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* The parents of [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Jean Grey]] keep their spare keys under a fake rock. Unfortunately, Hercules (in ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'' crossover where she resurfaces after ''The Dark Phoenix Saga'') kicks the door down before she could get to it.
* [[All
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* ''[[The Ring]] 2''
* This is how Colt gets into the [[Big Bad]]'s hideout in ''[[Loaded Weapon 1|Loaded Weapon I]]''.
* ''[[A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!]]'': Magnate's headquarters has the key hidden under the doormat.
* A deleted scene in the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' has them breaking into Cuddy's house at one point. The key is under a vase while Chase is busy telling House that's not going to work.
* In one ''[[
* Lowell did this on ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'', revealed in an episode where the whole gang goes to Boston to be in the audience of a talk show. Thinking that he may have left his iron turned on at home, he announces to the camera his address and key hiding place, asking someone to check for him. Predictably, this leads to thieves stealing everything he owns. ("Except the iron...which was off!").
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'', where it was mentioned that Drew kept a ''fake'' key in a fake rock under his welcome mat.
* In ''[[Psych]]'', Gus wonders how Shawn was able to get into his house, and Shawn points out that the key hidden under a fake rock is a bit obvious for a ''second-floor'' apartment.
* In ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', pretty much all of Lorelai Gilmore's neighbors knew that the spare key was in the turtle.
* In the ''[[
* On ''[[Friends]]'' one of Ross' dates kept hers in the light fixture near her apartment door. It made the key hot, though. Seriously lady, that's a stupid place to put it!
* In the first episode of ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'', Alan gets into Charlie's house as his fake key-hiding rock is kept out in the open, due to Charlie often coming home so drunk he wouldn't be able to find it if it was in a pile of rocks.
* ''[[Fringe]]'' has Olivia go to a alternate universe where she breaks into her counterpart's apartment because they hide the spare key in the same place. However, they do not keep their {{spoiler|guns}} in the same place.
* In ''[[The Bernie Mac Show]]'', Bernie gets locked out of his house by the children in a hot day after he punished them and had the air conditioner fixed. With every door and window locked, the last place to look for is the key under the doormat. Brianna was sent to get the key, but was taken by Bernie and leads to a negotiation with the other two kids.
* ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]]'': Hutch keeps it on top of the door-frame. None of the repeated times the bad guys break into his place ever seem to convince him to stop doing this.
* In one episode of ''[[Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip]]'', Jordan and Danny are locked on the roof of the studio. They try to get the attention of a bum by throwing a rock <s>at</s> near him. Then Danny remembers there <s>is</s> was a hide-a-key rock on the roof.
* ''[[Power Rangers
== Radio ==
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* On ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]'', there's a fictional inventor that attempts to avert this. He sells Cowpie Key Hiders. In Minnesota, lumps of cow manure are supposedly ubiquitous, and who's gonna look for a key under that? What if it turns out it's not fake? So instead of putting your key under the mat like an idiot, you can put it where nobody wants to look.
* In the Radio Drama ''The Father Gilbert Mysteries'' "Where The Heart Is", Mr. Eckhart concludes that someone broke into the church's crypt by using the key hidden under the flower pot beside the door. Father Gilbert chews him out for keeping a key there, as it's the first place anyone would look.
* Similarly in ''[[
== Theme Park ==
* At the queue for ''[[Muppet
== Video Games ==
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== Web Original ==
* In the [[Homestar Runner
{{quote| '''Strong Bad:''' (whispering) "I'll leave the key under the [[Pig Latin|at-may]]."}}
* In the online flash game MOTAS, there is a key under a doormat. The doormat is on top of a grate for some reason, so after you accidently knock the key down you have to go down and get it.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
* In the first episode of ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
* Bart did this in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]''. In order to get into the locked school, he...yeah. Homer also did it it one episode TWICE, the first time to get into the nuclear power plant, the second time to get into the reactor! And furthermore, even the key inside the plant was hidden under a small rock lying on the pristine floor, potentially subverting this trope.
* In the second episode of ''[[X-Men: Evolution
* There is a key under a doormat in an episode of [[
* In the ''[[All
* In an episode of ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' where Scratch loses his memory and thinks he's Sonic's ally, he recalls that Robotnik leaves the key to his fortress under his "unwelcome" mat.
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