History Main / RoomFullOfCrazy

* There's a really great scene in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Doctor Dances", when Nancy is making up her mind to leave the other children and confront the CreepyChild "villain". Early on, one of the kids is playing with a typewriter despite his illiteracy ("You can't read or write." "Don't need to- I've got a machine!") and is told to go on if he feels like it. The rest of the scene is accompanied with typewriter clicking noises, but at the end, demonstrating that the villain (who can communicate via any medium) is after Nancy, she points out that ''the kid who was typing has moved and the typewriter kept typing''. The camera then cuts to a couple of shots of the paper, which reads "ARE YOU MY MUMMY?" over and over and over.

** [[spoiler: Subverted : it wasn't a suicide attempt, and he wasn't really insane but trying to warn future inhabitants of the danger they were in.]]

* SilentHill2 gives us this infamous line: "There was a hole here. It's gone now."
* SilentHill4: The Forest World is full of crazy writing on stones. Only [[spoiler: Eileen, after she's been possessed by Walter]] can read it.

* ...as is [[http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/They%27re_coming_to_take_me_away this]]
* This is guy is so fan obssessing of P.Diddy just look all work he did for him [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehYAsiYURYs]]
* Go right now and take a look at your refrigerator.

* Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}}: Carnage] did this when he was told Spider-Man's identity- he wrote Peter Parker's name on the walls hundreds of times and chanted to himself "I know a secret..." The knowledge was quickly wiped from his mind, but they never showed what happened to the writing on the wall. Did Ravencroft guards/doctors wonder who Peter Parker was and why Carnage cared about him?

* At the ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode ''[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing The Clock King]]'' this trope is [[spoiler: exploited]]: Batman tracks Temple Fugate, alias the ClockKing, to an AbandonedWarehouse, the ''Time All Watch Company''. There, Batman finds a RoomFullOfCrazy Clocks, all of them displaying a different hour, data about the Gotham Watch Tower, the subway, and a poster of Mayor Hill’s MalevolentMugshot with MustacheVandalism with the legend [[TakeThat “Time for a change”]]. All of those are relevant to the plot, but FridgeLogic asks: Why a ScheduleFanatic like the ClockKing would have a RoomFullOfCrazy Clocks ''without'' ImplausibleSynchrony? The answer is that [[spoiler: DangerouslyGenreSavvy Fugate is exploiting his {{Idiosyncrazy}} to get the Batman LuredIntoATrap]]

* At the ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode ''[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing The Clock King]]'' this trope is [[spoiler: exploited]]: Batman tracks Temple Fugate, alias the ClockKing, to an AbandonedWarehouse, the ''Time All Watch Company''. There, Batman finds a RoomFullOfCrazy Clocks, all of them displaying a different hour, data about the Gotham Watch Tower, the subway, and a poster of Mayor Hill’s MalevolentMugshot with MustacheVandalism with the legend [[TakeThat “Time for a change”]]. All of those are relevant to the plot, but FridgeLogic asks: Why a ScheduleFanatic like the ClockKing would have a RoomFullOfCrazy Clocks ''without'' ImplausibleSynchrony? The answer is that [[spoiler: DangerouslyGenreSavvy Fugate is exploiting his {{Idiosyncrazy]] to get the Batman LuredIntoATrap]]

* Rare, reasonably sane version in ''TheXFilesIWantToBelieve'', used to portray Mulder's obsession with his old job.

* In ''ConspiracyTheory'', Mel Gibson's room is plastered with clippings from every whacko newspaper in the country. It's also wired up to self-destruct, in case "they" come after him.

* ''{{Homestuck}}'' fanfic ''The Serendipity Gospels'' has Terezi do this in her sleep [[spoiler: after the Grand Highblood starts chucklevoodooing her]]. She writes "BR34K SH4CKL3" over and over again, first on one wall and then on all the walls. When she wakes up and licks the words, she goes screaming insane. Gamzee has no idea what the hell is going on, and neither does she.

