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Digging to China
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Since the Earth is round, characters who dig a hole right through Earth end up in another country. Traditionally, they end up in China. note During a significant part of history, China was the hardest place to reach for Western cultures, making it an easy choice for an exotic endpoint. Expect it to be rock all the way through rather than magma, and for 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. Also, it will often be the same time in both China and the country digging to it. UK writers are more likely to end up in Australia and vice versa, Russian writers are more likely to end up in Argentina or a random Pacific island, and Japanese writers are more likely in Brazil. Other destinations are possible, as long as the target is far enough away. The tunnel is usually dead straight and under the Rule of Cool 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 the United States. Notably, this trope does actually have a grain of truth in it: China is one of the few major population centers in the world that includes multiple points on land directly on the opposite side of the Earth from other points on land (most points on land are directly opposite points under the ocean). None of those points are in the United States, however: most of them are in the Patagonia region of South America, which encompasses most of Chile and Argentina. If someone is digging through the Earth specifically to hit the core, see Planetary Core Manipulation. (Curious about where a tunnel would lead in real life? Please see our Analysis page.) |
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Thursday Next: 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. | |
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While not on Earth, this is pretty much the entire reason Mario gets a drill as an item in Super Mario Galaxy 2, to go straight down through the top of planets and out the other side. | |
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At one point in Fred: The Movie, Fred digs a tunnel into Judy's yard and sees two Chinese kids, so he thinks that he dug to China. | |
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From Great Expectations: "Without remarking that man-traps were not among the amenities of life, I said I supposed he was very skilful? 'Deep,' said Wemmick, 'as Australia.' Pointing with his pen at the office floor, to express that Australia was understood, for the purposes of the figure, to be symmetrically on the opposite spot of the globe." | |
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Sparkle Friends, a cartoon from New Zealand, had them dig to Japan, funnily enough. You'd think they would choose somewhere that wasn't in the same hemisphere... (Does this even count as "western" animation?) | |
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The Simpsons: Referenced when Homer accidentally drops a jug full of pennies into the ground: In another episode, Bart's digging a deep hole in the backyard for no apparent reason is actually being monitored by Chinese spy satellites. This turns out to be a "Shaggy Dog" Story being told by Homer about how "eventually, I became King of the Morlocks." In the movie, when the Simpsons' house collapses, Chief Wiggum says they're China's problem now. |
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Stephanie from Full House tells Michelle to do this as a joke when she asks her how to get to Japan. Michelle, being young and naive, actually tries to do it. | |
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The Thomas & Friends episode, "Deep Trouble" features an Imagine Spot 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. | |
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In Guild Wars Factions, you meet a Dredge who tells you that the Dredge came to Cantha from Tyria "by digging a tunnel to the other side of the world." For added fun, Tyria is a Medieval European Fantasy setting and Cantha the Far East equivalent. | |
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Looney Tunes, though the hole is generally created by the character falling, the character getting smashed into the ground so hard he ends up on the other side. In "War and Pieces," Wile E. Coyote's rocket does a u-turn on a cliff face, smashes into the ground and burrows through the Earth to China, where he meets a Chinese Road Runner (identical to the American one, but wearing a stereotypical Chinese coolie hat and geta). 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 "14 Carrot Rabbit", 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..." |
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Honorable mention to Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace. A hollow planet full of water? Sure, that works. The geologist player in Darths & Droids has a few theories on how it might work. | |
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The subject of the Hey You! What If... episode "You Could Dig Through The Earth?", which demonstrates all of the problems in attempting to do this. | |
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Discussed in the Dennis the Menace episode; "Queen of Chinatown". Joey mentions to Margaret that he and Dennis once tried to dig to China from Mr. Wilson's backyard, but Mr. Wilson made them put back all the dirt. | |
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Supergirl: In Action Comics #253, Kara bores a hole from a farm in midwest America to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy, digging swift enough that frictional heat fuses the side smooth and prevents the tunnel from collapsing. In Action Comics #267, Supergirl digs a tunnel from North America to the Pacific, being careful to not dig too deep and encounter magma. "Supergirl's Three Super Girl-Friends": Kara digs a tunnel from Metropolis to England to find some old relics. |
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In The Dandy comic, Blinky once managed to dig all the way to Australia. | |
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Injustice: Gods Among Us: Doomsday's supermove has him repeatedly punch his opponent through the ground to the other side of the world... ending up in the middle of the ocean and not China. Then he does it back to the other side. | |
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This happened in the Darkwing Duck episode "Kung Fooled", where the Ratcatcher rode into the Earth and brought Darkwing, Gosalyn and Launchpad to China. | |
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Vimes, emerging from a very long elevator shaft (The Fifth Elephant) 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. | |
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Paranoia: In sample adventure "Into the Great Outdoors", if the PC's got too close to an interesting looking mound on the edge of the map, they faced a Hopeless Boss Fight against a Chinese communist Zerg Rush. | |
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In The Dominator War, Mon-El, recently freed from the Phantom Zone, goes through the earth to get from East Coast North America to Japan. Supergirl questions this and Mon-El explained that this was the first time in 1,000 years he had a physical form, and actually wanted to feel the rock he was plowing through. | |
