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* An episode of ''Series/TheMunsters'' had Grampa and Herman split the house down the middle after an argument about who actually owned the place heats up. This includes a painted white line (with some effort being put toward an actual stone wall), and the vindictive act of cutting in half any item halfway across both lines. The whole thing is put to rest when Lily uses some awkward food placement at the dinner table to get them to rethink the logistics of the layout.

If two characters who don't like each other, or who happen to be angry with each other at the moment (especially in a FeudEpisode), live in one house or apartment, one of them will be eventually seen painting a white line in the middle of the residence, explaining: "This is my side; this is yours. Don't go on my part!" Naturally, it's SeriousBusiness.

* ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'':

* ''Anime/MaiHime'': Akira and Takumi, who are roommates, have this arrangement, less because of any dislike between the characters than because Akira has a secret to keep from Takumi. Thus, Akira uses a curtain to separate the room, rather than a line.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Pineapple Fever", Squidward does this when he is stuck at [=SpongeBob's=] house during a storm. It backfires on him when he has to go to the kitchen for some food, and [=SpongeBob=] stops him from crossing, remembering Squidward's rules.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'', Nikki and Caitlin split their working sides in the mall in "[[FeudEpisode Fish And Make Up]]". [[PottyEmergency This ends up causing problems for the latter later on,]] [[BrickJoke due to the washrooms being on the former's side of the mall.]]

* ''Eddy & tThe Bear'': The titular characters do this with the woods during [[FeudEpisode "Kings for a Day"]].

* ''Eddy & the Bear'': The titular characters do this with the woods during a FeudEpisode.

** Downplayed in "Slice of Life"; We that Octavia (The cello Earth Pony) and Vinyl Scratch (The disc jockey pony) are housemates, and their house is literally split down the middle, each side reflecting their styles ala [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Two-Face.]] Nothing is made of it, and there's no indication that Vinyl and Octavia are on bad terms.

* An episode of ''Series/TheMunsters'' had Grampa and Herman split the house down the middle after an argument about who actually owned the place heats up. This includes a painted white line (with some effort being put toward an actual stone wall), and the vindictive act of cutting in half any item halfway across both lines. The whole thing is put to rest when Lilly uses some awkward food placement at the dinner table to get them to rethink the logistics of the layout.

* In ''Series/LifeWithDerek'', when Derek and Casey's family went on a road trip, Casey divided the house with pink and blue tape so that she and Derek can avoid each other.

* In ''Series/OneTreeHill'', Lucas and Peyton get into a fight and decide to use masking tape to divide the house into with the "no-cross" rule in effect. This cuts off Peyton's access to the kitchen appliances and the house's circuit breakers and Lucas' access to the bathroom and the front and back door.

* An episode of ''Series/CSIMiami'' was the investigation of a murder in the house of a couple that was undergoing a pretty bitter divorce (and the ensuing DivorceAssetsConflict going wrong in many ways). The very first thing that the police noticed when they went is was that that the couple had divided their house in two with a laser grid that would immediately trigger an alarm if somebody crossed it as a reminder to stay on their side.

* ''Series/HeyDude'' featured an episode in which bunkmates Brad and Melody fight over the latter's fondness for loud music and exercising, leading Melody to "solve" the problem by putting up a blanket as a dividing line, and then blasting her stereo, as she can do as she pleases on her side. However, the outlet into which her stereo is plugged is on Brad's side...

* A ''Magazine/NickelodeonMagazine'' issue had listed several annoying songs to sing in the car. One of them was to the tune of "Oh My Darling, Clementine", and was all about this trope.

* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'': In "Chip 'n Dale", Mickey, accusing Donald of causing trouble, tells him not to leave the lobby for the rest of the show and has [[Disney/AliceInWonderland a pencil-bird]] draw a line dividing the lobby and theater. Donald later goes past the line by [[LoopholeAbuse physically lifting it up and going under it]].

** In the novel ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', the basement room where Junior Postmen Toliver Groat and Stanley Howler live has a line going down the middle of the floor and across the top of the dining table, with a little "neutral zone" circle for the salt. A scrap of paper which has fallen partially on the fanatically neat Stanley's side has had the protruding edge removed, and the rest left. The two don't appear to dislike each other, they're just very private people. (Although Moist gets the definite feeling that the reason they don't dislike each other is ''because'' there's a line, which to him seems to say: "This is my side, this is your side. As long as we both remember that, there won't be any more ... trouble". And he gets this feeling ''before'' he learns about Stanley's "Little Moments".)
** The novel ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'' refers obliquely to the trope a few times, during scenes in which a group of Ankh-Morporkian and Klatchian fishermen are stranded on Leshp, as microcosms of the much bigger territorial dispute in the main plot.

* ''Anime/MaiHime'', Akira and Takumi, who are roommates, have this arrangement, less because of any dislike between the characters than because Akira has a secret to keep from Takumi. Thus, Akira uses a curtain to separate the room, rather than a line.

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

* In one story on ''ComicBook/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).

* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8730465/5/C-est-La-Vie C'est La Vie]]'' an alternate universe Literature/Harry Potter is such a JerkAss that the Gryffindor boys' dorm was split down the middle "on the first night of the first week of the first month of our first year here," as Neville puts it.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11495123/4/Finding-a-Family Finding a Family]]'' Harry reorganizes the Gryffindor boys' dorm so Ron is on one side of the line and the rest of the boys are on the other.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11191235/68/Harry-Potter-and-the-Prince-of-Slytherin Harry Potter and the Prince of Slytherin]]'' after Harry's twin brother Jim is revealed to be a Parselmouth, some anonymous soul splits the Gryffindor boys' dorm with a conjured brick wall so he and Neville are on one side with the rest of the boys on the other.
* In ''Fanfic/WhereTalentGoesOnVacation'',the students are paired up into cabins for their cruise. While most of the students get along reasonably well, Satoshi Karita and Yuichi Asakura can't stand each other, so Karita divides the cabin into thirds- his side, Asakura's side and a neutral area (the bathroom, the closet and the door) where only one of them can be at any given time.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''

* In ''Series/HappyDays,'' Ralph and Potsie acted on the bad advice secretly written by Richie in an advice column about dividing their apartment. This creates a war of sides where each has the entirety of a necessary part of the apartment (Ralph=kitchen, Potsie=bathroom). Eventually, the resulting fight gets so bad that when Richie tries to resolve the situation, he has to make them all stand on the line itself as neutral territory like tightrope walkers, only to have Fonz come and note to the bizarre sight, "And you're doing it without a net."
* In ''Series/{{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.

* In the "Milky Jo" episode of ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' Howard and Vince end up washed up on a desert island and divide it up this way. Howard doesn't realise until after he's drawn the line that all of the trees (so basically everything of use) is on Vince's side of the island.

* ''Series/TheXFiles''. In "Never Again" Scully complains that she has to share Mulder's desk. Mulder responds that there's no room in their cramped basement for two desks anyway. Scully is pissed off at this and continues to remain so throughout the episode, engaging in a number of OutOfCharacter behaviors like getting a tattoo. At the end of the episode Mulder says, "I don't understand...all this over a desk?" Scully just replies: "Not everything is about you, Mulder." [[spoiler:The truth is Scully had just discovered she had cancer and is keeping it from Mulder.]]

* In an episode of ''Series/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.

* ''Series/FullHouse'', D.J. divided the room she shared with her younger sister Stephanie. Too bad Stephanie's half didn't have access to the door.
* In ''Series/OneTreeHill'' Lucas and Peyton get into a fight and decide to use masking tape to divide the house into with the "no-cross" rule in effect. This cuts off Peyton's access to the kitchen appliances and the house's circuit breakers and Lucas' access to the bathroom and the front and back door.

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKN_f5rQ_Zc one call]] on ''Series/LivePD'' a separated couple divides their house in half and one of them lives on either side. The police are regularly called when the boundary is violated.

* In ''Theatre/{{Zemsta}}'' they have an actual stone wall.

-->''Gordon''': "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."

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''

* In ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' "The Ski Trip", Dan and Elise get SnowedIn a cabin together, so Dan divides the cabin in half, going so for as to declare his side Dantopia.

* Israeli author Ephraim Sidon presents a particularly extreme version of the trope in his children's book, ''Uzu and Muzu from Kakamaruzu''. The titular Uzu and Muzu are brothers who share an extremely strong bond well through adulthood, until they have a petty fight over the correct way to cross one's leg. After the fight escalates to violence, the brothers build a huge wall in the middle of their house and never speak to each other again. The wall remains in place for generations, to the point where the original connection between the families on either side of the wall is completely forgotten, not to mention the reason for the fight.

* Seen during the pageant in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Hearth's Warming Eve". After the three bickering rulers of the earth pony, pegasus, and unicorn tribes get stranded in a cave during a blizzard, the rulers start arguing over who gets what part of the cave, with the pegasus leader eventually starting them on drawing lines in the dirt.

If two characters that don't like each other, or who happen to be angry with each other at the moment (especially in a FeudEpisode), live in one house or apartment, one of them will be eventually seen painting a white line in the middle of the residence, explaining: "This is my side; this is yours. Don't go on my part!" Naturally, it's SeriousBusiness.

* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8730465/5/C-est-La-Vie C'est La Vie]]'' an alternate universe's Literature/Harry Potter is such a JerkAss that the Gryffindor boys' dorm was split down the middle "on the first night of the first week of the first month of our first year here," as Neville Longbottom puts it.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11495123/4/Finding-a-Family Finding a Family]]'' Harry reorganizes the Gryffindor boys' dorm so that Ron is on one side of the line and the rest of the boys are on the other.

* ''Anime/MaiHime'', less because of any dislike between the characters than because Akira has a secret to keep from Takumi. Thus, Akira uses a curtain to separate the room, rather than a line.

* Used in Djy's video adaption of ''Fanfic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences''. [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]] uses this on John Freeman, but he gets bored after 3 seconds and shoots her with a RPG.

* Done in an episode of ''Sesame Tree'', the Northern Irish version of ''Series/SesameStreet''. The two characters realise that dividing the room is silly, and they should learn how to share it. [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Clearly no analogy intended there.]]

* An Al Brodax ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon had Popeye and Brutus running a hotel. Popeye wants the hotel to emphasize good food while Brutus wants to emhapsize great entertainment. Popeye paints a line through half the hotel, telling Brutus to run his half his way and Popeye will run ''his'' half ''his'' way. It's all mutual until their first guest, Olive Oyl, arrives. The two start sabotaging each other's emphasis in trying to appease Olive.

* In the "Milky Jo" episode of ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' Howard and Vince end up washed up on a desert island and divide it up this way.