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6	->'''Leela:''' What are we delivering?\
7	'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Something without which no ribbon-cutting ceremony could proceed: the ceremonial oversized scissors.\
8	'''Leela:''' We'll get them there as quickly as we can.\
9	'''Professor Farnsworth:''' All right, but don't run with them.
10	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
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12	This is where there is a ceremony to celebrate the completion of some edifice, like a bridge, road, building, ship, etc. Although ships are different in that they don't have a ribbon cutting but a champagne bottle breaking.
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14	This ceremony usually has a large red ribbon tied between the front doors or arches of said edifice, huge scissors and a politician who cuts the ribbon while announcing that the X is now open.
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16	A similar related event is a ground-breaking ceremony, which indicates the start of a building project about to get underway.
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18	TruthInTelevision, it's a great publicity event for those involved. Actual ribbon not necessary.
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21	!!Examples:
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26	* An American TV advertisement has a couple driving a car and the GPS device directs them to a bridge. At the exact moment when the politician cuts the red ribbon and announces the bridge is now open, the car arrives and drives across it. Apparently, the GPS device is just ''that'' good.
27	* A bottle breaking ceremony for a ship launching had the VIP leaping over the side to save the advertised wine from being wasted.
28	* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_giaIJXkA 2020 ad for Apartments.com]] has [[Creator/JeffGoldblum Brad Bellflower]] explain that the reason the company has the most up-to-date listings is that it is ''also'' the leading supplier of giant scissors for ribbon-cutting ceremonies, so when a new apartment complex is set to open with one, he's the first to know about it!
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32	* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', when the Straw Hat Pirates reach the entrance of the Grand Line, they do this ceremony where they kick off a keg of rum while reciting their hopes and dreams. A reader asked Oda about it, and Oda claimed that it was akin to christening a ship with a bottle of champagne, and how it went would be good or bad fortune for the ship. He included a mini-comic about Kaya christening the ''Going Merry'', but instead of breaking, the bottle broke off its neck. [[spoiler: The ''Merry'' would eventually sink after the Enies Lobby Arc.]]
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36	* In the ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' episode "Patang Hurdang", Mayor Royal Falooda is seen at the beginning of the kite festival holding a giant pair of scissors as if to cut a ribbon. Cham Cham is not happy when, to officially start the festival, Falooda cuts the string of his kite instead.
37	-->'''Cham Cham:''' (chasing after his runaway kite) My kite! No, my kite!
38	-->'''Kulfi:''' Sir, that was a string! You have cut Cham Cham's line!
39	-->'''Mayor Royal Falooda:''' So what? Why should I cut a ribbon and not a kite in a kite festival?
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42	[[folder:Comic Books]]
43	* In one issue of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', Robotnik was getting ready to cut a ribbon for some sort of ceremony. At that moment, the Freedom Fighters (minus Sonic, who is stuck in the past) charge onto the scene and start attacking the robot soldiers. Robotnik responds "Oh no! I can't escape! Mother told me never to run with scissors!"
44	* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': Cleopatra does this at the opening of her new palace in '' Recap/AsterixAndCleopatra''.
45	* Smurfette in ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book story "Bathing Smurfs" does this at the opening of the new Smurf Village getaway resort.
46	* So far, performing one of these on a new lab has been the only duty that Tyler Marlowe of ''ComicBook/PS238'' has performed as class president. Mainly because the teachers felt that since they now had a class president, they needed to attach some kind of duty or responsibility to the title.
47	* Franchise/{{Superman}} in a [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] comic book story about the opening of the Superman Pavilion (''Action Comics'' issue 500) uses his [[EyeBeams heat vision]] to cut through a steel ribbon at its entrance.
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51	* When ''ComicStrip/BuckRogers'' leaves Earth for the first time for Mars, Wilma Deering breaks a champagne bottle on the pop-riveted hull and names the rocket ship ''Satellite'' (hey, they didn't have artificial satellites in the 1930's).
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55	* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'': The opening ceremony for the saloon is a trap: cutting the ribbon would have triggered a giant mousetrap on the stands where the mice were sitting, crushing them all. Thankfully, the good guys warn the mice just before the trap is sprung.
