History Main / RightThroughTheWall

* Multiple ''[[VideoGame/{{Hades}}]]'' fanfics (such as [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42102399 this one]]) point out that Zagreus's bedroom doesn't have a door, so everyone in the House of Hades gets an earful every time he has sex.

* ''Mädchen Mädchen 2'' has an early scene where Inken has disappointing sex against the wall of the apartment next to hers (her roommates watch the wall vibrate). Later on, Inken reacts by faking [[TheImmodestOrgasm the best orgasm she's ever had]], again ramming herself against the wall.

* In John Irving's ''Literature/TheHotelNewHampshire'', the prostitute Screaming Annie's claim to fame is that she fakes orgasms so loudly, everyone in the hotel can hear her. As it turns out, [[spoiler:the orgasms aren't fake. Every single one of them is real]].

* Invoked and PlayedForDrama in ''LightNovel/{{Corsair}}'' after Ayace bluntly announces his relationship with Canale in attempt to dispel Aura's ideas of [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend marrying]] Canale. Ayace goes to Canale's room and makes sure to have lots of loud sex because he knows Aura is going to come by later to talk to Canale and will hear them. Aura is crushed. It comes up more humorously in other places though, especially with poor Harold.

* ''LightNovel/RollOverAndDie'': A PlayedForLaughs {{Yuri}} example. At the end of Volume 2, when Milkit is cleaning Flum’s ears they hear strange noises from Eterna’s room. As it turns out, she could hear everything in their room. Due to their dialogue and InnocentInnuendo, Eterna thought they were engaging in more adult activities. Other misunderstandings ensued until Ink, who has a strong sense of hearing, finally made it clear Milkit and Flum were merely cleaning each other’s ears.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. Seven of Nine [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove explores human "mating rituals"]] by studying the OfficialCouple Tom and B'Elanna. B'Elanna discovers this and starts reading Seven's notes about this, which results in the following memorable dialogue:
-->'''B'Elanna''': ''[reading from the PADD]'' "Stardate 52648, 0300 hours: intimate relations resume." ''[addressing Seven directly]'' How the hell do you know when we're having "intimate relations"?!\\
'''Seven of Nine''': There is no one on Deck 9, Section 12, who ''doesn't'' know when you're having intimate relations.
* ''Series/Titans2018''. Dick Grayson stays at a NoTellMotel during his return to Gotham, and the sound of someone having sex in the next room serves as MoodDissonance when he's on the phone with his family in California. Then the [[WallBangHer banging]] suddenly [[DomesticAbuse gets a lot louder]], activating his ChronicHeroSyndrome.

'''Brian:''' Morning too. I was halfway down the block, I could swear I heard them yodeling.

-->'''Lowell:''' I'm gonna go out and find an apartment for me and Bunny. I don't know, with other people in the house, we feel inhibited.\\

* The musical ''Theatre/IslandSong'' has "Wall Lovin'," about a guy in unrequited love with his apartment neighbor. He's never met her face to face, but he listens in to her sex noises every night, hence the title. One day while he's listening, she stops and knocks on his apartment door, and he's embarrassed... until she asks him for batteries and he realizes that [[ADateWithRosiePalms she was making those noises all alone]]. He hits it off with her, and he ends the song boasting that both of them will be giving some "wall lovin'" to another neighbor that night.

** Matt and Dillon also used to hear Gary's [[ADateWithRosiePalms Dates With Rosie Palms]] when they still lived with him. Moreover, when they decided to become a gay couple, they record his "sounds" and play them back to enhance sex with each other.

When not set in the world of comedy, this trope is quite often used as a means of reminding the audiences that this particular apartment building our character has just entered ''really'' is as shady and populated with a bunch of suspicious characters as it appears from the outside, the reasoning behind this being, of course, that SexIsEvil. This can also be PlayedForDrama if the character overhearing the sex is hurt or jealous because they are romantically involved or interest in one of the couple.

Anyone who has lived in a college dorm or an apartment will know that this can be TruthInTelevision. See also CeilingBanger for a similar trope (and what something like this may very well elicit). Nothing to do with RightThroughHisPants. Or, for that matter, when [[ImpactSilhouette someone moves]] right [[ThereWasADoor through]] a [[IntangibleMan wall]]. For couples whose sexy-times are so vigorous that they ''break'' the wall, see DestructoNookie. For when the sex is just exhausting see PostCoitalCollapse. See WallBangHer for when couples are literally having sex right against a wall.

Can have some crossover with CallingYourOrgasms, TheGruntingOrgasm and TheImmodestOrgasm. Compare DontComeAKnockin, for a more visual effect communicating the same thing. Contrast SexInASharedRoom, where the point is that there is no wall between the passive observer/witness and the couple. Has nothing to do with glory holes.

