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* ''WebAnimation/Eddsworld does this in Zombeh Attack while Edd, Tom and Tord go find weapons in a mall

* A rare dramatic example: in ''Film/TheAdjustmentBureau'', the Adjusters are able to travel from their secret base to anywhere in New York by passing through any doorway. When Creator/MattDamon gets his hands on an Adjuster's CoolHat, he and Elise are able to evade them, going from downtown Manhattan to Yankee Stadium to Ellis Island in rapid succession.

Also called a "Freleng Door Gag", after Creator/WarnerBros director Creator/FrizFreleng, who may not have created it but took it to [[UpToEleven a whole other level]].

** Played straight in "House of Helmut", followed by Trevor running into a closed door, knocking down the whole wall, and [[UpToEleven having the others comes out of one of the knocked down doors]].

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* The ''WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat'' pulls this in two episodes, "Felix Finder and the Ghost Town" (Felix is darting in and out of deserted bulidings in the town and going so fast he runs into himself) and "Felix The Cat Suit" (the Professor and Felix tiptoeing in and out of open compartments in a hallway).

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'':

* ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' has a sequence using the fair tents between Robin and Little John, the guards, and Lady Cluck; it ended up with the large guards propelling one tent like a train with the apropos sound effect and a [[FoeTossingCharge mock American football run]]! The animation of the beginning is actually copied from the ''Alice in Wonderland'' scene.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters "Love & Monsters"]]. Some considered this overly cartoonish and silly, while others thought it was all part of an enjoyably offbeat SomethingCompletelyDifferent episode. Some however, have cited it as evidence that Elton, the episode's focus and narrator, is an [[UnreliableNarrator unreliable one]].

* Happens in episode 40 of ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'', although the chase takes place between two adjacent ruins so no doors are opened.

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* Happens in episode 3 of ''VideoGame/SuperAdventureRockman'' when Mega man gets chased by flying magnets inside the temple.

* A very early example, the 1919 Creator/ErnstLubitsch SilentFilm ''Film/TheDoll'' combines this with EveryoneChasingYou. It's set in the town square, rather than a hallway, but very much fits the spirit of the trope otherwise.

* Happens in The "Music/SiIvaGunner" Spooktacular Halloween Horror Special Part III while Heavy, Takane, Wolfgirl, Joke Explainer, Minion and Hypercam run from 8-Bit Beast

* Happens in The Silvagunner Spooktacular Halloween Horror Special Part III while Heavy, Takane, Wolfgirl, Joke Explainer, Minion and Hypercam run from 8-Bit Beast

* Happens in The SilvaGunner Spooktacular Halloween Horror Special Part III while Heavy, Takane, Wolfgirl, Joke Explainer, Minion and Hypercam run from 8-Bit Beast

* Happens in The SiIvaGunner Spooktacular Halloween Horror Special Part III while Heavy, Takane, Wolfgirl, Joke Explainer, Minion and HyperCam run from 8-Bit Beast

Related to OneOfTheseDoorsIsNotLikeTheOther, a trope in video games that often has characters repeating a single screen just like this, and FightingAcrossTimeAndSpace, a {{teleportation}} trope which often takes the form of a chase scene.

Related to OneOfTheseDoorsIsNotLikeTheOther, a trope in video games that often has characters repeating a single screen just like this.

* ''WesternAnimation/HydeeAndTheHytopsTheMovie'' done this in a music store with Hydee, Mariko, Samantha and Charlotte running from Floyd (the store clerk) during the "We're Going Crazy" song

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' did this in "The Sewers of Bikini Bottom" with Spongebob and Squidward running from a sewer snake

