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{{trope}}
[[File:bulging-closet-200 4516.gif|frame]]
{{quote|''"No, don't open that door, McGee!"''
|'''Molly''', ''[[Fibber McGee and Molly]]''}}
A character opens a surreptitiously bulging door to a storage area, and is buried in an avalanche of junk, followed by a skier or something if the authors are feeling particularly silly.
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Sometimes [[Truth in Television]].
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== Advertising ==
* A commercial for Rubbermaid food containers emphasized how one could keep their containers nicely organized versus other brands, demonstrated with an exploding kitchen cupboard full of Ziploc-esque containers.
== Anime
* In ''[[Stellvia of the Universe]]'', Shima cleans up before a study session by cramming all of her [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals|stuffed toys]] into the closet. Jojo notices one sticking out and opens the door.
* In ''[[R.O.D the TV]]'', this happens with the three sisters' entire ''apartment'', which is stuffed to bursting with books.
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* A minor [[Running Gag]] in Belgian comic ''[[Gaston Lagaffe]]''. We are once shown Gaston's technique for filling the dreaded cabinet so that things don't fall out: he lays it down and quite literally shovels everything in.
* In the comic ''[[Suske en Wiske]]'', the girl Wiske is [[Genre Savvy]] (or perhaps just knows the habits of the people she lives with): before opening a medicine cabinet, she places a basin before it and stands back, as the contents falls out of it.
* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Calvin uses this trope to make it look like he cleaned his room—until his mom opens the closet.▼
{{quote|'''Calvin's Mom:''' Back to work, kiddo.▼
'''Calvin:''' YOU made THIS mess! YOU clean it up! }}▼
* ''[[FoxTrot]]'' did the same gag.▼
* A [[Running Gag]] in the newspaper strip ''Big Nate'', with Nate's school locker exploding with an impossible volume of crap whenever he opens it (with Nate able to swiftly find whatever he wants to in the debris).▼
* Snoopy's doghouse, in [http://gocomics.com/peanuts/1963/02/16/ a 1963] ''[[Peanuts]]'' strip.▼
== Films -- Live-Action ==
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* An episode of ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' has Rob imagining the world has been taken over by aliens through the use of walnuts (it's a long story). The episode climaxes with Rob opening open a hall closet and a ton of walnuts cascading out...followed by his wife Laura.
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Calvin uses this trope to make it look like he cleaned his room—until his mom opens the closet.
▲{{quote|'''Calvin's Mom:''' Back to work, kiddo.
▲'''Calvin:''' YOU made THIS mess! YOU clean it up! }}
▲* ''[[FoxTrot]]'' did the same gag.
▲* A [[Running Gag]] in the newspaper strip ''Big Nate'', with Nate's school locker exploding with an impossible volume of crap whenever he opens it (with Nate able to swiftly find whatever he wants to in the debris).
▲* Snoopy's doghouse, in [http://gocomics.com/peanuts/1963/02/16/ a 1963] ''[[Peanuts]]'' strip.
== Puppet Shows ==
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