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| 16 | [[quoteright:200:[[https://jollyjack.deviantart.com/art/How-to-play-Prince-of-Persia-110110857 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HowToPlay_01_200_9367.png]]]] |
| 17 | [[caption-width-right:200: [[ComicallyMissingThePoint So we're going out to eat?]]]] |
| 18 | ->''"It came seventeen years ago--and to this day''\ |
| 19 | ''It has shown no intention of going away."'' |
| 20 | -->-- '''Creator/EdwardGorey''', "Literature/TheDoubtfulGuest" |
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| 22 | Everyone wants to be polite, especially to a guest in your home, and [[SacredHospitality hospitality is a sacred virtue]]. Unfortunately, your courtesy is not always reciprocated, and, to your horror, you can find yourself trapped with '''The Thing That Would Not Leave'''--the guest who stays seemingly forever. |
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| 24 | Many a DomCom has used the set-up of a house guest who will not leave, despite hints and repeated requests. The put-upon homeowners must find a way to remove this unwanted guest without being rude, but no matter how many times they yawn, look at the clock, or mention an early appointment for the next day, their guest remains an immovable fixture on the couch. |
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| 26 | The most common way of getting caught in this trap is to take in a friend or relative who's [[LoserProtagonist down on their luck]] "just for a few days". Supposedly the situation will be temporary until they get back on their feet. Invariably the friend will either be [[CloudCuckoolander a complete eccentric]] or have absolutely [[ItsAllAboutMe no regard for the people]] whose home they're squatting in. After having their lives turned completely upside down by someone who appears to have no clue as to the harm they're doing, the inevitable confrontation occurs. |
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| 28 | Expect a tearful farewell from the guest as they disappear out into the cold, and a mountain of regret from the homeowners as they wonder whether there was a better way to handle the situation. Or, alternatively, an ''attempt'' for the guest to provoke a tearful farewell by acting wounded and [[MinorInsultMeltdown bemoaning their hosts' ungraciousness]] -- only for the by-now hard-hearted host, who has gone way past any limits of tolerance they may have had with this annoying and inconsiderate leech, to push them out the door (perhaps while screaming, "GetOut"), slam it shut and lock it behind them. |
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| 30 | Alternately, the host may end up facing a serious crisis that could lead to their being humiliated, ruined or otherwise facing a very bad outcome. When the host is at the end of their rope, the guest solves the problem either by turning to be a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass who turns their skills to repaying their host's kindness, being TheSocialExpert and charming whoever is causing the host's grief, etc. The host's aggravation will likely dissipate after this. |
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| 32 | Pity the adherent of SacredHospitality, who might have to put up with this from people they don't even ''like''. [[ObviousRulePatch As a result of this]], many such codes include an upper limit on how long the rules apply or circumstances under which the rules no longer apply, such as if the guest was caught stealing from their hosts, or tried to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape any of the hosts]]. Compare the BasementDweller, who may become this to his (or more rarely, her) parents, especially if the dweller is still something of a SpoiledBrat. If they stay for more than one episode and become a mainstay of the series, they may be a TokenHouseguest. |
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| 34 | Named for the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch that presented this premise [[FauxHorrific as a horror movie trailer]], featuring John Belushi as the Thing. Compare with TheCatCameBack and PrettyFreeloaders. For those who refuse to leave because they forget it's ''not'' their house, see HouseAmnesia. |
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| 37 | !!Examples: |
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| 39 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 40 | |
| 41 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 42 | * A Taco Bell radio ad for a super-sized menu item poses the situation where a person attending a party doesn't leave despite many subtle hints. The ad suggests buying the item, which is large enough for two people, and eating it by yourself to make the point clear. |
| 43 | * Microsoft ran an ad where Seinfield and Bill Gates [[AudienceAlienatingPremise stayed way past their welcome]] in an average family home in an effort to understand the average consumer. |
| 44 | * A commercial for a flu medication featured Wayne [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} "Newman"]] Knight playing a personification of the disease, who refuses to leave a family's home as he spreads illness and annoyance to them all. |
| 45 | * A variation occurs in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aR4S-73Iyg this Washington state lottery commercial]], where paying off one mime to stop his acting attracts other mimes who try to pull off the same act in order to get paid to leave. |
| 46 | -->'''Lottery Winner:''' Go away! |
| 47 | * According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUYElRvYudE a 1979 commercial]], one of the things Airwick Carpet Fresh can help you with is "the fish that comes to dinner... and stays". |
| 48 | [[/folder]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 51 | * In ''Anime/BlackRockShooter'', Kagari calls Mato this and resorts to being [[CreepyChild completely goddamned scary]] to drive her away. |
| 52 | --> [[ArcWords "Go away! Go away! Go away! Go away!"]] |
| 53 | * Sakura from ''Literature/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'' suffers greatly from this trope, since Dokuro-chan decides to live with him. Oh, and did we mention she beats the living shit out of him to the point of killing him? That's fine, she just resurrects him, only to kill him again and again... And there's nothing he can do, she's come to stay. |
| 54 | * ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'': This is brought up by Agumon himself during the final episode when he tells Masaru that he's going to return to the Digital World. Prior to this, Agumon was welcomed by the Daimon household because he's Masaru's partner and surrogate younger brother and both were working for DATS. But after the GrandFinale, DATS gets disbanded and all Digimon are returning to their original world, something that Masaru doesn't want to accept. Agumon has to make it clear to him that "Digimon alarm" isn't going to be a thing anymore, and if Agumon were to stay with the Daimons (even if they're still welcoming him), all he would be is a freeloader who does nothing but eat tamagoyaki all day, becoming more of a burden the longer he's staying. |
| 55 | * ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': An early stage of Ling Yao's friendship with Ed consists of Ling sitting uninvited in Ed's hotel room [[BigEater ordering room service by the ton]] at Ed's expense. Luckily for Ed's wallet, the stage doesn't last for too long, because Ling is also a BadassNormal with the ability to detect homunculi, and so are both of his bodyguards, so they quickly get involved in the actual plot. |
| 56 | * [[JerkassGods Momiji]] of ''Manga/GoodLuckGirl'' is a unique example, since she actually ''can't'' leave until she steals a large amount of [[AlphaBitch Ichiko's]] fortune energy, because he was born with more energy than normal humans. |
| 57 | * In ''Anime/HareGuu'' Hare suddenly has to live with Guu, since his mother decided to adopt her out of the blue. Guu also loves to torment the poor kid, and he can't do anything against it. |
| 58 | * [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Northern Italy]] from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' is this to Germany initially, hanging around, irritating him, and generally being useless. Despite Germany's attempts to throw him out, then ''give'' him away, he [[TheCatCameBack always returns]]. Eventually the two become close friends, however. |
| 59 | * ''Manga/{{Hinamatsuri}}'': Yakuza gangster Nitta finds himself forced to take care of a young telekinetic girl who just arrived at his house one day. |
| 60 | * In ''Manga/KannagiCrazyShrineMaidens'', Jin suddenly sees his house shared with Nagi who doesn't have a hint of courtesy and gratitude in her. Though he does have some confrontations with her, he eventually sets that aside and learns to like her the way she is. |
| 61 | * ''Anime/{{Kiznaiver}}'': Chidori accuses both Tenga and Hisomu of being this. Tenga moves in with Katsuhira after their first adventure to guarantee he would not hurt himself by accident since he FeelsNoPain and Hisomu starts hanging out in Katsuhira's house all the time just because he wants Katsuhira to hurt himself. |
| 62 | * The "Baka" prince from ''Manga/LevelE'' made himself a guest in Tsutsui's house, much to his annoyance. |
| 63 | * In ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'', the thing that would not leave (Neuro) is not only in Yako's house, but anywhere she goes. He treats her like a dog, but somehow she gets used to his extravagances. |
| 64 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantes'': Professional superhero Eraserhead becomes this to a couple of drug dealers of all people, routinely using their hideout for stakeouts without asking and randomly popping in to get the word on the street from them. He basically treats this as their punishment, since they're too small-time to be worth busting (they actually sell a totally legal drug, they just aren't licensed). |
| 65 | * RomanticComedy ''Manga/PleaseGoHomeAkutsuSan'' is a classic tale of "[[JapaneseDelinquents delinquent girl]] meets boy, girl [[StalkerWithACrush stalks boy to find where he lives, girl shows up basically every single day]] and quickly begins staying there while boy's too much of a ChivalrousPervert to mind". |
| 66 | * ''Anime/PokemonJourneysTheSeries'': A Morpeko follows the Team Rocket trio from Galar all the way back to Kanto, and ends up routinely devouring their food, much to their chagrin and annoyance. Eventually, though, [[CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem James ends up growing fond of it and catches it]]. |
| 67 | * Invoked by Miki in ''Manga/RamenFighterMiki'' episode 7 A, “Peel Off the Fake Smile”, when BurgerFool Miki wants to expose TheRival Megumi true nature as a BitchInSheepsClothing. Miki goes to Megumi’s bakery as a client and stays there for hours, trying to get into Megumi’s nerves and make her drop her façade of TheFakeCutie in front of Megumi’s clients, ensuring they see BeneathTheMask and so they would not return to Megumi’s bakery. |
| 68 | * ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has Happosai, the greedy old lecher who trained Soun and Genma, and who now insists that he has a right to stay at Soun's house despite his constant sexual harassment of Soun's daughters. Every attempt to kick him out has failed and has often led to comedic DisproportionateRetribution. |
| 69 | ** From the Tendo daughters' point of view, Ranma and Genma are this as well. Many a fanfic call them out on it. |
| 70 | * ''Literature/ReZero'': Roswaal's librarian, Beatrice, has enhanced his library to prevent anyone but him from entering. This serves especially well in her favor as she prefers her own company. Unfortunately for her, Subaru is immune to the enchantment and can enter the library at any time he wants, which he does on a regular basis to visit Beatrice. This of course bothers Beatrice to no end but she can't do anything about it because Beatrice herself has no idea how Subaru can get past her magic. |
| 71 | * Ageha in ''VisualNovel/TheyAreMyNobleMasters''. [[spoiler:She kisses Ren]] and begins ignoring her own butler, makes him train, takes up all his time and attention, obstructs his duties, and makes him cook dinner. While not quite to comedic {{lethal chef}} levels, he's never cooked before. |
| 72 | * ''Manga/UzakiChanWantsToHangOut'': Uzaki makes a point of being present at Sakurai's apartment as much as she possibly can, so that his resistance against her gradually diminishes. One of her more subtle methods to encroach him is by gradually bringing her own stuff into his apartment, which he chides her for. That is, until she offers to cook for him, leaving him no foothold to reclaim his lost space. |
| 73 | [[/folder]] |
| 74 | |
| 75 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 76 | * At the end of ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo and the Vengeful Dead'', Dr Dinosaur decides (based on his typical moon logic) that Tesladyne consulting with him about Zorth cartography and related interdimensional shenanigans during the plot constituted a job offer, and declares himself Phil Broughton's roommate at Tesladyne. Phil is not pleased. |
| 77 | * The ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics miniseries ''Topokolossal'' had this as one of the secondary plots: while the main plot was about Mickey Mouse and friends [[ItMakesSenseInContext being tricked by Pete, Portis, and Black Spot into starring in a science fiction series with a sadistic director so they won't investigate the three thieves' latest robbery]], one of the secondary plots had a family from Mouseton watching the series... And their friends from Duckburg, who had done the same in the previous story about Scrooge's soap opera, mooching off them and ignoring suggestions they just leave until [[ItMakesSenseInContext the villains try and fail to]] TakeOverTheWorld, during which they stayed there to protect their friends' house from the droid armies... And, as pointed out by their host, left their own house defenseless and could have been thrashed, at which point they run back hoping it had been spared. |
| 78 | * A ''ComicBook/SilentHill'' graphic novel puts a horror twist on this. A bum artist who went from friend to friend mooching this way sees a report on Silent Hill, an abandoned town that still has water and electricity and fully stocked markets. Never questioning his luck for a second, he moves there and starts painting... and seeing ungodly abominations who are always polite to him and pose for his portraits. He paints them, sends the portraits to his manager, becomes famous and rich... and realizes he's in a ClosedCircle. The town is [[AnAesop punishing his impoliteness]]. He tries to escape with the help of a bus full of cheerleaders, but that ends badly. |
| 79 | * ComicBook/SquirrelGirl kicked ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} out of the [[ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers GLI]] clubhouse when he wouldn't leave. She was alerted in a MeanwhileInTheFuture situation: she had gone to the future, and the team leader (who is immortal) had waited 90 years to ask her to go back in time to kick Deadpool out. |
| 80 | * Done in the Swedish comic strip ''Rocky'', down to even using this same title, with Rocky's friend Rippo being drunk off his ass after a party in his apartment, where he ends up causing a flood in the kitchen and costing Rocky a hookup with a girl he met. He then comments that Rocky really needs to get laid since he's acting all tense. [[BlackComedyRape So Rocky takes it out on Rippo's ass... literally]] |
| 81 | * ComicBook/{{Tintin}}: |
| 82 | ** In ''[[Recap/TintinTheCastafioreEmerald The Castafiore Emerald]]'', Bianca Castafiore invites herself to Marlinspike Hall for a vacation. She ends up spending several weeks there. |
| 83 | ** Jolyon Wagg (SĂ©raphin Lampion) is even worse, as he lacks any and all awareness of how much people loathe him, his intrusive behavior, and his incessant attempts to sell them insurance. (Even Bianca Castafiore can't put up with him.) At one point he ''and his entire extended family'' moves into Marlinspike Hall, with no intention of leaving even when Haddock outright tells them to. Until Calculus (incorrectly) tells him Haddock has a contagious disease; ''then'' they leave in a hurry |
| 84 | * ''ComicBook/UltimateDaredevilAndElektra'': Subverted when the shop (which was also his house) was destroyed, Elektra asks her sensei to allow her father to stay. But she clarifies that it's just for the night, and he would seek a hotel in the morning. |
| 85 | [[/folder]] |
| 86 | |
| 87 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 88 | * ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS'': Dennis Mitchell will never stop going to George Wilson's house, no matter how much the cantankerous old man begs (or roars) at him to just go away. In a few stories, Dennis even decides that he needs to do something to "cheer up Mr. Wilson" as a result of yet another attempt by Wilson to ask him to leave, leading to more mayhem. |
| 89 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'': |
| 90 | ** Used when Zonker moves in with Mike and J.J. to the point of seriously grating on their nerves. J.J. comments at one point that it's like having a teenage son (which was surprisingly appropriate, with Mike even giving him an allowance). |
| 91 | ** J.J.'s once and future boyfriend Zeke also moved back in with her when she started dating Mike after Zeke had burned down Duke's house. |
| 92 | ** And then there are the times when Zonker's father moves in after bickering with his wife, much to ''Zonker's'' annoyance. |
| 93 | ** One story arc had Zonker moving in with an English nobleman when he was called in to vote a tiebreaker for the House of Lords (he bought an English title, long story). Long after the vote, he remains at the castle, oblivious to the clear exasperation the castle staff and his host feel towards him. He finally is booted forcibly by his host, who took the liberty of packing for him. |
| 94 | ** As of this writing, it appears another such scenario is in the works with Uncle Duke. One might expect Duke to be the unwanted guest, but in this case, he's the host--the guest is Trff Bmzklfrpz, former President-for-Life of Greater Berzerkistan. Duke arranged an extraction to get him out of Berzerkistan just ahead of a revolution, but it turns out that Trff's Swiss bank accounts have been frozen, and he's penniless with nowhere to go. |
| 95 | * One ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' cartoon depicted: "The Arnolds feign death until the Wagners, sensing awkwardness, are compelled to leave." |
| 96 | * In ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse,'' when Elly gives birth to April, a distant cousin of John's (whom Elly has never even ''met'') invites herself to come and stay with the Pattersons to help out with the baby. She stays on and on, getting in the way, making messes, letting her cat run roughshod over everything, and totally freeloading. John eventually breaks down and puts a security deposit on an apartment for her just to get her out of the house. To add insult to injury, a number of people think that the cousin is John's ''mistress'', although there's no indication that the Pattersons themselves ever find out about the misconception. |
| 97 | * ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} is sometimes this to Jon, with one strip going something like this: |
| 98 | -->'''Garfield:''' ''[standing close to Jon]'' Jon, be honest. Am I annoying?\ |
| 99 | '''Jon:''' Go away!\ |
| 100 | '''Garfield:''' ''[holding Jon's head tightly]'' Not until you answer my question. |
