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* In ''TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', in Snowhead Temple, there's one area where you must fall for several in-game hours (if you aren't using the Inverted Song of Time, that is) as Deku Link -- just to get the last Stray Fairy of the area. Of course, it's worth it to get the Double Magic Meter.

-->--The ''[[MemeticMutation Mama Luigi]]'' episode from the [[WesternAnimation/SuperMarioBros cartoon spinoff of Super Mario World]].

-->--''SpyKids II''

* The TropeNamer, coming from the ''[[SuperMarioBrosSuperShow Super Mario World]]'' cartoon. In the episode "[[MemeticMutation Mama Luigi]]", Luigi explains to Yoshi that a Fire Sumo opened up a crack in the ground as it attacked, and Luigi allegedly fell into the resulting chasm "for hours". He then admits that it just seemed like hours, though, making it a possible subversion.
** He survived falling because he [[MemeticMutation "Found a MAAAAAAAGIC balloon!"]]
** Many of the ''SuperMarioBros.'' games feature levels in which Mario falls a long distance, and is able to steer himself through the air to grab rows of coins on his way down. A good example is level 5-2 from ''SuperMarioBros3'' or the Sunken Ghost Ship in ''SuperMarioWorld''.
*** The ''very first part'' of ''SuperMarioBros2'' has you falling from a door in the sky onto a hill in Subcon.
* The rabbit hole Alice tumbles down in ''AliceInWonderland'' is the likely TropeCodifier. This fall is so long that it gives her plenty of time to [[ContemplateOurNavels wonder about the ways of the world and talk to herself.]] One of the few examples which doesn't double as an OverlyLongGag.

* The early BugsBunny cartoon ''Heckling Hare'' had both Bugs and the canine antagonist accidentally plummet off a cliff, screaming hysterically and clutching each other as they fall for a [[OverlyLongGag ridiculously long time]]. Director TexAvery wanted to have them fall off yet another cliff after they survived the fall from the first one, but Leon Schlessinger [[ExecutiveMeddling cut Avery's ending]], which prompted Avery to leave Warner for MGM.
** A similar gag was done in ''Falling Hare'', with Bugs Bunny trapped in a plane which plummets down for a long time, with some hilarious takes of Bugs panicking and becoming sick to his stomach. It only stops just before hitting the ground because it runs out of gas.

* In the 3-D JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth movie, the characters fall, scream, stop screaming, realize, "WE'RE STILL FALLING!" and scream some more. In the end they land [[SoftWater in water.]]
* On ''TinyToonAdventures'', in the episode "Journey to the Center of Acme Acres", Plucky and Hampton fall down a crack in the ground when a huge earthquake hits Acme Acres. After a while, they start getting bored and hope they eventually hit something just to break the monotony. They eventually end up at the center of the Earth where they float because their gravity reaches an equilibrium.
--> '''Hamton''': Think we'll hit bottom soon?
--> '''Plucky''': I hope so, this is so boring. Getting splattered would be a nice change!
* In ''RetardedAnimalBabies'', Bunny takes a break from screaming during a leap to his death to look at the time.

