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A subtrope of [[Cringe Comedy]]. A character, thinking they are alone, decides to [[A Date with Rosie Palms|indulge in a little self-pleasuring]] only to be interrupted by their partner, parent, sibling, best friend, [[The Vicar]] (for maximum laughs), whatever. Seriously people, next time - lock the door.

Usually [[Played for Laughs]], although it's not impossible to see it [[Played for Drama]]. For when it is not a solo situation, see [[Interrupted Intimacy]].

 

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Many, many a start of the intimate portion of [[That Wasnt There Before|That Wasn't There Before]] [[Hentai]] [[Futanari]] [[Doujinshi]] in a ''particularly'' embarrassing example.

* Happens to Satou when his mother walks in on him in the ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'' manga, with the added embarrassment that he's looking at [[Hentai]] at the time. And has set up a [[Porn Stash|customized rig for internet porn]] [[Didn't Think This Through|in his parents' spare bedroom]], [[Up to Eleven|complete with a leather massage chair]].

* Alice learns the hard way in ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' that internet surveillance is more intensive than she thought... {{spoiler|Of course, the fact her best friend is an omnipresent god who can materialise in Alice's room at will doesn't help either.}}

* Happens in ''[[Code Geass]]'' (the infamous [[Cargo Ship|'Table-kun']] incident). Fortunately for Nina, Nunally couldn't see what was happening and is too innocent to realize what was going on. Probably. Hopefully.

* An implied near-miss happens to Maho Nitori in ''[[Wandering Son]].'' She and her brother Shuuichi sleep in bunk beds and at the end of chapter 39 when Shuuichi is woken up by creaking sounds and looks to see a panicked Maho out of bed asking if he'd heard. As she leaves the room, her pajama bottoms have a dark stain. The situation implies either this trope, an aversion of [[No Periods, Period]], or, what the heck, both.

* In the manga of ''[[Bokurano]]'', it's implied that Dung Beetle catches Anko like this at one point. She's none too happy about it. {{spoiler|In a subversion, he caught her daydreaming and dancing when she's home alone, not masturbating.}}

** {{spoiler|Mako "Nakama" Nakarai}} invokes the trope before fighting. {{spoiler|The [[Alpha Bitch]] who bullies Mako is having sex with a guy (presumably her boyfriend) inside a hotel room within the fight area, and she asks Koyemshi to rescue the couple before any of them get a chance to get dressed so they end up naked first in the cockpit, where all the pilot children are. After Mako gives the [[Alpha Bitch]] a slap and a [[What the Hell, Hero?]], they're sent inside a van on which the girl's mother is leaving the battle area. Given that the fight had not even started, is pretty much given that [[Genre Savvy|Mako did it on purpose]], to teach the [[Alpha Bitch]] a lesson about caring for other people: it ultimately works, as Mako's arc ends with said [[Alpha Bitch]] acting more humbly as she helps clean up the classroom.}}

* In the 2nd ''Boku No Pico'' [[OVA]], it's used as a plot device: Chico peeps through a crack in the ceiling to watch his sister schlick, (he doesn't even know what she's doing), and Pico, having experience, teaches him all about sex. In the 3rd [[OVA]], Pico walks in on his new friend Coco masturbating, gets aroused by it and masturbates while watching him masturbate. Unfortunately, the curtain falls, blowing Pico's cover. It's a little bit creepy because {{spoiler|Coco knew he was there the entire time}}.

* A double entry from ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' when Kyon was closing the pictures of Mikuru's chest with star-shaped mole: He forgot to close the folder which had the name of "Mikuru" written as the folder name. It's busted by Haruhi spotting Mikuru having some "fun" with Kyon - which did not translate so well for [[The End of the World as We Know It|the world]].

* In chapter 337 of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', [[Noble Demon|Eva]] walks in on [[Robot Girl|Chachamaru]] [[Fantastic Arousal|winding herself up]] (technically, powering self up, but it has VERY similar effects to sexual arousal) while calling out Negi's name. [[Hilarity Ensues]] since Eva is ''very'' amused and pleased.

* Momo in ''[[To Love Ru Darkness]]'' gets caught by her twin sister playing with her [[Fantastic Arousal|tail]]. Luckily for her, Nana is too innocent to realize what Momo was doing.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* A short comic by Phoebe Gloeckner has a Czech punk girl caught not once but twice when she has sex with her punk boyfriend in public. The second time, her mother happens to be among the people witnessing this. Big Oops.

 

* The start of the "Vs. Ponyville" arc in ''[[Progress]]'' sees Celestia finding Luna in the library, asking why, and not getting a straight answer. She figures it out within seconds: Luna walked in on Sundance (her roommate) and Hoyden (Sundance's coltfriend) mating (capping her long streak of luck walking in on them being romantic). In order to help avoid awkwardness, Celestia assigns Luna to duties that require her to leave Canterlot for a while.

* In ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]'', Sasuke catches Ronan sucking his own penis while looking at a picture of Sakura, prompting Ronan to shoot him with his blue light in retaliation. Later on, Ronan masturbates to Taliana raping Sakura until Taliana sees him, at which point he shoots her in the vagina and frees Sakura.

