History Main / TreehouseofFun

* [[DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]] (and probably the other Disney "Magic Kingdom" parks) has one in Adventureland. It was originally based on the one from ''Film/SwissFamilyRobinson'', but was later revised to be ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}''-themed instead.

* The ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Virt-Ed-Go" has the Eds build their own treehouse after seeing an advertisement for Joe's Clubhouse

* ''Literature/TheMagicTreehouse'' series have two kids, Jack and Annie that go into their magic treehouse and are transported through time.

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* In the movie version of ''BridgeToTerabithia'' there is one used by the main characters as refuge place from real life problems.

* George and Harold of ''CaptainUnderpants'' drew comics in the treehouse.

* ''{{Toon}}'' has a setting called "Toony Tykes Adventures" for fans of stuff like ''Calvin and Hobbes'', ''LittleLulu'' and the like. One of the scenarios features the "Treehouse of Doom", a super-awesome treehouse designed with input from actual kids.

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* Click Clock Wood in ''{{Banjo-Kazooie}}'' features a treehouse in different stages of completion, throughout the various versions of the world. If you go in it once it's finished, you can find a [[PlotCoupon Jiggy.]]
* The HubLevel[=/=]menu screen for the first world of ''ABoyAndHisBlob'' (Wii) is a treehouse. A really ''epic'' treehouse, with three stories as well as a lookout.

* One of the earlier {{Edutainment}} computer games had a treehouse. There was a chalkboard you could draw on, and a telescope you could look through, a few links to mini-games and some 'just for fun' clicky-things. It was neat, for the time, but you tended to run through the limits of what you could do really quickly.
* ''{{Limbo}}'' has lots of treehouses. How fun they are, are left up to player's imagination.

* The duo of SuicideForHire runs their questionable business out of their old treehouse. The "fun" part is for them, as the door for customers is lined with booby traps.

* ''HeyArnold'' has Mighty Pete, a tree that Helga's father Big Bob wanted to tear down to put a Big Bob's Beepers chain in its place, but in the end, the kids and Arnold's grandma saved the tree.

* ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has a huge, sky-scraping monstrosity of a treehouse as not only a clubhouse, but a secret headquarters, one of many across the globe. The KND even have a tree house ''on the Moon''; after [[spoiler:it gets lost to a ColonyDrop in TheMovie]], they build a BIGGER one.
* ''TheBradyKids'' in the BandToon of ''TheBradyBunch'' were often seen in their treehouse.

* The treehouse in ''MyPetMonster'' had a {{surprise slide staircase}}.

* The first issue of PhilFoglio's revival of ''ComicBook/StanleyAndHisMonster'' revolves around Stanley's attempts to build the world's best ever treehouse, following the instructions in a book of Fun Things For Boys he finds in the attic, without his parents finding out.
* In ''CrossingMidnight'', Toshi jumping out of the treehouse that the twins loved playing in so much is how she discovers that she is MadeOfIron.

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* In ''{{Sleepover}}'', Julie and her friends have to sneak out of the house and go into her treehouse, painted in bright pink and yellow.
* ''StandByMe'' has the boys hanging out in one of these at the beginning of the film.
* ''MonsterSquad'' hold their meetings in one.

* ''StepBrothers'' features a traditional tree-house enjoyed by the two leads and stocked with an impressive collection of porno magazines from several decades. Eventually replaced by an even cooler tree-house made from the remains of a small boat.
* In Disney's SwissFamilyRobinson, the titular family contrives to build one as a home on the island where they're stranded. [[FridgeLogic Why didn't they put their ingenuity and materials toward building a boat?]] RuleOfCool, of course!

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Twilight Sparkle lives in an apartment at Ponyville's Golden Oaks Library, which is built into a large tree. Also, in "The Show Stoppers", Applejack lets Apple Bloom and her friends use her old tree-house as a clubhouse for the Cutie Mark Crusaders. It's a mess when they first find it, but Apple Bloom manages to fix it up.

* The treehouse from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has got to take the cake: it's [[KidHero Finn]] and [[NonHumanSidekick Jake]]'s actual home, built into a hollowed-out tree with numerous rooms connected by ladders. Also, it was apparently built by a vampire.

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* The first issue of PhilFoglio's revival of ''StanleyAndHisMonster'' revolves around Stanley's attempts to build the world's best ever treehouse, following the instructions in a book of Fun Things For Boys he finds in the attic, without his parents finding out.

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin and Hobbes are in the treehouse a lot. Hobbes gets a lot of mileage out of the fact he's the only one who can climb up without the rope ladder being down.

* The treehouse from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has got to take the cake.

* Subverted by ''CosmicOsmo''. In the middle of a ''universe'' of fun, the treehouse is "a place of relaxation" with nothing but a hot beverage dispenser and some teacups on a picnic table.

* The treehouse in ''My Pet Monster'' had a {{surprise slide staircase}}.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Twilight Sparkle lives in an apartment at Ponyville's Golden Oaks Library, which is built into a large tree. Also, in "The Show Stoppers", Applejack lets Apple Bloom and her friends use her old tree-house as a clubhouse for the Cutie Mark Crusaders. It's a mess when they first find it, but Apple Bloom manages to fix it up.

* ''HeyArnold'' has Mighty Pete, a tree that Helga's father Big Bob wanted to tear down to put a Big Bob's Beeper chain in its place, but in the end, the kids and Arnold's grandma saved the tree.

* The treehouse of ''HeyArnold''.

* ''TheMagicTreehouse'' series have two kids, Jack and Annie that go into their magic treehouse and are transported through time.

* The live action ''TheBradyBunch'' briefly had a treehouse too, just long enough for Bobby to sprain his ankle climbing up, developing a fear of heights.

* Cory moves into his treehouse in the pilot of BoyMeetsWorld because his brother betrays him and his parents take his brother's side.

* In ''CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin and Hobbes are in the treehouse a lot. Hobbes gets a lot of mileage out of the fact he's the only one who can climb up without the rope ladder being down.
* A ''{{Peanuts}}'' Sunday strip had Linus startled by a falling plank of wood. He stops and watches as more planks, tools, and eventually Charlie Brown crash down from above, then consoles him on how hard it is to build a treehouse.

* One episode of ''SouthPark'' had the kids building a treehouse to play Truth or Dare in. Randy and Sharon both remembering playing in a treehouse is part of the subplot.
* [[TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] had a Treehouse of Fun, which occasionally turned into a [[HalloweenEpisode Treehouse of Horror]].
* FairlyOddParents: Timmy Turner had a treehouse.
* PhineasAndFerb rebuilt their and Candace's treehouses in "Tree to Get Ready", with an additional feature to [[TransformingMecha transform into battling robots]].

* T.J. owns one in ''{{Recess}}''.

* A ''{{Peanuts}}'' Sunday strip had Linus startled by a falling plank of wood. He stops and watches as more planks, tools, and eventually Charlie Brown drop from above, then consoles him on how hard it is to build a treehouse.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Twilight Sparkle lives in an apartment at Ponyville's Golden Oak Library, which is built into a large tree. Also, in "The Show Stoppers", Applejack lets Apple Bloom and her friends use her old tree-house as a clubhouse for the Cutie Mark Crusaders. It's a mess when they first find it, but Apple Bloom manages to fix it up.