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[[Image:Government Warehouse.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The Government Warehouse at the end of the movie ''[[Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''.]]

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Sometimes items are recovered from Government Warehouses in order to construct derived fictional settings. In the first episode of the late-80s ''[[War of the Worlds (TV series)|War of the Worlds]]'' television series a triad of war machines is collected from a Government Warehouse (Hangar 15) where they had been stored since an invasion in 1953, thus linking the television series to the 1953 film ''[[The War of the Worlds (1953 film)|The War of the Worlds]]''.


The 2002 [[South Park]] episode [[Free Hat]] took a stand against [[Steven Spielberg]] and [[George Lucas]] re-releasing old movies in order to make them [Family-friendliness|family-friendly]] and [[Political correctness|politically correct]]. The episode ended with Stan sending such a re-release of [[Raiders of the Lost Ark]] to the warehouse (which is named "[Financial assistance following the September 11 attacks#American Red Cross|Red Cross 9/11 Relief Funds]]").

The [[Family Guy]] episodes [[Peter's Got Woods]] (2005) and [[Back to the Woods]] (2008) both parodied [[Raiders of the Lost Ark]] - Peter used the top men phrase while shipping James Woods away in the warehouse at the end of both episodes.⏎
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In the 2006 film ''[[Click (film)|Click]]'', the warehouse serves a similar purpose; however, it is not owned by a government but by [[Bed Bath & Beyond]].

An upcoming television series on [[SCI FI]], ''[[Warehouse 13]]'', features the adventures of two [[United States Secret Service]] agents assigned to oversee such a government warehouse facility.

The [[Family Guy]] episodes [[Peter's Got Woods]] and [[Back to the Woods]] both parodied [[Raiders of the Lost Ark]] - Peter used the top men phrase while shipping James Woods away in the warehouse at the end of both episodes.⏎
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===A Related Device===
In the [[Tom Clancy]] novel ''[[Without Remorse]],'' the protagonist, ex-[[Navy SEAL]] John Kelly, lives on an island he leases from the [[General Services Administration]], which has such ordinary suburban comforts as wiring, plumbing, and heating; and also a few less-ordinary features: two-foot-thick concrete walls, a dock, a Navy-standard machine shop, and a Navy-standard [[recompression chamber]]. Kelly was issued the lease through the intervention of a gratefu(contracted; show full)
* [http://www.warehouse23.com/basement Warehouse 23] allegedly run by a joint venture between the US Government and the [[Illuminati]], this is actually (and openly) run by [[Steve Jackson Games]]. Readers can submit new items.

[[Category:Conspiracy theories]]
[[Category:Fictional secret bases]]
[[Category:Plot devices]]
[[Category:Warehouses]]

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