History Main / AdoptedToTheHouse

* In ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', Mac lets [[spoiler:Sheldon Hawkes]] sleep at his apartment after he reveals that he lost all his savings in an investment scam.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': The entire reason that [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]] opts to stay in the Demon Realm is because she finds her prospects there to be substantially more agreeable than attending "Reality Check" Summer Camp, as she isn't scorned as an incapable weirdo in the Boiling Isles, and under [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEdaClawthorne Eda Clawthorne's]] roof, Eda herself not minding looking after Luz one bit.

** Season 1's "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Meg_for_Mercy Meg for Mercy]]" has the Griffins allow Change for a Buck - a casino croupier from Geronimo's Palace seen in "The Son Also Draws" - live in their house when the casino he works at goes out of business.

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* In ''Fanfic/IveGotYourBack'', [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 Marina]] [[DarkFic starts out as a homeless]] {{street musician}}, but after Pearl took her to her apartment one night to patch up a nasty wound she had, she then effectively moved in with Pearl.

* A famous episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' had [=SpongeBob=] let homeless and jobless Squidward live in his house until he found the courage to get a job. He thought it would be about a week, but Squidward ended up taking advantage of his hospitality and stayed with him for months on end.

** Another episode had Quagmire move in after Peter's idiocy cost him his job.
** Brian originally joined the family after Peter found him living on the street.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', when Mako and Bolin are kicked out of their apartment above the probending arena, Korra gets permission from Tenzin for them to live on Air Temple Island with her -- only to find out that Mako's then-girlfriend, Asami, beat her to the punch and invited them to live with her on her father's estate. An episode later, Asami's father has been arrested for aiding the equalists and his assets seized, so Korra invites all three of them to live with her and Tenzin's family. Bolin goes on to proclaim in season three just how much he loves being part of Tenzin's zany sitcom family. By season four, after a three-year timeskip, Asami has regained control of her father's assets and has since invited Mako and Bolin's entire extended Earth Kingdom family to live on her estate, after they lost their home in Ba Sing Se. Prince Wu, Mako's employer, goes on to join the household after Kuvira's coup derails his coronation.

* Backfires spectacularly in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood'' when the rich George Joestar adopts the poor Dio Brando after mistakenly believing that his father helped save his life (in actuality, he was trying to steal from him). Dio ends up killing him.

* ''Website/FamilyGuyFanon'' does a few extra examples like the original show (see below):

* ''FanFic/FamilyGuyFanon'' does a few extra examples like the original show (see below):

** Happened many times whenever an out-of-luck Springfielder lived with the Simpsons until he bounced back. Referenced when Kent Brockman stayed with them and Homer pointed to a wall with photos of "acquaintances who stayed with us for a short time."

* Teppei from ''Manga/InuBaka'' has a bad habit of taking home "strays" because he pities them, and most of his current staff have lived in his apartment at some point of their employment. Kentaro was kicked out of his house for wanting to be a musician instead of following his parents' wishes but failed to earn a living with his passion, Suguri is a naive CountryMouse who has never lived apart from her parents before and doesn't know how to navigate the city on her own. Momoko lives with her DomesticAbuser and has to move out when the latter tries to harm her dog. Teppei eventually rents another unit in the apartment building to serve as the girls' dormitory (the rent is cut out from their wages), although Kentaro still stays with him.

* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': Downplayed. Mikoto finds Harima on the streets during the Christmas break because he was locked out of the apartment he shared with his cousin while she went on vacation. She tells him he's welcome to stay at the Suou home, but his pride makes him decline. She then employs a BatmanGambit, buying a good many groceries for a "family party" and tells him she bought too much and asks him to help her carry them, which he does. Once they're at the Suou place, she tells him he can stay, just tell people he's an employee of her family (and she provides him a uniform). This comes into a play a few days later, as Eri is also crashing with Mikoto trying to escape an arranged marriage, and when the Sawichika family butler tracks Eri there, Mikoto presses Harima into service, having him flee on motorbike with Eri.

* The former TropeNamer is the ''Blustery Day'' segment of ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', when Pooh invites Piglet to live with him after the latter gives his house away to Owl.

* In the film ''Film/DownAndOutInBeverlyHills'', a vagrant tries to drown himself in a rich family's swimming pool, and ends up staying in their house and changing all their lives for the better. This was adapted from the 1932 French film ''Film/BouduSavedFromDrowning''.

* ''Literature/DarkSacredNight'': Harry Bosch, who helped heroin addict Elizabeth Clayton get clean in previous Bosch novel ''Literature/TwoKindsOfTruth'', still feels responsible for her, so he's letting her stay at his house. Harry's college-aged daughter Madeline does not like this one little bit.

* On ''Series/RoyalPains'', Hank and Evan Lawson discover that they have a half-sister who's come to the Hamptons to confront their father, because she's been led to believe that he abandoned her and her mother back when he was still a con artist. After discovering that she didn't have a backup plan for how she was going to return home, the brothers invite her to live with them.

