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== Film ==
* ''[[
** The trap variation in ''[[Indiana Jones and
** ''[[Indiana Jones and
* The film ''The Ghost And Mr. Chicken''. While spending the night in a haunted house, Luther Heggs (Don Knotts) throws an object at a bookcase and accidentally trips a switch that causes the bookcase to slide back, exposing a secret passage.
* ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'' has Frederick yanking likely-looking books from a bookshelf, trying to trigger the secret door he knows is on the other side. Inga, seeking to help him, picks up a nearby candle to give him some light. The result can be summed up as follows:
{{quote| '''Frederick:''' "PUT! THE CANDLE! BACK!"}}
* ''[[Clue (
* Done in ''[[The Princess Bride (
== Literature ==
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** In ''[[Discworld
** [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] (with little success) in ''[[Discworld
* ''[[
* Sort of in ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]''. Leia and others, looking for the Delta Source that is reporting things to Thrawn, rest for a bit in the room where most of the spying happens, and then Leia looks at a droid tending one of the decorative color-changing trees and notices the red ripples forming and spreading each time the droid clicks.<br /><br />Similarly, in the [[X Wing Series]] Corran Horn, while infiltrating on Coruscant, goes walking without paying attention to where he's going because he's thinking. Yes, he does this on a hostile planet. But the Force was with him, since not only did he ''not'' get jumped while [[Contemplate Our Navels|contemplating his past]], but he ended up outside of a [[Wretched Hive]] where an enemy was having a drink, and in the following pages he ends up finding some friends he hadn't seen for a while.
* Happens to Hamlet in [[Tom Holt]]'s ''My Hero'', during a sequence that's ''supposed'' to be demonstrating that the [[Theory of Narrative Causality]] no longer applies but keeps getting undermined by the fact that (this being a Tom Holt novel) the [[Rule of Funny]] is still in full effect.
* Averted in Darren Shan's ''Demonata'' series in ''Lord Loss''. Grubbs seems like the kind of impulsive young kid to stop searching early and accidentally trip the switch, but he somehow has the patience to try every single wine bottle in his uncle's cellar until he finds the one that's a hidden switch. He goes through dozens of bottles.
* Exaggerated in [[
== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[The Comic Strip Presents|Five Go Mad In Dorset]]'', a British television special which viciously parodied [[Enid Blyton|Enid Blyton's]] ''Famous Five'' children's stories, the titular protagonists open a concealed door by yanking three times on a random tree-branch.
* [[Lampshaded|Lampshade lovingly hung]] in the ''[[
* In ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' episode "The Eternity Trap", Clyde explains how he knew to search for a secret passage by looking for gaps and oddities in the walls. The one he finds opens to a brick wall, causing Rani to laugh at him: which causes her to lean on just the right book on the [[Bookcase Passage|bookcase]]
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'': George Bluth, Sr. had a tendency to hide things inside walls, and had even designed the model home with a secret room. GOB found a document signed by George, Sr. and Saddam Hussein by taking a sledge hammer to the wall of the president's office because there wasn't enough space to line up a proper cue shot, and apparently everybody in the household knew about the secret room except Michael, who needed paperwork that was stored there.
== Tabletop Games ==
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* ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' had a list of options to search a secret wall, such as examining it, poking it, shoulder barging it etc. After a while it came up with the option "rest"... which led you to lean back on the wall, and open the door. Justified in that this was in the upside-down/backwards castle, so the the best way to get through the wall was to apply the smallest amount of force possible.
** A similliar event happens in [[Breath of Fire 3]] when the gang of [[Loveable Rogue|Loveable Rogues]] are trying to find a way into a mansion early in the game: they search the wall around it for a way in, but give up quickly. Rei then leans against it, causing a large section of it to tip over since it was broken recently and they halfassed the repair job.
* Colette from ''[[
* In a lot of [[Point and Click]] games, randomly clicking on everything is a good way to find things.
* In ''[[Ghostbusters]]'', you have to find a hidden passage in the New York Public Library. The hidden passage is hidden behind a bookshelf, but the idea is subverted twofold: first, the Phantom Librarian guides you to it; second, the PKE Meter and Paragoggles tell you exactly where to look.
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* [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' by Roy [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0691.html here].
* ''[[Chasing the Sunset]]'': Suggested as a possible method for finding a secret door in [http://www.fantasycomic.com/index.php?p=c166 this strip].
* Played straight in [http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20110819 this] ''[[Ctrl
* …and in [http://strewthcomic.com/2011/09/22/chapter-five-page-four/ this] ''Strewth!'' strip.
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* In the film ''[[Igor]]'', the main characters are being chased, so Brain starts trying to find a switch for a secret passage on the wall. Igor tells him there isn't a secret passage and bangs the opposite wall in frustration, hitting the switch for the secret passage.
* Oddly, in ''[[A Pup Named Scooby Doo]]'', it's Scooby who does this half the time. Shaggy himself only ever truly finds a clue by himself in one episode, which was the gang's search for the missing Scooby.
* ''[[
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