* Creator/TexAvery was fond of this during his days at Creator/{{M|etroGoldwynMayer}}GM (he especially loved exaggerating it).
** Its occurrence in the ''WesternAnimation/ScrewySquirrel'' cartoon "Lonesome Lenny" was not only over-the-top (with additional chasers and chasees being added at random, including a cow, a lech chasing a screaming woman, and various clones of Screwy and Lenny), but self-referential, as the cow briefly stopped in the middle of the chase to [[TalkingWithSigns hold up a sign]] reading, "Silly, isn't it?"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did this in the "Reaper Madness" segment of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E1TreehouseOfHorrorXIV Treehouse of Horror XIV]]" with [[TheGrimReaper Death]] in the upstairs of their house. Bonus points for using ''[[Series/TheBennyHillShow Yakkety Sax]]''.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
** In the middle of the night, a burglar goes to rob the Powerpuff Girls' house not knowing who they are. The Girls confront him and when he finds out they have superpowers, he imeediately hides in a lamp. The lamp breaks and the burglar still inside the broken lamp hops all around the house with the Girls chasing him.
** When the Powerpuff Girls' next-door neighbors, The Smiths, become a family of vengeful supervillains, they try to run over both the Girls and the Professor with their mechanically modified car. The Girls carry the Professor to safety flying from room to room in the hall while the Smiths destroy each door so they can follow them.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** Set up in their ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' parody in "Saturday Morning Fun Pit", by having Shaggy/Fry, Scooby/Bender, and the MonsterOfTheWeek go through a cloning machine, seeing Fry and Bender go through one set of doors... [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope and cut to the next scene]].]]
** "The Farnsworth Parabox" has an unusual variation: instead of doors there are several boxes, each of which contains an alternate universe, and each universe in turn has its own set of universe-boxes. This sets up a complicated cross-universe chase sequence with everyone jumping into and out of the boxes.
* It's done in ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'' episode "The Terrible Trolley Trap", when the Ant Hill Mob search for Penelope on the Hooded Claw's steamship.
* A brief variant was used in the ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' episode "When You Wish Upon a Well", which had Sofia ([[ItMakesSenseInContext who was wished into being a cat by Amber]]) being chased by James, Clover, Rex, and Wormwood in a hedgemaze during a musical number.
* ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' features a chase in the episode in "Eight Arms to Hold You".
* In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E8SeriousSteven an episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', Steven and the Gems get lost in a Fortress that essentially features doors like these. Behind the doors however are death traps, and even if they survive the traps, the Doors take them right back to the start, that would force them to keep redoing the traps over and over again. [[spoiler:Luckily, Steven finds the actual way out]].
* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' was rather fond of this trope:
** When DM and Penfold are first abducted by the title object in "The Dream Machine", Greenback explains his fiendish plans for them as they stand at the end of two long rows of doors, while various bizarre creatures run out of one door and into another (in at least one case, the same creatures rush then rush out of a different door and into yet another one).
** "Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind" features several chase sequences involving DM and Penfold trying to escape the guards on Dr. Zokk's spaceship using a hoverpod; in some shots, we see several parallel walkways as the various chasers appear on first one, then another, and then another (complete with variations in the "order of procession"), while in other shots, we see a top-down view of a room with four doors as the chasers repeatedly emerge from different doors than the ones they entered.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MrMagoo'' cartoon "Spellbound Hound" features one of these when Magoo mistakes his friend Ralph for an escaped criminal and chases him around with a shotgun and a bloodhound chasing after him trying to prove Ralph's innocence.
* Slight variation of the usual setup: In a cartoon for ''Series/DieSendungMitDerMaus'' the mouse and the elephant can't find each other due to interfering Scooby Doors. With her slight RealityWarper powers, the mouse solves the problem by unhinging each door and piling them up until only one remains - behind which the elephant has to be and is.