| 101 | * In ''ComicStrip/{{Sally Forth|Howard}}'', Sally's mother tended to be this for a while when she'd come to visit, with the bonus of a massive amount of disdain for Ted and endless criticism for Sally and Hilary. Ted finally snaps and forcibly kicks her out, which seems to get her to mellow out, at least for a while. She got worse again when she was living with Sally's sister Jackie, although this eventually turned out to be because living with Jackie wasn't her choice, and nobody had ever asked her about it. |
| 102 | [[/folder]] |
| 103 | |
| 104 | [[folder:Fairy Tales]] |
| 105 | * In Creator/AlexanderAfanasyev's "Literature/LittleMasterMisery", the embodiment of Misery latches on to the poor brother and promises to move to his house and never, never leave his side. The poor brother is badgered by Misery every day to go to the tavern and get drunk, pawing his few belongings to buy one more drink; and he has no other option but to comply because Misery will not stop complaining and pestering him until he obeys. After one month, the poor brother has nothing left, not even a will to resist Misery's demands, but he is delighted when one chance to get rid of his unwanted guest presents itself. |
| 106 | [[/folder]] |
| 107 | |
| 108 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 109 | %%* ''Fanfic/{{Anyone}}'': [[LukeIAmYourFather All for One]] is this, much to Izuku's irritation. |
| 110 | * ''Fanfic/AllYouNeedIsLove'': Naomi Misora [[SympathyForTheDevil feels so sorry]] for her [[StalkingIsLove stalker]], [[BigBad Light Yagami/Kira]], [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty because he's being sexually harassed in the workplace]] that [[WhatWereYouThinking she invites him to stay at her place for a couple days...]] In the end Naomi ends up kidnapping Raye (her clueless fiancé) and fleeing the country to get away from Light. Meanwhile Light, who has to date not yet left her apartment, sends her a note informing her that the fridge is empty and now L and Matsuda (the stalker's stalkers) had followed him there and are in the process of "redecorating." The story then has a TimeSkip -- it's five years later and Light still hasn't left. |
| 111 | * ''Blog/AskFlufflePuff'': The titular character and [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Queen Chrysalis]] basically invite themselves to live at Twilight's tree with no indication of wanting to leave... until they go on vacation and return to find it destroyed. After it's rebuilt as Twilight's new castle, she boots both of them out, to Chrysalis' fury... until all of a sudden she and Fluffle suddenly start living in the house the latter had all along. And then Marksaline starts applying this trope to ''them'', alternatively scaring Chrysalis and generally making her very uncomfortable. |
| 112 | * ''Fanfic/CustodyBattle'': All for One shows up at Izuku and the First's apartment and refuses to leave. |
| 113 | * ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': In chapter 23, Rainbow Dash mentions an incident with an annoying and pushy magazine salesman who was clearly this, to the point where she almost called the guards on him when she found him still outside the next morning, asleep on her welcome mat. |
| 114 | * ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor'': The [[Film/PansLabyrinth Pale Man]] apparently followed Ofelia to the apartment building. He installed himself in Jareth's and Erik's kitchen, for several hundred pages. They managed to get rid of him once "with the help" of the ''friendly'' {{GirlScouts|AreEvil}}, but he came back and had a brownie sash. It took the combined efforts of [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Susan Sto Helit]], ''two'' Deaths and [[Comicbook/TheSandman1989 Dream]] to finally remove him for good... which could be ultimately worse since he found a friend (the Corinthian) thanks to this. |
| 115 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjZIG6U3bRmGNBpTDRoR_lE8oNYdgCwBU The Jack Horner Universe Saga]]'': [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Steven]] is this to [[WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish Jack]], who keeps pestering him to be a better person. After Jack's attempts to keep him away with [[Series/BetterCallSaul a lawyer]] fail, he resigns himself to tolerating and horrifying the young Gem in turn. |
| 116 | * ''Fanfic/LokiAgentOfDoomgard'': Loki's way of getting an audience with God Emperor Doom (and a job) was annoying the Thors with not leaving until they ran out of all other options. Naturally ''after'' getting said job the chances of Loki ever leaving went down to approximately zero. |
| 117 | * ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5688056/1/On_a_Clear_Day On a Clear Day]]'': Draco works for a charity organisation. When the organisation plans a gala to raise money for the children who lost their parents in the war against Voldemort, Draco's boss demands that he makes sure that the Great Harry Potter is in attendance. The problem is that since the war, Harry has turned agoraphobic and refuses to leave Grimmauld Place, which prompts Draco to intentionally invoke this trope. It's not that he never leaves, but he goes there every day, sits around for hours, and tries to annoy Harry into agreeing to come to the gala. [[spoiler:He succeeds.]] |
| 118 | * ''Fanfic/PleaseStopEatingTheHellButterflies'': Gin sneaks into Seireitei regularly despite having defected with Aizen. He stays there so often that Yamamoto gives up and restates him as Captain when he finds out that Gin's still doing all the 3rd division's paperwork and offered to do Zaraki's. |
| 119 | -->''No, we will not be re-appointing Ichimaru Gin as taicho of your division, just because he never seems to leave. Stop calling him "taicho". It's confusing people. -Even if he sneaks in at night and does all the paperwork. -On second thought, welcome back, Ichimaru-taicho.'' |
| 120 | * ''Fanfic/SharingTheNation'': Early in the story, Ember comes to Ponyville as part of the general dragon immigration and invites herself into the former library, which is now serving as Spike's home after Twilight ascended and moved out. She promptly makes herself a permanent fixture of the place, and to Spike's immense irritation it turns out that growing in dragon culture makes one into a pretty lousy houseguest. |
| 121 | * ''Fanfic/UltimateSpiderWoman'': |
| 122 | ** Subverted in ''Ultimate Spider-Woman: Change With the Light''. Protagonist Mary Jane Watson is invited by her Aunt Anna to live with her and Mary Jane's cousin Kristy while she attends university, but Mary Jane refuses in part because she's afraid she'd be mooching off them. Mary Jane insists on staying in her own apartment, only to [[HeroicBSOD suffer a nervous breakdown]] and lose her apartment after being a TripleShifter catches up with her. Finally, Mary Jane moves in with Anna and Kristy, although she insists on doing a lot of the housework and helping out financially to earn her keep. |
| 123 | ** Another subversion occurs with Mary Jane's mother Maddie Lieber-Watson. When Maddie and Mary Jane were kicked out of the family home by Maddie's husband [[DomesticAbuse Phillip Watson]], Anna offers Maddie a place to stay. This is more {{Justified}} than many cases since Maddie is initially a ''seriously'' BrokenBird and is in no shape to take care of herself. |
| 124 | * ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'': Fluttershy actually ''threatens'' to become this and being all [[RunningGag shy]] around Twilight's home to coerce her into giving up the second gala ticket. |
| 125 | [[/folder]] |
| 126 | |
| 127 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 128 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'', as far as Tim is concerned, the Boss Baby is this. The Boss Baby himself reinforces it when he warns Tim that if his formula is taken away, then... |
| 129 | -->'''Boss Baby:''' Every morning when you wake up, I will be there. Every night at dinner, I will be there. ... You and I... will be brothers. ''Always.'' |
| 130 | * Chapter 2 of ''WesternAnimation/TheHouse2022'' features a developer trying to sell his own house despite an ongoing insect infestation, and the only prospective buyers who are interested are an odd couple who stay well past the viewing... and never leave. Despite the developer's increasingly pointed suggestions that they need to actually buy the house if they want to stay, they remain there, sleeping in the master bedroom, lounging around in the hot tub, having him wait on them while they watch TV, and even inviting their extended family to stay. [[spoiler:It turns out that the couple and their family are all giant mutant beetles.]] |
| 131 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'': |
| 132 | ** Spinel after being reset insists on hanging around Steven and rarely contributes constructively. [[spoiler:Pink Diamond seemed to also feel this way about Spinel just as she got her first colony, which contributed in tricking her into staying in the garden for 6,000 years.]] |
| 133 | ** After Steven declines moving into the palace with the Diamonds so he can return to his life on Earth, the Diamonds show up on Earth unannounced declaring they have come to live with him instead. Steven is not amused by this, though it is subverted when the Diamonds are disgusted by the destruction they see and decide to take Spinel back with them to Homeworld instead. |
| 134 | [[/folder]] |
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| 136 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 137 | * In a Czech film from 1980's ''Film/CuttingItShort'', Francin's overwhelming brother Pepin (TheDitz who always narrates lewd and entertaining stories in NoIndoorVoice) comes to visit him and his young bride Maryshka. He wrote in a letter that he intended to stay for about 14 days. Francin is horrified that his staying with them for 14 years is more likely. The film is based on a novella by Creator/BohumilHrabal who wrote it about his family. Uncle Pepin stayed with them for good. |
| 138 | * ''Film/DennisTheMenaceDinosaurHunter'': The opportunist archaeologist Barclay "Bones" Schuyler III overstays his welcome at the Mitchell house after being called in to check on a dinosaur bone. He is finally expelled after going too far by planting dinosaur bones in the Wilson's yard. |
| 139 | * In ''Film/TheDictator'', Admiral General Aladeen complains that [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden]] has been squatting in his palace and mooching off of him ever since [[spoiler:his BodyDouble was killed by Seal Team 6 in Pakistan]]. And he keeps [[{{Squick}} messing up his bathroom!]] |
| 140 | * The premise of Creator/AdamSandler's ''Film/JackAndJill''. As the trailer put it, "She isn't ''subtle''. She isn't ''shy''. She isn't ''leaving''." |
| 141 | * ''Film/TheLeagueOfGentlemen''. After they've successfully pulled off TheCaper, the robbers are having a celebratory drink before going their separate ways with the loot when they're startled by a knock on the door. Turns out it's 'Bunny' Warren, an old army buddy of Hyde who's now his neighbour and has come to visit. Everyone works to keep Bunny's glass topped up and prevent him seeing anything suspicious while he rambles on about his time in the military, and the others make excuses to slip out the door one by one. Bunny is still there when the police show up to arrest Hyde and gets thrown into the paddy wagon with him, by which time he's too drunk to understand what's happening. |
| 142 | * ''Film/Madhouse1990'' centers its whole plot around this trope. |
| 143 | * The UrExample is probably ''Film/TheManWhoCameToDinner''. Sheridan "Sherry" Whiteside is left no choice but to stay with Ohio businessman Ernest Stanley and his family after he supposedly breaks his hip, but even after finding it's perfectly fine, he keeps this a secret so he can stay in town for the purpose of breaking up his assistant Maggie's romance. |
| 144 | * ''Film/OfficeSpace'' has a variation with Milton, The Employee Who Would Not Leave. After an accounting snafu is found, it's discovered he had been laid off some five years previous, but he had never been told and his paychecks had never stopped coming. So they decided the easiest way to get rid of him was to stop paying him, figuring he would eventually leave on his own. Instead, he stayed at his job, despite being constantly ignored and degraded, until he eventually [[spoiler:burned the entire building to the ground]]. |
| 145 | * Peter Weir's 1979 thriller ''The Plumber'' is a darkly serious version of this. |
| 146 | * ''Film/SchoolOfRock'' has this in the form of the protagonist Dewey Finn, who contributes nothing to the rent, has no job, and was recently kicked out of his band. |
| 147 | * Ed in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' appears to have shown up at his friend Shaun's place one night five years before the events of the movie and not left since, having reduced his living room to a slovenly heap and not budged from the sofa since. Played with in that while Shaun's quite happy to have him around (although it's also made clear that Ed's really a bad influence on him), Shaun's roommate Pete makes it more than clear that for him Ed wore out his welcome a long time ago. Shaun doesn't mind to the point that [[spoiler:even after Ed becomes a zombie, he still keeps him in the shed at the bottom of the garden, chained up as they play Playstation 2 (Timesplitters) together.]] |
| 148 | * In ''Film/TheShout'', Crossley invites himself to lunch at Anthony and Rachel's and then just does not leave: gradually taking over their lives, possibly through magical means. |
| 149 | * ''Film/SpinMeRound'': Amber generously allows Deb to raid her closet at the hotel because Deb's suitcase got lost in transit. When Amber gets a call from her friend, she politely signals that she's going to take the call, but Deb doesn't get the message that she's supposed to leave. She lingers obliviously as Amber makes increasingly awkward hints that she should leave until Deb finally figures it out. |
| 150 | * Danny [=McBride=] in ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd'' is a dark and dramatic example of this trope. James Franco also sees all of Seth, Jay, Craig, and Jonah as this (except he does have a soft spot for Seth) given that it's his house they're staying in and to ensure he doesn't starve, he [[spoiler:hides food and cola in a secret closet leaving the others to forage for food or drink their own urine]]. |
| 151 | * ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder:'' While at the end of ''Avengers: Endgame'' the Guardians of the Galaxy were okay with Thor tagging along, by the time the movie starts they've all gotten fed up of him. Acquiring a pair of goats who constantly scream their heads off proves the last straw, and when Thor departs none of them are sorry to see him go. |
| 152 | * ''Film/WhatAboutBob'' -- a somewhat unique variation, in that it's only Leo who really wants Bob gone, and everyone else comes to like Bob far more than Leo to the point where they're quite happy to have him around. |
| 153 | -->'''Leo:''' You think he's gone? That's the whole point! [[LampshadeHanging He's never gone!]] |
| 154 | * ''Film/YouMeAndDupree'': Carl regrets having Dupree moving in with them almost immediately, as he makes life for Molly and Carl a living hell. Dupree [[SleepsInTheNude sleeps naked on their couch]], changes the message on their answering machine, gets cable for their TV without their permission, [[InterruptedIntimacy walks in on them when they're about to have sex]] and [[ToiletHumor messes up their toilet]]. |
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| 158 | * Once there was a retired New York merchant who owned a large summer home in the Catskill Mountains. He had a kind heart and because of this, his summers became a nightmare for him. With the appearance of the crocuses and with the first liquid notes of the robin all his poor relatives from Brownsville, East New York, Midwood, and West Bronx descended upon him in the country in force. They never gave him a moment's peace or privacy until the leaves began to turn. Then they returned to New York.\ |
| 159 | One day, as he sat gloomily regarding a young third cousin-in-law upon whom a thousand hints had been wasted, he sighed and said, "There is little likelihood, is there, that you'll ever come on another visit here?"\ |
| 160 | "What a thing to say!" protested the young man with heat. "Why, you are the prince of hosts! Why shouldn't I come again?"\ |
| 161 | "How can you come again if you never go away?" moaned his host plaintively. |
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| 165 | * In ''Literature/TheAmazingDaysOfAbbyHayes'', Olivia's old college friend Laurie and her daughter Wynter come to stay at the Hayes house. At first, Olivia is delighted to see her, but she quickly becomes intolerable to the rest of the family because she [[StrawVegetarian won't stop lecturing them about their diets being full of chemicals, pesticides, and artificial ingredients,]] while letting Wynter make a mess of the house. She intends to stay for a few more weeks while doing her shows at the local country club and making Abby babysit her bratty daughter every single day for free, but finally gets thrown out (and forced to pay a few hundred dollars) after the Hayes parents find out she's been making Abby babysit Wynter for 8-9 hours every day without paying her a cent. Even sweeter, they only find out in the first place because Laurie made a huge fuss about Abby giving Wynter a bar of chocolate. |
| 166 | * Gilbert's Aunt Mary Maria does this to the Blythes in ''[[Literature/AnneOfGreenGables Anne of Ingleside]]'', sticking around for almost two months past her original vacation. She only leaves after Anne, who's been driven to total distraction by her sour, demanding and overly-particular attitude, decides to actually do something ''nice'' for her and winds up inadvertently offending her so much she leaves. [[spoiler:She decides to throw a birthday party for Aunt Mary Maria, with all the (very few) things she knows the latter actually likes; it backfires when Aunt Mary Maria turns out to be extremely sensitive about her age and is convinced Anne threw the party to be nasty about it and rub it in.]] |
| 167 | * "The Awful Fate of Melpomenous Jones", by Stephen Leacock. Subverted, however, in that the curate actually ''wants'' to leave, as much or more than his hosts want him to, [[AbileneParadox but they keep inviting him to stay because they don't want to be rude, and he doesn't want to refuse for the same reason]]. [[spoiler:The story ends with him dying and breathing a sigh of relief that he can finally GO.]] The story was adapted into a short animation by the National Film Board of Canada, which can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGcALHs8PsI here]]. |
| 168 | * One of the many subplots of Anthony Trollope's ''Ayala's Angel'' involves the usually generous patriarch Sir Thomas Tringle being driven to exasperation by the failure of his new son-in-law, the Honourable Septimus Traffik, to remove himself and his new wife to an establishment of their own and quit mooching off her rich family, despite his continual hints, barbs, and even demands. Near the end of the book, the Traffiks do finally move out, though. |
| 169 | * ''Bartleby, the Scrivener,'' by Creator/HermanMelville, is about a man who is hired by an office as a scrivener, becomes increasingly particular about the work he does (to the point where he "would prefer not" do just about anything, [[spoiler:even eat, in his final days.]]), and ''just won't leave,'' despite having been told to get out many times. Though Bartleby's employer puts up with him for a time because he's not harming anything or anyone by merely staying in the office, he ends up deciding to move his offices elsewhere to get rid of him (as he can't bring himself to forcibly throw Bartleby out). Even then, Bartleby ''still'' remains in the office building until he is arrested for trespassing because the new owner of the office doesn't want to put up with him. |
