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* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': In "The Gang Hits the Slopes", owing to its theme of parodying '80s ski movies, Frank plays the CorruptCorporateExecutive who is in the works of buying the mountain and shows Charlie and Dennis a model of the luxury resort he plans to build on it. As he describes it, he notices Charlie eating one of the model trees and tells him to stop. [[CloudCuckoolander Charlie]] claims he heard Frank say the model was made of candy, which was Frank denies (but according to Dennis, [[ScatterbrainedSenior Frank totally did]] before the scene began).
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* In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', Gru gives a pep talk to his Minions, during which he reveals that they had stolen the Statue of Liberty- "The small one from Las Vegas," that is, as well as a respective replica of the Eiffel Tower.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'', Gru gives a pep talk to his Minions, during which he reveals that they had stolen the Statue of Liberty- "The small one from Las Vegas," that is, as well as a respective replica of the Eiffel Tower.
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* On ''Film/AustinPowers'', Number Two says the trope quote, which includes the fact that one of Megacorp's enterprises is a factory that builds models of factories.
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* On ''Film/AustinPowers'', Number Two says lists the trope quote, many businesses owned by [[{{Megacorp}} Virtucon]], which includes are accompanied by models lighting up. [[LampshadeHanging One of the fact that one of Megacorp's enterprises businesses mentioned is a factory that builds models of factories.makes these models]].
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Not to be confused with FashionModel.
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* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' names the trope when Arthur's servant snipes that Camelot is just a special effects model (and is immediately shushed), after all the knights act amazed at the sight.
* ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'': When Mugatu shows Derek a model for the “Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too,” Derek thinks the model is the actual school and destroys it in a rage.
* ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'': When Mugatu shows Derek a model for the “Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too,” Derek thinks the model is the actual school and destroys it in a rage.
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* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' names the trope when Arthur's servant snipes that Camelot is just a special effects model (and is immediately shushed), after all the knights act amazed at the sight.
sight. Ironically, it ''wasn't'' a model; the filmmakers used a real castle because a model would've been too expensive.
* ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'': When Mugatu shows Derek a model for the“Derek "Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too,” Too," Derek thinks the model is the actual school and destroys it in a rage.
* ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'': When Mugatu shows Derek a model for the
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** In the season eight episode "Homer's Enemy", Homer enters a "build a model nuclear power plant" contest for kids... and ''not only'' kicks their asses[[note]]Homer's copy of the existing plant but with stripes added beat Martin's ''functioning'' model for a better one because Burns hates being told everything he's done isn't already perfect[[/note]], but humiliates his antagonistic co-worker into a VillainousBreakdown and accidental suicide!
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** In the season eight episode "Homer's Enemy", Homer enters a "build a model nuclear power plant" contest for kids... and ''not only'' kicks their asses[[note]]Homer's asses,[[note]]Homer's copy of the existing plant but with stripes added beat Martin's ''functioning'' model for a better one because Burns hates being told everything he's done isn't already perfect[[/note]], perfect[[/note]] but humiliates his antagonistic co-worker into a VillainousBreakdown and accidental suicide!
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* As does Willard Whyte in ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''. This provides a EurekaMoment where the SupervillainLair is, when Bond points out a model of an offshore oil rig that isn't part of Whyte's business empire.
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* As does ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'': Willard Whyte in ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''.has a rather large image of the United States on the floor with models of all his enterprises. This provides a EurekaMoment where the SupervillainLair is, when Bond points out a model of an offshore oil rig that isn't part of Whyte's business empire.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}''. In "The Calculus Affair", the [[HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection Bordurian military elite]] displays the effectiveness of a proposed new [[WeaponsOfMassDestruction sound weapon]] through the destruction of a "large North American city" (an {{Expy}} of [[BigApplesauce New York]]) on a TV screen to the [[KickTheDog delight of its audience]], only to reveal that they had merely used a smaller scale version to destroy a model. Everyone is disappointed until their leader promises the KidnappedScientist will build them the real thing.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}''. In "The Calculus Affair", the [[HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection Bordurian military elite]] displays the effectiveness of a proposed new [[WeaponsOfMassDestruction sound weapon]] through the destruction of a "large North American city" (an {{Expy}} of [[BigApplesauce New York]]) on a TV screen to the [[KickTheDog delight of its audience]], only to reveal that they had merely used a smaller scale version to destroy a model. Everyone is disappointed until their leader promises the KidnappedScientist will build them the real thing.
