History Main / ChimneyEntry

** The first time this stunt is done is in "A Mouse Divided", where Sylvester is the protective father of a baby mouse, and a cat tries to enter into the house through the chimney, pretending to be Santa Claus, only it's the wrong time of the year.

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons]]'', Link has to enter the chimney of a woman's house during the winter in order to gain access to the second dungeon. She initially mistakes him for Santa Clause (a chimney sweep in the European version).

** In ''[[VideoGame/PaperMario64]]'', this is how you initially reach the second floor of Herringway's house, as he has retracted the stairs leading up from the first floor, and won't lower them until he agrees to help you.

* In ''[[VideoGame/PaperMario64 Paper Mario]]'', this is how you initially reach the second floor of Herringway's house, as he has retracted the stairs leading up from the first floor, and won't lower them until he agrees to help you.
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', Bobbery doesn't want to be disturbed so he locks himself inside. You naturally have to climb up on the roof and roll up into a tube so that you fit in the chimney.

** The stunt is done again in "Tweet and Sour", only this time, Sylvester has to protect Tweety. After Sylvester tried to eat Tweety one too many times, Granny threatens to send him to the violin string factory to be made into the instrument. Sylvester has to protect the canary from Sam the Cat, sporting an eyepatch, or else he'll be deemed responsible for the canary's disappearance. This stunt is done moments before Granny returns home. [[spoiler:The effort to protect Tweety, however, is in vain, when Granny thinks Sylvester is trying to eat him again just as Sylvester is putting him ''back'' into his cage.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Sylvester:''' Ah, what's the use?! She'd never believe me! (''plays Chopin's "Funeral March" on the violin before falling into the cello case as a coffin to his demise)]]

** The stunt is done again in "Tweet and Sour", only this time, Sylvester has to protect Tweety. After Sylvester tried to eat Tweety one too many times, Granny threatens to send him to the violin string factory to be made into the instrument. Sylvester has to protect the canary from Sam the Cat, sporting an eyepatch, or else he'll be deemed responsible for the canary's disappearance. This stunt is done moments before Granny returns home. [[spoiler:The effort, however, is in vain, when Granny thinks Sylvester is trying to eat Tweety again just as Sylvester is putting him ''back'' into his cage.]]

** The stunt is done again in "Tweet and Sour", only this time, Sylvester has to protect Tweety. After Sylvester tried to eat Tweety one too many times, Granny threatens to send him to the violin string factory to be made into the instrument. Sylvester has to protect the canary from Sam the Cat, sporting an eyepatch, or else he'll be deemed responsible for the canary's disappearance. This stunt is done moments before Granny returns home. [[Spoiler:The effort, however, is in vain, when Sylvester tries to put Tweety ''back'' into his cage.]]

** The stunt is done again in "Tweet and Sour", only this time, Sylvester has to protect Tweety. After Sylvester tried to eat Tweety one too many times, Granny threatens to send him to the violin string factory to be made into the instrument. Sylvester has to protect the canary from Sam the Cat, sporting an eyepatch, or else he'll be deemed responsible for the canary's disappearance. This stunt is done moments before Granny returns home.

* In ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'', one of the AssholeVictim casualties has an insane ex-girlfriend that kept stalking his boyfriend and his new beau, and that tried to get into the man's house via the chimney while they were away on vacation in order to live in and (probably) eventually catch them when they returned. Unfortunately, she got stuck on said chimney and died of dehydration... and the corpse was found by the lovebirds when they came back home and turned on the chimney, setting the corpse on fire.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "A Mouse Divided", where [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] is the protective father of a baby mouse, a cat tries to enter into the house through the chimney, pretending to be Santa Claus, only it's the wrong time of the year, so Sylvester sends a balloon up the chimney flue with a stick of dynamite attached to it and blows the cat up through the flue and away from the house.

* In ''Santa Sent Me to the ER'', this is the basis for the Backdoor Santa segment. Egged on by his drunken idiot of a brother-in-law (his wife's younger brother), a man dresses as Santa Claus in the bid to give a pleasant surprise to his kids. He [[WhatAnIdiot forgot to tell the Mrs. about his plans...]] and got a painful surprise in the behind for his troubles. In his fall, he landed ''butt-first'' on the poker she'd put in the fireplace '''(YOW!!!)'''.

* In ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Tooie]]'', one of the ways you can enter Grunty Industries is through a smokestack. Interestingly, this is the factory's only one-way entrance, as you have no way of ascending the smokestack from inside.

* At the end of ''Merry Christmas Series/DrakeAndJosh'' Santa Bludge enters the house right out of the chimney by breaking the wall and destroying a flat-screen TV in the process.

** In ''VideoGame/{{The Legend of Zelda Oracle|Games}} of Seasons'', Link has to enter the chimney of a woman's house during the winter in order to gain access to the second dungeon. She initially mistakes him for Santa Clause (a chimney sweep in the European version).

** In ''{{VideoGame/The Legend of Zelda Oracle|Games}} of Seasons'', Link has to enter the chimney of a woman's house during the winter in order to gain access to the second dungeon. She initially mistakes him for Santa Clause (a chimney sweep in the European version).

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleOfSeasons'', Link has to enter the chimney of a woman's house during the winter in order to gain access to the second dungeon. She initially mistakes him for Santa Clause (a chimney sweep in the European version).