| 170 | * Kate in Creator/MegCabot's ''Literature/BoyMeetsGirl'' becomes this to Jen and Craig, her friends who she's staying with. It's somewhat subverted in that they like her, don't mind her staying, and are entirely sympathetic with her problem of not having enough to get her own place, but their place isn't that big and Craig kinda wants their flat and sofa back (especially since Jen's trying to get pregnant). Also a subversion in that Kate feels extremely guilty about moving in, constantly searches for apartments, and moves out the minute fashion editor Dolly Vargas offers her a room. |
| 171 | ** Jen also begs Kate to stay, citing that Dolly Vargas [[FelonyMisdemeanor wears mink indoors]] and ReallyGetsAround while engaged in a relationship with their newspaper's CEO. Craig has to convince Jen that Kate moving out is a good idea. |
| 172 | * Iqbal in ''Literature/{{Capital}}'', who invites himself to stay with Shahid (whom he hasn't seen for ten years and wasn't even close friends with) won't leave for months, and [[spoiler:uses Shahid's broadband to go on jihadist websites, resulting in Shahid's arrest for terrorism]]. |
| 173 | * Creator/DianaWynneJones's chapter books ''Chair Person'', ''The Four Grannies'' and ''Who Got Rid of Angus Flint?'' has been collected as a volume called ''Stopping for a Spell'' whose back cover describes all three stories in terms of this trope. |
| 174 | * ''Literature/DivineMisfortune'': Syph attaches herself to whoever "lets her into their lives". In Bonnie's case, it was just sharing a park bench. From then on Syph follows her home and refuses to leave. Since she's the Goddess of Heartbreak, this causes her food to go bad, her surroundings having a permanent chill, all media becomes warped into depressing parodies of themselves and Bonnie has to suffer from a constant feeling of existential ennui. |
| 175 | * As in the page quote -- Creator/EdwardGorey's short story ''Literature/TheDoubtfulGuest'' involves a ''highly'' annoying penguin-like creature constantly angering a family. |
| 176 | * ''Literature/FamilySkeletonMysteries'': Deborah makes it clear in book 1 that she sees Sid the ambulatory skeleton as this, claiming that their parents have "kept this big house years longer than they intended just to make sure that they can keep that thing hidden". She also asks Georgia what'll happen if he's still sticking around years from now, having to live with Madison when she's an adult and thus complicating ''her'' life. She eventually and reluctantly gets past this view after he saves Georgia later (and then Madison learns about him and also accepts him), coming to accept him as part of the family. |
| 177 | * In ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'', Scarlett leaves Tara to go and visit sister-in-law Melanie in Atlanta. Ostensibly, it's so they can get to know each other better, and Melanie her new nephew Wade, as well helping Scarlett get over her supposed grief over the death of her husband Charles (and possible legitimate post-partum depression). In reality, it's so she can be close to Ashley when he comes to visit Melanie. In any event, though the plan is only for Scarlett to visit, the general assumption of everyone is that she's there to stay, as this is a tradition in the South -- people visit relatives for Christmas but don't leave until June, newlyweds visit relatives during their honeymoon but don't leave until after the birth of their second child, elderly aunts/uncles come for Sunday dinner but don't leave until they ''die''. Needless to say, unlike most examples here, these guests are usually welcome. |
| 178 | * Humorist Creator/ErmaBombeck, in ''The Grass Is Always Greener Over The Septic Tank'', had a pint-sized version in Kenny, a friend of her son's who stopped by and then just hung around. For months if not years. Erma finally calls Kenny's mother about this, explaining that "We cancelled our vacation when we couldn't get anyone to watch Kenny." |
| 179 | * ''Gus the Friendly Ghost'' tells about the titular ghost living happily in the attic above a family. One night, he invites a hungry mouse into the house for dinner, and things go well at first. But when the family returns, the mouse doesn't want to share the house with them and tries to force them to leave so that he can have the house for himself. Gus tries warning him that he'd get into deeper trouble (like when the father sets out mousetraps when he believes that there's a mouse in the house), but the mouse refuses to listen. When the mouse scares the mother of the family, Gus has finally had enough and orders the mouse to GetOut and go back to the garden. At the end, however, he and the mouse make up and still hang out at dinner. |
| 180 | * ''Literature/HildaAndTheMadScientist'': Hilda is a well-meaning example. She moves into Dr. Weinerstein's castle because she thinks he needs a caretaker and stays even though he doesn't want her there, to the point of trying to vaporize her. Ultimately, this leads him to create a monster... [[spoiler:which does the same thing.]] |
| 181 | * This happens in ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' fairly often, as poor old Wooster is such an ExtremeDoormat that it's impossible for him to turn away a houseguest. Fortunately, Jeeves is smart enough to cleverly get rid of such visitors with no hurt feelings. |
| 182 | ** On more than one occasion, Bertie admits in his narration that the reverse is also true, and he is often seen as the Thing when he visits various stately homes. |
| 183 | ** Creator/PGWodehouse also once wrote a short story in a LettersToTheEditor format from an uninvited party guest who managed to turn an overnight stay at a couple's house into a ''years'' long residency. The letters start out questioning why her hosts seem so surly lately and later replies from the newspaperman describe his reactions to apparent attempts to injure or even kill her by the hosts with a fair amount of FirstPersonSmartass. The final letter from the editor has him assuring the freeloader (who's just been evicted) that all is not lost and she'll eventually be able to find someone else to share her company with while being GenreSavvy enough to refuse to give her ''his'' address. |
| 184 | * ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Eric had this problem during ''[[Literature/AMagesPower A Mage's Power]]''. Oliver was not even a house guest but an apartment neighbor and yet he still hung out in Eric's apartment, ate his food, and watched TV late into the night. Eric was too much of an ExtremeDoormat to tell him to leave. |
| 185 | * ''Literature/TheNo1LadiesDetectiveAgency'': Mma Ramotswe's first case was a woman whose father (whom she hadn't seen since she was little) returned and was living off her. She wouldn't object to feeding and housing her father for the rest of his life, since that's what you do for family, but she'd started to suspect that this moocher wasn't actually her father. Mma Ramotswe came up with a way of getting rid of the impostor. |
| 186 | * In ''Literature/{{Petronella}}'' the title character, the third offspring of a family which had always had three ''sons'' up until then, decides to defy her parents and brothers and go off in search of a prince to rescue. She finds one at the house of Albion the enchanter and rides off with him, only to discover that this trope was in effect. |
| 187 | -->'''Albion:''' He came to visit me for a weekend. At the end of it, he said, "It's so pleasant here, do you mind if I stay on for another day or two?" I'm very polite and I said, "Of course." He stayed on, and on, and on... |
| 188 | * The final chapter of Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' indicates that Lydia and Wickham often imposed on Jane and Bingley in this way later in life, so much so that the perennially good-natured Bingley "came so close as to ''talk'' of giving them a hint to be gone." Lydia also occasionally did this to Darcy and Lizzy, but her husband was never allowed to accompany her -- which, given the history between Wickham and Darcy, is entirely unsurprising. |
| 189 | * In ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'', the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'''s analogue of Ancient Egypt has a pantheon of Gods which includes Hat, The Vulture-Headed God Of Unwelcome Guests. A RunningGag is that people are reluctant even to have devotional statues of Hat, on the very reasonable fear that this will act as an invocation to the God to call by and acknowledge the believer with a personal visit. |
| 190 | * In ''Literature/ShamanBlues'', Vulture manages to obtain this status in just a few days, thanks to being absolutely annoying, messy, and lazy. He even once steals Witkacy's keys to take his date home and sleep with her on the couch. And just when Wiktacy thinks he's gotten rid of him, Vulture decides to move to a flat right next to Witkacy's. |
| 191 | * In ''Literature/{{Superfudge}}'', the Hatcher family is constantly annoyed by Fudge's friend Daniel. At one point, Daniel looks ready to invite himself to stay for dinner with them, but Mrs. Hatcher tricks him into leaving by pretending that they're having peas and onions with their dinner (two foods that he hates). |
| 192 | ** In another book in the series, ''Double Fudge'', the Hatchers' cousins take up residence in their apartment living room for several months, driving everyone crazy. |
| 193 | * ''Literature/ThidwickTheBigHeartedMoose'' is one of ''Creator/DrSeuss'''s older works, about a moose who lets other animals live on his horns. Unfortunately, these animals - which increase in number - [[TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity take advantage of his hospitality]], and refuse to leave. When Thidwick's herd gives him an ultimatum - get rid of them or leave the herd - he still can't bring himself to be rude to his guests, and leaves. Still, the guests grow in number and size, inviting more guests, and refusing to consider the increasing physical and psychological load they're putting on their host. Finally, when a group of hunters comes after Thidwick, he decides to stand up for himself, and sheds his antlers, fleeing to safety and leaving his inconsiderate guests behind. [[AnAesop The last page of the book shows them made into taxidermy specimens, still on the shed antlers.]] |
| 194 | * Creator/OgdenNash wrote a poem about The Thing That Would Not Leave called "[[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/polterguest.html Polterguest, My Polterguest]]". |
| 195 | * A children's book called ''Literature/TheTrolls'' has a woman tell her nieces and nephews about growing up in Vancouver with her eccentric family. One of these family members was their great-uncle Louis, who came for two weeks and stayed for six years. [[spoiler:He only left after he insisted he saved the narrator's younger brother from a pack of trolls and the narrator's mother ordered him out in disgust.]] |
| 196 | * In the comic novel ''Young Adolf'' by Beryl Bainbridge, a big-hearted Austrian woman living with her husband in Liverpool, England just before UsefulNotes/WW1, is concerned for the welfare of her idealistic, dreaming, and utterly lazy younger brother, whom she loves despairingly. Trying to get him out of his idle student ways and offer him a new chance, she invites him to Liverpool to stay with her family. At least he can get a job and learn some English. Her husband reluctantly allows this. But [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler young Adolf]] proves just as lazy, unrealistic, and entitled as he ever was at home...[[note]] Hitler's sister and brother-in-law did indeed live in Liverpool until just before the first World War. While not conclusively proven, there is circumstantial evidence to indicate Adolf Hitler visited them for a short holiday. Did a man later addicted to bunkers ever go to the Cavern?[[/note]] |
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| 200 | * On ''Series/AdamRuinsEverything'', Adam describes a RealLife case where an [[http://www.airbnb.com AirBnB]] host had to get a lawyer and formally evict someone that had rented a room for a while and decided to stay long after the fact. This is punctuated by Adam opening up a closet in his host's home, revealing a woman who states that she's been there so long, her body has fused to her host's laundry basket. |
| 201 | * ''Series/{{ALF}}'' is all about this trope. Furry, aardvark-like alien Gordon "ALF" Shumway moves in to the middle-class suburban American family the Tanners and they let him stay. Alf then drains their finances by eating all the food in the house and watching TV and using the telephone all day. The Tanners get weary of this, but they refuse to let ALF leave the house out of fear he could get abducted by law authorities actively patrolling the earth for any aliens. |
| 202 | ** Additionally, the Tanners get an awful lot of requests from other people begging them to let them stay at their house, be it from family or neighbors. |
| 203 | ** Alf took this trope to even greater lengths in "Happy Together" torturing Willie's brother Neal. |
| 204 | * ''Series/AllInTheFamily'': |
| 205 | ** During the show's first five seasons (1971-1975), main character Archie Bunker's son-in-law, Mike Stivic, the "Meathead" who was working for a college degree and often unemployed (or, at best, underemployed) and bringing very little to nothing in the way of income. |
| 206 | ** An early Season 2 episode, "The Saga Of Cousin Oscar," had this UnseenCharacter stop for a visit and literally eat Archie out of house and home. The visit was implied to have lasted several weeks, with the plot picking up with Archie and Mike trying to figure out how to get Oscar to leave ... until Mike discovers Oscar unresponsive in bed, and a doctor declares him dead. |
| 207 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}'': |
| 208 | ** Cordelia in "Rm w/a Vu". Within a few hours, Angel's basement is covered wall-to-wall with Cordelia's trophies, there's peanut butter on his bed, his leather chair is ruined, and Cordelia is busily cutting up his linoleum floor to examine the hardwood. By morning, Angel is literally ''begging'' Doyle to find Cordy a place to stay. |
| 209 | ** In "Disharmony," Cordelia insists to the rest of Team Angel that they give Harmony a chance and help her figure out what to do with her life. However, she's unbearably annoying, getting in everyone's way, popping her gum loudly, accidentally spilling a mug of blood and shorting out the computer, and tearing a page out of a TomeOfEldritchLore to dispose of her gun. Before long, Wesley is loudly screaming for someone to stake her. |
| 210 | * Partial subversion in an episode of ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'': Tully is invited to stay over one housemate's objections, but by the end of the episode the positions regarding him have reversed, with the original naysayer defending Tully's continued presence against the others' complaints. |
| 211 | ** The second-to-last season gives a truly disturbing example. An incredibly unpleasant huckster is bitten by a werewolf and ends up homeless and penniless. The housemates let him stay with them out of sympathy, but he proceeds to secretly trick Tom into handing over all his money for "investments" (money being used to give Tom's adopted father a proper funeral, no less) and then convince him that Annie and Hal secretly don't care about Tom and are deliberately ignoring his birthday (in reality, neither even knew it ''was'' Tom's birthday). The reason he was doing this? He wanted to drive Tom to leave permanently, so ''he'' would have a place to stay in the house. Even after Hal confronts him about this, after Tom was found miserably living in a tent in the woods, the con man still is convinced he'll be able to stay on with them. [[spoiler:One doesn't feel too sorry for him when Hal [[AssholeVictim kills him]].]] |
| 212 | * In ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', Mr. Kravitz stayed with Darren and Samantha for several days after he and Mrs. Kravitz had a huge fight. Between his unusually loud snoring, his obsession with making [[StockYuck brussels sprouts]], and refusal to patch things up with Mrs. Kravitz despite the fact that she clearly wants him back, Darren and Samantha are both at their wits' end. Samantha eventually fixed the issue by making them dream about the day Mr. Kravitz proposed, causing them to run into each others' arms once they woke up. |
| 213 | * In Season 8 of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Stuart moves into Mrs. Wolowitz's house as her caretaker and companion. After she passes away, and Howard and Bernadette move in, they decide he can stay until he gets his own place. They soon come to regret this, as he shows no signs of even ''thinking about'' leaving. |
| 214 | ** Sheldon sees Penny as this, because he's very annoyed over Penny eating their food without ever paying them back, piggy-backing on their Wifi, sitting in his preferred couch spot, and in one episode she keeps bugging him for advice on how to ace through ''VideoGame/AgeOfConan''. Unlike most examples of the trope, however, Sheldon grows to actually love Penny and his complaints about her doing these things become more of an InsultOfEndearment than anything. |
| 215 | * ''Series/BroadCity'': Bevers is the boyfriend of Abbi's (never-seen) roommate, who came over to use the shower one day and simply never left, spending all of his time eating and playing video games. In a flashback episode, we see Bevers started as an attractive, muscular stud who took a smitten Abbi up on her offer of not having to do anything as a guest (which he then took to a nightmarish extreme). One of the few times he DOES leave, Abbi celebrates by dancing naked to "Edge Of Glory." |
| 216 | * Spike does this to both Xander and Giles in Season 4 of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. This becomes particularly apparent when Weetabix gets involved. According to Spike, it adds texture to blood. |
| 217 | * ''Series/CafeAmericain'': In "Weekend at Holly's", Fabiana decides to hide out from her boyfriend at Holly's apartment, but her flamboyant nature makes her very conspicuous. |
| 218 | * This is the central premise to ''Series/{{Dads}}'', with the added complication that the "things" in question are, well, the character's fathers. |
| 219 | * All the members of ''Series/DangerFive'' find [[TheSixthRanger Holly]] annoying thanks to her ditzy behaviour in a WorldOfActionGirls. Unfortunately [[DeathIsCheap every time she gets killed off she's brought back to life again]]. They briefly encounter a FutureBadass version of her, only for that version to be accidentally killed by ditzy Holly. |
| 220 | * ''Series/DeathInParadise'': In "Melodies of Murder", Dwayne's father Nelson moves in uninvited to Jack's shack and makes himself at home: much to Jack's annoyance. |
| 221 | * In the final episode of ''Series/DerryGirls'', [[BackForTheFinale Eamonn]] has moved in with the Quinns - supposed to be temporary while his roof was repaired, but he's now been there for months with no sign of ever leaving. Gerry tries to offload him onto Colm, who refuses, so the Quinns are still stuck with him. |
| 222 | * In ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'', Rob invites a temporarily-displaced Buddy to stay with him. It's a variant in that they ''both'' end up utterly miserable, but they're both too polite to admit that the other is driving them nuts. |