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The Divine Comedy: 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. | |
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In Jacob Two-Two, the school's staff room has a tunnel to China. | |
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In The Last Continent, 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. | |
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In one Dilbert comic he builds a perpetual tunneling machine (it's powered by dirt). Unfortunately the boss accidentally turns it on and it tunnels right through the Earth ending up embedded into an Australian picnicker. | |
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Lucy And Sophie Say Goodbye: 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. | |
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Calvin tries to do this sometimes. | |
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Excel♡Saga: Lord Il Palazzo sent Excel and Hyatt through the Earth from Japan to America, during which they actually did pass through the center of the Earth. | |
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What-a-Mess, 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, and not a particularly bright one at that. | |
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In Total Recall (2012), a giant gravity train running through the Earth (the Fall) is the only mode of transit between Europe and Australia, as the rest of the planet has become a toxic wasteland. | |
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In one "Minerva Mink" segment on 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. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: In "Pranksters", Heffer sets up a rocket to prank "Granny Rocko", whom he thinks is actually Rocko playing a prank on him. But when Rocko comes in, Heffer is super embarrassed and ends up tying himself to the rocket. At one point, he goes through the earth's crust and ends up in China. (Though for some reason, bagpipes are heard playing "Scotland the Brave".) | |
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In the Sesame Street special Big Bird in China, Oscar and Telly try to reach China by digging, and succeed. Big Bird, however, takes the plane. | |
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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 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). 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. | |
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Discworld author A.A. Pessimal speculated that on a flat world, all the places with a name like "That Place Where The Sun Doth Not Shine" are linked by a sort of portal network. Thus, in Gap Year Adventures, a Dwarf who falls into the geological anomaly in Slice, Lancre, called "The Place Where The Sun Does Not Shine" re-emerges in En-El-Sams-Le-Raina in Klatch (also "the Place Where The Sun Shines not" in Klatchian). | |
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One episode of Mortadelo y Filemón contains a Running Gag where the two titular characters repeatedly drop onto a traffic light from great height, driving it deeper and deeper into the ground with each landing. The final iteration shows the traffic light's base sticking out of the ground in China. | |
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Hayate the Combat Butler, Isumi believes that the subway runs underground from Japan to Rio de Janeiro. | |
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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. | |
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The 1980 comedy Super Fuzz about a Miami police officer who gets superpowers ends with his making a Diving Save 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 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. | |
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There was a Popeye cartoon based on the Red Shoes where Olive mentions that, if she doesn't stop dancing, she's going to dig herself to China, which she does in the next scene we see her in. | |
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The Donald Duck/Chip 'n Dale 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 the "applecore" joke on Donald. | |
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Land of Oz: Book 8 (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. | |
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"Supergirl's Three Super Girl-Friends": Kara digs a tunnel from Metropolis to England to find some old relics. | |
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Nick And Lever: Chapter 70 has Nick and Lever digging to Brazil from Japan as a way to get a free vacation. | |
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In an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun, Dick and Harry fall into a big hole. At one point, Dick declares that he's going to try to escape by digging to China. | |
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When the game "Push Over" was first played on The Price Is Right, Bob Barker told the contestant that the number blocks that they had to push into a box would go to China. | |
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In Everybody Loves Raymond, 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. | |
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In "War and Pieces," Wile E. Coyote's rocket does a u-turn on a cliff face, smashes into the ground and burrows through the Earth to China, where he meets a Chinese Road Runner (identical to the American one, but wearing a stereotypical Chinese coolie hat and geta). | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: in "Journey through the center of the Earth", Gyro Gearloose blasted 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). | |
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In Baby Blues, Wanda is talking to Melinda while Rodney and Megan are digging. When she asks what they're doing, they say, what else, "We're digging to China!" Except they hit a gas pipe and when they went inside, Melinda threw a cigarette into the hole. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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During one part in Elite Beat Agents, a broke Oil Baron trying to regain his fortune digs through the earth... and sells his hole to make into a transplanetary railway. | |
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Doraemon: One chapter has Doraemon and Nobita boarding a drill beneath the Earth. They do not actually want to cross all the way, but the drill experiences a malfunction and does not stop until it runs out of fuel. Fortunately, it is heat resistant. Unusually, they end up at a ruined pre-Columbian temple, instead of Brazil. | |
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Arthur: Arthur's friends' summer project was to dig all the way to the center of the Earth. They never succeeded because summer ended. | |
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In another episode, Bart's digging a deep hole in the backyard for no apparent reason is actually being monitored by Chinese spy satellites. This turns out to be a "Shaggy Dog" Story being told by Homer about how "eventually, I became King of the Morlocks." | |