* In the animated lyric video for ''Series/SesameStreet'''s "Monster in the Mirror," Grover and other Halloween-dressed Sesame Street monsters race through a whole lot of colored doors during the a-cappella chorus.
* The trope shows up in the ''WesternAnimation/BatPat'' episode "Nothing to laugh at".
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'': At one point in "Mystery, Incorporeal", Ben Kevin, Rook and Zed chase Dante ([[spoiler:actually Darkstar in disguise]]), who is levitating a kidnapped Gwen, across through door to door in the halls of Gwen's university. At one point Ben actually reaches his hand through one door to see it come out of a door on the other side of the hallway, indicating the doors are actually portals.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'':
** In Episode 70, Kaeloo and Quack Quack chase Stumpy through a bunch of {{Portal Door}}s during a game of "interdimensional hide and seek" and he always comes out through a different door. At one point, Stumpy from another dimension runs through the door and meets up with the original Stumpy.
** It happens again in Episode 110, this time with Kaeloo and Mr. Cat chasing Stumpy through a haunted castle with a bunch of doors.
* This happens episode "Eeyore's Tail Tale" of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', during a DisneyAcidSequence where Tigger imagines himself chasing after an anthropomorphized version of Eeyore's missing tail, but at the end of the sequence it turns out that there were multiple Eeyore tails.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'' did this [[RunningGag several times]].
** Used in "Moustachesquatch" when the gang is chasing/being chased by the mustache monster, though they use caves rather than doors.
** "Ice to Know You" has the scene where the main group is attempting to run from a yeti in the Maxum Mansion. [[CallBack The mustache monster even makes a brief reappearance]]!
** "Teenage Mummies In Love" has a scene where Eric and Trevor are running away from a real mummy, and this trope ensues, albeit with school lockers rather than doors.
** Played straight in "House of Helmut", followed by Trevor running into a closed door, knocking down the whole wall, and [[UpToEleven having the others comes out of one of the knocked down doors]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/GalaxyHigh'' episode "Those Eyes, Those Lips" had the main characters chasing each other through doors in impossible ways in one scene.
* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': In "Charlie's Halloween Thing 2", one of the segments has the Baby Bears being chased by monsters as part of an extended parody of Scooby Doo. This includes a chase through a hall of doors, which leads to sight gags like the monsters running around in a stack like the Bears, and two Ice Bears running into each other.
* Used briefly in the UPA cartoon "Georgie and the Dragon" in which Georgie's father chases Georgie and his dragon around the house with a garbage can on his head.
* ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018'':
** In "The Teeth-Chattering Tale of the Haunted Pancakes", this happens when the babies are being chased by the titular Haunted Pancakes.
** This also happens in "Animal and the Magic Mummy", when the babies are being chased by the museum exhibits brought to life by the titular Magic Mummy.
* The ''WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat'' pulls this in two episodes, "Felix Finder and the Ghost Town" (Felix is darting in and out of deserted bulidings in the town and going so fast he runs into himself) and "Felix The Cat Suit" (the Professor and Felix tiptoeing in and out of open compartments in a hallway).
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}: Tales From the Crib: Literature/SnowWhite'', this trope occurs when Angelica, as the Evil Queen, orders her servants to capture the disguised dwarf babies.
* ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace'':
** "Chitty Chitty Moon Walk" does this in a hayfield with Dennis and Joey in Henry's solar-powered moon walker, a pair of spies in a forklift disguised as a haystack, and a police officer chasing them. It ends with the police officer crashing into the spies and arresting them.
** "[[WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenaceInCruiseControl Cruise Control]]" does this when Dennis, Joey and Margaret run from Kraigor Baskethead's guards while in Liana's castle.
* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'': Happens when Lucky, Rolly and Cadpig pursue Scorch in "You Slipped a Disk".

