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-->-- '''Homer Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[/Recap/TheSimpsonsS22E6TheFoolMonty The Fool Monty]]"

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "The Fool Monty", Homer leads a dazed and amnesiac Mr. Burns to a construction site in the hopes of bumping him off via this manner.
** In "King Size Homer", Homer wanders into a hardhat area in an attempt to deliberately injure himself so he can be put on disability at work. After he tries and fails to get hit with falling construction tools, a worker gets crushed by a wheelbarrow full of cinderblocks.
-->'''Homer:''' Hmm...Probably better that ''didn't'' hit me.

-->-- '''Homer Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "The Fool Monty"

->''"Don't worry, boy! Another girder always swings in for you to walk on when you get to the end!"''

->''"Don't worry boy, another girder always swings in for you to walk on when you get to the end."''

A once-common stock setting, the construction zone, normally pictured as the skeleton of a sky scraper made up of steel beams, tends to be the place that every [[NeverWakeUpASleepWalker sleep walker]] or [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter escaped baby]] inevitably wanders into, giving way to crazy slapstick antics as their pursuer tries desperately to catch up with them and keep them out of harm's way. Said constructions zones almost always have NoOSHACompliance, so when our bumbling protagonist gets a job working at one, there's bound to be trouble.

* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "Homeless Hare" features a battle between WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and a burly construction worker on a building site. One sequence has Bugs, [[ConcussionsMakeYouHigh dazed after taking a girder to the face]], walking through a harrowing series of moving girders and other objects.

* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "Homeless Hare" features a battle between WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and a burly construction worker on a building site, including a dazed Bugs, after taking a girder to the face, walking through a harrowing series of moving girders and other objects.

* A number of WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts feature variants of this plot:

* The WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck short "The Riveter" has Donald work as a construction worker, and incurring the wrath of his boss after his jackhammer goes out of control.

[[ForgottenTrope It doesn't show up very often today]], but WesternAnimation kept it alive long after it mostly fell out of use in Live Action Film.

A common stock setting, the construction zone, normally pictured as the skeleton of a sky scraper made up of steel beams, tends to be the place that every [[NeverWakeUpASleepWalker sleep walker]] or [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter escaped baby]] inevitably wanders into, giving way to crazy slapstick antics as their pursuer tries desperately to catch up with them and keep them out of harm's way. Said constructions zones almost always have NoOSHACompliance, so when our bumbling protagonist gets a job working at one, there's bound to be trouble.

* ''WesternAimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' featured construction sites as frequent places for the turtles to fight, though usually they just chased the bad guys there rather than there being any plot-relevant reason for them.

** The early MickeyMouse short "Building a Building" has Mickey working at a construction site.

* ''WesternAimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' featured construction sites as frequent places for the turtles to fight, though usually they just chased the bad guys there rather than there being any plot-relevant reason for them.

-->'''Chief Wiggum:''' I've seen this in cartoons lots of times. [[ComicStrip/[[Popeye}} Swee'Pea]], WesternAnimation/MrMagoo, they all come out fine.\\
'''Lou:''' What about WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]]?\\

** In ''WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos'', the third world, "Fiesta City" takes place at a construction site, with cats riding jackhammers as enemies.

** And before Mickey, there was the WesternAnimation/OswaldtheLuckyRabbit short, "Sky Scrappers", with the same concept.

* The climactic fight between Holmes and Blackwood in ''Film/SherlockHolmes'' takes place on London's half-built Tower Bridge.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' LicensedGame, the fourth level, "Construction Yard" takes place at a construction site. The mini-boss of the level is a jackhammer, whom you defeat with a [[DeadlyDisc disc launcher]] you unlock in the same level.

* HaroldLloyd was the TropeCodifier, and probably the TropeMaker, in ''Film/NeverWeaken'', in which his character ends up being whisked away by a steel girder whilst attempting suicide, and is carried onto a building still under construction.

** 1941's "Rhapsody In Rivets" has a construction team assembling a skyscraper to the ubiquitous Liszt Rhapsody.

** In "King Size Homer", Homer wanders into hardhat area in an attempt to deliberately injure himself so he can be put on disability at work. After he tries and fails to get hit with falling construction tools, a worker gets crushed by a wheelbarrow full of cinderblocks.

* ''Film/NoDepositNoReturn''. Jay, Bert, and Duster end up on one of these after accidentally sliding off the roof of their apartment.

* In their ABC debut, ScoobyDoo and his teenage pals encounter a spectre haunting a construction site in "Hi-Rise Hair Raiser."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "Last Train to Cashville", Dale is sleep-deprived as the rangers try to foil Fat Cat's plans, and begins to sleepwalk, right into a construction zone, narrowly avoiding death several times thanks to his friends chasing after him and conveniently-placed girders.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' Buttons and Mindy short "Cat on a Hot Steel Beam" has Mindy chase a kitten into a construction site while Buttons chases after her, as shown in the above screenshot. Eventually, some actual workmen find her and take her to safety, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption leaving Buttons to take the blame as usual]]. In fact at one point, both Popeye and Tom and Jerry make a LawyerFriendlyCameo chasing after babies in homage to their respective shorts that used this trope.