A prison security guard is building a house of cards, but just as he finishes, he thumps the table with outrage at the prospect of escorting a great police detective, who was convicted of murdering his wife with little evidence other than his (slightly dubious) confession, to be executed. Hey You! What If.: In 'You Could Live On The Moon?', Zigi is building a house of cards to wile away the tedious 14 days of night when you can't go outside when it is demolished by a moonquake.The whole thing comes tumbling down when Banacek calls him, and Felix realises that he has built the house of cards over the top of the phone. Banacek: In 'Fly Me - If You Can Find Me', Felix is attempting to break the world record for the tallest house of cards.Riley as he attempts to squeeze past her. Alexia is building a house of cards, which gets demolished by Sgt. Pixelface: In 'Bored to Undeath', the characters are sitting around bored because no one has played the console for 48 hours.Later on Japp picks up the top card, revealing that it has been glued together.

A later episode subverts this, with Poirot building an intricate house of cards while on the phone to Inspector Japp, eventually the whole thing collapses.He knocks it down by slamming his fists on the table, and starts building it anew before Hastings triggers his 'Eureka!' Moment. In the episode based on the first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Poirot builds a house of cards to calm himself.In one episode, he builds a house of cards then causes it to collapse by breathing on it, presenting it as a metaphor for how a life can be drastically altered by a small interruption. Each episode of The Millionaire begins with the title character in his office, engaging in one of his many hobbies and describing how the hobby can be related to human nature and the ways people deal or fail to deal with unexpected changes.Father Ted, episode 'New Jack City', as one instance of a Running Gag where Ted rings Father Larry Duff and interrupts him in the middle of doing something that requires unbroken concentration.In a fade-out mistake, you can see Robert Reed pushing down on a pre-made section of the house and it bounces back into shape.Bad luck for the boys that Tiger runs through the living room when they're putting the finishing touches on. The Brady Bunch, episode ' 54-40 and Fight': The boys and the girls face off in a house-of-cards building contest to settle an argument.He then lights all the cards on fire for good measure. Unsurprisingly, Izaya himself is the one to destroy the structure by purposely flicking a pawn into it. It actually goes really well and he finishes it in around a minute. In the final season of Durarara!!, while preparing for his final fight with Shizuo, Izaya takes a bunch of tarot cards to make a card house.Yuuko comes back in and puts the last two cards on top of the lamp. They get her to stop, but then Yuuko gets up to go to the bathroom, and the door closing somehow knocks the lamp off the ceiling, crushing the card house. In Nichijou, Yuuko and Mio are about to finish a card house, but Mai (as usual) messes with them, by sticking a cat toy through the house and dropping her glasses on it.Yugi made one and eventually fell in the Toei Yu Gi Oh series.However, in a variant on the trope, he builds a huge structure of dice which collapses in slow motion when most of his team gets Death Noted. He specifically warns his coworkers about how pissed he'll be if they knock it over. Near's tarot card house in Death Note.

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