History Main / ConstructionZoneCalamity

* The fourth map of ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsSkateboarding'' takes place in a construction site full of half-finished buildings and tanks.

* The 1990s CultClassic Game ''VideoGame/SleepWalker'' had a few levels centred around this.

* 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 some conveniently placed girders.

* 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.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MrMagoo'' cartoon "Trouble Indemnity", Magoo goes to collect an insurance claim, but wanders into the construction site next door. The insurance agents see him and scramble to keep him from hurting himself; as he's their only client, "If he falls, the company falls!"

[[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. It also served as a convenient setting for arcade and platform video games for a time.

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* The construction of a skyscraper comes up several times during the ''Rhapsody in Blue'' sequence of ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000''. The jazz musician works on a construction during the day. At the end, the unemployed man picks up the night shift. Also, the rich woman gets picked up by the crane, allowing her husband to go to a night club.

* The film ''Film/BabysDayOut'' makes use of this trope after two crooks chase a kidnapped baby into a construction zone.

* The construction of a skyscraper comes up several times during the ''Rhapsody in Blue'' sequence of ''Disney/Fantasia2000''. The jazz musician works on a construction during the day. At the end, the unemployed man picks up the night shift. Also, the rich woman gets picked up by the crane, allowing her husband to go to a night club.

** In the short "Disney/ClockCleaners", Goofy unknowingly wanders into one after being hit on the head and [[ConcussionsGetYouHigh put into a daze]].

* The short "Tot Watchers" has the duo try to protect a baby who wanders into a construction zone.

** ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTales'' also had this as a setting a few times, in the shorts "Deconstruction Junction" and "Jackhammered Cat".

* The ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' short "A Dream Walking" has Olive Oyl sleepwalk into a construction site, as Popeye and Bluto try to stop her from killing herself.

* The ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short "Tot Watchers" has the duo try to protect a baby who wanders into a construction zone.

* 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. Eventually, some actual workmen find her and take her to safety, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption leaving Buttons to take the blame as usual]]. 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.

* 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]]. 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.

* The climax of ''WesternAnimation/MrBugGoesToTown'' has the bug characters scrambling up a skyscraper under construction on the vacant lot where they used to live, staying within a hairsbreadth away from being crushed by bricks being laid or shaken off by riveters.

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* In a commercial for Energizer batteries, two construction workers on their lunch break are seen on a skyscraper, talking about Vintage Farms Deli Loaf, the fictional product being advertised. Just then, the Energizer Bunny (who is dressed in a hard hat) [[CommercialSwitcheroo interrupts the commercial]] by marching across the skyscraper. As the Bunny does this, he falls off the skyscraper, but lands on a steel girder being lifted by a crane, much to the bewilderment of the two workers.

''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' used this and other old-timey tropes in "The Ballad of the Sneak," a cartoon supposedly from TheThirties.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS22E6TheFoolMonty The Fool Monty]]", Homer leads a dazed and amnesiac Mr. Burns to a construction site [[GenreSavvy in the hopes of bumping him off via this manner]].

-->'''Homer:''' Hmmm... Probably better that ''didn't'' hit me.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E11FrinkGetsTesty Frink Gets Testy]]", Ralph Wiggum wanders into a construction site. Chief Wiggum lampshades the use of this trope in cartoons.

** In "Frink Gets Testy", Ralph Wiggum wanders into a construction site. Chief Wiggum points out the use of this trope on cartoons.
-->'''Chief Wiggum:''' I've seen this in cartoons lots of times. [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} Swee'Pea]], WesternAnimation/MrMagoo, they all come out fine.\\

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS22E6TheFoolMonty The Fool Monty 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.