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Someone, usually a child, is wandering in his or her house and walks into two people having sex. (Because nobody ''ever'' has a bedroom with a lock on the door in fiction.) Most of the time it's the parents. This can be a trigger for A) the parents to give [[The Talk|that one discussion we all mention vaguely]], B) the unfortunate soul to be [[Heroic BSOD|Shell Shocked for a while]], C) [[Rule of Funny|be very funny]] or some combination of the three.
 
Its psychological term is the ''Primal Scene'', coined by none other than [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]].