Parents Walk in At the Worst Time: Difference between revisions

Related to [[Moment Killer]]. A subtrope of [[Interrupted Intimacy]]. For children walking in on their parents, see [[Primal Scene]].

 

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=== [[Comics]] ===

* ''Web of [[Spider-Man]]'' #50: After Peter and Mary Jane (still newlyweds at this point) settle in for the night (and some quality time), Aunt May [[Moment Killer|barges in on them]] with a tray of hot cocoa to "warm their bones."

{{quote|'''Peter''': ...We appreciate the thought -- but we were already warming our bones.

'''MJ''': Next time, could you knock?

 

=== [[Film]] ===

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]] [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'', Fitz's mum mentions that when she had [[Astral Projection|out of body experiences]] in her sleep and looked through his window she saw him doing something which she considered too embarrassing to specify. So it could be this or [[Caught with Your Pants Down|another trope]]. Sometimes, even if you lock the door and wait for everyone else to go to sleep, you still just can't win...

 

* In one episode of ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'', Jill walks in on her son Brad and his girlfriend making out in his bedroom. This gets Brad in trouble because Brad wasn't allowed to have girls in his room.

 

* In ''[[Red String]]'', Hanae's mother finds out her daughter is a lesbian this way. She doesn't take it well.

 

=== [[Advertising]] ===

* On an advert for insurance (perhaps Norwich Union?). A teenager's grandmother approaches his room with a cup of tea and is greeted by cries of 'Yes! I love you!' from the room. Of course, he's actually just been informed how cheap his insurance quote is.

* [[Robin]] (Tim Drake) from the [[Batman]] series had one particularly amusing experience. His girlfriend Arianna tried to seduce him in lingerie but he turned down the opportunity, saying that they weren't ready for it. They ended up talking all night but when her relatives walked in on them (with Arianna still in her lingerie), they got the wrong idea and chased out Tim in rage.

 

* Played with in ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'': Dharma's ultra-hippy mother would bring a teenage Dharma and her various boyfriends post-coitus snacks and drinks.

** While Greg (Dharma's husband) was uncomfortable, she was delighted.

* [[Transformers (film)|Transformers]], Sam Witwicky tries to find a small chip placed on his treasure glasses belonged to his grandfather, which he forgets where he left them in his room, and get Mikaela to help him. It gets too noisy that Sam's parents go up to check him out. His mother gets completely wrong ideas both before and after she finds the girl in his room.

 

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=== [[Advertising]] ===

* In the first ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' arc Keiichi's dad comes to bring Rena and Keiichi tea and snacks. In the manga it would have been [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents|a moment killer]] ''if'' Rena hadn't left and if she had talked to Keiichi. The fact Keiichi was talking on the phone about something secretive and he was suspicious of Rena makes him even more paranoid. {{spoiler|However Rena probably never even went near his room, and if she did she heard he was on the phone and left}}.

 

* In a season two episode of ''[[Glee]]'', before [[Ho Yay|Kurt and Blaine]] [[Just Friends|get]] [[Relationship Upgrade|together]], Blaine is too drunk to drive after a party, so they bring him back to Kurt and Finn's house. In the morning, Kurt's dad walks in to find Blaine in Kurt's bed and is quite shocked, even though they are both fully dressed.

 

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