History Main / ThisIsMySide

* Donkey did this with {{Shrek}}'s Swamp.

* In one episode of ''Drop The Dead Donkey'', Henry and Sally have to share a desk and get into an argument about each keeping to their own side. As the episode goes on the argument takes an increasingly militaristic tone with disputes about how one of them has made excursions into the agreed-upon neutral zone in the middle of the desk. In the end, Helen removes their desk entirely and puts two kiddie tables in its place.

* ''My Talk Show'': Guest William Shatner takes over one section of the house/set and declares it Canadian territory.

* DrakeAndJosh have done this at least once.
* In an episode of DadsArmy Hodges and Mainwaring have to share and office and Hodges attempts to draw a line down the middle of the desk in chalk, which Mainwaring keeps rubbing off.

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->''"This is '''my''' side, '''that's''' your side! This is my side, you stay on your side! My side, your side, my side, your side, '''my''' side... '''your''' side!"''

->''"Look, we're both stuck in this place. I'll use lasers to inscribe a line down the centre of [[DeathCourse the facility!]] And one half will be where you live, and I'll live in the other half. We won't have [[BossFight to try to kill each other,]] or even '''talk''' [[VillainousBreakdown if we don't feel like it!]]"''
-->--'''[=GLaDOS=],''' ''{{Portal}}''

* While there was no actual line drawn, in ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' Asuka tells Shinji that the door between two rooms is "the impenetrable wall of Jericho, Third Child. Take one step over this line and you'll be a dead man." Given that in the story from the Bible, [[AnalogyBackfire the wall of Jericho fell at the sound of a trumpet]], many fans perceived this as a FreudianSlip.

* William does this in the {{Kuroshitsuji}} manga to Sebastian when forced to share a room during the Circus arc. Enforces it with gusto when Ciel encroaches on his space by 3 cm.

* The GordonKorman young adult novel ''TheToiletPaperTigers''. The bratty older brother has laid tape down the middle of the room, and penalizes any (real or imagined) affront with moving the tape to shrink the younger brother's side.

* In ''TheDisappearanceOfSisterPerfect'', the title character divides her and her sister's bedroom in two by gluing a line of hair ribbons to the floor.

* In MySistersKeeper, Kate and Anna did this at one point as children. Kate graciously allowed Anna to choose the side with all of her favorite toys on it, then smiled smugly as she left, since hers was the only side with a door.

* The TropeMaker may well be the ''ILoveLucy'' episode "Men Are Messy", in which Lucy - fed up with cleaning up after a careless Ricky - divides their apartment with masking tape and tells him to look after his own half.

* In ''{{Farscape}}'' Stark split his and Crichton's shared prison cell in this way, with some slightly creepy ranting, which became something of a feature of his character.
** "My side, your side" was his catch phrase, used in a number of contexts.
** To be fair with Stark, while he ''is'' a little crazy, in the prison he was [[ObfuscatingInsanity playing it up]].

* In an episode of the ''FernwoodTonight''ish ''MyTalkShow'', guest William Shatner takes over one section of the house/set and declares it Canadian territory.
* A variation occurs in a sketch from ''TheBennyHillShow''. Russain and American sides of an unnamed European Country are decided after years of negotiation - down the center of the bedroom of a pair of newlyweds. A painter paints a line down the wall and on the floor. Suddenly the husband (on the Amerian side) needs a passport to visit his wife (on the Russain side).

* In ForBetterOrForWorse, Mike and Dee's downstairs neighbours complain that there are toys all over the entrance hall, so Mike puts down a line of tape and says they'll keep their stroller, tricycles, etc. on one side and the Kelpfroths can keep their side as tidy as they like.

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* Legendary bar [[http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3635/3396376241_b8d24629a4.jpg?v=0 Cafe Lautrec]] in Adams Morgan, Washington DC closed after its two owners, who came from competing tribes in Eritrea, went to war against one another, ''War of the Roses''-style. [[http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/17612/drinking-games They divided everything in the bar down the middle,]] staffing alternate shifts, keeping separate books, and brown-bagging liquor, even going so far as to visit the bar on alternate nights to tell customers not to patronize the place, submitting bomb-threats and ABC violations against their own establishment when the other owner was on-duty.
* East and West Germany, with the most visible part being the Berlin Wall. This was taken to such an extreme that when the Berlin U-Bahn was divided, a couple of ghost stations existed where the trains passed through on the wrong side of the wall.
* Basically this was the original premise of nation-states, if you think about it. Especially if a country is self-divided long after its borders are initially established. ('''[[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement No specific examples, please.]]''')
** Especially when one considers how language, culture, and all the meaningful aspects of individuals and collectives fade one into the other without as clear-cut barriers as those imposed by the current multi-governmental system, and within a single government many idiolects, microcultures and such co-exist without barriers.
* This trope was played ''extremely'' straight by Mitford sisters Unity and Jessica. Unity was an ardent Nazi; her sister Jessica, three years younger, was a similarly-ardent communist. They shared a room. In [[TheGreatDepression the '30s]]. They very quickly took a piece of chalk to the floor, dividing the room in two. On Unity's side were innumerable swastikas and pictures of AdolfHitler. On Jessica's were similarly innumerable hammers and sickles and pictures of VladimirLenin.
** And whose side were the bathroom and/or the kitchen on?
*** Fortunately, they didn't have to worry about that. It was their parents' house (they were the teenage daughters of a baron in the 1930s, so this was expected): the kitchen was downstairs and the bathroom was down the hall.
* Some college dorms.
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* Frankly ''bizarre'' example in FinalFantasyXIII: early on, when Vanille and Sazh stop for the night, she grabs a stick and draws a circle around her blanket, and orders him not to cross the line, to much eye-rolling on his part. (It then cuts to her distinctly on the wrong side of the line, huddled against his back and sniffling... the whole thing is kind of weird, and pretty sad.)

