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[[File:scoobystack.jpg|link=Scooby -Doo (animation)|rightframe]]
 
When your characters need to see what's going on in that room over there, but they don't quite wanna risk coming all the way out into the open...
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...when your characters ''all'' want to see rather than just sending one person to check so s/he can come back and tell the others, what do you do?
 
The [['''Scooby Stack]]'''! We've all [[Seen It a Million Times]] in cartoons and comedies: one head pops out from behind a corner or doorframe. Another head pops out above the first. And one more above that.
 
Because [[Cartoon Physics]] works differently, you can even get a [['''Scooby Stack]]''' of people popping out from [[Behind a Stick|behind a tree or other item too thin for the thinnest person to hide behind.]]
 
Though [[Scooby Doo]]'s [[You Meddling Kids|Meddling Kids]] gets credit for [[Trope Namer]], this trope may be [[Older Than You Think]].
 
Occasionally thwarted by someone surprising them by opening the door so they all fall on top of each other.
 
Not to be confused with the [[Dagwood Sandwich|tall, stacked sandwiches]] enjoyed by Scooby and Shaggy.
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== Anime &and Manga ==
* Done in episode 19 of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist|Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]''.
* At least once on [[Eureka Seven]], with the crew snooping on Renton and Eureka. [[Butt Monkey|Moondoggie is always on the bottom]].
* [[media:nanohascoobystack.jpg|This scene]] from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]''.
* When investigating Mugen Academy in ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', the "Inner Senshi" [http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/3774/sailorstackon8.jpg get a Sailor Stack],{{dead link}} but they get discovered by a security guard and their resulting panic causes them to fall over (except Makoto).
** It makes sense she didn't fall. She was standing up in the back without leaning on another one of the girls, so nobody would have made her topple over.
* [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v20/c179/8.html Here] in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. With the inevitable conclusion [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v20/c179/13.html here].
* Comes up every now and then in ''[[Nerima Daikon Brothers (Anime)|Nerima Daikon Brothers]]'', and lampshaded in episode 5, where the main characters pop up from behind a door, stacked ''horizontally'', and stay in place until [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress|Hideki points out what they're doing]].
* Occurs in ''[[Bleach]]'' anime episode 138. While Captain Ukitake is talking to Rukia in the Soul society, his two lieutenants and Orihime Inoue perform one of these at the side of the doorway.
* Ash and two Pokemon form one in a sewer during the ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'' episode "Leading A Stray!"
* ''[[FLCL]]'' episode "Full Swing". Haruko, Naota's father and the robot Canti look through the center of a door.
* Yui, Mio and Ritsu from ''[[K-On!]]'' [httphttps://wwwweb.mangafoxarchive.org/web/20240220223028/http://fanfox.comnet/manga/k_on/v04/c005/7.html do it to spy on Tsumugi and Azusa]. Then Azusa makes them fall.
* In the final episode of ''[[Omamori Himari]]'', we get a [[Scooby Stack]] featuring the entire Extended [[Harem]]. It's so tall, the camera has to pan up to have room for them all, and even then, the Ojou has to walk out into plain view since there's no more room along the doorframe.
* ''[[Hanaukyo Maid Tai (Anime)|Hanaukyo Maid Tai]]''
** Original series episode 7. While Taro is in the hot springs changing room his 3 personal maids form one around the corner of the door.
** ''La Verite'' episode 8. Three of the security maids protecting Taro during a trip to the city do this behind a vending machine while following him.
* Happens twice in ''[[Persona 4: (Anime)The Animation|Persona 4]]''. Once when Chie and Yosuke spy on Kanji and Naoto and again when the rest of the group spies on Kanji and Hanako on the camping trip.
* In ''[[Ghost Stories (Anime)|Ghost Stories]]'' the group does this and Hajime (in the [[Gag Dub|English Dub]]) points out how he's "on top".
 
 
== Comic Books ==
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== Film ==
* ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' did this all the time.
* ''[[The Little Rascals]]'' may also have done it a few times.
* ''[[CharliesCharlie's Angels]]''
* Seen in the movie version of ''[[On the Town]]''.
* In ''[[Monty Python and Thethe Holy Grail]]'', the French taunters do this.
* Happens in ''[[The Spanish Inn]]'' when the tenants want to find out how the negotiation between Xavier and the landlord is going, but don't dare get involved themselves.
* ''[[X-Men (Film)|X-Men]]: First Class]]'': Beast, Angel, Darwin, Banshee and Mystique do one despite Havok's warning for them to keep back because of how unpredictable his powers are.
* Done in ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Order of Thethe Phoenix (film)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]''.
* Happens in the animated version of ''[[Asterix]] and Cleopatra''. Caesar sends three triplet Egyptian mercenaries to capture Getafix on the building site. They stack at the corner of a tent.
 
== Live -Action TV ==▼
 
▲== Live Action TV ==
* A Thanksgiving episode of ''[[Friends]]'' had half the cast looking around a bolted door like this for most of the episode. It was lampshaded by [[Deadpan Snarker|Chandler]], who referred to them as "the floating heads".
* The kids in ''[[El Chavo Deldel Ocho]]'' did it when spying on Doña Clotilde's house.
* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' episode "Dim Sum Lose Sum".
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' S3 episode "Our Father".
* Done a lot on ''[[Welcome Back, Kotter]]''.
* ''[[That's So Raven]]'' has the three main characters look around the corner like this in one episode.
* Done in an episode of [[Hannah Montana]] where Oliver, Lilly and Miley are stacked up like this watching Jackson fail to convince Robbie Ray to up his curfew.
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* The 2000 [[Made for TV Movie|TNT Original]] version of ''[[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quixote]]'' did this at one point, with Don, Sancho Panza, and Sancho's donkey all peering around a boulder.
* ''[[Misfits (TV)|Misfits]]'' has one with Curtis, Simon, and Rudy pondering the presence of Seth the Power Broker in the Community Centre.
 
