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* ''TheMuppetShow'' Gladys Knight episode has the theatre's roof being serviced, only to have to the repair crew insist on taking the whole roof to the shop. Thus the gang has to deal with all sorts of bad weather climaxing with snow during the closing number.

* This lasts for practically a whole season on MalcolmInTheMiddle, after Hal and an old friend of his tear a wall off the house.

* Happens to the lead character, Harold, in ''StrangerThanFiction''.
* G-Girl crashes through her ex's penthouse roof on a couple of occasions in ''My Super Ex-Girlfriend''.

* Cyclops accidentally destroys the roof of the train station in ''Film/XMen'' with his optical blasts. When he later chides Wolverine for something else, Wolverine counters "I'm not the one who gave the train station a new sunroof!"

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* In ''BuckGodotZapGunForHire'' this happens to the bar Asteroid Al's at the conclusion of the [=PSmith=] arc, and despite bemoaning this fact Al, the owner of the newly open roof, has his girlfriend suggest that they put in a skylight.

* In "Fruits Basket" Shigure is always complaining how people are always destroying his house whether it's Kagura bursting through a door or Kyo coming through the roof.

* In "[[Fruits Basket]]" Shigure is always complaining how people are always destroying his house whether it's Kagura bursting through a door or Kyo coming through the roof.

* [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad]] has fallen through his own roof at least twice, though we never see the hole itself.

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* {{The Powerpuff Girls}} hardly ever leave a building besides their own house by a door or even a window. Lampshaded in the first regular series episode.

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* A running gag in the ''LethalWeapon'' movies, as Murtaugh's house got partly blown up by an exploding toilet in the first, and in the second, several scenes showcase the resulting renovation.

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* Lampshaded in the ''{{House}}'' episode "Que Sera Sera" by the patient. Because of his extraordinary obesity, emergency personnel removed much of his exterior bedroom wall so they could get him out of his apartment. At one point he jokes that at least he won't be alone for the week while this is repaired. [[spoiler:It's not so funny anymore when he's later diagnosed with lung cancer.]]

* This happens all the time to the Tendo home in ''[=~Ranma ½~=]'', usually caused by one of Ranma's martial artist rivals. The worst incident was caused when Rouge, a Chinese woman cursed to transform into an Asura, blew away half the roof with a fireball attack.

* This happens all the time to the Tendo home in ''[=~Ranma ½~=]'', usually caused by one of Ranma's martial artist rivals. The worst incident was caused when Rouge, a Chinese woman cursed to transform into an Asura, blew away half the roof with a fireball attack.

* During an episode of ''{{Sabrina the Teenaged Witch}},'' Sabrina is scoping out places to stay while she goes to college. Her aunts, desperate to have her stay home, use magic to cause all sorts of deformities to the places she visits, including removing the roof from one.

* Also a running gag in the ''Lethal Weapon'' movies.

* During an episode of ''{{Sabrina the Teenaged Witch}},'' Sabrina is coping out places to stay while she goes to college. Her aunts, desperate to have her stay home, use magic to cause all sorts of deformities to the places she visits, including removing the roof from one.