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-->-- '''Walter''', ''Film/TheMoneyPit''

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-->-- '''Walter''', '''Walter Fielding''', ''Film/TheMoneyPit''
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* In China, there is the term "Tofu-dreg project" (豆腐渣工程), also known as "Tofu Buildings", which refers to buildings that are so poorly constructed (as a result of corruption and many corners cut so that only cheap materials are bought, not helped at all by rampant growth of urbanization) that walls can easily by dug with bare hands, and as well as a ''much'' shorter building lifespan.
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* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' this is Harrenhal, an enormous castle that upon completion was almost immediately wrecked by dragon fire and has been dragging everyone who owns it into ruin ever since. On top of its melted main tower, centuries of disrepair, and rumored curse, it's simply too big to maintain properly with the resources of the lands it now rules. The only character to avoid misfortune from being Lord of Harrenhal (so far) is Littlefinger, who didn't go near the place and just used the title for leverage.
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'''Millhouse:''' [[ExactWords I was watching!]]] I saw the whole thing! First it started fallin' over, then it fell over!\\

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'''Millhouse:''' [[ExactWords I was watching!]]] WAS watching.]] I saw the whole thing! First it started fallin' over, then it fell over!\\
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---> '''Bart:''' [''after seeing the collapsed factory''] Aw, geez! Millhouse, how could you let this happen? You were supposed to be the night watchman!\\
'''Millhouse:''' [[ExactWords I was watching!]]] I saw the whole thing! First it started fallin' over, then it fell over!\\
'''Bart:''' Wow. I wonder where all the rats are gonna go.\\
[''cue a '''massive''' stampede of rats, which run from the factory's rubble, across the street and into Moe's Tavern.'']\\
'''Moe:''' Okay, everybody tuck your pants into your socks!
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* ''Webcomic/NineToNine'': [[https://www.tigerknight.com/99/2019-09-22 The affordable house Tor and Andrea bought.]] The place is picturesque, but the building is falling apart, yet is too sturdy to quickly demolish. Jan [[https://www.tigerknight.com/99/2019-09-29 describes]] it in the style of VeryFalseAdvertising he encountered earlier:
-->Cozy lake-front cabin, hardwood floors, 1 bed 1 bath, [[Videogame/{{Minecraft}} creeper]] damaged.
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* "Room For Improvement" by Music/TheStupendium is about a disreputable handyman who will ''turn'' your house into this when he's done with it through a combination of incompetence and intentional destruction.

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* "Room For Improvement" by Music/TheStupendium is about a [[CrookedContractor disreputable handyman handyman]] who will ''turn'' your house into this when he's done with it through a combination of incompetence and intentional destruction.
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* "Room For Improvement" by Music/TheStupendium is about a disreputable handyman who will ''turn'' your house into this when he's done with it through a combination of incompetence and intentional destruction.
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%%* Almost every form of post-war shelter qualifies in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', naturally.

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%%* * Almost every form of post-war shelter qualifies in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', naturally.naturally. They are all barely standing shacks that have been affected by a hundred-plus years of nuclear fallout, looting, and no maintenance.
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* Some of the houses fixed in ''Series/HolmesOnHomes''.
* ''Series/TheLeftovers'': The house Nora purchases for three million dollars in season two turns out to be this.

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* %%* Some of the houses fixed in ''Series/HolmesOnHomes''.
* %%* ''Series/TheLeftovers'': The house Nora purchases for three million dollars in season two turns out to be this.



* Almost every form of post-war shelter qualifies in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', naturally.

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* %%* Almost every form of post-war shelter qualifies in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', naturally.
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* ''VideoGame/CragneManor'': The available houses in the shady, horrifying town of Backwater, as detailed in a real estate pamphlet, have such upsides as "Concrete-sealed basement, hardly any muttering!" and "Entire upstairs still mostly above water!"
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* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': There is a sketch where a lazy redneck is reciting a poem called "Life Sure Gets Tee-jus, Don't It?" Apparently unwilling or unable to work, he was poor to the point where he was out of food, had no presentable clothes, and his house was in terrible disrepair. In his own words: "Tin[[note]] The house on the set didn't actually have a tin roof at all, just a wooden one that looked like it was badly put together... make of that what you will.[[/note]] roof leaks, chimney leans..." His house [[UpToEleven literally falls apart]] at the end of the sketch.

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* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': There is a sketch where a lazy redneck is reciting a poem called "Life Sure Gets Tee-jus, Don't It?" Apparently unwilling or unable to work, he was poor to the point where he was out of food, had no presentable clothes, and his house was in terrible disrepair. In his own words: "Tin[[note]] The house on the set didn't actually have a tin roof at all, just a wooden one that looked like it was badly put together... make of that what you will.[[/note]] roof leaks, chimney leans..." His house [[UpToEleven literally falls apart]] apart at the end of the sketch.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Understatement}} It's a bit of a fixer-upper.]]]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Understatement}} It's a bit of a fixer-upper.]]]].]]]]
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* In the memoir ''Literature/TheGlassCastle'' the Walls family lives for a time in an extremely decrepit house, with rotting stairs, chipped paint, and faulty wiring.
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* Button House in the BBC series ''Series/{{Ghosts}}'' and Woodstone Manor in [[Series/GhostsUS the American remake]] are both rather dilapidated and severely haunted.

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* Button House in the BBC series ''Series/{{Ghosts}}'' ''Series/GhostsUK'' and Woodstone Manor in [[Series/GhostsUS the American remake]] are both rather dilapidated and severely haunted.
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* WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} tries to build his own house in the short film "Home Made Home." Through a variety of [[EpicFail the usual mishaps]], the finished product becomes this by virtue of {{Bizarrchitecture}} and collapsing ''during the housewarming party''.

