History Main / DiggingToChina

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'', Baboon managed to dig all the way to the other side of the world by overuse of a ridiculous "musical instrument" obviously inspired by theremins, but much worse sounding. Apparently the wavelengths of said thing triggered St. Andreas' Fault, causing him to fall all the way to China.

** In "WesternAnimation/TweetyAndTheBeanstalk" Sylvester the Cat was knocked clear through to China after getting sat on by a giant, and met up with a Chinese Tweety.

** This was one of [[MadScientist Doofenshmirtz's]] plots. He... [[RealityEnsues kinda forgot about that whole magma thing]]; fortunately for him, Agent P was there to SaveTheVillain.

* One of the [[Literature/LandOfOz Oz books]], ''Tik-Tok of Oz'', has a tube going through the Earth, which leads from a land near Oz to another (fictional and fantastic) land on the other side of the world. With a ruler named Tititi-Hoochoo and a friendly dragon, it seems to be playing on a few Chinese stereotypes of the time.
%%* A children's book series (''possibly'', but unconfirmed, ''The Kids at the Polk Street School'') has a chapter where, as a side-note, one student is shown trying to dig a hole to China on the school playground and is up to his wrist. He says he was up to his elbow last week, but a member of the school staff filled in the hole, so he's having to start over.

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* Knorkator's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm4WQkJOlS0 Weg Nach Unten]]" deals with someone trying to get away from it all by digging a hole and staying there. He ends up in Australia and mentions he has dug to far.
* Alluded to in Music/TheyMightBeGiants' "Ana Ng". The lyrics describe making a hole perpendicular to the singer's town in a globe that will lead to a foreign nation where [[GirlOfMyDreams Ana Ng]] lives, the idea being that the singer's [[StarCrossedLovers true love]] lives on the exact opposite side of the world.

* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'' setting, an Alphatian government expedition managed, by immense effort and expenditure of advanced Magitek engineering, to dig its way straight down to an exotic locale. Justified because it's the Hollow World, a relatively short distance below the surface, and Alphatian elemental-themed magic allowed them to bypass lava and other subterranean obstructions.
* In [[Creator/GaryGygax Gary Gygax's]] original home ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' campaign from the mid-1970s (which was set on a parallel Earth), the bottom level of Castle Greyhawk contained a slide trap that sent its victims all the way to China.

* During one part in ''VideoGame/EliteBeatAgents'', a broke Oil Baron trying to regain his fortune digs through the earth... and ''sells his hole'' to make into a ''transplanetary railway''.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' has an EasterEgg on the achievement page involving Chinese zombies. It's deceptively simple to find.
* ''VideoGame/MrDriller'' is all about digging your way through different parts of the world. Yes, that includes China.
* ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'': Doomsday's supermove has him ''repeatedly punch his opponent through the ground'' to the other side of the world... [[ShownTheirWork ending up in the middle of the ocean]] and not China. Then he does it back to the other side.
* [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/octopodo/dig-to-china Dig to China]], a Flash game where you do just that.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bRzpDbePME Potemkin's ]] [[FinishingMove Instant Kill]] in ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear Xrd'' ends with a punch strong enough to blast his opponent right through the Earth's crust. The attack ends with the opponent emerging in a desert with some palm trees.

* Deconstructed in ''Webcomic/TheBirdFeeder'' [[http://thebirdfeeder.com/comic/54 #54]], "China." Terry discusses how silly of an idea it is to dig to China. He states that you'd probably just end up in the middle of the ocean, and the water would wash you back through the hole to where you started.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Rupert}} Rupert Bear]]'': Rupert's Chinese friend Pong Ping had a lift that took the occupants straight down to China. It turned over halfway so they wouldn't arrive standing on their heads.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' episode that crossed over with ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily'' saw Pugsley digging to China through his sandbox. When Morticia chides him for being ridiculous, Pugsley tells the Chinese boy just under the surface that he'll have to go back home.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'' episode "Cat" had Little Dog dig into the earth in an attempt to get past a cat that Big Dog is too sleepy to scare right away. He ends up digging all the way to China, where he gets frightened by a Chinese cat.

