History Main / BedsheetLadder

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Inhuman Torch," Fry is dangling one-handed from the widow's walk of the burning Planet Express building, holding a rope made from his clothes. [[CloudCuckoolander It's quickly revealed that he was already making the clothing rope when the fire started, for reasons of his own]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Linda turns their home into a bed-and-breakfast and manically insists their guests participate in her 'fun' activities - when she locks the guests in their rooms, a couple try a bedsheet ladder escape, but need to ask for help when the ladder is too short.

* ''Literature/EncyclopediaBrown'': "The Case of the Stolen Lamb", from book 3, revolved around this trope - a starlet said that a big, masked intruder broke into the room, knocked out her bodyguard, grabbed a diamond-encrusted statue, and climbed out the window from a bedsheet ladder tied to one of the bedposts. However, Chief Brown and his son proved them to be lying by asking Bugs Meany (who happened to be around at the time) to climb up the bedsheets so he could meet the starlet - when he did so, his (significantly less than the alleged intruder) weight pulled the bed from the wall and released a fountain pen trapped in between. (This also happened in Two-Minute Mysteries, its sister series.)

* This is NOT done in ''Literature/TheShieldOfStars''. The main character escapes through a trapdoor. However, he thoughtfully makes a rope blanket and tosses it out the window anyway, just in case the guards thought he really was stupid enough to try that death-defying drop onto jagged rocks. (And lucky enough to survive, too!)
* An ''Literature/EncyclopediaBrown'' mystery revolved around this trope - a starlet said that a big, masked intruder broke into the room, knocked out her bodyguard, grabbed a diamond-encrusted statue, and climbed out the window from a bedsheet ladder tied to one of the bedposts. However, Chief Brown and his son proved them to be lying by asking Bugs Meany (who happened to be around at the time) to climb up the bedsheets so he could meet the starlet - when he did so, his (significantly less than the alleged intruder) weight pulled the bed from the wall and released a fountain pen trapped in between. (This also happened in Two-Minute Mysteries, its sister series.)

* In ''WesternAnimation/Disenchantment'', Bean says that she once attempted this, which is why she is no longer allowed to have curtains in her bedroom.

* In Edith Pargeter's historical novel ''Sunrise in the West'', the Welsh prince Griffith ap Llewellyn is held hostage in London, and attempts to escape out a window using a rope made from the bedclothes and wall hangings in his apartment. He is a large man, and the wall hangings are old and somewhat fragile; the rope gives way and he is killed in the fall.

* During ''ComicBook/TheMask'' comic series, Walter escapes from his hospital room this way, although the actual escape is never shown, only the aftermath. The two detectives viewing the scene snark that he must watch too many movies for trying that stunt - and eat way too much popcorn for the bedsheets to tear.

-->'''Karolina:'' ''[waiting]'' Hello? Guys? Come on, I didn't tie my bedsheets together for nothing, did I?

* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Mokuba attempts to escape from Pegasus' castle by climbing down a bed sheet rope. It doesn't work, as he runs out of sheets a fair way up the tower. As he panics, two of the sheet's knots slip, and he plummets. However, in a bit of standard cartoon magic, not to mention InfantImmortality, he survives. This despite the fact he clearly falls from ''above the height of the trees''.

* There was a lesser-known Creator/DrSeuss book ''The Seven Lady Godivas'', which was about seven nudist sisters deciding not to marry their suitors the Peeping Brothers until they've each discovered useful information about horses after their father gets killed trying to ride one. When Gussie Godiva and Hedwig Godiva are the only ones who have yet to find a Horse Truth and marry a Peeping brother, Gussie tries to climb a ladder of bedsheets so she can sneak off and marry Peeping Sylvester without finding a Horse Truth first. Hedwig catches her and reprimands her for attempting to abdicate her goal.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12588000/12/Consequences Consequences]]'' Harry makes one and hangs it out the window but is rescued by Snape before he can try using it.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "Real or Robots?" Tommy makes one to get out of his crib when Stu taped it shut to prevent him from getting out of it and into his bedroom.

* Harry attempts this in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9300041/2/In-Betweens-Book-5-What-Ifs In Betweens: Book 5 What-Ifs]]'' when his uncle has men from St. Brutus' Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys come to pick him up, but doesn't get very far down it before they drag him kicking and screaming from his excuse for a room.

* This is how the heroine of {{Georgette Heyer}}'s ''The Corinthian'' meets the hero: he notices her climbing out of her window using a bedsheet ladder (she's also [[SweetPollyOliver dressed as a boy]]), and, when the makeshift rope turns out to be too short, agrees to catch her when she jumps. Cue "''You're'' not a boy!"

* [http://loweringthebar.net/2015/08/further-review.html On a more hilarious note]], convicts attempting this should first make sure that the window they intend to escape out of is wide enough to allow them to squeeze through.

* [[On a more hilarious note http://loweringthebar.net/2015/08/further-review.html]], convicts attempting this should first make sure that the window they intend to escape out of is wide enough to allow them to squeeze through.

** In ''Porky Pig's Feat'', Daffy and Porky use one to try and escape a hotel without paying. The hotel manager catches them at the bottom and gives Porky a hotfoot that sends them flying back up the Bedsheet Ladder to their room. Daffy stops along the way to ogle in a window and wolf whistle -- going down and again going back up.