* In ''[[Stars Above]]'', {{spoiler|poor [[Lucky Star|Kagami]] is interrupted during some private time in the bath by one of the most unwelcome visitors imaginable... [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|Kyu]][[Weasel Mascot|bey]].}}

 

== [[Film]] ==

** Plus he wasn't even looking at Mary, he was looking at a songbird in the same general direction as Mary.

* In the movie ''The Calcium Kid,'' Jimmy Connolly (Orlando Bloom) is a dim amateur boxer who becomes the focus of a BBC documentary. Not knowing that his whole life is being documented, he wakes up one morning and starts masturbating, not realizing that the scene is being filmed. The film crew interrupts him and [[Hilarity Ensues]].

** A similar moment occurs when one boy charges his classmates to peep on his older sisters as they prepare for a bath. One of the boys gets a little overzealous, and ends up pulling the drainpipe he was clinging to off the wall, causing the rest of the boys to be caught in the act as well.

* Iin ''Slackers'' there was a scene where a male character had to steal something from a female characters dorm while she wasn't there. After trying the door he was impatiently allowed in by the female character's (also female) roommate who was annoyed at having been interrupted masturbating. She continues to masturbate (quite enthusiastically) in the main room while he goes to the bedroom to find the [[MacGuffin|whatever it was]].

* Michael ([[Dustin Hoffman]]) in ''[[Tootsie]]'' gets quite literally caught with his pants down by Sandy. His reaction is classic: {{spoiler|"Sandy, I want you."}}

* In ''[[Going Berserk]]'', John Candy's character is recounting a recurring dream to a psychiatrist - it's seen as a parody of "The Blue Lagoon", where his advances to the girl he's on an island with are constantly rebuffed (in direct contradiction to his narrative) - he goes off to another part of the island to be "alone with his thoughts" as he says, which means to furiously masturbate. He then looks up, and finds he's not alone - a cruise ship is passing by with everyone on board watching and laughing at him. As he ends the story, he's dismayed to find the psychiatrist laughing uproariously.

* In the French erotic film ''[[The Dreamers]]'', Isabelle catches Matthew masturbating to old pictures of actress Marlene Dietrich, and then has him perform cunninligus on her.

* In ''[[Black Swan]]'', while Nina is [[Unusual Euphemism|doing her homework]], she rolls over and realizes that her mother is in the room with her. Only a partial example, because her mother was asleep.

* ''[[Weird Science (film)|Weird Science]]'' had an entertaining [[Freak-Out]] over tossing off. "You told me you were combing your hair!"

* In ''[[The Blue Lagoon]]'' there's a scene where Richard, seen from behind, is clearly masturbating. Emmeline asks him "What are you doing?" and he guiltily says "Nothing!" [[Or So I Heard]].

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In [[James Herbert]]'s ''Once'', the protagonist is first introduced to the love interest of the novel (a barely pubescent Elf girl) by his spying on her masturbating against a tree.

 

* In ''[[According to Jim]]'', we learn that Jim hates his birthday and surprise parties because on his thirteenth birthday, thinking everyone had forgotten his birthday, he decided to 'give himself a present' only to have his friends and family (including a nun) leap out shouting 'Surprise!'.

* A stand-up routine by comedian Alan Brough on ''[[The Smallest Room In The House]]'' centred around his father bringing him a cup of tea while he was masturbating.

* The basis of the entire ''[[That '70s Show]]'' episode "Happy Jack".

* In the ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode "The Contest", George is at the parents' house, starts reading Glamour, then gets caught by his mother, who injures herself as a result...

* An episode of the HBO series ''[[Sessions]]'' revolved around the main character's embarassment over masturbating, and his fear of being caught as an adolescent.

* Alluded to in ''[[Pushing Daisies]]''. Chuck and Ned share an apartment, but if they touch Chuck will die, so they wear jingle-bell slippers to alert each other when they're coming into a room. Chuck tries to convince Ned that she should move out:

{{quote|'''Chuck:''' I'll stop walking in on you when you're doing things you don't want me to know you're doing--

* This happened to wannabee rapper J-Roc in ''[[Trailer Park Boys]]''.

* ''[[Farscape]]''. In a [[Body Surf]] episode, Aeryn (in Rygel's body) walks in on Crichton [[Man, I Feel Like a Woman|feeling up her own body]]. She threatens to break his legs. Even if they are hers. After the [[Reset Button]] is pushed however, it's hinted that Aeryn (who'd briefly entered Crichton's body) did some checking out of her own.

* In one episode of ''[[This Is Wonderland]]'', Elliot Sacks accidentally implies that his mother walked in on him once.

{{quote|'''Judge Serkis''': That's ''enough'', Mr. [[Freudian Slip|Sex]]. ''Sacks!''}}

* One episode of ''[[Extras]]'' has Andy walk in on his agent masturbating to a pen with a naked woman's picture on it. His agent's secretary then comes in and takes the pen from him...and is also masturbating to it when Andy leaves.