* The WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck[=/=]WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale short "Donald Applecore" ends with Donald accidentally blowing a hole in his apple orchard so deep, he falls all the way to China (offscreen). You can tell it's China at the other end because of the offensive fake accent on the guy who does [[RunningGag the "applecore" joke]] on Donald.
* This happened in the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "Kung Fooled", where the Ratcatcher rode into the Earth and brought Darkwing, Gosalyn and Launchpad to China.
* Showed up as a gag in the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "For Your Ed Only". Jonny falls out of Ed's bubblegum balloon and hits the ground so hard he ends up going through the Earth and ending up in China. This is immediately {{lampshade|Hanging}}d: "Wow, China! Just like in [[YouWatchTooMuchX the cartoons]]!" [[StatusQuoIsGod He's back in America at the end of the episode]] because Plank was "afraid of getting turned into chopsticks".

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', Courage digs a hole to China in order to avoid a monster. Of course, there's a Chinese dragon waiting on the other side and it chases him back.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'', Baboon managed to dig all the way to the other side of the world by overuse of a ridiculous "musical instrument" obviously inspired by theremins, but much worse sounding. Apparently the wavelengths of said thing triggered St. Andreas' Fault, causing him to fall all the way to China.
* The Diggers in ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' never get anywhere, but the sign next to their hole says "China or Bust!" They got to China once, the one time they didn't try. They were promptly attacked by Chinese kindergarteners.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Petit}}'' episode "Quiero ser un niño chino"[[labelnote:*]]Roughly meaning "I want to be a Chinese boy".[[/labelnote]] is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, Petit tries to be a Chinese boy after he learns that Chinese kids do get to play while he has to go to sleep. He and his friends try various things to achieve the goal, and one of Petit's ideas was this.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
** This was one of [[MadScientist Doofenshmirtz's]] plots. He... [[RealityEnsues kinda forgot about that whole magma thing]]; fortunately for him, Agent P was there to SaveTheVillain.
** In another episode, Agent P uses a secret entrance that, instead of taking him to his lair, takes him all the way through the earth to Shanghai where he receives his instructions from Major Monogram.

* Not ''digging'', but the same basic idea: One episode of the ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'' AnimatedAdaptation featured a submarine diving (strictly vertically) deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper... until encountering a Chinese submarine coming from the opposite direction.
* An interesting example occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "An Elephant Never Suspects": The panda siblings Ming-Ting and Ting-A-Ling have built a dragon-shaped, peanut-powered digging machine built for the purpose of achieving exactly this. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as they're homesick Chinese pandas at an American zoo.
* In one "Minerva Mink" segment on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', a hunting dog quickly becomes smitten with Minerva. When he finds out she likes Chinese food, he digs all the way to China for it.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JacobTwoTwo'', the school's staff room has a tunnel to China.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Upon looking at a chasm in [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E2IntoTheBunker "Into the Bunker"]], Stan comments that he doesn't want his car to fall in China.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018'' episode, "Summer Penguin, P.I.", Animal tries to do this when he digs in the sandbox.
* The ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' episode, "Deep Trouble" features an ImagineSpot where Monty, having fallen down a mine shaft, continues to fall through the Earth until he in ends up in Australia.[[note]]''Thomas'' is a British television series, after all.[[/note]]
* Played with and subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'' episode "Rasslin' Rhapsody" where Granny tumbles the Crusher through the ring; it was believed that he passed through the center of the earth to China but he actually landed in a post-Soviet Union Europe country instead.
* Discussed in the ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace'' episode; "Queen of Chinatown". Joey mentions to Margaret that he and Dennis once tried to dig to China from [[CrankyNeighbor Mr. Wilson's]] backyard, but Mr. Wilson made them put back all the dirt.

* In ''LookingForYoghurt'' some kids dig from Japan to Brazil.

* Franchise/{{Superman}}, [[http://www.superdickery.com/superman-digs-a-hole-to-china/ evidently.]]

* [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Gyro Gearloose]] did at one point blast a tunnel through the Earth with a big laser drill, singeing the tail feathers of a tribal duck on the other side as the meter-wide laser shot out of the ground behind him. Donald Duck was the test pilot of a pod that was dropped into the hole, and he ended up going back and forth through the Earth like a pendulum a couple of times (upside down on the other side of course).