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Phineas and Ferb This was one of Doofenshmirtz's plots. He... kinda forgot about that whole magma thing; fortunately for him, Agent P was there to Save the Villain. In "Norm Unleashed", 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, who was only there because he wanted the best noodles in China. Even when he gets there, Monogram informs him he doesn't know what Doof is up to because his phone doesn't have international coverage. |
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: Our heroes are thrown into a whirlpool in Mount Etna and fall through the center of the Earth, emerging upside-down in the south seas. Of course, only a complete skeptic would disbelieve such a thing. | |
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In the Lucky Luke book The 20th Cavalry the besieged soldiers dig an escape tunnel. Suddenly, a soldier runs out of the tunnel screaming "We've dug too far!" He is followed by the Chinese launderer who assures the soldier that it's just him. | |
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In the 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. | |
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At one point, Michael Scott references this trope in The Office (US), appropriately enough, in the episode "China". | |
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Kirby & the Amazing Mirror: The "Crackity Hack" sub-game revolves around a Brick Break competition where a strong enough chop creates a crack in the ground. Getting the highest possible score makes the crack go all the way to the other end of Pop Star, opening a fissure on the upside-down other end of the planet. In Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, the minigame returns; this time, a group of Waddle Dees are vacationing on the other side and get startled by the waterspout that the fissure creates. | |
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In one episode of I Am Weasel, 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. | |
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The Weekly World News 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. | |
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Superman: In Superman 1939 #205 "The Man Who Destroyed Krypton", Black Zero intend to annihilate Earth using an anti-matter missile. Superman cannot risk to manipulate it, so he digs a wide tunnel through Earth so that the missile goes through the planet without touching it. In The Dominator War, Mon-El, recently freed from the Phantom Zone, goes through the earth to get from East Coast North America to Japan. Supergirl questions this and Mon-El explained that this was the first time in 1,000 years he had a physical form, and actually wanted to feel the rock he was plowing through. |
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In one episode of Pani Poni Dash!, the characters did travel through the Earth under mysterious circumstances, and wound up in Brazil (during, you guessed it, Carnivale). | |
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The Diggers in 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. | |
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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. | |
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This happens to Eiji in Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & 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. | |
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In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, when Alice falls down the rabbit hole, she speculates that it will go all the way to the antipodes: Australia, perhaps, or possibly New Zealand. The Animated Adaptation by Disney even has this; in which she thinks that she'd come out the other side where people walk upside down. | |
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In Good Omens 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. | |
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Toon Sandwich: In the trailer parody of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Dr. Strange drops Spiderman into a portal somewhere in New York... and spits him out in Shanghai. Lampshaded by Spidey. "That's one heck of a long fall!" | |
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In Questionable Content, Faye once threatened to drink Steve so far under the table he'd wind up in an AA meeting in China. And again, where Faye alludes to Marten digging himself so deep that people in China would get to observe his foot-in-mouth stammering. | |
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In one episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog, 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. | |
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The Queen of Hearts: 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 Bullies filled up the hole until it was to his armpits before adults stopped them. | |
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In the Muppet Babies (2018) episode, "Summer Penguin, P.I.", Animal tries to do this when he digs in the sandbox. | |
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Plants vs. Zombies has an Easter Egg on the achievement page involving Chinese zombies. It's deceptively simple to find. Newer versions of the iOS and Android versions of the game added a leaderboard to show how fast players could find China along with an achievement called "Peking Express". | |
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On The Amanda Show, 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. | |
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On Good Eats, Alton has a secret passageway through his pantry into an identical pantry located in China. It goes through the center of the Earth via a ladder. | |
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Timon & Pumbaa: The Hyenas end up digging to China. | |
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In one storyline from Pogo, Howland Owl tries to start a business selling "a device for going to China." Said device is, of course, a shovel. Albert Alligator tries it, but Churchy and Pogo try to talk him out of it when they realize digging straight down will land Albert in the middle of the Indian Ocean. | |
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The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode that crossed over with The Addams Family (1973) 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. | |
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Godzilla vs. Kong: The human characters seek to reach the center of the 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 the ancient throne of Kong's species at the earth's core. Godzilla, who is rampaging through Hong Kong in search of Mechagodzilla, senses this, blasts a hole to the earth's core with his atomic breath, and eggs Kong into jumping through the second hole to fight. Another set of human characters makes their way from Florida all the way to Hong Kong by way of a hemisphere spanning mag-lev Hyperloop tunnel built by the villainous Apex Cybernetics corporation. |