* ''LightNovel/RollOverAndDie'': A PlayedForLaughs {{Yuri}} example. At the end of Volume 2, when Milkit is cleaning Flum’s ears they hear strange noises from Eterna’s room. As it turns out, she could hear everything in their room. Due to their dialogue and InnocentInnuendo, Eterna thought they were engaging in more adult activities. Others misunderstandings ensued until Ink, who has a strong sense of hearing, finally made it clear Milkit and Flum were merely cleaning each other’s ears.

* Australian comedian Creator/JoshThomas tells the story in one of his stand-up routines (and on his album "Things I Have Said Before") about the first time he lived with a loud roommate, and how heartbroken he was at the sound of him having loud sex, because he thought sex that good/loud was a [[TheImmodestOrgasm myth from pornography]].

* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2543735/chapters/5655182 The Lovers Left Broken]]'' Thea briefly teases Oliver by revealing that due to the Queen's mansions old/thin walls she could hear him having sex.

* In the Creator/AlanAlda film ''Film/TheFourSeasons'', him and his wife are in one of the staterooms on the yacht the three couples have rented, listening as they hear one of the other couples on the boat going at it hot and heavy.

* In ''Literature/TheGirls'', Evie is uncomfortable when Julian and his teenaged girlfriend Sasha are screwing loudly in the next room. Later Evie realizes that Julian, who is TheSociopath, knew she could hear.

** One episode when a drunken and frustrated Penny decides to have sex with Leonard. Which is heard not only by roommate Sheldon but also their downstairs neighbor.

** In the season 2 episode "[[Recap/FrasierS02E08AdventuresInParadisePart1 Adventures in Paradise]]", Frasier thinks his ex-wife is having sex in the next room, so makes loud sex noises so she thinks he's having a better time than he is. He ends up jumping on the bed, slamming the headboard against the wall and yelling at the top of his lungs. And then Lilith and her boyfriend walk by the room.

--->'''Ross:''' Maybe he's just jumping on a pogo-stick and really likes it? ''[a woman's moans joins in]'' Maybe the pogo-stick likes it too?

** In "[[Recap/FriendsS10E1TheOneAfterJoeyAndRachelKiss The One After Joey And Rachel Kiss]]", when the Friends go to a conference in Barbados, Monica, Chandler and Phoebe are in a room that's caught up between two situations. Namely Rachel and Joey hooking up, and Ross and Charlie getting together. Chandler then {{squick}}s out Monica by asking why she's listening to the wall that has her brother on the other side.

* ''Series/Titans2018''. Dick Grayson stays at a NoTellMotel during his return to Gotham, and the sound of someone having sex in the next room serves as MoodDissonance when he's on the phone to his family in California. Then the [[WallBangHer banging]] suddenly [[DomesticAbuse gets a lot louder]], activating his ChronicHeroSyndrome.

** Sometimes in live performance, she will then add a chirpy spoken-word "Oh yeah, right there! Oh yeah, right there!"

---> '''Zevran''': [[SpeedSex It did seem as if you just got going when all grew quiet.]] You are... feeling all right, yes? Perhaps you are tired?

---> '''Warden''': You know about Zevran and me?\\

----> '''Leliana:''' I suppose he must like [[TheImmodestOrgasm your shrieking]], you sound like a genlock being murdered -- a sweet, sweet sound to a Grey Warden. You should try a little harder next time he takes you. I don't think they heard you in the Anderfels.
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', as a female Inquisitor if you choose to pursue a romantic relationship with Cullen their first time has ends with a DeskSweepOfPassion followed by a SexyDiscretionShot. Apparently, at least Sera heard them at it, as she later jokes to the Inquisitor about how "desks need to beware".

* Invoked during one scene in ''VisualNovel/TheSagaraFamily'', in [[ExtremeLibido nymphomaniac]] Arisa Sagara's route. Arisa and the protagonist have noisy sex inside a house with [[HaremGenre 4 other women]]. This results in an awkward breakfast the following morning, where one of the other characters comment on the need to soundproof the walls.

** Matt and Dillon also used to hear Gary's [[ADateWithRosiePalms Dates With Rosie Palms]] when they still lived with him. Moreover, when they decided to become a gay couple, they record his "sounds" and play them back to enhance sex with each other,

* ''Webcomic/PvP'': Subverted in that Cole hears Brent and Jade having sex in their office, realizes he's probably making assumptions like he has lots of time before and comes to the conclusion that they're just moving furniture.

* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' [[https://xkcd.com/316/ shows how]] to take advantage of this trope: Cueball, annoyed by his neighbor's loud sex keeping him up at night, builds an elliptical reflector dish so the sounds of his girlfriend's screams convervge in his neighbor's bedroom.