* ComicStrip/{{Calvin|AndHobbes}} tries to do this sometimes.
* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' comic he builds a perpetual tunneling machine (it's powered by dirt). Unfortunately [[PointyHairedBoss the boss]] accidentally turns it on and it tunnels right through the Earth ending up [[AssShove embedded]] into an Australian picnicker.
* InvokedTrope in a ''Comicstrip/{{Crankshaft}}'' storyline where one of Crankshaft's friends is running for mayor on the issue of potholes. Two separate election stunts involve showing a kangaroo and Chinese words supposedly coming through the potholes.
* ''ComicStrip/LucyAndSophieSayGoodbye'': In one strip, a workman tries to warn the two woman that they are standing above a stick of dynamite with a lit fuse. After the explosion goes off, the workman finds himself lying at the bottom of a hole being greeted by a polite Chinaman.

* In ''Film/MagicInTheWater'', Ashley and her father Jack start digging such a hole while playing on the beach, much to her brother [[Creator/JoshuaJackson Josh's]] scorn. Later in the movie, Hiro falls into the hole while running along the beach, and Josh walks out of the beach house just in time to see him climb out. Cut to Josh digging in the hole, expecting to find a tunnel to China (apparently not considering the possibility that the kid was ''already'' in town). [[spoiler:Later, Jack is seen digging in the hole, apparently expecting to find the kids - which kinda works since he ends up digging through to the sea monster Orky's cave, where Ashley Josh and Hiro have already discovered it. Since Jack was possessed by Orky earlier in the movie, it's likely this was why he was digging in that spot to begin with.]]

* Honorable mention to ''Star Wars Episode One: Film/ThePhantomMenace''. A hollow planet full of water? Sure, that works. The geologist player in ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' has a few theories on how it might work.

* ''Film/BattleBeneathTheEarth'', the Chinese tunnel to America to plant nuclear bombs. It's not ''intentionally'' funny.
* In the Creator/BusterKeaton short film ''Film/HardLuck,'' Buster goes off of a diving board at the end of the film and misses the pool, leaving a hole with no discernible bottom. An indeterminate amount of time later, he emerges in Chinese garb with a Chinese wife and their two small children.
* The 1980 comedy ''Film/SuperFuzz'' about a Miami police officer who gets superpowers ends with his making a DivingSave on his partner (Ernest Borgnine) who's falling from a balloon twenty feet up -- the two end up plunging into the Earth. As his {{Love Interest|s}} is mourning their demise, she suddenly receives a phone call from China, whereupon our two heroes are seen making the call surrounded by a horde of curious Chinese villagers.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsAdventureInWonderland'', no one digs a hole, but a brief scene shows that Australia is upside-down.

* At one point in ''[[WebVideo/{{Fred}} Fred: The Movie]]'', Fred digs a tunnel into Judy's yard and sees two Chinese kids, so he thinks that he dug to China.
-->'''Fred:''' OH MY GAMMIT I DUG ALL THE WAY TO CHINA! ''(goes back the way he came)'' AHHHHHHH!
* This happens to Eiji in Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider [[Series/KamenRiderOOO OOO]] & [[Series/KamenRiderDouble W]] feat. Skull: Movie War Core when after helping Double defeated Kamen rider Core deep within the Earth’s core ends up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where Chiyoko was spending her vacation there.
* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': The human characters seek to reach the center of the [[HollowWorld Hollow Earth]] with the help of Kong in search of a unique source of power. Kong and the team go through a tunnel starting in Antarctica and reach [[spoiler:the ancient throne of Kong's species]] at the earth's core. Godzilla, who is rampaging through Hong Kong [[spoiler:in search of Mechagodzilla]], senses this, ''blasts a hole to the earth's core with his [[BreathWeapon atomic breath]]'', and eggs Kong into jumping through the second hole to fight.

* ''Literature/ThursdayNext'': It's also the primary form of speedy transportation in the books, the two Gravitubes which go through the Earth to link London with Sydney and Tokyo with Washington DC. Smaller "Overmantle" trains run beneath the crust to more destinations. Note that this world does not have passenger airliners and indeed Thursday considers them impossible when the idea is raised.

