History Main / FunnyTerrainCrossSection

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' uses this as an EasterEgg and achievements screen. If one were to scroll down far enough, they would not only see references to other games Pop Cap Entertainment made (Like [=BeJeweled=] and VideoGame/{{Peggle}}), but it will eventually culminate in an upside-down picture of [[DiggingToChina zombies in China]].

** In the FlashForward episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E19LisasWedding Lisa's Wedding]]", after Ms. Hoover comments that Martin Prince perished in a science fair explosion, a camera pan beneath the school shows first a miner's skeleton with a missing leg, then a treasure chest, then the miner's other leg, and finally a cavern where Martin, [[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera wearing a white half mask and sitting at a pipe organ]], comments "not quite perished, my lady love, although some days I wish I had".

We all know that nature abhors a vacuum, and artists abhor large empty spaces on their canvas. That's why in fiction, the underground is filled with plenty of amusing things. We often see a lateral cross-section of a terrain (mostly in drawn works) which has all kind of fossils (either a StockFemurBone, a skull or a fully articulated skeleton), aliens, coffins, gemstones (almost always with AllNaturalGemPolish), treasures or crazy objects scattered in [[RuleOfFunny for the sake of fun]]. Sometimes, this trope will be applied to the sections inbetween floors or walls of a building instead. Somewhat related to FunnyBackgroundEvent. Compare with FunnyXRay.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': A variant of the [[http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/lists/floorboards floorboard gags,]] where a pan moving between floors shows strange or worrying things under the Simpsons' floorboards, focuses on weird things shown in terrain cross-sections.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E13RadioBart Radio Bart]]", when the townspeople are sinking a vertical shaft to rescue Bart after he's trapped in a well, the soil around the shaft is shown to contain an articulated ''Triceratops'' skeleton, a chest of PirateBooty and the skeleton of a Rigellian alien still in its FlyingSaucer... all of which the shaft turns aside just in time to miss.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E16BartVsAustralia Bart vs. Australia]]", a pan through the Earth from America to Australia shows a cluster of coffins, one evidently containing someone who was BuriedAlive and died while trying to tunnel out, then three coffins much further down containing the skeletons of two dinosaurs and a pterosaur, then the god Vishnu at the Earth's core operating some high-tech controls, then wreckage from the Skylab space station, debris from which was scattered over western Australia, before breaching the surface on the other side of the globe.

We all know that nature abhors a vacuum, and artists abhor large empty spaces on their canvas. That's why in fiction, the underground is filled with crazy stuff. We often see a lateral cross-section of a terrain (mostly in drawn works) which has all kind of fossils (either a StockFemurBone or fully articulated skeletons), aliens, treasures or crazy objects scattered in [[RuleOfFunny for the sake of fun]]. Sometimes, this trope will be applied to the sections inbetween floors or walls of a building instead. Somewhat related to FunnyBackgroundEvent. Compare with FunnyXRay.

* Any underground cross-section in ''Comicbook/TheBeano'' or ''Comicbook/TheDandy'' will feature a couple of stock femurs and maybe a tin can. And if it's by Tom Patterson, probably a skull, some form of CivilisedAnimal burrowing rodent and a dinosaur skeleton.