* Marge and Homer often are these people in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Their loud lovemaking has been the subject of at least two gags, both times with reactions shots from Bart, Lisa, Maggie, and Ned Flanders (their neighbor in another house). On at least one occasion, the family holds a conversation about this habit while remaining in their bedrooms. Bart even punches through the wall to prove the kids' point.
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In the end of the episode "Bethic Twinstinct", Rick, Summer, and Morty overhear Jerry and the two Beths sort out their issues with each other and they each try desperately to think about literally anything else as they all hear the Beths having sex while Jerry watches, encourages them and then joins in with them. The siblings are clearly uncomfortable and eventually break down in tears, having no way to simply leave.

* ''Fanfic/{{Ouroboros}}'': The morning after [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange Max and Chloe]] have sex for the first time, Chloe opens the door to leave to find Victoria, who advises her to bite down on a belt next time. Notably, Victoria's room is not next door to Max's, but ''across the hallway''.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. When Aeryn and Crichton finally have sex (while the crew is aboard an immature, and thus small, Leviathan), Rygel grumbles the next morning about being unable to sleep, and further is disgusted that it sounded like Crichton was ''exerting'' himself. Cut to the blissful couple snuggling. Crichton bangs on the wall with his fist and makes loud moans; Aeryn laughs that ''he'' was "even louder than that, if you can imagine".

-->-- '''Chandler''', ''Series/{{Friends}}''

** One episode when a drunken and frustrated Penny decides to have sex with Leonard.

** In the season 3 episode "Shrink Rap", Daphne tells the story of how her neighbors used to do much the same thing until she stopped them with her own gratuitous sex noises designed to give them a taste of their own medicine.
** In the season 2 episode "Adventures in Paradise", Frasier thinks his ex-wife is having sex in the next room, so makes loud sex noises so she thinks he's having a better time than he is. He ends up jumping on the bed, slamming the headboard against the wall and yelling at the top of his lungs. And then Lilith and her boyfriend walk by the room.

--->'''Ross:''' Maybe he's just jumping on a pogo-stick and really likes it? ''(a woman's moans joins in)'' Maybe the pogo-stick likes it too?
** In "[[Recap/FriendsS4E11TheOneWithPhoebesUterus The One with Phoebe's Uterus]]", Chandler starts going out with Kathy, Joey's ex, and is apprehensive at having sex with her because [[InsecureLoveInterest he's worried about how he'll compare]] to SexGod Joey. Monica tries to dissuade him, saying that Joey can't be ''that'' good in bed, but Chandler disagrees given the noises that came from Joey's bedroom

* An episode of ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' involved Samantha experiencing loud neighbors who had vocal sex every night immediately after the late news. After she 'joins in' with her own noises, she receives a note from them inviting her to join them in person. Though she is originally keen on the idea of a threesome with the couple who seem to enjoy sex so much, she soon realizes that the couple are overweight and unattractive, so she just tells them to keep it down in future.

* A [[DidTheyOrDidntThey possible]] variation, more aptly [[LongTitle called]] Right Through The Wall And All The Way Over ''[[UpToEleven To Other Countries]]'', occurs in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' when Greece tells Japan that it's best if he enjoys having sex more. [[EpicTrackingShot Cut to a view of the Asian continent]] and Japan [[TheImmodestOrgasm screaming so loudly]] that China yells at him from his own country (i.e. across an ''entire sea'') to shut up.

* UpToEleven in ''Fanfic/FallOfStarfleetRebirthOfFriendship'', where Spike and Rarity had what the narration describes as "[[TakeOurWordForIt five hours of a sex scene so hot I couldn't write it]]" and it turns out they went far beyond the wall:

Can have some crossover with CallingYourOrgasms, TheGruntingOrgasm and TheImmodestOrgasm. Compare DontComeAKnockin, for a more visual effect communicating the same thing. Contrast SexInASharedRoom, where the point is that there is no wall between the passive observer/witness and the couple.

** In the season 2 episode "An Adventure in Paradise", Frasier thinks his ex-wife is having sex in the next room, so makes loud sex noises so she thinks he's having a better time than he is. He ends up jumping on the bed, slamming the headboard against the wall and yelling at the top of his lungs. And then Lilith and her boyfriend walk by the room.

* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' shows how to take advantage of this trope: Cueball, annoyed by his neighbor's loud sex keeping him up at night, builds an elliptical reflector dish so the sounds of his girlfriend's screams convervge in his neighbor's bedroom.

** A vertical variant is seen in "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E06Bagpipes Bagpipes]]"; Ted's upstairs neighbors are loudly [[UnusualEuphemism playing the bagpipes]]. When Ted can take no more, he confronts them [[spoiler: but backs off when he realizes they're an elderly couple]]. Later in the episode, Lily and Marshall's bagpiping is seen to have a similar effect on their downstairs neighbors. Then it turns out that it was the couple above the elderly couple.

** Unfortunately, [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-nights-are-about-to-get-quieter-and-colder/188058/ this couple]] from ''Website/NotAlwaysRomantic'' woke up the neighbors [[spoiler: [[YourCheatingHeart while the husband was at work]]]].