* In ''Literature/GoodOmens'' the Them come to believe that the Ancient Masters of Tibet have a set of tunnels all over the world. It's also suggested that, because the Earth is hollow, it would make more sense to just dig to the centre and then dig up to wherever they wanted. They then try to replicate this and find that it takes much longer to reach the centre of the Earth than they thought. But Adam, with his reality-warping powers, believes in these tunnels through the Earth, and therefore they suddenly exist, complete with (very confused) Tibetans. And even more confused gardeners.

* While there are no stories about Myth/PaulBunyan himself digging all the way to China, a number of Bunyan yarns make mention of "The Year the Rain Came Up from China."

* The ''Magazine/WeeklyWorldNews'' once ran an article about China digging a hole to America to invade it. Similarly, The Sun ran a report saying that a group of Chinese miners dug their way to Nevada by accident and apologized, and the government kept the incident under wraps.

* Referenced in [[WorldShapes Flat Planet]] variants in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', some Ecksian ranchers complain that, with the water table running dry, if they dig their wells much deeper they'll give one of the elephants that support the Disc a nasty shock.
** Vimes, emerging from a very long elevator shaft (''Literature/TheFifthElephant'') into the candle-dotted caverns of a dwarf city, initially mistakes the lights for stars and muses that they've overshot their destination and penetrated the Disc's obverse side.
* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': When the Devil got chucked out of Heaven into the center of the Earth, his evil so disturbed nature itself that all the rocks and minerals from Jerusalem to the other side of the world emptied out into the Southern Hemisphere. Conveniently, this created a tunnel from Jerusalem to its antipode, Purgatory, a 24-hour journey that takes up most of ''Inferno''.

* In ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', Ron Obvious tries to be the first man to dig a tunnel from Godalming to Java. He doesn't progress very far. Well, what do you expect? He wasn't given a spade!
* In the ''Series/SesameStreet'' special ''Big Bird in China'', Oscar and Telly try to reach China by digging, and succeed. Big Bird, however, takes the plane.
* [[http://snltranscripts.jt.org/99/99tcenter.phtml This]] ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch, featuring an American man digging a hole to China running into a Chinese man played by Creator/JackieChan [[InvertedTrope trying to dig to America]], a Frenchman trying to dig to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean ("I have my reasons"), a Ghanian man digging to New Zealand, and an Ecuadorian man escaping prison by digging to Algeria. The American lampshades how unlikely it is for all the diggers to run into each other.
* ''Series/PushingDaisies'': As a child, Olive tried to dig through the earth to get to Arabia when her parents told her she couldn't have an Arabian stallion. Instead, she dug up a fossilized Triceratops, and a Saudi oil sheik traded her a horse for the skeleton.

* When the game "Push Over" was first played on ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', Bob Barker told the contestant that the number blocks that they had to push into a box would go to China.
* On one episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' Robin commented that, if a member of the Vancouver Canucks hockey team walked into the bar, "my panties would drop so fast there would be a hole in the floor halfway to China."

* Chauncey does this in an episode of ''Series/WonderShowzen''.
* In ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'', [[spoiler: The Blessing runs through the centre of the Earth connecting Shanghai, China and Buenos Aires, Argentina.]]
* At one point, Michael Scott references this trope in ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', appropriately enough, in the episode "China".
* In ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'', Amy McDougall's religiously pious father is appalled by Frank Barone's earthy profanity. He cannot bring himself to repeat the word "hell" and creates the euphemism "The Antipode of Heaven". Frank is stunned.
-->''The Antipode of Heaven? What kinda God-damned moon-man talk is that?''

* This happens to Eiji in Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider [[Series/KamenRiderOOO OOO]] & [[Series/KamenRiderDouble W]] feat. Skull: Movie War Core when after helping Double defeated Kamen rider Core deep within the Earth’s core ends up in Rio de Janeiro ,Brazil where Chiyoko was spending her vacation there.

* [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Gyro Gearloose]] did at one point carve a tunnel through the Earth with a laser drill, singeing the tail feathers of a tribal duck on the other side as the metres-wide laser shot out of the ground. Donald Duck was the test pilot of a pod that was dropped into the hole, and he ended up going back and forth through the Earth like a pendulum a couple of times (upside down on the other side of course).