| 223 | * In ''Series/DoctorWho'', the "Pond Life" webisode has the Doctor rescue an Ood from a sticky situation, only to escape the TARDIS and end up in Amy and Rory's house. For the next month or so, they are forced to live with the Ood (who insists on serving as their butler), until the Doctor can come and pick him up. |
| 224 | * ''Series/EarlyEdition'': In one season 3 episode, Patrick said he just got kicked out of the college frat house he lived in because the fraternity dug up some old by-laws that ban members from staying for more than ''10 years'' after they graduate from college. |
| 225 | * An episode of ''Series/FatherTed'' had the priests dealing with Father Stone, the dullest man alive, who absolutely loves staying with Ted. According to the writer's commentary on the DVD, he was [[BasedOnATrueStory based on a real person]]. |
| 226 | * Most of the subplot with Daphne's irritating mother in the later seasons of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' involved her greatly over-staying her welcome when staying with Niles and Daphne. Daphne's brothers (especially Simon) also fell into this trope, but mostly because they really were ungrateful and obnoxious spongers who barged into Frasier's apartment and took unreasonable liberties whilst they were there. |
| 227 | ** Niles himself becomes this for one episode, staying with Frasier while looking for a cheaper place to live after his divorce from Maris. Unfortunately, he drives Martin and Frasier mad with his odd quirks making them unable to sleep, and Frasier soon learns Niles isn't even bothering to look for a new home. His sympathy evaporates very quickly when he notices Niles has ordered a bottle of wine that can't be opened for two years. For once, it's not just proximity to [[AllLoveIsUnrequited Daphne]] that's causing Niles to mooch -- he just can't face how dire his straits have become. |
| 228 | * In Season 2 of ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Eddie Menuek, Chandler's roommate for three episodes after Joey moves out. He's initially introduced as being [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} friendly but slightly odd]] -- but then his true nature is shown after a few days: a [[TheMentallyDisturbed crazed]] StalkerWithoutACrush (who is implied to be [[FunnySchizophrenia schizophrenic]]) who sneaks into Chandler's room to watch him sleep, enjoys dehydrating fruit a bit ''too'' much, convinces himself that Chandler slept with his ex-girlfriend and then murdered his goldfish, then replaces said fish with ''a goldfish cracker'', and steals a mannequin head from a Macy's store and says that they could use it as a chip bowl at parties. And to top it off, whenever Chandler confronts him that he's had enough and demands that he moves out, Eddie always forgets that the conversation ever happened -- at one point, Chandler asks Eddie if he remembers yesterday's conversation: |
| 229 | --->'''Eddie:''' We took a road trip to Las Vegas, man.\ |
| 230 | '''Chandler:''' ''[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe Oh sweet Moses!]]'' |
| 231 | ** It takes Joey moving back in, he and Chandler pretending that they have no idea who Eddie is and that he never lived there, for him to finally move out. |
| 232 | * ''Series/TheGhostAndMrsMuir'': In "Host to the Ghost", Mrs. Muir desperately needs some work done on her kitchen. The only way she can get workmen to stay is if the captain leaves for a while, so he goes to stay with Claymore and turns into a very unwelcome guest. |
| 233 | * ''Series/Girlfriends2000'' has Lynn, who crashed on Joan's couch and wouldn't leave for 8 years. She later also stayed with Toni, before getting a place in Maya's mom's garage. |
| 234 | * ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' had an episode named "The Stan Who Came to Dinner," in which Dorothy's ex-husband stays with the girls to recuperate from heart surgery, but overstays his welcome. |
| 235 | * In one episode of ''Series/GreenAcres'', when a Hungarian man appeared on the Douglases' doorstep, he's revealed to have saved the life of Lisa's uncle and as such, they are obligated to house him to repay the debt, much to Oliver's disbelief. While the man does help out around the farm by fixing a few things, some of his antics irritate Oliver, such as constantly asking to be paid and taking several liberties without Oliver's consent. Ultimately, Oliver draws the line when the Hungarian reveals he's inviting his family to come live with them and plans to build a house on the Douglases' property, leading him to finally throw the guy out. Unfortunately, just before he leaves, the man puts a Hungarian curse on Oliver [[CosmicPlaything that causes everything he had fixed to break again]]. |
| 236 | * Zig-zagged with Wilson in Season 2 of ''Series/{{House}}''. After Wilson leaves his wife, he moves in with House, and House resorts to a campaign of pranks to get Wilson to leave -- but when Wilson actually starts apartment-hunting, House ends up intentionally sabotaging him. |
| 237 | ** When Wilson realizes the reverse psychology at play: |
| 238 | -->'''Wilson:''' You're... miserable, and you're lonely, and you're going to trap me here to keep me every bit as miserable and lonely too! |
| 239 | ** Played straight twice over in the penultimate episode of Season 6. After initially seeming okay with having House as a roommate indefinitely, Wilson asks him to move out when he starts getting serious with his girlfriend. House reluctantly goes back to his own apartment, only to find that Alvie, his roommate from the mental hospital at the start of the season, has moved in in his absence and isn't eager to leave. |
| 240 | * One episode of ''Series/ICarly'' had two police officers use Carly and Spencer's apartment for a stakeout. They eat food out of their refrigerator, interrupt the webshow, one of them brings his bratty little kid over (who screams very loudly when he finds out they're out of soda) and one of the cops is a bully from Spencer's childhood. |
| 241 | ** They've also dealt with literally dozens of people (somewhere around 40 to 50) staying at their apartment room in "iBeat The Heat" when word gets out Spencer has a backup battery-operated air conditioner during a heatwave in Seattle when all the power goes out (which of course was the result of people overusing their own [=AC=]s). |
| 242 | ** Don't forget Mandy. She's a cuckoo pest who's annoying as hell rudely disrupting their webcast shows, making duck "quack" sounds wearing a duck mask, and keeps following the iCarly team wherever they go. |
| 243 | ** Spencer in "iSpace Out" runs into one girl who for some reason stays in his apartment room and [[TheVoiceless doesn't talk at all]]. |
| 244 | * One of the earliest examples is from ''Series/ILoveLucy'' with guest-star Tennessee Ernie Ford as Lucy's "Cousin Ernie" who stays over for one episode and wears out his welcome by the next one. Hilariously Lampshaded by Lucy on Ernie's second appearance when she says, "He stayed overnight with us for a couple of weeks once." |
| 245 | * Though she willingly takes them in whenever they need it, Mary in ''Series/InPlainSight'' '''clearly''' feels this way about her mom and sister. |
| 246 | * [[GamerChick Nico Saiba]] from ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' first appeared to troll the resident DrJerk, Taiga Hanaya. She grates on his nerves with her cheerful attitude and adamant resolution to settle down in his [[AbandonedHospital office]]. Surprisingly, despite being the resident's NominalHero and TokenEvilTeammate, he doesn't go any further than rudely telling her to leave. |
| 247 | ** [[spoiler:As time passed it became increasingly obvious that Taiga is a JerkassWoobie who mostly plays the role of NominalHero because he thinks that's the only way to go. He came to care about Nico just as she started to care about him.]] |
| 248 | ** [[spoiler:[[Recap/KamenRiderExAidEp27LoveAndPeaceForTheWinner #27]] actually reveals he let her stay because when she said that he is her doctor, she gave him meaning and made him happy.]] |
| 249 | * ''Series/LaQueSeAvecina'': At one point, Javi complains that his mother-in-law Estela was only going to stay with him and Lola for a few days, but has already been around for months. |
| 250 | * An episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' opened with this situation, with the apartment tenant eventually growing so frustrated that he threatens his "roommate" with a meat cleaver. The problem solves itself when a bullet rips through a nearby wall and kills the moocher. |
| 251 | * Overton Jones becomes this for an episode of ''Series/LivingSingle'', Maxine is more like the thing that keeps returning. |
| 252 | * In one episode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', Lois must endure an overly-talkative old woman who overstays her welcome because she's a good babysitter for Jamie. However, Lois soon reaches her breaking point and rudely tells the babysitter to leave, only to regret it when she dies offscreen soon after. [[HereWeGoAgain Then the old lady's similarly-chatty sister arrives for the funeral...]] |
| 253 | * In a sketch in ''Series/ManStrokeWoman'' a woman tries to break up with her unbearably lazy boyfriend, who for some reason won't understand that she actually wants to break up. She tries to be nice at first, using phrases like " It's not you its me." She finally snaps when he disagrees, saying that she has been wonderful. She lets him know how lazy and unattractive he has been. He keeps taking it as joking and continues to play his video games. Eventually she is seen sitting with him, eating chips and watching tv, consistently repeating a defeated " Get out. Get out. Get out." |
| 254 | * In ''Marlon'', the titular protagonist's BlackAndNerdy friend Stevie asked to stay on his couch. By the pilot, this has been the situation for ''two years'', during which Stevie has put off getting a job and his own place. In one episode, Yvette learns Stevie comes from a wealthy background [[spoiler:and he has a nest egg left by his grandmother that could get him out of Marlon's place.]] |
| 255 | * Rito Revolto made his debut in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' intending to give Rita a wedding gift -- and proceed to stay even as everyone -- Rita and ''especially'' Zedd, who was tired of Rito constantly calling him "Ed" -- repeatedly made it clear that they want his ass out. |
| 256 | * Claire and Mitchell's mom from ''Series/ModernFamily.'' Interesting in that she becomes this ''from the moment she arrives.'' |
| 257 | * In ''Series/MotherAndSon'', Robert shows up at his brother Arthur's at the end of one episode, after his wife Liz kicks him out and changes the locks. He's still there three weeks later, and when Arthur tells him to GetOut, he moves into his caravan, which he parks in Arthur's driveway. |
| 258 | * Sylvia Fine from ''Series/TheNanny'' spends so much time in the house where her daughter, Fran, works, that when it's mentioned that Sylvia is only there for a visit, one of the kids Fran takes care of wonders when Sylvia moved out. |
| 259 | ** Nanny Mueller verges on this as well, visiting Max on her tour of all those she cared for in her career, but starting to edge Fran out of her own job. |
| 260 | * Late in the thirteenth season of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', FBI Agent Fornell gets shot and is hospitalized. The premiere on the following season shows that he has been staying with Gibbs since getting released from the hospital while his teenaged daughter is away at boarding school. He stays for ''several'' episodes, wearing Gibbs's clothes and eating his food and at one time, blowing out the power while trying to fix the broken washing machine himself. Eventually, Emily Fornell manages to get her father to come home by unleashing termites in Gibbs's basement. While this leaves Gibbs temporarily without a home, he is completely unconcerned, as he then makes himself at home at Fornell's house. |
| 261 | * On ''Series/OneDayAtATime2017'' Schneider has his own luxurious apartment elsewhere in the building, but he insists on spending most of his time in the main characters' apartment, even sleeping on their couch after an injury. |
| 262 | * In ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'', when the actor playing Grandad died, they needed to find a way to replace him. Uncle Albert had been this to one of the branches of the family who attended Grandad's funeral until they left him at the funeral with no way to contact them. He then became this to the Trotters, even provoking Del, pushed past his limits, to try to get him to leave. Del eventually relents and decides to let Albert stay because "He's fam'ly, in' he?" and Del cannot refuse to take his family in. |
| 263 | ** It later turns out this isn't the first time this has happened to Albert. In addition to the relatives that left Albert at the funeral (and had ''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere moved]]'' when they tried to take him back), Albert mentions that another group of relatives that actually ''emigrated'' whilst he was at the shops. |
| 264 | ** Rodney was also known to become this when having problems with his marriage, by going back to stay with his brother and be reluctant to leave- until he found that Racquel had already beaten him to the vacant room, leaving him on the sofa and kind of feeling this way about her. The situation was resolved by Racquel and Del Boy making a RelationshipUpgrade, slightly reducing the pressure on space (until the relationship produced little Damien, anyway...) |
| 265 | * ''Series/{{Peacemaker 2022}}'': Peacemaker's friend Vigilante mostly pops up to ask if Peacemaker [[ComedicSociopathy wants to kill people together]]. He ends up following Peacemaker on his extremely important top-secret government assignment, to the exasperation of the rest of the team. Eventually, they just stop trying to get him to leave and formally brief him on the mission. |
| 266 | * In one episode of ''Series/{{Plebs}}'', Marcus, Jason, and Grumio turn a trial session at a luxurious 24-hr fitness center into a multi-day stay because the vouchers never specified a length of a "trial." They're ultimately ejected after a new owner implements policies that include capping the length of trials and incinerating the contents of the lockers, leaving the boys to [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside go home in the altogether]]. |
| 267 | * [[Series/TheRachelMaddowShow Rachel Maddow]] lampshaded this trope [[PlayedForLaughs hilariously]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azSqNPlCjiM her account]] of how one story regarding Iraqi elections ended up on her show. NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel happened to be in town, which he almost ''never'' is, so when he swung by her daily rundown meeting to say hello to everyone, everyone enthusiastically said 'hello' back. But then, in Rachel's words, "he ''didn't leave''." He just hung around the meeting until Rachel, overcome by curiosity, asked, "Richard, is there something you'd like to add to the meeting?" At which point Richard let out a BigYes and started excitedly explaining The Very Huge Deal That Just Happened in Iraq. (And when Rachel noticed his hand twitching and handed him a whiteboard marker, he ''diagrammed'' it.) When he finished explaining the Huge Deal, a very impressed Rachel essentially said, "Yeah, you're coming on my show tonight." And thus Richard Engel got to tell all of her viewers about the Huge Deal by parking himself in her rundown meeting and counting on their [[PlatonicLifePartners long-standing friendship]] and Rachel's innate curiosity to do the rest. |
| 268 | -->'''Rachel:''' Richard, thank you for hijacking our meeting today. |
| 269 | * Played with and justified in ''Series/{{Roseanne}}''. Once he started dating Darlene, David started spending a lot more time at the Conners, to the point he was at their house more than he was at their own. Roseanne didn't mind so much since David was a lot nicer and better behaved than her own kids, though did advise David to back off some when she saw Darlene wasn't comfortable with him being so close. Later on though, it came out that David's mother was abusive, so he had perfectly good reason to want to be at his house as little as possible. Upon finding that out, Roseanne had David move in with them permanently. |
| 270 | * The TropeNamer, as mentioned above, was from the 1978 ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' episode hosted by Creator/ChristopherLee. The skit in question depicted the scenario in the form of a FauxHorrific horror movie trailer spoof where Creator/JohnBelushi played a boorish house guest whose refusal to leave and ill-mannered behavior causes no small amount of pain and dread for his hosts. Another [[https://youtu.be/t3_-0KBMB2M?si=tz36Rp_1fblQ-Cby skit]] finds WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} and Jasmine in an AwfulWeddedLife, with one of her complain being that the Genie has been crashing on their couch for 10 years after initially saying he'd only be there for 2 weeks. |
| 271 | * Roland Schitt does this to the Roses a couple of times on ''Series/SchittsCreek''. He won't leave their motel room in the pilot and uses the bathroom for a long time. He moves into the motel in Season 2 and won't leave. Then, in Season 4, when he is working at the motel, he stays way past the time when his shift has ended, playing video games in the lobby. |
| 272 | * In ''Series/SecretDiaryOfACallGirl'' the main character (a call girl) has a one-night stand with a man who is not a client. Unaware of her profession and unemployed, the guy (Creator/MattSmith) insists on hanging out with Hannah at her apartment. Not wanting to be rude, she doesn't ask him to leave. He eventually leaves when her friend Ben shows up and claims he is her fiancee. |
| 273 | * An early episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' has Jerry and Elaine inadvertently being this when Kramer gets lost on his way to pick them up from a party. It's actually the host's wife who's rather rude, complaining to her husband that she wants them to leave, even though the two are genuinely sorry for imposing on them. |
| 274 | ** Elaine and Kramer have opposite views of this. In "The Busboy," Elaine considers a week too long to have a house guest, and in "The Wig Master," Kramer cheerfully says that his friend [[TheGhost Bob Sacomano]] once stayed with him for a year and a half. |
| 275 | * In the Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody episode "The Arwin That Came to Dinner", after Arwin's mother gets married and moves out of the house, Arwin starts sleeping over at the Martain's suite every night and driving Zack, Cody, and Carey crazy. |
| 276 | * PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/TheTonightShow'' during an interview with Creator/HughJackman. Jackman, a native Australian, warned Jimmy Fallon to never invite an Australian to his home because they would make themselves a little bit too comfortable. While he was saying this, [[HypocriticalHumor he was pulling out a blanket]]. The next night, when the show started, Jimmy found Hugh still asleep on the couch of the studio. |
| 277 | * This is the premise for ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' -- Alan moves in with his bachelor brother Charlie for "a couple of days" when his wife divorces him and then stays for about a decade. |
| 278 | ** Amazingly, he managed to stay even after Charlie's death, and the sale of the house to Walden. Walden frequently [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this. |
| 279 | * In the first episode of ''Series/TwoUpTwoDown'', "What's Yours is Mine", Stan and Sheila move into their new home only to find Jimmy and Flo squatting in it. The former two are unable to get rid of the latter two, setting up the situation for the rest of the series. |
