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* In the ''[[Tintin]]'' story "The Secret of the Unicorn", Professor Calculus builds a wallbed that opens and closes upon Thompson and Thomson repeatedly.
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* One ''[[Bag Enders]]'' story gets kicked off when the porn stash beneath Pippin's mattress gets so high that Merry rolling over in the bunk above him breaks Pippin's nose.
=== [[Film]] ===
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* In ''[[The Pink Panther]] Strikes Again'', the final sequence is set in Clouseau's bedroom, outfitted with a Murphy bed for a romantic tryst. It's [[The Pink Panther]], so not only does hilarity ensue, but slapstick does also.
* There's a whole comedy routine based on this in [[Mel Brooks]]' ''[[Silent Movie (film)|Silent Movie]]'' as as Mel's alcoholic movie director character tries unsuccessfully to operate one in a fleabag motel. At the end, he gets spun around, grabs the lighting fixture on the opposite wall by accident and tears the motel wall down.
* Jason Robards uses one of these to seduce Britt Ekland in ''[[The Night They Raided
* [[Roger Ebert]]'s Movie Glossary claims that the "upper bunk guy sandwiching the lower bunk guy" thing happens in ''Black Sheep'' and ''Step Brothers''.
* The ''[[Matt Helm]]'' movies starring Dean Martin featured a bed that would wake Helm up by dumping him into a swimming pool.
* ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' had the protagonist hiding the priest Cornelius in the bed in his apartment. When it slid back into the wall, it auto-cleaned it. So he was covered in plastic when the bed came back out.
* In ''[[The Great Escape]]'' all the prisoners sleep in wooden three-tier bunks with the mattresses supported on planks. As these also supply the only readily available source of wood a scene halfway through has Hilts removing all but the bare minimum to make pit props for the tunnel. Enter Cavendish, who bounds onto his top tier bunk and proceeds to crash through all three levels to the floor.
* Happens twice in quick succession to Hal in ''[[Megamind]]'', first when he is knocked into it by his front door, and secondly when he is hit over the head with the "Forget-Me Stick".
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
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* On ''[[Cheers]]'', Sam unwittingly insults Carla's mother and is punished by being stuffed into the wall on the Murphy bed. Says Carla, "You cross Mama, you sleep in the wall."
* In the ''[[Love, American Style]]'' episode "Love and the Vertical Bed", a wife uses a Murphy Bed to try to cure her husband of his phobic fear of beds. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* In one episode of ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'', Tim remodels Al's apartment to maximize usable space. One of his improvements is a motorized hide-a-bed operated by a remote control. Al gets this remote confused with the one for the TV, and ends up getting sent through the wall into the neighbor's bedroom. [[Running Gag|"Hey! I don't go in for that sort of thing!"]]
* A famous scene in ''[[Three's Company]]'' involved Jack Tripper
* In ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' London is staying over at Maddie's and is shocked to discover that she sleeps in a pull-out bed. She later ends up trapped between the wall and the bed.
=== [[Newspaper Comics]] ===
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=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* [[Played With]] in a ''[[Brawl in the Family]]'' comic.
* In [[Modest Medusa]], Medusa seemed to think the toilet was a water bed. Cue being unhappy when Jake pees on her. The solution? A sign that reads 'Don't Pee on the Medusa'.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
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* Happened in a ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' episode featuring a family of WWF fans.
* ''[[Anastasia]]'': Vladimir, [[The Big Guy]], gets the top bunk on a boat, which sags so low Anya's puppy Pooka can hardly move.
* Subverted in ''[[Lilo
* A variation occurs in ''[[Chicken Run]]'': as the chickens dismantle the coop to build an airplane, one chicken removes the nails off her nest, and it falls on top of her lower bunk mate.
** This is a [[Shout-Out]] to a similar scene in ''[[The Great Escape]]'', where half the slats in the upper bunk had been removed to shore up the escape tunnel.
* ''[[The Jetsons]]'', of course.
* There's a classic [[Classic Disney Shorts|Mickey/Donald/Goofy]] cartoon that involves our heroes traveling in a remarkably automated mobile home. Donald's peacefully sleeping in bed, but Mickey hits a control, and the bed (it's on a sort of shelf) folds into the wall. Donald gets folded too, then pops out another hole fully dressed.
* ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'': Wallace's bed tilts upward and runs him through a Rube Goldberg device to get him dressed. The malfunction part comes halfway through ''The Wrong Trousers'', when Gromit hides in it to spy on {{spoiler|1=Feathers McGraw}}, and it ends up activating by itself.
* There's a [[Donald Duck]] cartoon where just putting up a hammock is proving impossible.
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=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* ''[[Nobilis]]'' provides a [[Nightmare Fuel]]-ish example character:
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=== [[Real Life]] ===
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