** Lampshaded in one ("WesternAnimation/FourteenCarrotRabbit") where Bugs tricks Yosemite Sam into digging through a narrow portion of an outcrop of rock. Naturally, he starts falling, at which point he remarks "Great horny toadies... I musta dug straight through to Chiney..."

** Lampshaded in one ("WesternAnimation/14CarrotRabbit") where Bugs tricks Yosemite Sam into digging through a narrow portion of an outcrop of rock. Naturally, he starts falling, at which point he remarks "Great horny toadies... I musta dug straight through to Chiney..."

** In "Tweety and the Beanstalk" Sylvester the Cat was knocked clear through to China after getting sat on by a giant, and met up with a Chinese Tweety.

** Lampshaded in one where Bugs tricks Yosemite Sam into digging through a narrow portion of an outcrop of rock. Naturally, he starts falling, at which point he remarks "Great horny toadies... I musta dug straight through to Chiney..."

* Knorkator - Weg Nach Unten deals with someone trying to get away from it all by digging a hole and staying there. He ends up in Australia and mentions he has dug to far.

UK writers are more likely to end up in UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} and vice versa, and Japanese writers more likely in UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}. Other destinations are possible, as long as the target is far enough way. The tunnel is usually dead straight and under the RuleOfCool goes anywhere the plot desires. Wherever they end up, it will usually be ''conspicuously'' foreign with as many stereotyped visual cues on display as possible. In China, they often say that if you dig hard enough you will end up in UsefulNotes/{{The United States}}.

(Curious about where a tunnel would lead in real life? Please see our [[UsefulNotes/DiggingToChina Useful Note]].)

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zg-1xTGs_I this Bissell commercial]], to demonstrate how deep the machine was able to clean, they showed a cross-section shot of the earth as the machine cleaned deeper and deeper. It ended with a shot of a Chinese family as they watched in wonder as their carpet seemingly cleaned itself from underneath (complete with the caption "Somewhere in China").

%%* A children's book series (''possibly'', but unconfirmed, ''The Kids At the Polk Street School'') has a chapter where, as a side-note, one student is shown trying to dig a hole to China on the school playground and is up to his wrist. He says he was up to his elbow last week, but a member of the school staff filled in the hole, so he's having to start over.

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* In ''Magic In The Water'', Ashley and her father Jack start digging such a hole while playing on the beach, much to her brother [[Creator/JoshuaJackson Josh's]] scorn. Later in the movie, Hiro falls into the hole while running along the beach, and Josh walks out of the beach house just in time to see him climb out. Cut to Josh digging in the hole, expecting to find a tunnel to China (apparently not considering the possibility that the kid was ''already'' in town). [[spoiler:Later, Jack is seen digging in the hole, apparently expecting to find the kids - which kinda works since he ends up digging through to the sea monster Orky's cave, where Ashley Josh and Hiro have already discovered it. Since Jack was possessed by Orky earlier in the movie, it's likely this was why he was digging in that spot to begin with.]]

* ''Battle Beneath the Earth'', the Chinese tunnel to America to plant nuclear bombs. It's not ''intentionally'' funny.

* The 1988 New Zealand film ''The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey'' is about a team of copper miners in medieval England who dig through the earth and travel through a tunnel, surfacing in modern Auckland, New Zealand.

* [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Gyro Gearloose]] did at one point carve a tunnel through the Earth with a laser drill, singeing the tail feathers of a tribesman on the other end as the metres-wide laser shot out of the ground. Donald Duck was the test pilot of a pod that was dropped into the hole, and he ended up going back and forth through the Earth like a pendulum a couple of times (upside down on the other side of course).

* Parodied in ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' where Pig dug a hole to [[FictionalCountry "Kukistan"]]. Unfortunately the natives wanted to eat Pig for dinner. In the first strip characters comment to each other that Kukistan doesn't exist, but [[ExecutiveMeddling the editors felt that digging to China would offend their Asian readers]], so the strip was digitally altered. Fortunately, they note, this will surely make the originals valuable rarities for anyone who might happen to buy them.