| 280 | * ''Series/{{Velvet}}'': Mateo takes pity on Barbara and invites her and her infant daughter to stay at his house until she finds her own place. Barbara spends the next several episodes making herself at home and guilt-tripping Mateo whenever he tries to kick her out. [[spoiler:Then there is the matter of his [[LiarRevealed lie to Clara]] about the situation]]. |
| 281 | * ''Series/TheWestWing'': In the second season episode "[[Recap/TheWestWingS02E06TheLameDuckCongress The Lame Duck Congress]]", Vassily Kononov, a Ukrainian politician, comes to the Washington D.C., but as far as President Bartlet is concerned, Konanov should only meet with his advisers. Unfortunately, Konanov shows up drunk outside the White House one day, and refuses to leave until he meets with President Bartlet in person. What finally happens is Leo gets the idea of having Konanov speak to a low-level official (Josh picks Donna) and have President Bartlet just happen to walk by the meeting, just so Konanov can say he's met with President Bartlet in person. |
| 282 | * ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'': Colin Robinson is an Employee That Would Not Leave. An energy vampire who feeds on misery, Colin spends his time irritating and boring coworkers at his office. Eventually he reveals that he has no official job and doesn't know what the company does, he just blended into the workplace. After inadvertently destroying the company by feeding too much, he gleefully attaches himself to another office to begin the whole pattern again. |
| 283 | * From ''Series/TheWrongDoor,'' The World's Most Annoying Creature is this in spades. |
| 284 | * ''Series/YesDear'' is basically This Trope: The Show. The entire premise is that well-off, stick-up-his-ass company executive Greg Warner has to put up with his LowerClassLout ObnoxiousInLaws the Hugheses living in his guest house: his wife's sister Christine, her husband Jimmy, and their two sons Dominic and Logan. Greg's wife Kim doesn't mind them all living together, but Greg is perpetually irritated by their presence and takes every opportunity to complain about them and openly express his desire for them to leave (even though Jimmy is probably the closest thing to a friend he actually has). Late in the series, the Hugheses finally get their own place and move out, but in the final episode, [[spoiler:their house is destroyed when a storm knocks over a huge tree right on top of it. The final scene has them showing up on the Warners' doorstep [[HereWeGoAgain asking if the guest house is okay]]]]. |
| 285 | [[/folder]] |
| 286 | |
| 287 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 288 | * Described in the song "We Wish You Weren't Living With Us", by Music/BobRivers. It goes to the tune of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas". |
| 289 | * The audience can presume this is what Jack of "Hit the Road Jack" by Percy Mayfield turns out to be. |
| 290 | * The topic of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eanUegmRKqg "You Gotta Go"]]. |
| 291 | * And the Tim Wilson song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCSLFx4l5qU "Brother in Law"]]. |
| 292 | * Del tha Funkee Homosapien covers this with "Sleepin' on My Couch", which ends with what appears to be the forcible ejection of the friend in question [[DestinationDefenestration out of a window]]. |
| 293 | * Music/JakeThackray's song "Leopold Alcox" is about a WalkingDisasterArea relation who comes for a (long, long) visit. |
| 294 | -->Leopold Alcox, my distant relation\ |
| 295 | has come to my flat for a brief visitation.\ |
| 296 | He's been here since February, damn and blast him,\ |
| 297 | my nerves and my furniture will not outlast him! |
| 298 | * The Trews' song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqGxyicsF9k/ "No Time for Later"]] is about telling one of these to leave. |
| 299 | * PlayedForLaughs in the song "Parece que me quieren echar" ("It looks like they wanna kick me out") by the Chilean group Sexual Democracia, which is from the POV of a trope enacter. |
| 300 | * Music/{{Madness|Band}}'s "The Bed and Breakfast Man" is about the band's original drummer John Hasler and his shameless sofa-surfing habits. |
| 301 | * The [[Music/BenFolds Ben Folds Five]] song "Steven's Last Night in Town" is about a slick outsider who blows into town, charms a whole circle of friends, then starts finding excuses not to go away. |
| 302 | -->Well, we thought he was gone\ |
| 303 | But he's come back again\ |
| 304 | Last week it was funny\ |
| 305 | And now the joke's wearing thin\ |
| 306 | Because everyone knows now that every night now will be\ |
| 307 | Steven's last night in town |
| 308 | * In feline form: ''The Cat Came Back'', a children's folk song written in 1893 by Harry S. Miller, centers on the narrator's efforts to get rid of a seemingly indestructible pet cat who always turns back up. |
| 309 | * Invoked in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6fiEodIjT4 Please Go Home]]," Creator/DanielFranzese's parody of "Stay With Me" by Music/SamSmith, about a hook-up who won't take the hint that it's time to leave. |
| 310 | * Music/RobCantor's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioVtJsZfjsA Christian Bale is at Your Party]]". It details a scene where Creator/ChristianBale [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin shows up to your house party]] uninvited. He starts doing things like eating all your queso dip, selling frozen pizza by the slice, and talking on your phone. Then, this escalates to him stabbing your wife and running naked through the crowd. Someone calls the cops on him, and they chase him down the street, but he manages to escape at the last moment. |
| 311 | * In the “Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks“ song “How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away”, Dan Hicks complains to a unnamed women that he will never miss her is she refuses to never leave him alone ever. [[/folder]] |
| 312 | |
| 313 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 314 | * ''Literature/TheBible'': "Seldom set foot in your neighbor's house — too much of you, and he will hate you." ([[Literature/BookOfProverbs Proverbs 25:17]]) |
| 315 | * ''Literature/TheOdyssey'': During Odysseus' 20-year absence, many young men, assuming that he must have died, take up residence in his mansion [[YouHaveWaitedLongEnough to court his wife Penelope]]. [[IWillWaitForYou Penelope believes that Odysseus is still alive]] and will not take a new husband. The suitors stick around and live off Odysseus' wealth for years, even when it becomes plain that Penelope does not want them around and has no interest in remarrying. When Odysseus finally comes back, he kills them all for violating the laws of hospitality as guests. |
| 316 | [[/folder]] |
| 317 | |
| 318 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 319 | * Shigeo "Anti Mexico" Okumura, a foreigner on excursion from Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling to Wrestling/{{CMLL}} who hated Mexicans. Fair enough, except that Okumura remained while all the other Japanese wrestlers returned to their home promotions and in fact stayed in Mexico apparently in the name of antagonizing Mexicans for so long that he began to speak Spanish ''with a Mexican accent''. Over a decade of this eventually lead to a HeelFaceTurn of sorts, or perhaps something like him being there so long that it became harder for people to truly become angry with him anymore. And besides, he ''was'' a nice {{translator|buddy}} for that steady flow of Japanese wrestlers on excursion. |
| 320 | * Wrestling/{{Boogeyman}} in OVW, although they did not even know he was a "guest" until it was revealed UPN had directed him their way, a reveal that happened ''after'' he finally left. |
| 321 | * Wrestling/PrinceNana was this for the first three years of Wrestling/RingOfHonor until he left of his own accord...only to come back in 2008 after his ill-gotten riches had been lost, which saw him drug out by security three times...only to buy his way back in via Barack Obama's stimulus package. |
| 322 | * Wrestling/SaraDelRey had this opinion of [[Wrestling/{{Rosemary}} Courtney Rush]], who bear in mind, was Del Rey's partner as one-half of the Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} tag team champions. To be fair, Sara never agreed to tag with Rush in the first place, Rush just got them booked out of sheer persistence. When the Canadian Ninjas demanded they get their SHIMMER title shots at nCw Femme Fatales IX, since Del Rey and Rush were there too, Del Rey willingly gave them the belts! Courtney Rush tried to fight anyway but could not beat both Ninjas by herself. |
| 323 | [[/folder]] |
| 324 | |
| 325 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 326 | * ''Series/TheFerals'' has one episode where Robbie's aunt Mavis comes to stay. Initially it seems like she's a [[CoolOldLady Cool Old Lady]] wearing bright clothes and being very upbeat and cheerful. It turns out she's a bigger con artist than ''Rattus'' and has a habit of pulling cons and pranks on whoever she can, refusing to take her doctor's medical advice, and completely taking over Robbie and Leonard's flat by redecorating it to her tastes and filling it with food only she likes. Robbie and Leonard discuss trying to get her to leave but can't bring themselves to ask. It takes the Ferals dealing with their problem of the episode (a trouble-making pet rock) and causing such a ruckus that Robbie and Lenonard are able to convince Mavis that life is this chaotic all the time for her. She quickly leaves so she can get some peace and quiet. |
| 327 | * ''Series/SesameStreet'': |
| 328 | ** One episode deals with Big Bird encountering a cuckoo bird family who invade his nest in his absence and refuse to leave. |
| 329 | ** In another episode, Big Bird recalls to Snuffy the time he became obsessed with spending the night with Gordon and Susan because of his fear of sleeping in his nest alone. |
| 330 | [[/folder]] |
| 331 | |
| 332 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 333 | * In ''TabletopGame/BurnRate'', one useful strategy is to play "Bad Hire" cards on your opponents, forcing them to hire unnecessary (or even worse, incompetent) employees, thus increasing their personnel expenses (i.e., their burn rate) without gaining anything in return. |
| 334 | * Negative-value roommates in ''TabletopGame/ChezGeek'' can only be got rid of by playing some specific cards (such as "Justifiable Homicide") or by lucky dice rolling (and in the latter case, they go annoy someone else). Several of them, such as the Choad Warrior, also demonstrate other features of the trope, such as eating your food. |
| 335 | * In the 4th Edition ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' supplement book "Runner's Guide," annoying roommates you can't get rid of is a possible negative quality you can take for your home. |
| 336 | [[/folder]] |
| 337 | |
| 338 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 339 | * In ''Theatre/TheGoodPersonOfSzechwan'', everyone who'd ever had any connection with the protagonist ended up staying at her new home. |
| 340 | * Becomes a major plot point in ''Theatre/KingLear''. After abdicating the throne and giving his daughters Goneril and Regan one half each of the kingdom to rule, Lear himself decides to spend the rest of his days living with them in alternating months. The problem is that Lear insists on traveling with a retinue of one hundred knights; the group spends all day on the castle grounds hunting or generally tromping around making a mess of things, then show up at the main house each night and demand to be waited on hand and foot. Goneril and Regan, while certainly [[BitchInSheepsClothing far from pure of heart]], are ''very'' justifiably angry about their father's treatment of them (especially considering that they have to ''run all of England'' during this time), and scheme to either kick Lear out or get him to make some concessions. He refuses, and the princesses proceed to banish him and his servants from their estates, leaving the former king homeless. |
| 341 | * Creator/HenrikIbsen has the lawyer Stensgaard in his play ''Theatre/TheLeagueOfYouth'', a fellow with high self-esteem and no sense of social skills (at times). He is set on doing it his way and has to be moved by force after being "goodbyed" three times by one of his betters. |
| 342 | * ''Theatre/TheManWhoCameToDinner'' is, if not the TropeMaker, the source of inspiration for a great many later examples of infuriating semi-permanent houseguests. In fact, for a time the play's title entered the vernacular as a shorthand term for anybody overstaying their welcome in this manner. |
| 343 | ** The play and movie were [[TruthInTelevision inspired by real life]]. It all began when Algonquin Round Table member, drama critic, ''[[Magazine/TheNewYorker New Yorker]]'' magazine columnist, and all-around JerkAss Alexander Woollcott showed up unannounced and uninvited at playwright Moss Hart's country home in Pennsylvania. He completely reorganized the home, becoming so insufferable after only two days that Hart and his writing partner George S. Kaufman wondered what would have happened if Woollcott had broken his leg and [[RealLifeWritesThePlot wasn't able to leave]]... |
| 344 | * Rick Steadman, the title character of Larry Shue's ''Theatre/TheNerd'', overstays his welcome right away, ruining a dinner meeting with host Willum's client, insulting and scaring said client's wife and kid, respectively, and being generally (albeit obliviously) rude to the other two tenants of the home. The thing is, Rick saved Willum's life in Vietnam so the latter feels like he owes it to the former, and when Willum tries to subtly hint to Rick to leave, Rick decides to become his partner, to [[HilarityEnsues ensuing hilarity]]. However, [[spoiler:Willum never learns that Rick is an actor who was hired by one of his tenants to make him realize his priorities]]. |
| 345 | [[/folder]] |
| 346 | |
| 347 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 348 | * ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' has two that show up in Act III; Mizora and Yenna. Mizora is warlock companion/PlayerCharacter Wyll's patron who essentially [[KickTheDog torments him]] ForTheEvulz and decides to hang around the camp for a front-row seat to the party's struggle against the BigBad. [[KarmaHoudini She can't be harmed or convinced to leave]], but she'll at least help out with the FinalBattle. Yenna is a TagalongKid orphan who hangs around the party since she has nowhere else to go, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential and simply comes back every single time she's told to piss off by an evil player]]. [[spoiler:She ends up being the victim of a KillAndReplace or kidnapping by the BigBadDuumvirate's [[PsychoKnifeNut Orin the Red]].]] |
| 349 | * In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', there is a DummiedOut character named Terek. Restoring the game's content with certain GameMod patches results in him squatting in the player's home in Whiterun, and he refuses to move out unless you kill him. |
| 350 | * One side quest in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'' deals with a spirit whose family devoted their lives to worshipping Thor. When his father died, they built a statue of the thunder god to watch over his grave, and to their surprise, Thor himself came to offer his condolences. At first, the family was overjoyed, but he took advantage of their hospitality, and when the man's mother ''begged'' him to leave, [[DisproportionateRetribution Thor killed her in a fit of drunken anger]]. |
| 351 | * Early on in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', Trevor forcefully moves into the apartment of Floyd, the cousin of his lackey Wade, and quickly takes it over for himself, causing it to be dirtier and more decrepit the longer he stays while Floyd is forced to be another of his lackey and occasionally unwilling sex partner. Eventually, Floyd's girlfriend (the one who actually owns the apartment) returns from her business trip and tries to force Trevor out, which leads to [[spoiler:Trevor murdering her and Floyd while making sure Wade never finds out]]. |
| 352 | * One sidequest in ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' has the player contend with Sir Roderick, a MightyWhitey parody who has taken up residence in the Scholar's Garden while he tries to "educate" the people of the Jade Empire--completely oblivious to his hosts' unsubtle hints that they want him gone. The player gets recruited by them to best Sir Roderick in a debate and duel, which will finally convince him to leave. |
| 353 | * Ravio in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds''. He starts out staying in Link's home for lack of anywhere else to go, and before long more or less annexes the place in Link's absence, turning it into a shop (and staying after Link buys out everything in the shop, despite claiming he now has the money to leave any time he wants). |
| 354 | * In ''Little Shop: World Traveler'' the player character's brother shows up asking if he can crash at their place for a while. He then proceeds to hassle the building manager, eat all the food, and leave water running in the tub while he ''goes out to buy bubble bath'', flooding the apartment. He also leaves dirty clothes and empty pizza boxes lying around. |
| 355 | * In romance interactive novel, ''VideoGame/{{Moonrise}}'', the character Alice inserts herself into the player character's life, whether they welcome her or not. |
| 356 | * In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', you might have a guest who stays until around three in the morning, playing with your video games or on your computer, or with the bubble-blower, and then, out of the blue, you get this dialogue that says "You invited me to spend the night, but then you didn't let me get any sleep! I'm leaving!" even when you never gave any such invitation -- you were just too polite to ask the guest to leave! |
| 357 | * In ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', you can control your Sims while they are in another household, so you can invoke this trope to a degree. You can eat your hosts' food, sleep in their beds, etc. If you keep it up, your hosts will become more and more annoyed with you and they'll eventually just throw you out. |
| 358 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}'', you can invite tenants to live in any rooms you build anywhere, and they pay you rent. They also sometimes give you quests to find their friend/date/cousin/coworker who either got lost or got kidnapped near some local landmark nearby and bring them back. Congratulations, you'll soon have a new resident hanging around your place, and this one won't pay you for the stay. And while you can get rid of tenants by taking down their colony deed, freeloaders won't leave unless they get killed somehow. |
| 359 | * [[CuteBruiser Suika Ibuki]], at the end of ''VideoGame/TouhouHisoutenScarletWeatherRhapsody'' successfully bullies enemy of the week Tenshi [[AndYouThoughtItWasAGame Hinanai]] out of a patch of land in Heaven. Tenshi, having ascended there as a very young child, was utterly bored by Bhava-Agra's endless parties, and naturally assumed Suika would likewise lose interest and leave. Unfortunately, not only is Suika an [[TheAlcoholic oni]], known for their constant partying and hell-raising, Tenshi never bothered to tell anyone what she'd done, leaving Suika to rampage in Heaven with no one to stop her. |
| 360 | * ''VideoGame/WishboneAndTheAmazingOdyssey'': As in the original myth, Penelope is besieged by suitors who refuse to leave until she chooses one of them as a husband. They finally flee when Wishbone shows up and passes the EngagementChallenge that Penelope sets up. |
