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** Slightly lampshaded at one point near the end of the series when Monica can't remember the last time her apartment door was locked.

** Also lampshaded when Ross is about to finally tell Rachel he loves her, but is interrupted by ex-fiancee Barry bursting in the door and beating him to the punch.

*** And again in the last episode, where Monica and Chandler, about to leave their apartment for good, solemnly drop their keys in a dish for the landlord to pick up - followed by all the other leads adding their own key to the dish.

** This is also mentioned by Monica, in episode 3.19, when she enters her house only to find Phoebe, Chandler and Ross there.

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* Howard on ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]'' was a classic Drop In Character, often having just flown in or about to fly out.

* Maynard G. Krebs on ''[[The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis]]''.

* Pretty much the entire teenage cast of ''[[That 70s Show]]'' with regards to the Foremans' house, particularly the basement (though naturally they have no problem wandering about the rest of the house and enacting other elements of the trope, such as mooching food and pilfering Red's beer). Occasionally lampshaded, such as one time when Kitty mentions an embarrassing secret of Eric's aloud.

** Lampshaded again in one episode where Eric, Hyde, and Laurie are all grounded. Red goes around to perform a "bed check", with Eric having Donna in his room, Hyde having Jackie, and Laurie with Kelso. Then, Red goes down to the basement, where Jackie, Fez, and Kelso are sitting watching TV, like nothing is wrong.

* ''[[Martin]]'' had a character simply referred to as "Brother Man", who occasionally invited himself into Martin's apartment ''through his window''.

* Likewise, Morgan in ''Chuck'' often uses the "Morgan Door" - Chuck's window.

* Roger in ''[[Sister Sister]]''.

** On a somewhat ''related'' note, Mo from ''[[Smart Guy (TV series)|Smart Guy]]''.

* In ''[[Kenan and Kel]]'', we never see Kel's home or family, while much of the action takes place at Kenan's home and his parents and sister are relatively major characters. Kel also hangs around Kenan's place of work, Rigby's.

* Aunt Jackie from ''[[Roseanne]]'' neatly solved the question of why she's not locked out by being the title character's sister.

* Dean Pelton often does this to the study group on ''[[Community]]''. Lampshaded in one episode:

* Pretty much the entire cast of ''[[Sanford and Son]]'' other than the title characters were this with Esther, Grady and Bubba being the most frequent offenders.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Spike once he became allied with the Scoobies in Seasons 4 and 5.