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--> '''Fred Flintstone:''' [[WhatAnIdiot If we build houses this small, who's going to live in them?]]
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* ''Babes In Outer Space'', a parody of 1950's sci-fi B-movies by by Steve Lovett, opens with a space station apparently being destroyed by a DeathRay. The next scene is a press conference where it's explained that someone is destroying space exhibits at theme parks throughout the country to discourage humanity from the exploration of outer space.
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* ''Babes In Outer Space'', a parody of 1950's sci-fi B-movies by by Steve Lovett, opens with a space station apparently being destroyed by a DeathRay. The next scene is a press conference where it's explained that someone is destroying space exhibits at theme parks throughout the country to discourage humanity from the exploration of outer space.
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* ''Series/TheGoodies''. "The Lost Island of Munga", opens with a model longboat floating in the water while [[CharacterNarrator Graeme's voice tells how long ago a crew of Vikings were blown off course by a mighty storm]].
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* ''Series/TheGoodies''. "The Lost Island of Munga", opens with a model longboat floating in the water while [[CharacterNarrator Graeme's voice tells how long ago a crew of Vikings were blown off course by a mighty storm]]. (It's an adaptation of an earlier radio sketch, see below)
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* ''Babes In Outer Space'', a parody of 1950's sci-fi B-movies by by Steve Lovett, opens with a space station apparently being destroyed by a DeathRay. The next scene is a press conference where it's explained that someone is destroying space exhibits at theme parks throughout the country to discourage humanity from the exploration of outer space.
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* ''Babes In Outer Space'', a parody of 1950's sci-fi B-movies by by Steve Lovett, opens with a space station apparently being destroyed by a DeathRay. The next scene is a press conference where it's explained that someone is destroying space exhibits at theme parks throughout the country to discourage humanity from the exploration of outer space.
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* ''Series/TheGoodies''. "The Lost Island of Munga", opens with a model longboat floating in the water while [[TheNarrator Graeme's voice tells how long ago a crew of Vikings were blown off course by a mighty storm]].
-->'''Graeme:''' Suddenly the sea gets rough, there is a mighty wind, and a fearful noise fills the air!
-->'''Bill:''' Because Thor pulled the plug out!
-->''RevealShot shows Graeme is actually reading out loud from a book while sitting in the bath with a toy longship.''
-->'''Graeme:''' Suddenly the sea gets rough, there is a mighty wind, and a fearful noise fills the air!
-->'''Bill:''' Because Thor pulled the plug out!
-->''RevealShot shows Graeme is actually reading out loud from a book while sitting in the bath with a toy longship.''
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* ''Series/TheGoodies''. "The Lost Island of Munga", opens with a model longboat floating in the water while [[TheNarrator [[CharacterNarrator Graeme's voice tells how long ago a crew of Vikings were blown off course by a mighty storm]].
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'''Bill:''' Because Thor pulled the plugout!
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* The 1979 Disney comedy ''A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court'' opens with a NASA rocket apparently flying through space, then a hand reaches over and removes the SpacePlane from the payload bay and holds it up to show a roomful of government bigwigs who are there to approve the building of the real rocket and spaceplane.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' episode "An Embarrassment of Dooplers", Tendi and Rutherford spend the episode building a model of their ship, the USS ''Cerritos''. A ''fully functional'' model, complete with phasers and a ''working warp core''. At the end of the episode, Tendi decides to up their game with a model of Deep Space Nine, complete with miniature Jadiza ''and'' Erzi Dax!