| 361 | * One "episode" of ''[[VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream]]'' has Creator/JimmyFallon show up as a SpecialGuest for a question, and then refuse to leave afterwards, to the point of [[spoiler:staying through the credits]]. One of the questions later in the game even name-drops ''Theatre/TheManWhoCameToDinner''. |
| 362 | [[/folder]] |
| 363 | |
| 364 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 365 | * In ''VisualNovel/MaxsBigBustACaptainNekoraiTale'', there's Max's sister, Heather. She moves in after she loses her job and proceeds to eat all of Max's food while she lazes about all day. [[spoiler:She then proceeds to simultaneously flood the apartment and set it on fire, resulting in Max's eviction.]] |
| 366 | * During the ChristmasEpisode of ''VisualNovel/MyForgedWedding'', Takao and the protagonist's plans for a romantic holiday evening at home are derailed when Takao's younger brother Tatsuki shows up to complain about having been dumped by his girlfriend and simply refuses to go away. Tatsuki ends up inviting himself to dinner, eats most of the food the protagonist had prepared, gets drunk, and [[MomentKiller barges in on every attempt the couple makes at having a private moment together]]. It all works out in the end, but Takao wryly comments that next year, he and the protagonist should take a trip out of the country for Christmas. |
| 367 | * In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', ParodySue Erika Furudo quickly wears out her welcome by her callous disregard for everyone else and her constant need to assert her intellectual superiority. Worse, even if they wanted to get rid of her they ''can't'' because of the typhoon outside trapping them all on the island of Rokkenjima. The narration even makes this clear, describing her as one starting out as an unexpected guest welcome to stay while the storm rages on, to an unwanted guest who can't leave while the storm rages on. |
| 368 | [[/folder]] |
| 369 | |
| 370 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 371 | * In ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} has become this for Wiz and Boomstick, dropping in to bother the two at least OnceASeason. It's gotten so bad that they conspired to create a match with [[ComicBook/TheMask Big Head]] to get rid of him! [[spoiler:And it worked! [[DisneyDeath Until it didn't]]. The Mask decided to troll Wiz and Boomstick by giving them a Continuity Gem to bring him back to life. Cue terrified hosts running away.]] |
| 372 | * [[VideoGame/SonicRushAdventure Marine]] becomes this towards Shadow in WebAnimation/ShadowAndMarine after he loses a bet with Sonic. |
| 373 | [[/folder]] |
| 374 | |
| 375 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 376 | * In ''Webcomic/BrunoTheBandit'', Great-Uncle Lucius, who ''[[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/19981021.html lied about being a member of Bruno's family]]'', ''[[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/19981023.html came for an afternoon visit over thirty years before the comic happens]]'', and then fell sick and was, according to him and (after some ''[[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/19981021.html threats]]'' from Lucius) his doctors, about to die, thus making the family have to take care of him. He's going to live until at least "[[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/19981031.html some seventy years later]]". And he will still be about to die. |
| 377 | * ''Webcomic/BusterWildeWeerwolf'': Try as he might, but every time Trey kicks Buster out of the club, [[http://www.furnation.com/BusterWilde/comics/buster030.gif Buster always ends up getting back in.]] |
| 378 | * Used in ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy'' where one day, straight out of the blue (apparently while on the way to give Quantum Cop another Nobel Prize), the ''King Of Sweden'' (King Carl XVI Gustaf) decided to remain in Casey and Andy's couch and demand they bring him drinks. The only times they managed to get him out of the couch was when they bribed him with drinks to help with a crisis in a fantasy dimension and when he was briefly kidnapped by the Land Pirates (which he joined due to, you guessed it, UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome). The strip's epilogue reveals [[spoiler:he remained there for another 20 years before dying and being replaced by his daughter Victoria]]. |
| 379 | ** The League of Recurring Antagonists seem to have a similar problem with the Emperor of Japan. |
| 380 | ** Their next-door neighbor Jenn has Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain on her sofa and scarfing all her lager. |
| 381 | * In ''Webcomic/DarwinCarmichaelIsGoingToHell'', three angels showed up on Darwin's door one day to save his soul and prevent him from making a deadly mistake. Unfortunately, the event they were supposed to prevent happened nine years ago at this point, so they just decided to move in with him instead, and hang out on the couch mooching all day while getting high. |
| 382 | * In ''Webcomic/EnsignSueMustDie'', the new ensign, Mary Sue, is so annoying that the entire senior crew of the ''Enterprise'' try to get rid of her. Making her fight a room full of Klingons? She kills every one of them. Transporting her off the ship? Scotty tried that twice and she inexplicably came back every time. Dumping her off on the mirror universe ''Enterprise''? They want ''nothing'' to do with her, and in fact were planning on dropping ''their'' Sue off with the regular ''Enterprise''. Even a phaser set to 'Pocket Death Star' fails to do anything, as [[Film/ThePrincessBride she spent the last three years building an immunity to phaser blasts]]. They eventually do find the one method that works: [[spoiler:giving her a RedShirt and sending her on an away mission]]. |
| 383 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Oggie's false etymology for relativity references relatives who won't leave: |
| 384 | -->''[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100521 "Iz vot hy call "relativity!" Hyu know, 'cause it like ven hyu relatives visit an dun go avay!"]]'' |
| 385 | * Prince Zander in ''Webcomic/LatchkeyKingdom''. His friend and MinorLivingAlone Willa takes him in after his family is usurped/goes on vacation without him. He doesn't do any chores, keeps her up late, doesn't let her go into the [[DungeonCrawling dangerous dungeons]], and throws a rock at some strangers and lets Willa take the blame. It only takes one day before Willa usurps the throne ''again'' just to get him out of her house. |
| 386 | * ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}'': Piro and Largo stay in the apartment of Piro's friend Tsubasa when they are stuck in Japan at first. While they genuinely mean to not impose, they are distracted by Tsubasa's vast video game collection and wind up staying until Tsubasa leaves for America and they are evicted from the apartment, along with RobotGirl Ping. They leave after [[spoiler:Tsubasa moves out first]]. |
| 387 | * ''Webcomic/{{Plume}}'': Corrick the GuardianEntity becomes this briefly to Vesper and - especially - her aunt after revealing his true nature, accompanying the girl wherever she'd be. Including the bathroom. Vesper gets used to it after a while, though. |
| 388 | * Katia, the main character of ''Webcomic/{{Prequel}}''. She meets Quill-Weave after breaking into her house on a drunken bender to have sex with a stranger in her own bed. Since Quill is one of the first people to genuinely treat her nicely (out of pity and later guilt), Katia latches onto her like an adorably pathetic, puppy-dog-eyed lamprey. |
| 389 | * It's apparently a bad idea to be this trope to Iceland in ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld''. As seen [[http://satwcomic.com/have-a-safe-trip-home here]], his method of dealing with such individuals is to give them insufficiently fermented [[ForeignQueasine hakarl]], then point his now-blind guest in the direction of an erupting volcano. |
| 390 | * ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' does a very strange version with Bert. At first, he's the main characters' roommate, so it's no problem that he's there. Then he says he's moving out because the others are too weird, though he's always most certainly been the weirdest one even in that bunch. The others don't necessarily want him to go, at least Torg, but all right. The problem is when he says he ''has'' moved out even while he's obviously still living in there. In the end, Torg gets fed up and calls the UN to send inspectors to find him, which they fail to do because ''Bert was in a closet.'' |
| 391 | * The basic plot of ''Batman and the Bat-Titans'' has a {{Jerkass}} version of ComicBook/{{Batman}} mooching off of the Comicbook/TeenTitans. |
| 392 | * The [[Webcomic/TheThingThatWouldNotLeave webcomic of the same name]] has Luca being this to Francesca. |
| 393 | * ''Webcomic/TrippingOverYou'': The Schwartzes' cousin Alfons shows up for a visit in Chapter 5, admits he doesn't know how long he'll be staying and hasn't been shown to have left in the subsequent twelve chapters. {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that, despite Eli's misgivings about hosting him, Alfons is a congenial StarvingArtist who doesn't impose and who helps mitigate Eli's EmptyNest pangs after Liam moves out. |
| 394 | [[/folder]] |
| 395 | |
| 396 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 397 | * Website/CollegeHumor reminds us that whenever you have a party, there's a risk that one of your guests [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26u0A5N48M0 just won't leave.]] |
| 398 | * [[Literature/{{Morevi}} Tee Morris]], a frequent guest on the Dragon Page and Farpoint Media podcasts, took pride in his moniker of "the Guest That Wouldn't Go Away". He even made his own audio bumper. |
| 399 | * ''Website/NobodyHere'': "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/mister.here Mister]]" is about a stranger following Jogchem into his house and making himself at home. While confused as to who he is and why he's doing this, Jogchem doesn't particularly seem to mind. This trope gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/tidy.here Tidy]]", where Jogchem is too much of an ExtremeDoormat to kick him out. |
| 400 | -->What got into this man, to step in here, sleep in my chair and stick all my stuff together? I don't have to take this! I'll... I'll grab him! And then shake him! Verbally, that is... I'll tell him a thing or two... And ask him when he's going to leave.\ |
| 401 | As soon as he wakes up... |
| 402 | * ''ARG/TheNoedolekcinArchives'' has a less friendly example. Nickelodeon treats Kirk as a nuisance since he began hijacking the channel, as they have tried several times to get rid of him, but none so far have succeeded. |
| 403 | * ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' in Season 11 had Simmons join the Blue team to get away from Sarge and Grif. He annoys Tucker and Wash who are getting on each other's nerves with his need for chores and attempts to kiss up to Wash. Becomes Inverted when Simmons wants to go back to Red team when [[spoiler:Caboose is made leader of Blue team]] but can't because [[FluffyTheTerrible Freckles]] threatened to kill him if he "abandoned his post." |
| 404 | * Animosity-wise, [[Website/SCPFoundation SCP-682]] is this to those who are holding it in captivity, and they want to kill him due to his tendency to [[OmnicidalManiac kill anything that is living]]. However, thanks to his AdaptiveAbility from anything that is used to kill him, he won't be leaving anytime soon. It also doesn't help that his adaptation also works against things that send him somewhere else instead of killing him, [[TheCatCameBack allowing him to keep coming back]]. |
| 405 | * In ''Literature/ShadowrunStorytime'', Locke doesn't feel safe returning to his apartment after Knight Errant raided it, so he ends up staying at Wildcard's house. Wildcard eventually gets frustrated enough that he changes his face and identity, sublets his house, and moves into a college frat to get away. Locke then starts mooching off Dervish. |
| 406 | * ''WebVideo/SlimecicleCinematicUniverse'': At the start of "The HARDEST Minecraft Difficulty", a group of polar bears constantly follows the group, attacking them at any time they're not moving. They're quickly removed during the first meeting at Molympus due to being near-unavoidable. |
| 407 | * There are ''numerous'' Website/YouTube videos where [[NoPeriodsPeriod a menstrual period]] is personified as (usually) a girl or woman who acts like this. She does things like arrive unannounced and ahead of schedule, pressures her hostess to eat [[ComfortFood junk food]], [[MoodSwinger goes to pieces over trivial things]], wears her hostess' nicest underwear, critiques the hostess' choice to wear white pants, punches her in the stomach or back, [[DatePeepers tags along on dates]] (or tries for a threesome) with the hostess' LoveInterest, criticizes said LoveInterest, and just generally acts obnoxious. She always ''does'' leave, but always with the promise that she'll be back next month, much to the annoyance of her hostess. Sometimes, she changes her mind and decides to stay for a few extra days. |
| 408 | * ''WebVideo/YuGiOhGXTheAbridgedSeries'' (by [=ShadyVox=] and [=XTheDarkOne=]): Jaden has made several attempts to get rid of the Winged Kuriboh card, but it always comes back to him. |
| 409 | -->'''Jaden:''' I've tried trading it, I've tried selling it, I've tried yelling at it, I've tried mailing it to Australia. The damn thing is like WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}, Syrus. It always finds me! |
| 410 | [[/folder]] |
| 411 | |
| 412 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 413 | * ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'': In "Scooby in Kwackyland", [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Vincent Van Ghoul]] has been staying with the crew for a week while his home is being re-cobwebbed, and has spent most of that time laying in bed and making unreasonable demands. Daphne actually refers to him by the trope name shortly before the gang's latest adventure begins. |
| 414 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', Jimmy creates a robot to pass off as a little brother. This comes to bite him in the ass when said robot turns out to be a GenkiBoy who doesn't give Jimmy a moment's rest until Jimmy creates a robot family for him to go live in the moon. |
| 415 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Ricky Spanish", Stan and Francine sent letters to their adoptive African son Tungee (whom they believed didn't exist because they thought Africa didn't exist either) to encourage him to come live with them, which does happen much to their shock. His perkiness becomes too much for them to bear that they ditch him in a "Costgo" but soon regret that decision and go get him back... just for him to remind them how annoying he was that they both jump out of the running car and watch, horrified, as he disappears in the distance... and ''then'' they go back to missing him. |
| 416 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': In "[[Recap/AmphibiaS3E05AdventuresInCatsitting Adventures in Catsitting]]", Hop-Pop expresses worry about being a "free-loader" to the Boonchuys. He recalls having to put up with "Cousin Stanley", a (probably phony) distant relative who mooched off the Plantars for months on end until they got fed up and threw him out a second-story window into the swamp. |
| 417 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' titled "[[Recap/TheAngryBeaversE23TheBingThatWouldntLeave The Bing That Wouldn't Leave]]" involves Norbert and Daggett rescuing a gecko named Bing who won't leave them alone. They try all sorts of schemes to get rid of him, and eventually try passing him along to one of their other friends, but they find out Bing's reputation for clinginess proceeds him. |
| 418 | * Happens in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' when the Warners encounter a man named Francis Pumphandle ("But everybody calls me 'Pip'.") who [[TheBore continues to talk on and on about a long pointless story involving tambourines, orchids and bologna.]] The Warners try desperately to shake him off, only for him to follow them home. They essentially give up and listen to him talk about his story as they go about their routines, presumably for days, but then he finishes it and leaves. They're surprised to find they miss him and chase him down to hear more stories. |
| 419 | * ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' has Teddy, who spends so much time at the titular restaurant he practically lives there and frequently inserts himself into the Belchers' family problems despite not actually being related to them. However, despite his occasionally annoying nature, the Belchers view him as a close friend and sincerely enjoy his company. |
| 420 | * ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' has Todd, a cheery slacker who seems to have just, one day, decided to move into Bojack's house after having nowhere else to go. While Bojack could easily kick Todd out, he keeps him around [[HatesBeingAlone out of loneliness]] and even at one point [[spoiler:sabotages Todd's Rock Opera]] so that he can't move on. As the series progressed, Todd eventually leaves. |
| 421 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "[[Recap/TheBoondocksS2E9InvasionOfTheKatrinians Invasion of the Katrinians]]", Robert Freeman's relatives from New Orleans come by to stay at his house after Hurricane Katrina left them homeless, and soon they really overstay their welcome. Huey and Riley get forced to cook for and clean after them while Robert is burdened with expensive bills covering their food, water, and power. |
| 422 | * The ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' episode "Auntie Matta" had Mr. Bumpy's Auntie Matta pay a visit to her nephew, who shows her around the house and teaches her modern ways for monsters to scare people. Things take a turn for the worse when Bumpy's aunt won't stop scaring his friends and stays at the house for ''months''. In the end, Bumpy scares his aunt into leaving by introducing her to [[FauxHorrific television]]. |
| 423 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'', Chowder invites Gazpacho to stay at the catering company after he has a fight with his mother. You can guess how it turns out. |
| 424 | * ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': |
| 425 | ** In "[[Recap/CodenameKidsNextDoorS2E2AOperationSPANK Operation: S.P.A.N.K.]]", Count Spankulot decides to join the side of good and temporarily becomes a member of the Kids Next Door. Sector V hates him and wants him out, so they trick him into spanking an innocent, so he goes to jail again. |
| 426 | ** In "[[Recap/CodenameKidsNextDoorS5E11AOperationHOTSTUFF Operation: H.O.T.S.T.U.F.F.]]", Kani stays at Sector V's treehouse when his own house is rendered unlivable by the thermostat being too high. Gradually, he begins to act like an annoying teenager while Numbuh 4 takes the role of a parental figure trying to urge him to get outside and stop drinking so much soda. |
| 427 | * ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' does this in "Dan Vs. The Mummy", when the eponymous mummy shows up at Dan's house and starts mooching off of him. |
| 428 | * In ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "Shoo, Shoe Gnomes", Dexter's boots get ruined, so Dee Dee sets up a ceremony to summon [[HouseFey shoemaker gnomes]] to repair them. It worked and Dexter's boots are good as new...but unfortunately, the gnomes move into Dexter's lab and refuse to leave. |