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* WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} tries to build his own house in the short film "Home Made Home." Through a variety of [[EpicFail [[DoomItYourself the usual mishaps]], the finished product becomes this by virtue of {{Bizarrchitecture}} and collapsing ''during the housewarming party''.
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* In ''Film/AngelsWithDirtyFaces'', Rocky's apartment in the "old parish" is an old, rotten room. He tries to talk it up, but in the middle of talking, he sits on the bed and it collapses under him.
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* Almost every form of post-war shelter qualifies in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', naturally.
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* You can buy one of these in ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}''. It isn't until after the purchase that you'll be able to see that it's one due to missing a wall.
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* Button House in the BBC series ''Series/{{Ghosts}}'' and Woodstone Manor in [[Series/GhostsUS the American remake]] are both rather dilapidated and severely haunted.
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* ''VideoGame/BadMojo'' is set within ''Eddie's On the Waterfront'', a run-down San Francisco bar with an apartment overhead. When [[PlayerCharacter Roger Samms]] has his soul made into a cockroach by a [[OrphansPlotTrinket mysterious locket]], the bar's infrastructure becomes several times more dangerous. [[spoiler: At one point, Roger even has to ''disable the pilot light'' on a gas stove to cross an obstacle, which eventually leads to the bar [[StuffBlowingUp exploding]] when the water heater ignites.]]
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* ''VideoGame/BadMojo'' is set within Eddie's On the Waterfront, a run-down San Francisco bar with an apartment overhead. When [[PlayerCharacter Roger Samms]] has his soul made into a cockroach by a [[OrphansPlotTrinket mysterious locket]], the bar's infrastructure becomes several times more dangerous. [[spoiler: At one point, Roger even has to ''disable the pilot light'' on a gas stove to cross an obstacle, which eventually leads to the bar [[StuffBlowingUp exploding]] when the water heater ignites.]]

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* ''VideoGame/BadMojo'' is set within Eddie's ''Eddie's On the Waterfront, Waterfront'', a run-down San Francisco bar with an apartment overhead. When [[PlayerCharacter Roger Samms]] has his soul made into a cockroach by a [[OrphansPlotTrinket mysterious locket]], the bar's infrastructure becomes several times more dangerous. [[spoiler: At one point, Roger even has to ''disable the pilot light'' on a gas stove to cross an obstacle, which eventually leads to the bar [[StuffBlowingUp exploding]] when the water heater ignites.]]
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* ''VideoGame/BadMojo'' is set within Eddie's On the Waterfront, a run-down San Francisco bar with an apartment overhead. When [[Player Character Roger Samms]] has his soul made into a cockroach by a [[OrphansPlotTrinket mysterious locket]], the bar's infrastructure becomes several times more dangerous. [[spoiler: At one point, Roger even has to ''disable the pilot light'' on a gas stove to cross an obstacle, which eventually leads to the bar [[StuffBlowingUp exploding]] when the water heater ignites.]]

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* ''VideoGame/BadMojo'' is set within Eddie's On the Waterfront, a run-down San Francisco bar with an apartment overhead. When [[Player Character [[PlayerCharacter Roger Samms]] has his soul made into a cockroach by a [[OrphansPlotTrinket mysterious locket]], the bar's infrastructure becomes several times more dangerous. [[spoiler: At one point, Roger even has to ''disable the pilot light'' on a gas stove to cross an obstacle, which eventually leads to the bar [[StuffBlowingUp exploding]] when the water heater ignites.]]
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* ''VideoGame/BadMojo'' is set within Eddie's On the Waterfront, a run-down San Francisco bar with an apartment overhead. When [[Player Character Roger Samms]] has his soul made into a cockroach by a [[OrphansPlotTrinket mysterious locket]], the bar's infrastructure becomes several times more dangerous. [[spoiler: At one point, Roger even has to ''disable the pilot light'' on a gas stove to cross an obstacle, which eventually leads to the bar [[StuffBlowingUp exploding]] when the water heater ignites.]]
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*WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} tries to build his own house in the short film "Home Made Home." Through a variety of [[EpicFail the usual mishaps]], the finished product becomes this by virtue of {{Bizarrchitecture}} and collapsing ''during the housewarming party''.
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* ''Film/AreWeThereYet'''s sequel film, ''Are We Done Yet?'', is about the family moving into a new house and discovering it has numerous problems that need fixing and getting increasingly frustrated as they discover more problems. This is foreshadowed when their new neighbors come by to visit them when they first move in but refuse to step inside.
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* ''Literature/InCryptid'': The Covenant bought the Parrish Place for Thomas Price to live in when they sent him to Buckley. They hadn't had it inspected beforehand, and when Thomas gets there it's falling apart. He spends much of his time repairing and redecorating. After he gets TrappedInAnotherWorld, his wife Alice retains ownership of the house and stays in it when she's not in AnotherDimension looking for him, but it's still in terrible shape. Their granddaughter Verity and her boyfriend Dominic spend a night there, with Verity explaining that despite its reputation as the home of the mad murderer Abraham Parrish, it's not haunted (her own ghost HonoraryAunt can vouch for that).
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* ''VideoGame/HouseFlipper'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as you might infer from the title]], has countless examples for the player to [[AnInteriorDesignerIsYou renovate however they like]] and [[AnEntrepeneurIsYou resell for a profit.]]

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* ''VideoGame/HouseFlipper'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as you might infer from the title]], has countless examples for the player to [[AnInteriorDesignerIsYou renovate however they like]] and [[AnEntrepeneurIsYou [[AnEntrepreneurIsYou resell for a profit.]]
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* ''VideoGame/HouseFlipper'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as you might infer from the title]], has countless examples for the player to [[AnInteriorDesignerIsYou renovate however they like]] and [[AnEntrepeneurIsYou resell for a profit.]]

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