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* [[Jim Carrey]] sealing the gate to Landfill Park in ''[[The Mask (Film)|The Mask]]'' is a great example of this. As he leaves the park, he puts an intricate lock to keep two cops inside... only to notice a large police force outside!

* ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' shorts used this in a couple of varieties, including the door opening outwards and the villains coming in behind them, sometimes handing them things to put on the barricade.

* In ''[[~~Twenty Eight~~ Weeks Later (Film)|Twenty Eight Weeks Later]]'', a safe room turns out to have a back door.

* In ''[[28 Weeks Later (Film)|Twenty Eight Weeks Later]]'', a safe room turns out to have a back door.

* In one of the [[Hilarious Outtakes]] of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', while preparing for battle in Moria, the Fellowship goes and braces the door to Balin's Tomb with axes, polearms, and whatever's around. [[Orlando Bloom]]/Legolas makes a big show of sticking one staff up against the door. [[Ian McKellen]]/Gandalf then walks up to the door in apparent disbelief at Legolas's "contribution", nudges the staff—easily knocking it over—and scoffs, calling it "typical elf work."

* In ''[[UHF (Film)|UHF]]'', Stanley Spadowski (Michael Richards) is being chased around the offices of Channel 8 News by the top exec's murderous thugs. He shuts himself into the top exec's office and barricades the one door with everything he can find, until the door is completely covered. He then collapses in exhaustion, but is proud of his quick thinking. They'll never get him now. ''The thugs then come through the conveniently large window.''

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* In one episode of ''[[That 70s Show (TV)|That 70s Show]]'' Hyde does this. After it looks like Laurie is moving out and he's getting her room, she ends up staying. The end of the episode shows him standing there with the dresser up against the door telling her that she'll never get in. Cue Red opening the door outward.

* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'': during the "Upper-Class Twit of the Year" sketch, one of the competitions in the obstacle course is to jump a wall composed of matchboxes. The wall is three matchboxes high(roughly half a foot). Subverted in that the Twits do end up taking a while to clear the jump.

* ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'': In Destiny of the Daleks, the Doctor and Romana take refuge behind a hastily cobbled together privacy screen. The Doctor says something like There, That Should Keep Them Out, and Romana sneers "That wouldn't keep out a determined mouse!"

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': In Destiny of the Daleks, the Doctor and Romana take refuge behind a hastily cobbled together privacy screen. The Doctor says something like There, That Should Keep Them Out, and Romana sneers "That wouldn't keep out a determined mouse!"

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== Real Life ==

* In Somalia US troops decided to use the much-vaunted [[Non Lethal Warfare|'sticky foam']] to create a barrier against rioters. The Somalis watched in some puzzlement as the strange substance hardened into a barrier…then they just climbed over it.

* In Somalia US troops decided to use the much-vaunted [[Non-Lethal Warfare|'sticky foam']] to create a barrier against rioters. The Somalis watched in some puzzlement as the strange substance hardened into a barrier…then they just climbed over it.

* In Port Arthur, a Victorian era prison town in Tasmania, there is a very impressive gatehouse to the military barracks. Which you can bypass completely by going around the corner and stepping over a half metre high wall. (Yes, it was so back then, too.)

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