* In ''TheFlightOfDragons'': "It seems like we've been falling for hours!" "Actually, it's been more like ten centuries!"
* Ozzie Smith falls into a seemingly-bottomless pit tourist attraction in the softball episode of ''TheSimpsons''. It doesn't stop him from snapping pictures on the way down.
** Also happens when Bart and Sideshow Bob fall off the Springfield Dam in "Brother from Another Series". The fall takes long enough for them to scream, take a long inhale, then keep screaming.
* Also, a Demetri Martin joke:
--> One time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down them for an hour and a half.
* In the '' {{Freakazoid}}!'' "Virtual Freak", this happens to Freakazoid and the Lobe.
-->'''Lobe:''' Freakazoid! Why is it taking us so long to fall?!
-->'''Freakazoid:''' [[RuleOfFunny 'Cause it's funny!]]
-->'''Lobe:''' No it's not, [[OverlyLongGag it's just stupid!]] [[ContinuityNod It's as dumb as that Handman episode!]]
* Astronauts in orbit are actually in a state of freefall for the entire duration of their mission - it's just that the smart guys at NASA have figured out a way to throw yourself at the Earth and miss for days at a time.
** Planets, moons, and satellites in orbit around stars. Stars flying through space. Anything flying through space.
* In ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', the Infinite Improbability drive changes a missile into a sperm whale two miles above the surface of a planet. It has about half a page of monologue to come to terms with its own existence, comprehend its situation, and come up with a name for the big round thing rushing up at it really fast before it learns, rather abruptly, that the ground does not wish to be friends with it, whereupon it becomes a rather messy canyon at ground zero.
* The trap-door pit in Ilpalazzo's headquarters in ''ExcelSaga'' is subject to this gag at one point. There's plenty of amusing background scenery during the fall.
** Usually it's a fairly short fall, ending in a splash. However, the first time, Excel spends a good two minutes lamenting her fate, and later we see Ilpalazzo hired Puchus to expand it. (He eventually uses it to launch Excel to America.)
* Done as a RunningGag in ''ProblemSleuth'', where the fall is accompanied by [[InteractiveFiction requested actions]] like "Fall in a silly/nervous/hardboiled manner."
* The second SpyKids movie. The fall was so long, [[BeyondTheImpossible they eventually got bored to tears.]]
-->'''Juni''': How long have we been falling?
-->'''Carmen''': I don't know. [[ShoePhone My watch doesn't tell time.]]
* In the [=~Robin McKinley~=] novel ''TheHeroAndTheCrown'', the protagonist climbs an insanely huge staircase, and then falls down it when during her battle with the BigBad, it's destroyed. The kicker is that it's way, way more than hours.
* Doable in most GrandTheftAuto games, provided that you use the invincibility cheatcode and have access to aircraft. And depending on where you land, sometimes doable ''without'' the aforementioned cheatcode.
* In {{The Wheel of Time}} while Skimming, one of the Aiel being transported falls off the platform everyone's on. The area in question is essentially an endless nothingness where one will fall forever without chance of rescue. Gulp.
* One of the multi-strip story arcs in ''CalvinAndHobbes'' had Calvin holding onto a balloon only to have it float away with him, high into the sky. When it pops, he falls for incredibly long time. At one point he looks down and expects to wake up from a dream at any moment, but it doesn't happen. Luckily he finds his transmogrification gun and saves himself with it.

* OlderThanDirt example: when [[ClassicalMythology Hephaestus]] sides with Zeus in an argument against Hera, the latter throwshim off Mount Olympus. He doesn't hit ground for a full day.
** [[ButtMonkey This seems to happen to Hephaestus a lot]]. When he was born his mother Hera was so [[TheGrotesque disgusted by his ugliness]] that she chucked the baby Hephaestus off the mountain. He fell nine days and nights and landed in the ocean.
* In one of the ''TeenGirlSquad'' cartoons, So-And-so falls into the school football team's "bottomless spirit pit". This prompts the observation that, "When you fall in a bottomless pit, you die of starvation." An EasterEgg at the end of the cartoon shows that So-and-So eventually gets bored of falling and turns to conversation with her [[ImaginaryFriend imaginary boyfriend]].
* An episode of ''{{Thundercats}}'' features the Four-Day Drop, a meteoric crater allegedly so deep it takes four days to hit bottom if you fall in.
* ''Kevin Matchstick'' is suspended over a bottomless pit while being interrogated by the ''Umbra Sprite'' in ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mage_(comics) The Hero Discovered]]''. In a horrific variant of this trope, the ''Umbra Sprite'' describes a cat he tossed down the pit whose cries he could hear echoing back up for weeks.
* In the ''{{Tunnels}}'' series, if you fall into [[BottomlessPit the Pore]], you fall for ''days''. What eventually stops you is not any sort of bottom, but the gradual loss of gravity. (The ''Tunnels'' series has a rather strained relationship with [[GravityIsAHarshMistress inertia]]... don't think about it too hard).
* In the French stop-motion film ''A Town Called Panic'', the main characters ride a falling rock for so long that they eventually lapse into a card game on top of it.
* One of the Monkey Island games (the third?) had a scene where Guybrush is falling and falling and falling until you remember that you picked up an umbrella at some point earlier. You have plenty of time to open your inventory and select it, allowing him to drift gently to the ground.

* In ''HouseOfLeaves'', Navidson is stuck at the bottom of the Grand Staircase after it suddenly gets a '''lot''' longer, and hears a coin drop. He realizes it must have been dropped by Tom right after the Staircase stopped expanding, over fifty minutes ago. The book explicitly notes that this makes the shaft of the Staircase longer than the diameter of the Earth. Considering how [[AlienGeometries fucked-up the geometry of the house is]], it makes perfect sense.
* In the ''RockosModernLife'' episode "Wallaby on Wheels", Heffer falls down the O-Town Bottomless Pit at the end, taking a breath mid-scream before the IrisOut.

