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This can also be used more seriously for character development if, for instance, [[Locked in a Room|two characters are stuck]] in whatever shelter is handy at the time the storm hits. Can also cause a bit of [[Cabin Fever]] in some characters.

 

 

This trope is, in essence, when the plot for an episode is derived from bad weather either causing the characters to be unable to go outside or having to find some place to get shelter. If there is [[An Aesop]] about the untapped forms of entertainment available that don't require electricity or outdoor sports, the most popular activity is reading—in which case, [[Portal Book]]s may appear.

 

Not to be confused with [[It Was a Dark and Stormy Night]].

 

* ''[[Kanamemo]]'' featured an episode in which all the girls were stuck indoors due to a typhoon.

* Not surprisingly, ''[[Windy Tales]]'', being about girls who could control wind, also had an episode featuring a typhoon.

* In ''[[Coraline (novel)|Coraline]]'', the heroine's parents forbid her to go out in rain, so she has to explore the house, and thus finds the secret door.

 

* This was the plot of an episode of ''[[Pee-wee's Playhouse|Pee Wees Playhouse]]'', despite the fact that Pee-Wee spends most of the show indoors.

 

** A series where Linus and Lucy think that Linus may have some kind of special powers because when he's out in the rain and sings "Rain Rain Go Away", it '''does'''.

* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' had a story arc where the family goes camping and it starts raining once they get to the camp site. Despite Calvin's and mom's complaints, Dad decides to tough it out - for an entire ''week'' - but eventually he has enough and decides to pack it up. And in that very moment, the rain finally stops. Cue [[Face Palm]] and [[Narrative Profanity Filter|copious off-screen swearing]].

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* One episode of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' features a series of shorts about what to do during a rainy day.

* In "[[Doug]]'s Comic Collaboration, Doug and Skeeter decide to write a comicbook instead of reading all the same old ones again. The weatherman who said it was going to be sunny is the villain. The two eventually argue about how to proceed with Doug noting the [[God Mode Sue]] powers of Silver Skeeter and Skeeter disliking the idea of having the heroes go to the library.

 

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