56	* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'': The film has two examples: "Baby" Brent cutting the ribbon to unveil [[SouvenirLand Sardine Land]], and Flint cutting the ribbon to reopen the town, using the same oversized ceremonial scissors, which have to be pried away from Brent.
57	* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': During Kuzco's character introduction, he cuts a red ribbon ''and'' breaks a bottle against a ship's hull a few seconds later.
58	* ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'': The mayor of New Urbem does this at the opening ceremony for the hover train.
59	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' [[BookEnds opens and ends]] with these. The film starts (after [[EvilGenius Megamind]]'s [[SuperheroOrigin Origin Story]]) with Metro Man cutting the ribbon to his museum with EyeBeams. The ceremony gets interrupted by Megamind. At the end, [[spoiler: the museum has been re-dedicated to the [[HeelFaceTurn reformed]] Megamind, who cuts the ribbon with a LightningGun.]]
60	* ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'': Shrek attempts to christen a newly made ship via the standard shattering of a wine bottle. Unfortunately, he [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength accidentally pushes the ship away from the dock by leaning against it too hard]] before he can finish the ceremony. Desperate, Shrek tosses the wine bottle at the ship so hard it breaks a hole in the hull, sinking the ship and somehow causing the sails to burst into flames.
61	* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'': Near the end, the shapeshifting Morph turns into a pair of scissors and cuts the ribbon in the front of the entrance of the newly-rebuilt Benbow Inn.
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64	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
65	* In ''Film/AHardDaysNight'', Music/JohnLennon plays with the ribbon-cutting ceremony, cutting a tailor's measuring tape...
66	** In the movie, John says "I now declare this bridge open!" as he cuts the ribbon, but in unseen takes before that, he'd ceremoniously cut the ribbon for other (ridiculous) places, such as a "fish and chips shop."
67	* In ''Film/BackToSchool'', Thornton Melon has a ground-breaking ceremony for the new school building that the university would open up in exchange for giving him admission to take courses. At the ceremony, Thornton flings some dirt and it lands on the head of a member of the university's faculty, particularly the one who criticized Thornton buying his way into the university.
68	* In ''Film/{{Explorers}}'', the young heroes try to christen their Tilt-a-Whirl-cum-spaceship by breaking a bottle of soda over it. After trying several times without success to break the bottle, the wielder tosses it over his shoulder into the woods, whereupon it smashes on the ground.
69	* In ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' the TV cast are paid to open an electronics store, in front of about a dozen people and with about six balloons.
70	* In ''Film/K19TheWidowmaker'', the champagne bottle fails to break at the launch ceremony for the eponymous submarine. This is taken as a ''very'' bad omen.
71	* French movie ''Film/TheLittleBather'' with Creator/LouisDeFunes:
72	** At the beginning, the launch of a ship (''L'Increvable'', i.e. ''[[IronicName The Unbreakable]]'') goes sour when the champagne bottle, instead of breaking against the hull, breaks ''through'' it because of shoddy construction.
73	** At the end of the movie, the ceremony is held again with the repaired ship, and the bottle breaks normally. The ship just sinks as soon as launched, however.
74	* ''Film/OneCrazySummer'': Hoops and his friends try to christen a sailing ship that they fixed up by breaking a small nip of liquor on the bow, but they end up breaking a hole in the ship instead.
75	* ''Pretty Village, Pretty Flame'' (''Lepa sela lepo gore'') opens with a ribbon cutting ceremony for the "[[TemptingFate Tunnel of Brotherhood and Unity]]" going horribly wrong when the dignitary gets his thumb caught in the scissors [[spoiler:splattering blood all over the little pioneer girl standing next to him]].
76	* ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'' shows a bottle-breaking for the launch of ''Enterprise''-B; the bottle is shown tumbling through empty space before abruptly shattering against the ship's hull.
77	* PlayedForDrama in ''Film/SteelRain'' with an AssassinationAttempt on [[UsefulNotes/TheRulersOfNorthKorea Kim Jong Un]] during the opening of a Chinese-built factory. Two rockets with cluster munition warheads detonate above the ceremony, massacring hundreds of factory workers who'd turned out to hail their GloriousLeader.