* In ''HouseOfLeaves'', Navidson is stuck at the bottom of the Grand Staircase after it suddenly gets a '''lot''' longer, and hears a coin drop. He realizes it must have been dropped by Tom right after the Staircase stopped expanding, over fifty minutes ago. The book explicitly notes that this makes the shaft of the Staircase longer than the diameter of the Earth. Considering how [[AlienGeometries fucked-up the geometry of the house is]], it makes perfect sense.

* [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth "We're STILL falling!"]]

* OlderThanDirt example: when [[ClassicalMythology Hephestus]] sides with Zeus in an argument against Hera, the latter throws him off Mount Olympus. He doesn't hit ground for a full day.

* In ''SonicTheHedgehog2'', during the Metropolis Zone there's a certain part that turns out to be a vertical WrapAround, leading to instances of this trope until the player finds a way out of it.

* [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth "We're STILL falling!"]]

* The LemonDemon song "[[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/falling I've Got Some Falling To Do]]" deals with a man who falls off an airplane and finds himself with enough time to get a phone call from Death, get bored, think of an interesting way for himself to die and ponder the nature of perpetual motion. In the end, he's caught and rescued by a giant squid... event though he would have rather just kept on falling.

* [[Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth "We're STILL falling!"]]

* [[Film/JourneyToTheCenterOtTheEarth "We're STILL falling!"]]

* ''{{BanjoTooie}}'' features an elevator to move between the five floors of [[EternalEngine Grunty Industries]], only there's no elevator and you have to climb a rope to get to the top. Without any elevator to get in your way, however, you can jump off from the top and fall for such a long time that Banjo's falling yell ends before you're even halfway to the bottom. The fall is so long that you will die even with full health (unless you have the fallproof cheat active).

* One of the Monkey Island games (the third?) had a scene where Guybrush is falling and falling and falling until you remember that you picked up an umbrella at some point earlier. You have plenty of time to open your inventory and select it, allowing him to drift gently to the ground.

* In the French stop-motion film ''A Town Called Panic'', the main characters ride a falling rock for so long that they eventually lapse into a card game on top of it.

-->'''Judi''': How long have we been falling?

* In the ''{{Tunnels}}'' series, if you fall into [[BottomlessPit the Pore]], you fall for ''days''. What eventually stops you is not any sort of bottom, but the gradual loss of gravity. (The ''Tunnels'' series has a rather strained relationship with [[GravityIsAHarshMistress inertia]]... don't think about it too hard).

-->--The ''[[MemeticMutation Mama Luigi]]'' episode from the [[SuperMarioBros cartoon spinoff of Super Mario World]].

* In the ''{{Tunnels}}'' series, if you fall into [[BottomlessPit the Pore]], you fall for ''days''. What eventually stops you is not any sort of bottom, but the gradual loss of gravity. (The ''Tunnels'' series has a rather strained relationship with [[GravityIsAHarshMistress inertia]]... don't think about it too hard).
* Near the beginning of ''TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', two characters fall into Narnia. They fall long enough for one of them to make a couch of some clouds and take a nap on the way down.

Just a little bit of trivia; [[http://www.physicscentral.com/poster-earth.cfm according to this article]] it would actually take you 42 minutes (ie. [[CaptainObvious less than a single hour]] to fall through a hole drilled through the center of the Earth, and that's assuming you aren't vaporized by the super-heated core.

Just a little bit of trivia; [[http://www.physicscentral.com/poster-earth.cfm according to this article]] it would actually take you 42 minutes to fall through a hole drilled through the center of the Earth, and that's assuming you aren't vaporized by the super-heated core.

* The TropeNamer, coming from the ''[[SuperMarioBrosSuperShow Super Mario World]]'' cartoon. In the episode "[[MemeticMutation Mama Luigi]]", Luigi explains to Yoshi that a Sumo Brother opened up a crack in the ground as it attacked, and Luigi allegedly fell into the resulting chasm "for hours". He then admits that it just seemed like hours, though, making it a possible subversion.

-->--The ''Mama Luigi'' episode from the [[SuperMarioBros cartoon spinoff of Super Mario World]].

-->--The ''MamaLuigi'' episode from the [[SuperMarioBros cartoon spinoff of Super Mario World]].

-->'''Bill''': Dude, this is a totally deep hole.
-->'''Ted''': Yeah... now what?
-->'''Bill''': I don't know.
-->'''Both''': *long pause*...AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
---> ''BillAndTedsBogusJourney''