History Main / CeilingBanger

* The first few episodes of ''LightNovel/WelcomeToTheNHK'' have the main protagonist, Satou, being driven half-mad by his next-door neighbor (next door but sharing the same wall), who keeps playing the same J-Pop song, nonstop, 24 hours a day. A number of times he angrily kicks the wall and yells for his neighbor to turn the music down.

* An episode of ''[[LightNovel/{{Oreimo}} My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute]]'' has Kirino {{Squee}}ing about an H-scene in the {{Eroge}} she's playing... so her brother had to slam the wall to quiet her down. Kirino is not amused.

* Evictus, the landlord of the Venus de Milo Arms apartments on ''WesternAnimation/TheRomanHolidays,'' is known to do this when the Holidays get a mite too noisy. Especially when Happius plays his rock music.

* In the pilot of ''Series/JessicaJones'', the title character is woken by the squabbling couple upstairs and throws her boot at the ceiling [[SuperStrength hard enough to knock plaster off it onto her bed]]. We then get a shot of the ceiling with multiple bootmarks and chipped plaster.

* In the French movie ''La Folie des Grandeurs'' (''Film/DelusionsOfGrandeur''), Blaze the valet is keeping his master Don Salluste (Creator/LouisDeFunes) awake by dancing the flamenco and singing in the small room right atop the luxurious bedroom. Since it's a castle, the ceiling is very high and Don Salluste has first to build up an improbable pile of furniture and chairs to reach it. Then he bangs the ceiling with the handle of a halberd, to no avail... until the tip goes through all the way, right between Blaze's feet. The sassy valet then pulls on it, making Don Salluste lose his footing and the pile of furniture collapse underneath him just as he clings to the halberd. Then, he shouts at Blaze to let go, and the latter complies... letting Don Salluste fall from a good height, the blade of the halberd landing pointy end first and sending a comical vibration throughout the irate nobleman.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Bacchanal", during Bacchus' song, Hades is shown doing this in the Underworld, dressed in pajamas with a sleepy-looking Pain and Panic standing off to the side.

If the setting is a dormitory (again both in fiction and out), expect this to be turned UpToEleven, since:

[[caption-width-right:2443:"Be quiet! I'm tired as [[{{Pun}} hell]] down here."]]

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[[caption-width-right:244:"Be quiet! I'm tired as [[{{Pun}} hell]] down here."]]

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': In one WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck story by Creator/CarlBarks, Donald and his nephews move into a terraced house in a neighborhood that's famous for its quietness. Donald, [[HotBlooded being Donald]], manages to quickly get into a Ceiling Banging ''battle'' with his new next-door neighbor, with the two using increasingly loud methods to get the other to stop making noise. The only thing that finally manages to stop them is their [[BewareTheNiceOnes mellow upstairs neighbor]] blowing a massive alphorn, which temporarily deafens them both.