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-->'''Number Two:''' What in fact has been created is an international community -- a perfect blueprint for world order. When the sides facing each other suddenly realize that they're looking into a mirror, they will see that ''this'' is the pattern for the future.\\

'''Number Six:''' I'd like to be [[DeadpanSnarker the first man on the moon]].

* When the wizards get DrunkWithPower in ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}'', one of them shouts, "Today the city, tomorrow the world!" Cardingthen calculates that this means "on Friday the universe!" and Speltzer reflects that this will leave the weekend free.
* This same trope is likely what Pterry had in mind in a scene towards the end of ''Discworld/NightWatch'', when newly-appointed Patrician Lord Snapcase points out that Sergeant John Keel of the aforementioned Night Watch[[note]]actually a time-displaced Sam Vimes[[/note]] has managed to all but take over the entire city in a single day, and "Who knows what he might do tomorrow." This serves notice that [[FullCircleRevolution he's not going to be as big an improvement over the outgoing Winder as his backers had hoped.]]

** On his "Top 11 [[VillainSong Villain Songs]]" review, as he compares the goose-stepping hyenas in [[Disney/TheLionKing "Be Prepared"]] to a Nuremberg rally, a film clip of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler appears with the subtitle "Today: Pride Rock; tomorrow: the world!"

* In Creator/WaltDisney's WWII-era propaganda short, "Disney/EducationForDeath", the Nazi teacher is heard yelling, "''Heute gehört uns Deutschland -- morgen, die ganze Welt!''", which the narrator loosely translates as, "Today we own Germany, tomorrow the whole world!"

A resident MadScientist, DarkLord or EvilSorcerer is seeking WorldDomination, but first he has to practice small scale. How about his hometown? Or maybe the nearest city? Some of the time, most of the plot happens in his small-scale practice (possibly in [[AliensInCardiff Cardiff or a similar location]]), making him an insignificant, yet amusing, force. Sometimes he succeeds and becomes a very serious threat to the world.

* ''Series/ThePrisoner''. Number Two's famous NewEraSpeech in "The Chimes of Big Ben".

A resident MadScientist, DarkLord or EvilSorcerer is seeking WorldDomination, but first he has to practice small scale. How about his hometown? Or maybe the nearest city? Some of the time, most of the plot happens in his small-scale practice (possibly in [[AliensInCardiff Cardiff or a similar location]], making him an insignificant, yet amusing, force. Sometimes he succeeds and becomes a very serious threat to the world.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Jetsons: The Movie]]'', Mr. Spacely says, "Today Spacely Sprockets, tomorrow the universe!"

A resident MadScientist, DarkLord or EvilSorcerer is seeking WorldDomination, but first he has to practice small scale. How about his hometown? Or maybe the nearest city? Some of the time, most of the plot happens in his small-scale practice, making him an insignificant, yet amusing, force. Sometimes he succeeds and becomes a very serious threat to the world.

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* Appears in the Music/DireStraits song ''Ride across the river''
-->And we sing as we march with our flags unfurled / Today in the mountains, tomorrow the world.

** In "The Green Death", the BOSS MasterComputer controlling a factory in Wales [[AIIsACrapshoot turns out to have greater ambitions]].

** In "The Green Death", the BOSS MasterComputer boasts of its TakeOverTheWorld plot.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Green Death": "Today Llanfairfach, tomorrow the world."

** In "Mind Warp" we have '''{{BRIAN BLESSED}}''' exclaim, "Today prudence shall be our watch word, tomorrow we shall soak the land in blood!"

* ''[[Franchise/ThePinkPanther The Pink Panther Strikes Again]]'': After Dreyfus destroys the U.N. building:

The {{Trope Namer|s}} is the song "Es zittern die morschen Knochen" ("The Decayed Bones Tremble") by Hans Baumann (1914–1988). Strangely enough, he wrote it in 1932 when he was still a member of the Catholic youth organization ''Neudeutschland'' (New Germany). The following year, he became a member of the Nazi party and the song was sung by the Hitler Youth and other party organizations, and in 1935 it became the official song of the ''Deutsche Arbeitsfront'' (German Labour Front), the Nazi trade union surrogate. The line in question came in two versions, about one-third of songbooks preferring ''Denn heute gehört uns Deutschland und morgen die ganze Welt'' ("For today Germany belongs to us and tomorrow the entire world") and two-thirds the slightly less controversial ''Denn heute da hört uns Deutschland und morgen die ganze Welt'' ("For today Germany listens to us and tomorrow the entire world"). The trope has, unsurprisingly, often been [[WrongfullyAttributed misattributed]] to UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.

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* An ad by Creator/StanFreberg for Sunsweet Pitted Prunes. "Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles!"

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* In ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', Linus once spent a morning building a crowd of snowmen so that he could declare from an upstairs window, "Today, the neighborhood, tomorrow the world!"

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* In ''Theatre/TheResistibleRiseOfArturoUi'', which is a ''roman à clef'' about Hitler's rise to power, but set in {{Gangsterland}} Chicago, Ui (Hitler) gives a NewEraSpeech at the end that alludes to the Hitler quote. It's all about how he's now "protecting" Chicago and Cicero (Germany and Austria) and now he plans to "protect" other cities across the country as well TakeOverTheWorld). One translation/adaptation of the speech actually concludes something like "Philadelphia (one of the cities on his list) today, the world tomorrow!"

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* In Creator/WaltDisney's WWII-era propaganda short, "Disney/EducationForDeath", the Nazi teacher is heard yelling, "''Heute gehört uns Deutschland – morgen, die ganze Welt!''", which the narrator loosely translates as, "Today we own Germany, tomorrow the whole world!"

* Dr. Doofenshmirtz from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' originally intended to take over the world, but received advice from an ex-girlfriend (Linda) stating that he should initially focus on the more reasonable Tri-State Area. Appropriately, he occasionally states "Today the Tri-State Area, tomorrow the world!"

* Dr. Doofenshmirtz from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' originally intended to take over the world, but received from advice from an ex-girlfriend (Linda) that he should initially focus on the more reasonable Tri-State Area. Appropriately, he occasionally states "Today the Tri-State Area, tomorrow the world!"

* Dr. Doofenshmirtz from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' sometimes says, "Today the Tri-State Area, tomorrow the world!"

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "Spare That Rod!", Miss Brooks' criticizes Mr. Conklin's choice of adages decorating the walls of his office by asking what happened to the one that read "Today Madison, tomorrow the world!". Mr. Conklin states that the janitor ripped it cleaning.

* When the wizards get DrunkWithPower in ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}'', one of them shouts, "Today the city, tomorrow the world!" Carding then calculates that this means "on Friday the universe!" and Speltzer reflects that this will leave the weekend free.

* When a member of a "community-of-the-future" called TomorrowTown is revealed to have been plotting to use a MasterComputer to take over the country, the protagonist quips, "The day after tomorrow, the world?"

* In ''TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' the first step in extra dimensional demon overlord Mao's plan to take over our world is getting promoted to manager at [[BurgerFool MgRonalds.]]

* Subverted in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' where the Master of Paris has a helpful sign for himself reading: