History Main / ICanSeeMyHouseFromHere

* ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'': Said by Grant while on a scissor lift. He immediately follows with, "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny Who's car is that in the driveway?]]"

-->'''Scout:''' Huh-hey! I can see my *base* from here!

A {{Stock Phrase|s}} used by a character when he is extremely high up. [[DiscreditedTrope Hardly ever played straight anymore.]] For added humor, the character may have been launched into the air, and some variation of this phrase will come drifting back to those left below.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', Billy goes to the underworld and climbs a huge mountain, and says he can see his grandma's house from there. Then it pans over to reveal said house floating in a flaming sea. Billy never understood why she [[FridgeHorror moved there]].
** It was TheMovie

* PlayedForDrama in ''FanFic/TheManyArrestsOfThePhantom''. [[TheHero Akira]] claims that he can see his house from [[spoiler:Shido's ship,]] but that [[Squick it's underwater...]]

A common inversion is "We're so high up they look like ants!" "They are ants, you idiot!"

** In the episode ''Marge on the Lam'' Ruth remarks from the top of the mountain they can see their houses, to which Marge notices a large plume of black smoke from the chimney.

* In Music/TomTHall's "I Flew Over Our House Last Night", it gets PlayedForDrama. The narrator is separated from his ex-wife and notices his old house while he's flying over his hometown.

'''YuriGagarin:''' Big. Cold. Beautiful.\\

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': ** When Ruby and Yang leave home to attend the prestigious Beacon Academy, Ruby really isn't looking forward to being the youngest student in a strange boarding school, having been pushed two years ahead of her age-group. As the airship they're travelling on approaches Beacon Academy, giving the new student intake their first view of the school, Ruby spots the distant sight of her old school which was very near her home, a small island just off the coast. She concludes, with some comfort, that home isn't as far away from Beacon as she thought. Her older sister points out that Beacon is their home now.

-->'''Seb:''' Oh, look at that. You can see my house from here. ''(gets a look)'' Yeah, sorry, probably not helping.

* Inverted in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Fail Safe", to point out that the asteroid they're on is getting [[ColonyDrop a little too]] ''[[ColonyDrop low]]'' [[ColonyDrop for comfort.]]

** When Blake and Sun travel to Menagerie, Sun - who has never been to the Faunus-only island before, is overwhelmed by how many Faunus are living in one place. Blake is underwhelmed, explaining to him that the Faunus are living on top of each other, as the habitable part of the island is overcrowded. When they reach the highest point of the region they're in, Sun pauses and asks Blake if she can see her house from this vantage point. She points out her house, which is visible... the huge stately mansion in the middle of the town.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': When Ruby and Yang leave home to attend the prestigious Beacon Academy, Ruby really isn't looking forward to being the youngest student in a strange boarding school, having been pushed two years ahead of her age-group. As the airship they're travelling on approaches Beacon Academy, giving the new student intake their first view of the school, Ruby spots the distant sight of her old school which was very near her home, a small island just off the coast. She concludes, with some comfort, that home isn't as far away from Beacon as she thought. Her older sister points out that Beacon is their home now.

* Uttered by The Jackal when Peter!Spider-Man is saving him from Ben!Spider-Man during "Maximum Cloneage" of ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''.

* [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/10/3/ In this Penny Arcade comic.]] Gabe makes this comment as a joke about a trend chart.

* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' has the inversion. Funny because they actually are ants, and the person saying it is a butterfly.