* The ''[[British Newspapers|Daily Mail Island]]'' sketch from ''[[TV Go Home]]'' has a particularly horrifying example, where a teenage girl is caught masturbating by her parents ("She was debasing ''everything''! With her ''fingers''!") and subjected to a show trial where she has to masturbate before the other islanders before being hung.

* Implied in an episode of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', although when two male characters who aren't ([[Shipping Wars|canonically]]) having sex spend all their time together, it's to be expected.

** More than just implied in the season six episode "Caged Heat" when Castiel (hilariously) discovers porn.

* In the ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "Grace Under Pressure," Rodney McKay is badly injured and hallucinates seeing his long-time crush, Samantha Carter. Even though he's well aware that she's just a figment of his imagination, he works with 'her' to try to help his situation. When 'Samantha' comes up with an idea that gives him much-needed extra time, he jumps up and hugs 'her'. He suddenly turns serious and moves in for an amorous kiss, but 'Samantha' spoils the mood by pointing out, "You do realize what you're doing here, right?" Possibly only a partial example, because the person who caught him was actually his own subconscious. (Rodney was a complicated guy.)

{{quote|'''Rodney''': You are the worst hallucination ever!"}}

* On ''[[Camelot (TV series)|Camelot]]'', Morgan discovers Harwel spying on her in the bath and asks "What were you doing with that hand before you used it to sully my dress?".

 

== [[Music]] ==

{{quote|Well it seems last night you caught me spankin' it // No use denyin' it, I was really crankin' it...}}

* The music video for "[[Stacy's Mom]]" has Stacy catching the narrator stand-in going at it.

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* Then there's that bit in ''[[Dykes to Watch Out For]]'' where Mo is having cyber sex with her girlfriend in the bookshop she works in. Then all the employees walk in while she's busy. They seem surprised the Martha Stuart fantasy turns her on. Then her employer walks in and everything just gets better for Mo as she realises her fly is still undone.

 

 

== [[Theatre]] ==

* ''[[Brighton Beach Memoirs]]''

* Happens in [[Steve Martin]]'s ''[[The Underpants]].''

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** If you listen closely, they were both watching the same thing, ''Bizarre Jelly 5''.

* In ''[[Wasted Youth]]'', this happens to Roger when he's caught using a peephole to watch the girls sleeping in their dorms.

 

* In ''[[Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo]]'', Nanami finds out about Yuuna's feelings for her when she catches Yuuna in this act.

* You can catch ''all'' the love interests this way in ''[[Hitomi]]''. And then you can help them out a little.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

** Gary also walks in on an actor in a play he's at getting a blowjob from an understudy. Gary is disturbed. [[Coitus Uninterruptus|The actors are unfazed.]]

* ''[[Captain SNES]]''

* Roy in ''[[Webcomic/Confiscated Twins|Confiscated Twins]]'' is caught by his sister.

* In ''[[Shiniez]]'', after a ''very'' memorable first night with Lisa, Ally is caught in the middle of some "alone time" by Alan.

* [[Karate Bears]] will [http://www.karatebears.com/2012/03/pants-poor.html cause this to happen.]

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* In ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', this happens to Beth Vandelinder - as Melina Frost walks in her. Particularly squicky as Melina then forces her to ''keep going'' before effectively ''[[Rape as Drama|joining in]]''. [[Depraved Bisexual]] indeed... Oh, and Melina uses a vase to help.

* ''[[Sonichu]]'': GET AWAY FROM THAT INTERNET! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPWPt3901cQ I'M CUTTIN' IT DOWN!]

* ''[[Arby 'n' the Chief]]'': During a ''[[Halo]] 3'' match between Chief and professional gamer Craig, Craig notices he has a hard-on and goes at it while Chief is temporarily distracted from the match. Craig, however, gets caught in the act by his parents, and the ensuing confusion on his side allows the [[This Loser Is You|normally incompetent]] Chief to win the match.

* In the flash toon ''Nin10Doh to the 64th Power'', [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]] is caught with his pants down while he's watching porn of [[Star Fox (series)|Krystal]] on Tails's computer.

'''Sonic:''' [[Double Entendre|What do you think I've been]] ''[[Double Entendre|trying]]'' [[Double Entendre|to do?!]] }}

{{quote|'''Critic''': ...this is awkward.}}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** It wasn't just hot women. There was also a fireman, his grandma, Obama, and other weird things.

** The episode where the band discusses "s*cking their own c*cks". It's time to take off for a show, Charles goes to gather the boys, only to find each in their room in a compromising position.

{{quote|'''Malory''': And take a shower. God, you smell like a whorehouse.

'''Archer''': Yes, your own fingers.

'''Malory''': What was that?

* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Overlogging" Stan's dad Randy has gone for weeks without masturbating to internet porn, eventually near the end he sneaks into the camp's computer room, looks at a bunch of perverted things, and eventually ejaculates all over the room, everyone comes in thinking he was grunting in pain and with his pants down, he tells them that he was doing that because "a ghost was attacking him and left his ectoplasm everywhere".

 

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