History Main / RearWindowHomage

* ''VideoGame/ZombiesRun'' In the spin-off audio play "Zombies, Run! The Way of All Flesh, Chris Mcshell plays the injured (blinded) investigator and Jody Marsh plays the eager assistant.

* ''VideoGame/ZombiesRun'' In the spin-off audio play "Zombies, Run! The Way of All Flesh, Chris Mcshell plays the injured (blinded) protagonist and Jody Marsh plays the eager assistant.

** In the short, "Rear Window Pain" (part of "Psychic Fun-Omenon Day"), Plucky breaks his leg, and Babs gives him a pair of binoculars as a present. Plucky uses the binoculars to spy on unsuspecting citizens. When he sees Elmer Fudd growing eggplants and talking to them as if they were his children, he thinks Elmer is making clones of himself. It later turned out that he was making eggplants for an eggplant-parmesan recipe, and he was planning to give some to his neighbors. [[spoiler:At the end of the short, Elmer complains about Plucky accusing him of cloning, believing it to be impossible. When he isn't looking, his eggplants turn into purple-colored Elmer clones, who say, "He don't know us vewy well, do he?".]]
** In the episode, "Grandma's Dead," Duncan Duff, Elmyra's younger brother, is sick and has to stay home from school. To pass the time, he watches a parody of "Rear Window" on his TV, which gives him the idea to snoop on his neighbors. Thanks to some shenanigans with Elmyra's hamster, Duncan comes to believe that his grandmother has been offed by Mr. Bump. [[spoiler: Grandma isn't even dead in the first place.]]

* ''Film/{{Disturbia}}'' substitutes Kale's ankle monitor for Stewart's broken leg.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones.'' "[[IncrediblyLamePun Alvin Brickrock Presents]]" is all about Fred and Barney spying on their new neighbor, Alvin Brickrock, whose wife they believe has been stuffed in a trunk.

* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife.'' One episode features Rocko spying on the Bigheads from his window and becoming convinced that Beverly killed her husband. Just in case anyone is confused about what it's based on, the opening has Heffer doing an impersonation of Alfred Hitchcock.

* Done in a SyFyChannelOriginalMovie of all places, namely ''Abominable'' where a wheelchair bound man watches and tries to warn a group of women under attack... though here the attacker happens to be Sasquatch.

* Done in a SyFyOriginalMovie of all places, namely ''Abominable'' where a wheelchair bound man watches and tries to warn a group of women under attack... though here the attacker happens to be Sasquatch.

* Done in a SyfyOriginalMovie of all places, namely '''Abominable''' where a wheelchair bound man watches and tries to warn a group of women under attack... though here the attacker happens to be Sasquatch.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' did a Rear Window Homage called "The Lives of Others" for their 100th episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDayMyButtWentPsycho'': In "Cheer Window", after spraining her ankle, Eleanor sends Zack and Deuce into Paige's house to uncover her evil secret while keeps watch on them through a telescope.

* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'', "Definite Possible Murder" is exactly this.

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[[caption-width-right:311:[[Series/RaisingHope About as blatant as it gets.]]]]

* ''Series/{{Leverage}}''. A season 5 episode titled "The Broken Wing Job" finds Parker laid up with a broken leg, watching the patrons of the brew pub on the security cameras, when she finds that two of them are planning what appears to be a heist. She recruits one of the pub's waitresses to help her stop it.

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Tropes shared by the Rear Window Homage and Film/RearWindow itself include WindowWatcher, TheStakeout, ExploringTheEvilLair, and, of course, RearWindowWitness and RearWindowInvestigation. At some point the protagonist will probably find themselves spouting CassandraTruth or promising the authorities ItWasHereISwear. If the investigator ''isn't'' an AmateurSleuth, it's a case of BusmansHoliday. Can be used to provide the plot for a BottleEpisode. Occasionally a show will go [[ParodyEpisode out of its way]] to do an AffectionateParody.

* Fraser from ''Series/DueSouth'' discovers a hospital conspiracy while recuperating from getting shot in the back. He's assisted by his attractive physical therapist, a Creator/GraceKelly look-alike.

* When Reese from ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' gets shot in the leg, he doesn't get time off: he gets installed in a hotel and tasked with monitoring his neighbors. He's assisted by Finch, who, while decidedly less attractive than Creator/GraceKelly, fills the inexperienced-and-nonthreatening role perfectly. The final confrontation even features a [[spoiler: crutch duel]].
* ''Series/RaisingHope'' has "Murder, She Hoped," which came complete with faithful reproductions of some of Creator/GraceKelly's more memorable outfits.
* ''Series/That70sShow'' had a Halloween episode with various subplots drawn from ''Film/RearWindow'', ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'', ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'', ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', and ''Film/TheBirds'', all [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]] films. In the Rear Window subplot, Fez falls off a roof and ends up in a wheelchair, spying on the Pinciottis. Hyde performs the inevitable RearWindowInvestigation.

* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife.'' One episode features Rocko spying on the Bigheads from his window and becoming convinced that Beverly killed her husband. Just in case anyone is confused about what it's based on, the opening has Heffer doing an impersonation of Creator/AlfredHitchcock.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. In the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E1BartOfDarkness "Bart of Darkness,"]] Bart breaks his leg, holes up in his room, and, after spying on his neighbors with a telescope, becomes convinced that Ned Flanders has murdered his wife.
** One of the things Bart sees through his rear window is Creator/JimmyStewart with a broken leg, looking out of ''his'' rear window.

[[caption-width-right:311:About as blatant as it gets.]]

* ''Series/RaisingHope'' has "Murder, She Hoped," which came complete with faithful reproductions of some of Creator/GraceKelly's more memorable outfits (as seen in the page illustration.)

* Literature/PointHorror novel ''Literature/TheWindow'': When a young woman accompanies her friends on a ski trip and ends up spraining her ankle. Stranded in her room and bored, she begins spying on the other cabins with a pair of binoculars. Sure enough, she witnesses a murder and the killer him/herself, though she can't tell who it is--it quickly doubles as a LockedRoomMystery when she realizes it has to be one of the friends she's traveling with--and ends up playing a nail-biting cat-and-mouse game trying to figure out exactly who it is without tipping them off.

In a RearWindow {{Homage}}, the setup is clearly derived from Creator/AlfredHitchcock's film ''Film/RearWindow'' to varying degrees. Expect an injured or otherwise hobbled protagonist stuck in their own room conducting a criminal investigation from a fixed vantage point. The injured protagonist - patterned after Creator/JimmyStewart - is probably male, while the eager assistant - patterned after Creator/GraceKelly - is far less physically imposing, inexperienced with confrontation, and probably female.

In a Rear Window Homage, the setup is clearly derived from Creator/AlfredHitchcock's film ''Film/RearWindow'' to varying degrees. Expect an injured or otherwise hobbled protagonist stuck in their own room conducting a criminal investigation from a fixed vantage point. The injured protagonist - patterned after Creator/JimmyStewart - is probably male, while the eager assistant - patterned after Creator/GraceKelly - is far less physically imposing, inexperienced with confrontation, and probably female.

Tropes shared by the Rear Window Homage and Film/RearWindow itself include WindowWatcher, TheStakeout, ExploringTheEvilLair, and, of course, RearWindowWitness and RearWindowInvestigation. At some point the protagonist will probably find themselves spouting CassandraTruth or promising the authorities ItWasHereISwear. If the investigator ''isn't'' an AmateurSleuth, it's a case of BusmansHoliday. Can be used to provide the plot for a BottleEpisode. Often an AffectionateParody.