Exploding Closet/Playing With

Basic Trope: A closet or cabinet door is opened, and an avalanche of junk spills out.
 * Played Straight: Alice opens the closet to put a box away or get something, and is subsequently buried under junk.
 * Exaggerated:
 * Kitchen Sink Included
 * The closet is a very big Hammerspace that a crowd, 10 elephants, a house, among others can be stored inside, yet it's still stuffed.
 * Inverted: Alice stuffs her Trash of the Titans into the closet.
 * Justified:
 * The closet is Bigger On the Inside
 * The closet is simply filled with old items, and haven't been checked since 108 years ago.
 * Subverted:
 * Alice opens a drawer, not a closet.
 * Alice opens the closet, sees the junk about to fall out, and closes it quickly.
 * Double Subverted:
 * But the drawer is overstuffed and explodes.
 * The junk bursts through the door anyway, leaving a giant mess.
 * Deconstructed: Alice is a compulsive hoarder, or a very unhealthily messy person.
 * Reconstructed:
 * Parodied:
 * A skier skis down the slope of junk.
 * A Camp Gay guy struts over the junk pile and out of the closet.
 * A bomb is heard, and the room is once again messy.
 * Alice opens the closet and sees stock footage of a landfill.
 * Alice suffers Amusing Injuries from this.
 * Alice is not opening a closet per se, but some form of Hammerspace
 * Lampshaded: "Bob, how many times do I have to tell you, don't overstuff the closet!"
 * Averted: Alice opens the closet and nothing happens.
 * Or, she doesn't open the closet.
 * Enforced: Rule of Funny.
 * Invoked: Bob overloads the closet, knowing Alice will open it later.
 * Exploited: Alice tricks Charlie into opening the closet, which she knows is overfull.
 * Defied:
 * Alice refuses to open the closet.
 * "I'm pretty sure I need the Hammerspace cabinet, I don't want shoes and all to explode on me!"
 * Discussed: "Alice, you have a serious shoe problem. I went to get my coat, and I got buried under an avalanche of heels."
 * Conversed: "How did they even manage to close the door?"
 * Played For Laughs: Almost always is.
 * Played For Drama: Alice's family stages an intervention for hoarding.

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