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6	[[quoteright:149:[[ComicBook/LuckyLuke https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/timber_0.png]]]]
7	[[caption-width-right:149:[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Beware of Bilingual Beavers...]]]]
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9	A {{Stock Phrase\|s}} used after a tree, or a tall object, is felled. Common in cartoons where the tree falls on a character or causes considerable damage to something, or both.
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11	Another gag is to have characters wonder who this Tim(othy) Ber person is, and why everybody's calling for him.
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13	Commonly used in RealLife when cutting down a Christmas Tree.
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20	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
21	* 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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25	* Invoked in the ''Equestria Girls'' fic ''The Great Canterlot High School Tradition''. When Twilight Sparkle angrily calls out her boyfriend, Timber Spruce, by his first name, Sunset Shimmer can't help joking, "No trees around here, Twilight." Timber's reaction, unsurprisingly, is a NeverHeardThatOneBefore.
26	* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'': Soundbite yells "Timber!" when Luffy causes him and Cross to fall out of a tree upon first meeting him.
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29	[[folder:Comic Books]]
30	* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'':
31	** Often used in a Canadian 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.
32	** In ''The Singing Wire'', a montage of all the obstacles encountered by the construction of the First Transcontinental Telegraph line ends up with a [[TalkingAnimal beaver shouting "Timber!"]] after having just chewed down the bottom of a telegraph pole, with a worker affixing the cables still on top and clinging for dear life.
33	* Happens in a ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' comic where Mammoth is knocked out. For a few moments, he just stands there looking dazed but then he starts to fall (landing on Gizmo). Changeling calls out "Timber!" as he falls.
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36	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
37	* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers'': Near the end, as our heroes beat up Captain Pete, Mickey finishes him off by knocking out his peg-leg and shouting "Timber!" as he falls to the floor.
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41	* ''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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44	[[folder:Literature]]
45	* In the ''[[Literature/TheSteerswoman Steerswoman]]'' series, one of the hints about the Outskirters' origins is that, although they live (and believe they have always lived) in a place with no trees, they shout "Timber" when felling a tall object.
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48	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
49	* Happens in ''Series/{{Hawkeye\|2021}}'' as Kate Bishop brings down [[MonumentalDamage the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center]], to "help" Clint gets down from the tree (despite his insistent protests that she didn't do anything).
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52	[[folder:Music]]
53	* Used in metaphorical forest of "[[http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/137968 Timber]]" by [=FaLnX=]:
54	--> But when I [[ChainsawGood take my chainsaw]] -- Get out of my waaaaay! Timbeeeeer!
55	* Employed [[IntercourseWithYou as a dirty metaphor]] in the Music/{{Pitbull}} and Music/{{Kesha}} song "Timber"
56	--> [[DoubleEntendre It's going down]] -- I'm yelling 'Timber'...
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59	[[folder:Video Games]]
60	* In ''VideoGame/PunchOut'', lumberjack Bear Hugger says "Timbeeeer!" when knocked down.
61	* ''VideoGame/RagingJustice'' has the words "TIMBER!" appearing onscreen whenever you finish off a mook with an ax.
62	* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay'', with help from Trenchfoot, Guybrush manages to push the rubber tree down to the ground while shouting out, "Timmmm-boing?"
63	* "Timber!" is the name of one of the achievements in ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'', which you get upon chopping down a tree for the first time.
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66	[[folder:Web Animation]]
67	* Creator/ChuckJones produced ''WebAnimation/TimberWolf'', an internet cartoon series about a wolf who has a tree fall on him every time he says "Timber".
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70	[[folder:Western Animation]]
71	* ''WesternAnimation/BarneyBear'': In one 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.
72	* ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats'': In one episode, 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:
73	-->'''Emcee:''' ''[to Melody]'' What did George Washington say when he cut down the cherry tree?\
74	'''Melody:''' '''''TIMBER!!!'''''
75	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In the 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.
76	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': One episode 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.
77	-->'''Ronnie Anne:''' If I ever find that kid who yelled "timber"...
78	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'': There's 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.
79	* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': One skit 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.
80	* ''Creator/TexAvery'': This is a typical gag:
81	** 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."
82	** In his WB 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.
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