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Author: Generality

Jun 6th 2013 at 12:00:09 PM

* {{Golem}}s on the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''. If not attended, they will continue carrying out their last order indefinitely, potentially causing huge property damage. Other characters have mused that this is their approach to protest.

* This is how Mickey gets into trouble in the ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'' piece "The Sorcerer's Apprentice": He steals the magic hat and uses it to make a broom do his chore of fetching water, then multiplies it to speed things up. Yet while he's taking a nap, the brooms continue to reproduce and carry water, until the whole tower floods. See also SorcerersApprenticePlot.

* In the [[VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland first]] ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' game, Guybrush trains a monkey to hold down a switch so that he can enter a giant monkey head totem and descend into the underworld. [[VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland Three games later]], he returns to the area and finds the grave of that monkey, and is told that it waited patiently for him to return until it starved to death.

See also BotheringByTheBook.
Also, I've been trying to think of the name of that short story for years. Thanks.