* Not advisable in modern times as many a “crafty crook” can attest. Chimneys are basically death traps if you’re trying to be sneaky and enter a home or business this way. It’s hot, cramped and unless you’re smart enough to tie a rope around yourself to climb back out, you will basically die of heat, starvation and dehydration.

* In ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', the Grinch tries to enter the first house through the chimney just like as seen in the book and the animated special. He gets stuck with his head upside down in the fireplace but manages to fall out and enter the house. Just as in the cartoon, he gets better at entering through the chimney with every house but is also seen dropping a giant vacuum hose down a chimney at one point.

Compare AirVentPassageway. See also SantaClaus, because his preference for this method of entry is, of course, a firmly established fact.

* In ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'' #4, a Nazi strike team attacks Dr. Jones and his colleague by coming down the chimney.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' shows a cutaway view of a Whoville chimney with the Grinch attempting to descend it. His progress is problematic at first, but as his Whoville heists continue, it's clear the Grinch has gotten the hang of it.
* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': After Milo comes home one night to find the mysterious Helga in his house, she jokingly claims to have gotten in through the chimney ("Ho, ho, ho."), [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished yet her expensive furs aren't the slightest bit dirty]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/Klaus2019'', Jesper uses the chimney to enter houses and deliver presents.

* The many chimney sweeps in the rooftop scene of ''Film/MaryPoppins'' seem to have no trouble leaping into and popping out of London's chimneys, culminating in a soot-tracking parade through the Banks' living room.

* Inverted in ''Film/MouseHunt'' where Ernie climbs up a chimney while trying to chase a mouse, only to get stuck. He later gets shot out of it after Lars unwittingly caused an explosion in the chimney.

* ''Film/TheBabadook'': Amelia locks herself in the den and presses herself up against the fireplace on the far side of the room. Then a top hat lands in the hearth beside her and she realises that the Babadook is coming down the chimney.
* ''Film/{{Krampus}}'': Unsurprisingly, Krampus' army of 'helpers' gains access to Max's house by coming down the chimney.
* In ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', the Grinch tries to enter the first house through the chimney just like as seen in the book and the animated special. He gets stuck with his head upside down in the fireplace but manages to fall out and enter the house. Just as in the cartoon, he gets better at entering through the chimney with every house but is also seen dropping a giant vacuum hose down a chimney at one point.

* In the original series of ''Series/HorribleHistories'', a sketch from the Victorian era featured aristocrats hiring a child chimney sweeper to clean the chimney out, leading to him dislodging three teenagers who enter the room this way, {{and|Zoidberg}} Santa Claus.

* ''VideoGame/TheSmurfs1994'' inverts this in the Smurf Village level, as when the Smurf enters into a Smurf house through a door, he pops out through its chimney.

* In the ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' episode, "[[HowTheCharacterStoleChristmas How the Nerd Stole Christmas]]", the Nerd plans to steal all the good video games in Gameville and replace them with bad ones. He enters the houses through the chimneys the way [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] travels through warp pipes.
-->'''Narrator:''' Then he ducked down the chimney, a bit absurd, but if Mario could do it, then so could the Nerd.

** In one episode the crew freezes Santa Clause and decides to replace him with Bender, who would bring gifts instead of death. He also enters houses through the chimney, but to his dismay, people confuse him with the old Santa and either attack him with military-grade weapons, or commit suicide when seeing him.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "A Mouse Divided", where [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]] is the protective father of a baby mouse, a cat tries to enter into the house through the chimney, pretending to be Santa Claus, only it's the wrong time of the year, so Sylvester sends a balloon up the chimney flue with a stick of dynamite attached to it and blows the cat up through the flue and away from the house.

* The story of ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'' has the Wolf terrorizing the third pig in the brick house and trying to enter his house like this, unintentionally falling into a cauldron full of boiling water that the pig had left at the bottom for him.

** In one episode the crew freezes Santa Clause and decides to replace him with Bender, who would bring gifts instead of death. He also enters houses through the chimney, but to his dismay, people confuse him with the old Santa and either attack him with military grade weapons, or commit suicide when seeing him.

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* SantaClaus (or Father Christmas if you live in the UK) enters a house through its chimney. This is probably to not raise suspicion from the sleeping residents and disturb them, especially if he used the front door.
* ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'' has the Wolf terrorizing the third pig in the brick house and trying to enter his house like this, unintentionally falling into a cauldron full of boiling water that the pig had left at the bottom for him.
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* Santa Claus (or Father Christmas if you live in the UK) enters a house through its chimney. This is probably to not raise suspicion from the sleeping residents and disturb them, especially if he used the front door.

[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11536013/16/Hyperemesis-gravidarum Hyperemesis Gravidarum]]'' by Creator/AAPessimal, two teenage student Assassins are caught in an upstairs room by a gang of killers who are attacking the house and who are battering down their bedroom door. They are stuck for a way to escape. Until one of the house goblins leads them down the chimneystack to the living room, where other members of the family are mounting a fierce defense. Some years later, the niece of one of those students, herself now at the Assassins' School, remembers her aunt's exploits and uses the chimneys at Ramkin Manor in an attempt to ace her Vimes Run. This time it results in chastening failure, as her teacher Miss Band intended.

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* [[SantaClaus Father Christmas]] enters the house through the chimney. This is probably to not raise suspicion from the sleeping residents and disturb them, especially if he used the front door.

* Some adaptations of ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'' have the Wolf terrorizing the third pig in the brick house and trying to enter his house like this, unintentionally falling into a cauldron full of boiling water that the pig had left at the bottom for him.