78	* ''Those Fantastic Flying Fools'' (a.k.a. ''Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon''). Queen Victoria cuts the ribbon to open a new bridge, [[DisastrousDemonstration only for it to collapse in front of everyone]].
79	* In ''Film/TheToweringInferno'', the mayor of San Francisco is cutting the ribbon to open the building with an enormous pair of scissors, and as a homage to such events, doesn't quite cut it all the way through on the first slice.
80	* ''Film/WildWildWest'' has the famous "golden spike" event. Interestingly, it fails, if for other reasons than in RealLife.
81	* ''Film/{{Head}}'' starts with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new bridge. It's disrupted when Franchise/TheMonkees enter the scene, running through the ribbon and jumping off the bridge.
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85	* In the third book of the ''Literature/ChristCloneTrilogy'', the CloneJesus [[spoiler: and TheAntichrist]] Christopher Goodman and his associate Robert Milner attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the newly-built United Nations building in the renovated city of Babylon. However, God's angel shows up at the ceremony to warn the people that Babylon is destined to fall.
86	* In one story, the humorist Creator/PatrickMcManus tells of his childhood construction of a crude log raft. He and his co-builder attempt to christen the "ship" with a bottle of pop, but the bottle does more damage to the raft than vice-versa, so they just drink the pop.
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90	* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': George Bluth loved to open new buildings with a lavish ribbon-cutting ceremony. At one point GOB had them build a fake house so flimsy that when they cut the ribbon it fell apart, and GOB attacked Michael with the giant scissors.
91	* ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'': A reincarnation of the 18th century Hellfire Club, pranking the government, sets up a sabotage at a ribbon-cutting ceremony ostensibly with gag rubber scissors, but in reality, rigs things up to electrocute the ribbon cutter.
92	* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}''. When the crew of Galactica hand-build a stealth fighter out of spare parts, they name it "Laura" after President Laura Roslin, and naturally invite her to christen it with a bottle of champagne. Roslin raises the bottle to break it over the nose, whereupon everyone shouts "No! No!" as the fighter's hull is made from carbon fiber and is actually quite fragile. Roslin says, "Just kidding!" and settles for sprinkling some of the bubbly instead.
93	** "Unfinished Business" includes a series of flashbacks to the groundbreaking ceremony for the settlement on New Caprica, an event that took place during a TimeSkip in the second season finale.
94	* In ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'', the Clampetts attend the ground-breaking ceremonies of a new branch of Mr. Drysdale's bank. Jed can't understand why, after three people use one shovel to make one small hole, why everyone else left. He and Jethro then proceed to make a bank "building" using the lumber from a small pile already at the site. They are able to construct a small shack by the time Mr. Drysdale arrives the next day.
95	* ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'': The second episode is given a champagne christening... [[ComedicSociopathy over]] [[Creator/HughLaurie Hugh's]] [[ButtMonkey head]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVTIqDtso5I Vince, run that tape if you'd be so careful to do exactly as you're told...]]
96	* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': One episode has Brittas roping the then [=MP=] Sebastian Coe into one of these for a room that they named after him...which turns out to be a men's washroom.
97	* ''Series/CallTheMidwife'': Violet Buckle can be counted to do these about once per series ever since being elected to the Tower Hamlets Borough Council in Series 9 (1964). She even has designated ribbon-cutting shears--though this is a wink to her trade as a haberdasher (in which she uses shears to cut rather more mundane ribbons for dresses and little girls' hair) as much as it is a funny local-politician thing.
98	* ''Series/{{Community}}'': A bottle-smashing version when, at a sailing class, Pierce attempts to "launch" their ship with a champagne bottle, but can't break it with repeated tries. Troy marvels at his abilities, saying "Look at him christen -- that were me, I'd have broken the bottle!"
99	* ''Series/CougarTown'': Andy is elected mayor, and most of his duties consist of attending ceremonial openings, mostly of bicycle racks.
100	* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': One episode had Monica go to a ribbon ceremony for a new hospital wing with her rich boyfriend. They both agree that the ceremony is boring and decide to leave. On their way out he cuts the ribbon and get his picture taken because he was the one who had donated the money for the hospital.
