Axe Before Entering: Difference between revisions

* In one episode of ''[[The Young Ones]]'', the students' landlord goes crazier, becomes an "axe-wielding homicidal maniac", and starts to hack his way through the door.

* Parodied in ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]'', when [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop|the two Special Squad policemen]] arrive at a woman's house looking for a suspect. Laurie's character begins smashing the door down with a sledgehammer, and Fry points out that it's unlocked and steps inside. Laurie answers that he didn't carry the hammer all this way just to turn the handle and makes Fry close it behind him so he can keep breaking it down, and even puts a couple of extra holes in it once he's on the other side himself.

* In the pilot episode of ''[[Misfits]]'', the psychotic probation officer uses an axe to bust into the toilet cubicle where his first victim is hiding.

== Western Animation ==

* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' Halloween episode "The Shinning", an obvious parody of ''[[The Shining]]'', Homer does this:

'''Homer: ''' [[David Letterman|Daaaaavid Letterman!]]<br />

'''Abe Simpson:''' Hi David, I'm Grampa!<br />