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* ''Series/MontyPython'sFlyingCircus'' In the Architect's Sketch, the second architect (the one who didn't design an abattoir) shows a model of a high rise block of flats that falls apart in various ways during the presentation, ending with it catching fire. The developers nevertheless decide to go with the design, saying it will probably be OK if the tenants don't weight very much and they have a spate of good weather. But it's mostly because the architect was a Freemason.
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* ''Series/MontyPython'sFlyingCircus'' ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' In the Architect's Sketch, the second architect (the one who didn't design an abattoir) shows a model of a high rise block of flats that falls apart in various ways during the presentation, ending with it catching fire. The developers nevertheless decide to go with the design, saying it will probably be OK if the tenants don't weight very much and they have a spate of good weather. But it's mostly because the architect was a Freemason.
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* ''Film/WrongIsRight''. Creator/SeanConnery's character is briefing the White House staff on what will happen to New York City if the two suitcase nukes hidden there by terrorists explode, when he's apparently KilledMidSentence along with everyone else amid scenes of the city burning and melting amid a fiery mushroom cloud. We then see everyone staring glumly at a smoldering model of New York that's just been destroyed in a simulated blast.
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* Fred in ''Film/TheFlintstones'', in his first executive board meeting where Cliff is describing the pre-planned community he plans to build with his new revolutionary automated construction system that will make traditional quarrying obsolete. After unveiling the model of the community, Fred stands up, picks up one of the model houses and asks aloud:
--> '''Fred Flintstone:''' [[WhatAnIdiot If we build houses this small, who's going to live in them?]]
--> '''Fred Flintstone:''' [[WhatAnIdiot If we build houses this small, who's going to live in them?]]
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-->'''Derek Zoolander:''' What is this, a center for ''ants''? How can the children learn anything if they can't fit in the building?!.
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-->'''Derek Zoolander:''' What is this, a center for ''ants''? How can the we expect to teach children to learn anything how to read if they can't even fit in inside the building?!.
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* ''TheGoodies''' sketch (above) of a Viking ship foundering in a mighty maelstrom which turns out to be a model in a bathtub first saw the light of day in the show's radio precursor, ''Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'', also written by Garden and Oddie.
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* ''TheGoodies''' ''Series/TheGoodies''' sketch (above) of a Viking ship foundering in a mighty maelstrom which turns out to be a model in a bathtub first saw the light of day in the show's radio precursor, ''Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'', also written by Garden and Oddie.
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* ''TheGoodies''' sketch (above) of a Viking ship foundering in a mighty maelstrom which turns out to be a model in a bathtub first saw the light of day in the show's radio precursor, ''Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'', also written by Garden and Oddie.
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* ''Film/Zoolander'': ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'': When Mugatu shows Derek a model for the “Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too,” Derek thinks the model is the actual school and destroys it in a rage.
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* The "Cold Reception" level in ''James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire'' contains within it a model of an oil rig. Snapping it with the Q-Camera will award you a Bond Move, for [[{{Foreshadowing}} Bond will visit it later on.]]
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* ''Film/Zoolander'': When Mugatu shows Derek a model for the “Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too,” Derek thinks the model is the actual school and destroys it in a rage.
-->'''Derek Zoolander:''' What is this, a center for ''ants''? How can the children learn anything if they can't fit in the building?!.
-->'''Derek Zoolander:''' What is this, a center for ''ants''? How can the children learn anything if they can't fit in the building?!.
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* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' names the trope when Arthur's aide servant snipes that Camelot is just a special effects model, model (and is immediately shushed), after all the knights act amazed at the site.sight.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', Gru gives a pep talk to his Minions, during which he reveals that they had stolen the Statue of Liberty- "The small one from Las Vegas," that is, as well as a respective replica of the Eiffel Tower.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', Gru gives a pep talk to his Minions, during which he reveals that they had stolen the Statue of Liberty- "The small one from Las Vegas," that is, as well as a respective replica of the Eiffel Tower.
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Name comes from a line in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''. Compare FunSize.
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