* One of Legendary Frog's ''[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings One Ring to Rule Them All]]'' animations features one of these as Wayne the goblin is chasing Sam and Frodo. And yes, the gags include a ''Scooby-Doo'' cameo.
* Subverted in the ''WebAnimation/EvilJoshAndBilly'' episode ''[[http://eviljoshandbilly.keentoons.com/toons/ejb09.html Speak No Evil]].'' Evil Josh and his archrival, [[AtrociousAlias Super Someone]], run through a door, and... cut to Josh jumping outside a window.

* Parodied in the WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated video for "Ghost". At first it's just the main trio and Lewis by themselves, then a whole army of each character goes between the doors.

* A humorous variant in ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'' [[Recap/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchoolS05E05 Episode 75]], while trying to infiltrate Saison for Brittany, they follow her and baby daugther back and forth around the Eiffel Tower, and they ending switching positions and get chased by a policewoman

* ''Webcomic/{{Weregeek}}'' shows it on [[http://www.weregeek.com/2011/10/27/ this page]].
* ''Webcomic/TwentyFirstCenturyFox'' gets around [[http://www.hirezfox.com/21cf/d/20081124.html to parodying it to]].

* In the ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'' episode "That Damn Prison Escape", Billy-Jean and Cletus are chased by the Neighbor on a segway and a Police Officer in the same style;, at one point ComicBook/{{Robin}} runs out of one of the doors and the Officer is riding on an office chair.

* Creator/TexAvery was fond of this during his days at Creator/{{M|etroGoldwynMayer}}GM (he especially loved exaggerating it).
** Its occurrence in the WesternAnimation/ScrewySquirrel cartoon "Lonesome Lenny" was not only over-the-top (with additional chasers and chasees being added at random, including a cow, a lech chasing a screaming woman, and various clones of Screwy and Lenny), but self-referential, as the cow briefly stopped in the middle of the chase to [[TalkingWithSigns hold up a sign]] reading, "Silly, isn't it?"
** Tex also provided an interesting variation in ''The Screwy Truant'' and ''WesternAnimation/LittleRuralRidingHood'': the chase sequence would happen in a seemingly normal room (with only two or three doors), but then additional doors would be quickly created as needed -- the trick was to open a door violently, and a new opening was instantaneously created where it had hit the wall; this worked completely regardless of the door's hinges, so that when there was no room left on walls, doors were created on the floor and ceiling as well. All accompanied by the song "In and Out the Window".
* The gag was also used in ''WesternAnimation/FlipTheFrog'' cartoons (early 1930s), and pops up in several ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts, including Creator/FrankTashlin's ''WesternAnimation/PorkyPigsFeat'' (1943), Creator/FrizFreleng's ''WesternAnimation/RoomAndBird'' (1951), and Creator/RobertMcKimson's ''WesternAnimation/TheOilyAmerican'' (1954) and ''WesternAnimation/BostonQuackie'' (1953).
* Creator/FrizFreleng had his own variant: two characters chasing each other (with MickeyMousing hopping steps) in a room full of doors: the chaser will see the chasee go into one door, go to it, but just as he opens it, the chasee comes out a ''completely different'' door; chaser goes to new door, cycle repeats. It shows up in ''WesternAnimation/LittleRedRidingRabbit'' (1944), and also in ''WesternAnimation/BuccaneerBunny'' (1948), where one door suddenly has a [[AshFace cannon behind it]].
* An episode of'' WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction'' [[RuleOfFunny did this trope with luggage]].