101	* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': Though we don't see the actual ceremony, reluctant town selectman Jackson is left giant scissors (which he sees as a threat) as a way of convincing him to preside over an opening he doesn't want to. Later, when they trick him into running a town meeting, Kirk mimes cutting the ribbon.
102	* ''Series/InLivingColor'': The "Fire Marshall Bill Rebuilds Los Angeles" sketch starts out with one of these; the city council representative cuts the ribbon to reopen a community market. And at the end of the sketch, Bill blows it up with a MolotovCocktail.
103	* ''Series/MimpiMetropolitan'': The first half of episode 62 is about Alexi Project opening ceremony, which has a ribbon tied between the front door when the others arrive and Alexi is supposed to cut it, but Pipin doesn't get its purpose and cut it herself. Fortunately Alan has a spare for Alexi to cut.
104	* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'': In one episode during a "Bad Earl" flashback, a reporter shows a new rehab center opening this way, but the ribbon cutter is obviously drunk and failing. And then Earl and Randy run through the ribbon.
105	* In Polish TV show "Ranch", there's an opening for Country Club there's a common BoobBasedGag with how scissors don't want to cut the ribbon. A [MsFanservice bar girl] Wioletka tries to help with holding the ribbon with her huge chest. She says to Paweł kozioł Mayor to be careful to not cut her bra, to which Mayor responds "[[BuxomBeautyStandard well we would have not one, but two grand openings]]".
106	* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
107	** Episode "Timeless" has the bottle-breaking ceremony take place with the unveiling of the ship's new quantum slipstream drive; DramaticIrony is involved, as the audience already knows most of the crew will be killed as a result. Also a meta-example, [[MilestoneCelebration as this was the show's 100th episode, and they were celebrating that with this scene]].
108	** "Alice" has Tom Paris almost ready to do this to the titular shuttlecraft that he was refurbishing, but with B'elanna Torres's prompting, he shares a toast to the shuttle with her instead of breaking the champagne bottle on its hull. They do, however, manage to spill a bit of champagne on the upholstery inside the shuttlecraft.
109	* ''Series/TopGearUK'': When Jeremy Clarkson was asked to open a swimming pool, he felt that the obvious method was to use a Rolls-Royce to cut the ribbon. Coincidentally, since the pool was directly behind the ribbon, HilarityEnsues.
110	* ''Series/TheWire'': In season 3, Senator Clay Davis and a few other public officials take part in a golden shovel ceremony to inaugurate a new construction project. This also appears in the opening credits for that season, and given [[CorruptPolitician how corrupt Davis really is]], it's meant to show his hypocrisy.
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114	* Parodied in one ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'' strip where the titular character is the guest for one such ceremony. Due to the [[BlindingCameraFlash large number of cameras snapping at his direction]], Master Q instead snips his scissors on a [[{{Fingore}] thumb]].
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118	* The 25th season premiere of ''Series/SesameStreet'' included a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new playground around the corner from 123 Sesame Street. The problem was, as soon as Biff knocked the wall down, Big Bird and his friends started playing on the playground before the official ceremony could take place.
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122	* ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'':
123	** The radio series has a champagne-bottle-breaking ceremony for the bypass being built through Arthur's house.
124	** Marvin tells a story about how he was invited to do the opening ceremony of a new bridge through a swamp. Unfortunately he caused the bridge to get so depressed that immediately after he opened it it sank into the swamp.
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128	* Ride/DisneyThemeParks:
129	** At the 1959 opening of the Disneyland Monorail, which had then-Vice President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon as the guest of honor, his daughters Julie and Tricia were given the privilege of cutting the ribbon with a pair of giant scissors. But when the the scissors just wouldn't cut the ribbon, Creator/WaltDisney was left to physically tear it in two.
130	** The 1992 opening of Euro Disneyland (now Disneyland Paris) had Disney's then-CEO Michael Eisner cutting a giant ribbon in front of the castle, with vice-chairman Roy E. Disney and resort president Robert Fitzpatrick holding it up.
131	--->''"Et maintenant, je déclare [=EuroDisney=] officiellement ouvert!"''
