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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]]''.]]

(contracted; show full)e. (The shot of the warehouse is an allusion to the final scene of ''[[Citizen Kane]]'', where there is a similar shot of a private warehouse.) The warehouse (shown located in [[Area 51|Hangar 51]]) reappears in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'', where [[Indiana Jones]] and [[KGB]] agents go to recover the remains of the [[Roswell UFO Incident|Roswell alien]], eventually revealed to be an interdimensional being with a crystalline skeleton. 


In the closing of an episode of NBC's ''[[The Office (US TV series)|The Office]]'' titled "[[Conflict Resolution (The Office episode)|Conflict Resolution]]", a similar scene is created using a box full of complaints made by [[Dwight Schrute]], and other characters. The television series ''The X-Files'' is replete with characters and objects with unusual properties and powers that would complicate the fictional setting, or make it too simple for characters to achieve the goals that they quest for, and the Government Warehouse plot device is heavily used to explain the absence of the characters and objects, and to make the goals difficult to achieve. The plot device is in fact a central element of the series. A typical example is found in the [[Pilot (The X-Files)|pilot episode]].⏎
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In the television show [[Stargate SG-1]] [[Area 51]] serves as a government warehouse for storage of alien artifacts.

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 more [[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.

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]].

In the end of "[[Conflict Resolution (The Office)]]" (2006), a similar scene is created using a box full of complaints made by [[Dwight Schrute]], and other characters. The television series ''The X-Files'' is replete with characters and objects with unusual properties and powers that would complicate the fictional setting, or make it too simple for characters to achieve the goals that they quest for, and the Government Warehouse plot device is heavily used to explain the absence of the characters and objects, and to make the goals difficult to achieve. The plot device is in fact a central element of the series. A typical example is found in the [[Pilot (The X-Files)|pilot episode]].⏎
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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.

===A Related Device===
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* [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.

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