History Main / LightsWitchSurprise

** Episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E12WhatYouNeed What You Need]]". When Mr. Pedott arrives home at his apartment, he enters and turns on the light. When he does, he discovers that Mr. Renard has [[TrespassingToTalk broken into his room and is waiting in a chair to talk to him]].
** Episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E24LongLiveWalterJameson Long Live Walter Jameson]]". Walter Jameson believes he is alone in his room. The only light comes from a desk lamp. When he hears a voice say "Hello, Tommy", he turns the desk lamp to face the speaker. It turns out to be his former wife Laurette, sitting in a chair.

* ''Film/ACureForWellness''. Lockhart hides from the orderlies searching for him in a dark room, and lights a CigaretteOfAnxiety. The lighter reveals something strange about the room, so he turns on the lights to find it's full of [[PeopleJars bodies floating in tanks]].
* In ''Film/Legion1998'', the protagonist is a soldier on death-row who overpowers his guards then tries to hide in a dark room, only to find his former commanding officer there, who turns on the lights to reveal a line of handcuffed fellow prisoners. Turns out he GotVolunteered for ''Film/TheDirtyDozen'' JustForFun/RecycledInSpace.

* In the 1998 scifi BMovie ''Legion'', the protagonist is a soldier on death-row who overpowers his guards then tries to hide in a dark room, only to find his former commanding officer there, who turns on the lights to reveal a line of handcuffed fellow prisoners. Turns out he GotVolunteered for ''Film/TheDirtyDozen'' InSpace

* In the last chapter of ''VideoGame/MonkeyIslandII'', after Guybrush falls through the hole in Dinky Island, he finds himself in a dark room and the only thing the player can do is [[PixelHunt look for the light switch]] to activate it. When he does so, it's revealed Guybrush is trapped in some kind of tunnel right next to [[BigBad LeChuck]].

* In the [[https://youtu.be/I79TpDe3t2g Cold War recap]] of ''WebAnimation/Oversimplified'' Stalin greets a Soviet citizen of East Berlin as he returns home from West Berlin.

* ''Webcomic/TheLegendOfGenji'': Happens in "The Avatar Returns: Part V" when Genji is CaughtComingHomeLate by his mother. Upon returning home from his late-night excursion, Genji sneaks through a window into his family's darkened apartment, only for the lights to suddenly switch on the moment he's inside, revealing Genji's mother casually leaning on a nearby doorway with her finger over a lightswitch on the wall.

* ''FanFic/AlwaysTheQuietOnes'': When the Rainbooms enter Fluttershy's room, they find it looks the same. Then when Applejack flicks on the light switch, it's revealed that the entire room is actually trashed.

* ''TheDefenders2017'': In [[Recap/TheDefenders2017S1E5TakeShelter "Take Shelter"]], when Matt drops by the Bulletin to grab Karen and move her into police protection, he announces his presence by turning on a desk lamp at the cubicle outside her office door, getting her to look up from her work.

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** In ''Five Go To Smuggler's Top'', Sooty is creeping about in Uncle Quentin's bedroom trying to avoid waking him, when suddenly he realises somebody else is in the bedroom as well, kidnapping Uncle Quentin. He switches on his torch to reveal Mr. Barling, and yells out the name in surprise. He is then kidnapped himself.

* ''Film/ACureForWellness''. Lockhart hides from the orderlies searching for him in a dark room, and lights a CigaretteOfAnxiety. The lighter reveals something strange about the room, so he turns oh the lights to find it's full of [[PeopleJars bodies floating in tanks]].

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E12WhatYouNeed What You Need]]". When Mr. Pedott arrives home at his apartment, he enters and turns on the light. When he does, he discovers that Mr. Renard has [[TrespassingToTalk broken into his room and is waiting in a chair to talk to him]].

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E12WhatYouNeed What You Need]]". When Mr. Pedott arrives home at his apartment, he enters and turns on the light. When he does, he discovers that Mr. Renard has [[TrespassingToTalk broken into his room]] and is waiting in a chair to talk to him.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E12WhatYouNeed What You Need]]". When Mr. Pedott arrives home at his apartment, he enters and turns on the light. When he does, he discovers that Mr. Renard has [[TrespassToTalk broken into his room]] and is waiting in a chair to talk to him.

* ''Film/ACureForWellness''. Lockhart hides from the orderlies searching for him in a dark room, and lights a CigaretteOfAnxiety. The lighter reveals something strange about the room, so he turns oh the lights to find it's full of [[PeopleJar bodies floating in tanks]].