132	* Ride/UniversalStudios:
133	** Universal's Islands of Adventure, when it hosted ''Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights'' for the first time (HHN XII, "Islands of Fear"), had a vaudeville-style SlasherMovie mascot for its advertisements that sported the giant ribbon-cutting scissors.
134	** At the 1995 opening of ''[[Series/BarneyAndFriends A Day in the Park with Barney]]'', Barney himself invited the attendees present to help him cut the ribbon [[ImaginationBasedSuperpower using only their imaginations]].
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138	* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing:'': While no actual ribbon-cutting occurs, whenever you complete a public works project in ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewLeaf New Leaf]]'', you and Isabelle hold a ceremony to commemorate the new addition to the town. You hold a celebration for every project, even if it's something as simple as installing a trash can. ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons New Horizons]]'' has similar celebrations for the installation of a new bridge or stairway/ramp, or the construction of new town buildings (such as the Nooklings' shop or the museum).
139	* ''VideoGame/FullThrottle:'' At the shareholder's meeting, Ripburger shows a picture of him and Malcolm at one for Corley Motors, both of them visibly younger.
140	* ''[[VideoGame/{{Kuukiyomi}} Kuukiyomi 2: Consider It More!]]'':
141	** In the 45th situation, the player character is one of the people who are involved in a ribbon-cutting ceremony. You must cut the ribbon when the announcer says "Begin". [[spoiler:However, you have to make sure the announcer is actually saying "Begin". Because sometimes the announcer says [[RougeAnglesOfSatin "Being", "Boring" or "Benign"]] to trick the player.]]
142	** In the 48th situation, the player character has to drop the confetti ball when ''all'' people who are involved in the ribbon cutting ceremony have cut the ribbon.
143	* ''VideoGame/WorkTimeFun'': One of the minigames has you playing a bungling politician who has to cut a ribbon at such a ceremony... while drunk.
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147	* ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'' spoofed this. Wonderella heard aliens were attacking a mall, and she remembered she was supposed to cut the ribbon to open that mall.
148	* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'''s Sam Starfall went to [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1300/fc01266.htm such a ceremony]] at the Museum of Lichen. To perform his "civic duty", he yoinked the pair of scissors and proceeded to [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1300/fc01268.htm run with them.]] They eventually [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1300/fc01273.htm gave back the scissors]] and cut out of there.
149	** Also, Sam [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00276.htm christens "The Savage Chicken"]] using a [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00274.htm mixture]] of [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00273.htm highly explosive moonshine]] and [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00272.htm "expensive" wine in a plastic bottle.]] [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00277.htm The ship's computer was not pleased.]]
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153	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
154	** The page quote comes from the episode "Brannigan Begin Again". The Planet Express crew arrives at the new Democratic Order of Planets (D.O.O.P.) headquarters in orbit around the Neutral Planet, in order to deliver the oversized scissors for the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Zapp Brannigan [[spoiler:[[TooDumbToLive destroys the entire station by attempting to use his ship's laser to cut the ribbon, instead of using the scissors]]]].
155	** In "A Flight to Remember", the christening of the ''Spaceship Titanic'' is done by smashing a jar that held Leonardo [=DiCaprio's=] head, rather than a champagne bottle.
156	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
157	** In "I'm Going To Praiseland", when Ned opens Praiseland, Mayor Quimby drives up in his limo, simply pokes his head out of the window and says, "It is with, uh, great pride that I dedicate this new school, sports arena or attraction." The mayor cuts the ribbon and just drives off.
158	** In "Lisa the Beauty Queen", the Simpsons are watching Little Miss Springfield inaugurate the new safety spikes in front of a tire store. There she is struck by lightning, leaving runner-up Lisa as the new Little Miss Springfield.
159	* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/TopCat'' in which Benny's mother shows up, she attempts to "christen" a ship by whacking it with the bottle, but whacks Officer Dibble instead. Later, when she cuts the ribbon to "open" a bridge, a similar incident happens to Dibble.
160	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'', a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open a new bathroom provides a vital clue: [[spoiler:The girl cutting the ribbon used her left hand and was wearing a glove, indicating that she was [[TheKillerWasLeftHanded left-handed]] and that she had a marker stain on her wrist from vandalizing the bathrooms.]]
