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* ''VideoGame/D4DJGroovyMix'': In the event story "Trick or Sexy!?", while Maho is over at Marika's house, Maho opens Marika's closet after the latter asks her to find a particular object she needs help recovering, and ends up being buried in Marika's belongings. A previous event story established Marika as being [[TrashOfTheTitans absolutely terrible at keeping her room clean]], so she just "cleans" her room by stuffing items she doesn't need at the moment into her closet.

Sometimes TruthInTelevision, but [[OlderThanTelevision older]]. It was most notably the subject of a RunningGag on the popular radio series ''Radio/FibberMcGeeAndMolly'' -- the former trope namer. Compare ClosetShuffle. Has nothing to do with actually [[StuffBlowingUp blowing up]] closets, not with TransparentCloset, which is more metaphorical.

* ''VideoGame/D4DJGroovyMix'': In the event story "Trick or Sexy!?", while Maho is over at Marika's house, Maho opens Marika's closet after the latter tells her to find a particular object she needs help recovering, and ends up being buried in Marika's belongings. A previous event story established Marika as being [[TrashOfTheTitans absolutely terrible at keeping her room clean]], so she just "cleans" her room by stuffing items she doesn't need at the moment into her closet.

* ''VideoGame/D4DJGroovyMix'': In the event story "Trick or Sexy!?", while Maho is over at Marika's house, Maho opens Marika's closet after the latter tells her to find a particular object she needs help recovering, and ends up being buried in Marika's belongings. A previous event story established Marika as being absolutely terrible at keeping her room clean, so she just "cleans" her room by stuffing items she doesn't need at the moment into her closet.

* Happens with [[Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia the Wardrobe]] in ''Film/EpicMovie''. [[NeverTrustATrailer Or so it shows in the commercial.]]

* ''Series/{{Zoboomafoo}}'': Whenever the Kratt Brothers want to go on an adventure, they open the closet and just shield themselves from the falling safari gear. Then they pick up what they need from whatever fell on the ground and leave.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}}'': It happens to Huey, Dewey and Louie when Scrooge opens their closet in "Raiders of the Lost Harp". The nephews have been told to clean their room. Clean their room they did, but they stuffed everything in their closet. It is too bad they didn't deflate their rubber life raft first!

--->'''Rabbit:''' Pooh, I want my shovel back, right now! And I'm going to get it!\\

--->'''Rabbit:''' We must avoid the terrible fiasco that took place last year!\\

* In ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'', it's implied that Youko "cleans up" her apartment for visitors by shoving everything into her closet, since [[RunningGag every time someone comes over she]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial warns them against opening the door]]. It actually happens (off-camera) when [[{{Paparazzi}} Mikan]] invites herself in and [[SchmuckBait opens the closet over Youko's objections]], which conveniently knocks her out and keeps her from discovering [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Youko's secret]].

* Happens to Wolf with a broom closet near the end of ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'', when he, Tony, and Virginia are looking in Wendell's palace for the Evil Queen's room of {{Magic Mirror}}s. Played with in that as a wolf his senses should have told him it was the wrong room, except [[spoiler:at the time [[TheMole he was actually working for the Queen]] ([[TheMole but only to fool her]] so he could save the poisoned guests and eventually Virginia), so he did this on purpose to keep anyone from being suspicious]].

* A RunningGag in the newspaper strip ''ComicStrip/BigNate'', with Nate's school locker exploding with an impossible volume of crap whenever he opens it (with Nate able to swiftly find whatever he wants to in the debris).

* The ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' anime episode featuring the return of Principal Kunō to Fūrinkan High School has an office filled to the brink with coconuts, which crash upon the students as soon as they open the door.

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* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 38, Paddi eats everything in a bunch of cans of food so that he can give them to Wolffy, who is pretending to be a Mexican merchant who wants cans (he's looking for the lucky doll's red can so that he can harness its lucky power). Paddi opens a closet in his house, only for a bunch of empty cans to fall on him.
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* Happens in ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' any time Jason cleans his room.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' {{Fanvid}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KQs_TKYzsU "Ocatavia's Birthday"]] features this after Vinyl Scratch precipitously cleans the house and stuffs a closet. Poor Octavia is the one opening it, and ends up in the hospital.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14003760/2/Harry-Potter-and-the-Unwanted-Ticket Harry Potter and the Unwanted Ticket]]'' Hedwig's son Louis and a few other owls deposit most of the several ''thousand'' Hogwarts letters sent to Harry in Dumbledore's office. When the door doesn't automatically open for him later on, Dumbledore vanishes it and is pushed downstairs by a flood of mail.

* In the ''Series/FreeSpirit1989'' pilot, one of the first magic tricks that Winnie performs for Gene involves cleaning his room in the blink of an eye. Before she leaves to talk to Gene's father about possibly becoming the new housekeeper, Gene comments that before, he'd just clean his room by stuffing everything in his closet. He gets cut short when all the clutter that Winnie put away spills out of said closet.

-->'''Matthew:''' ''(laughing)'' There's this part where Molly tells Fibber [=McGee=] to clean out the closet. Guess what happens?\\

'''Matthew:''' ''(stops laughing)'' Oh, that's what that sound is. ''(starts laughing again)'' That's even funnier!

* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** This is the basis for a three-part Harvey Kneeslapper sketch, involving a closet full of toys with the word OPEN on the door.
** The "Series/ElmosWorld" segments has Elmo determine today's topic by opening one of these.

-->'''Doc:''' Something tells me Miki is really good at playing VideoGame/{{Tetris}}.

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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': It happens to Huey, Dewey and Louie when Scrooge opens their closet in "Raiders of the Lost Harp". The nephews had been told to clean their room. Clean their room they did, but they stuffed everything in their closet. It was too bad they didn't deflate their rubber life raft first!

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' has Shredder, Bebop, and Rocksteady go after a friend of Irma's in his apartment. He goes to escape, only for Bebop to jump in front of the door and tell him he's not going through it. He simply replies "Oh, that's okay. I don't use that closet much anyway." Confused, Bebop turns around, opens the door, and gets buried by the junk inside.

-->'''Doc:''' [[TheTetrisEffect Something tells me Miki is really good at playing]] VideoGame/{{Tetris}}.

** It's also used in a wallpaper that shows Agatha, Gilgamesh, ''[[{{OT3}} and]]'' Tarvek housecleaning; Krosp has just opened a door and a huge pile of ''skulls'' have fallen out. The featherduster Agatha's holding seems rather inadequate to the task ahead....

* In ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'', when Cara invites Doc to her apartment, she asks Miki to tidy the apartment before he gets there. Miki says she'll bulldoze everything into the hall closet, and suggests that Cara ask Doc to open it in order to "test how durable your new boyfriend is". Subverted when he actually does so, however.

* In the ''Series/FreeSpirit'' pilot, one of the first magic tricks that Winnie performs for Gene involves cleaning his room in the blink of an eye. Before she leaves to talk to Gene's father about possibly becoming the new housekeeper, Gene comments that before, he'd just clean his room by stuffing everything in his closet. He gets cut short when all the clutter that Winnie put away spills out of said closet.