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In Five Children and It by E. Nesbit, the kids find the Psammead when they are trying to dig a hole to Australia. | |
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Cul-de-sac: Dill's single-minded persistence in tunneling to Disney World is a frequent Running Gag. | |
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Warhammer: Ogre pilgrims who journey to see their god, The Great Maw, claim that there is no bottom to the hole it chewed and it ate its way all through. In the ocean on the opposite side of the planet is the Maelstrom, an enormous, permanent, sentient, whirlpool. | |
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Not digging, but the same basic idea: One episode of the Beetle Bailey Animated Adaptation featured a submarine diving (strictly vertically) deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper... until encountering a Chinese submarine coming from the opposite direction. | |
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The China Syndrome... 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, one gets an idea of the level of scientific veracity in the notion. Not that it's meant to be taken literally. | |
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In The Powerpuff Girls "Dance Pantsed" special, Mojo Jojo's robot sends Buttercup flying with enough force to send her into the ground, through the center of the earth, and she resurfaces in China no worse for wear. | |
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Verdigris: At age 5, Elphaba tried to leave Colwen Grounds by digging a hole to the other side of Oz. | |
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Pushing Daisies: 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 sheikh traded her a horse for the skeleton. | |
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In one strip, Hägar the Horrible does not have any tulips in his garden because he planted the bulbs with the tips facing down. Meanwhile, two Chinese farmers wonder why their rice field is full of tulips. | |
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In Monty Python's Flying Circus, 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! | |
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Parodied in Pearls Before Swine where Pig dug a hole to "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 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. In the treasury Pearls Falls Fast, Stephan Pastis shares a one-panel comic he made as a kid, featuring two kids digging a deep hole. One is saying, "I think we're there, I see a fortune cookie." |
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Deconstructed in The Bird Feeder #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. | |
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The Bunsen Is a Beast episode "By Hook or By Schnook" has Mikey and Bunsen accidentally dig their way to China when they're searching for buried treasure. | |
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Showed up as a gag in the Ed, Edd n Eddy 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 lampshaded: "Wow, China! Just like in the cartoons!" He's back in America at the end of the episode because Plank was "afraid of getting turned into chopsticks". | |
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Happens in Fantasy World Dizzy — while the location isn't explicitly stated, you fall through a hole and end up in an upside-down screen featuring a stereotypical Australian. | |
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In Pokémon: The Series, the English dubbed version, Jessie of Team Rocket instructs the others to dig to China, though whether China exists in the Pokemon world is vague. | |
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Lampshaded in "14 Carrot Rabbit", 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..." | |
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In The Care Bears: Adventure in Wonderland, no one digs a hole, but a brief scene shows that Australia is upside-down. | |
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The 2 Stupid Dogs 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. Which he runs away from 'all the way back around the world, gets frightened again by the first cat, runs back to China, encounters the Chinese cat again, and rushes back up his tunnel, which he then fills back in. At which point he sees the first cat and runs... into a wall. | |
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Homestar Runner: The Strong Bad Email "alternate universe" had Strong Bad entering a "Dig to China With Your Ears" contest against an alternate version of himself. They don't actually make it to China, as the alternate "Tiny-Handed Strong Bad" puts the contest on hold when he unearths a giant mug of root beer. | |
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5 Second Films: I'm Digging To Chi- | |
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An opening sketch for All That featured several cast members digging a hole to China (in the Green room no less). The rest of the cast is stunned when a Chinese boy climbs out, who claims to have seen the other end of the hole in China and climbed through to investigate. When Kevin the Manager protests the boy's presence, he is pushed down the hole himself while busy examining it ("Hey look! Chinese stuff!") | |
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Superlópez: In El señor de los chupetes. | |
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Chauncey does this in an episode of Wonder Showzen. | |
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Played with and subverted in The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries 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. | |
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On one episode of How I Met Your Mother 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." | |
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In Torchwood: Miracle Day, The Blessing runs through the centre of the Earth connecting Shanghai, China and Buenos Aires, Argentina. | |
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An interesting example occurs in the Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 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. Justified as they're homesick Chinese pandas at an American zoo. | |
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In Action Comics #253, Kara bores a hole from a farm in midwest America to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy, digging swift enough that frictional heat fuses the side smooth and prevents the tunnel from collapsing. | |
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In the Dexter's Laboratory episode "D & DD", Dexter's Monsters and Mazes character ("Hodo, the 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 Genius Bonus joke for D&D nerds since, in the then-current edition, Asian dragons were much deadlier opponents than Western ones. | |
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Gravity Falls: Upon looking at a chasm in "Into the Bunker", Stan comments that he doesn't want his car to fall in China. | |
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