* Spoofed in the ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' episode "Clara's Dirty Little Secret", which first showed a similar situation with the house guests chasing each other and emerging from random doors, then [[RevealShot zoomed out to reveal]] that the doors were all connected by a series of tubes, which the characters swam through.
* Even ''WesternAnimation/HelloKittysFurryTaleTheater'' had them in the "Catula" episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' had one in the episode "I See London, I See France", but near a French canal instead of in a building. The chase involved Rocko trying to find and impress a female wallaby, Heffer following a truck advertising a Chewy Chicken restaurant, and an insane tour guide hunting them down in his bus. At one point, the characters (including the vehicles) start walking up and down the sides of buildings and riding boats through the canal.
* Used in ''[=BB3B=]'' when the kids take their grandmother whist she is still on a hospital bed and run away from the robots. However, the order of who is chasing who doesn't change.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
** Hilariously parodied in the episode where Timmy sneaks into Cosmo and Wanda's home in the fish bowl. With each door switch Timmy, Cosmo, and Marianne (an escaped bad godchild) would change clothes. And that was the ''least'' weird detail... in one shot, Timmy dives into a door on the floor which clearly has stairs going down [[AlienGeometries and then immediately falls out of another door ON THE CEILING IN THE SAME ROOM.]]
** In another episode, Timmy [[TrappedInTVLand wishes himself into the television]] and visits a show parodying ''Scooby-Doo'', naturally involving this trope.
** Used in yet ''another'' episode, "Dread And Breakfast". They seem to like this trope.
--->'''Shaggy parody:''' Zinkies, Doob!
** And again in "A Chip Off the Old Chip," during the video for "Find Your Voice".

* In ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' episode "Mighty [=McMario=] and the Pot of Gold", Luigi and Toad lead Mouser and Troopa through some of [[http://youtu.be/TZJf8Fize0g?t=2m28s these.]]
-->'''Mouser:''' ''(Collapses, exhausted)'' This is ''so'' frustrating!
** The music choice for the chase scene is very odd, and in a case of what was most likely lazy animation, the characters simply go through the same doors over and over.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** Candace is doing this in "One Good Scare Oughta Do It!" while she was being chased by the attractions inside Phineas and Ferb's haunted house.
** Also used in part one of "Phineas and Ferb's Hawaiian Vacation" with a hotel manager witnessing Phineas and Ferb chasing [[BlandNameProduct ersatz Sea Monkeys]].
** Done yet again again in "Misperceived Monotreme" during the "Livin' in a Fun House" number. Subverted since Perry the Platypus isn't being chased, but is simply trying to find the exit. He ends up turning the room upside-down, seeing multiple copies of himself, and nearly getting his cover blown.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'':
** Used in the episode "Lost Smurf" when Papa Smurf, Hefty, Brainy, Wild, and Sassette get chased through a series of doors in a long hallway inside Castle Captor.
** Also in the episode "Smurfing For Ghosts" when Peewit, Brainy, and Clumsy are being chased by ghosts in Quarrel Castle.
* Used in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''. The gang are being chased by a mad man with an axe throughout a castle; different characters ran through the doors including Scooby and the gang at one point.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Used in the episode "A Bird in the Hoof", while Fluttershy and Twilight Sparkle chases after Philomena to the tune of a [[Series/TheBennyHillShow Yakkety Sax]] [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong sound-alike]]. This may actually be a subtle subversion, as the characters always exit through the same side that they enter (until the very end, where Philomena seems to exit the chase without needing a door).
* At least one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' has this at near the end when a foreign king who [[IdenticalStranger looks like Fred]] arrived in Bedrock.
%%* Played as part of the "Davey Dave" parody sequence in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian''.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/MightyMouse Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures]]''
** Shows up in the episode "The Bride of Mighty Mouse" when a pig steals a farmer's hat and everyone chases the pig to try and get it back.
** It also happens in the episode "Don't Touch That Dial" when Mighty ends up in the Ring-a-Ding show and the gang chases him, which is a parody of Scooby-Doo.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' [[PlayingWithATrope plays with this]] in the episode "Cradle and All", where the penguins have to chase a human baby through a maze of crates. First the gag is played straight, with the penguins and baby entering and emerging from random pathways for a good few seconds, but then Kowalski realizes what's happening and gets the team to [[DefiedTrope defy the trope.]]
-->'''Kowalski:''' I've seen this before. We'll continue chasing him back and forth, to-and-fro, right and left, over and under, until we start chasing each other.
%%* It happens once in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/RaymanTheAnimatedSeries''.
* Done in at least one episode of ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' with a motorbike being chased by villains in a jeep. Also Hadji in some water barrels.