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* In one arc of ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'', after Sakuya and Youmu called to a maid convention and Meiling, Yuyuko, Patchy and Flandre raise complete hell in the Scarlet Devil Mansion before Remilia, the head of the household, comes back and sees the utter mess everyone has made. She ''snaps'', just before ''rage cleaning'' the entire mansion, completely exhausting herself in the process. By the time Sakuya and Youmu come back, not only is the place spotless, but Remilia has enlisted everyone else as maids.
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* In one arc of ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'', after Sakuya and Youmu called to a maid convention and Meiling, Yuyuko, Patchy and Flandre raise complete hell in the Scarlet Devil Mansion before Remilia, the head of the household, comes back and sees the utter mess everyone has made. She ''snaps'', just before ''rage cleaning'' the entire mansion, completely exhausting herself in the process. By the time Sakuya and Youmu come back, not only is the place spotless, but Remilia has enlisted everyone else as maids.
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* One episode of ''Series/CornerGas'' has Davis and Karen discovering that Emma reflexively starts cleaning whenever she's angry, and waste no time exploiting this by bringing her into dirty rooms and purposely pissing her off.
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* PlayedForLaughs in an episode of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''. Dorothy discovers Sophia busily cooking and reminds her that she's on doctor's orders to rest up after a health scare:
-->'''Sophia''': Dorothy, I'm feeling anxious. And when I feel anxious, there's only one thing that calms me down.
-->'''Dorothy''': I know, Ma--cooking a big meal.
-->'''Sophia''': [[BaitAndSwitch No, making hot naked love in a closet.]] But hey, you do what you can.
-->'''Sophia''': Dorothy, I'm feeling anxious. And when I feel anxious, there's only one thing that calms me down.
-->'''Dorothy''': I know, Ma--cooking a big meal.
-->'''Sophia''': [[BaitAndSwitch No, making hot naked love in a closet.]] But hey, you do what you can.
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* ''Film/Cinderella2015'': After her father's death, Ella becomes passive about the many chores her stepmother and stepsisters convince her to do, in part because the physical work helps distract her from her grief. This backfires as she slowly realizes she's become a servant in her own home, culminating in her getting called "Cinderella" for the first time.
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'': When [[spoiler: Dobby]] dies in his arms [[spoiler: in the escape from Malfoy Manor]], Harry insists on digging the grave without any magic.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Gideon's mother uses this technique to not draw attention to herself. She's anxious, stressed out, and terrified of the kid because her son literally wants to take over the world. Just keep vacuumin' is her MadnessMantra.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Gideon's mother uses this technique to not draw attention to herself. She's anxious, stressed out, and terrified of the kid because her son literally wants to take over the world. Just "Just keep vacuumin' vacuumin'" is her MadnessMantra.
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** Vimes once mentions a woman who'd lost her baby and threw herself into cleaning the house to avoid thinking about it.
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** In ''Literature/{{Thud}}'', Vimes once mentions recalls a woman who'd lost her baby and threw herself into cleaning the house to avoid thinking about it.
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** ''Literature/Wintersmith'': Her student and heir, Tiffany has the same tendency. Worried about the encroach of the personification of Winter, Tiffany compulsively cleans her house. Mrs. Aching realizes something is wrong when Tiffany starts scrubbing the bottom of the tables.
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** ''Literature/Wintersmith'': ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}'': Her student and heir, Tiffany has the same tendency. Worried about the encroach of the personification of Winter, Tiffany compulsively cleans her house. Mrs. Aching realizes something is wrong when Tiffany starts scrubbing the bottom of the tables.
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* In the classic ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode ''King Ramses' Curse'', Muriel enters a mad cooking frenzy as the locusts approach to devour the house.
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* In the classic ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode ''King "King Ramses' Curse'', Curse", Muriel enters a mad cooking frenzy as the locusts approach to devour the house.
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In the classic ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode ''King Ramses' Curse'', Muriel enters a mad cooking frenzy as the locusts approach to devour the house.
In the classic ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode ''King Ramses' Curse'', Muriel enters a mad cooking frenzy as the locusts approach to devour the house.
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** ''Literature/Wintersmith'': Her student and heir, Tiffany has the same tendency. Worried about the encroach of the personification of Winter, Tiffany compulsively cleans her house. Mrs. Aching realizes something is wrong when Tiffany starts scrubbing the bottom of the tables.
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* Bobbie Draper from ''Literature/TheExpanse'' takes to cleaning her rifles over and over as a way of coping with her [[ShellShockedVeteran trauma from when her squad was literally torn to shreds]] by a [[PsychoPrototype protomolecule hybrid]].
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* ''Literature/AdrianMole'': In "Growing Pains", Adrian's mother, who is normally too feminist to clean, suddenly cleans the entire house from top to bottom, the day before she gives birth to Rosie.
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* ''Series/FawltyTowers'': In "The Wedding Party", when Basil is frustrated by Sybil having her very long and loud "Ooh, I knowwwwww" telephone conversation, he mutters "I'll go and clean the roof, or something". The front doorbell then rings, and he seems quite glad of a reason to leave the room.
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* ''Literature/AdrianMole'': In "Growing Pains", Adrian's mother, who is normally too feminist to clean, suddenly cleans the entire house from top to bottom, the day before she gives birth to Rosie.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': Pacha's wife, Chica, is so furious at hearing about how Emperor Kuzco brushed her husband's concerns aside that she descends into {{Angrish}} before saying "I gotta go wash something."
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': Pacha's wife, Chica, Chicha, is so furious at hearing about how Emperor Kuzco brushed her husband's concerns aside that she descends into {{Angrish}} before saying "I gotta go wash something."
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* An episode of ''Series/MiamiVice'' saw Sonny Crockett obsessively cleaning the St. Vitus Dance after the death of his wife Caitlin Davis.
