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** Ted and Robin hang a takeout menu from (now closed) [[IncrediblyLamePun Mr. Wang's]] restaurant.

* Used in ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' [[http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/need/ here]] when Sierra is told to leave and laments [[DoesNotLikeShoes not having a sock]] to hang on the door once she's out, only to have [[LovableSexManiac Joe]] show up with one at the ready.

--->"Hey, you're meant to leave a tie on the door if you have a lady in the room. Or a ski hat if you have [[ADateWithRosiePalms a picture of a lady]]...

* The signal in ''Film/{{Phffft}}''! is as follows: there's a statue whose eyes light up when turned on, and so the idea is to face it towards the window, so the roommate will know that the apartment is ''occupied''.

* One death on Series/OneThousandWaysToDie involved a JerkJock who constantly did this to his nerdy roommate. Eventually, however, the roommate meets a girl and finally gets his own chance to score. The jock, however, barges in while they are doing it and gets on his bottom bunk while the nerd tries to keep doing it on the top bunk. To do the math, one couple having sex on the top bunk of a bunk bed + one jackass egging on while laying on the bottom bunk + the title of the show being "1000 Ways to ''Die''" = one dead jock.

* The short-lived college comedy ''Series/{{Undeclared}}'' used this with the scrunchy on the doorknob at the end of an episode that had established this as the signal, much to the surprise of everyone who had thought that Steven was too nerdy to actually get any.

* Ted and Robin in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' hang a takeout menu from (now closed) [[IncrediblyLamePun Mr. Wang's]] restaurant.

* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': Done by leaving your boots outside the door.

* One of Pablo Francisco's skits involves a response to this situation would be to blare incredibly mood-killing music from the other side.

* In Tom Wolfe's ''I Am Charlotte Simmons'', the prudent title character meets someone else in Sexile and complains to her, only to find the other is really bitter because she wants to do it herself.

* The short-lived college comedy ''Series/{{Undeclared}}'' used this with the scrunchy on the doorknob at the end an episode that had established this as the signal, much to the surprise of everyone who had thought that Steven was too nerdy to actually get any.

* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''. Done by leaving your boots outside the door.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5099170/1/Future-s-Past]]'', in which Will Riker and Tasha Yar end up in the early 21st century due to a temporal anomaly, Riker's habit of doing this becomes a major source of contention between the pair. They end up having a major blowup fight over it, leading to Tasha temporarily moving out until they reconcile a few weeks later.

* [[VideoGame/TheSims Sims]] will shoo others out of the room before "Woohooing".

* [[VisualNovel/TheFreshman The Sophomore]]: In his backstory, Chris was thrown out of his room twice by Manny in order to have sex with his girlfriend.

* Referenced in ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' when Michel walks in on Alto and Sheryl and says "Didn't we each promise to stick a handkerchief in the doorjam when one of us has a girl in the room?" Of course, it's NotWhatItLooksLike...

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11898648/43/Harry-Potter-and-the-Rune-Stone-Path Harry Potter and the Rune Stone Path]]'' Bathsheda Babbling puts a sock on her bedroom doorknob as a signal for Harry to stay away.