* In a Thanksgiving episode of ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'', Doug and Carrie are at odds as to whether to allow a guy, down on his luck and waiting assistance for his broken-down car, wait in the house. Carrie is suspicious of his general demeanor and appearance, but her dinner guests eventually prevail on her to let him in. He locks them all out and robs the house.

* [[EvilPrince Alain]]'s case in ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'' starts out with RecruitedFromTheGutter because the [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits gang]] needs someone knowledgable of [[EldritchLocation Ganma World]] and disgraced or not, he is still their enemy and clearly only playing along out of neccesity. After [[TraumaCongaLine another]] round of BreakTheHaughty prompts him to have a HeelRealization, he decides to help stop [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Ganma]]'s invasion to human world and is brought into the group for real.

** In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' episode, "The Odd Couple", Sally's house gets destroyed by Dulcy when she crash-lands into it. Sonic lets Sally, Tails, and Bunnie stay in his house and moves into Antoine's until the storm blows over and he can rebuild Sally's. Being a homage to [[Series/TheOddCouple1970 the series of the same name]], Sonic is the Oscar to Antoine's Felix. At the end of the episode, Sonic decides to rebuild Sally's house, storm or no storm. However, a tree falls on Antoine's house, quicky turning it into a HereWeGoAgain situation.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', when Mako and Bolin are kicked out of their apartment above the probending arena, Korra gets permission from Tenzin for them to live on Air Temple Island with her -- only to find out that Mako's then-girlfriend, Asami, beat her to the punch and invited them to live with her on her father's estate. An episode later, Asami's father has been arrested for aiding the equalists and his assets seized, so Korra invites all three of them to live with her and Tenzin's family. Bolin goes on to proclaim in season three just how much he loves being part of Tenzin's zany sitcom family. By season four, after a three year timeskip, Asami has regained control of her father's assets and has since invited Mako's and Bolin's entire extended Earth Kingdom family to live on her estate, after they lost their home in Ba Sing Se. Prince Wu, Mako's employer, goes on to join the household after Kuvira's coup derails his coronation.

* In one strip of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', Jon's friend Lyman shows up at his house and begs him to let him stay. Jon agrees, and so Lyman and Odie (who was originally his dog) move in.

* A later episode has SpongeBob offering to let the Flying Dutchman move in after his ship is wrecked. The Dutchman not only takes advantage of SpongeBob’s hospitality, but repeatedly scares him to the point that SpongeBob becomes completely desensitized to it. This leads to the ghost losing the ability to scare ''anyone'', and the rest of the episode involves SpongeBob trying to help him get his confidence back.

* At the end of ''Film/FaceOff'', [[spoiler:Sean Archer adopts Castor Troy's son.]]

** In the sequel ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', when the ''Sugar Rush'' machine is unplugged, people around the arcade offer to take the game characters into their games until the machine can be fixed. Particularly Felix [[spoiler: and Calhoun]] decide to adopt the 14 racers other than Vanellope. Hilarity ensues.

* ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'': Barry is taken in by the West family after the death of his mother and the arrest of his father - for killing his mother - effectively leave him an orphan. He stays with them until he grows up enough to live on his own.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', when Mako and Bolin are kicked out of their apartment above the probending arena, Korra gets permission from Tenzin for them to live on Air Temple Island with her-- only to find out that Mako's then-girlfriend, Asami, beat her to the punch and invited them to live with her on her father's estate. An episode later, Asami's father has been arrested for aiding the equalists and his assets seized, so Korra invites all three of them to live with her and Tenzin's family. Bolin goes on to proclaim in season three just how much he loves being part of Tenzin's zany sitcom family. By season four, after a three year timeskip, Asami has regained control of her father's assets and has since invited Mako's and Bolin's entire extended Earth Kingdom family to live on her estate, after they lost their home in Ba Sing Se. Prince Wu, Mako's employer, goes on to join the household after Kuvira's coup derails his coronation.

* In ''Fanfic/IveGotYourBack'', [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 Marina]] [[DarkFic starts out as a homeless]] StreetMusician, but after Pearl took her to her apartment one night to patch up a nasty wound she had, she then effectively moved in with Pearl.

** In the sequel ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', when the ''Sugar Rush'' machine is unplugged, people around the arcade offer to take the game characters into their games until the machine can be fixed. Particularly Felix [[spoiler: and Calhoun]] decide to adopt the 14 racers other than Vanellope. HilarityEnsues.

A character sees a friend or family member or encounters a stranger who is down on his luck, probably homeless and maybe jobless, and he has no place to go. The person may be an orphaned child or a teen thrown out of their home, or someone who's faced a major loss, such as divorce or the death of a spouse. The GoodSamaritan takes pity on him/her and invites them to live in his home until he can bounce back and find his own place. In some cases, the person is treated like a member of the family and a close bond develops.