161	* One happens in a ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode. The mayor of Bikini Bottom declared an unfinished bridge open, just in time for [=SpongeBob=] and the police to drive right off it.
162	* At one point in the first season of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', Wilson Fisk partakes in a ground breaking ceremony at a new school for criminology. Suddenly the Hobgoblin appears and attempts to kill him, with Peter Parker diving to save Fisk at the last second, unaware that he's the Kingpin.
163	* In the series ''WesternAnimation/SideKick'', super heroes must cut ribbons at ceremonies to keep a large ribbon monster from returning to attack the city. Eric learns this the hard way.
164	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'':
165	** In "The Last Smurfberry", Papa Smurf christens the ''S.S. Smurf II'' upon its launch by breaking a bottle against its bow, which takes him a few tries before the bottle breaks.
166	** In "The Fake Smurf", Papa Smurf cuts the ribbon when he inaugurates the newly-completed bridge over the River Smurf.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'' episode "The Terrible Trolley Trap" starts with Penelope about to cut the ribbon for a new streetcar track, when the Hooded Claw abducts her and ties her to the antenna of a runaway streetcar.
168	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
169	** In the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E9SweetAndElite Sweet and Elite]]", Rarity is shown in a montage christening an airship with a champagne bottle.
170	** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E7ParentalGlideance Parental Glideance]]": While distracted by her parents' cheering during a Wonderbolt ribbon-cutting ceremony, Rainbow Dash accidentally snips off part of Spitfire's tail, much to her annoyance.
171	** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E10ARoyalProblem A Royal Problem]]": One of the duties taken over by Princess Luna when she swaps role with Celestia is a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Except the scissors are blunt, so she has to karate-chop the ribbon with her hoof.
172	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' has Scrooge christening a ship with a bottle of champagne. Mid-swing, he checks with Duckworth that the bottle has ''cheap'' champagne. "The ''cheapest,'' sir."
173	* In the WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse cartoon "Boat Builders", Mickey, Donald and Goofy build a boat out of prefabricated parts. At the christening ceremony, Minnie swings the traditional champagne bottle too hard, causing the boat to fall apart in the water.
174	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
175	** In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' episode, "Sonic Gets Thrashed", Robotnik plans to open a luxury resort, with the intent to trap the citizens of Mobius inside it and enslave them. On the day of the grand opening, Sonic, Tails, and the robots of Scrap Valley sabotage Robotnik's plan so that the resort will collapse when he cuts the ribbon (and it does).
176	** In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode, "Nutwork", Mayor Fink attends one for the grand opening of a giant scissor factory. However, he has a tough time cutting the ribbon with a pair of small scissors. In a later scene, Mayor Fink is trying to cut coupons with a giant pair of scissors, and says he wishes he had a smaller pair.
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180	* In the USA, the First Transcontinental Railroad was ceremonially completed on May 10, 1869, at the famous "golden spike" event at Promontory Summit, Utah. Despite TV and movie portrayals, ''written'' historical records indicate that when the first strike was made, it missed. "Someone cried out, 'he missed it, huzzah!' he tried again, 'he still missed it!'" Apparently the third try was successful. The spike and hammer were wired to a telegraph, so that the hammer connecting with the spike would signal the exact moment the railroad was completed. An impatient telegraph operator went ahead and sent a message announcing the completion after the first or second miss.
181	* Just before the Sydney Harbour Bridge's ribbon was about to be cut, a pro-monarchist protester charged toward the ribbon, on horseback, and sliced it with a sword before the official ribbon-cutter could react.
182	* Has happened every year since 1995, at the beginning of the UsefulNotes/MacysThanksgivingDayParade. It involves the parade's cohost [[Series/{{Today}} Al Roker]] (who not by coincidence ''also'' started cohosting in 1995), the parade executive (currently Amy Kule, previously it was Robin Hall and before him Jean [=McFaddin=]), and since the TurnOfTheMillennium a special group chosen by the production team (i.e. 2014 had the Taney Dragons, a Philadelphia little league team). Notably in 2013, the parade was led by several female robotics people from First Robotics, who used one of their machines to cut the ribbon at the start.
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