf admits it's silly.

* Invoked in the ''Equestria Girls'' fic ''The Great Canterlot High School Tradition''. When Twilight Sparkle angrily shouts the name of her boyfriend, Timber Spruce, Sunset Shimmer can't help joking, "No trees around here, Twilight." Timber's reaction, unsurprisingly, is a NeverHeardThatOneBefore.

** In ''The Singing Wire'', a montage of all the obstacles encountered by the construction the First Transcontinental Telegraph line ends up with a [[TalkingAnimal beaver calling "Timber!"]] after having just eaten the bottom of a telegraph pole, with a worker affixing the cables still on top and clinging for dear life.

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* Often used in a CanadaEh setting, as in [[ComicBook/LuckyLuke Daltons in the Blizzard]]: the Daltons are wandering through the forest, when suddenly they hear "Timber!" and huddle around trying to understand what it means. One gets as far as "I think it's something lumberjacks yell whenever they're cutting down a-" before being interrupted by the tree nearly falling on them.

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* Happens in ''Series/Hawkeye2021'' as Kate brings down [[MonumentalDamage the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center]].

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* A typical Creator/TexAvery gag: a character like [[KarmicButtMonkey Butch]] chops down a tree, usually so that it falls on another character. He runs the opposite direction it's falling and shouts "TIMMMMMMM..." when the tree falls on him. "...ber."
** In his W-B short "Land of the Midnight Fun," we see a timber wolf who while laughing hysterically runs from tree to tree shouting "Timber!" each time. Even the wolf admits it's silly.

-->'''Emcee (to Melody)''': What did George Washington say when he cut down the cherry tree?\\

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' revealed that Ronnie Anne has stage fright because as a younger girl, she fell on her face while playing a tree in a play. In response a random kid yelled "Timber!" and the audience laughed at her.
-->'''Ronnie Anne:''' If I ever find that kid who yelled "timber"...

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* ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys'': Holly shouts "Timber!" as a woman at her party passes out and [[FaceFault falls face first to the floor]].

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* In a dubbed version of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', one of Digmon's one liners when knocking down a Control Spire was "Sorry, I forgot to 'Timber'!".

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** In his W-B short "Land of the Midnight Fun," we see a timber wolf who while laughing bysterically runs from tree to tree shouting "Timber!" each time. Even the wolf admits it's silly.

** In his W-B short "Land of the Midnight Fun," we see a timber wolf who while laughing bysterically runs from tree to tree shouting "Timber!" Each time. Even the wolf admits it's silly.

* An episode of WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse revealed that Ronnie Anne has stage fright because as a younger girl, she fell on her face while playing a tree in a play. In response a random kid yelled "Timber!" and the audience laughed at her.

* A typical Creator/TexAvery gag: a character chops down a tree, usually so that it falls on another character. He runs the opposite direction it's falling and shouts "TIMMMMMMM..." when the tree falls on him. "...ber."