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* The first episode of ''Series/TheConners'' shows everyone dealing with Series/{{Roseanne}}'s death in different ways. Jackie is desperately trying to reorganize the kitchen in order to keep her mind off of her sister's passing, which results in a scene where Darlene enters to find every single container, plate, and glass piled on the table while she tries to figure out "the flow".
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This trope is the act of performing domestic chores in anger or because of sadness or anxiety. Doing chores can release strong feelings and provide relief from anger or suffering.
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This trope is the act of performing domestic chores in anger or because of sadness or anxiety. Doing Frustration is a strong motivator, and chores can release strong feelings and provide relief from anger or suffering.
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* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': In the last season, Amy is distressed because she feels too much pressure once she's told she has a chance to be the fourth woman to receive Nobel Prize for Physics. As such she could inspire numerous women to choose a career in STEM. (Two scientists stole a credit for her and her husband's groundbreaking work and her public outburst at them didn't help at all.) They try sensory deprivation therapy: Sheldon is calmed down, but Amy is still anxious and once they get home, she starts scrubbing their fridge.
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* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': In the last season, Amy is distressed because she feels too much pressure once she's told she [[RealAwardFictionalCharacter has a chance to be the fourth woman to receive Nobel Prize for Physics.Physics]]. As such she could inspire numerous women to choose a career in STEM. (Two scientists stole a credit for her and her husband's groundbreaking work and her public outburst at them didn't help at all.) They try sensory deprivation therapy: Sheldon is calmed down, but Amy is still anxious and once they get home, she starts scrubbing their fridge.
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Apple Bloom shrugged. “Look at her. This is the happiest she’s been all day. Ah wish ah had a longer fence for her. What should we do next?”
Apple Bloom shrugged. “Look at her. This is the happiest she’s been all day. Ah wish ah had a longer fence for her. What should we do next?”
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** In ''Literature/MenAtArms'', when Carrot thinks [[spoiler: Angua is dead]], he writes his report, sweeps the Watchhouse floor, and polishes his armour even more meticuously than usual. The narration says that this would seem very strange to a dwarf or a troll, or anyone who doesn't know how the human mind reacts to stress.
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** In ''Literature/MenAtArms'', when Carrot thinks [[spoiler: Angua [[spoiler:Angua is dead]], he writes his report, sweeps the Watchhouse floor, and polishes his armour even more meticuously than usual. The narration says that this would seem very strange to a dwarf or a troll, or anyone who doesn't know how the human mind reacts to stress.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', it's revealed that the reason Cleveland Jr. is [[SuperOCD so obsessed with cleanliness]] is because it's his way of taking his mind off his parents' divorce [[spoiler: and later, his mother's death]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', it's revealed that the reason Cleveland Jr. is [[SuperOCD so obsessed with cleanliness]] is because it's his way of taking his mind off his parents' divorce [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and later, his mother's death]].
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* In ''Literature/TheFinding'', Alex's mother and older sister Laura cope with his disappearance by cleaning all the pottery in the house.
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* ''Fanfic/{{Quizzical}}'': As seen in ''A Little Fixer-Upper'', Quiz(zical) finds "FencePainting" relaxing, which is one of ''Apple Bloom'''s chores, and also a use of the trope about getting someone else to do your chores, being a ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer'':
--> “I much prefer this.” Quiz dipped her brush in the can of whitewash and stroked the picket fence. “This task is relaxing.”\\
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As the others watched Quiz paint and listened to her lecture, Scootaloo took Apple Bloom aside.\\
“This is suspiciously like getting Quiz to do your chores.”\\
Apple Bloom shrugged. “Look at her. This is the happiest she’s been all day. Ah wish ah had a longer fence for her. What should we do next?”
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* ''Fanfic/{{Quizzical}}'': As seen in ''A Little Fixer-Upper'', Quiz(zical) finds "FencePainting" relaxing, which is one of ''Apple Bloom'''s chores, and also a use of the trope about getting someone else to do your chores, being a ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer'':
--> “I much prefer this.” Quiz dipped her brush in the can of whitewash and stroked the picket fence. “This task is relaxing.”\\
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As the others watched Quiz paint and listened to her lecture, Scootaloo took Apple Bloom aside.\\
“This is suspiciously like getting Quiz to do your chores.”\\
Apple Bloom shrugged. “Look at her. This is the happiest she’s been all day. Ah wish ah had a longer fence for her. What should we do next?”
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* ''Series/YoungSheldon'': Sheldon cleans and arranges stuff whenever he gets upset. For example, he's cleaning the house when his parents won't let him go to Huston with his friends. This seems to explain why he's so obsessed with cleaning in the [[Series/TheBigBangTheory parent series]].
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* ''Series/YoungSheldon'': Sheldon cleans and arranges stuff whenever he gets upset. For example, he's cleaning the house when his parents won't let him go to Huston Houston with his friends. This seems to explain why he's so obsessed with cleaning in the [[Series/TheBigBangTheory parent series]].
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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'': Go back to visit the Witch after her granddaughter Irene is transformed into a painting and kidnapped, and she'll mention that she keeps brewing potions to keep herself from worrying too much.
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* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': In "Home is Where the Heart Attack is", Carlton, after hearing that his father had a heart attack and is now in the hospital, obsessively cleans the kitchen to avoid having to see him in such a vulnerable state.
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'''Carlton:''' You don't know that! It could be [[GassyScare acute indigestion! indigestion!]] Even doctors have made that mistake! Does that window look smudged to you?\\
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* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': Erika's go-to form of stress release is grinding up miso paste due to her family being a BlandNameProduct of one of Japan's largest miso producers.
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''"You know what I did when Pete died? Polished silver. Three nights straight, till daybreak -- over and over and over."''