* ''{{Homestuck}}'' fanfic ''The Serendipity Gospels'' has Terezi do this in her sleep [[spoiler: after the Grand Highblood starts chucklevoodooing her]]. She writes "BR34K SH4CKL3" over and over again, first on one wall and then on all the walls. When she wakes up and licks the words, she goes screaming insane.

* In ''{{Knowing}}'', the precognitive little girl who predicts the series of disasters cumulating in [[spoiler: the end of the world]] turns out to have spent her last days in a veritable ''cabin'' full of crazy, containing several walls covered with deeply signficant newspaper clippings and [[spoiler: the revelation everyone was going to die]] carved repeatedly into the underside of the bed.

* In CP Coulter's ''Fanfic/Dalton'', [[spoiler: a wall in Adam's room is covered in pictures of Julian, his obsession, love letters to him, roses, and Adam's own blood. The wall is covered up by wallpaper most of the time, but the room still stinks of roses and blood.]]

* In the intro of ''TheAmityvilleHorror'' remake after Ronald DeFeo, Jr. is arrested the police find a book in his possession that has "KATCH'EM AND KILL'EM" furiously scrawled on every page.

* During DwayneMcDuffie's run on ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', the team discovers a secret lab that only Reed Richards has ever entered before, every surface covered wall to ceiling with various equations. This lab, it turns out, is where Reed Richards had started what he called "Plan #101", a plan to solve all the problems in the world.

* [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] has a secret room in the Baxter Building where he constantly writes every idea that comes to his mind, all across the wall and floor (and possibly the ceiling too, given that his power allows him to do it). Among them some of the guidelines he was following during the Comicbook/CivilWar. Johnny points this out when they first see the room (in a rather ''recent'' comic): "Dude, if you'd asked me, I'd buy you a notepad."

* Comicbook/{{Batman}}: The Joker does this occasionally. One story showed the walls of his cell covered with smiley faces, caricatures of Batman and Robin and the full lyrics to the Batman version of Jingle Bells. The speaker on the wall with which the doctors communicated with him was labeled "[[AC:them]]". In another story, Batman managed to find a clue in the Joker's scribbles.

* In a recent {{Batman}} comic, ComicBook/TwoFace is shown to have news clippings covering one of his walls.

* ''TheShadowOfTheWind'': The Julián children room is covered of crosses and catholic symbols, although that's his father, not him, who made this.

* In a recent {{Batman}} comic, Two-Face is shown to have news clippings covering one of his walls.

* In ''The Adventures of BuckarooBanzai: Across the 8th Dimension'': the possessed Dr. Emilio Lizardo wrote all over his walls notes for his own Oscillation Overthruster.

* The closest anyone gets to an explanation in ''{{Film/REC}}'' is a Room Full Of Crazy covered in newspaper clips about a "Medeiros girl" who seems to have been infected or possessed, a recorder that plays back some ramblings about a virus, an infected hyper-aggressive little boy and, finally, the girl herself that kills the last two survivors.

* Cmdr. Tuvok does this to a certain extent in the ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' episode "Endgame". He has an unnamed neurological illness that causes him to write obsessively in addition to being extremely light-sensitive and paranoid.

* For the AdamAndJoe show, Adam Buxton wrote a cheery song revolving around an extreme example of this trope. He later made a music video for it, which can be found [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwDka-OqwtI here.]]

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* Parodied [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSd7nd48tI8 here]] by Adam Buxton of ''Adam And Joe'' in a Halloween edition of Song Wars.
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* In ''VForVendetta'', the patient in room 5 makes patterns out of piles of fertilizer and other substances, prompting a doctor in the facility to document his behavior in her journal. There's just one problem... [[spoiler:It isn't symbols, it's homebrew explosive]].

* ''VideoGame/SlenderTheArrival'' in the Kate's room in the house is filled with drawings of Slender Man.