| 429 | * ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': |
| 430 | ** Ed is this to Eddy at the start of "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS2E4OnePlusOneEqualsEd One + One = Ed]]", joining Eddy in bed and refusing to let him sleep by asking incredibly silly questions. |
| 431 | --->'''Eddy:''' ED! What are you doing in my bed?!?\ |
| 432 | '''Ed:''' I can't sleep, Eddy. I keep thinking, how can my feet smell if they don't have a nose? |
| 433 | ** In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS2E12RamblingEd Rambling Ed]]", the Eds take up residence at Rolf's shed before they endlessly exploit Rolf by eating him out of house and home, sleeping in his bed, and making him wash the dishes they made dirty, being too stupid (and shallow) to notice they're torturing Rolf. |
| 434 | ** The end of "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS3E2MommasLittleEd Momma's Little Ed]]" has Edd become this to Eddy, as [[LaserGuidedKarma his ultimate punishment for pranking Edd with fake sticky notes from Edd's parents]]. |
| 435 | ** "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS4E22HeresMudInYourEd Here's Mud in Your Ed]]" has Jimmy becomes this towards Rolf after the latter helps Jimmy get back at Eddy for scamming him. Jimmy would end up spending the rest of the day with Rolf, even repapering his bedroom while Rolf's trying to sleep, much to his consternation. |
| 436 | --->'''Rolf:''' Boy Jimmy, when might you be going home? |
| 437 | * The B-plot of the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E8DogGone Dog Gone]]" involves Lois hiring Consuela, a Hispanic housemaid, after she gets tired of cleaning up Peter's messes. She quickly slides into this territory, staying overnight just because it's raining and refusing to leave after they fire her and even outright pay her to go away. It takes being knocked out with chloroform and dumped next door at Joe's just to finally get rid of her. |
| 438 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': |
| 439 | ** In the episode "This Is Your Lifesaver", Fred is stuck with a con man whose life he saved because the man claims an inversion of IOweYouMyLife. |
| 440 | ** In the episode "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes", the Hatrocks ([[FeudingFamilies the family that had been feuding with Fred's, Hatfields and McCoys-style]], over a [[DisproportionateRetribution stupid insult Fred's ancestor told them]]) visit the Flintstones to declare their feud over, but bad choice of words from Fred cause them to stick around to the point of overstaying their welcome and turning the Flinstone house into a redneck pigsty, with it seeming like they may stay forever. In an attempt to scare them off, Fred invites the Gruesomes (another family he had a brief feud with, an {{Expy}} of ComicStrip/TheAddamsFamily) over to drive them off, but it doesn't work -- [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth the Hatrocks are so rough-and-tumble they intimidate the Gruesomes]]. What finally scares off the Hatrocks is the discovery they have an AbsurdPhobia for "Bug" music (an {{Expy}} of ''The Beatles''). |
| 441 | * ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' had the episode "Go Goo Go" when a ''very'' hyperactive MotorMouth girl named Goo comes to Foster's. After she begins filling up the house with imaginary friends, Mac tries to get rid of her, but Goo doesn't take the hint. The other members of the main cast don't get the hint either and think that the reason that Goo isn't leaving is that she's Mac's ''girlfriend'' and can't work up the nerve to ask her. |
| 442 | * ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': |
| 443 | ** In the episode "The Thing That Stayed Forever" (a nod to the SNL sketch this trope is named after), Jon's annoying Uncle Ed moves in and stays for months [[BigEater while eating Jon out of house and home in the process]] because Jon is too stubborn to kick out a relative. Jon bursts into agony outside when Uncle Ed states he plans to stay for a few more years. So Garfield comes up with several schemes to get rid of him which all fail. Finally he makes Jon call his wife Edna, who shows up to drag him home. It's revealed that the reason he stayed at Jon's house for so long was that Edna put him on a diet. |
| 444 | ** Garfield also encountered a homeless fat cat who convinced [[{{Jerkass}} Jon]] to take away all of Garfield's room and board and then bestow them to the homeless cat in "Pest of a Guest". |
| 445 | ** Cactus Jake, Aunt Prunella, and Jon's FatIdiot cousin Roscoe have all been this to Garfield, Jon, and Odie. |
| 446 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'' has a similar relative named Aunt Ivy who is so [[{{Jerkass}} obnoxious]] that it leads to Jon tiring of her in one day, as opposed to months. |
| 447 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', a look at the boundary lines between Pete and Goofy's houses shows that Pete owns half of Goofy's property, with him taking advantage of it by tearing down half of Goofy's house and living on the property while wickedly invoking ThisIsMySide. At the end of the episode, Peg looked over the property graph again and reveals that Pete [[UpsideDownBlueprints had been looking at it upside down]]. Goofy actually owned half of ''his'' house, to his horror. |
| 448 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': |
| 449 | ** Nergal becomes one to Billy's family out of shame towards losing a ''board game''. |
| 450 | ** Billy's mom sees Grim as this, going as far as to blame Grim for the refrigerator always being empty in "Reap Walking", even though it's her incredibly hungry (and fat) husband's fault. |
| 451 | ** Fred Fredburger in "Keeper of the Reaper" after brushing his teeth goes to lie in bed... right next to the same juror he shared a bench with. |
| 452 | --->'''Pale Ghoulish Juror:''' How many times do I have to tell you this is [[SuddenlyShouting MY HOUSE?!!!]]\ |
| 453 | '''Fred Fredburger:''' [[CharacterCatchPhrase Yes]]. |
| 454 | * In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', [[TheSlacker Oskar]] becomes this to Arnold in "Arnold as Cupid" after a falling out with his wife Susie. Not only is he a freeloading guest who's squatting in Arnold's room, he becomes a [[{{Jerkass}} total dick]] to Arnold by playing the saxophone while Arnold's supposed to study for a test, inviting friends over to play cards and betting Arnold's CD player (and lost). |
| 455 | * ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'': |
| 456 | ** In one episode, [[StageMom Miss Turtle]] will not leave the house or leave Mickey alone until [[BrattyHalfPint Baby Shellby]] performs on stage. |
| 457 | ** Mortimer Mouse has also taken undue advantage of the club's hospitality; Mickey and the gang can't do anything about his obnoxious behavior because they think he's a food critic. He only leaves when they find out he isn't really one and Lumiere decides to give him a RumpRoast. |
| 458 | * ''WesternAnimation/HulkHogansRockNWrestling'': In the Season 1 episode "Wrestling Roommates", after being thrown out of his apartment, Wrestling/CaptainLouAlbano comes to stay with Wrestling/HulkHogan for a while, but Albano's slobbish habits and attempts to help out around the place drive Hulk crazy. Eventually, Wrestling/JunkyardDog needs someone to babysit his junkyard while he heads out of town for a match, to which Hulk lets Lou stay there as his part-time home. But then, just as Hulk finishes cleaning up his apartment, Wrestling/HillbillyJim [[HereWeGoAgain pops by to stay with him]]. |
| 459 | * Keef in ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', though it was more that he just kept ''coming back'' so much he was calling Zim's house "home" by the end of the episode. [[spoiler:[[NightmareFuel Then Zim ripped his eyeballs out]] and made him think a squirrel was Zim.]] |
| 460 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Kiff}}'': In “Fun Uncle Pat”, Martin’s brother Pat moves in after his landlord/girlfriend evicts him/breaks up with him. Martin is not looking forward to this since Pat has a tendency to make a nuisance of himself by constantly asking everyone if they need anything, and while Kiff is looking forward to spending time with him, she soon grows tired of him taking over her room, eating all her favorite snacks, and deleting her shows off the DVR to make room for his own. While her efforts to get his girlfriend to take him back fail, she eventually finds him a job as a cruise ship director, where his habit of pestering people to ask if they need anything is actually useful. |
| 461 | * ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': This is how Hank Hill views his niece Luanne while she was living with them in the first half of the show. Luanne originally lived with the Hills after her parents split up; her mother went to prison for stabbing her dad with a fork, and her dad went to work on an offshore oil rig and refused to return until his wife died (later retconned into his being in prison too). Hank tried a number of ways to get Luanne to leave, mainly because she was using his personal den for her room. She later moves out on her own after Hank tries to make her pay rent, a move his wife Peggy did not approve and was not happy to learn about after the fact. |
| 462 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' episode "[[Recap/LittlestPetShop2012S1E25BlythesPetProject Blythe's Pet Project]]," Shivers the Squirrel keeps finding his way back into the pet shop every time someone else forces him to leave. Enraging everyone further is his [[StickyFingers compulsive kleptomania]] and hoarding, which at first causes infighting among the pets until Shivers's hoard is discovered. |
| 463 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': |
| 464 | ** In one episode, Yosemite Sam has to move in with Bugs and Daffy after he rigs his home to work on solar power and [[AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp a big storm leaves him without power]]. He becomes more and more of a nuisance, and schemes to get him to leave on his own only backfire. |
| 465 | ** Daffy is also an example of this in the same show. He moved in until he got back on his feet and stayed for seven years, apparently without realizing at all that he is not really someone you would want to be around for that long. The situation is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in an episode where Bugs accidentally cracks a water pipe in the house. |
| 466 | --->'''Daffy:''' There's no water! I refuse to pay rent until this is fixed!\ |
| 467 | '''Bugs:''' Daffy, you've ''never'' paid rent.\ |
| 468 | '''Daffy:''' And I will continue to do so until this is fixed! |
| 469 | * This turns up in some of the classic ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts: |
| 470 | ** [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny Bugs]] intrudes on Elmer in this manner in "WesternAnimation/TheWabbitWhoCameToSupper" and "Upswept Hare". [[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck Daffy]] also does this to Porky in several cartoons. |
| 471 | ** Not to mention every Charlie Dog cartoon, ever, is about Charlie weaseling his way into a stranger's household (frequently that of Porky Pig) and proceeding to drive his new "master" crazy. |
| 472 | ** In "The Fair Haired Hare", Bugs and Sam are court-ordered to share Sam's prairie home after Sam builds over Bugs' hole in the ground. Sam does more than try to get Bugs to leave...he tries to kill him. |
| 473 | ** "From Hare to Heir" has Bugs representing a firm awarding Duke Sam 1 million pounds under the provision he keeps his temper in check with Bugs deducting any amount he sees warrants whenever Sam blows up. Bugs spends the rest of the cartoon making Sam's life a living hell, just to see if and when he loses his temper. |
| 474 | ** In "The Stupor Salesman", Daffy is a door-to-door salesman who takes a taxi to the hideout of a notorious bank robber and pesters him to buy something. Despite the bank robber making very (violently) clear that he is not interested in anything Daffy has to sell, Daffy [[TheDeterminator refuses to take no for an answer]], and makes it a point to not leave until he's made a sale. |
| 475 | * An episode of the ''WesternAnimation/MrBean'' animated series had Bean's childhood friend Harry staying with him and taking advantage of his hospitality, leaving him almost broke. Bean finally gets rid of him by ditching him at the restaurant after indulgently encouraging Harry to eat all he wants with empty promises of footing the bill himself (after Harry finished eating, Bean snuck into the bathroom and hid in the ducts), leaving Harry to [[WorkOffTheDebt work off the hefty bill]]. |
| 476 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 477 | ** Fluttershy is on the receiving end in Season 4's "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E16ItAintEasyBeingBreezies It Ain't Easy Being Breezies]]" when a group of Breezies are separated from the rest of their swarm and she agrees to let them stay with her until they recover. It eventually becomes clear that all but one of the group would rather stay and enjoy her hospitality rather than resume the dangerous journey home, and Fluttershy has to bring herself to be CruelToBeKind and force them to move on. She ''does'' help escort them to the portal back to their home dimension though (with the help of Twilight and the others). |
| 478 | ** The Season 6 episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E12FlutterBrutter Flutter Brutter]]" takes it up a notch with Fluttershy's younger brother Zephyr Breeze, who is this to both her and their parents when he moves into their respective houses to mooch off of their hospitality. It's stated he's been like this for quite some time until Fluttershy kicks him out. He eventually undergoes CharacterDevelopment, and while he moves back in with his parents afterward, at least he's graduated from school this time and promises to look for a job (and a Season 8 comic later shows him having actually gotten one). |
| 479 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' episode "Fish Out of Water", Gopher moves in with an unwilling Rabbit when a [[TerristrialSeaLife terristrial]] migrating school of trout fill his tunnels. Adding to this, he starts "[[DIYDisaster renovating]]" Rabbit's house to the point that it's a mess, prompting Rabbit to get the trout of the tunnels to get his home back. |
| 480 | * The ''Franchise/{{Peanuts}}'' special ''He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown'' has Snoopy sent across town for obedience training. Since he has to make the trip on foot, Charlie Brown asks Peppermint Patty to put him up "just for one night". You can guess what happens next. Peppermint Patty finally gets Snoopy to leave by forcing him to "pull his own weight" by doing chores around the house. |
| 481 | * The aptly-named ''WesternAnimation/PetAlien'' episode "The Guest Who Wouldn't Leave... Ever" has a black-hole warlord called Bob move into the lighthouse and refuse to leave no matter what. When Tommy politely asks him to leave, Bob simply kicks him and the aliens out instead and tries to summon a black hole to kill them when they fight back. |
| 482 | * In ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', Heffer briefly moves in with Rocko after his parents rent out his room, making Rocko miserable the whole time, loud snoring, hogging the bathroom, messing up the house, giving away his furniture to charity, but Rocko officially lost it when Heffer hosted a nude party in his backyard. Luckily, Heffer realizes that it's too difficult to live with Rocko, and Heffer's dad comes by to drag him back home. |
| 483 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 484 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E22TheOttoShow The Otto Show]]", Otto moves in with the Simpsons after he loses his job. Later subverted when Homer kicks him out and calls him a "drain-clogging, last-cookie-eating, collect-call-getting-sponge". Ironically, his [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne anger at being called a sponge]] is what motivates Otto to retake his driving test so he can get his job and his apartment back. |
| 485 | ** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E24BrotherCanYouSpareTwoDimes Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes]]" features Homer's half-brother Herb coming to stay with the Simpsons after Homer unintentionally destroyed Herb's car company. {{Justified|Trope}} in that Herb was destitute and had been living as a hobo until then. Subverted in that Herb also moves out when he regains his fortune and gets the Simpsons gifts for supporting him. |
| 486 | ** The plot of taking a houseguest has been recycled several times: The Simpsons have taken in such Springfield regulars as Krusty ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E22KrustyGetsKancelled Krusty Gets Kancelled]]" and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E15TheLastTemptationOfKrust The Last Temptation of Krust]]"), Sideshow Bob ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E6TheGreatLouseDetective The Great Louse Detective]]"), Apu ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E13HomerAndApu Homer and Apu]]", and the season nine episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E3LisasSax Lisa's Sax]]" has Apu randomly appearing in the Simpson house during a parody of the ''All in the Family'' opening theme), Chester J. Lampwick ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied The Day the Violence Died]]") and Gil (who stayed a whole year, according to "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E9KillGilVolumesIAndII Kill Gil, Volumes I & II]]"). When Kent Brockman came in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E22YouKentAlwaysSayWhatYouWant You Kent Always Say What You Want]]", this was subject of a LampshadeHanging when Homer asks him for an 8"x10" for "the wall of casual acquaintances who came to stay for a while". Finally is Lurleen Lumpkin (the country singer whom Homer tried to promote in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E20ColonelHomer Colonel Homer]]", despite that Lurleen was seducing him) in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E16PapaDontLeech Papa Don't Leech]]". |
| 487 | ** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E18IAmFuriousYellow I Am Furious (Yellow)]]" has [[AdamWesting a caricatured]] Creator/StanLee staying in the Android's Dungeon and driving Comic Book Guy crazy. |
| 488 | --->'''Bart:''' Stan Lee came back?\ |
| 489 | '''Comic Book Guy:''' Stan Lee never left. And I'm starting to think [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} that his mind is no longer in mint condition]]. |
| 490 | ** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E17BartToTheFuture Bart To The Future]]" features a now-grown Lisa as the U.S. President faced with the country's massive debt problem. Her efforts to solve it are hindered a now-grown Bart who's a JadedWashout and TheSlacker. Bart hangs around TheWhiteHouse being a nuisance to the point of barging into the Oval Office during Lisa's attempts to reassure the public about America's finances and revealing just how bad things are. Other world leaders confront Lisa to demand she immediately pay America's debts. Bart saves the day by charming the leaders into giving Lisa more time, even chiding her for dealing with debt collectors without his help. |
| 491 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'': In the episode "Smurfing for Ghosts", Peewit calls for the Smurfs' help because of Quarrel Castle's resident ghost Uncle Fenwick trying to get his relatives to leave. |