 
== Theatre ==
* [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20160311053353/http://musical-in.de/grafiken/musical-tanz-der-vampire-4.jpg Alfred and the Professor] in ''[[Tanz Derder Vampire]]''.
 
 
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Golden Sun (Video Game)|Golden Sun]] The Lost Age'', the characters are fairly realistically trying to organize one [https://web.archive.org/web/20200122152322/http://www.theicecave.org/damage_control/multimedia/goldensuntlapic_120510.png in this shot].
* While the main couple in ''[[Tales of Hearts (Video Game)|Tales of Hearts]]'' is having their penultimate Sweet Moment, the rest of the party spies on them this way from behind a nearby pillar. They fall over on their own.
* Happens frequently in [[LEGO]]-themed games such as those based on ''[[Star Wars]]''.
* The [http://vc.nintendolife.com/games/nes/ufouria_the_saga/cover cover artwork] for ''[[Ufouria]]''.
* ''[[Persona 4 (Video Game)|Persona 4]]'' does one with Yosuke and Chie while spying on Kanji. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|And Chie's on all fours.]]
 
 
== WebcomicsWeb Comics ==
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Questionable Content]]'' once, [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=676 here].
* [http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-8/08-heroic-bsod/officespace/ This] ''[[Walkyverse|Shortpacked!]]'' strip.
* ''[[Sequential Art (Webcomicwebcomic)|Sequential Art]]'': The squirrel girls express their fear of open spaces by hugging a doorway in a [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=490 Stack.]
 
 
== Web Original ==
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* [[College Humor]] parodies this in their sketch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcOz_75CDjI Hardly Working: Snooping,] where each consecutive person on top crushes the bottom guy more and more {{spoiler|until his head explodes.}}
* In the "Gay Chicken" episode of ''[[Commodore HUSTLE]]'', Alex, Kathleen and Kathleen's cat do this when Morgan asks if he can stay with them for a few days.
{{quote| '''Graham''': ...we're full.}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150511122139/http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2012/4/19/13/enhanced-buzz-23625-1334857347-2.jpg This photo].
* Team JNPR peers out their dorm room door at Team RWBY in this manner on the first morning of classes in V1E9 of ''[[RWBY]]''.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Scooby Doo]]'', as the [[Trope Namer]] naturally.
* You can also spot the Scooby Stack on every one of the [[Hanna-Barbera]] teenage sleuth cartoons:
** ''[[Speed Buggy (Animation)|Speed Buggy]]''
** ''[[The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan]]''
** ''[[Jabberjaw]]''
** ''[[Clue Club]]''
** ''[[Captain Caveman and Thethe Teen Angels]]''
** ''[[Josie and Thethe PussycatsPussy Cats]]'' displays the version in which the door is opened and the whole gang falls down.
* Happens in the title sequence and in-show on ''[[Jakers! theThe Adventures of Piggley Winks]].''
* Jimmy, Sheen and Carl do it in a mystery-solving episode of ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]''.
* Used many, many times in ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' shorts.
* ''[[My Life Asas a Teenage Robot]]'' in "Mama Drama" has the "hiding behind something extremely thin" example.
* Izzy, Eva and Noah perform one in the season one finale of ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' while waiting for [[Arch Enemy|Justin]].
** Bridgette and Courtney do it in "Not Quite Famous" from behind a curtain.
* [[Played With]] in one episode of ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'' that focuses on SpongeBob trying to train Gary, his pet snail, for the coming snail race. After unsuccessfully trying to get Gary to practice sprints a couple of times, but Gary immediately goes to watch the television, Squidward leans in a nearby window to taunt Spongebob and boast about his purebred snail's chances of success. Cue Patrick leaning in the window above, boasting about ''his'' "snail"(it's actually a rock). Squidward lampshades when he asks what Patrick is standing on, cutting to the outside of the windows to see Patrick actually standing on Squidward's back. When Squidward later leaves, Patrick falls out of the window he's in and then pops back in Squidward's window.
* Jay, Cole and Zane do it behind a column in the first episode of ''[[Ninjago]]'': The Way of the Ninja.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has done it in at least one episode with Big Mac, Applejack and Granny Smith. It's been turned into [[http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/31ff9068da2585feab1da55d9fc747b7/84200%20-<!-- 20applejack20big_macintosh%20applejack%20big_macintosh%20caption%20granny_smith%20traffic_signal.jpg a macro]]{{Dead link}}. -->
* Done in ''[[Max FleischersFleischer's GulliversGulliver's Travels]]'' with the goofy spies Sneak, Snoop and Snitch.
* The ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'' short "Johann Mouse" has five people popping their heads through a door.
* ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]] Berry Bitty Adventures'' has Lemon, Raspberry, Blueberry and Plum all Scooby Stacking in Lemon's doorway doing the "after you, no after you" schtick to avoid being the first to say something they fear will hurt Lemon's feelings.
 
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