* ''Fanfic/TheQueenOfHearts'': As a child one of Hans' brothers told him that you could dig from the Southern Isles (the equivalent of Denmark) to Australia. Being a fan of kangaroos, Hans tried to, but ended up getting stuck in a hole. His {{Big Brother Bull|y}}ies filled up the hole until it was to his armpits, before adults stopped them.

* ''Film/TheChinaSyndrome''... is about corruption in the management of a nuclear power station. However the title refers to a notion mentioned in the film that a nuclear incident in California could send molten reactor core products through the barriers below them and flow downwards through the floor of the containment building perhaps all the way to China. If one looks at China and California on a map, or if you just know ''how gravity works'', [[ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics one gets an idea of the level of scientific veracity in the notion]]. Not that it's meant to be taken literally.

* In ''Literature/GoodOmens'' the Them come to believe that the Ancient Masters of Tibet have a set of tunnels all over the world. It's also suggested that, because the Earth is hollow, it would make more sense to just dig to the centre and then dig up to wherever they wanted. They then try to replicate this, and find that it takes much longer to reach the centre of the Earth than they thought. But Adam, with his reality-warping powers, believes in these tunnels through the Earth, and therefore they suddenly exist, complete with (very confused) Tibetans. And even more confused gardeners.

* ''Literature/WhatAMess'', in one story, tries to dig a hole to Australia, because it's a very hot summer day and since the Cat-Next-Door has just told him that it's winter in Australia, he thinks a trip to Australia is just what he needs to cool down. Of course, What-a-Mess is a dog, [[DogsAreDumb and not a particularly bright one at that.]]

* On ''Series/TheAmandaShow'', Penelope digs a hole to China as a trap for the security guard so she can get close to Amanda. It works...sort of: the security guard (and later Penelope herself) fall through the hole and end up in the house of a very confused Chinese family. But for some reason, they end the fall by crashing through the ''ceiling'' rather than the floor.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "D & DD", Dexter's [[BlandNameProduct Monsters and Mazes]] character ("Hodo, the [[{{Hobbits}} Furry-Footed Burrower]]") digs a tunnel to escape a dragon, winds up in China... and is nearly eaten by an ''Asian-style'' dragon. [[note]]This might be a GeniusBonus joke for ''D&D'' nerds, since in the then-current edition, Asian dragons were much deadlier opponents than Western ones.[[/note]]

** Lampshaded in one where Bugs tricks Yosemite Sam into digging through a narrow portion off an outcrop of rock. Naturally, he starts falling, at which point he remarks "Great horny toadies... I musta dug straight through to Chiney..."

* Showed up as a gag in the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "For Your Ed Only". Jonny falls out of Ed's bubblegum balloon, and hits the ground so hard he ends up going through the Earth and ending up in China. This is immediately {{lampshade|Hanging}}d: "Wow, China! Just like in [[YouWatchTooMuchX the cartoons]]!" [[StatusQuoIsGod He's back in America at the end of the episode]] because Plank was "afraid of getting turned into chopsticks".

* Played with and subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'' episode "Rasslin' Rhapsody" where Granny tumbles the Crusher through the ring; it was believe that he passed through the center of the earth to China but he actually landed in a post-Soviet Union Europe country instead.

* At one point in ''[[WebVideo/{{Fred}} Fred: The Movie]]'', Fred digs a tunnel and promptly goes back the way he came when he sees two Chinese kids peering over him.

Expect it to be rock all the way through rather than magma, and for [[FastTunnelling the feat to be accomplished in a comically short time]], perhaps accompanied by a pneumatic drill sound effect. If the dig is fast enough, expect the camera to be upside down when the character resurfaces, righting itself when the character finishes falling upwards.

* In ''Film/TotalRecall2012'', a giant elevator/train running through the Earth (the Fall) is the standard mode of transit between Europe and Australia. Also the only one, as the rest of the planet has become a toxic wasteland.

** In ''Discworld/TheLastContinent'', some Ecksian ranchers complain that, with the water table running dry, if they dig their wells much deeper they'll give one of the elephants that support the Disc a nasty shock.
** Vimes, emerging from a very long elevator shaft (''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'') into the candle-dotted caverns of a dwarf city, initially mistakes the lights for stars and muses that they've overshot their destination and penetrated the Disc's obverse side.