| 492 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs2021'': In the episode "The Guest That Wouldn't Leave", the Smurfs try to kick Wild out of Papa Smurf's house after his ankle has been healed, only Wild wouldn't leave without Papa Smurf's bed. |
| 493 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SittingDucks'', a crow named Raoul gets his foot smashed in Bill's window. Raoul then takes advantage of his "broken" foot, using Bill to buy inflatable palm trees, jukeboxes, and carts full of food. Bill then comes to realize that Raoul's foot isn’t broken at all, and then Bill and Aldo team up to scare him straight, causing both Bill and Raoul's feet to get broken in the process. |
| 494 | * ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' had Eggman becoming one after his island fortress got damaged in a storm, forcing him to crash with Sonic and Tails, causing pillow fights, making them stay up really late, and generally being a nuisance. [[spoiler:It turns out it was all a trick to tire them out so his new robot can destroy them. Said robot immediately goes haywire, forcing an EnemyMine since Eggman will actually have to stay with them if it destroys his base. When Eggman's base is wrecked, Sonic's smart enough to refuse him a place to stay.]] |
| 495 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 496 | ** Creator/TylerPerry, of all people, becomes this in the episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS15E2Funnybot Funnybot]]", being the only comedian that actually shows up for Jimmy's comedy awards show. Then he starts squatting at the school in full Madea garb and routine, and nobody can get him to leave because Token is the only person who thinks he's funny and won't stop giving him money. Worth noting that even Token seems to be aware of the annoyance, he just can't help it. |
| 497 | ** Mark Zuckerberg also becomes this in "[[Recap/SouthParkS21E4FranchisePrequel Franchise Prequel]]". After being invited to speak to the town, he starts invading people's homes and privacy, thoroughly annoying everyone in town. He sees anyone asking him to leave (or really confronting him in any way) as attempting to "block" him, which he then "[[MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours defeats]]" with his "unblockable shtoyle". Or put another way, he confuses the hell out of people by acting like a lunatic until they back down and let him do what he wants. |
| 498 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 499 | ** [=SpongeBob=] himself qualifies as this. Squidward would love to spend the day doing things that bring him peace and calm, but he can't, because every time he settles down for some quiet relaxation, [=SpongeBob=], with Patrick in tow, loudly barges into Squidward's house and announces that the three of them will do an activity that only he and Patrick will enjoy. Despite Squidward clearly and loudly stating that he is not interested in taking part in whatever they are doing, [=SpongeBob=] will refuse to take "no" for an answer. |
| 500 | ** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E5PizzaDeliveryHomeSweetPineapple Home Sweet Pineapple]]", [=SpongeBob=] tries moving in to Squidward's house after nematodes eat up his pineapple. After obliging to let him stay because he was half asleep, Squidward wakes up and immediately kicks him out. |
| 501 | ** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E7HallMonitorJellyfishJam Jellyfish Jam]]", the jellyfish (plural, not just the first one) become this to [=SpongeBob=] after the one he decided to keep as a pet invited the others to party at his house while he was asleep. |
| 502 | ** "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E7AsSeenOnTVCanYouSpareADime Can You Spare a Dime?]]" takes this to absurd levels with Squidward as the unwanted guest. He exploits [=SpongeBob=]'s natural friendliness and eagerness to help. This eventually proves too much for [=SpongeBob=], who soon begins aggressively giving Squidward ''blindingly obvious'' hints to get a job and stop sulking over losing his last one, but Squidward won't budge. It shows that even ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes SpongeBob has his limits]]''. |
| 503 | ** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS4E10GhostHostChimpsAhoy Ghost Host]]", the Flying Dutchman stays at [=SpongeBob=]'s house while his ship is being repaired. It took 3 months for his ship to be fixed up, but he stayed for 6 months. This is because, during his stay, he would at first scare [=SpongeBob=] at every opportunity, but when he gets into a funk after thinking he's no longer scary, he becomes a lazy slob who invites his ghost friends to party and wreck [=SpongeBob's=] house, forcing the latter to motivate and try to get the Dutchman's spark back. |
| 504 | * The ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episode "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS1E18RoyalPain Royal Pain]]" sees King River crash at the Diaz residence after an argument with his wife. Star is happy with the arrangement at first but soon grows weary of her father's constant all-night ragers and lack of respect for Earth culture and decorum (which she realizes reflects her own craziness at times). River eventually realizes he's making a mess of things and goes home to his wife after patching things up with Star. |
| 505 | * In ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', Richie hangs out at the Hawkins household so often that Sharon says he ought to pay them rent. Virgil and his father don't seem to care too much, though. However, it is later revealed that Richie never invites Virgil over because his father is a racist. |
| 506 | * Discussed in the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E8Mxyzpixilated Mxyzpixilated]]" when Lois admits to Clark that she dreads visits from her sister, because "she moves right on in, and stays and stays..." |
| 507 | * Casey Jones is a mild version of this in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003''. He doesn't stay that long, comparatively, but he does a fair amount of damage to the furnishings before he goes. The Turtles (especially Mikey) even make several "Thing That Would Not Leave" jokes. |
| 508 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'' episode "[[Recap/WeBareBearsS1E13Charlie Charlie]]", the Bears are stuck with a clumsy, chatter-box Sasquatch named Charlie after Grizzly signs them up for an [=AirBNB=]-like service called "Caveshare". It turns out Charlie is on the run from paparazzi and Bigfoot-hunters, who swarm outside the Bears' cave until the Bears trick them into going away. |
| 509 | * ''WesternAnimation/ZigAndSharko'': in "The Ghastly Ghost", a pirate's ghost moves in with Marina, much to Sharko's annoyance. |
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| 513 | * Creator/JohnBelushi was like this by many accounts, casually dropping by at the houses of friends, and sometimes strangers, making himself at home, eating their food before falling asleep, and generally staying way beyond the point of welcome. In fact, he directly inspired the ''[[Series/SaturdayNightLive SNL]]'' sketch that now names the trope. |
| 514 | * Creator/HansChristianAndersen paid a visit to Creator/CharlesDickens. Andersen was supposed to stay for a night, but he ended up mooching off of Dickens for over a month. Reportedly, Dickens made ever-increasingly obvious hints to the ever-oblivious Andersen to leave and refused to answer Andersen's correspondence when he'd gone - much to Andersen's confusion. So enraged was Dickens that he wrote in the mirror in Andersen's room "Hans Christian Andersen slept in this bed for five weeks." The character of Uriah Heep in ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'' is said to have been partially based on him. |
| 515 | * Kirby Vacuum Cleaner salesmen. They barge into people's homes [[http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/kirby/kirby.html claiming they want to do a "quick" demonstration or that the owner has won a "free carpet cleaning"]], then turn the house upside-down with several hours of "demonstrations" (and sometimes [[http://www.consumeraffairs.com/in_home/kirby_elder.html outright]] [[http://www.consumeraffairs.com/in_home/kirby_pests.html theft]]), [[http://www.consumeraffairs.com/in_home/kirby.htm refusing]] [[http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/kirby/kirby_letters.html to leave]] until either they get forcibly thrown out or someone agrees to buy the vacuum for a ridiculously overpriced cost. |
| 516 | * Used by Queen Elizabeth I as a tactic to financially bankrupt nobles with questionable loyalties at best. Since she was the Queen, they had to put her up like a Queen. It was often a cover for her spies to dig through the nobles' dirty laundry while she and her ''very extensive'' entourage (sometimes literally) ate them out of house and home - as well as a way to save on costs to the royal household, which was not in the best financial condition in Elizabethan times, thanks to her father's extravagance throughout his reign. |
| 517 | * The proverb "Visitors and fish smell in three days." Some variations of this appear all throughout history, from ancient China to Poor Richard's almanac. |
| 518 | * In 1971, Chile's Marxist president, Salvador Allende extended an invitation to UsefulNotes/FidelCastro to visit the country. He made a visit ''supposedly'' for just a week, but he ended up staying for a ''month''. And to top it all, when he returned to Cuba, he declared that they had nothing to learn from Chile. Castro had given advice to Allende and offered support, but also got into several arguments with him over the month. |
| 519 | * Music/{{Immolation}} drummer Craig Smilowski got booted from the band due to his habit of crashing on lead guitarist Bob Vigna's couch for weeks on end without paying rent. According to Ross Dolan, it wasn't an overnight decision; Vigna had been dropping increasingly less subtle hints that he was getting sick of Smilowski sitting around his house all day and that he needed to get a job (the fact that he apparently wasn't showing up to rehearsal didn't help), but it did not register, and so Smilowski was eventually asked to leave the band as a result. Dolan also made it clear that they didn't harbor any ill will towards Smilowski as a person, just that he was a shitty bandmate. |
| 520 | * Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks |
| 521 | ** He once stayed at a friend's house for weeks, commandeering their couch, eating their food, and ruining their laptops, among other things. The whole story was told to former ''Series/TheColbertReport'' head writer Allison Silverman, who made a dramatized video about it. |
| 522 | ** He later did it again at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he'd been granted asylum in August 2012 to avoid extradition for various criminal charges and ended up staying there for years. This proved to be an uncomfortable arrangement for the embassy's staff because the mission occupies just four small rooms and Assange occupied two of them. His presence was disruptive to their day-to-day duties, made worse by the fact that he became prone to tantrums as his stay dragged on. |
| 523 | ** He made a pledge that he'd leave the embassy if the US released Chelsea Manning (one of the sources of the leaked documents), he went back on it and stayed after UsefulNotes/BarackObama did so when leaving office. In October 2018, Assange's behavior was reported to have gotten ''worse'', to the point where the [[https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ecuador-reprimands-assange-take-care-of-cat embassy staff issued orders for him to clean up after himself and his cat]]. By December 2018, the Ecuadorian and British governments negotiated an agreement that said that the Brits wouldn't extradite Assange to a country with the death penalty if he left the embassy, but Assange rejected the deal and continued to refuse to leave. |
| 524 | ** Finally, he was ''forced'' out when, in April 2019, Ecuador revoked his asylum and allowed British police to come into the embassy and arrest him. [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/04/12/mystery-julian-assanges-cat-where-will-it-go-what-does-it-know/ The cat has reportedly been re-homed]]. |
| 525 | * When UsefulNotes/CarolusRex suffered crushing defeats in UsefulNotes/TheGreatNorthernWar, he resigned to stay in the territory of the Ottoman Empire. However, when the Swedish king overstayed his welcome, a skirmish occurred in the territory of Bender, and Carolus was imprisoned. This didn't last long, however, as the Ottomans received word of a Swedish victory at the battle of Gadebusch, after which, Carolus was released with a full apology. |
| 526 | * [[RenaissanceMan Major League catcher and World War II-era spy]] Moe Berg became this later in life. By most accounts, he was unable to adjust to peacetime life, despite [[RenaissanceMan holding a Columbia law degree, being a qualified university language instructor, and having many offers to coach]]. Instead, he would usually stay with friends and acquaintances like Joe [=DiMaggio=] and Jimmie Breslin for weeks at a time, often implying that he was still serving in some clandestine capacity. He lived with his brother, Samuel, for 17 years before Samuel got tired of the arrangement and had Moe legally evicted. Moe would go on to live with his sister for the rest of his life. |
| 527 | * ''Website/{{Cracked}}'s'' John Cheese admits [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-questions-you-need-to-ask-to-avoid-ruining-your-life_p2/ to]] (and is embarrassed of) having been the thing that would not leave for a long time. |
| 528 | * During the comic book crossover ''ComicBook/DeathMate'', Creator/RobLiefeld was running over a year late with his issue, so Bob Layton of Creator/ValiantComics invoked this trope by hanging around his house and not leaving until Rob finished his half. |
| 529 | * Creator/CarrieFisher had her own way of dealing with these people. Stay too long after the party's over? No problem, she ''would'' run you off... by putting on her copy of ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'', which she requested in exchange for doing commentaries on the reissues of the classic trilogy. The party's over once this thing comes out, and all the guests are probably gone by the time it's over. Suffice to say, [[DefiedTrope she probably never had to deal with this problem since she implemented this system.]] |
| 530 | * 30-year-old college flunkie Michael Rotondo from Syracuse, New York was sued by his own parents for refusing to leave their home in addition to refusing to find a job or pay rent during his stay there and the judge granted his parents' request to evict him. He later went on to Alex Jones for financial aid and counseling, who lectured Rotondo why it's ''not'' okay to be this trope. Rotondo even turned down a job offer from Jones to be a reporter, saying that the check for merely $3000 Jones gave him is ''enough''. |
| 531 | -->'''Alex Jones:''' Do I have the right to just go knock on somebody's door and tell them they're gonna take care of me? This idea: Take care of me! Take care of me! You know what happens in the park if you feed the squirrels and the wildlife; they become obese, greedy, hateful, and stupid. |
| 532 | * Scott Pruitt, EPA Administrator from 2017 to 2018, developed a reputation for this while in office. |
| 533 | ** He moved into the spare bedroom of two friends (and lobbyists) when he went to Washington, having agreed to pay them 50 dollars a night (well below market rates). What was originally supposed to be a six-week arrangement stretched into months as he took advantage of his friends' hospitality. Pruitt's landlords dropped hint after hint that they wanted him to move out and began sending him listings for houses and apartments in the area before finally telling him, in frustration, that they were going to change the locks to their house and that they were going to rent his room out to someone else. And even though Pruitt was offered a very low price for the room, he apparently never paid his rent on time and would only provide the money after constant cajoling. There was also an incident where Pruitt's Secret Service detail broke down his room's door thinking he'd collapsed, leaving the angry landlords with an expensive repair bill. |
| 534 | ** He also had to be told very bluntly to stop coming to the White House without an appointment and hanging out at the White House Mess, because he was taking up seats and eating food meant for White House staffers. |
| 535 | * Oddly enough, this trope is how the Catholic Church ended up evolving the current ''conclave'' that is used to elect UsefulNotes/ThePope. Basically, in a nutshell, by the 13th Century, Papal Succession had become something of a mess, to put it mildly, thanks to secular politics[[note]]especially the Guelph/Ghibbeline conflict[[/note]] inserting itself into the process. The Cardinals would meet in various places in Italy to hash out succession, often in very long, drawn-out sessions that saw them living off the largesse of the townsfolk. In essence, the entire College of Cardinals became one massive Thing That Would Not Leave to the people of Rome, Perugia, and finally Viterbo. In all three cases, after putting up with the situation for a period long past what people would call reasonable, the city elders gave the College of Cardinals a subtle hint to get on with it and decide by locking them in the local Cathedral and not letting them out till ''Habemus Papam''[[note]]this is where "conclave" comes from, derived from the Latin for "under key"[[/note]]. In Viterbo, they had to add a second tactic after the Cardinals just would not take the hint. After another prolonged period without a decision, they were put on bread-and-water rations [[note]]in theory, this is still something that could happen in conclaves today were the College to be deadlocked for an extended length of time, but it is almost unheard of[[/note]] the Cardinals finally decided to stop messing around and get to the business of actually electing a Pope. |
| 536 | * Nick, one half of the Creator/LangBrothers, became this ''by accident'' in early 2020. He went to stay with his brother Matt for a month as a sort of writer's retreat, so they could devote a lot of time to working on future projects in their ''{{Franchise/Hatchetfield}}'' series. Then the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic happened, and with quarantine, shelter-in-place orders, and travel bans in place, Nick was stuck there for ''over a year''. This wasn't the most comfortable situation, since Matt lives with his girlfriend, and Nick only had one suitcase with him. Luckily, them being stuck together for a year with nowhere to go led to the creation of the much-beloved ''WebVideo/NightmareTime''. |
| 537 | * UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden. According to reports, [[UsefulNotes/{{Afghanistan}} the Taliban]] adamantly told him not to launch global jihad from Afghan soil because of the inevitable backlash, but since Mullah Omar had invoked SacredHospitality they were bound by culture and tradition to shelter him no matter what. [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror It didn't end well for anybody.]] |
| 538 | * Home security companies have started using the tactic of a door-to-door sales rep who simply will not take "no" for an answer. Made even worse by a habit of showing up at really odd hours (evening is a popular choice). Any attempt to politely decline the offer will be met by a "may I ask why?" line of questioning. There have even been reports of sales reps resorting to CrocodileTears as a last resort! |
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| 541 | ->''[[TheStinger So, what's for dinner]]?''\ |
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