* Episode 11 of ''[=~Freeman's Mind~=]'' references this. After he hops over a laser tripwire, a Vortigaunt spawns on the other side of it. After killing it, he shouts "Stay on your side of the line! My roommate in college used to do the same thing... Your side is the one where everyone is dead and there are no exits. My side is the one filled with hope, love and submachine guns."

* Subverted: On an episode of ''TheSimpsons'', Homer begins to draw a line across the house "Ã la ''I Love Lucy''" after a fight with Marge, but instead draws himself into a tiny corner of the bedroom. A straight use of the trope is also mentioned in passing by Principal Skinner, when he says that his mother put cardboard over her half of the TV screen.

--->'''Bart:''' It's right THERE! (The camera pans down to Bart's name sprawled on the carpet).

* In one story on ''TheSmurfs'', the village is divided over linguistic issues (they can't agree on the use of "smurf") and one enterprising Smurf paints a line along the middle. Unfortunately, it runs right through one poor Smurf's home, creating confusion as to which side he belongs to.
** The whole story must've been an allegory on the French / Dutch language struggle in Belgium (where the Smurfs' creator is from).
* Parodied in ''CloneHigh'': Joan and Cleo are forced to share a room, so Joan paints a line dividing it in half — a ''horizontal'' line (bunk beds, you see). Cleo gets the lower half, and Joan gradually becomes "like a monkey in every way."

* Done in the "DarkwingDuck" episode "Bad Tidings", where the perpetually feuding Darkwing and Grizlikoff paint a line on the desert island they're trapped on. Taken to the logical extreme at the end of the episode, where they do the same thing to the moon. (It makes sense in context..sorta.)

* In one episode of ''SouthPark'', the townsfolk enter a huge argument with themselves over the Iraq war. They eventually decide to split the town into what Skeeter calls the "Pro-War side" and the "Unpatriotic side" (to which Randy responds they should call the Anti-War side the "Rational side" and the Pro-War side the "Redneck side"). Very quickly they realise the flaw in their plan as the town only has one school, post office, grocery store, etc. Eventually, they make a realisation that they're behaving foolishly:

* On ''AmericanDad'', Stan and Francine draw a line across the house after a fight over remodeling the kitchen. It's an InvokedTrope, as Stan comments he saw it on ''TheBradyBunch''.

** Used in Djy's video adaption of Full-Life Consequences. GLaDOS uses this on John Freeman, but he gets bored after 3 seconds and shoots her with a RPG.

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* In ''CherryJuice'' a NotBloodSiblings brother and sister have to share a room when their grandmother moves into the house after suffering a hip injury.

*** This troper always assumed that was because she broke the agreement. You know, the not talking part.

-->--'''[=GLaDOS=],''' ''{{Portal}} (DummiedOut line).''

On BillCosby's record ''To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With'', the title track is a twenty-minute long narrative describing what happened when a young Cosby decided to pull this trope on his baby brother with the bed they shared.

* In ForBetterOrForWorse, Mike and Dee's downstairs neighbours complain that there are toys all over the entrance hall, so Mike puts down a line of tape and says they'll keep their stroller, tricycles, etc. on one side and the [[ Kelpfroths]] can keep their side as tidy as they like.

* The Berlin Wall.

* Happened in one episode of ''GulligansIsland''.

* This trope was played ''extremely'' straight by Mitford sisters Unity and Jessica. Unity was an ardent Nazi; her sister Jessica, three years younger, was a similarly-ardent communist. They shared a room. In [[TheGreatDepression the '30s]]. They very quickly took a piece of chalk to the floor, dividing the room in two. On Unity's side were innumerable swastikas and pictures of AdolfHitler. On Jessica's were similarly innumerable hammers and sickles and pictures of VladimirLenin.